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Top 5 Lies About Israel’s Assault on Gaza
Jeremy R. Hammond
Dissident Voice
Monday, Jan 5, 2008
Lie #1) Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.
The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in the world. The presence of militants within a civilian population does not, under international law, deprive that population of their protected status, and hence any assault upon that population under the guise of targeting militants is, in fact, a war crime.
Moreover, the people Israel claims are legitimate targets are members of Hamas, which Israel says is a terrorist organization. Hamas has been responsible for firing rockets into Israel. These rockets are extremely inaccurate and thus, even if Hamas intended to hit military targets within Israel, are indiscriminate by nature. When rockets from Gaza kill Israeli civilians, it is a war crime.
Hamas has a military wing. However, it is not entirely a military organization, but a political one. Members of Hamas are the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people. Dozens of these elected leaders have been kidnapped and held in Israeli prisons without charge. Others have been targeted for assassination, such as Nizar Rayan, a top Hamas official. To kill Rayan, Israel targeted a residential apartment building. The strike not only killed Rayan but two of his wives and four of his children, along with six others. There is no justification for such an attack under international law. This was a war crime.
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Other of Israel’s bombardment with protected status under international law have included a mosque, a prison, police stations, and a university, in addition to residential buildings.
Moreover, Israel has long held Gaza under siege, allowing only the most minimal amounts of humanitarian supplies to enter. Israel is bombing and killing Palestinian civilians. Countless more have been wounded, and cannot receive medical attention. Hospitals running on generators have little or no fuel. Doctors have no proper equipment or medical supplies to treat the injured. These people, too, are the victims of Israeli policies targeted not at Hamas or legitimate military targets, but directly designed to punish the civilian population.
Lie #2) Hamas violated the cease-fire. The Israeli bombardment is a response to Palestinian rocket fire and is designed to end such rocket attacks.
Israel never observed the cease-fire to begin with. From the beginning, it announced a “special security zone” within the Gaza Strip and announced that Palestinians who enter this zone will be fired upon. In other words, Israel announced its intention that Israeli soldiers would shoot at farmers and other individuals attempting to reach their own land in direct violation of not only the cease-fire but international law.
Despite shooting incidents, including ones resulting in Palestinians getting injured, Hamas still held to the cease-fire from the time it went into effect on June 19 until Israel effectively ended the truce on November 4 by launching an airstrike into Gaza that killed five and injured several others.
Israel’s violation of the cease-fire predictably resulted in retaliation from militants in Gaza who fired rockets into Israel in response. The increased barrage of rocket fire at the end of December is being used as justification for the continued Israeli bombardment, but is a direct response by militants to the Israeli attacks.
Israel’s actions, including its violation of the cease-fire, predictably resulted in an escalation of rocket attacks against its own population.
Lie #3) Hamas is using human shields, a war crime.
There has been no evidence that Hamas has used human shields. The fact is, as previously noted, Gaza is a small piece of property that is densely populated. Israel engages in indiscriminate warfare such as the assassination of Nizar Rayan, in which members of his family were also murdered. It is victims like his dead children that Israel defines as “human shields” in its propaganda. There is no legitimacy for this interpretation under international law. In circumstances such as these, Hamas is not using human shields, Israel is committing war crimes in violation of the Geneva Conventions and other applicable international law.
Lie #4) Arab nations have not condemned Israel’s actions because they understand Israel’s justification for its assault.
The populations of those Arab countries are outraged at Israel’s actions and at their own governments for not condemning Israel’s assault and acting to end the violence. Simply stated, the Arab governments do not represent their respective Arab populations. The populations of the Arab nations have staged mass protests in opposition to not only Israel’s actions but also the inaction of their own governments and what they view as either complacency or complicity in Israel’s crimes.
Moreover, the refusal of Arab nations to take action to come to the aid of the Palestinians is not because they agree with Israel’s actions, but because they are submissive to the will of the US, which fully supports Israel. Egypt, for instance, which refused to open the border to allow Palestinians wounded in the attacks to get medical treatment in Egyptian hospitals, is heavily dependent upon US aid, and is being widely criticized within the population of the Arab countries for what is viewed as an absolute betrayal of the Gaza Palestinians.
Even Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been regarded as a traitor to his own people for blaming Hamas for the suffering of the people of Gaza. Palestinians are also well aware of Abbas’ past perceived betrayals in conniving with Israel and the US to sideline the democratically elected Hamas government, culminating in a counter-coup by Hamas in which it expelled Fatah (the military wing of Abbas’ Palestine Authority) from the Gaza Strip. While his apparent goal was to weaken Hamas and strengthen his own position, the Palestinians and other Arabs in the Middle East are so outraged at Abbas that it is unlikely he will be able to govern effectively.
Lie #5) Israel is not responsible for civilian deaths because it warned the Palestinians of Gaza to flee areas that might be targeted.
Israel claims it sent radio and telephone text messages to residents of Gaza warning them to flee from the coming bombardment. But the people of Gaza have nowhere to flee to. They are trapped within the Gaza Strip. It is by Israeli design that they cannot escape across the border. It is by Israeli design that they have no food, water, or fuel by which to survive. It is by Israeli design that hospitals in Gaza have no electricity and few medical supplies with which to treat the injured and save lives. And Israel has bombed vast areas of Gaza, targeting civilian infrastructure and other sites with protected status under international law. No place is safe within the Gaza Strip.
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33 Responses to “Top 5 Lies About Israel’s Assault on Gaza”
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January 5th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Israel is the land of the Antichrist
Jewish nazi’s are the same as any other
The corporate arms dealers of the world are very pleased
as the recession will not stop the profits of death
January 5th, 2009 at 11:58 am
if you want to know what the scum of the earth looks like then look no further than the Zionist Jew in Israel.
This parasite nation of utter judenrat filth should be wiped off the face of the Earth and its a pitty Almajhead never did say it.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
NOT ALL JEWS ARE ZIONISTS AND NOT ALL ZIONISTS ARE JEWS
January 5th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
well said wontchipme
January 5th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Can anyone point me in the direction of some video of these rockets that the Israeli government claim are being launched at them?
I’m suire it must be just a matter of me not turning the TV on at the right moment, but I am yet to actually see any video evidence of the Israeli governments claims that they are currently under attack.
The news said 20 rockets had been fired into Israel already today, and yet they ddin’t seem to have any footage of any one of these 20 events to accompany the claim…. and considering the spectacular footage that’s been on our tv screens of Israeli munitions going off over Gaza the last few days you’d have thought the TV crews would be recording non stop the very areas where these rockets are allegedly coming from
Wez the Aussie Reply:
January 21st, 2009 at 2:41 am
Good point.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Boycott everything that comes from that terrorist state of Israel. Here is a list to help. Have all the countries of the world recall their ambassadors and close their ambassies:
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boyco.....#companies
Thank you
January 5th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
One interesting point in this article, out of many, was the observation that the governments don’t represent the interests of their peoples. How many governments does this apply to today? I would venture most, if not all. The world is just waiting for a match to set it afire. Should be interesting times these next few months. I plan on taking my show on the road to cover the US side of it all. Peace and Freedom to all, Jim
Wez the Aussie Reply:
January 21st, 2009 at 2:42 am
That was an excellent point !! Thank you.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
ashnbell, they don’t have any footage of hamas shooting rockets, i watch alternative as well as MSM and all they show is a house with a hole in the roof, furthermore, it doesn’t even look like anything has been scorched from a “blast” it’s just a fuckin hole in the roof with shit and debris all over the living room. In some of these vids and pics, the TV’s are still on in the backround with a bunch of debris all over the living room, looks rather fishy, had that been actuall then Israel’s death toll would be higher just off that one household, you would assume that somebody was sitting there watching that TV.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
This is a must see! If you have not seen this, you know nothing!
http://www.terrorismawareness......-happened/
What really happened in the Middle East.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
http://wejew dot com/media/3290/The_Qassam_Movie_Long_Trailer/
Order your virtual movie ticket today to see QASSAM, presents Igal Hecht’s powerful film about the experiences and struggles of the people of Sderot – a city located near Gaza that is under constant Qassam rocket fire. The daily effects of terror are seen in a compelling manner through the eyes of children.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
@ pissed in canada, cheers for that, i was begining to think i was demanding too high a level of proof from the Israeli military…
I mean, just because they’d happily try and murder a US navy ships worth of people to escalate a conflict 40 years ago doesn’t mean that they are the type of organisation that could concievably stoop as low as to lie about being attacked by low quality rockets does it?
Who knows, but i do know i’m not going to be convinced until i see it with my own eyes.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Should Iran get nuclear arms it will certainly make the Israeli’s think twice and perhaps curb their reign of inhuman terror.
Which is exactly why they are paranoid over Iran’s intentions.
From what I understand the Iranian’s have seen what has happened to their neighbours and are seeking to defend themselves.
By doing so it would be the end of the school bully.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
james: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024222.php
Iran: Children TV show instructs toddlers to wage jihad against Israel and embrace “martyrdom”
For example, one of the ways the female host of the show indoctrinated the children was to assert, “I am willing to sacrifice myself. I am willing to sacrifice my arms, my legs, and all my limbs, my family, and my property, in order to achieve my goals.”
“Iranians urge kids to fight ‘evil’ Israel,” from WorldNetDaily, January 3:
Children’s TV program embraces ‘martyrdom’ amid Gaza conflict.
Amid Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza to stop rocket attacks against its civilian population, an Iranian children’s TV show taught toddlers to embrace “martyrdom” and hate their Jewish “enemies.”…MORE
January 5th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
The comments on this web site are from liberal child fools with brain damage.
Why Prison Planet is against Israel I will never understand, they are our friends, allies, and we have a common enemy – the right wing, racist, crazy Islamic facists. But to the idiots on this web site only George Bush is the bad guy, not our enemies.
I have been sending these articles our to friends to get their feedback, they think Prinson Planet has some good points, but that these articles and the comments are that of fools.
Alex Jones needs to rethink things, Prison Planet it not credible with these kind of articles.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Sabastian– I totally agree with you. This site has turned into nothing more than super-lefty dribble and conspiracy theory. Every article on this site should be taken with a grain of salt. I think AJ, and prison planet need to do some soul-searching. THIS WEBSITE OFFICIALLY SUX.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Like hamas has any redeeming qualities.
It’s Israel’s land.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Zionism is the fascism of the Jews, as nazism was the fascism of the Germans. The question underlying your stated question, Sebastian, is “Why is Prison Planet against Israelis?” and maybe even “Why is Prison Planet against Jews?” Prison Planet goes the extra mile to find fault wherever it lies and is careful not to make the mistake of proclaiming “collective guilt”. But you need to educate yourself on what Zionism really is. All that is going on in Palestine now was planned by the Zionist founders of Israel a half-century ago. They call for the ethnic “cleansing” of the area, claimed to be legitimate by atheists based on the Torah and on the scant scriptural record of a very partial Hebrew occupation of Palestine for 200 of the 3000 years people have been living there. Read the Hidden History of Zionism: http://www.takingaimradio.com/
January 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I can see why the NWO likes having Alex Jones around. Anybody that ignores right and wrong helps confuse the issues and advance the NWO. This articles proves Alex Jones does every bit as good a job as CNN or Fox news when it comes to making sure values are not part of the debate.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I notice the bbc has put on 2 documentaries tonight about the Holocaust, just as these attacks reach their zenith so far. I’d say this is deliberate.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Please send this story to my email dariefarmer@gmail.com and then delete this comment.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Yes, Apartheid Israel has been committing genocide against Palestinians ever since it was invented in 1947!!!
Zionist were very complicit in the 9/11 false-flag attack: http://www.911missinglinks.com
January 5th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
www dot israelnationalnews dot com/News/News dot aspx/129228
Humanitarian Aid Reaching Gaza
by Hana Levi Julian
(IsraelNN.com) Shipments of humanitarian aid to Gaza resumed Monday after a two-day pause to allow the entry of ground troops into the region in Stage Two of Operation Cast Lead.
(chart)
Some 200,000 liters of heavy diesel fuel are being pumped through the Nahal Oz terminal, enough for the Gaza power station and other humanitarian needs as well. The depot was closed for the last week due to security concerns that blocked Israel’s ability to operate the crossing, notably terrorist attacks aimed specifically at personnel manning the terminal.
Approximately 80 truckloads of medical supplies, medications and basic food commodities are also being delivered to the region through the Kerem Shalom Crossing. Among the shipments are donations from Greece, Jordan and Egypt, in addition to supplies being sent from various international aid organizations.
The International Committee of the Red Cross complained on Sunday that Israel has refused to allow its medical teams into the region to assist Gaza doctors with complex surgeries. Attempts by Israel National News to check the veracity of the claim were unsuccessful and calls to COGAT, the office for Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, were not returned.
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Dual Citizens Assisted to Leave The evacuation of dual citizens is also continuing. Last week, 226 Gazans holding foreign passports, among them U.S. nationals, were assisted to leave the region.
On Monday, “at the request of various embassies, an evacuation of some 200 dual nationals is also planned,” said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
Gazans holding passports from Norway, Germany, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Spain, Malta, France, Greece, Austria and Canada have made arrangements to travel to Jordan via the Allenby Bridge. They will travel through Israel in order to reach the border crossing into Jordan, where they will continue on to their final destinations.
Hundreds of Trucks of Aid Reach Gaza Since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead, and on a daily basis, the international community has been able to increase the amount of goods supplied to Gaza, according to a release disseminated by the Foreign Ministry.
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Some 400 truckloads of humanitarian aid have been transferred since the operation began, at the request of the international organizations, the Palestinian Authority and various governments. According to the report, 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid was delivered to Gaza throughout the week, 2,000 units of blood were donated by Jordan, five ambulances were donated by Turkey, five ambulances transferred from Judea and Samaria on behalf of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and 20 people were evacuated to Israel for medical needs, including two injured children.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Looks like Sabastian and Anonymous are the only ones who get a passing grade. Mr. Griffin has a great idea though, let’s give everyone nukes… that will solve the problem. I have wanted one for a long time but my wife says it will make my hair fall out… or worse. Grow up people…
January 5th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Goods which originate in Israel start with 729 on the bar code.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Chris: please tell us, what would your solution be for the current and on-going violence in the mid-east? And please, try to do so without resorting to profanity and and name-calling.
If you disagree with a post, why not cite references for what “you” believe – instead of launching into a demeaning diatribe. “You” look like the “3rd grader”.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Let me add one more LIE:
False Lie(to themselves): That Israel will gain some tactical advantage over all the other muslims if it genocides the palestinians….
What comes around will enevitably smack that back in the face, more serious then any massacre they can commit against civilians of another race then themselves.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Hamas is making fools out of all of you…of course you simpletons make it easy for them and are playing right into their hands. Luckily for you, Israel and the USA will still fight on and in the end be protecting you also. I know you will never thank Israel and the USA for protecting you along with the rest of us, but I will thank Israel and the USA for you. there is no option but to fight and defeat the terrorists of Hamas.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Hey Russia is NWO 2 Thanks for the articles and links. i will spread the info.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:53 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 *
January 21st, 2009 at 2:47 am
There seems to be a lot of Israeli shills posting at the moment. That army of trolls, set up by the Zionists, must be on the move.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:49 am
Me is a Jew.
Yes Sir a dirty Jew.
Must tell you in my visit to the Land of the Jew, the Arabs enjoyed living like swine.
I elect Howard Stern the Jew for President.
I elect Jerry Springer the Jew for Vice President.
I elect Maury Povitch the Jew for Secretary Of State.
I elect Jerry Siendfled the Jew for Homeland Insecurity.
Some of my “best friends” are Christians.
Gotta go and count my money.
Enjoy your beer and rotting teeth.
Go pick your behind.
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