A Tramcar named Oppression | Letters from France |Axisoflogic.com

Two French companies have moved into international illegality in a big way. Alsthom and Connex are involved in a consortium to build a tram system to link up Jerusalem and several nearby illegal Zionist colonies established in the West Bank.

This is part of the Zionist plan to reinforce the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem itself and other parts of the West Bank. After moving their followers from the Gaza Strip, the Zionists immediately occupied larger areas of Palestinian land in the West Bank, and the international media abstained from mentioning these latter criminal moves. This tramway will worsen the lot of the indigenous inhabitants who are being herded into bantustans on the South African apartheid model.

The disgust which many people here feel at this investment by French companies in a criminal endeavour is at odds with the attitude of our government, which is not only turning a blind eye to this move, but even showing approval by the presence when the contracts were signed of our Ambassador in Tel Aviv, Mr G�rard Araud.

For unclear reasons, which must be a complete negation of our national motto of Libert�, Egalit�, Fraternit�, our government seems to be joining in the oppression of the Palestinian people alongside the criminals who currently run the U.S.A. It has also been active in trying to create chaos in Syria and Iran, again alongside the Bush administration, and many of us are now asking why. The only reason which has become clear for all these illegal actions is a desire to maintain the existence of the Zionist state.

Much has been written and said about the Iranian President's expressed hope to see the artificial Zionist state disappear from the map, and many crocodile tears have been shed. Our Minister of Foreign Affairs joined in this condemnation of the President's speech, without answering the point which he was making regarding the oppression of the Palestinians.

Those who spread the joke in very bad taste that the Zionist state is a democracy should also consider the persecution taking place in the Naqab (or Negev in Hebrew) of the indigenous people who had in 1948 been given the second class "Israeli citizenship" reserved for Muslim and Christian inhabitants. Their houses are now being bulldozed and their land stolen without compensation to be used to settle still further Zionist incomers in this strategically important area, which includes the Nuclear Weapons facilities at Dimona.

The illegal tramway project is a sign that international criminal law is being flouted by many nations, without paying any attention to the International Court of Justice, which has clearly condemned the Zionist apartheid wall, another integral part of the relentless illegal occupation of more and more Palestinian owned land.

Our government should be ashamed of its part in this ethnic cleansing and should institute an independent public enquiry into the action of Alsthom and Connex. If the works go ahead, the directors of both companies should be prosecuted for their criminal activities.