The
incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It
is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel , it is not about achieving peace.
The Israeli
decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza , to use lethal weapons of the
modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final
phase in a decades-long campaign to ethnically-cleanse Palestinians.
When
Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend
themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military
occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You
can’t defend yourself when you’re militarily occupying someone else’s land.
That’s not defense. Call it what you like, it’s not defense. ~ Noam Chomsky
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