>>> In Gaza, the enforced starvation and denial of humanitarian aid, the piracy of life-giving resources such as fuel and water, the denial of medicines and treatment, the systematic destruction of infrastructure and the killing and maiming of the civilian population, 50 per cent of whom are children,
You do know that the Palestinian in Gaza are better off materially than the Egyptian just across the border... That is one reason why the Egyptian keep the border closed... So if Gaza meets the definition of genocide, then the free government must meet it to... Yet the UN says NOTHING about this... Perhaps the reason is that Gaza is seen through a political lens and not one of humanitarian need... On Jan 8, 8:20 pm, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: > Try: Holocaust Denied- By John Pilger: > They know that the horror now raining on Gaza has little to do with > Hamas or, absurdly, "Israel's right to exist." They know the opposite > to be true: that Palestine's right to exist was canceled 61 years ago > and the expulsion and, if necessary, extinction of the indigenous > people was planned and executed by the founders of Israel. They know, > for example, that the infamous "Plan D" resulted in the murderous > depopulation of 369 Palestinian towns and villages by the Haganah > (Jewish army) and that massacre upon massacre of Palestinian civilians > in such places as Deir Yassin, al-Dawayima, Eilaboun, Jish, Ramle and > Lydda are referred to in official records as "ethnic cleansing." > Arriving at a scene of this carnage, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first > prime minister, was asked by a general, Yigal Allon, "What shall we do > with the Arabs?" Ben-Gurion, reported the Israeli historian Benny > Morris, "made a dismissive, energetic gesture with his hand and said, > 'Expel them'. The order to expel an entire population "without > attention to age" was signed by Yitzhak Rabin, a future prime minister > promoted by the world's most efficient propaganda as a peacemaker. The > terrible irony of this was addressed only in passing, such as when the > Mapan Party co-leader Meir Ya'ari noted "how easily" Israel's leaders > spoke of how it was "possible and permissible to take women, children > and old men and to fill the roads with them because such is the > imperative of strategy ... who remembers who used this means against > our people during the [Second World] war ... we are appalled." > > Every subsequent "war" Israel has waged has had the same objective: > the expulsion of the native people and the theft of more and more > land. The lie of David and Goliath, of perennial victim, reached its > apogee in 1967 when the propaganda became a righteous fury that > claimed the Arab states had struck first. Since then, mostly Jewish > truth-tellers such as Avi Schlaim, Noam Chomsky, the late Tanya > Reinhart, Neve Gordon, Tom Segev, Yuri Avnery, Ilan Pappe and Norman > Finklestein have dispatched this and other myths and revealed a state > shorn of the humane traditions of Judaism, whose unrelenting > militarism is the sum of an expansionist, lawless and racist ideology > called zionism. "It seems," wrote the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe on > 2 January, "that even the most horrendous crimes, such as the genocide > in Gaza, are treated as desperate events, unconnected to anything that > happened in the past and not associated with any ideology or > system ... Very much as the apartheid ideology explained the > oppressive policies of the South African government, this ideology - > in its most consensual and simplistic variety - has allowed all the > Israeli governments in the past and the present to dehumanize the > Palestinians wherever they are and strive to destroy them. The means > altered from period to period, from location to location, as did the > narrative covering up these atrocities. But there is a clear pattern > [of genocide]." > > In Gaza, the enforced starvation and denial of humanitarian aid, the > piracy of life-giving resources such as fuel and water, the denial of > medicines and treatment, the systematic destruction of infrastructure > and the killing and maiming of the civilian population, 50 per cent of > whom are children, meet the international standard of the Genocide > Convention. "Is it an irresponsible overstatement," asked Richard > Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the > Occupied Palestinian Territory and international law authority at > Princeton University, "to associate the treatment of Palestinians with > this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not." > > In describing a "holocaust-in-the making," Falk was alluding to the > Nazis' establishment of Jewish ghettos in Poland. For one month in > 1943, the captive Polish Jews led by Mordechaj Anielewiz fought off > the German army and the SS, but their resistance was finally crushed > and the Nazis exacted their final revenge. Falk is also a Jew. Today's > holocaust-in-the-making, which began with Ben-Gurion's Plan D, is in > its final stages. The difference today is that it is a joint US- > Israeli project. The F-16 jet fighters, the 250-pound "smart" GBU-39 > bombs supplied on the eve of the attack on Gaza, having been approved > by a Congress dominated by the Democratic Party, plus the annual $2.4 > billion in war-making "aid," give Washington de facto control. It > beggars belief that President-elect Obama was not informed. Outspoken > on Russia's war in Georgia and the terrorism in Mumbai, Obama's > silence on Palestine marks his approval, which is to be expected, > given his obsequiousness to the Tel Aviv regime and its lobbyists > during the presidential campaign and his appointment of Zionists as > his secretary of state, chief of staff and principal Middle East > advisers. When Aretha Franklin sings "Think," her wonderful 1960s > anthem to freedom, at Obama's inauguration on 21 January, I trust > someone with the brave heart of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the shoe-thrower, > will shout: "Gaza!" > > The asymmetry of conquest and terror is clear. Plan D is now > "Operation Cast Lead," which is the unfinished "Operation Justified > Vengeance." The latter was launched by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in > 2001 when, with Bush's approval, he used F-16s against Palestinian > towns and villages for the first time. In the same year, the > authoritative Jane's Foreign Report disclosed that the Blair > government had given Israel the "green light" to attack the West Bank > after it was shown Israel's secret designs for a bloodbath. It was > typical of New Labor Party's enduring, cringing complicity in > Palestine's agony. However, the 2001 Israeli plan, reported Jane's, > needed the "trigger" of a suicide bombing which would cause "numerous > deaths and injuries [because] the 'revenge' factor is crucial." This > would "motivate Israeli soldiers to demolish the Palestinians." What > alarmed Sharon and the author of the plan, General Shaul Mofaz, the > Israeli Chief of Staff, was a secret agreement between Yasser Arafat > and Hamas to ban suicide attacks. On 23 November, 2001, Israeli agents > assassinated the Hamas leader, Mahmud Abu Hunud, and got their > "trigger"; the suicide attacks resumed in response to his killing. > > Something uncannily similar happened on 5 November last, when Israeli > special forces attacked Gaza, killing six people. Once again, they got > their propaganda "trigger." A ceasefire initiated and sustained by the > Hamas government - which had imprisoned its violators - was shattered > by the Israeli attack and homemade rockets were fired into what used > to be Palestine before its Arab occupants were "cleansed." Then on 23 > December, Hamas offered to renew the ceasefire, but Israel's charade > was such that its all-out assault on Gaza had been planned six months > earlier, according to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz. > > Behind this sordid game is the "Dagan Plan," named after General Meir > Dagan, who served with Sharon in his bloody invasion of Lebanon in > 1982. Now head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organization, Dagan > is the author of a "solution" that has seen the imprisonment of > Palestinians behind a ghetto wall snaking across the West Bank and in > Gaza, effectively a concentration camp. The establishment of a > quisling government in Ramallah under Mohammed Abbas is Dagan's > achievement, together with a hasbara (propaganda) campaign relayed > through a mostly supine, if intimidated western media, notably in > America, that says Hamas is a terrorist organization devoted to > Israel's destruction and to "blame" for the massacres and siege of its > own people over two generations, long before its creation. "We have > never had it so good," said the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman > Gideon Meir in 2006. "The hasbara effort is a well-oiled machine." In > fact, Hamas's real threat is its example as the Arab world's only > democratically elected government, drawing its popularity from its > resistance to the Palestinians' oppressor and tormentor. > This was demonstrated when Hamas foiled a CIA coup in 2007, an event > ordained in the western media as "Hamas's seizure of power." Likewise, > Hamas is never described as a government, let alone democratic. > Neither is its proposal of a ten-year truce as a historic recognition > of the "reality" of Israel and support for a two-state solution with > just one condition: that the Israelis obey international law and end > their illegal occupation beyond the 1967 borders. As every annual vote > in the UN General Assembly demonstrates, 99 per cent of humanity > concurs. On 4 January, the president of the General Assembly, Miguel > d'Escoto, described the Israeli attack on Gaza as a "monstrosity." > > When the monstrosity is done and the people of Gaza are even more > stricken, the Dagan Plan foresees what Sharon called a "1948-style > solution" - the destruction of all Palestinian leadership and > authority followed by mass expulsions into smaller and smaller > "cantonments" and perhaps finally into Jordan. This demolition of > institutional and educational life in Gaza is designed to produce, > wrote Karma Nabulsi, a Palestinian exile in Britain, "a Hobbesian > vision of an anarchic society: truncated, violent, powerless, > destroyed, cowed ... Look to the Iraq of today: that is what [Sharon] > had in store for us, and he has nearly achieved it." > > Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is an American writer on Palestine. She has a Jewish > mother and an Iraqi Muslim father. "Holocaust denial is anti-Semitic," > she wrote on 31 December. "But I'm not talking about World War Two, > Mahmoud Ahmedinijad (the president of Iran) or Ashkenazi Jews. What > I'm referring to is the holocaust we are all witnessing and > responsible for in Gaza today and in Palestine over the past 60 > years ... Since Arabs are Semites, US-Israeli policy doesn't get more ... > > read more » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
