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The incursion
and bombardment of Gaza
is not about destroying Hamas
It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel
It is not about achieving peace
The Israeli decision to reign death and destruction on Gaza
to use lethal weapons
of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population
is the final phase
in a decades long campaign
to ethnically cleanse palestinians.
The assault on Gaza
is about creating
squalid
lawless
and impoverished ghettos
in the West Bank and Gaza
where life for palestinians will be barely sustainable
It is about building a series of ringed palestinian enclaves
where the israeli military will have the ability
to instantly shut off movement
food
medicines and goods to perpetuate the misery
Privilege and power
especially military power
is a dangerous narcotic
violence destroys those who bear the brunt
of its force
but also those who try to use it to become gods
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets
and naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps
schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums
to attack a population that has
no air force
no air defence, no navy
no heavy weapons
no artillery units
no mechanized armor, no command and control, No army
and calls it a war
It is not a war
It is ***
Images of dead palestinian children lined up as if sleep on the floor
of the main hospital in Gaza
are metaphor for the future
Israel will from now on speak to the palestinians in the language of death
those who orchestrated such sieges
do not grasp
the terrible rage born of long humiliation
indiscriminate violence
and abuse
A father
or a mother
whose child dies because of a lack of vaccines
or proper medical care
Does not forget
a boy whos ill grandmother dies while being detained at an Israeli
checkpoint
Does not forget
families who carry the broken bodies of their children to hospitals
do not forget
all who endure humiliation, abuse and the *** of those they love
Do not forget
This rage becomes a virus
within those who eventually stumble out into the daylight
Is it any wonder that seventy one percent
of children interviewed at a school in gaza recently
said they wanted to be a martyr
The refusal
by our political leaders from, Barack Obama, to all but five members of congress
to the major media to speak out in defense of the rule of law
and fundamental human rights
exposes our cowardice
and our hypocrisy
The public debate about the gaza attack
engages in the obsurd pretense that it is israel not the palestinians
whos security
and dignity is being threatened
this blind defensive of israel and israeli brutality towards the palestinians
is a betrayal
of the memory of all those killed in other genocides in other times
The lesson of the holocaust is not that jews are special
It is not thats jews are unique
It is not that jews are eternal victims
The lesson of the holocaust
is that when you have the capacity
to halt genocide and you do not
no matter who carries out that genocide or who it is directed against
You are culpable
and we are very culpable, The F16 fighter jets, the Apache attack helicopters,
the two hundred and fifty pound
smart GBU thirty-nine bombs
are all part of the three billion dollar military aid
we give to Israel
Palestinians are being killed tonight
with american made weapons
but perhaps our callous indifference to human suffering is to be expected
We after all kill women and
children
on an even vaster scale in Iraq
and Afghanistan