The Gaza Bombardment - What Youre Not Being Told The corporate media isnt just distorting the facts on the Gaza assault, theyre flat out covering them up. On July 7, 2014 Israel began a massive assault on the Gaza strip of Palestine. In the first week alone Israel dropped over 400 tons of bombs, killing over 130 Palestinians. Most were civilians, about half of them were women and children. By the time you are watching the the number will be higher. Israels official justification for this wholesale slaughter: the murder of three Israeli teenagers which Israel blames on Hamas. Thats not the real reason. First of all Israel has not produced one single piece of evidence implicating Hamas or even a Palestinian in the murders, and in fact the the evidence we do have indicates that that murderers were Israeli. You see on Tuesday July 1st, The Jerusalem Post released the audio of the kidnapped teens distress call to police, and in that call the kidnappers can be heard telling the boys to put their heads down in HEBREW. According to the Jerusalem Post prior to being leaked to the public this audio was being held under a gag order by the Israeli government. So why is Israel really attacking Gaza? Its not about self defense and its obviously not about avenging those three teenagers. Those are just cover stories for the naive. What this is really about is natural gas. It turns out that Gaza has quite a bit of natural gas on its coastline. One of the largest sources in the region. British Gas, which holds a joint exploration agreement for the area estimates that the fields hold at least 1 trillion cubic feet of gas. That gas belongs to the Palestinian people and they should be the ones to benefit from it. Israel disagrees. (An interesting side story on this issue: At one point Russia was bidding for a chance to develop Gazas gas fields.) After the death of Yasser Arafat, under questionable circumstances, Israel has controlled those fields, and British Gas has negotiated with Tel Aviv. With power divided between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the Palestinians have been too weak to put up any meaningful ,resistance and Israel would like to keep it that way. The Unity Government between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority threatens Israels control of those fields, and as such it has to be destroyed. Its pretty basic really. These are the real motives of all wars: resources, territory and power. Theyll always come up with an excuse, and its easy to fall for them if you dont do your research, but theres also a really easy way to avoid getting duped: always stand against wars of aggression. Period. Make it a matter of principle, and the facts and morality will always end up being on your side. And speaking of morality, even if those teenagers had been killed by Hamas, what kind of psychopath thinks that this gives Israel the right to go and kill over a hundred people who had nothing to do with it? Were talking about little kids here. Im not going to show you the pictures of the dead or dying children here in this video, but I have looked at them, and as a father its almost unbearable to see. If hearing about those bombs falling doesnt phase you emotionally, if this is just a political debate for you, then go look at the pictures (these for example). You have no right to defend what Israel is doing, if you dont have the courage to even glance at the consequences. And anyone who would justify these crimes after seeing the civilian casualties should be ashamed of themselves. The bombing heavily populated residential areas is a war crime, and the U.S. government is funding it with your tax dollars. Thats right. Israel receives over 3 billion dollars in foreign aid from the U.S. each year. (But hey, its not like the American people actually need that money, the national debt is only 17 trillion dollars.) Of course its no accident that youve never had face whats being done to the Palestinians in your name. If you turn on the mainstream media at any point during this crisis all youll see is constant stream of reports focusing on the Palestinian rockets being fired in response. These reports conveniently fail to mention that as of yet these primitive rockets have not killed one single Israeli. The Obama administration is also running with this artificial narrative. But the rockets, the rockets! Lets all bring this back to the puny homemade rockets that the Palestinians are launching out of desperation and frame this as a question of Israels self defense. Pretend for a moment that this wasnt happening in the Middle East, but rather in the south west of the United States. Hey, just for kicks lets say it was happening in Palestine Texas. So three teenagers from Mexico are visiting Palestine Texas and they get killed, by somebody, we dont know who. Mexico of course takes this as an invitation to launch airstrikes, on the entire on the entire region. For ten days the Mexican air force dutifully pummels Palestine Texas, and the surrounding villages, but unfortunately these darn rednecks were unaware that this was perfectly within Mexicos rights, so they started taking pot shots at Mexican fighter jets with their shotguns and deer rifles, and some started shooting in the general direction of the Mexican border. The bullets didnt reach their targets, but still they tried to defend themselves, and THAT is unacceptable. Sound absurd? Thats what you people sound like when you parrot the mainstream media and talk show pundits without thinking. Totally incoherent. Israel isnt defending itself against the Palestinians any more than the Europeans were defending themselves against the natives of the Americas. Year after year the Israelis have taken more Palestinian land, bulldozed more homes, set up new settlements, and systematically expelled the inhabitants. You can make up justifications or deny it all you want, but the maps dont lie. This isnt defense, this is ethnic cleansing.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:24:48 +0000
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