Comment: Cutting electricity, water, food, and other supplies to Gaza constitutes collectiva punishment, which is both illegal and immoral. I have heard long ago that Hamas was working for Israeli illegal expansion, providing Israel with a pretext to retaliate and use force on the population of Palestine. End goal – depopulation and annexation of the Pakestinian Occupied Territories and Gaza. However, today, I want to share with you some of the links to the history of this conflict.
- Norman Finkelstein (American scholar, author), August 2006
- Israel’s war crimes in Gaza – 2008/2009
- UNGA Tenth Emergency Special Session), January 15, 2009 – (Recovered)
- Chris Hedges (American journalist, author), January 2009
- The originał Goldstone Report – (PDF)
- Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and U.N. Human Rights Rapporteur for the Palestinian Occupied Territories
- Norvegian Doctor Mads Gilbert
- Letter from Dr Mads Gilbert
- Remember Gaza – One of History’s Terror Bombing Victims
- George Galloway (former UK MP) speech on Gaza/Israel war – 23rd July 2014
- Israel’s invasion and bombardment of Lebanon, summer 2006
- Collection of legal links ending in 2011 – (discontinued website)
Now, my personal comment: Twenty years ago, I ran a website focusing on the “Middle East Conflict”. I collected materials on the creation of the State of Israel, on the Six-Day War in 1967, on the UN resolutions pertaining to the occupation of Palestinian Territories, on the conflict between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, on the war on Lebanon in Summer of 2006, on the “bloody murder” of civilians in Gaza in 2008/2009, on the use of illegal weapons in densely populated civilian areas (white phosphorus bombs, cluster bombs, and depleted uranium munitions), on many other events that went in the same direction. After decades of occupation, after war crimes and inhumane treatment of civilians (including children), after illegal expansion achieved through terrorism, occupation, dispossesion, denial of the right of refugees to return, after economic blockades, after building illegal settlements, after many violations of UN resolutions, after illegal bombardment of targets in other sovereign states (for example, in Syria), … I am extremely surprised that many media outlets and many politicians are now seeing “half of the truth” or not seeing the truth at all. This is a great disappointment but also a great opportunity to discover who is who in this dirty, criminal, and hypocritical business.
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