The dark side of Tel Aviv by Abe Hayeem
No2Genocide 14 Oct 09, 9:16amWhen this post was removed I amended it and re-posted it, but it was removed again. I would appreciate any suggestions as for the possible pretext for the removal of this second attempt.
We should not forget the numerous Israeli declarations of intention to inflict collective punishment on the Palestinians. Many of these made in the build up to the attack on Gaza and then were actually implemented.
On 10 February 2008, Meir Sheetrit [then the Israeli Interior Minister] said:
"... I would bomb neighborhoods, etc…. We did it in Lebanon in 2006; we wiped out a whole neighborhood, the Dachya, including tall buildings, sometimes with people in it ..."
Those of us who are not in the business of denial, recognise this - a few months after his threat we saw the Israeli military wiping out not one but many whole neighbourhoods in Gaza.
For those who think a comparison of Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto is absurd, I refer them to an even more serious declaration of intention - Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai on 29 Feb 2008 threatened Gaza with "a bigger shoah" (holocaust). As with Sheetrit’s threat, actions followed Vilnai’s threat. A year later Vilnai is ensuring that Gaza is starved of essential food and medicine. The calories of permitted food are calculated [see Gaza bonanza at:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092196.html] and are not enough for the survival of the 1.5 million Palestinians.
For those who are interested in the facts of the Holocaust, we know that in the Warsaw Ghetto the calories permitted to Jews were calculated to only 184 per day. As in the Warsaw Ghetto, for each attack on the jailers an extremely high and disproportionate number of the captive population is killed in revenge.
The UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk said:
"To lock people into a war zone is something that evokes the worst kind of international memories of the Warsaw Ghetto, and sieges that occur unintentionally during a period of wartime", referring to the starvation and murder of Warsaw's Jews by Nazi Germany in World War II.
How can Tel Aviv be celebrated when it is implicated, in so many ways including hosting the Israeli military HQ and many other bodies linked to the military, in imposing the siege?? Even education of children is mercilessly attacked:
"many students stop attending classes due to shortages of books, pens and paper"
Israel is now condemning a generation of Palestinian children, already traumatised from the horror of its bombardment, to be also illiterate.
When Abe Hayeem's article was published it attracted a torrent of distressing abusive comment on the CiFwatch blog
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