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14 November

pillar of defenceISRAELI KILLERS - "NO INNOCENT CIVILIANS"
On this day in 2012, Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defence which killed 167 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority non-combatants. Six Israelis were killed. Four days earlier Israel killed four Palestinian teenagers playing football in a Gaza stadium. The WHO condemned the Israeli airstrikes, warning that Gaza’s hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties and faced a critical shortage of drugs and medical supplies. Israel also attacked buildings housing journalists from Sky News, ITN, Al-Quds TV and Press TV.

 

 

"القتلة الإسرائيليون - " ليسوا مدنيين أبرياء

14 نوفمبر

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2012 ، شنت إسرائيل عملية "عمود السحاب" التي قتل فيها 167 فلسطينيًا في غزة ، غالبيتهم من المدنيين. وقُتل ستة إسرائيليين. قبل أربعة أيام قتلت إسرائيل أربعة شباب فلسطينيين يلعبون كرة القدم في ملعب في غزة. أدانت منظمة الصحة العالمية الضربات الجوية الإسرائيلية ، محذرة من أن مستشفيات غزة مكتظة بالضحايا وتواجه نقصًا حادًا في الأدوية والإمدادات الطبية. كما هاجمت إسرائيل مبانٍ تضم صحفيين من سكاي نيوز و آي ت ن ، تلفزيون القدس وتلفزيون الاخبار..

According to Israeli historian Avi Shlaim:

Israeli generals talk about their recurrent military incursions into Gaza as “mowing the lawn”. This operative metaphor implies a task that has to be performed regularly and mechanically and without end. It also alludes to the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and the inflicting of damage on civilian infrastructure that takes several years to repair..

"Operation Cast Lead was just the first in a series of Israeli mini-wars on Gaza. It was followed by Operation Pillar of Defence in November 2012 and Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. The fancy names given to these operations were fraudulent, dressing up offensive attacks on defenceless civilians and civilian infrastructure in the sanctimonious language of self-defence. They are typical examples of Orwellian double-speak. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon called the Israeli attack on 1 August 2014 on Rafah, in which a large number of civilians sheltering in UN schools were killed, “a moral outrage and a criminal act”. This description applies equally to Israel’s entire policy of waging war on the inmates of the Gaza prison.

Israel's open justification for mass killing of civilians

'Major General Giora Eiland, the former head of Israel's National Security Council, published an article in Ynet News, claiming that there is no such thing as "innocent civilians" in Gaza, arguing that the citizens of Gaza share responsibility with their Hamas leaders for the violence against Israel. He even went as far as to compare Gaza under Hamas rule with Nazi Germany: "They are to blame for this situation", Eiland wrote, "just like Germany's residents were to blame for electing Hitler as their leader and paid a heavy price for that, and rightfully so." What may be significant is that Eiland was not reprimanded for expressing publicly these extreme views which are widely shared by the defence establishment and by the Israeli public at large. If this reflects policy, says Dr Tromp [a war crimes expert], it follows that there will be more of the same: more violence, more bloodshed, more terror, more wanton destruction, more human suffering, more wars, and more war crimes because the Israeli narrative revolves round the demonisation of Hamas...'

"Statements [by senior Israeli political and military leaders] illustrate hostile attitudes towards the Arabs as a race, Muslims as a religious group and Palestinians as an ethnic group. The words uttered in media, public addresses of the Israeli politicians, senior military and other public figures could easily be qualified as "hate speech". The function of the "hate speech" is to reinforce the projected division into two groups in a society - "us" and "them". The "them" group is invested with all evil and as a collective denied human characteristic in what is known in the literature as a "dehumanisation" process.

 

 

8-minute video: Noam Chomsky on Israel "mowing the lawn" in Gaza. How Israel breaks agreements that Hamas keeps