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What is on trial?

Apr 16,2018 - Last updated at Apr 16,2018

The international propaganda machine can vilify any party, group or persons making them look criminal, regardless of the circumstances of the case. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was attacked because the infamy machine made him look like a person who would own nuclear arms and who, unhesitatingly, would use them. Years after his execution, not a shred of evidence was found to substantiate the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

Now, Syrian President Bashar Assad and his supporters, Russia and Iran, are being put in the villain’s seat. The poison gas attack on Douma in Ghouta almost two weeks ago is now pinned against Assad. The drums of war are banging, and an attack has been waged to teach Assad a  hard lesson.

What is on trial: is it the act of the crime or the person who is most likely to have done it? Naturally, the media has, overt time, amassed evidence to vilify Presidents Saddam and Assad, but is that sufficient to make them the automatic culprits? Both were accused of using a weapon of mass destruction against their people. Halabja in Iraq, Khan Shaikhon and Douma in Syria.

The countries enjoying veto power in the Security Council use this privilege to prevent the right action from happening. Russia’s veto prevents a neutral tribunal from investigating the recent chemical weapons attack against civilians in Douma. Russia itself is accused of using such a weapon against a Russian spy and his daughter in southern England.

US President Donald Trump is currently grappling with a number of issues at home, including special counsel Robert Mueller's raid on the offices of Trump's top legal adviser Michael Cohen, and whether he should sack Mueller or not, in addition to what is labeled as his untimely visit to Latin America, whose migration and trade policies are rendering him unpopular there. Well, he postponed his Latin American visit underscoring his intent to hit Syria.

Does that sound like a thick camouflage to cover up the crimes Israeli forces are committing against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank? In this case, the crime is obvious, the perpetrators are seen and recorded live on cameras, and the pronouncements of Israeli officials offer more than a confession to the commitment of these crimes. Why is nothing being said about that? The Great Return March by thousands of Palestinians goes unheeded by the self-acclaimed justice upholders in the international media.

We now believe that the value of Lady Justice is not about bringing the proved criminal in, but, the person who logically seems like the "one", especially if this “one” is not "our guy".

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