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Rod P. Kapunan
11/24/2012
In justifying its genocidal bombing of the Gaza Strip, the criminal Zionist state of Israel has issued a statement saying "the Palestinian people had it coming." For their decision to vote for Hamas, the militant wing within the umbrella of the Palestinian Liberation Organization representing mostly the people living in Gaza, they are being punished collectively. According to Gilad Sharon, the son of General Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Sabra and Shatila whose soldiers murdered more than 3,500 civilians mostly women and children in 1982, "Gaza should be flattened to the ground like what the US did in Nagasaki and Hiroshima to compel the Japanese to surrender."
Despite world condemnation, US President Barack Obama said "Israel has a right to defend itself, and no country in the world would tolerate missiles falling in torrents within its borders." Such exaggerated statement also exudes that typical imperialistic hubris of sanctioning Israel's systematic act of genocide. The US, being the principal broker of the criminal Zionist state, ignores the truth that when the Palestinian people voted for Hamas in January 2006, it was the result of a democratic process that should be respected by all civilized nations, including the US which has proclaimed itself as the champion of democracy.
The problem, however, is that Israel together with the US, now acting in criminal concert to isolate and starve the Palestinian people, not only refuse to abide by that decision, but have arbitrarily classified Hamas as a terrorist organization. While the criminal Zionist state continues to bludgeon the Palestinians, the US plays the duplicitous role of pitting the Fatah of President Mahmoud Abbas against those supporting Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
Thus, from the time Hamas took control of Gaza, the tinderbox situation was long expected to explode because of Israel's persistent stonewalling in halting construction in the occupied lands and in evicting Palestinians. Hamas was brave enough to accept the hard truth that all the avenues for peaceful negotiations have become futile. In fact, the criminal state of Israel has been racing fast to convert the whole of Gaza into a virtual cage for the 1.7 million Palestinians.
No food, medicine, goods or any kind of supply, including fuel, could enter Gaza by land and by sea without the permission from the criminal Zionist authorities. More than that, supplies are restricted and severely limited. Aside from having been isolated from the West Bank, its entire border with Israel has been fenced with high concrete blocs. Its outlet towards the Mediterranean Sea has equally been blockaded. In fact, last May, 2010, in gross violation of international law, the criminal Zionist state has imposed a unilateral blockade of Gaza. An international flotilla was organized to help deliver the much-needed supplies. The flotilla consisting of small vessels carrying food supplies, medicines and basic necessities was to break the illegal naval blockade. However, while still on high seas, the ships were suddenly boarded by Israeli commandos, and the soldiers started firing their guns and began beating the passengers resulting in the death of nine with several others seriously injured.
For that bloody assault on the crew members engaged in humanitarian mission, all that was heard from the criminal Zionist state was to say the incident was regretful, but it never made an apology nor offered to compensate those killed. As usual, they were summarily branded as "terrorists" as if terrorists would announce themselves publicly to carry out a humanitarian mission. The US, on the other hand, blamed the organizers of the flotilla saying that the bloody boarding could have been avoided had those manning the vessels did not attempt to break the blockade which in the first place was in violation of international law.
The latest carnage has resulted in the death of 163 Palestinians and wounding 850 as a direct result of indiscriminate aerial bombing and artillery fire, while only five Israelis were killed and 60 wounded from the improvised rockets fired by Hamas. Again, Israel and the US take as their linear point in blaming the Palestinians on the rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, and not from the long list of brutal oppression inflicted on them by this Jewish Gestapo. They are even prohibited from digging tunnels even for purposes of using them as bomb shelters fearing that Hamas would use them to smuggle arms.
To this day, the US and the criminal Zionist state refuse to see that an entire population has been caged like animals crammed in a very small territory for easy picking using electronically-guided drones to drop concussion bombs and even of the prohibited white phosphorous bombs which is illegal under Protocol 3 on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons which the criminal Zionist state of Israel refuses to sign.
In fact, many could not understand because Resolution 242 urges Israel to withdraw from all territories it occupied since June 1967. Rather, it continues to defy the resolution, and its defiance has consistently been supported by the US using its veto power to reject any resolution condemning the criminal state of Israel. In the latest round of conflict, the criminal Zionist state wants to collectively punish the Palestinians in Gaza for voting for Hamas. It is on this score why the world is appalled because the right of the people to elect their own leaders and to form their own government is a right that is supposed to be exclusive to them.
Besides, their right to elect Hamas is internal to them and is apart from actual process of negotiation. But it seems the Zionist criminal state has opted to prejudge Hamas to avoid negotiations, thus exposing the truth of its contempt for international law and complete disregard of world opinion.
rpkapunan@gmail.com
Despite world condemnation, US President Barack Obama said "Israel has a right to defend itself, and no country in the world would tolerate missiles falling in torrents within its borders." Such exaggerated statement also exudes that typical imperialistic hubris of sanctioning Israel's systematic act of genocide. The US, being the principal broker of the criminal Zionist state, ignores the truth that when the Palestinian people voted for Hamas in January 2006, it was the result of a democratic process that should be respected by all civilized nations, including the US which has proclaimed itself as the champion of democracy.
The problem, however, is that Israel together with the US, now acting in criminal concert to isolate and starve the Palestinian people, not only refuse to abide by that decision, but have arbitrarily classified Hamas as a terrorist organization. While the criminal Zionist state continues to bludgeon the Palestinians, the US plays the duplicitous role of pitting the Fatah of President Mahmoud Abbas against those supporting Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
Thus, from the time Hamas took control of Gaza, the tinderbox situation was long expected to explode because of Israel's persistent stonewalling in halting construction in the occupied lands and in evicting Palestinians. Hamas was brave enough to accept the hard truth that all the avenues for peaceful negotiations have become futile. In fact, the criminal state of Israel has been racing fast to convert the whole of Gaza into a virtual cage for the 1.7 million Palestinians.
No food, medicine, goods or any kind of supply, including fuel, could enter Gaza by land and by sea without the permission from the criminal Zionist authorities. More than that, supplies are restricted and severely limited. Aside from having been isolated from the West Bank, its entire border with Israel has been fenced with high concrete blocs. Its outlet towards the Mediterranean Sea has equally been blockaded. In fact, last May, 2010, in gross violation of international law, the criminal Zionist state has imposed a unilateral blockade of Gaza. An international flotilla was organized to help deliver the much-needed supplies. The flotilla consisting of small vessels carrying food supplies, medicines and basic necessities was to break the illegal naval blockade. However, while still on high seas, the ships were suddenly boarded by Israeli commandos, and the soldiers started firing their guns and began beating the passengers resulting in the death of nine with several others seriously injured.
For that bloody assault on the crew members engaged in humanitarian mission, all that was heard from the criminal Zionist state was to say the incident was regretful, but it never made an apology nor offered to compensate those killed. As usual, they were summarily branded as "terrorists" as if terrorists would announce themselves publicly to carry out a humanitarian mission. The US, on the other hand, blamed the organizers of the flotilla saying that the bloody boarding could have been avoided had those manning the vessels did not attempt to break the blockade which in the first place was in violation of international law.
The latest carnage has resulted in the death of 163 Palestinians and wounding 850 as a direct result of indiscriminate aerial bombing and artillery fire, while only five Israelis were killed and 60 wounded from the improvised rockets fired by Hamas. Again, Israel and the US take as their linear point in blaming the Palestinians on the rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, and not from the long list of brutal oppression inflicted on them by this Jewish Gestapo. They are even prohibited from digging tunnels even for purposes of using them as bomb shelters fearing that Hamas would use them to smuggle arms.
To this day, the US and the criminal Zionist state refuse to see that an entire population has been caged like animals crammed in a very small territory for easy picking using electronically-guided drones to drop concussion bombs and even of the prohibited white phosphorous bombs which is illegal under Protocol 3 on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons which the criminal Zionist state of Israel refuses to sign.
In fact, many could not understand because Resolution 242 urges Israel to withdraw from all territories it occupied since June 1967. Rather, it continues to defy the resolution, and its defiance has consistently been supported by the US using its veto power to reject any resolution condemning the criminal state of Israel. In the latest round of conflict, the criminal Zionist state wants to collectively punish the Palestinians in Gaza for voting for Hamas. It is on this score why the world is appalled because the right of the people to elect their own leaders and to form their own government is a right that is supposed to be exclusive to them.
Besides, their right to elect Hamas is internal to them and is apart from actual process of negotiation. But it seems the Zionist criminal state has opted to prejudge Hamas to avoid negotiations, thus exposing the truth of its contempt for international law and complete disregard of world opinion.
rpkapunan@gmail.com
