Noam Chomskys typically clear eyed account of the awful game Israel has been playing with Gaza and the West Bank for years. For anyone with an open mind, this is essential reading. Ive pasted in an excerpt about the faux withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, and the series of ceasefire agreements Israel has consistently broken. Its important to look at Dov Weinglass statement about the motive for the apparent disengagement (which actually involved Israel continuing all effective control of Gaza, including its borders and seacoast, except for the Rafah crossing into Egypt, and electrical and water supplies within the borders of what most international observers consider an open air prison): The first of this series was the Agreement on Movement and Access Between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in November 2005. It called for a crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah for the export of goods and the transit of people, continuous operation of crossings between Israel and Gaza for the import/export of goods, and the transit of people, reduction of obstacles to movement within the West Bank, bus and truck convoys between the West Bank and Gaza, the building of a seaport in Gaza, [and the] re-opening of the airport in Gaza that Israeli bombing had demolished. That agreement was reached shortly after Israel withdrew its settlers and military forces from Gaza. The motive for the disengagement was explained by Dov Weissglass, a confidant of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was in charge of negotiating and implementing it. The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, Weissglass informed the Israeli press. And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders, and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a [U.S.] presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. True enough. The disengagement is actually formaldehyde, Weissglass added. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians. Israeli hawks also recognized that instead of investing substantial resources in maintaining a few thousand settlers in illegal communities in devastated Gaza, it made more sense to transfer them to illegal subsidized communities in areas of the West Bank that Israel intended to keep.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:28:25 +0000
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