<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ted;<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On “Lesson One: white refugees are welcome; others less so” the following letter was sent on Sunday to the editor of the Toronto Star:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Letter to the Editor<br class="">The Toronto Star<br class=""><br class="">It is encouraging to read that Doug Ford has up to $300 million to financially support refugees from Ukraine. They will get immediate OHIP coverage and housing assistance. Some will get scholarships to Ontario universities and colleges. This is all good and we are a society that is rich enough to provide this refugee assistance.<br class=""><br class="">Canada has also opened its doors to 40,000 Afghani refugees. Many of these are people who provided invaluable assistance to Canadian forces personnel in Afghanistan. How much support will Doug Ford give to these refugees who helped keep our Canadian troops safe?<br class=""><br class="">The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has declared that the situation in Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis with over 20 million people in need. Maybe some of those people would like to take Doug Ford’s offer to support refugees. Has Doug Ford contacted the UNHCR to offer support?<br class=""><br class="">In the Tigray region of Eritrea over 2.5 million people have been forced to flee from their homes; nearly as many refugees as there are from Ukraine. Will Ford's offer for refugee support be open for them?<br class=""><br class="">Yes, I agree that we ought to be generous with refugees from Ukraine. And, we can be generous with the victims of a war in which Canada participated - Afghanistan. We can also be generous with the victims of other conflicts as well.<br class=""><br class="">Why is it that Doug Ford’s generosity seems to be restricted to refugees from one small part of the world when there are so many in need?<br class=""><br class="">Yours truly;<br class="">Allan Baker<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2022, at 2:19 PM, Ted Schmidt <<a href="mailto:jtschmidt@bell.net" class="">jtschmidt@bell.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="5" class="">Why do they need to hit civilians with missiles? Why this cruelty?” Volodymyr Zelensky asked the Finnish Parliament on Friday, adding, “Sometimes, you think whether they are human at all.”<br class=""><br class="">He pleaded, “Hatred has to lose.”<br class=""><br class=""></font><img 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alt="Still Ready" For Talks With Russia, Says Ukraine President Zelensky" class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class=""><br class="">Indeed it does, Volodymyr<br class=""><br class="">RAMALLAH, Palestine<br class=""><br class="">A total of 547 Palestinian children were killed during last year’s (2014) Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, an international rights group devoted to children’s welfare said Wednesday.<br class=""><br class="">And you Volodymyr said that the only ones suffering in Israel were Israelis<br class=""><br class="">Professor Ilan Pappe</font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class="">The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by<b class=""> Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021.</b> A few days before that, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister complained to the Israeli ambassador in Kiev that “you’re treating us like Gaza”; he was furious that Israel did not condemn the Russian invasion and was only interested in evicting Israeli citizens from the state (Haaretz, February 17, 2022). It was a mixture of reference t<b class="">o the Ukrainian evacuation of Ukrainian spouses of Palestinian men from the Gaza Strip in May 2021, </b>as well as a reminder to Israel of the Ukrainian president’s full support for Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip in that month (I will return to that support towards the end of this piece).<br class=""><br class="">Israel’s assaults on Gaza should, indeed, be mentioned and considered when evaluating the present crisis in the Ukraine. It is not a coincidence that photos are being confused –<b class=""> there are not many high-rises that were toppled in the Ukraine, but there is an abundance of ruined high-rises in the Gaza Strip. H</b>owever, it is not only the hypocrisy about Palestine that emerges when we consider the Ukraine crisis in a wider context; it is the overall Western double standards that should be scrutinized, without, for one mome<b class="">nt, being indifferent to news and images coming to us from the war zone in the Ukraine: traumatized children, streams of refugees, sights of buildings ruined by bombing and the looming danger that this is only the beginning of a human catastrophe at the heart of Europe.</b></font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class=""><span id="cid:8D1714AA-FA96-4388-96C1-F1FC7E5F1440@home"><th.jpeg></span><font size="5" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class="">At the same time, those of us experiencing, reporting and digesting the human catastrophes in Palestine cannot <b class="">escape the hypocrisy of the West </b>and we can point to it without belittling, for a moment, our human solidarity and empathy with victims of any war. We need to do this, since the moral dishonesty underwriting the deceitful agenda set by the Western political elites and media will once more allow them to hide their own racism and impunity as it will continue to provide immunity for Israel and its oppression of the Palestinians. I detected four false assumptions which are at the heart of the Western elite’s engagement with the Ukraine crisis, so far, and have framed them as four lessons.Two are presented here<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Lesson One: White Refugees are Welcome; Others Less So</b><br class=""><br class="">The unprecedented collective EU decision to open up its borders to the Ukrainian refugees, followed by a more guarded policy by Britain, cannot go unnoticed in comparison to the closure of most of the European gates to the refugees coming from the Arab world and Africa since 2015. The clear racist prioritization, distinguishing between life seekers on the basis of color, religion and ethnicity is abhorrent, but unlikely to change very soon.<br class=""><br class="">He is not alone. The Western media talks about “<b class="">our kind of refugees”</b> all the time, and this racism is manifested clearly on the border crossings between the Ukraine and its European neighbours. This racist attitude, with strong Islamophobic undertones, is not going to change, since the European <b class="">leadership is still denying the multi-ethnic and multicultural fabric of societies all over the continent.</b> A human reality created by years of European colonialism and imperialism that the current European governments deny and ignore and, at the same time, these governments pursue immigration policies that are based on the very same racism that permeated the colonialism and imperialism of the past. <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Lesson Two: Hitting High-rises is only a War Crime in Europe</b><br class=""><br class="">The Ukrainian establishment is also disturbingly and embarrassingly pro-Israeli. One of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s first acts was to withdraw the Ukraine from the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – the only international tribunal that makes sure the Nakba is not denied or forgotten. </font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><img 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alt="Nakba Day - Wikipedia" class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font>\<font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font><font size="5" class=""><br class="">The decision was initiated by the Ukrainian President; he had no sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian refugees, nor did he consider them to be victims of any crime. In his interviews after the last barbaric Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in May 2021, he stated that the only tragedy in Gaza was the one suffered by the Israelis. If this is so, than it is only the Russians who suffer in the Ukraine. </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class="">But Zelensky is not alone. When it comes to Palestine, the hypocrisy reaches a new level. One empty high-rise hit in the Ukraine dominated the news and prompted deep analysis about human brutality, Putin and inhumanity. These bombings should be condemned, of course, <font color="#ff4013" class=""><b class="">but it seems that those leading the condemnation among world leaders were silent when Israel flattened the town of Jenin in 2000, the Al-Dahaya neighborhoo</b></font>d in Beirut in 2006 and the city of Gaza in one brutal wave after the other, over the past fifteen years. No sanctions, whatsoever, were even discussed, let alone imposed, on Israel for its war crimes in 1948 and ever since. In fact, in most of the Western countries which are leading the sanctions against Russia today, even mentioning the possibility of imposing sanctions against Israel is illegal and framed as anti-Semitic bias. The massive solidarity of the West is reserved for whoever is willing to join its bloc and sphere of influence. This official empathy is nowhere to be found when similar, and worse, violence is directed against non-Europeans, in general, and towards the Palestinians, in particular. <br class=""><br class=""></font><span id="cid:6620A77E-48DA-4607-B0CA-0FE3489C474C@home"><th.jpeg></span><font size="5" class=""><br class=""><br class="">- Ilan Pappé is a professor at the University of Exeter. He was formerly a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa.</font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>