Today the world is expressing its outrage at the attacks carried out on people in multiple locations in Paris last night, and rightly so. Killing innocent people anywhere is to be deplored. But how much of an outcry have we heard about recent attacks elsewhere? Did we bemoan the massacre of seven people from the Hazara ethnic minority in Afghanistan, when the decapitated bodies of four men, two women and a nine year old child were found last Saturday in a rural town in the southern province of Zabul? The deadly assault in Lebanon on Thursday where at least 41 people were killed in two suicide bombings in the capital, Beirut rated a story on the BBC news website, but hardly a murmur of indignation from the populace. Do we rate the lives of people in France to be more valuable than those of the people of Afghanistan or Lebanon, or is it that Paris is much closer to home, so it scares us more?
Our media are partly responsible for the lack of information. How much do we see or hear or read about the IS attacks elsewhere? Very little comparatively, so unless you actively seek out that news on alternative media sources you simply are not aware of it. Instead we get endless guff about which celeb is dating who, the next soap story line, chatter about reality TV programmes, how much football teams pay for players, and storm-in-a-teacup non-stories about politicians such as Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, which are designed to take your focus off the diabolical activities of the Government in respect of British citizens.
The situation in the Middle East was mainly caused by political interference by Western governments, arms manufacturers and oil companies to protect their interests. Think back and understand how long the West has been trying to control the oil supplies in the area. Remember back to 1988 and the blowing up of Pan Am flight 103 which crashed into the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which caused the deaths of all 259 people on board along with 11 people in Lockerbie at the time. Remember also the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraq under Saddam Hussein's leadership, invaded neighbouring Kuwait and the US and UK armed forces were sent in to deal with him. Hussein's setting fire to Kuwait's oil wells frightened the West immensely, as oil is such an important commodity, and the Western governments could not countenance losing access to its supply lines in the Middle East. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq , the overthrow of President Gaddaffi in Libya in 2011 are more recent instances of that interference, but it is still happening, and is the root cause of the rise of the Islamic State (IS) and the terror attacks we are now seeing.
If our Governments hadn't interfered we would probably not be seeing this situation now. Everything which has happened since that involvement can be traced back to Western interference in the oil-producing regions of the Middle East. If there had been no oil then the West would have had no interest in the region at all!
