Lisa KARPOVA
PRAVDA.Ru
Does the world need an armed to the teeth, and heaven help us all…nuclear armed…racist apartheid state in the Middle East? In September of 2001, Israel was branded a “racist apartheid” state by thousands of non-governmental organizations attending a forum in South Africa that was part of the UN Conference against Racism. Outraged Israelis walked out of the conference saying that the declaration would delegitimize the Israeli state. They were joined by their American benefactors / protectors.
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Indeed, the State of Israel has been delegitimized, not by that conference, but by their own sordid, brutal, fascist behavior quite reminiscent of the Nazis during the war. Homes and vineyards are bulldozed to make way for more and more Jewish settlements, as the Palestinian native population continues to disappear from the map. Lebensraum? Israel has been systematically carrying out genocide, indeed a holocaust, against the Palestinian people…very literally. Most recently, Israel used a weapon of mass destruction known as phosphorous bombs which literally set people on fire. This type of murderous behavior has been going on since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
While Israelis bask in swimming pools, less than 15% of the water is allocated to Palestinians, who must ration water for drinking and cooking. Palestinians are made to pass through numerous humiliating checkpoints just to carry on their day-to-day life. In fact, many are prevented from having employment because of this. Additionally, there are “Jews only” roads.
Children are frequently target practice or subjects of intimidation on the part of the Israeli occupation forces. Children are literally starving since Gaza has been blockaded, with food supplies and humanitarian assistance denied them and electricity is cut off. This is all because Israel does not like the democratically elected Hamas government and has done everything to bring down this government by kidnapping and killing many government officials in addition to the illegal blockade.
The total dead thus far in the recent campaign is well above 800, including over 250 children, and many more victims may still be buried in the rubble. The International Federation of Journalists has condemned Israel’s targeting of journalists. In Gaza City, journalists held a sit-in after Israeli forces bombed the Jawhara Media Building killing a journalist, Ala’ Murtaja. Another 22 Palestinians were killed Wednesday morning in bombing and shelling as Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” entered day 11. The dead included four people killed in a children’s playground near a mosque in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza city.
Israeli forces shelled a house on the Gaza Strip that they had moved around 110 Palestinians into 24 hours earlier. Around 70 corpses were found there later by a Palestinian paramedic. Does such behavior sound familiar to anyone? As in the wholesale slaughter the SS engaged in? Dr. Mawia Hassanien, head of emergency services at Shifa Hospital says at least 12 emergency workers have been killed and 32 injured. Eleven ambulances have been destroyed. It is an outrage that emergency workers and ambulances are attacked. Then there was the United Nations school where 40 Palestinians seeking shelter were killed. Many children were among the dead in what British leader, Gordon Brown, called the ‘darkest moment yet’ in the Gaza crisis.
THE PEOPLE BEING KILLED ARE CIVILIANS, NOT THE ONES LAUNCHING THE ROCKETS. That is just an excuse, a pretext to cleanse the entire area. The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war to conquer. The issue of sovereignty over Gaza’s gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine. The election of the Hamas government and the collapse of the Palestinian Authority after Arafat’s death have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza’s offshore gas reserves.
For many decades, the world has been beaten over the head with “guilt trips” about the events of the war as though the horrors of that war happened only to Jews alone. This has made it possible for Israel to get a free pass to behave in the most horrendous, inhuman and savage manner. Israel is still hoping the latest genocidal onslaught would have yet another desensitizing and de-mystifying effect on people’s perceptions and attitudes and that people will continue to either ignore or mindlessly support their behavior.
There are war crimes being committed, and no excuse is going to pass the test of credibility, even though Israel is using the pathetically small response of crudely made Hamas rockets as an excuse for their genocidal campaign. As many have experienced, Israel heavily employs rabid counterattack and name calling (anti-Semite, Nazi, etc.), mendacity, deception and disinformation to conceal its criminality and barbarism. They have seen to it that it is not politically correct to criticize Israel, otherwise one risks life, limb and livelihood.
Visible on western TV screens are Israelis who complain of lack of sleep, fear, paranoia. They have the audacity to complain that they are the victims, but the dead, while always a tragedy and lamentable, are few and far between. You see them playing musical instruments in their shelters, complaining about trivial inconveniences and palpitations, while Palestinian children sit bloodied amid rubble unattended in the middle of countless dead bodies and in many cases the dead bodies are their parents. While their ambulances are targeted. Yet much of the western world sits quietly by. The western corporate media is largely complicit in the tranquility of the silent screams and tears of the women and children of Gaza. Western corporate media has consistently sought to deaden all vestiges of empathy.
How long is the international community going to allow this to continue without barely a response except for scattered individuals around the globe? When will Israel be sanctioned? When will Israel be boycotted? When will their ambassadors and representatives be expelled from civilized countries (Gracias, Hugo Chavez). When will neutral / UN peacekeeping forces be imposed upon Israel? Indeed, when will they be subjected to the infamous empire term…humanitarian bombing?
Thus far, the State of Israel is hearing nothing about stopping their campaign of slaughter. They singularly believe they don’t have to agree to anything and that their American benefactors will clear the way for them forever. The State of Israel must transform itself completely…and start to behave like a responsible member of the international community. After the last world war, there is no place on this planet for such behavior by any nation claiming to be civilized, let alone a “democracy.” You would have thought that Israel and the Israelis would know better.
Very thoughtful and insightful. I agree.
this is sick! what would you do if someone launched rockets into your backyard for months and years at a time? you are frickin brainwashed by the mass media. grow up and get informed. this is ignorance at it’s worst!
I knew we disagreed on things. Glad to work together though to pressure the Senate to vote against $350 billion more for bank pork.
Now on Israel, I’m all for a two or three state solution. But, the Palestinian people need to forceably remove Hamas other terror organizations from their midst. I’ll go to hyperbole for a moment, if Mexican terrorists were firing at us into Texas, we’d attack back. We’d tell Mexico to get rid of the terrorists or else.
How about Palestinians rise up and rid themselves of the decades of depravity in terror, and yes I’ll agree that Israel should start acting like a decent neighbor.
The international community is hard-pressed to do anything. There’s a lot of support for Israel but at the same time its allies want Israel to stop. So now everyone’s just kind of sitting and staring.
Yes there is the international community that isn’t doing anything, but what about Palestine’s Arab brothers? Some of which don’t even recognize Israel’s right to exist. Where are they? Why aren’t they helping Palestine?
Check out what the Plaid Avenger has had to say about it: http://www.plaidavenger.com
its obvious that palestinian people never accepted israel and brought hamas to power.
i am not for either side except that israel is far more advanced in sciences and brings a lot of good to the world. I am sure if they could stop the rockets any other way they would do it.
Lie – Lies again ! Israel army kills terrorists, it will be funny if you will write this piece of crap about your country when rockets are falling in your country and Arab terrorist children explode theirselves in buses … REALIZE !!!! Don’t tell thinks you don’t know, don’t try to analize Israel situation, because you just DON’T know anything about these conflict …
interesting perspective. i’m with daltonsbriefs on this all the way. i do believe that both sides of this issue are at fault and both sides will have to work together to find resolution.
i often get tired of hearing the playground excuse “but he started it”. in the end, that excuse doesn’t really matter when it boils down to innocent lives lost every day.
i’m moved beyond words wanting to take those orphans into my own home. but that won’t stop what’s going on. nothing i do will stop it.
that’s some serious propaganda you are re-blogging…and from russia – where another kremlin critic has just been whacked…and where they invaded georgia and no one said a word…
by the way, hamas just broke another ceasefire that was less than five hours old…are you going to post that news item or just this non-sense?
You are obviously lost in the darkness. Free your mind & stop following in lock step with the main stream media
Let’s clean up our own back yard before even thinking about judging another country. Here’s what I mean:
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan (People are currrently born mutated because of U.S.)!
Korean War
The Bay of Pigs, Cuba (CIA)
Viet Nam
Cambodia
Iran
Lebanon
Somalia
Latin America (covert U.S. military OPS all over the place killing lots of people)
Bosnia/Herzegovina (They had no real weapons before the U.S. became involved).
Persian Gulf Wars 105,000+ dead because of U.S.!
Stop our country from being the world’s most powerful killing machine. Then go live in Israel where the bombs land for a couple of years or more. Watch your house get blown away along with your loved ones because of a Hamas missile.
After you’ve completed the above missions, then write an article about it. I’d be interested to read it.
Lastly, we’re the worlds biggest murderers ever! What are you gonna do about this?
It’s simply heartbreaking. It is too disturbing to find anger, only pity and shock.
http://karensyed.blogspot.com
You should write your own blog….you have a lot to say!
…Cold War Veteran?
A blog post after my own heart!
Well bombs are bombs, killing innocents is killing innocents. It all needs to stop. They are all people we all have the same colour blood. War never benefits any nation, it just makes the gun & missle providers richer.
it cannot be even called war; this is mass murder.
Very very good post bro.
I read some of the comments and I would like to remind everyone that HAMAS was democratically elected and they had every right to fire the rockets into Israel.
Israel committed an act of war when imposing the blockade on Gaza (Anyone who knows at least 1% about International Law would never say otherwise)
Israel broke the ceasefire:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1230/1230581467173.html
When have you last visited the area? Israel? the West bank? Gaza? Egypt? Lebanon?
The first time i was there was as a child in 1960. There was a wall dividing jerusalem, with Jordan controlling East Jerusalem, Lebanon/Syria the Golan Heights and Egypt the Sinai- and Gaza. There were no settlements and I dont recall people such as yourself demanding that these Arab states create a Palestinian Homeland. They could have, with jerusalem as it’s capital but they didnt.
Ah, but perhaps you say that they were under Arab , or maybe self-rule. The truth is that Jordon evicted the Palestinians enmasse ( and btw Palestinians are STILL not allowed to work or travel in Jordan. Ever wonder why they need to cross into Israel to work?), Lebanon, Syria & Egypt put them in the refugee centers they created in 1948 and left them there for decades. Egypt built a wall, similar to Israel’s, separating their citizens from Hamas and the horror of Gaza.(sorry- did I see your article condemning the Egyptians for creating a gulag?)
I went to Israel in 1968 after the 6 day war and saw with my own eyes the conditions in these ‘free?’ areas. I remembered how we needed to wear masks covered in perfume to mask out the stench of the markets in jerusalem. I saw what the Syrians ‘built’ in the Golan heights: miles of trenches with openings for shotguns so that they could shoot the Israeli farmers in the valleys below. 30 years later, you can visit the same area and see a billion dollar wine industry. And yet, once again, Israel is willing openly to give back these lands in the hope of peace.
Remember that Israel gave back the Sinai for a chance at peace, walked away from Gaza (and left a thriving produce industry intact which Hamas destroyed, houses and all), has made peace with 3 of their neighbors (lebanon before syria, egypt and jordan). and Hamas?
I suggest you go over there and see what is really happening. It’s easy to spout these talking points from a distance.
Israel thinks they can’t place Palestine under siege…an act of war….and expect that Palestinians will just sit the corner & rot to death. I’m a firm believer that “one man’s terrorist, is another man’s freedom fighter”. May God bless every civilian family in the world fighting against oppression & tyranny.
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/20031110ozVN300K.asx
Amos Oz. A Great Voice from Israel.
Why Israel is RE-BUILT in the first place ?!?!
Didn’t God say that it shouldn’t exist anymore, after its children became freaky sick idolaters !!!
Now the hypocrite Azazel and gold worshipers will call me anti-semitist..hehe..
by the way, I’m an Aramaean & Arab – 2 Semite bloods – living in Syria, and an orthodox christian – so I’m a Semite I think..
oops, I think I’m anti-myself now…LOL…
I’m sorry but it truly saddens me to read such a one sided POV.
I think both sides suffer and there are a lot of problems. to blame it entirely on Israel is a little gauche. To further liken the Israelis to Nazis is somewhat childish. The aim of the statement is none other than to be inflammatory.
I don’t think Jews were attacking and bombing Hitler (and numerous other things we have witnessed the Palestinians do) when Hitler decided to implement the final solution. This is a lazy and disappointing route for a Journalist to take.
Furthermore, Mr Peter, I don’t think it’s appropriate to post an article like this without any commentary. What are you trying to achieve? Mass debate? More hits. I feel like I’ve succumbed to be a pawn in this here game.
If Palestinians are kept in what amounts to a concentration camp, with no trade, no industry, no prospects
and
Individuals have no purpose, no hope, no way to support their families,
then
what else are they going to do but spend their time hating Israelis and listening to clerics who tell them there is one road to glory left?
What would you do if you couldn’t leave and were scraping by every day, were seen as the enemy by Israeli soldiers even if you’d been a farmer all your life.
Anyone remember Ireland in the 80′s and 90′s, and how there was absolutely no end in sight to the conflict?
They got too busy making money, starting businesses, and enjoying their prosperity – no more unemployed 18 year olds planning bombings. They suddenly had options and found their purpose elsewhere.
I doubt this conflict will end until Palestine has some economic freedom and industry and path to prosperity. And there are so many things in the way right now. And economic freedom is more important than even type of regime (democratic, oligarchic, socialist…).
I love how some of these commenters say you’re brainwashed by the mainstream media…which is almost entirely Zionist. Hah!
Which mainstream media are these people watching? Or, do they forget that their most fair and balanced television news channel is not a part of the mainstream media? I’m assuming they love and adore their Fox News, so I could be completely wrong (we all know about assumptions, don’t we?).
It’s like when pundits on the mainstream media talk about the ill things the mainstream media. Give me a fucking break.
Personally, I wouldn’t say that Israel is commuting a holocaust against the Palestinians, but it’s definitely an apartheid fascist regime. There’s no doubt about that.
Damn typos.
At sixty five, my hope is to be long gone by the time Israel decides to unleash “Cast Atomic lead” ! It is obvious no one will stop them, maybe the World deserves Israel!
I for one, don’t sleep well when I think of what we did in Japan!
Please, play nice, give your grandkids a break!
Toodles, cg
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