Israel, Palestine: Violence And Lies
The first bombardment took three minutes and forty seconds. Sixty Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombed fifty sites in Gaza, killing over two hundred Palestinians, and wounding close to a thousand more.
A few hours after the deadly strike, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened a press conference in Tel-Aviv. With Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni sitting on his right and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on his left, he declared: “It may take time, and each and every one of us must be patient so we can complete the mission.”
But what exactly, one might ask, is Israel’s mission?
Although Olmert did not say as much, the “mission” includes four distinct objectives.
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punditman says ...
We often get the impression through our dumbed down media that all Israelis feel one way and all Palestinians feel the opposite way.
Neve Gordon is just one example of how that notion is a deadly myth. As someone who served in the Israeli military in an IDF paratrooper unit and was wounded in action, resulting in a 42 percent disability, he is someone who knows a thing or two about the nature of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
He is known for his views on social justice and is a vocal critic of Israeli policies. Gordon is a Senior Lecturer and head of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of "Israel's Occupation," University of California Press, 2008, which can be purchased here.
A few hours after the deadly strike, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened a press conference in Tel-Aviv. With Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni sitting on his right and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on his left, he declared: “It may take time, and each and every one of us must be patient so we can complete the mission.”
But what exactly, one might ask, is Israel’s mission?
Although Olmert did not say as much, the “mission” includes four distinct objectives.
Keep Reading ...
punditman says ...
We often get the impression through our dumbed down media that all Israelis feel one way and all Palestinians feel the opposite way.
Neve Gordon is just one example of how that notion is a deadly myth. As someone who served in the Israeli military in an IDF paratrooper unit and was wounded in action, resulting in a 42 percent disability, he is someone who knows a thing or two about the nature of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
He is known for his views on social justice and is a vocal critic of Israeli policies. Gordon is a Senior Lecturer and head of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of "Israel's Occupation," University of California Press, 2008, which can be purchased here.
Excellent article. I found his concluding paragraph to be spot on in terms of summarizing how bogus and ill-conceived Israel's objectives are:
ReplyDeleteet, the government is actively misleading the public, since Israel could have put an end to the rockets a long time ago. Indeed, there was relative quiet during the six-months truce with Hamas, a quiet that was broken most often as a reaction to Israeli violence: that is, following the extra-judicial execution of a militant or the imposition of a total blockade which prevented basic goods, like food stuff and medicine, from entering the Gaza Strip. Rather than continuing the truce, the Israeli government has once again chosen to adopt strategies of violence that are tragically akin to the one’s deployed by Hamas, only the Israeli ones are much more lethal.
If the Israeli government really cared about its citizens and the country’s long term ability to sustain itself in the Middle East, it would abandon the use of violence and talk with its enemies.
BY: exactly.
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