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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2014, 04:00 PM Jul 2014

The True Gaza Back-Story That The Israelis Aren’t Telling This Week

A future Palestine state will have no borders and be an enclave within Israel, surrounded on all sides by Israeli-held territory

Robert Fisk, Wednesday 9 July 2014



OK, so by this afternoon, the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won’t be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours.

It’s about land. The Israelis of Sederot are coming under rocket fire from the Palestinians of Gaza and now the Palestinians are getting their comeuppance. Sure. But wait, how come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.

And – a drawing in of breath is now perhaps required – the people who lived in Sederot in early 1948 were not Israelis, but Palestinian Arabs. Their village was called Huj. Nor were they enemies of Israel. Two years earlier, these same Arabs had actually hidden Jewish Haganah fighters from the British Army. But when the Israeli army turned up at Huj on 31 May 1948, they expelled all the Arab villagers – to the Gaza Strip! Refugees, they became. David Ben Gurion (Israel’s first Prime Minister) called it an “unjust and unjustified action”. Too bad. The Palestinians of Huj were never allowed back.

And today, well over 6,000 descendants of the Palestinians from Huj – now Sederot – live in the squalor of Gaza, among the “terrorists” Israel is claiming to destroy and who are shooting at what was Huj. Interesting story.

And same again for Israel’s right to self-defence. We heard it again today. What if the people of London were being rocketed like the people of Israel? Wouldn’t they strike back? Well yes, but we Brits don’t have more than a million former inhabitants of the UK cooped up in refugee camps over a few square miles around Hastings.

The last time this specious argument was used was in 2008, when Israel invaded Gaza and killed at least 1,100 Palestinians (exchange rate: 1,100 to 13). What if Dublin was under rocket attack, the Israeli ambassador asked then? But the UK town of Crossmaglen in Northern Ireland was under rocket attack from the Irish Republic in the 1970s – yet the RAF didn’t bomb Dublin in retaliation, killing Irish women and children. In Canada in 2008, Israel’s supporters were making the same fraudulent point. What if the people of Vancouver or Toronto or Montreal were being rocket-attacked from the suburbs of their own cities? How would they feel? But the Canadians haven’t pushed the original inhabitants of Canadian territory into refugee camps.

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The True Gaza Back-Story That The Israelis Aren’t Telling This Week (Original Post) Purveyor Jul 2014 OP
KPFA radio in SF Bay Area used to carry so many interviews with people who know the real truedelphi Jul 2014 #1
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truedelphi

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1. KPFA radio in SF Bay Area used to carry so many interviews with people who know the real
Wed Jul 9, 2014, 04:10 PM
Jul 2014

Skinny on what goes on inside Israel.

Palestinian children live on 600 calories a day, whenever such wars heat up. And while Israelis wounded are free to be ambulanced over to a hospital, in Gaza strip, you have to hope your child is not wounded during a curfew period.


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