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Bombing Gaza
For month Israel blocked the Gaza Strip from nearly any supply. No paper for schoolbooks, too little fuel, only little medical stuff. On November 5 it broke the truce [corrected] Hamas had held for nearly five month.
That truce officially ended a few days ago and Hamas as well as other groups started to again to launch ineffective homemade rockets onto Israeli ground.
Yesterday Israel let some 80 trucks with supplies into Gaza. That was not to get relief to 1.5 million prisoners there, but to prepare for the onslaught that started today. Too little supplies in Gaza would let too many people call for a 'premature' stop of the ongoing war against the Palestinian people there.
The first day of a brutal bombing campaign killed at least 195 people, all of them 'militants' and Hamas 'extremists' we are told.
The killing will go on for at least a week and more likely up to February 10 when Israel holds elections. Every politician in Israel seems to run a 'I will hit 'em harder' campaign. This is totally useless violence for the most cynic reason I can think of – to boast the personal egos of Livni, Barak and Netanjahu.
r giap posted: egypt is playing a particularly nefarious role in betraying the palestinians
Egypt is dependent on, and afraid of the US. Saudi, all the rest, as well.
and on israel: what it has done, is doing & will continue to do is to use massacre & murder as its supreme form of politics.
True. Perhaps it is because ppl are seen as only stats on a sheet or computer.
It seems to me that Israeli citizens, the good Jews (pardon the expression), but all the bad ones as well, and even the ‘Arabs’ who have some shoddy permits and toeholds mean nothing, absolutely nothing, to the Isr. Gvmt and Corp. leaders, financiers, international movers and shakers, and all the expats (in this case, religiously defined) who defend and fund Isr.
The citizens are just bodies, place holders, more trouble than they are worth. Isr. as an ethnic/religious defined state needs the breathing bodies, the numbers, and the hype to defend its existence. The definition itself is what leads to this mess, in part.
Ethiopians, uneducated, to be controlled. Fundamentalists, out of time, uneducated, lazy, non-workers, a drag on the economy, an anachronism. Russians, nothing but trouble, demanding and violent, hoodlums. Settlers from the US? Have to be funded 100% and require pools …the army to protect them while they throw rocks, spit, sneer and lord it… Holocaust survivors? Dreck, clag, decrepit, whiners, of no use any longer except for the occasional sentimental photo op. Certainly no money for them. (Who has watched the reparations scandals?) Single mothers? The need stipends to keep their children alive. Not one penny more. Low level workers? Who re-label Pal goods for international sale? Do they need health care? The golden youth of Tel Aviv (cynical, drunk, or falsely sincere, mouthing slogans) are needed for the TV cameras, Isr. is a land of opportunity, modern, it’s like London or Berlin. (Not if you ask them.) And so on. No doubt I amplify for effect!
The viciousness is also directed inwards. Commodification, depersonalization don’t spare anyone. So the Israelis also become dumb and mute and powerless. Or bow down to the powerful for their pay, status, etc.
– this is no apology just one aspect which is rarely brought up
Posted by: Tangerine | Dec 28 2008 22:01 utc | 79
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