RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - In Gaza, International Law Is Up in Flames

I like to know from the historians on this list whether there is any
evidence in history of a sustainable nonviolent resistance to occupation?

Kwaku Mensah
Chicago

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A few moments ago on CNN's "Crisis in the Middle East" news program (Sunday
August 3, 2014), Yousef Munayer, Director of the Palestine Center,
provided an illuminating perspective on the physical and symbolic violence
of Occupation. He said that the Palestinians are the only people in the
world who are required to provide security for their occupiers, and Israel
is the only occupying force allowed to demand security from the victims of
its occupation..

Insightful, isn't it?

Edward Kissi

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i wish i had gloria's wit and pithiness. she hit the nail on the head.

On 8/3/14 7:27 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
> Tunde,
> Thanks for your intervention.
>
> Michael seems to be implying that the struggles against apartheid or
> European occupation and colonialism were silly and dim-witted and
> that anti-colonial 'trouble makers' should have sat quietly in a corner
and not provoke their powerful colonisers and overlords.
>
> These are not words of wisdom.
>
>
> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
> africahistory.net
> vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
> Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tunde Bewaji [tunde.bewaji@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 7:04 PM
> To: USAAfrica Dialogue; Micheal Afolayan; harrow@msu.edu; Emeagwali,
> Gloria (History); Ola Kassim
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - In Gaza, International Law
> Is Up in Flames
>
> Dear Michael,
>
> It is such a wonderful caveat you started your position with above. A
Michael who is not a Zionist or Jew-lover or non-Christian fundamentalist
who, however, tells someone whose land is occupied by a superior "power"
created by Christians to lay dead and accept dispossession, expropriation,
occupation, imprisonment, humiliation and destitution. What a logic?
>
> In a previous post, I used the analogy of the Nigeria Civil War with
misguided Ojukwu trying to come to Lagos! What for? To make Biafra
independent of Nigeria? To occupy Yoruba land? What did he expect Yoruba
people to do? Say because of Aburi, this is welcome for Yoruba to become a
vassal of Igbo?
>
> Coming to Palestine, can you imagine the injustice of the settlement of
Palestine by hordes of Jews, displacing the Arabs who were on the land for
hundreds and thousands of years? So, it is even worse, post Balfour
Declaration: how has the fate of Palestinians in Palestine been protected by
the rest of the world from occupation? Those of you who pray to Jerusalem,
did you forget that historically Jerusalem was a Jebusite City, fully built
and protected, but conquered by David? It was not a no-man's land or fallow
land -- or was it?
>
> Ire o.
>
> Tunde.
>
>
> On 3 August 2014 17:18, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.co
m>> wrote:
> Ken (and Gloria) -
>
> >From me, a non-Jew, and a non-Zionist enthusiast, with no iota of
Christian fundamentalism in my veins, I would think your fury needs be
directed at the Hamas operatives. Regardless of the historicity around the
state of Israel, just imagine yourself being the father (or mother) of two
combating children. One, the weaker, is constantly bugging the other with
verbal threats, harassment, and physical assaults, knowing full well that
the other, who is the stronger, would always respond with what you may call
stronger assaults with lasting ramifications. Would you blame the latter
because his reaction after the said protracted bugging has been deadlier
than that of the former?
>
> You see, this is how the Yoruba people would conceptualize this picture:
The action of the one constantly bugging the stronger one is called
"fifinran," meaning, the act of fishing for trouble from where trouble is
hiding. When the stronger reacts with a deadlier blow, and the weaker takes
it upon itself to cry "foul," it receives the verbal lashing of what the
people call, "Fifi abara kekere gba nla," that is, literally, "doling out
and trading cheap slaps for deadly blows." The people have no sympathy for
such dim-witted action. My point is that the Hamas operatives need to let
the proverbial sleeping dog lie. It's not likely that Israel is going to
vacate its space, regardless of the theory of recency with respect to its
present location. If it is likely not to vacate its location, then, leave it
alone. Lessons of the past ought to have taught the people that for Israel,
the words of Soyinka's memoir are true, that, "The man dies indeed who keeps
silence in the face of tyranny." The world knows that Israel is never going
to roll over and play dead in the face of tyranny. Rather than for friends
and supporters of Hamas setting it up for further pummeling and senseless
loss of lives, why not call a spade a spade by telling its leadership to
please refrain from self-annihilating. Launching rockets at Israel from
schools and civilian residential communities would not amount to a wise
decision, especially when the leaders who are pulling the adder in the tail
are hiding in bunkers. They are to blame for killing children and innocent
civilians. Israeli leadership would always dismiss civilian casualties as
"collateral damage." Would you blame them for it? I don't think so. May we
be guided by wisdom.
>
> Michael O. Afolayan
> >From the Land of Lincoln
>
>
>
> On Sunday, August 3, 2014 9:54 AM, "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"
<emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>> wrote:
>
>
> Most Christian fundamentalists erroneously believe that the Israel of
> the cherished Bible is the same as Israel of today. They use that false
assumption to justify all types of atrocities.
>
> Here are some questions to ponder:
>
> Were the Hebrews the predecessors of the Canaanites in that region or is
it the other way around?
>
> Did the Hebrews not migrate from the land between the two rivers ie
> Mesopotamia before settling in the land of the Canaanites - who some
scholars believe were the ancestors of the Palestinians.
>
> Should all settler colonists of the world, past and present, claim a God
- given right to occupy territory?
> Where and how would we draw the line?
>
> Is Israel of today not a settler colony created in 1948 by the British?
>
> Was Hitler a Palestinian?
>
> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
> africahistory.net<http://africahistory.net>
> vimeo.com/user5946750/videos<http://vimeo.com/user5946750/videos>
> Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
>
>
> ________________________________
> From:
> usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegrou
> ps.com>
> [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegro
> ups.com>] On Behalf Of Ibrahim Abdullah
> [ibdullah@gmail.com<mailto:ibdullah@gmail.com>]
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 8:52 AM
> To:
> usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegrou
> ps.com>
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - In Gaza, International Law
> Is Up in Flames
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>
> Irresponsible! Moderator this site should not tolerate genocidaire.
Aderibigbe should be cautioned for these kind of effusive crap! It's
unconscionable.
>
> On 3 Aug 2014 12:19, "Ibigbolade Aderibigbe"
<gbolaade.aderibigbe@gmail.com<mailto:gbolaade.aderibigbe@gmail.com><mailto:
gbolaade.aderibigbe@gmail.com<mailto:gbolaade.aderibigbe@gmail.com>>> wrote:
> For Ken and his "fans" Israel should just stay put and allow its citizens
to be wiped out all in the name of conforming to "civil standards" as long
as hamas a terrorist group has its way. Then the kens of this world would be
happy at the annihilation of the Jewish people- Why cant we have a repeat of
the NAZI era- INCREDIBLE!!!
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:22 PM, kenneth harrow
<harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@msu.edu><mailto:harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@m
su.edu>>> wrote:
> good questions.
> it is very hard for people to separate out a government from the state or
nation; and in this case, also, to separate jews from israel. not all jews
are israelites or supporters of its govt, not all israelites voted for
netanyahu or favor policies of building settlements or squeezing gaza.
> but in europe all jews are subject to attacks, now, because they are
presumed to be supporters of israel and enemies of hamas.
> hamas's armory consists of a bunch of useless rockets and guns; israel has
all the modern armaments of a powerful state. so what is this policy of
attacking and crushing gaza supposed to accomplish? it turns 1.7 million
gazans into inveterate enemies, with young men willing to commit suicide to
kill israelis.
> what kind of long-term stupid policy can that be? you are right, ogugua,
to ask if the israeli govt and its supporters aren't doing themselves more
harm by their policies than hamas could ever do.
> ken
>
> On 8/2/14 12:50 AM, Anunoby, Ogugua wrote:
> Israeli's case for her onslaught in Gaza is that Hamas fires rockets into
Israel, and attacks Israelis through underground tunnels. The same
government says that its missile defense system (MDS) destroys over 85
percent of the Hamas rockets in the air. Israel's invasion of Gaza has cost
many innocent Palestinian lives. It has also cost more Israeli lives than
Hamas' primitive, unguided rockets, and tunnel attacks have. Is Israel a
penny wise and a pound foolish? Is Israel a greater threat to her people,
and their long term peace and security that Hamas is?
> There must be a more efficient and effective way to seek, find, and have
peace.
>
> oa
>
> From:
> usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegrou
> ps.com><mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadial
> ogue@googlegroups.com>>
> [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@go
> oglegroups.com>] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 11:12 AM
> To:
> usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegrou
> ps.com><mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadial
> ogue@googlegroups.com>>
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - In Gaza, International Law
> Is Up in Flames
>
> hamas was put in an impossible position by the israeli blockade. the
people in gaza were dying and miserable due to israeli pressure. yet you
blame them for striking back. instead, you would have them lie on their back
and be squashed, their people dying from lack of good water, food,
medicine, jobs. incredible. they hated the israelis for oppressing them, and
that hatred was "their fault." and when their youth were ready to die to
strike back, you blame them.
> there are lots of good reasons for criticizing hamas. but you whitewash
israel's crimes, putting the blame on the victim.
> that's not "true and courageous," it's immoral and supports an illegal
blockade that lies at the root of the conflict. if israel had treated gaza
as it did the west bank, we would not have had this situation.
> ken
>
>
> On 8/1/14 5:54 AM, 'Ifedioramma E. Nwana' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
wrote:
> This is the first time I have read something true and courageous. Yes, if
Hamas does not continue to provoke Israel,lsrael would not have need to
protect her citizens and there would not be what people regard as violations
of International Law. Our elders advise that we should never pull the
leopard by the tail whether alive or dead!
> I blame the international communities more. If they do not go on
massaging Hamas in their idiotic acts, Hamas may have long reallised the
futility of its present stand and the need to live in peace with Israel in a
'Two State' arrangement.
> Who would rightly blame Israel if it has a 'sieged mentality'. It would be
damned insessible to argue that after 66 years the effects of that horrible
holocaust should have been forgotten! Indeed, some of the survivours of that
horrendous experience are still alive and must be singing daily, even to the
hearing of their offspring "Never Again"!
> I think there is a simple solution to the Middle East problem: Hamas and
its sponsors should accept, genuinely and in practice, the Right of Israel
to live under a "Two State" arrangement. I am convinced that once this is
settled, Israel being the civilised community that I know, would stop even
the errection of settlements in the West Bank. By the way who, except
Israel, thought Israel would abandon the settlements it had built in Gaza!
> Unless this (Two State settlement) is done, whenever Hamas provokes
Israel, Israel will try, not only to retaliate, but will endeavour to ensure
that Hamas is incapacitated to the extent that it does not attemp to provoke
her again. Unfortunately, whenever this happens, those who misslead Hamas
go behind to re-arm it and it thinks it can attack Israel!
> I advice the UN and all its agencies to have the courage to tell Hamas to
know itself and find wisdom.
> IEM Nwana
>
> On Friday, 1 August 2014, 1:32, olakassimmd via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.co
m>><mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googl
egroups.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear All
>
> There is no doubt that Israel is breaking international laws and that
> she is getting away with it under the leadership of Benjamin Nettanyau
> who is as much as war monger as any Hamas leader could be.
>
> However there would have been no need
> for Israel to break international laws if the Hamas had not kept on
> provoking Israel in the first instance.
>
> The state of Israel has no other choice but to protect her citizens.
>
> If the Hamas keeps on using its civilians as sacrificial lambs to
> shield its troops from Israel's superior firepower, one can hardly
> blame only the state of Israel for the thousands of civilians
> including infants and school children who have been either killed or
> wounded during the ongoing Israeli counter-offensive.
> The leadership of the Hamas are fully aware that that Israel's war
> doctrine is to deploy overwhelming disproportionate force in
> retaliation for any attacks by Hamas on Israeli citizens,
>
> The Hamas must learn the lesson that it is suicidal to keep on
> provoking wars it knows it cannot win and that if by chance it ever
> appears it might be winning, such an anticipated victory would be
> truncated by the increase in supplies of ammunitions and logistics to
> Israel by the USA and other western countres to bolster the Israeli
efforts.
>
> Only ruthless religious ideologues keep on year in and year out using
> its peoples as guinea pigs for the testing of the latest weaponry from
> Israel, the USA and other western countries,
>
> The rest of the world must tell the Hamas and her dwindling number of
> Arab supporters that it must learn to live and let live.
>
> The only solution to the Palestinian-Isreali dispute is a two state
solution!
> The state of Israel is here to stay; it is not going anywhere.
>
> Nettanyau and the rest of the Israeli leadership must also realize
> that her citizens would know no lasting peace until it agrees to meet the
Palestinians in the middle.
> israel must stop building settlements on Palestinian lands!
>
> Bye,
>
> Ola--a strong supporter of Palestinian rights who is currently fed up with
Hamas tactics.
>
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: kenneth harrow
> <harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@msu.edu>><mailto:harrow@msu.edu<mailto:h
> arrow@msu.edu>>
> To: usaafricadialogue
> <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegro
> ups.com>><mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadi
> alogue@googlegroups.com>>
> Sent: Thu, Jul 31, 2014 6:17 pm
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - In Gaza, International Law
> Is Up in Flames this is completely true here is the amnesty
> international report that details these violations:
> http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/israelgaza-conflict-questions-and-answe
> rs-2014-07-25
>
> ken
>
> On 7/31/14 4:35 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
>
> In Gaza, International Law Is Up in Flames
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> In a flagrant violation of international law, Israel's assault on Gaza has
killed hundreds of civilians and devastated civilian infrastructure.
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> By Phyllis
Bennis<http://fpif.org/authors/phyllis-bennis/><http://fpif.org/authors/phyl
lis-bennis/>, July 30, 2014. Originally published in
OtherWords<http://otherwords.org/israel-violates-international-law-in-gaza/>
<http://otherwords.org/israel-violates-international-law-in-gaza/>.
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> Israel is imposing collective punishment against all Gazans, attacking
hospitals, schools, and power stations.
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> As Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip rages on, ceasefires come and go.
Most last just long enough for Palestinians to dig out the dead from beneath
their collapsed houses, get the injured to overcrowded and under-resourced
hospitals, and seek enough food and water to last through the next round of
airstrikes.
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> "There is nothing left but stones," Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer
quoted an old woman saying as she searched desperately through the rubble of
what had been her home.
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> Casualties are soaring. By late July, Israel had killed more than 1,100
Palestinians<http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/29/world/meast/mideast-crisis/><http
://www.cnn.com/2014/07/29/world/meast/mideast-crisis/> -- at least 73
percent of them
civilians<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/28/336000847/conflict-
in-gaza-heres-what-you-need-to-know-today><http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w
ay/2014/07/28/336000847/conflict-in-gaza-heres-what-you-need-to-know-today>,
including hundreds of children. Fifty-six Israelis, almost all of them
soldiers, have died too.
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> A July 28
poll<http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Poll-865-percent-of-Isra
elis-oppose-cease-fire-369064><http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edg
e/Poll-865-percent-of-Israelis-oppose-cease-fire-369064> shows that 86.5
percent of Israelis oppose a ceasefire. Yet we continue to hear that
Israelis want peace.
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> It's true that at least some of them do. An Israeli protest in Tel Aviv
brought 5,000 people into the street. That's good -- though a far cry from
the 400,000 who poured into the streets to protest Israel's invasion of
Lebanon back in 1982.
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> And when a young Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and tortured to death
-- burned alive -- in Jerusalem after the bodies of the three kidnapped
young Israeli settlers were found, many Israelis tried to distance
themselves from the horrific crime. "In our society, the society of Israel,
there is no place for such murderers," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
claimed.
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>
>
> But in fact, there is a place for those who call for murder -- at the
highest political and military levels of Israeli society.
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> Meet Ayelet
Shaked<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/07/israeli-politician-d
eclares-war-on-the-palestinian-people.html><http://www.thedailybeast.com/art
icles/2014/07/07/israeli-politician-declares-war-on-the-palestinian-people.h
tml>, a member of the Knesset -- Israel's parliament. She belongs to Israel
Home, a far-right party in Netanyahu's governing coalition. She issued on
Facebook what amounts to a call to commit genocide, by deliberately killing
Palestinians, including women, children, and old people.
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> "The entire Palestinian people is the enemy," Shaked posted. "In wars, the
enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its
cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure."
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> The Knesset member went on to say that the mothers of Palestinians killed
should follow their dead sons to Hell: "They should go, as should the
physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little
snakes will be raised there."
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> Her language reminds me of a chapter in our own history -- the genocidal
Indian Wars. U.S. military leaders had called on their troops to wipe out
all the Native American. Col. John
Chivington<http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/four/whois.htm><
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/four/whois.htm> was asked
on the eve of the Sand Creek Massacre about killing Cheyenne children. "Kill
and scalp all, big and little -- nits make lice," he replied.
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> Shaked's comments also echo the words of an Israeli
colonel<http://www.hrw.org/de/news/2010/09/24/yes-war-does-have-rules><http:
//www.hrw.org/de/news/2010/09/24/yes-war-does-have-rules> who testified
under oath at the wrongful death trial of Rachel Corrie, a young U.S. peace
activist killed by an Israeli soldier driving an armored bulldozer in Gaza.
"In a war zone there are no civilians," said the military officer -- who was
responsible for training Israeli soldiers to serve in the occupied
territories.
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> There's no question that Hamas' primitive rockets violate international
law. They can't be accurately aimed at military targets. But that doesn't
justify Israel's violation of its own obligations under international law as
the occupying power in Gaza.
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> Israel has the region's strongest military, the only nuclear weapons
arsenal in the Middle East, and the unconditional backing of the United
States. Its assault on Gaza violates the Geneva
Conventions<http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/israelgaza-conflict-questions-and
-answers-2014-07-25><http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/israelgaza-conflict-ques
tions-and-answers-2014-07-25>. Israel is imposing collective punishment
against all Gazans, attacking hospitals, and using disproportionate force.
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> Israeli officials know full well that the best way to protect their
citizens is to implement a real ceasefire -- a breakthrough that would
require opening Gaza's borders. Some of them also know the best way to keep
their citizens safe long term is by ending the occupation altogether.
Problem is, not enough of them will admit it.
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> U.S. taxpayers also have a stake in this conflict because Washington keeps
sending Israel billions of our tax
dollars<http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf><http://fas.org/sgp/crs/m
ideast/RL33222.pdf> and refuses to push Tel
Aviv<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/israel-us-aid-hamas-harry-reid-10
9452.html><http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/israel-us-aid-hamas-harry-r
eid-109452.html> to stop violating international law.
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> For real peace, both of those things must change.
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> Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute
for Policy Studies<http://www.ips-dc.org/><http://www.ips-dc.org/>.
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> Israel Once Again Unconcerned With Prosecution for War Crimes
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> The United Nations Human Rights Council announced a commission of inquiry
into alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
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> By Russ
> Wellen<http://fpif.org/authors/russ-wellen/><http://fpif.org/authors/r
> uss-wellen/>, July 31, 2014.,
> www.fpif.com<http://www.fpif.com><http://www.fpif.com/>
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> [https://webmail.ccsu.edu/owa/attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAACIR4fP8%2fDSEaN
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> With UNRWA schools under attack by the IDF, Palestinians don't know where
to hide..
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> On Tuesday, July 29, Ibrahim Barzou and Yousur Alhlou of the Associated
Press<http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/29/4260379/israel-target-symbols-of
-hamas.html><http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/29/4260379/israel-target-sym
bols-of-hamas.html> reported on that deadly day in Gaza:
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> Israel unleashed its heaviest air and artillery assault of the Gaza war on
Tuesday, destroying key symbols of Hamas control, shutting down the
territory's only power plant and leaving at least 128 Palestinians dead on
the bloodiest day of the 22-day conflict.
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> On Tuesday, multiple members of at least five families were pulled from
the rubble after airstrikes and tank shells struck their homes, including
the mayor of the Bureij refugee camp, his 70-year-old father and three
relatives, according to Palestinian health officials.
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> In all, at least 1,229 Palestinians have been killed, including 128 on
Tuesday, making it the single deadliest day since the start of fighting on
July 8, said Palestinian health official Ashraf al-Kidra. More than 7,000
have been wounded, he said.
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> That sounds suspiciously like, as Rashid Khaliki writes in the New Yorker
"Collective Punishment in
Gaza<http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/collective-punishment-gaza><htt
p://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/collective-punishment-gaza>."
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> It's worth listening carefully when Netanyahu speaks to the Israeli
people. What is going on in Palestine today is not really about Hamas. It is
not about rockets. It is not about "human shields" or terrorism or tunnels.
It is about Israel's permanent control over Palestinian land and Palestinian
lives.
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> ... What Israel is doing in Gaza now is collective punishment. It is
punishment for Gaza's refusal to be a docile ghetto. It is punishment for
the gall of Palestinians in unifying, and of Hamas and other factions in
responding to Israel's siege and its provocations with resistance.
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> Back to Barzou and Alhlou:
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> The Israeli military has said it is targeting Hamas command centers, along
with rocket launchers and weapons arsenals, but has not provided
explanations when asked about specific strikes in which many members of a
single family were killed.
>
>
>
> Perhaps because they know that no justification exists. Yesterday at
Foreign Policy in Focus, Phyllis
Bennis<http://fpif.org/violating-international-law-gaza/><http://fpif.org/vi
olating-international-law-gaza/> mirrored Khaliki.
>
>
>
> There's no question that Hamas' primitive rockets violate international
law. They can't be accurately aimed at military targets. But that doesn't
justify Israel's violation of its own obligations under international law as
the occupying power in Gaza.
>
>
>
> Israel has the region's strongest military, the only nuclear weapons
arsenal in the Middle East, and the unconditional backing of the United
States. Its assault on Gaza violates the Geneva Conventions. Israel is
imposing collective punishment against all Gazans, attacking hospitals, and
using disproportionate force.
>
>
>
> Operation and operation, Israel and the IDF (Israel Defense Force) act
with absolute impunity. For instance, after Israeli tanks shelled the school
in Jabaliya on Tuesday, BBC
reported<http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28558433><http://www.bbc.
com/news/world-middle-east-28558433>:
>
>
>
> [Chris] Gunness from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) told the BBC
that Israel had been told 17 times that the school in the Jabaliya refugee
camp was housing the displaced. ... [He] said "the world stands disgraced"
by the attack, in which 15 died and dozens were hurt.
>
>
>
> Ms. Bennis again:
>
>
>
> Meet Ayelet Shaked, a member of the Knesset -- Israel's parliament. She
belongs to Israel Home, a far-right party in Netanyahu's governing
coalition. She issued on Facebook what amounts to a call to commit genocide,
by deliberately killing Palestinians, including women, children, and old
people.
>
>
>
> "The entire Palestinian people is the enemy," Shaked posted. "In wars, the
enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its
cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure."
>
>
>
> Ms. Shaked ventures into rabble-rousing that greases the skids to
genocide, such as in Rwanda where the Tutsis were called cockroaches:
>
>
>
> The Knesset member went on to say that the mothers of Palestinians killed
should follow their dead sons to Hell: "They should go, as should the
physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little
snakes will be raised there."
>
>
>
> A quick Google search reveals that Israel has only been taken to task for
war crimes in an official capacity by the Goldstone
Report<http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-1
2-48.pdf><http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HR
C-12-48.pdf> and one occasion when they were charged with war
crimes<http://www.globalresearch.ca/state-of-israel-charged-for-crime-of-gen
ocide-and-war-crimes-kuala-lumpur-tribunal/5346375><http://www.globalresearc
h.ca/state-of-israel-charged-for-crime-of-genocide-and-war-crimes-kuala-lump
ur-tribunal/5346375> in August 2013:
>
>
>
> The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) will be hearing war crimes
and genocide charges against Amos Yaron, a retired Israeli army general and
the State of Israel from 21 to 24 August in Kuala Lumpur.
>
>
>
> This is the first time that war crimes charges will be heard against the
retired general and the State of Israel in compliance with due legal
process. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), having received
complaints from victims from Palestine (Gaza and West Bank) and the Sabra -
Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon, in 2012, investigated these complaints
resulting in the institution of formal charges on war crimes against the
accused.
>
>
>
> But, Haaretz reported (behind a paywall) on June 14,
>
>
>
> The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday launched a commission
of inquiry into alleged Israeli war crimes in its current Gaza offensive,
backing Palestinian efforts to have Israel held up to international
scrutiny.
>
>
>
> Meeting in Geneva, the 46-member council backed a Palestinian-drafted
resolution by 29 votes, with supports from Arab and Muslim countries, China,
Russia, Latin American and African nations.
>
>
>
> Naturally:
>
>
>
> The United States was the only member to vote against the resolution,
while European countries abstained.
>
>
>
> Naturally again:
>
>
>
> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office fiercely condemned the UN
council's decision as a "travesty and should be rejected by decent people
everywhere."
>
>
>
> We'll give the last word to Khaliki, just because it's a trenchant quote:
>
>
>
> ... the United States puts its thumb on the scales in favor of the
stronger party. In this surreal, upside-down vision of the world, it almost
seems as if it is the Israelis who are occupied by the Palestinians, and not
the other way around. In this skewed universe, the inmates of an open-air
prison are besieging a nuclear-armed power with one of the most
sophisticated militaries in the world.
>
>
>
>
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