John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Hamas Gaza leader hints at mass breach of Israel border fence as he compares Palestinians to 'starving tiger'
“Analysis: In his first briefing to foreign press since taking his position, Yahya Sinwar makes clear just how desperate the people of Gaza have become”
He's only right.
And it’s not a threat.
It just is a reality Israel ignores.
When Russia went into its terrible decline after the fall of the USSR, there was a similar possibility for Europe.
America ignored it, thinking cynically any hurt to Russia was good for America, just the way Israel thinks about Gaza.
But Germany thought very differently at the time and gave billions in assistance to Russia. It was humanitarian, but it was also out of fear of millions of desperate people migrating.
You know, General Dayan, after his victory in Israel’s planned Six Day War conquering the territories still occupied half a century later, said it would be necessary to make the Palestinians miserable so that they would want to leave.
Well, that's just what Israel has done for all those years, but nowhere more so than in Gaza. Every past Israeli Prime Minister has given desperate thought to getting rid of Gaza, a place which started as a giant refugee camp for people running from Israel’s 1949 terrors. One Israeli Prime Minister was quoted saying he had nightmares over Gaza.
Well, the blood-soaked hands of Netanyahu have made a heroic effort to do what eluded others. Three mass slaughters, an immoral years-long blockade, and a host of unbelievably abusive measures stretching from turning electricity off to spraying large swathes of land with dangerous herbicides.
It is a humanitarian disaster, and the West's governments just ignore it and let Israel carry right on. Our press and others go on and on about the Rohingya crisis in Burma, and it is a crisis, but here in Gaza we have something just as terrible before our vey eyes, something not being conducted by a junta as in Burma, but by a self-proclaimed democratic government which supposedly adheres to Western principles. A government whose leader repeatedly calls a gang of bloody murderers “the most moral army in the world.”
