Wall Comes Down, But Why Was There A Siege In The First Place?
It was nice to see some good news for once - hundreds of thousands of palestinians taking advantage of that border wall breach. Hamas had worked on that wall for months, cutting away at the foundations so it would be destroyed more easily and waited for the best time to blow it wide open. It must have been dizzying for those people to taste freedom after living in a prison camp.
But why did Israel close the borders and inflict such massive hardships with collective punishment, something they've turned into a grotesque art form? The zionists say it's because of rocket attacks from Gaza, but those little rockets invariably wind up exploding harmlessly in vacant places, if those are qassam rockets being fired in the first place.
Or perhaps this is the reason Israel turned the screws on Gaza
"Israel claims its recent moves are retaliation for continued rocket attacks originating in Gaza that despite their consistency cause scant damage and few actual casualties. But the reasons may include motivations with roots back in 2000, when the British firm British Gas Group (BG) discovered proven natural gas reserves of at least 1.3 trillion cubic meters beneath Gazan territorial waters worth nearly $4 billion."
Israel is desperate for this gas, as it's costly supplies had dried up over the years. The problem as they see it is that the majority of it is palestinian controlled. When BG pulled the plug on negotiations with Israel for this resource on January 8 They decided to get medieval on Gaza to put intense pressure on Hamas, seen as the main stumbling block for Israel to get what it wants.
"Since the announcement, Israel has radically expanded its sanctions, cut fuel shipments entirely and stepped up its military campaign. Increased air strikes and use of internationally proscribed tank shell ammunition has led to a drastic increase in civilian deaths and injuries in hopes of eroding support for Hamas in Gaza. Combined with dangerous shortages of food, water and basic supplies, the coastal region has fallen into catastrophe."
So to get it's hands on some natural gas, the ziofascists make life a miserable nightmare for over a million people in the hopes of them getting rid of duly elected leadership. Apparently it's just fine to make sick arabs die at checkpoints because the borders are sealed, and hell, if the war crime of collective punishment won't work to change palestinian officials the vile scumbags can just blow them up or something.
But why did Israel close the borders and inflict such massive hardships with collective punishment, something they've turned into a grotesque art form? The zionists say it's because of rocket attacks from Gaza, but those little rockets invariably wind up exploding harmlessly in vacant places, if those are qassam rockets being fired in the first place.
Or perhaps this is the reason Israel turned the screws on Gaza
"Israel claims its recent moves are retaliation for continued rocket attacks originating in Gaza that despite their consistency cause scant damage and few actual casualties. But the reasons may include motivations with roots back in 2000, when the British firm British Gas Group (BG) discovered proven natural gas reserves of at least 1.3 trillion cubic meters beneath Gazan territorial waters worth nearly $4 billion."
Israel is desperate for this gas, as it's costly supplies had dried up over the years. The problem as they see it is that the majority of it is palestinian controlled. When BG pulled the plug on negotiations with Israel for this resource on January 8 They decided to get medieval on Gaza to put intense pressure on Hamas, seen as the main stumbling block for Israel to get what it wants.
"Since the announcement, Israel has radically expanded its sanctions, cut fuel shipments entirely and stepped up its military campaign. Increased air strikes and use of internationally proscribed tank shell ammunition has led to a drastic increase in civilian deaths and injuries in hopes of eroding support for Hamas in Gaza. Combined with dangerous shortages of food, water and basic supplies, the coastal region has fallen into catastrophe."
So to get it's hands on some natural gas, the ziofascists make life a miserable nightmare for over a million people in the hopes of them getting rid of duly elected leadership. Apparently it's just fine to make sick arabs die at checkpoints because the borders are sealed, and hell, if the war crime of collective punishment won't work to change palestinian officials the vile scumbags can just blow them up or something.
posted by nolocontendere at 9:42 PM
6 Comments:
I read much the same thing about the July war Israel waged on Lebanon, in a globalresearch.ca article. Apparently, Israel wants to run a pipeline through Lebanon from the north, around the caspian sea, where all the oil and gas is.
Of course, we never heard about that in the MSM either.
Yes, I had read that too, and fresh water from the Litani river was supposed to be a bonus for them too.
Fascists can't help themselves. They're addicted to lies and ulterior motives.
Israel, like the US, has become a very sick country.
Though the this is nothing new for the US, whereas Israel might be expected to have more respect for human rights, given the reason for their founding.
Yes, it was heartening to see the Gazans break out of their prison. I hope Hamas has similar plans for the separation wall.
I don't know what the reason is that Israel is doing what it's doing in Gaza. But we are accomplices, imo, both in preventing the UN from enforcing resolutions against Israel, and in funding their crimes. This atrocity is on us as much as Israel.
Well spooked, I'd argue that from the very start of Israel's existence, even going way back before the Balfour Declaration, Israel was conceived as a rogue terror "state" that would have nothing to do with being a jewish homeland, except to hide behind that concept. I'd argue that from the very start, when the UN carved land from Palestine to create Israel in 1947, our "special friend" has been a murderous terror entity, so there's nothing new going on with the zionist treatment of the palestinians, except for degrees of thugishness and cruelty.
You bet, abi, it's way past time to cut off the direct spigot from our treasury to zionist coffers.
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