Baruba Condemns U.S. & Israel “Cowards”

The Baruba Post as a public service publishes in its entirety the text of a statement read yesterday by Prime Minister Sir Baldwin J. Scantlebury in his weekly radio address broadcast live on BarubaRadio 83.1FM and streamed over the Internet at http://www.barubaradio83.1.com

“My fellow Barubans. I’m just old enough to remember the catastrophic aftermath of World War II. As a young boy my father took me with him to Germany in 1948 as he collected material for his “Never Again” book documenting the horrors of German National Socialism.

“Today, watching the savage, cowardly invasion of Gaza by Israel I’m compelled to recall our visit back then to the Dachau Concentration Camp in the suburbs of Munich.

“How could human beings be so bestial towards each other,” I thought on that cold bleak day. And admit I have found no answer in the intervening sixty years.

“I raise the same question today. How can Jews who suffered so much inflict the same suffering on others.

“How can they seal off the most densly populated piece of Godforsaken land in the world, with no electricity, no running water, no sewage system, no food, no communications, no medical supplies and no friends.

“And then attack with America’s most modern weapons to destroy buildings in which women and children cower in cold, dark cellars. And then, with the supreme blind arrogance of people who claim there is a “God”, say ‘there is no humanitarian suffering.’

“I will not speak for long today. My heart is so heavy. But as I watch TV and listen to the radio about this genocide I accuse the Israeli and U.S.A. cowards – beholden to the almighty Jewish Lobby – of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

“Why do I also call them cowards? They’re following their own New #1 Rule of Warfare.

“Never attack and invade a nation or state you haven’t reduced to poverty, misery and impotence beforehand.”