Self-defence, blood lust, ethnic cleansing, disproportionate response, mowing
the lawn, genocide, death from the sky.
Whatever way you wish to describe the unparalleled violence unleashed on Gaza
is up to you.
I describe it as shooting or in this case bombing Palestinians in a barrel.
Let’s have a brief resumé of what’s happened.
The district of Sheikh Jarrah is in East Jerusalem. This was the proposed
capital of a Palestinian state. The signing of the Oslo Agreement in 1993 saw
further Israeli expansion into the West Bank and areas like Silwan and Sheikh
Jarrah have been systematically targeted by the illegal Jewish Settler movement
which uses Israeli courts to award Zionist Jews the homes and land currently
occupied by Palestinians.
If you take nothing else from this article please remember the occupation is
illegal, therefore every decision taken by the occupation army, the illegal
settlers and the apartheid Israeli judiciary, that routinely sends young
children, young boys and men to prison on extracted false confessions, many
made under duress, under physical threat and in some cases children are handed
false confessions written in Hebrew which they cannot understand and they are
told these are official release forms.
The kids sign them thinking they are going home but in reality, they have signed a confession which will condemn them to jail.
Add to this ‘Administrative Detention’, imprisonment without trial, and we have the flawed corrupt apartheid regimes conveyor belt to jail. All of this is illegal.
Many Human Rights organisations describe Israel as an apartheid state.
This is because Zionism, a political ideology, is inherently apartheid.
Netanyahu is facing corruption charges. A former Israeli Knesset member during
a CNN interview accused him of inciting the current round of violence by
continuing Israel’s expansionist, illegal land grabs in the occupied west bank
and also through the attacks on people at prayer, men, women and children at
the Al Aqsa mosque, towards the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Is it really conceivable that the leader of the 7th largest military force on
earth would engineer the circumstances whereby a state of conflict between
Israel, a heavily armed modern state would be at war with a civilian population
that has no army, no air force and no navy, to protect it. Just local militia
composed of the fathers and sons, mothers and daughters of the local community?
Well, I guess if an Israeli Knesset member says exactly that, then it must
carry some weight.
So, where are we now?
As the bloodletting ends as it must, as the dead are buried and the destroyed
building dust settles like a shroud on Gaza, where do we go from here.
The reality is, everything will be the same and everything has utterly changed.
Who won and who lost?
I have always struggled when I heard claims following previous attacks on Gaza
that the resistance has won.
I genuinely thought it was bravado for the masses. When we see the death toll, the numbers injured and the devastating damage to civilian homes, hospitals and the infrastructure, I have to ask how have they possibly won?
The loss of life alone is unimaginable in such a small environment. 25 miles by 6 miles, that is the size of the Ards Peninsula in Ireland, having the whole population of Northern Ireland 2 million people squeezed into it.
As of now the destruction in Gaza is of unbelievable proportion.
The targeting and killing of whole families is a war crime in itself.
The systematic destruction of all roads leading to the main hospitals in
Gaza, preventing ambulances and victims from accessing acute services is
another war crime.
The destruction of family homes, farms, places of worship and work are further
war crimes.
The latest blitzkrieg on Gaza is just another Zionists war on civilians that
will never be forgotten.
Israel claims its aims were to degrade the military capabilities of Hamas and other resistance groups in Gaza.
It cites rockets fired from Gaza as the pretext.
Under international law, as Israel illegally occupies the West Bank and
controls the air, sea and land borders around Gaza, the Palestinians have the
right to resist occupation, by any means necessary, including armed resistance.
Then this Samson versus Goliath battle is one of the Palestinian Samson with
rocks and rockets legally resisting an illegal Goliath occupation, that uses
Gunboats, tanks, artillery shells, drones and F16, F35 jets to bomb, flatten
and murder Gazans at will and without any recourse to the rules of war.
Israel will end the bloodshed when it has expended the armaments supplied to it
by America, France, Britain and the EU.
Israel has failed again in its stated objective to destroy the ability of the
resistance in Gaza to challenge the occupation.It did not have the courage to
commit ground troops as the cost in Israeli soldiers lives was deemed
potentially to be too high.
The resistance groups retain both the ability and the will to continue to
resist the illegal occupation and siege by any and all means necessary.
The attacks on Gaza are a proxy threat to other nations in the region. ‘We will
do the same to you’ is the message. Indeed Israel routinely bombs Syria in
another example of its illegal war crimes.
The resistance has won!
I know, it’s hard to believe.
Gaza is destroyed. The dead, the injured and the dying are testaments to the
unfathomable loss of life.
Israeli military leaders have stated on numerous occasions that they
will bomb Gaza back into the stone age.
Gaza is destroyed yet the spirit of resistance and the spirit of the people has
survived. The spirit to continue to demand equality, peace, freedom and justice
for Palestinians and Palestine survives not just in Gaza but in East Jerusalem,
in Sheikh Jarrah, in the West Bank, in Al Aqsa and in historic Palestine, that
Zionists call Israel.
Netanyahu has united Israelis in their demand for his prosecution for
corruption and united Palestinians for the first time in a generation in their
defence of Al Aqsa, East Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza. A new generation of
resistance has been born. United and unified from the river to the sea.
Did the prime minister of Israel help create the conditions that made this latest
attack on Gaza inescapable?
Is the shedding of blood in Gaza simply an electioneering gambit?
He or she who kills the most Palestinians gets the most votes?
History certainly bears that perspective out to be true.
What Gaza needs is financial support, rebuilding materials, medicine, hope and
solidarity in equal measures.
What it will get is 50,000 plus homeless refugees many of whom were already
refugees from the Israeli murder and bombing campaigns of 2014/2009/1967/1948.
Further degradation of civil societies ability to respond to the damage to
lives, homes, infrastructure and the economy is the result.
Egypt is complicit in the siege. It will not help Gaza or Palestine.
The humanitarian catastrophe will continue apace
Israel sells Gaza water, gas, oil and electricity. It makes a profit from all
of these utilities. The profits of occupation.
The resistance has prevailed once again.
The price of resisting the continued illegal Zionist Israel occupation of
Palestine is the continued loss of liberty and life for Palestinians.
The continued loss of life, homes, farms, workplaces, mosques, schools,
hospitals, clinics, the innocence of the young, their hopes for the future and
their dreams of a life free from violent occupation, imprisonment, death from
the skies and a psychological trauma that has no end.
When the bombs stop flying in the east the people stop protesting in the west.
Will you stand with Palestine? Or simply melt away like snow on a ditch until
the next murderous bombing raids occur?
Peace needs you now. Palestinians need you now. The future generations being
born into captivity need you now.
What will you do to help end the madness of a rogue apartheid state and bring
peace to the people of the middle east and west Asia?
It really is in your hands
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