The United Nations, including the U.S., caused this whole mess in 1947, by stealing land from the Palestinians to create the state of Israel. What would be the reaction if we declared that one of our states now belonged to the native Americans, because they lived there a couple of hundred years ago?
http://www.alternet.org/top-10-myths-about-israels-attack-gaza
By Juan Cole
November 19, 2012
These misconceptions are spread by the American media.
November 19, 2012 |
1. Israeli hawks represent themselves as engaged in a ‘peace process’ with the Palestinians in which Hamas refuses to join. In fact, Israel has refused to cease colonizing and stealing Palestinian land long enough to engage in fruitful negotiations with them. Tel Aviv routinely announces new, unilateral house-building on the Palestinian West Bank ---
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4. Israeli hawks demonize the Palestinians of Gaza as “bad neighbors” who don’t accept Israel. But 40% of the people in Gaza are refugees, mostly living in refugee camps, from families in pre-1948 Palestine that had lived there for millennia.
They were expelled from what is now Israel in the 1948 Zionist ethnic cleansing campaign . Israelis are now living in their homes and farming their land, and they were never paid any reparations for the crimes done to them
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6. Israeli hawks see themselves as innocent victims of bewildering Palestinian rage from Gaza. But Israel not only has kept Palestinians of Gaza in the world’s largest outdoor penitentiary, they have them under an illegal blockade that for some years aimed at limiting their nutrition without altogether starving them to death.
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