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Comment by truth on September 6, 2015 at 4:39pm

The cause of much misery and desperation in the Middle East is coming to London next week and a petition demands his arrest for war crimes

By Stuart Littlewood

The image of a small child washed up on a Turkish beach like flotsam has finally shocked the Western world into action to help the refugees surging across Europe. Ordinary citizens are not prepared to wait while officialdom – and particularly the European Union – dithers. They are mobilising to provide aid. Hardline leaders like David Cameron are shamed by public outrage into backtracking on the hasty words they “mis-spoke” earlier, for fear of being branded inhuman.

Newsreels and video footage have hit people here in the UK hard. The organiser of a candle-lit vigil in George Square, Glasgow, said:

A lot of things I have seen this week have enraged me. I watched a video of a family trying to get through an armed border. I could see they were hungry and desperate, but were being shot at.

They were just mothers, desperately trying to help their children.

But we’ve seen much worse lately. Last summer the world was appalled by the murder of three youngsters when an Israeli gunboat shelled Gaza’s beach during the regime’s 51-day onslaught against Palestinian civilians in the tight-packed coastal enclave. During that vicious blitz (mis-named Operation Protective Edge) we saw many, many burnt, blasted and shredded little bodies among the smoking rubble that used to be their home

http://www.redressonline.com/2015/09/help-nail-binyamin-netanyahu/