‘Exterminate all the Brutes’21 Jan 2009Noam Chomsky – Literally, the crimes that the US and Israel have been committing in Gaza in the past weeks fall under the official US government definition of “terrorism,” but that designation does not capture their enormity. They cannot be called “aggression,” because they are being conducted in occupied territory. In their comprehensive history of Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, Idit Zertal and Akiva Eldar point out that after Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza in 2005, the ruined territory was not released “for even a single day from Israel’s military grip or from the price of the occupation that the inhabitants pay every day … Israel left behind scorched earth, devastated services, and people with neither a present nor a future.” The US-Israeli assault escalated in January 2006, when Palestinians committed a truly heinous crime: they voted “the wrong way” in a free election. Since the terms “aggression” and “terrorism” are inadequate, some new term is needed for the sadistic and cowardly torture of people caged with no possibility of escape, while they are being pounded to dust by the most sophisticated products of US military technology.
Why Israel Won’t Survive21 Jan 2009Ali Abunimah – What Israel perpetrated in Gaza, will remain forever engraved in history. Once again, Israel demonstrated that it possesses the power and the lack of moral restraint necessary to commit atrocities against those it has caged and starved. Yet it is Israel as a Zionist state, not Palestine or the Palestinian people, that cannot survive this attempted genocide. Israel’s “war” was not about rockets, but to destroy any Palestinian resistance to total Israeli-Jewish control over historic Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. To win, Israel had to break Palestinian resistance. It failed. On the contrary, it galvanized and unified Palestinians like never before. All factions united and fought heroically for 23 days. Israel did little harm to the modest but determined military capacity of the resistance. So instead Israel did what it does best: it massacred civilians in the hope that the population would turn against those fighting the occupier.
Just Testing, Folks!19 Nov 2008Its been a few years since I updated this site, and to be perfectly honest, until very recently I didn’t expect to be updating it ever again. For between twelve and sixteen hours of every day I scoured the internet, trying to glean the best news and analysis on the various mounting crises besetting the new century. By bringing it all together in one place in a consistent and eye-catching format, sometimes accompanied with carefully designed images, the intention was to make some…
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