When Israel Expelled Palestinians
By Randall Kuhn, the Washington Times
In the wake of Israel's invasion of Gaza, Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak made this analogy: "Think about what would happen if for seven years rockets had been fired at San Diego, California from Tijuana, Mexico."
Think about what would happen if San Diego expelled most of its Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Native American population, about 48 percent of the total, and forcibly relocated them to Tijuana? Not just immigrants, but even those who have lived in this country for many generations. Not just the unemployed or the criminals or the America haters, but the school teachers, the small business owners, the soldiers, even the baseball players.
What if we established government and faith-based agencies to help move white people into their former homes? And what if we razed hundreds of their homes in rural areas and, with the aid of charitable donations from people in the United States and abroad, planted forests on their former towns, creating nature preserves for whites to enjoy? Sounds pretty awful, huh? I may be called anti-Semitic for speaking this truth. Well, I'm Jewish and the scenario above is what many prominent Israeli scholars say happened when Israel expelled Palestinians from southern Israel and forced them into Gaza. But this analogy is just getting started. Full article.
Israel Free Ride Ends
By Michelle Goldberg, the Guardian
Slowly, though, something is changing. As Israel pulverises Gaza, questions and doubts about Israeli policy are becoming more prominent in the American media. The failure of the war in Iraq and the attendant discrediting of neoconservatism has opened up new space in the American conversation. With the American right dejected and weakened, there's less pressure on the press to display the kind of boorish one-sidedness that self-congratulatory conservatives like to call "moral clarity". Israel's disproportionate retaliation in Gaza is increasingly recognised as both brutal and, in all likelihood, ultimately futile. In destroying Gaza, Israel is also destroying the American taboo that has ensured the country such unstintingly favourable media coverage. Full article.
IDF Has No Mercy for Children in Gaza Nursery Schools
By Gideon Levy, Haaretz
One can say Hamas hides among the civilian
population, as if the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv is not located in
the heart of a civilian population, as if there are places in Gaza that
are not in the heart of a civilian population. One can also claim that
Hamas uses children as human shields, as if in the past our own
organizations fighting to establish a country did not recruit children.
A significant majority of the children killed in Gaza did not die
because they were used as human shields or because they worked for
Hamas. They were killed because the IDF bombed, shelled or fired at
them, their families or their apartment buildings. That is why the
blood of Gaza's children is on our hands, not on Hamas' hands, and we
will never be able to escape that responsibility. Full article.
Enough. It's Time for a Boycott
By Naomi Klein, the Guardian
Lancet Blasts Israel Atrocities in Gaza
By AFP
In an editorial released ahead of publication next Saturday, the British health journal said Israel, by hitting civilians and wrecking medical infrastructure, had carried out attacks that were "unjustified and disproportional."
"The collective punishment of Gazans is placing horrific and immediate burdens of injury and trauma on innocent civilians. These actions contravene the fourth Geneva convention."
The editorial also blasted "national medical associations and professional bodies worldwide," accusing them of keeping silent as the destruction unfolded.
"Their leaders, through their inaction, are complicit in a preventable tragedy that may have long-lasting public-health consequences not only for Gaza for also for the entire region," it said. Full article.
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