WESTERN GOVERNMENTS AND WESTERN MEDIA ARE COMPLICIT IN THE GAZA MASSACRE Israel’s most recent wave of Terrorism Against the Palestinian People has one purpose: to attempt to destroy Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian Unity Government. And this has been covered up by Western governments and mainstream Western media. Diana Buttu wrote: “As soon as the Palestinian Authority national unity government was announced in April, Israel set its sights on destroying it. It did so by first pressing for the government’s isolation and, when that failed, it used the deaths of three Israelis (kidnapped in an area of the West Bank that is entirely under Israel’s control) to demonize Hamas in the Gaza Strip.” (See link below.) The Israelis knew in early July that Hamas was not behind the kidnapping of the 3 settler teenagers. Respected journalist Daoud Kuttab reported this fact on July 10th. Western media knew this. Why then did the Western media only report this AFTER 1,000 Palestinians have been murdered and thousands of Palestinian homes and businesses have been demolished? On July 10th, Daoud Kuttab wrote in in Al-Arabiya that the War on Gaza is based on a malignant lie. (See link below.) From his article: The problem with lies and fabrications is that the truth sometimes interferes. Israel itself has since announced the arrest of Palestinians from Hebron who it accuses of being behind the kidnapping of the three Israelis and they are not the two Hamas names paraded to the media as being behind the act for which their homes were destroyed. Furthermore, Israel has conceded that while some local elements of Hamas in Hebron might turn out to be behind the act, there is no proof that either the Hamas leadership in Gaza or outside the strip were behind it. Musa al-Gharbi wrote in Al Jazeera America: Within hours of the three teens’ disappearance on June 12, Israeli officials knew that they were dead. Yet for the next two weeks authorities put on a phony rescue effort, instituted a gag order to prevent the public from knowing the truth and rallied the Jewish domestic and diaspora populations in anticipation of their move against Hamas. After the kidnapping, for more than two weeks Israeli authorities put on a show of looking for the missing teens — the whole time whipping up anti-Arab sentiment, raising hopes of a recovery and marginalizing voices of dissent. Knowing that the teens were already dead, the Israeli government even sent the mothers of the abductees to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council toraise international awareness and plead for their boys’ safe return. Then the IDF launched Operation Brother’s Keeper, the most extensive military operation in the West Bank for more than a decade, under the auspices of saving the missing teens whom, again, they knew to be deceased. The blame for their abduction immediately went to Hamas, which denied any involvement in the kidnapping. Israel has offered no concrete proof to implicate Hamas — instead identifying as its prime suspects a rogue faction with a history of defying Hamas’ leadership and sabotaging the group’s peace-building efforts. They were identified early on, meaning that Israel knew full well that neither Hamas nor its armed wing (al-Qassam Brigades) were behind the boys’ disappearance. Nonetheless, the IDF began a military campaign against them and de facto the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza. On June 17, Israel rearrested 50 Palestinian prisoners set free in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap with Hamas — a bold provocation that violates its armistice with Hamas. Without cause, the IDF also rounded up a number ofclerics, intellectuals and politicians affiliated with or known to be sympathetic toward Hamas. It also raided hundreds of Palestinian sites, including homes, businesses, universities and clinics — in the process pillaging more than $3 million in cash and property, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Scores of Palestinian civilians were killed in these operations — again, before rockets were fired from Gaza. The misery of the civilian population was compounded by IDF checkpoints and curfews that severely restrict the movement of the Palestinian people, during Ramadan, no less. In mid-June, in preparation for the reprisal attacks from Hamas that the IDF was attempting to provoke, it moved its Iron Dome batteries into southern Israeli cities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the unity government with Hamas — reiterating previous threats of punitive measures unless the union is suspended. Meanwhile, the IDF began calling up reserve troops in anticipation of the ground assault. All these provocations came weeks before Hamas fired the first rockets into Israel. As such, contrary to Obama’s claims and the widely held narrative in Western media, it was in fact Hamas that was acting in self-defense. america.aljazeera/opinions/2014/7/israel-hamas-palestiniansconflictunitedstatesinternationallaw.html When Israel failed to break up the unity government through all of these aggressions against the Palestinian People, it turned to a brutal military attack. And Western governments and Western media followed Zionist orders and concealed all they knew. (Diana Buttu’s writing cited above is here: https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=10152367474473422&set=a.10151944818838422.1073741917.636428421&type=3&theater) (See Daoud Kuttab’s article here: english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2014/07/10/War-on-Gaza-is-based-on-a-malignant-lie.html.)
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:07:53 +0000
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