Israel's Genocidal War On Palestine:
Rogue States Never Quit
28 November 2012
By Stephen Lendman
Longstanding Israeli policy reflects slow-motion
genocide. Non-Jews aren't wanted. Israel considers
them subhuman.
Peace, nonviolence, diplomacy, human and civil rights,
as well as fundamental rule of law principles are
systematically spurned. That's now rogue states
operate.
Pillar of Cloud raged from November 14 - 21.
Memorandum of understand terms ended eight terror
bombing days. Israel violated its pledge multiple
times. Its word isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Less than 24 hours after conflict ended, Israeli
soldiers killed one Palestinian. Another 19 were
injured.
On November 25, three more Palestinians were shot.
They were wounded, not killed. On November 26, another
four Palestinians were injured. Soldiers opened fire
on them. They threatened no one.
Since November 22, 15 fishermen were accosted at sea.
Naval vessels used live fire. Israel claimed they
exceeded a recently expanded zone. Believe nothing
Israeli authorities say. They systematically lie.
Boats were damaged and confiscated or destroyed.
Fishermen on board were arrested, detained, and
interrogated. At least most were released.
No one assaulted did anything improper. Israeli claims
were lies. Expect continued land and sea incidents
ahead.
On November 28, seven Palestinians were shot and
injured. At least one is in serious condition. Israel
said "rioters" damaged a border fence trying to enter
Israel.
Israeli authorities make this stuff up. They do it to
justify persecution and at times murder.
Nonviolent Palestinians are called threats to Israeli
security. These type claims are baseless. Israel
pledged attacking Gazans would stop.
Similar promises were made before. Horrific oppression
continues. Truce terms changed nothing. Believing
otherwise is wishful thinking.
West Bank Palestinians are attacked, beaten and
arrested. Apartheid is a way of life. Settlements
exclude Arabs. Jews only roads exist. Segregated bus
lines appear next.
Palestinian workers with legal permits are being
ordered off buses. Settlers claim they pose a security
risk. Israel's Transport Ministry may exclude Arabs.
Buses henceforth may be for Jews only.
Jim Crow America relegated Blacks to the back of
buses. Israel perhaps wants Arabs excluded entirely.
On November 27, B'Tselem headlined "Attempt at bus
segregation appalling," saying:
Disclosure about possible segregated bus lines is
uncalled for. Services "must be available on an equal
basis to all and any who require them."
B'Tselem's executive director Jessica Montell said:
"The attempt at bus segregation is appalling, and the
current arguments about 'security needs' and
'overcrowding' must not be allowed to camouflage the
blatant racism of the demand to remove Palestinians
from buses."
Israel plans greater occupation harshness. Conditions
for besieged Gazans persist. Truce terms changed
nothing.
December 10 is International Human Rights Day. It
commemorates the General Assembly adopting the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948.
World leaders pledged to "complement the UN Charter
with a road map to guarantee the rights of every
individual everywhere."
In 1946, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was
discussed at the General Assembly's first session.
Member States submitted the UNHR to the Economic and
Social Council "for reference to the Commission on
Human Rights for consideration....in its preparation
of an international bill of rights."
On December 10, 1948, UN Resolution 217 A (III)
adopted UNHR. No members dissented. Eight abstained.
Despite emerging Cold War tensions, common ground was
found.
UNHR's 30 articles pledged "to promote respect for
(fundamental human) rights and freedoms....both among
the peoples of Member States themselves and among the
peoples of territories under their jurisdiction."
They affirmed life, liberty, security and dignity.
They said no one should be held in bondage or
subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
They scorned arbitrary arrests, detention, exile, and
other human rights violations.
They said everyone may leave any country and return
freely. Discrimination of any kind was deplored. Free
expression, assembly, movement, thought, opinion and
religion were championed.
Everyone has the right to work and receive equal pay
for equal employment. Essential rights to healthcare,
food, clothing, housing, and education were supported.
Articles affirmed that "(n)othing in this Declaration
may be interpreted as implying for the State, group or
person any right to engage in any activity or to
perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the
rights and freedoms set forth herein."
Since 1945, the UN failed to uphold fundamental
Charter and other international law principles.
America, Israel, and other imperial partners bear full
responsibility.
On Friday, December 7, human rights supporters will
march in Tel Aviv. In solidarity, they'll express
support for equality, democracy, peace, and social
justice.
Arabs will march with Jews. A midday concert will be
held. An official song is titled "Being Human." Avihu
Medina wrote it. A special version called "Being a
Woman, Being Human" will be performed.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
sponsors this year's march. Hundreds of organizations,
activists, and others will participate. Together they
say: "It's our right, to all human rights, for every
human being." Jews, Arabs and all others.
It comes after Pillar of Cloud. It's when Israel plans
greater occupation harshness. It follows multiple
truce violations.
It's after Kairo USA's press advisory headlined
"Christians and Jews Gather to Support Churches' Call
to Investigate Unconditional Military Support of
Israel," saying:
On November 29, they met in Washington. They demanded
US support for Israel be contingent on its compliance
with US laws and policies. Participating groups
included:
Jewish Voice for Peace, Kairos USA, US Campaign to End
the Israeli Occupation, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship,
United Methodist Kairos Response, Friends of Sabeel
North America, Palestinian Christian Alliance for
Peace, The Palestine Israel Network of the Episcopal
Peace Fellowship, and others.
Thousands of signatures were obtained. They seek
justice for occupied Palestinians. Stopping the
Israeli beast is crucial. It threatens humanity.
Violence in Gaza continues. Palestinians are isolated.
They're trapped in concentration camp hell. They're on
their own. They suffer horrendously out of sight and
mind.
Israeli repression is relentless. Civilian deaths are
commonplace. From January through October 2012, Israel
killed 79 Palestinians. Eleven were in the West Bank.
Others were Gazans.
UN and EU officials do nothing to help. They allow
grave crimes against humanity. They ignore Palestinian
suffering. Naked Israeli aggression and cold-blooded
murder are called Israel's right to self-defense.
Palestinian rights are systematically spurned. It's
been that way for decades.
Official Israeli policy reflects perpetual conflict,
daily violence, intimidation, and repression. Children
and infants are harmed most. A Gaza psychiatrist said:
"Children exposed to so much violence have no option
but to terminate their childhood and move into a
different frame. The likelihood is that they will
never stabilize."
Their parents, siblings and friends are killed. Many
don't expect to reach adulthood. Trauma devastates
them. There's no place to hide.
No one helps. Israel attacks when it wishes. It's
vicious and relentless. Violence never ends. Conflict
prevents peace, security and freedom. Palestinians
deserve better. They hope for what doesn't come.
Alia Kalajar said her seven-year old daughter, Nisma,
"stopped talking, and we don't know if she will ever
talk again." Israel bombed their home. Nisma sustained
a head fracture and internal bleeding.
Dozens of other children and infants were killed or
injured. Some won't ever recover. Many don't
understand. Will war on Iran follow? More on that
below.
James Petras called Israel's strategic goal "Genocide
(for a) Greater Israel - the bloody purge of 5 million
Palestinians, the creation of a 100 percent 'pure'
Jewish State."
It's that and more. Israel wants Middle East hegemony.
It wants rivals balkanized or eliminated. It wants
Syria, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, and Iran replaced
by pro-Western puppet regimes.
It threatens regional war for dominance. Washington
provides support. Together they threaten humanity.
Media scoundrels cheerlead them. They endorse what
they should condemn.
Syria tops their target list. Conflict rages daily.
Civilians suffer most. Perhaps Lebanon is next.
Strategy calls for isolating Iran. Plans call for
replacing its independent government with subservient
pro-Western puppet leaders. War may be prioritized.
Israel urges it.
Propaganda wars precede hot ones. Conflicts and other
forms of violence are glorified in the name of peace.
Code language conceals policies.
War is humanitarian intervention. Invasions,
slaughter, mass destruction and occupations are
liberation. Plunder is economic development.
Exploitation and dominance are called democracy.
Managed news mind manipulation inverts truth for
public support. Big Lies suppress it. Terrorism is
what they do, not us. Iran's moment of truth awaits.
Washington vilified the Islamic Republic for decades.
Israel wants war. Mossad-connected DEBKAfile (DF)
called Pillar of Cloud "Less a War than an Anti-Iran
Coup." It claimed Washington, Turkey, and Qatar were
involved.
Aborting Tehran's military ties to Hamas was planned,
said DF. "In the short term, the Israeli miniwar was
meant as a vivid lesson for Tehran about the fate
awaiting its Arab allies. Hizballah is advised" to
beware.
Washington and Egypt are involved in preventing
Iranian arms from reaching Gaza. Propaganda wars
continue.
Haaretz published a spurious AP report. It headlined
"Iran allegedly planning nuclear weapon stronger than
bomb used on Hiroshima."
It bears repeating. Annual US intelligence reports say
no evidence whatever suggests an Iranian nuclear
weapons program. Israeli, US, and EU officials know
it. They pretend otherwise.
Iran threatens no one. Alleging a nuclear threat is
red herring cover for regime change. Haaretz/AP claim
a "leaked diagram." The source was unnamed.
Concealed ones lack credibility. Claims about Iranian
scientists running nuclear weapon computer simulations
able to produce "triple the explosive force" that
destroyed Hiroshima are meaningless.
Without proof, they're baseless. Haaretz/AP said an
unnamed "country critical of Iran's atomic program"
leaked information to help shut it down.
IAEA made similar claims last year. Proof was absent.
It reported alleged diagrams showing Iran was
calculating the "nuclear explosive yield" of potential
weapons.
An unnamed senior diplomat said Haaretz/AP used old
IAEA information. Israel and Washington fabricated it.
It was proved baseless. Anti-Iranian pseudo-experts
called it credible.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) weighed
in. It called AP's diagram "nothing more than either
shoddy sources or shoddy science. In either case, the
world can keep calm and carry on."
AP embarrassed itself. So did Haaretz for publishing
its rubbish. BAS added:
"The graphic has not yet been authenticated; however,
even if authentic, it would not qualify as proof of a
nuclear weapons program."
"Besides the issue of authenticity, the diagram
features quite a massive error, which is unlikely to
have been made by research scientists working at a
national level."
AP's diagram "shows two curves: one that plots the
energy versus time, and another that plots the power
output versus time, presumably from a fission device."
"But these two curves do not correspond: If the energy
curve is correct, then the peak power should be much
lower - around 300 million ( 3x108) kt per second,
instead of the currently stated 17 trillion (1.7
x1013) kt per second."
"As is, the diagram features a nearly million-fold
error.
This diagram does nothing more than indicate either
slipshod analysis or an amateurish hoax."
"In any case, the level of scientific sophistication
needed to produce such a graph corresponds to that
typically found in graduate or advanced
undergraduate-level nuclear physics courses."
Iran denies interest in developing nuclear weapons. No
evidence proves otherwise. Bogus claims hype tensions.
They surface repeatedly. Expect more next year,
especially after Israel's January elections.
Rogue states never quit. America and Israel reflect
the worst of what they represent.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached
at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is
titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized
Banking, Government Collusion and Class War"
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