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Från nedanstående bloggpost rekommenderad läsning: Mounin Rabbani: Birth Pangs Of A New Palestine

"As in previous Israeli wars, the premeditated and deliberate infliction of massive civilian suffering and wholesale physical destruction is an integral component of this campaign. If Operation Cast Lead does not produce a popular revolt against Gaza’s present rulers, so the thinking goes, the scale of the disaster -- including the slaughter of entire families, the shelling of the UN school in Jabalya and assorted other horrors -- will produce a post-war reckoning in which Hamas’s support will atrophy while its opponents become increasingly emboldened and popular. More importantly, once confronted with the terrible consequences of challenging Israel, it is presumed that no one in Gaza who lived through this assault will dare raise his voice again; the fool who does will immediately be drowned out by the desperate cries for self-preservation by friends, neighbors, even comrades."

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...when all is said and done, two issues rise head and shoulders above the rest: the urgency of beginning the process of reversing Israel’s impunity in its dealings with the Palestinian people, and the equally dire need to address the fundamental issue of occupation, without which ceasefires, sieges and code-named calamities like Operation Cast Lead would be unnecessary.

En kort kommentar: Sionisternas etniska rensning runt 1948 byggde mycket på att skapa fruktan för Israel och deras terrorgäng. Antalet dödade vid slakten vid Deir Yassin överdrevs av sionisterna själva för att skapa panik bland den icke-judiska befolkningen. (Detta senare faktum skulle faktiskt av många israel-vänner idag tas som intäkt för en form av godhet från Israels sida, eftersom man alltså valde att inte döda alla. Ungefär som man idag hävdar Israels godhet för att de i den del fall varnar före bombningarna - och tvingar folk att fly till skolor och FN-byggnader där de likt förbannat kan dö i en israelisk attack.)