So what is new in this latest show of Israeli aggression? It is part and parcel of the Zionist aims to have all the land that God promised them. Yes, according to the Zionist, away back thousands of years ago, when they were an ancient roaming tribe, God told them that this land was theirs. The problem being that there are millions of people living on these lands, so they have to be removed. And there will be no peace as long as this idiotic claim is at the root of their Zionist government policy. Bit by bit the land of Palestine is disappearing and being settled by fundamentalist Jews, the Palestinian people are the problem, to have God's promise fulfilled, these people have to go, be destroyed, eliminated or call it what you will. This latest onslaught against the Palestinian people is just another step in that direction. In my way of thinking, the word genocide seems to fit.
Of course you need God's blessing before you kill.
The last major Israeli assault on the Palestinian people of Gaza was December 27 2008, in what the Israeli state called Operation Cast Lead. As usual with the Israeli state, the action was claimed to be in response rockets being fired from Gaza, and as usual the response was totally and utterly disproportionate. It was state blanket repression of an entire people. It was referred to in most places a a massacre. It involved a co-ordinated attack by land artillery, air bombardment and shelling from the sea. On January 3 the Israeli state ground forces moved in and attacked many densely populated areas. Gaza was literally cut in two. The operation was ended on January 18 and the withdrawal of Israeli ground forces was complete by January 21. In that short period of brutal overwhelming firepower, it is estimated that 1,400 Palestinians died and 13 Israelis.
In the 2006 Israeli
invasion of the Lebanon, Israel declared all of Lebanon south of the
Litani River a kill zone. Within this entire twenty mile area of
Lebanon, anyone who was in a vehicle would be targeted and destroyed by
the Israeli state terrorist forces. People in villages across the south
of the country, who were already without food or water, were unable to
flee the bombing or get medical aid.
Between 1968 and 1974, the Lebanese government registered 3,000 attacks
on Lebanon by the Israel state apparatus, which resulted in the brutal
murder of 880 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.
Of course the attacks on Lebanon by the Israeli state did not start in
1968 with the attack on Beirut airport and the destruction of the
Lebanese civilian air fleet. The Israeli aggression started much
earlier. Between 1949 and 1964 there were 140 Israeli attacks on
Lebanese villages and towns. Some of these attacks include, on July
24th. 1950 a Lebanese civilian plane shot down by Israeli planes,
October 1950, Israeli state forces fired on Lebanese civilians killing
four at the village of Yarun. In 1959 Israeli state forces hijacked
three planes, two civilian planes and one Lebanese military jet, and
forced them to land in Israel On August 27th. 1959 Israeli state forces
killed one woman and destroyed two houses and three bridges during an
Israeli terrorist infiltration into South Lebanon. June 14th 1968 saw
the Israeli state terrorists bomb Mays Al-Jabal in South Lebanon and
injured 56 people. After the Israeli state terrorist attack on Beirut
airport in 1968 their occupation forces killed 11 Palestinians in the
‘Arqub region.
After 1968 the Israeli state terrorist attacks became so numerous that
they would fill the pages of a Glasgow telephone directory. The Israel
state apparatus has been attacking and killing Lebanese and Palestinians
long before the formation of Hezbollah and the PLO.
The
2006 Israeli aggression, saw more than 1,000 bombs dropped on 9th
August 2006 on Khiyam alone, destroyed the entire infra-structure of
Lebanon, killed over 1,000 Lebanese, mainly women and children, children
making up almost 50% of those murders. Lets not forget the countless
children killed in Gaza over the years of Israeli aggression. During
this period the Israeli deaths are in the low hundreds mostly soldiers.
This is the record of a state that is held up by the Western states as
the only democratic state in the Middle East. If this is democracy, who
wants it. This is the usual state imperialism doing what it always does,
expand and control, brute force while proclaiming democracy, killing
while waving the flag of peace. Territory and resources are the aim,
people are expendable.
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