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Fructedor

31st July 2014, 23:47

There's little point in seeking words strong enough to qualify the revulsion that any human being must feel at the on-going Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people – it's blatant ethnic cleansing, and a crime against humanity by any measure. What makes it all the more disgusting is the fact that it's being carried out under an inconceivable smog of hypocrisy which is dutifully relayed to us all via the usual main-stream media networks.

I live in France, the country with the world's highest Jewish population after Israel and the United States of America. I'm not counting the European Union, which is listed as a country rather than an agglomeration of countries.

On a day in which the Gaza death count mounted to 800+, Prime Minister Manuel Valls could find nothing better to do than to condemn the « violence » enacted by a small group of Parisians who had been forbidden, once again, to stage a pro-Palestinian demonstration. They had thrown stones at the police. « Violence is unacceptable », he declared. Having made that clear, Mr. Valls went on to explain that nothing was more important than remembering the « rafle du Vel d'Hiv » a notorious and disgusting act by the then French Vichy government (July 1942) in which more than 13,000 Jewish refugees were herded together in an indoor stadium and then shipped off to camps in Germany. Less than 100 are said to have survived. That was it for Mr. Valls.

The same evening, we were treated to the preposterous spectacle of Barack Obama railing against Vladimr Putin and Russia for supplying weapons to the pro-Russian Ukrainian « rebels ». Not even in your nightmares... I'm sure we're all aware of the billions of dollars of US tax-payers' money that are given to Israel annually, and especially the huge amount of US weaponry regularly handed over to Tel Aviv by Washington. Used to help « protect » Israel – drones, bombs, bombers, fighters, white phosphorous, anti-personnel mines... Some of these mines are undetectable unless you step on them, and thousands of them still litter Southern Lebanon after the IDF's glorious 2005 campaign. Then came « Cast Lead » in 2008, which cost the Palestinians 1.9 billion dollars in material damage and more than 1,400 dead, including 1,000 civilians, many of whom, of course, were women and children. Defence. Schools. Hospitals. Refugee shelters. Benyamin Netanyahu raves on about « shutting down the Hamas tunnels ». If these tunnels are so dangerous to the security of Israel, how come so little damage has ever been caused by the rockets fired from Gaza? No doubt weapons are coming into Gaza, but the tunnels that used to link Gaza with Egypt were probably used largely to import vital necessities interdicted by the Israeli blockades.

This morning, pro-Palestinian demonstrations, still forbidden, were described as « anti-Jewish » by BFM TV - a TV channel with a very high percentage of Jewish reporters and presenters, as well as their boss, Alain Weill. A pro-Israeli demonstration has been scheduled this weekend in Lyon. The disparity of the coverage and the treatment of « freedom of speech » in a country which talks a lot about its « Droits de l'Homme » - Human Rights – is confounding.

In France these days, it's almost enough to say that you're not a big fan of Simon and Garfunkel to be labelled as an « anti-Semite ». The infamous « Loi Gayssot » (1990) forbids any questioning of the historical facts if they do not concur with the « official story ». It has been used to silence a few good men and women who have attempted to study and reveal truths about the « Shoah » which do not please power. Many of you will have heard about the loathsome lynching of the French comedian Dieudonné. He is, as his peers almost unanimously attest, no doubt the best and funniest of French comics, and has been for years. The lynching backfired and Dieudonné's stand-up career has been boosted a hundred-fold, although without any help from the media. He's no more anti-Semitic than you or I, as he has regularly proclaimed, but his name is used almost daily here to signify a confused form of hate-drooling dementia with Islamic tendencies. In fact, he gives everyone a hilariously hard time, as comedians should, scratching the Teflon off stupidity, foulness and hypocrisy – he's as good as Bill Hicks or Sam Kinison.

Having already brazenly stolen most of Palestine's water and land, destroyed their farming and fisheries, and done everything in their power to make survival for these people almost impossible, it seems as if Israel is now making a bloody bee-line for Gaza's natural gas reserves. In the face of the international community's cowardly refusal to make any sign of protest, how do you think Arabs feel? Doesn't it seem likely that after sixty years of it, they'd get a little fed up? French freedom fighters in WW2 were termed « terrorists » by the occupying German forces.

Ilan Pappé, an Israeli « new » historian, has written that in the context of what he calls ethnic cleansing, the conflict « … dragged with it a number of atrocious acts of mass killing and 'butchery', by which thousands of Palestinians were pitilessly and savagely murdered by Israeli soldiers of all conditions, ranks and ages ».

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Extract from an Amazon blurb for « The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine » by Ilan Pappé. (My translation).

'At the end of 1947, Palestine counted close to 2 million inhabitants – one third of them were Jews, two thirds Arabs. UN Resolution 181 decided the partition of Palestine into two states – one was intended to be peopled exclusively by Arabs, while in the other, the population would count a small Jewish majority. One year later, a state with a very strong Jewish majority – Israel - occupied 78 % of Palestine. More than 500 villages were destroyed, and many towns were almost entirely emptied of their Arab population. And 800,000 Palestinian Arabs, originally from territories which were now part of Israel, filled the refugee camps situated outside Israel's borders. If we are to believe traditional Israeli historical literature, this situation was supposedly the unexpected, involuntary result of the hazards of armed conflict – the « first Israelo-Arab war ». But Ilan Pappe gives us a very different explanation. With reference to documents from the archives, personal diaries and direct witness testimony, he reconstitutes in detail what really happened at the end of 1947 and in 1948, town by town, village by village. This was the appearance of a deliberate and systematic plan of expulsion and destruction – the « ethnic cleansing » of Palestine. Within a few months, confident in their military superiority, their secret agreement with the King of Jordan, the complicit passivity of the British army and the incompetence of the UN, the leaders of the Sionist movement had organised the « transfer », by violence and intimidation, of a mostly peaceful Arab population, defenceless and abandoned by all. Shortly before the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, this fascinating book reminds us that the resolution of the problem of refugees must be the corner-stone of any tentaive for peace in the region.'

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In a 1970's interview, the two-time literary Goncourt Prize-winner Romain Gary said (from memory) - « …any ethnic group which has been submitted to slavery and extermination has no possible excuse for visiting those horrors on others ». Mr. Gary was Jewish – he was talking about the Black Panthers.

Tonight's news gave us a five-minute sequence of a pro-Israeli demonstration in Paris. Interviews with the participants yielded such gems as - « … Israel is not attacking anyone, they're defending themselves... » (someone's grandma) and « … We won't stop until all the tunnels have been destroyed » (a fat man forty years past military age). Also interviewed was the leader of the CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France), Roger Cukierman, who declared that « … thousands of rockets have been fired on Israel from Gaza, causing deaths and many wounded. » To his credit, maybe, he also said that the CRIF has no connection with the ultra-violent LDJ (Ligue de Défense Juive), which is classed as a terrorist organisation by the US. Cukierman said he was not happy with their call to particpate in pro-Israeli demonstrations, though no doubt the threat of civilian violence being seen elsewhere than in the ranks of the « extremists » supporting Palestine had to be avoided as bad Press. There was no mention of the thousand plus Arab victims of the current invasion, none of the schools and hospitals targeted by the Israeli army, and none of the mushrooming Israeli colonies developed on land stolen from Palestine in absolute illegality since 1967. Nor of the fact that Israel has never taken the slightest notice of any of the numerous UN resolutions requiring it to at least toe the line.

There is no doubt that the hypocritical cowardice of the international community and the UN, masking entirely mercantile motives, is teaching young Arabs of all nations the hatred of the West, and provides fertile ground for the development of international terrorism and religious extremism. The Arab citizens of France and most Western countries are being systematically stigmatised as potential terrorists, while the exactions of the state of Israel on the citizens of Gaza are dismissed with little more than a nod and a wink by the media.

Does criticism of Israel's unacceptable behaviour make us anti-Semites, Jew-haters? It does not and must not. Any more than criticism of the US / UK invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan makes us anti-US or anti-Brit. A call for reason and justice is not hate speech. The governments do not represent the people – hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens demonstrate against the behaviour of their own government, just as two million British citizens marched to demonstrate against their government's active involvement in the unwarranted attack on Iraq. « Not in my name ». Look how much difference that made.

The media coverage of the Gaza attacks were carefully prepared months ahead by the French media by a constant campaign of programmes aimed to reinforce the idea that Jews, once again, were being unfairly targeted as innocent victims, in films, TV shows and news items – in any case, no week goes by without a documentary or exhibition somewhere about the WW2 death camps, how plucky Jews survived despite it all, and how hard it is to be Jewish in an entirely hostile world, surrounded by sociopathic assassins and unfair public opprobrium. French schools are now expected to display a plaque commemorating the Nazi era deportation of Jews. Well, Jews were indeed criminally targeted in the 1930's and 1940's - along with gypsies, homosexuals, nutters, and intellectuals who disagreed with the « official story », but this should never be allowed to excuse the criminal targeting of another ethnic group for the same racist and ideological reasons. Lastly, TV-speak tells us that this is a war between Israel and the Hamas - as if they were fighting with equal forces.

This is a telling document well worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-OylQQ

That's it for tonight – my excuses if you find the layout a little scattered.

Best wishes

Fructedor