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10 August 2014

Operation Protective Edge, ethnic cleansing and the issue of genocide

  http://rt.com/op-edge/178932-genocide-israel-ethnic-cleansing/

Last Tuesday, the Israeli government decided to bring its near month long campaign of destruction and devastation of the Gaza Strip to a halt with a temporary ceasefire (arguably meant to hold longer), claiming its immediate objectives had been achieved.
 
These goals seem to have been the wanton destruction of Palestinian lives and property, though the official line states that the Israeli Defense Forces targeted Hamas by destroying their hide-outs and tunnels. The New York Times' Steven Erlanger and Ben Hubbardaug insightfully say that "Gazans emerged to view a shattered landscape," as the fighting stopped and Hamas remained in charge over the tiny sliver of land cradled between Egypt and Israel.

http://rt.com/op-edge/178932-genocide-israel-ethnic-cleansing/

The ceasefire had been brokered by Egypt and both Israel and Hamas sent delegations to Cairo. They were meant to hammer out long-term deals and conditions for the resumption of peace, or rather lack of deadly, unilateral attacks on ill-fated inmates happening to live in the world's largest open air prison. The place has now been reduced to all but a "shattered landscape," or as RT's Paula Slier put it, "Gaza is in tatters" following four weeks of bombardments and attacks.
 
The pretext used by Israeli Premier Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu to unleash the awful might of the US-funded IDF was the killing of three Israeli teenagers. Netanyahu lost no time to ascribe blame and single out suspected killers and plan the execution of a punishment: "Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay." Among the first to cast doubt on Bibi's seemingly unwavering conviction was the Buzzfeed Middle East Correspondent Sheera Frenkel, indicating that the abduction and murder of the teenagers was carried out by locals without any regard for repercussions, or consequences or even direct links and connections with the Islamic Resistance Movement or Hamas. In hindsight, it seems that Protective Edge (the code name given to this fourth war against Hamas in the past eight years) was a pre-planned and organized operation, carried out at the drop of a hat once a sufficient pretext or impetus was found or possibly fabricated.
http://rt.com/op-edge/178932-genocide-israel-ethnic-cleansing/
 
Whenever violence erupts in the Holy Land, as Occupied Palestine-now-known-as-Israel is sometimes referred to, charges of anti-Semitism are never far off to detract from serious criticism of the military actions carried out by the Jewish State.
 
Bibi as well as other members of his government kept repeating the mantra that "Israel has a right to defend itself," against all but impotent Qassam rockets either landing in uninhabited fields or being intercepted by Israel's much-vaunted Iron Dome (or kippat barzel, in Hebrew), the Jewish State's mobile air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd, one of Israel's many high-tech manufacturing firms. The Israeli mantra also keeps being repeated in the mainstream media and mouthed by pro-Israeli pundits and television personalities.

http://rt.com/op-edge/178932-genocide-israel-ethnic-cleansing/
 
For example, the American comic Bill Maher, whose HBO show is highly popular around the world via the internet and who himself does not mince words when it comes to either "smoking pot" or being an atheist, is a telling example of such a TV personality not shying away from condemning Hamas and defending Israel. As such, Maher's dislike of the Muslim faith actually verges on the very edges of Islamophobia, hence his utter abhorrence of the organization of Hamas, even tweeting about it on 17 July:

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