OK, so by this afternoon, the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of
Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won't be hearing from anyone else in the next few
hours.
It's about land. The Israelis of Sederot are coming under rocket fire from the
Palestinians of Gaza and now the Palestinians are getting their comeuppance. Sure. But
wait, how come all those Palestinians -- all 1.5 million -- are crammed into Gaza in the
first place? Well, their families once lived, didn't they, in what is now called Israel?
And got chucked out -- or fled for their lives -- when the Israeli state was created.
And -- a drawing in of breath is now perhaps required -- the people who lived in Sederot
in early 1948 were not Israelis, but Palestinian Arabs. . . .
Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990
[The Congressional Human Rights Caucus was founded in 1983 by Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, and John Porter, an Illinois Republican. Lantos was Hungarian by birth and had the distinction of being the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the Congress.]
Sir Peter Ustinov Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
"Wipe Out Israel? Or Palestine?,"
The Wisdom Fund, December 20, 2005
[In Israel, interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said after a
three-hour emergency meeting on Thursday that Israel would not negotiate with a
Palestinian government including Hamas.--"Hamas sweeps to election
victory," bbc.co.uk, January 26, 2006]
"Israel and Palestine: A
True One-State Solution," The Wisdom Fund, September 3, 2010
[Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern
world. But it is a historical truth.--David J Wasserstein, "So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews?," thejc.com, May 24, 2012]
[When Shlomo Sand's book The Invention of the Jewish People was published it caused a
largely a storm of outrage here in the United States among the few who read it. It was a
bestseller in Israel, though mostly reviled, and where it was reviewed in the American
corporate press the response was deeply hostile. Its central argument holds that the
Jews of Europe, the Ashkenazim, are largely descendants of peoples who converted to
Judaism in the distant past and that the claim that all Jews descend from ancient
Israelites is false. Therefore the contention that European Jews are reclaiming ancient
rights to their homeland in what is now Israel is a false claim. Moreover, the peoples
now known as "Palestinians" are in all likelihood much more closely descended
genetically from the ancient Israelites but who in the course of history converted for
one reason or another either to Christianity or to Islam, and who therefore have a just
claim to the land.--Paul Atwood, "
Whatever Happened to Shlomo Sand? Missing in Action After the Storm Over the 'Invention
of the Jewish People'," counterpunch.org, February 14, 2014]
Francis A. Boyle, "Israel's Gaza
Genocide Redux," scoop.co.nz, July 11, 2014 -- Oral Argument before the Kuala Lumpur War
Crimes Tribunal Commission for the Indictment of Israel
[With over 1,700 explosive strikes so far, the Israeli military has pounded homes,
schools, mosques, electric and water facilities, municipal buildings, health clinics,
moving vehicles, a home for the seriously disabled and even tiny agriculture areas.--Ralph Nader, "Pounding Gaza -- world's largest open-air
prison," middletownpress.com, July 19, 2014]
VIDEO: Nora Lester Murad, Flynt Leverett, Martin van Creveld, "Gaza's Grief,"
RT/CrossTak, July 21, 2014
["a foreign body should be planted in the heart of this nation to prevent the
convergence of its wings in such a way that it could exhaust its powers in never-ending
wars. It could also serve as a springboard for the West to gain its coveted
objects."--Tariq Ali, "Blinded
by Israel, Visionless in Gaza," counterpunch.org, July 22, 2014]
[And why did Netanyahu decide to go on another rampage in Gaza? . . . Netanyahu's real
purpose was to undermine the recent agreement between Hamas and Fatah for a unity
government.--Stephen M. Walt, "AIPAC Is the Only Explanation for America's Morally Bankrupt
Israel Policy," huffingtonpost.com, July 22, 2014]
The situation in Gaza is comparable to that of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.--George Galloway, July 23, 2014
["Responding to Israel's U.S.-backed claim that its assault on Gaza is necessary because
no country would tolerate the rocket fire from militants in Gaza, Siegman says: "What
undermines this principle is that no country and no people would live the way that
Gazans have been made to live. . . . Couldn't they have done something that did not
require that cost? And the answer is, sure, they could have ended the
occupation."--Henry Siegman, "A
Slaughter of Innocents," democracynow.org, July 30, 2014]
Miko Peled, "Israel and Gaza: Six Decades of Oppression and Resistance," YouTube, August 22, 2014
[And if the resistance wins - as in holding the Israeli military at bay, and achieving
some of its demands - the political discourse of the Middle East is likely to change
altogether, where the weak will, once again, dare challenge the strong by demanding
reforms, democracy, and threatening resistance as a realistic way to achieve such
objectives. --Ramzy Baroud, Why Gaza was
betrayed," newrepublic.com, August 27, 2014]
["There is a taboo," said the visionary Edward Said, "on telling the truth about
Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out
can any of us be free."
For many people, the truth is out now. Those once intimidated into silence can't look
away now. Staring at them from their TV, laptop, phone, is proof of the barbarism of the
Israeli state and the great destructive force of its mentor and provider, the United
States, the cowardice of European governments, and the collusion of others, such as
Canada and Australian, in this epic crime.--John Pilger, Breaking
the Last Taboo: Gaza and the Threat of World War'," counterpunch.org, September 12, 2014]
[Israel is the true beneficiary of this aid money. The self-declared international
community has once again footed the reconstruction bill as it arms Israel with the
weaponry and ensures it the impunity that only rewards its brutal onslaught on Gaza and
essentially guarantees its repetition.--Maureen Clare Murphy, Who Benefits from Billions Pledged for Gaza
Reconstruction?," electronicintifada.net, October 14, 2014]
[What the international community has done over the past 20 years of the Oslo process -
inadvertently or otherwise - is offer Israel financial incentives to stabilise and
entrench its rule over the Palestinians.--Jonathon Cook, "How Most Aid to the Palestinians Ends up in Israel's
Coffers," counterpunch.org, March 9, 2016]
Abby Martin, "The Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized," September 28, 2016
[after colonial officials decided to partition the prosperous province of Bengal in
1905, non-violent forms of popular protest were accompanied by the growth of secret
cells of revolutionaries who sought to undermine British imperial authority using
targeted assassinations and bomb attacks.--Joel Abrams, The forgotten violence that helped India break free from
colonial rule," theconversation.com, November 9,, 2016]
[The Israelites' control barely lasted for 77 years and it is largely contested
that Israeli Jews of today are even blood relatives of the groups that inhabited
Palestine 2,000 years ago.
. . . both the "peace process" and the "two-state solution" charade have been largely an
American investment to maintain US leadership, power and influence over the conflict in
Palestine.--Ramzy Baroud, "Trump's embassy move to Jerusalem
'self-destructive'," aljazeera.com, January 24, 2017]
Israeli Soldier's Explosive Tell-All: "Palestinians are Right to Resist", Empire Files, March 20, 2017
[Twenty-four states are now requiring statements pledging not to boycott Israel from
those citizens and organizations that receive government funding or even seek local
government employment. Two bills in Congress also seek to define as anti-Semitism any
criticism of Israel. On December 12th 2017 the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act was approved
by the House of Representatives with 402 affirmative votes and only two
libertarian-leaning congressmen voting "no." The Israel Anti-Boycott Act that is also
currently making its way through the Congress would far exceed what is happening at the
state level and would set a new standard for deference to Israeli interests on the part
of the national government. It would criminalize any U.S. citizen "engaged in interstate
or foreign commerce" who supports a boycott of Israel or who even goes about "requesting
the furnishing of information" regarding it, with penalties enforced through amendments
of two existing laws, the Export Administration Act of 1979 and the Export-Import Act of
1945, that include potential fines of between $250,000 and $1 million and up to 20 years
in prison.--Philip Giraldi, The
Bipartisan Pandering To Jewish Interests," ahtribune.com, April 9, 2018]
[Israel consistently acts as a criminal state. It has an ongoing policy of ethnic
cleansing against the Palestinians, which also involves the establishment of illegal
colonies on militarily occupied land. It uses lethal violence against unarmed
protesters, as the recent massacres along the Gaza border have prominently demonstrated.
It imprisons large numbers of Palestinians including children for acts as simple as
protesting Israeli violence. It goes after civilian targets in its wars against Gaza and
Lebanon. It purposely destroys civilian infrastructure on the West Bank and Gaza. It
runs a regime that segregates out non-Jews from Jews in terms of housing, job
preferences, and benefits and tries to cover up the resulting apartheid reality with a
thin veil of tokenism.--Lawrence Davidson, In Our Age
of State Crimes," counterpunch.org, May 23, 2018]
[Jared Kushner, the Kushner family, and its Kushner Companies holdings are deeply tied
to the financing of Israeli occupation--Stanley L Cohen, The
Peace Deal That is All Israel," counterpunch.org, June 29, 2018]
[Herzl replied -- and quickly, in a letter on March 19. His letter was probably the first
response by a leader of the Zionist movement to a cogent Palestinian objection to its
embryonic plans for Palestine. Herzl simply ignored the letter's basic thesis, that
Palestine was already inhabited by a population that would not agree to be supplanted.
Although Herzl had visited Palestine once, in an 1898 visit timed to coincide with that
of German Kaiser Wilhelm II, he (like most early European Zionists) had not much
knowledge of or contact with its native inhabitants.--Rashid Khalidi, "The Erasure of Palestinians From
Trump's Mideast 'Peace Plan' Has A Hundred-Year History," counterpunch.org,
February 1, 2020]
Stone Cold Justice: Israel's torture of Palestinian children, ABC Australia, February 10, 2021
How Britain Started the Arab-Israeli Conflict, March 3, 2021
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019), Empire Files, May 10, 2021
Aftermath of Palestinian Rocket
Aftermath of Israeli Bombing
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