COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN SPUTNIK
Israel to Build
Underground Wall on Sinai Border Amid Daesh Threat
This has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with ISIS (aka, Daesh).
This is the ultimate project to totally encapsulate the unfortunate
people who reside in the world's largest outdoor prison, Gaza.
The hypocrisy of Israel screams at its loudest possible
level in a phony claim about ISIS by Israel.
Tunnels have for years provided an important lifeline to the
people of Gaza, a million and a half souls Israel keeps effectively in a concentration
camp.
They have no freedom to travel. They have no freedom to
receive visitors. Their fishermen cannot go far from shore without being shot
by Israel gunboats. The perimeter of their compound is equipped with
radar-operated machine gun towers, like something out of a science-fiction
story.
Israel’s years-long blockade keeps many essentials from
entering Gaza, including basic building materials to repair what Israel’s
bombing destroyed.
Israel has committed here such atrocities as spraying
dangerous herbicides on great swathes of their farmland, bringing to mind
America’s horrible use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. It has shut down their
electricity. It has lowlifes who’ve deliberately dumped great loads of sewerage
onto their land.
When the few settlers who used to live in Gaza finally left,
some of them actually poisoned the water wells – kind of the ultimate savagery
in a semi-desert. Israel controls the flow of outside funds. Israel controls
even the receipt of postage.
Such works of hatred almost cannot be imagined by ordinary
people living ordinary lives in other places. These people have been total captives
for more than half a century, and in the last decade they have been treated as
we might expect Nazi camp guards to treat people.
Why? Because Hamas, a democratic organization, won an
election, replacing the famously--corrupt Fatah, just as originally Israel
intended when it early on, covertly assisted Hamas just to create division
among the Palestinians. But once Hamas actually was elected, it was declared –
against all reasonable evidence – a terrorist organization, with the pliable
American government pressured to agree. Hamas was elected by people seeking
clean government, but it is despised by Israel.
You see, clean government, elected and popularly supported
by the Palestinians, is exactly what Israel does not want. It doesn’t like unity
and leadership among Palestinians. It doesn’t
even like democracy, as it has demonstrated many times in its relations
with all of its neighbors from Egypt and Saudi Arabia to Jordan. Democracy
amongst non-Israelis is viewed as too risky and dangerous. The brag about being
the Mideast’s only democracy is extremely hollow for this reason as well as the
fact that only one kind of people can become Israelis to vote in its elections.
Some of Hamas’s leaders were assassinated. Its president was
openly threatened several times with assassination. Gangs of goon Israeli
soldiers ran into Gaza and arrested large numbers of elected government members
soon after their election and kidnapped them to Israel.
Israel still treats Fatah’s Abbas who resides in the West
Bank – a man who has not faced an election in years - as the legitimate leader
of Palestine, although it doesn’t even talk to him much. Why? Abbas is a very accommodating
personality, a kind of “Stepin Fetchit” character, and it is handy to have a
Palestinian you can wheel out onto the stage whenever it seems important to
have a Palestinian official around for public relations purposes. Of course,
the people of Gaza voted him out years ago, and he remains unelected in the
West Bank.
Finally, Israel imposed an illegal and immoral blockade on a
people who really have done nothing. In its original form, before covert
international pressure, this blockade actually had a carefully calculated number
of calories per person allowed in an effort to bring all these people to their
knees. You could not even buy a candy bar in Gaza.
I don’t know how it gets more Nazi-like than that. No,
Israel has not mass-murdered all these people – although it has killed
thousands and Israel is not without voices calling for mass killing or
expulsion – but keeping generation after generation of people in hopeless squalor
without votes or rights or freedom of movement or any real access to the world
at large is to my mind not morally superior.
It is a kind of living death Israel maintains in Gaza, and
it is intended to make the people so miserable that they leave or beg for mercy.
We have words to that effect, advocating making them miserable, from many
prominent Israelis, going back to Moshe Dayan. One Israeli prime minister was
quoted saying he had nightmares over Gaza. Well, that hideous man, Netanyahu,
is doing everything he can think of to make the nightmares go away.
This underground wall is the cherry on the cake, as it were.
The brave people of Gaza for years have laboriously dug tunnels to Sinai,
tunnels which Israel has always diligently searched for and destroyed. But the
Gazans keep building new ones to get at least a steady trickle of the
life-sustaining things Israel prevents their receiving. Now, even that is to be
shut off with an underground wall. This really is cruelty beyond endurance.
And the excuse? To prevent ISIS (Deash) from using tunnels
to threaten Israel. But ISIS is in part an Israeli creation, used to destroy
Syria and Iraq. ISIS has never once shown any intention of attacking Israel or
Israeli interests. It attacks only people Israel hates. We know Israel has
supplied ISIS in the past both from weapons caches uncovered in Syria and from
observers of aviation patterns. Israel’s northern hospitals also openly served
some of the wounded terrorists fighting the government of Syria.
So, if any threat has been received in Israel at all, it is
one manufactured by Mossad to give the government a seemingly-plausible excuse
for continuing to entomb the people of Gaza.
FOOTNOTE: Along the same lines of literally entombing Gaza,
Israel has plans to build a huge artificial blockading island just a short
distance from Gaza's coast.
