Israel has a policy of deliberate ambiguity about whether its control
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is 'occupation'. Every other country
on Earth including their closest ally the US says it is an occupation,
Israel coyly argues it both is and isn't depending on which definition
gives them the most flexibility under international law in any given
scenario.
In practice this leaves the Palestinians
dispossessed, discriminated against and in the West Bank without
recourse to the law when bands of violent, fanatical settlers descend
from their hilltop bandit nests to attack Palestinian homes and crops and savagely assault any Palestinians who resist.
The Israeli police stand and watch.
It's time to stop coddling
this sleazy little semantics game.
Le Monde diplomatique argues giving them three more years to the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation to once and for all define what they are doing as occupation or not. If its an occupation
they are legally required to begin the process of withdrawal, if its not
an occupation they are legally required to give full and equal legal
citizenship rights to all the population under their control.
They have been allowed to be vague on this subject for almost FIFTY YEARS.
No longer.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Saturday, July 19, 2014
The Iron Dome is a Scam
The Iron Dome is a scam according to experts inside and outside of Israel.
According to defence experts - plural - its a public relations exercise and it follows that both Israel and Hamas play along with it with because it suits both their interests for Hamas to seem more dangerous and effective than it actually is.
If the Iron Dome is actually stopping NOTHING and if the 10% of sputtering rockets barely better than those you could buy from a roadside stand across the border before the fourth of July, that land randomly and have so far killed only one Israeli bringing supplies to the front line, if those pitiful few are actually the ENTIRETY of what is fired and each one is magnified automatically into multiple attacks....
Then you've got a combination appropriations scam, propaganda psyop and false or at least inflated justification for an attack that has taken hundreds of civilian lives including scores of children.
According to defence experts - plural - its a public relations exercise and it follows that both Israel and Hamas play along with it with because it suits both their interests for Hamas to seem more dangerous and effective than it actually is.
If the Iron Dome is actually stopping NOTHING and if the 10% of sputtering rockets barely better than those you could buy from a roadside stand across the border before the fourth of July, that land randomly and have so far killed only one Israeli bringing supplies to the front line, if those pitiful few are actually the ENTIRETY of what is fired and each one is magnified automatically into multiple attacks....
Then you've got a combination appropriations scam, propaganda psyop and false or at least inflated justification for an attack that has taken hundreds of civilian lives including scores of children.
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