[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Israels' Lies that Broadcasted by Jews' Media
- From: A Nizami <nizaminz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sabili <sabili@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lisi <lisi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:52:27 +0700 (ICT)
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By Stuart Littlewood
While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I
notice there's a briefing document on the website of
the Israeli Embassy in London which has a lie in every
line. The West's mainstream media repeat them, and
even the most senior TV and radio interviewers don't
bother to challenge them.
(Watch video: Israel launches deadly air strikes on
Gaza)
(Watch video: UN calls for Israel to open Gaza border
to aid)
The document is a transcript of Foreign Minister Tzipi
Livni's statement to the Israeli press dated 27
December 2008 – a day that will live in infamy. It
is a perfect example of the falsehoods used to dupe
not only us westerners but Israel's own people. The
statement shows how the regime's view of itself is
constructed on a web of dishonesty and self-delusion.
For example:
• "Israeli citizens have been under the threat of
daily attack from Gaza for years."
Palestinians have been under harsh Israeli occupation
for 60 years.
• "Only this week hundreds of missiles and mortars
shells were fired at Israeli civilian communities."
Only one in 500 Qassam rockets causes a fatality. How
many thousands of Israeli bombs, missiles, rockets,
grenades and tank-shells have been blasted into the
crowded city and towns of the Gaza Strip by Israel's
high-tech weaponry?
• "Until now we have shown restraint. But today
there is no other option than a military operation."
The only legitimate option for Israel is to end the
occupation and withdraw behind its 1967 border, as
required under international law and UN resolution.
Israel has been killing Palestinians at the rate of 8
to 1 since 2000, and children at the rate of nearly 12
to 1 (B'Tselem figures). This is somebody's idea of
restraint?
• "We need to protect our citizens from attack
through a military response against the terror
infrastructure in Gaza."
Self defence is not a right exclusive to Israel.
Palestinians have an equal right to protect their
citizens from the terror tactics of Israel.
• "Israel left Gaza in order to create an
opportunity for peace."
Israel never left Gaza. It still occupies Gaza's
airspace and coastal waters and controls all entrances
and exits.
• "In return, the Hamas terror organization took
control of Gaza and is using its citizens as cover
while it deliberately targets Israeli communities and
denies any chance for peace."
Hamas was voted into power as the legitimate
government of Palestine. Israel chose not to accept
the people's choice, which amounted to a denial of
their human rights, and immediately set about
obliterating it.
• "We have tried everything to reach calm without
using force. We agreed to a truce through Egypt that
was violated by Hamas, which continued to target
Israel, hold Gilad Shalit and build up its arms."
Try talking. The Israelis' ongoing siege and economic
blockade, begun shortly after Hamas was elected early
in 2006, was never going to generate calm. And why is
Shalit considered more important than the 9,000
Palestinians abducted and held prisoner by Israel? As
soon as a Hamas government was formed Israeli troops
arrested 8 Hamas ministers and 20 other
parliamentarians, making the work of government
impossible.
• "Israel continues to act to prevent humanitarian
crisis and to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians."
Every agency operating in Gaza has warned of the
deepening humanitarian crisis and protested about the
starvation and suffering, especially of children many
of whom show evidence of stunted growth.
• "The responsibility for harm to civilians lies
with Hamas."
Not according to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
• "Hamas is a terrorist organization, supported by
Iran, that does not represent the legitimate national
interests of the Palestinian people but a radical
Islamist agenda that seeks to deny peace for the
peoples of this region."
Hamas was the popular choice of Palestinians at the
last election. It is entitled under international law
to take up arms against an illegal occupier and
invader. If it is supported by Iran, so what? Israel
receives mega-support from the U.S. When it comes to
terror, it is Israel's conduct which fits the U.S.
definition of terrorism so perfectly - see Bush's
Executive Order 13224, Section 3 -
http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/terror/terror.pdf
• "While confronting Hamas, Israel continues to
believe in the two State solution and remains
committed to negotiations with the legitimate
Palestinian Authority in the context of the peace
process, launched at Annapolis."
Israel is busy establishing irreversible facts on the
ground that make a viable Palestinian state
impossible. As everyone knows, the regime has reneged
on the peace process and carries on building illegal
settlements and the illegal Wall, and demolishing
Palestinian homes.
Months ago Hamas accepted a Palestinian state based on
internationally recognized (pre-1967) borders, in
accordance with UN resolutions, with full sovereignty
and its capital in Jerusalem, but this has been
ignored. Hamas also offered a 10-year truce, also
ignored. Earlier, Arafat and the PLO recognized the
State of Israel in the Oslo agreement but what good
did it do? Today's U.S.-backed, Fatah-controlled
Palestinian Authority is not representative of the
Palestinian people.
• "Israel expects the support and understanding of
the international community, as it confronts terror,
and advances the interest of all those who wish the
forces of peace and co existence to determine the
agenda of this region."
Israel, next to the U.S., the biggest purveyor of
terror in the region and only advances its own
interests. It may get the support of Israel lobby
stooges in other western governments but is rapidly
earning the contempt of everybody else.
From a statement dated 22 December 2008:
• "Hamas, backed by Iran, has regularly stated its
desire to see the complete destruction of Israel."
Israel is itself a leading destroyer and currently
engaged in trying to wipe out Hamas and the Gazans.
Iran's Ahmadinajad quoted the late Ayatollah Khomeini
as saying that "this regime occupying Jerusalem must
vanish from the page of time" - fair comment
considering Jerusalem, with Bethlehem, was designated
an 'international city' under the UN Partition Plan.
Israeli propaganda twisted the Iranian's words to read
"Israel must be wiped off the map". Zionist sources
and the manifestos of Israeli political parties have
made it clear for a long time that Israel plans to
wipe Palestine off the map, and every act and lie is
directed towards that end.
• "Our fight is not with the people of Gaza; it is
with the extremists of Hamas."
Then why does the Israeli navy harass and fire on
peaceable Gazan fishermen who are well within their
own territorial waters? Why does Israel prevent
Palestinian students from taking up places at foreign
universities and block hospital spares, medicines,
foodstuffs and foreign medics from entering Gaza?
Why has the Israeli navy just rammed a mercy vessel in
international waters taking doctors and medicines to
Gaza? Latest air-strikes have hit the Islamic
University and the ministry of education. These are
direct attacks on Gazan civil society and its
infrastructure.
• "Hamas started this conflict, and it bears
responsibility for any harm to civilians on either
side."
The conflict, started by Jewish terrorists, has been
going on for 60 years, decades before Hamas came into
being.
• "Israel's only responsibility is to protect
Israeli citizens."
As the occupying power Israel has a duty to see that
the people of the occupied territories come to no
harm.
• "Just as Israel seeks to defend its civilian
population, Hamas seeks to kill them."
This reads far better the other way round: "Just as
Hamas seeks to defend its civilian population, Israel
seeks to kill them."
• "Rocket attacks have continued for years and are
now a daily occurrence. How long does the
international community expect Israel will wait before
defending itself against them?"
The rocket attacks will end when Israel ends the
occupation and stops terrorizing its neighbours.
• "In the south of Israel, Israeli citizens live
with air raid sirens sounding every day - sometimes
every hour. Their situation is intolerable."
Not half as intolerable as it is for the Gazans, who
live in constant fear of air raids and re-invasion and
are constantly under surveillance by armed drones
which can fire missiles under computer control from an
armchair in Israeli headquarters.
• "For years, the international community has turned
a blind eye to this onslaught. Only when Israel seeks
to stop the rockets do they take notice."
For years the international community has turned a
blind eye to Israel's violations of international law
and human rights, which is why the problem remains
unsolved.
• "Hamas is not only the enemy of Israel - it is the
enemy of every Palestinian who believes in peace."
Israelis just can't come to terms with the
Palestinians' democratic choice and are bent on
obliterating it.
• "It is Hamas' attacks - not Israel's reactions -
that destroy every opportunity we have for peace."
The world has managed to work out by now that Israel
doesn't want peace until it has stolen all the land
and water it needs to expand its racist state into a
'Greater Israel'. It is well on the way to achieving
this and won't be thwarted.
• "Palestinian militants targeted by Israel are not
just the enemies of the Israeli people; they are
criminals under international law, and enemies of
peace."
Israel is in no position to preach international law.
• "What is collective punishment? 'Collective
punishment' is a city - schools, hospitals, homes -
civilians being bombarded every single day by rockets
and mortars."
Collective punishment is keeping a whole population
bottled up under siege and blocking supplies and
exports, smashing their infrastructure, wrecking their
economy and starving their children. Trying to equate
Sderot with what's happening in the Gaza Strip is
idiotic.
• "Today's Middle East is divided between extremists
and pragmatists. Hamas, backed by Iran, belongs to the
extremists, who must be defeated for the sake of the
future of the Middle East.... Israel's primary goal is
peace."
Israel's primary goal is the expansion of Israel by
making the occupation of the West Bank permanent and
bringing the Gazans to their knees.
The core issue in this struggle is the illegality of
Israel's brutal occupation. Israel goes to great
lengths to avoid and suppress all mention of it and
play-acts the pathetic victim. As the official
statements (above) show, the strategy is to frame and
define the situation in Israel's own terms regardless
of the truth.
It uses advanced propaganda skills, and the elaborate
Israel lobby network, to persuade western politicians
and media to accept Israel's version of events (and
even use Israel's biased language) and not question
its motives.
In political PR terms it works wonderfully well. The
loony leaders of my own government happily spread the
poison and don't seem interested in halting Israeli
aggression and the vaporizing, dismembering and
crushing of Gaza's population. In human PR terms it is
a disaster.
I have been listening to the BBC's senior interviewers
these last few days. None has had the gumption to ask
Israeli spokesmen the only question that matters –
the 'killer' question on which hangs the key to peace:
WHEN IS ISRAEL GOING TO END ITS OCCUPATION AND RETURN
TO THE PALESTINIANS THEIR LANDS AND FREEDOM?
-- Stuart Littlewood is author of the book Radio Free
Palestine, which tells the plight of the Palestinians
under occupation.
Source: Middle East Online
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