Murder by Numbers
posted by The Sailor @ 9:57 AM Permalink Bump and Update:Israeli Document: Gaza Blockade Isn't About SecurityTwo things; collective punishment is a war crime, and Hamas is the democratically elected government for Palestine, they 'rule' only because they were elected. The Bush regime pushed for the election, but didn't like the results.
As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.
So when the Israeli government says they are blockading arms, they are actually blockading aid to Palestinians. (See Palestinians/Palestine.)
Original post below:
Some more thoughts on Israel's latest act of state sponsored terrorism.
First, why is Israel blockading Gaza? Instead of resorting to a bushism of 'the terrists hate us fer arr freedoms' let us look at what Israel has to say:
Details of Gaza blockade revealed in court caseSounds like "collective punishment" to me and recalls certain images from Jewish history.
BBC News has seen documents, submitted to an Israeli Court, which give more detail than ever before about how and why Israel maintains its Gaza blockade.
In one document, Israel describes the import curbs as "a central pillar in the armed conflict with Hamas".
It also confirms estimates were made of how many calories Gazans need, but says these were not used for policy-making.
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Israel says the blockade is to pressure Hamas, which does not recognise Israel and backs attacks on its citizens.[Well, that's not quite true, Hamas was the democratically elected gov't of Palestinians and has supported attacks on Israeli citizens, but it also recognizes Israel's right to exist.]
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But Israel has never published a list of banned items, saying it approves requests on a case-by-case basis.
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"Food Consumption in the Gaza Strip - Red Lines" which sets out the minimum calorie intake needed by Gaza's million and a half inhabitants, according to their age and sex.
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Among the large range of goods currently forbidden are jam, chocolate, wood for furniture, fruit juice, textiles, and plastic toys.
I guess those damn kids should have stayed off Israel's lawn.
Several years ago, when Ariel Sharon was prime minister, his main advisor, Dov Weisglass “jokingly” said that Israel’s siege was intended to put Gazans on a diet:“It’s like a meeting with a dietitian. We need to make the Palestinians lose weight, but not to starve to death.”
And why this?
Israel rejects international investigation of raidHas there ever been an investigation that Israel's military conducted that didn't clear themselves? And to attack someone in international waters in a pre-dawn raid with attack boats and helicopter gunships and then blame the victims because they defended themselves with clubs against guns is ridiculous.
Israel on Thursday rejected calls from the United Nations and others for an international investigation of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla but left the door open to foreign involvement.
Israel says the commandos used force, killing nine people, only after activists attacked them with knives, crowbars and clubs, as well as two pistols grabbed from raiders. Activists who had set sail for Gaza with tons of aid, hoping to break Israel's 3-year-old blockade of Gaza, say Israeli commandos fired first.
Officials have insisted Israel's military already is investigating the raid and the country is capable of conducting a credible review.
And come on now, the best commandos in the world are whining 'but he had a stick, I was forced to shoot him 4 times in the head' just doesn't wash.
Remember when I mentioned that Israel confiscated laptops and cameras from the civilians on board the flotilla? Well here's why:
Israel's army has been using confiscated videos to justify its deadly raid against a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, and the Foreign Press Association wants it to stop.What was Israel's intention for what they did? It was definitely an act of war against every country with a flag on one of those ships. If not an act of war, then the soldiers who fired and killed those people need to be rounded up and released to the dead citizen's country for a proper murder trial.
The organization, which represents hundreds of journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories, says the military seized video and equipment from dozens of reporters on board the main ship.
The FPA demanded Thursday that the military stop using the captured material without permission and identify the source of the video already released. The material appeared Wednesday on the army's YouTube site labeled as "captured."
The FPA says the military is now selectively using footage to bolster its claims that commandos opened fire only after being attacked.
Is this just a huge distraction, and from what? What is Israel doing right now that they'd risk such a backlash so that nobody would notice. I'm just sayin'.
And just as an aside, what do you think would've happened if Iran had done what Israel did? But that's a story for another day.
Compared to all that, this is brain bleach:
Labels: Israel, neocons. Israelis, preemptive war, war crimes
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Tell me, have you ever read Mein Kamph? you know, that (Historically)somewhat accurate though psychotic screed that A. Hitler wrote.
You know the primary reason why Hitler hated "Jews?" Well, you see, during WWI, the most powerful banks in Germany were basically Jewish-run.
This mostly comes from the historical precedent caused by the Catholic Church, which had forbade Christian-run banks from charging any more than 3 percent interest on any loans they accomplished with other (Catholic) Christians.
On the other hand, Jewish-run banks really could charge whatever the market was demanding, up towards 30 percent and more in some cases. As a consequence, most Germans of that era kept their money in the historically most powerful banks -- that being the Jewish-run ones -- because they paid a much better interest for savings and such. The German Nation's money was fundamentally managed by Jews.
ANYWAY, during WWI, the Jewish-run banks of Germany basically acted against the German nation's best interest by betting against it during the war. They also had much to do with all the worst parts of the Treaty of Versailles (where they made tons of money, had-over-fist) that horribly punished the German Nation far beyond its true culpability for that war.
Basically, because the Jewish economic elite of Germany were treasonous dogs of the worst sort, that nation's greater, Am-ha Eretz Jewish population suffered terribly.
Well, now the roles are (conditionally) reversed, except that the Palestinian population that has been established in the Levant for at least a couple of millennium had absolutely nothing to do with the tragedy suffered by European Jewry. Now, they are suffering horribly anyway.
The Zionist nation is -- beyond all redemption -- playing a super-sized version of the Nazi, "purebred-race," war-crimes machine, and they've been doing it (officially) since 1948.
unforgivable scumbags.
DanD
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