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Gaza: The War Is On Again
The talks in Cairo during the agreed 72 hour cease-fire failed. Israel and Egypt would not commit to the Palestinian demand to lift the siege on Gaza and to open the border crossings. The Israeli delegation left the talks even before the truce period ended at 8 am local time today (Notice how the Washington Post is lying about this fact.)
As soon as the 72 hour period ended the Islamic Jihad military wing in Gaza started to launch rockets at Israeli targets near the Gaza border. Hamas did not join in – a signal that there was still a chance for further negotiations. But about an hour later Israel launched new air strikes at northern Gaza. Palestinians near the border areas flee towards Gaza city.
The Israeli prime minister Netanyahoo had claimed that his recent war on Gaza had "restored Israel's deterrence". That was obviously an illusion.
Hamas had announced that it would next target Israel's only international airport near Tel Aviv. Stopping international air traffic brings serious damage to Israel's economy. Hamas will also try to bait the Israeli army into re-invading the Gaza strip. Its calculation is that more Israeli casualties, as would be certain in close-in fighting, might push the Israeli government to finally lift the seven year old siege.
There may be chance for that as the UN as well as the U.S. have lately spoken out against the continued blockade. But Israel's hardliners will disagree. They still believe in "deterrence" even though such never works when there is no alternative left for the other side but to slowly die. When and how this war on Gaza may now end is not obvious while the nightmare in Gaza continues.
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I do object, though, to the sectarian anger you often direct at those who do not agree with your other sentiments. You cheapen your anger by denouncing Chomsky, Snowden and Netanyahu in the same terms.
Netanyahu is a murderous war criminal.
Chomksy is a fucking Establishment gatekeeper who has and continues to deflect attention away from Israeli crimes and involvement in sundry other Zionist war crimes. Thus, he assists the above.
Snowden is a fucking CIA – witting or unwitting, jury’s still out – stooge. Thus, he also assists the above.
End of story.
Worse though is your insistence that those who do not agree with your theories, which suggest that everything happening in the world is part of a master plan devised in Langley Va., are fake lefts, traitors, accomplices with imperialism or even agents of the US government.
Bevin, you are the perfect example of completely propagandized bourgeois fake Western left because of your adherence to the very “polite” and “rational” prison our betters have designed for us. Just like how Uncle Tom taught/admonished the other slaves on the plantation to not be uppity niggers, you and your ilk consistently caution us from speaking out of turn/getting angry/calling out phonies/shills/gatekeepers etc because….because why exactly? Because if we do maybe Massa will reward us with ANOTHER Obama?!! Maybe he’ll legalize marijuana and gay marriage across the land?!!! Yippee!!
But will Massa stop his global murdering and theft? Shhhh, says Uncle Bevin, dem’s not da words to speak ‘roun Massa, boy!
Finally I object strongly to your thoughtless projection of the worst language of the “culture of cruelty” which is such an important part of the ruling class ideology.
Give us all a big fucking break, Uncle Bevin. You’ve so internalized the wishes of your betters – shhhh, let’s use our inside voices, okay? – that you’ve even gotten to the point of not being able to distinguish between the violence perpetrated by the oppressor AGAINST the oppressed with the righteous violence – almost NON-EXISTENT nowadays or haven’t you fucking noticed? – of the oppressed against the oppressor.
If that’s not sticking up for the OPPRESSOR, what is it, Uncle Bevin?
Gee, one could almost analogize the American war criminals’ use of fig leaf international bodies and laws – NATO, the UN, the IMF, etc etc – to lend veneers of respectability to their murderous crimes to YOUR attempts to use politically correct rhetorical nonsense to lend a veneer of respectability to society’s facing up to same-said murderous war crimes with empty debate/passionless tripe and meaningless intra-systemic actions, huh?
Oh, I see, since Massa actually does the whipping, your telling the rest of the slaves not to call him a murderous fuck that deserves to die a painful death is just trying to keep the peace AND NOT allowing Massa the chance to whip one of us again, huh?
Why, golly, Uncle Bevin, it sure seems like you and the Massa are telling us the EXACT SAME FUCKING THING: behave.
Ok, Uncle Bevin, we’ll all take it like good fucking slaves just cause you say so!
Again, you tell us all to not be mad about the continued murder of innocent people, don’t say bad things because because….you’ll be the next Lynndie England some day or something when like the people have finally like overthrown the reign of the current war criminal elite and placed them in concentration camps or some such stupid fucking idiocy. Would Pol Pot or Stalin have been a better choice in this imaginative fugue?
Yup, Uncle Bevin, you are so afraid – or paid? that is the question – that the pendulum which hasn’t swung the people’s way in decades? centuries? MIGHT microscopically move in their direction that you have to come here and lecture us in the face of atrocity upon atrocity.
The above sentiments are EXACTLY why I figuratively told the world earlier: HATE/DESPISE/SPURN ALL Americans – and Canadians but I repeat myself – because the Uncle Bevins are ALL our society really has to offer you in the “good” and “moral” department. That’s it. We’re such beaten-down slaves that all we have left are the house servants to shush the rest of us back to sleep.
Hey world, sorry our leaders are fucking killing/raping/displacing you but like we’re trying to have a debate over here could you keep it down, mkay? Thanks.
Holy fuck.
Posted by: JSorrentine | Aug 8 2014 16:55 utc | 27
Imagine that somehow all those living in Gaza just vanish, or even are murdered and dispersed by Israel. All their poor houses rubble, the whole a dusty desolate Apocalypse scene. (- Which it is close to.)
Then what?
Well, according to one vision, Israel would enter, take the shore line, fishing and ‘presumed’ gas deposits.
Settlers, funded by others abroad, would arrive en masse, as would some rich Israelis, or their proxies from abroad, entrepreneurs, MegaCos – construction, water, other infrastructure, including re-greening, new holiday resorts, new clinics, and so on. McDonald’s who left Crimea would jump at the opportunity!
No doubt huge tax / trade breaks would be awarded to all and sundry by absolutely everyone. (US, WTO, etc. precision not needed here.) Some olive groves might be re-created (the oil would sell at premium price), with olive trees imported from Spain and France. A lovely international port for yachts, with their cheerful flags, might complete the postcard picture.
Some ‘light’ industry / manufacture / other to provide jobs, beyond the 80% in low service jobs to the rich and tourists, would be essential for image – IT, L’oréal, a Google main outpost (tax free), some new fashion scene, some food, growing saffron would be a great idea.
Boom times! Mostly thru foreign investement and endless support – heh, always dicey that.
Is this what Israel wants?
I don’t think so.
Israel’s support rests on its belligerence, its blatant apartheid state, it’s endless old-style murderous sadistic colonialism, accepted or championed in the ‘modern’ age. Its pride at defeating ‘terrorists’ and uppping the arms industry. That is it’s brand! Its life-blood … Should that change, all cards are off the table, in the long run.
So, the ppl of Gaza have to be corraled in something like a pig-pen, hemmed in forever providing human bodies as victims, those who subsist and resist, marginally, and can always be exploited for attack, every few years, regularly, for endless decades… The more ppl get upset and fund ‘aid’ for the Palestinians, the better for Israel, as that maintains the agression. Without the aid all the Palestianians would have already died, say, except that Isr. would have funded or eased blockades, sanctions.
The point (mostly for the US) is also to erode international law (such as it is), the Geneva conventions, and so on, by eternally claiming special status for Isr. and then using that to undermine any extra-territorial stirctures or control.
Posted by: Noirette | Aug 9 2014 18:22 utc | 47
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