Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958) is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan, and former Rector of the University of Dundee who has been awarded for his exposure and opposition to torture (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray ).
Craig Murray on the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2012): “The BBC World Service TV has this minute, at 9.00am GMT, started its news broadcast as usual from Ashkelon in Israel, highlighting rocket attacks on Israel. There is no mention on the BBC – there has never been any mention on the BBC, or anywhere in the Western mainstream media – that for at least 4,000 years Ashkelon was an Arab town, until in 1948 the entire, Arab population of 12,000 was driven out by armed force, many being massacred. Doubtless some older inhabitants of Gaza are refugees whose home is Ashkelon.
Israel is exercising its right of self-defence in precisely the same sense that Hitler was exercising the right of self-defence in Normandy in 1944 – ie not at all. Why the world puts up with this blatant ethnic cleansing and prolonged, agonizing genocide of the Palestinian people, I have no idea. It is not just about bombs and rockets and deaths now. It is about the shepherds being pushed out of their village in 2012 as part of the same process of the massacre of Ashkelon in 1948, all a process of genocide of the Palestinians in which Obama, Clinton, Cameron and Hague, as two whole generations of western politicians before them, are actively complicit.” [1].
[1]. Craig Murray, “The Palestinian Genocide continues”, 21 November 2012: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/11/the-palestinain-genocide-continues/ .