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An Experiment in Provocation: Stealing Gaza
BRIAN ENO
Counterpunch
Sunday, January 4, 2009
It’s a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting as oppressors. As the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once remarked “Everybody has their Jews, and for the Israelis it’s the Palestinians”. By creating a middle Eastern version of the Warsaw ghetto they are recapitulating their own history as though they’ve forgotten it. And by trying to paint an equivalence between the Palestinians – with their homemade rockets and stone-throwing teenagers – and themselves – with one of the most sophisticated military machines in the world – they sacrifice all credibility.
The Israelis are a gifted and resourceful people who fully deserve the right to live in peace, but who seem intent on squandering every chance to allow that to happen. It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that this conflict serves the political and economic purposes of Israel so well that they have every interest in maintaining it. While there is fighting they can continue to build illegal settlements. While there is fighting they continue to receive huge quantities of military aid from the United States. And while there is fighting they can avoid looking candidly at themselves and the ruthlessness into which they are descending.
Gaza is now an experiment in provocation. Stuff one and a half million people into a tiny space, stifle their access to water, electricity, food and medical treatment, destroy their livelihoods, and humiliate them regularly…and, surprise, surprise – they turn hostile. Now why would you want to make that experiment?
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Because the hostility you provoke is the whole point. Now ‘under attack’ you can cast yourself as the victim, and call out the helicopter gunships and the F16 attack fighters and the heavy tanks and the guided missiles, and destroy yet more of the pathetic remains of infrastructure that the Palestinian state still has left. And then you can point to it as a hopeless case, unfit to govern itself, a terrorist state, a state with which you couldn’t possibly reach an accommodation.
And then you can carry on with business as usual, quietly stealing their homeland.
Brian Eno is a musician and music producer.
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January 4th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Good to see mentation is alive and well in the ‘alternative society’ (those who see clearly the untenability of Ashkenazim ”truth”).
Brian has it clear and accurate; why cannot world leaders see the same? Oh yes, they’re psychopaths. I nearly forgot that it’s all about what they can get people to believe, to further their wet dreams of global hegemony…
January 4th, 2009 at 9:03 am
How many chances have we given Hamas to make peace with Israel and they refuse to do so! Hamas should be pushed into the sea and maybe for once that will bring people peace in the region. Let Israel do what it has to in order to solve this problem once and for all. Most of you think I’m a warmonger but far from it. Think about this, if you had neighbors who killed your family and refused to be peaceful with you, would you not as a last resort, unleash hell on them? Nuf said!
January 4th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Goodness gracious. Stick to music. If people were lobbing rockets into your recording studio on a daily basis, what would you do?
Clueless ninny.
Listen world: Sorry if it offends you that we Jews are not going to quietly let people murder us, either by daily attrition or in one mass wave of destruction.
RJ
January 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
#2 & #4, you conveniently overlook the fact that Apartheid Israel has been brutalizing Palestinians since 1947!!!
January 4th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
“Everyone has their jews”??? Sorry, are you trying to sell the bulls**t that the jews have been significantly persecuted throughout history? Human history has seen the absolute holocaust of many peoples, but not once were these peoples jews with the exception of WW2.
Actually, the vast majority of Humans subject to holocaust across Human history were murdered by people acting according to the principles of the jewish Old Testament and Talmud. Modern christianity and islam directly derive from judaism, and both have the Old Testament as holy books. The greatest holocaust in Human history, the holocaust of the dark skinned humans of Africa in the name of slavery, was directly justified by jews, muslims and modern christians on the back of JEWISH teaching.
The jews have only one genuine complaint, and that is WW2. Even then, the jews had attempted to gain strongholds all across the West, and had declared war against the nazis. They were hardly like the helpless victims of jewish inspired african slavery, or the jewish derived modern christian extermination conquests of so many native lands. During the rise of the nazis, powerful jews made every attempt to ally with Hitler. They had no problem with his methods so long as those methods were not aimed against them.
The jewish doctrine is a ‘master race’ doctrine. Jewish apologists, like Alex Jones, and Ron Paul, never address this. Slaves were previously owned under the same type of doctrine, and as a consequence, dark-skinned Humans could be legally raped, tortured, murdered, or dissected whilst still alive. The US Supreme Court, in the 19th century, ruled that each of these supremely depraved acts were completely legal.
Any Humans calling themselves a ‘master-race’, as do the jews (and as did the japanese, germans, and slave-owners) will carry out any atrocity on ’sub-human’ children, women and men without a moments thought.
The jews are too few to operate by themselves, or to act alone under their perverted racist ideals. At the moment, they need to persuade the non-muslim Humans to identify muslims as ’sub-Human’. This dehumanising program is occuring at full strength wherever Humans are foolish enough to read jewish controlled newspapers, watch jewish controlled TV, or view jewish made films. That pretty much encompasses the entire population of the West.
Who amongst you reading this would say with a straight face that the sheep of the West would shed many tears if the jew-nazi holocaust of Gaza spread to every nation mainly occupied by ‘muslims’. All the sheep would say is “make me feel good about this, entertainment jews”. The kids of the sheep would be taught in school that holocaust of your ‘enemies’ is just good policing policy.
You know I am right, and therefore you know what is coming. The age of the nazis is upon us again. People like Alex Jones and Ron Paul will NOT speak against it. Indeed, YOU will not truly care until its consequences hit home, and it is your family and friends dying in the global holocaust created when all our killingest weapons have finally been unleashed. This time the demons are going to win, and the Earth will join Mars as just another dead planet in our solar system.
January 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Why don’t the ashkenazi just give the palestinians smallpox-infected blankets? It worked in North American during the european landgrab and genocide of the people who were peskily already on that land.
Some of the advantages of smallpox-infected blankets are no building debris or unexploded bombs that have to be cleaned up later.
Work smarter, not harder!
(end sarcasm mode)
January 4th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
You would think after all the oppression of the early 20th Century committed on Jews throughout Europe, that they of all the people in the world, would understand what the Palestinians, a completely innocent people, (no they didn’t commit the holocaust or steal Jewish land or wealth) would be going through.
But as is usually the case, the Zionists can’t backlash against the EU countries or anyone else, so they vent their anger at one of the poorest and most downtrodden people on Earth. And they talk of fundamentalists in the Middle East, but saying the land belongs to you because God promised it to you in misinterpreted verses in the Bible is utter hypocrisy.
God is not mocked. You reap what you sow. Your own history, you Zionists, should be more than enough testament to this fact.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Eno has it spot on
no suprise listening to “burning airlines give you so much more”
or any other tracks from taking tiger mountain
Bardic observations on the future
January 4th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
I hate to see so much suffering on the palestinians, but as long as they seek to go against God’s Word and promise to give that land to the Israelis, then it’s only going to continue. You cannot expect peace and happiness by means of rebeling against God’s plan. Talk on a Palestinian state is against God. I dont condone Israeli action; it’s quiet brutal. But violence on either side will never end unless palestinians understand that they can’t steal this land from God. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Dear Brian, Show me the human kindness of the Jews in the Old Testament, because outside of that fantasy they have no history. Nice spin though.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:31 am
INFORMATION IS THE BEST WEAPON TO USE AGAINST THESE NEO-SCUM BASTARDS !!
IT’S TIME FOR ALL INFOWARRIORS TO STEP UP, STEP FORWARD, AND POLLUTE THE
WORLD WITH OUR COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 1 LOVE !!!!!!!!!!!
TIME TO GIVE POWER BACK 2 THE PEOPLE, GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE, & GIVEN 4 THE PEOPLE
AND SO BEGINS THE REVOLUTION …………………………………………….
………”RON PAUL”……………………….”ALEX JONES”………………………….”DAVID ICKE”……….
…..FOR PRESIDENT…………….FOR VICE-PRESIDENT………….FOR SECRETARY-OF-STATE…..
January 5th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Precise, straight to the point article, nicely written.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:32 am
spin?
your personal history is rather insignificant too, yet you should know better. the gaza attacks should be condemned. do the jews need to be as present throught history as the chnese to understand. humanitarianism? if you look at china, 2000 years of history for the jews would make no difference. they know how to kill or make the palestinians miserable. your comments make most of us miserable.
apologists should make excuses on fox, not here. this article is right on.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
The admissions to the Bush/Cheney crimes is also an experiment in provocation!
The problem is that too many Americans are in a state of denial and cannot be provoked, they are actually quite happy with the present state of affairs in their state of slavery.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I guess the Israelis know how to re create the Horrids of thier own oppression in the form of NAZI group think. Yes, they may have hated being treated as the savages they were portrayed as, but now thanks to military might they can prove once and for all they are no different then HITLER in claiming the high ground in stealing more land that is not thiers…
January 5th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
http://www.terrorismawareness......-happened/
What really happened in the Middle East.
www dot israelnationalnews dot com/News/News dot aspx/129242
Zahar Claims Victory, Calls to Kill Jewish Children
by Maayana Miskin
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Az-Zahar claimed victory for Hamas on Monday, saying Hamas had succeeded in “destroying Israel’s sense of security” with its rocket attacks. Zahar made his proclamation in video footage sent from a secret hideout, where he is taking shelter in order to avoid being targeted in an IAF strike. Other Hamas leaders have gone into hiding as well.
Zahar directed his message to Hamas’ troops, and promised them victory over the IDF. “We must be patient until we are victorious, Allah will help us,” he said. Hundreds of Hamas terrorists have been killed since the “Cast Lead” operation began last week, including 100 since the start of Israel’s ground operation, and several of the group’s senior leaders have been assassinated. Dozens have been taken prisoner as well.
The Hamas leader called to murder Israelis and Jews worldwide, including children. “The Israelis have sentenced their children to death… They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world,” he said. Hamas’ platform calls for all Jews to convert to Islam or be killed, based on an Islamic saying (Hadith), and the group has not refrained from targeting children in the past.
Hamas will destroy synagogues and Jewish schools as well, Zahar said, just as Israel destroyed mosques in Gaza. Israel bombed several mosques used to store rockets and ammunition.
Zahar suggested Hamas was prepared to seek a ceasefire, saying Hamas would discuss “whatever is good for our people.” He issued a list of demands, saying any ceasefire must include a complete end to IDF counterterrorism activities, Hamas control of the Gaza coast and the opening of Israeli crossings.
Israel has not offered Hamas a ceasefire, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently said operations in Gaza would continue “until we achieve our goals.”
January 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
I WILL BLESS THOSE WHOLE BLESS YOU AND CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE YOU. GET REAL PEOPLE GAZA WAS GIVEN TO THE JEWS BY GOD IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT THEM BUT NOTHING WILL STOP GODS WORD ON WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE END WILL HE FIND ANY FAITHFUL.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:22 am
the problem is that because of WW2 everyone thinks the jews have the right to oppress others
the only thing is that the zionist were never in the WW2 camps, they were the ones who trained Hitler against the simple jews, why? because they need some sacrifices on their (jew) behalf to get even with all the human sacrifices produced in past and in future
do you know the zionist belive that any jew sacrifice values 1000 non-jew lives ?!!
Do you still think that muslims are weird?? I think these zionists are much more weird and much bigger treath to the humanity
January 6th, 2009 at 5:02 am
FCUK THOSE NEO-SCUM MUTHAFUKAZ, BOY BUSH & O”BAAAA”MA BIN LADEN TOO !!
INFOWARRIORS ? STEP-UP TO THE FRONTLINE, & LET’S COMMENCE OUR INFOWAR !!!
RETURN POWER 2 THE PEOPLE, RETURNED BY THE PEOPLE, AND 4 THE PEOPLE
* RON PAUL….4….PRESIDENT *
* ALEX JONES….4…..VICE-PRESIDENT *
* DAVID ICKE…….4……SECRETARY-OF-STATE *