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In a state
established on a founding myth that the native Palestinian population
left of their own accord, rather than that they were ethnically
cleansed- and in one that seeks its legitimacy through a host of other
lies, deception becomes a political way of life. Israel's Ambassador to
Kenya, Mr Emmanuel Seri, demonstrated this in his article on January 12.
A relative calm
has followed Israel's month-long pounding of Lebanon since last year, a
calm in which Israelis may no longer be dying but the Lebanese most
assuredly are as explosions of US-made cluster bombs greet the south's
returning refugees, and the residents of Gaza perish by the dozens each
week.
Many of Israel's
war lies have already been deeply implanted in Western consciousness by
the media:
-That Hezbollah
"started" the war by capturing two Israeli soldiers rather than that
Israel maintained a hostile and provocative posture for the previous six
years by daily sending in its warplanes and spy drones into Lebanese
airspace;
-That Hezbollah's
launching of rockets into Israel was an act of aggression, even though
they were fired after, and in response to, Israel's massive bombing of
civilian areas in Lebanon;
-That Hezbollah,
unlike Israel, used the local civilian population as human shields, even
though Israel's continual and comprehensive aerial spying on south
Lebanon produced almost no evidence of this;
-That Hezbollah,
not Israel, targeted civilians, despite a death toll that suggests the
exact opposite;
And that
Hezbollah's arming by Iran is entirely illegitimate, even though the
weapons were used to defend Lebanon from a long-prepared Israeli attack,
while Israel has an absolute right to receive its arsenal from the US.
The Guardian
Unlimited, the online version of the London based newspaper, in an
article entitled "EU poll sees Israel as peace threat," reported:
"A European
Commission opinion poll found 60% of Europeans see Israel as the
greatest threat to world peace."
The poll surveyed
7,500 people in 15 EU countries who said Israel was a bigger threat to
world peace than Iran, North Korea and the United States."
If Israel was not
a security threat to the world, if Israel was doing everything right as
the ambassador was trying to make us believe, why is it that the world
can see through the onslaught of bias propaganda?
Why does the world
no longer believe in the myth that Israel is only defending itself? It
is for the following reasons.
The occupation is
illegal under international law. Under UN Resolution 242, Israel is
required to withdraw from all the territories occupied in 1967,
including East Jerusalem.
The UN has stated
time and time again that the only way to end the violence is to end the
occupation.
Secondly, the
occupation is killing children and innocent civilians.
Israelis possess
overwhelming military superiority over Palestinians.
The Palestinians
have used violent means to resist the occupation, but that does not take
away from the fact that Israeli soldiers are shooting individuals with
missiles, using American made F-16s and Apache helicopters.
Tanks roll into
refugee camps, supposedly to root out terrorists. But too many of these
so-called terrorists are small children.
The Israeli
government demolishes homes, uproots crops, and confiscates land.
< uprooted. trees
fruit and olive 34,606 confiscated land of acres 291 demolished, been
have homes 580 than more 2000, October Since>
In East Jerusalem,
Palestinian homes are demolished and land confiscated in order to ensure
Jews have a majority. |
