{"article":{"id":265570,"heading":"Israel v. Palestine: MSM Unreported Truths","author":"Stephen Lendman","created":"2014-08-26 11:05:40","modified":"2014-08-26 11:05:40","last_modified":"Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:05:40","article":"

Israel v. Palestine: MSM Unreported Truths

by Stephen Lendman

On Tuesday, Israel's Operation Protective Edge aggression entered day 50. Mass slaughter and destruction continue.

MSM scoundrels largely lost interest. Killing Palestinians no longer matters. Justifiable outrage is absent.

So-called halted US arms shipments to Israel two weeks ago was head fake deception. Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said no change in US support for Israel exists.

Weapons include Hellfire missiles, attack helicopters and powerful bunker buster bombs.

Israel uses them to kill Palestinian civilians. Doing so violates core international laws, norms and standards.

Washington unconditionally supports and encourages Israel's killing machine. It uses banned weapons. They include chemical, biological and radiological ones.

Medical professionals report treating injuries never before seen. Palestinian suffering goes unnoticed.

On August 26, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reported what MSM scoundrels ignore.

\"Israeli occupation forces have continued their brutal and immoral offensive on the Gaza Strip for the 50th consecutive day in violation of the international law,\" it said.  

\"They have employed their full-fledged arsenal to attack the Gaza Strip from the air, sea and land, killing and wounding thousands of Palestinians, mostly civilians, including children and women.\"  

\"Many Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes that attacked their homes without prior warnings.\"  

\"Israeli forces have attacked homes and civilian facilities and property.\"

In the past 24 hours alone, Israeli bombs, missiles and shells murdered 14 Palestinians. Another 120 were injured. Many seriously.

Some won't survive. Others are maimed for life. Mostly non-combatant women and children are affected.

\"Additionally,\" said PCHR, \"a charity, 2 mosques, a workshop and a poultry farm (were) destroyed.\"

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are displaced. Most parts of the Strip lack water, electricity and other basic services.

Every square inch of Gaza is unsafe. No safe havens exist. Israel considers civilian neighborhoods, hospitals, mosques, schools and UN refuges legitimate targets.

State terror is official Israeli policy. War without mercy continues. It rages lawlessly. Western leaders support Israeli genocide.

Ceasefires come and go. Israel claims a divine right to mass slaughter and destroy with impunity.

It does so for any reason or none at all. It commits virtually every imaginable crime and then some.

International laws don't matter. Nor UN resolutions. Accountability is nonexistent.

Fact: Israel's entire history is bloodstained.

Fact: It reflects lawless depravity.

Fact: Early Zionists called for \"establishing for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Eretz Yisrael.\" It began a process of:

\t•\tsettling Jewish agriculturists, artisans, and tradesmen in Palestine;

\t•\torganizing effective action groups in various countries;

\t•\tbuilding Jewish consciousness and a national identity; and

gaining acceptance for a Jewish homeland.

At issue was replacing Arabs with Jews. In 1917, Britain unilaterally \"establish(ed) in Palestine (a) national home for the Jewish people.\"

The 1915 McHahon-Hussein Agreement guaranteed one for Arabs. Britain betrayed them. So did America and France.

Sykes-Picot (1916) carved out Western regional spheres of influence. Ottoman Arab provinces were divided their way. Arabs had no say.

In 1920, Britain's Mandate period began. It assured:

\t•\ta liberal Jewish immigration policy;

\t•\timmediate citizenship for Jews;

\t•\teasy Jewish land acquisition at the expense of indigenous Arabs;

\t•\tcontiguous settlements to solidify a Jewish presence;

\t•\temployment for Jewish immigrants;

\t•\tfavorable customs policies to develop Jewish commerce; and

\t•\tpartiality toward Jews at the expense of indigenous Arabs.

Zionist founder Theodore Herzl called Palestine \"our unforgettable historic homeland.\" He called for establishing it by replacing Arabs with Jews.

In his book \"Overcoming Zionism,\" Joel Kovel wrote:

Zionism seeks \"the restoration of tribalism in the guise of a modern, highly militarized and aggressive state.\"

\"(It) cut Jews off from (their) history and led to a fateful identity of interests with anti-Semitism (becoming) the only thing that united them.\"

\"(It) fell into the ways of imperialist expansion and militarism, and showed signs of fascist malignancy.\"

If you accept \"the idea of a Jewish state,\" you mix its twin notions of \"particularism (and) exceptionalism…\"

They're \"the bane of Judaism…(They give) racism an objective, enduring, institutionalized and obdurate character.\"

It turned Israel \"into a machine for the manufacture of human rights abuses.\"

Its bloodstained history reflects it. Israel rules by strength, confrontation, intimidation, force and violence.

State terror is official policy. So are institutionalized racism, colonization and apartheid.

Lawless occupation continues. Premeditated aggression is called self-defense.

Peace is pure fantasy. Palestine's Nakba never ended. Palestinians are considered existential threats.

Israeli Arab citizens are called fifth column ones. At issue is creating an ethnically pure Jewish state by any means necessary.

Zionism is a cancer. It harms Jews and non-Jews alike. It justifies Jewish ethnocracy, exclusivity and superiority.

Laws favor Jews. Arab rights don't matter. Judaization and de-Arabization reflect official policy. So does slow-motion genocide.

Treat them like \"dogs\" so they'll leave, said Moshe Dayan. Ben-Gurion favored \"terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation,\" and violence.

Palestinians remain isolated on their own land. Besieged Gazans suffer most. Israel terrorizes, mass slaughters and destroys.

It does so with impunity. Accountability is nowhere in sight.

Official policies include:

\t•\tpremeditated naked aggression;

\t•\tother high crimes against peace;

\t•\tcalling wars of choice self-defense;

\t•\tblaming Palestinians for its crimes;

\t•\tignoring core international laws, norms and standards;

\t•\tviolating binding UN resolutions;

\t•\tmaintain large stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons;

\t•\tusing illegal weapons in all its wars;

\t•\tinventing pretexts to wage them;

\t•\tusing US tax dollars to commit mass slaughter and destruction;

\t•\trefusing to declare official borders to advance its Greater Middle East agenda;

\t•\tmaintaining the myth of unique Jewish suffering;

\t•\tcalling legitimate criticism anti-Semitism;

\t•\tland theft;

\t•\tsettlement expansions on stolen Palestinian land;

\t•\timprisoning Palestinians for wanting to live free on their own land;

\t•\tdenying them self-determination and other fundamental rights;

\t•\ttorture;

\t•\ttargeted assassinations;

\t•\ttreating Palestinian children like adults;

\t•\tbrutalizing them;

\t•\tmurdering them in cold blood;

\t•\tat the same time, claiming victimization;

\t•\tusing Palestinians as human shields;

\t•\ttargeting civilians like combatants;

\t•\tcollectively punishing millions of Palestinians lawlessly;

\t•\tdenying diaspora ones their legitimate right of return;

\t•\tstealing Palestinian resources;

\t•\tcontrolling virtually every aspect of their lives;

\t•\tterrorizing West Bank and East Jerusalem Palestinian communities;

\t•\tconducting unjustifiable multiple daily pre-dawn raids;

\t•\timprisoning Palestinians for belonging to the wrong political parties;

\t•\tincarcerating many thousands of Palestinian political prisoners;

\t•\tsubjecting them to brutalizing gulag prison harshness;

\t•\tmaintaining lawless, militarized occupation;

\t•\tclaiming a divine right to do it; and

\t•\tprioritizing premeditated wars without mercy.

Operation Protective Edge continues. Peace, equity and justice remain more fantasy than reality.

Palestinians yearn for liberation. Some day they hope. For sure no time soon.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.

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