by CAMERON DUODU
French military patrol the Louvre in Paris PHOTO/Andrew Meares/The Sydney Morning Herald
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I told my grand-daughter: “Yes, the murders in Paris took place on Friday, the thirteenth, but they may not have chosen that day deliberately.”
“But they would have had to plan it ahead?” she shot back.
I said: “Sure! But they could have planned it and got ready, waiting. Then when something happened that they thought was advantageous to them, they struck.”
“What could that event have been?”
“It was probably the murder, by drone, of the notorious ‘Jihadi John’ who had been posting videos of himself on Youtube conducting the gruesome beheading of Westerners captured by the Isis terrorist group.”
“You mean that triggered the attacks? But that was done by the Americans?”
“Yes, I know, but in the eyes of ISIS, the entire West is one entity. What I am saying is that the coincidence is amazing – if it was one. You find the Americans openly telling everyone – if not boasting – that they had killed Jihadi John. Then this happens in Paris the next day. And there is absolutely no connection? I doubt it. ISIS is absolutely convinced that its cause against the West is right!”
“So they were ready and waiting, and then they got an event that triggered them to action?”
“Yes, it’s not above them to have “sleeping agents” on the ready, with targets selected, weapons primed, who have the capability to strike within moments of a signal being given!”
“Wow! And they don’t care about killing civilians?”
“Sorry – they would tell you that the war the Western countries are waging in Syria, principally, but also in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and other countries, are all against targets that immolate thousands of civilians. Have you seen the Al-Jazeera TV footage, taken by drone, showing how the big Syrian city of Aleppo has been laid to waste totally? You can find it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQjw2BVRVg8
“Thank you, I shall look for it.”
“When you view it, ask yourself, ”If I were a Syrian, what would I think of such wanton destruction in my country?”
“The West bombs these places from the air, knowing what damage their powerful bombs can inflict on civilian populations, yet they complain when their civilian populations are targeted in revenge?”
“The hypocrisy is beyond belief. As if the non-Europeans who are killed are not human beings! They see people trying to reach Europe to escape from the devastation in towns like Aleppo, and they are horrified: ‘They are coming to enjoy and ruin our style of life!” That they are genuine refugees from a genuine Armageddon in their countries doesn’t cut any ice with people like the Hungarians, or some of the British Conservatives. They can see people willing to die on the sea in overcrowded, rickety boats than stay to be burnt by bombs from the sky, and they call them “migrants!” in order not to feel any responsibility towards them.
There is a complete disconnect, in the typical Western mind, between Western governmental actions (bombing many foreign territories with each country’s powerful Air Force and drones) and death and destruction on the ground in those territories, that cause people to flee with their entire families, hoping to reach safety in Europe. Let me read to you, a quote from the Daily Telegraph, a British right-wing newspaper which does not exactly carry ‘anti-Western’ propaganda. An article by its Correspondent, Harriet Alexander says:
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