- It is not a response to Hamas rocket firings, which have
happened before, and which are symbolic rather than effective. As your
guest, Alastair Crook, noted, rocket firings did not kill even one Israeli
since the beginning of the truce. By contrast, Israel has targeted civilians
during the period of the truce. Constant attack by starvation, by closing
the borders to food and medicines, not to mention any other means of subsistence.
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- Your Israeli spokeswoman in London spoke of Israel 's
desire to let Palestinians make their own life in Gaza . Surely you see
through this: without control of the borders, without being able to move
freely to jobs and to markets, the entire population is imprisoned. Israel
did not honor the truce; it did not release the human beings in Gaza from
their inhumane imprisonment.
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- This massacre is another step in a scheme of population
reduction. As Israeli Jeff Halper has noted, the US does not oppose Israel
's constant limitations on life in Gaza because it is part of an experiment
to see how population reduction methods can work. Make life unliveable
- without even food - much less work, and now kill them wantonly. Then,
prevent accurate reporting.
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- Israel is now on a par with the Mugabe regime. How many
reports have we heard from BBC which say, "Because BBC reporters are
not allowed in, we are reporting from the other side of the border in South
Africa ." Of course, this is worse. There is no alternate country
from which to report.
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- As to the spokeswoman and others who reiterate that Israel
has no interest in targeting the civilian population in Gaza , I know this
is not true. I am an eyewitness to their attacks on civilians and especially,
on children. I was in Jenin refugee camp when an Israeli soldier shot the
UNRWA director, a British citizen, Mr Iain Hook. They shot him in the back
in the UN compound while he was on his mobile phone with the Israeli military,
and then they prevented him from leaving the compound for the hospital
just down the road. I was at the hospital when they brought him in and
tried unsuccessfully to revive him. I was there before any BBC reporter.
And note how Israel prevented an investigation by the UK government. The
Israeli Army does target civilians.
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- The Israeli Army targets children and schools. I have
been in the Fatima Khatun school for girls in Jenin below the age of ten
years, huddled in the back room as tanks pass by firing into the windows.
I have been in the other schools that were attacked also, and visited youngsters,
male and female, in hospital after being attacked in the schools. And this
was during an opening in curfew, when they were supposed to be safe from
Army violence, not during a declared annihilation campaign.
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- The "realities on the ground" continue as they
have been, but now with horrific and terrorizing force from the Israeli
Forces, armed on land, air, and sea.
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- As for political characterizations, Minister Milliband
speaks of Abbas as "elected" and then conveniently neglects this
correct identification when referring to the Hamas government, which, as
we know, was elected democratically.
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- Every individual killed in Gaza without a voice of protest
is equivalent to a portion of our humane conscience being erased. A voice
for justice for the imprisoned people of Palestine under attack, is a voice
for justice for humans in every corner of the globe. If not for the sake
of Palestine , do it for the sake of your conscience: Speak up, one and
all.
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