Stark Western hypocrisy in the way they view Gaza and Vanni wars

included PLOTE leader Uma Maheswaran, assassinated in Colombo, in July 1989. But, the LTTE had nothing to do with Uma Maheswaran’s assassination. That is for sure. ‘Operation Cast Lead’ and Vanni war

- SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO

President Donald Trump, on 18 Sept., vetoed a crucial United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas and Sri Lanka's successful war against the LTTE had been compared and discussed by various interested parties, including the UN.

They compared ‘Operation Cast Lead’, a 22-day Israeli offensive launched on 27 Dec., 2008, aimed at destroying Hamas firing rockets from the Gaza Strip, into the Jewish state, with the last phase of the Sri Lankan assault (January -May 19, 2009) on the LTTE on the Vanni east front.

Lanka with the support of some Sri Lankans who couldn’t stomach the country’s triumph over terrorism.

They alleged that the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) created a fact-finding mission to justify its predetermined conclusion that Israel was guilty of massive human rights violations during the 22-day war, while Sri Lanka was completely left off the hook.

Instead, the US helped Israel to ‘kill’ the Goldstone report, whereas the treacherous Yahapalana government, led by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in Oct. 2015, cosponsored an accountability resolution against its own war-winning military and wartime political leadership. SA jurist Richard Goldstone, in early 2011, retracted a critically important section of his report. His move made that report irrelevant. While the US created conditions for a far larger and devastating Israeli military adventure that is now taking place, the UNHRC, at the behest of the US-UK combine, pursued an anti-Sri Lanka agenda. That operation has now entered a vital stage with Geneva going ahead with an external investigation, while putting pressure on Sri Lanka to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) by becoming State Parties to the Rome Statute.