Moral Inversion Complete

British Prime Minister David Cameron sat next to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and denounced Israel for turning Gaza into a prison. Of course, Cameron's Turkish Islamist host was only too happy to agree with him. The amazing aspect of the criticism of Israel was the straight-faced audacity of it. In the case of Turkey, the Turks have kept (and continue to hold) their Kurdish minority prisoner with much more force and daily bloodshed than Israel has ever caused among the Palestinians. Nor did Israel ever attempt a genocide, as Turkey launched against her own Armenian population. Nor has Israel perpetrated mass discrimination including outright murder of all its minorities, as has recently been the case, even with Christians who find themselves in the intolerant rising Islamist Turkey where three workers at a Christian publishing house were butchered by Turkish nationalists. And at the other side of the table in this instance, we have good old moral Britain. The same Britain that was the colonial master of pre-state Israel and systematically excluded Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler's persecution even though the British knew that by sending the Jews back to Europe they were condemning them to almost certain death. Even after the Holocaust, the colonial power prevented Jews from entering Palestine, forcing them back to DP (displaced person) camps or even to areas of Europe where their return could cost their lives (i.e. Poland). And then the English gladly armed and officered the Arab forces arrayed to annihilate the nascent Jewish state. And the UK has enjoyed such sterling conduct in areas where she is the warder like Ireland and the Malvinas. So two countries, Turkey and not so Great Britain that know quite a lot about oppression because they practice it have the nerve to call Israel out about the Jewish state's defensive actions vis-a-vis the Gaza Strip without even bothering to mention Gaza's other border with Egypt that is also largely closed for the security needs of the Egyptians. So if Gaza is a prison at least Israel is not the only guard. To relate one more little nugget of prisoners and British history- after Hitler's suicide but before Germany's official surrender, thousands of Jewish inmates who had somehow survived the concentration camps and the death marches were held captive on a ship called the Cap Arcona by the Nazis in Lubeck Bay. There is speculation almost to a certainty that British intelligence knew Jewish prisoners were on board yet a British Hawker Typhoon squadron attacked and sunk the ship, killing thousands of Jews who had miraculously survived to that point. Could that have been because powers that be in the United Kingdom did not want to contend with that many more Jewish refugees in Palestine? If Prime Minister Cameron had even the slightest interest in justice, he would be asking Erdogan to cease Turkish support for the Hamas terrorists that hold Gaza hostage.