Israel Genocide of Gaza.Is it really all about rockets?
What if Hamas dumped all their rockets in the sea tomorrow? Would Gazans enjoy the same freedoms as other nations? Would they be able to open their sea port to foreign ships and rebuild and operate their airport? Would they be able to import and export and carry on trade and develop their economy and prosper like other countries?
Would they be allowed to exploit and develop their offshore gas field? Would their fishermen be allowed to fish in unpolluted waters? Would their young people be able to come and go and take up places at foreign universities?
Would Israel clear out of Gazan airspace permanently? Would the Israeli navy cease its piracy and stay out of Palestinian territorial waters? Would you and I be able to visit Gaza direct?
Fat chance. None of this would suit Israel. So Gazans would be no better off. Their tormented half-existence would continue.
There are no rockets coming out of the West Bank. Yet the illegal Israeli occupation there continues and so does the ethnic cleansing, the land theft, the illegal settlements, the colonization, the demolition of Palestinian homes, the throttling of the economy, the abduction and ‘administrative detention’ of civilians and the massive interference with freedom of movement. Nothing has changed for West Bank Palestinians who DO NOT fire rockets. There is no sign of an end to their misery.
The bloody assault on Gaza therefore has much more to do with Israel’s ambition to expand racial dominance in the Holy Land than crude and erratic rocket-fire. Hamas and the Palestinians holed up in Gaza are simply in the way of the Grand Plan and have to be removed or totally subdued.
The international community needs to keep their eye on the ball – the big issue – which is the ending of the occupation and Israel’s withdrawal to recognized pre-67 borders as required by international law. In short, they need to stop wringing their hands and start delivering justice, which is long overdue.
Palestinians in Gaza will hardly wish to give up armed resistance until they receive copper-bottomed guarantees of a normal life unmolested by Israel… and see concrete evidence of it.
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:43 am
You’re fucking kidding me, after Iraq this is genocide?
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:46 am
It’s all about the American economy, they supply Israel with weapons of mass destruction the israelis pay good American dollar!….Americans then buy more big macs.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Let them dump the rockets and stop the suicide bombings and then we’ll negotiate. Talk is cheap.
May 30th, 2009 at 2:13 am
I agree totally. Unfortunately there will be lots of people who have been so brainwashed by the American (Israel controlled) media and have been brow beaten into not saying anything against Jews or Israel or be deemed a racist, that will disagree with you. However, when you look at this from more than one side, Israel is doing exactly what you are saying and it is wrong. They are the first to try to get the sympathy vote about what supposedly happened to them in WW2, but then are the first to move towards genocide and seizing of land illegally by force. Amazing how much Israel follows along the lines that Nazi Germany supposedly did in WW2.
May 30th, 2009 at 4:00 am
WAR = money – that reminds me, i have to cash my cheque in tomorow
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
“We desire death as you desire life.”
The UN announcement that 51 civilians have died in the conflict in Gaza must be understood in the context of Hamas’s declared ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters. Indeed, Hamas continues to emphasize and promote the religious ideology that death for Allah is an ideal to be actively pursued.
The goal is to convince Palestini More..ans, including women and children, not to fear death but even to face it at the front to protect Hamas fighters. Hamas’s placement of its military installations and fighters among civilians reflects this ideology, and has led to these 51 deaths.
A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He described it as part of a “death industry” at which Palestinians excel, and explained that the Palestinians “desire death” with the same intensity that Israelis “desire life.”
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: “For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire life.”
June 5th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
You make a good point. If Hamas give up their rockets – the people in Gaza go back to being starved to death.
They still have to go through checkpoints to get to Hospitals. Pregnant Palestinian Women going into labour have been held at checkpoints on their way to Hospital,
Check out how many children have been born at an Israeli checkpoint
June 7th, 2009 at 8:56 am
No, it’s about the USA bending over backwards to appease it’s own jewish electorate. It’s also quite handy for them (the Yanks) to have their own puppet state in the Middle East.