The dark side of Tel Aviv by Abe Hayeem

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/13/tel-aviv-origins-centenary

The dark side of Tel Aviv by Abe Hayeem

No2Genocide 13 Oct 09, 7:42pm

This post is very similar to the one posted an hour earlier, at 6:35pm, but when it was removed I amended it and re-posted it, hoping I identified the reasons for the censorship. I would appreciate any suggestions as for the possible pretext for the removal of this second attempt.

·         Why choose Tel Aviv as a holiday destination, while it is directly involved in the CURRENT deliberate and calculated imposed hunger on 1.5 million Palestinian in Gaza?? Even the calories allowed for the children and adults in Gaza are calculated by the Israeli military, with its HQ in Tel Aviv [HaKirya].
According to the Israeli paper, Haaretz, Israel even calculates the survival calories required:

"four pages filled with detailed charts of the number of grams and calories of every type of food to be permitted for consumption by Gaza residents (broken down by gender and age)"

See Gaza bonanza at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092196.html

The Israeli deliberate and premeditated policy to cause hunger is led by Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai [as shown in the Haaretz report], who on 29 Feb 2008 threatened Gaza with "a bigger shoah" (holocaust). Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister during the onslaught of Gaza, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans "on a diet".

These policies, the carpet bombing of Gaza and other war crimes, are carried out and monitored by the Israeli military, among them thousands serving in HaKirya, in the heart of Tel Aviv. This is why it is relevant that HaKirya is in the heart of Tel Aviv.

One of the posts here denied that Gaza was carpet bombed by Israel - how can anyone deny this?? My parents escaped Nazi Germany and my lesson was to never deny a holocaust, but fight it before it is too late. I therefore find denyial of the Israeli atrocities and war crimes, as offensive as Holocaust denial.

The dark side of Tel Aviv

The dark side of Tel Aviv by Abe Hayeem

No2Genocide 14 Oct 09, 9:16am
When 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.

See http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058196.html

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"

See http://www.newstatesman.com/education/2009/10/gaza-school-students-israel

 

Israel is now condemning a generation of Palestinian children, already traumatised from the horror of its bombardment, to be also illiterate.

Tony Greenstein's experience

Tony Greenstein has blogged about his experience of CiF censorship:

http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2009/04/guardian-comment-is-free-and-newspeak.html

http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2009/04/anything-but-free-guardians-cif-under.html

The dark side of Tel Aviv

The dark side of Tel Aviv

My comment 13 Oct 09, 6:35pm

·         Why choose Tel Aviv as a holiday destination, while it is directly involved in the CURRENT deliberate and calculated imposed hunger on 1.5 million Palestinian in Gaza?? Even the calories allowed for the children and adults in Gaza are calculated by the Israeli military, with its HQ in Tel Aviv [HaKirya].

According to the Israeli paper, Haaretz, Israel even calculates the survival calories required:

"four pages filled with detailed charts of the number of grams and calories of every type of food to be permitted for consumption by Gaza residents (broken down by gender and age)

See Gaza bonanza at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092196.html

The Israeli deliberate and premeditated policy to cause hunger is led by Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai [as shown in the Haaretz report], who on 29 Feb 2008 threatened Gaza with "a bigger shoah" (holocaust). Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister during the onslaught of Gaza, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans "on a diet". This reminds me of Governor General Hans Frank in Nazi-occupied Poland, who spoke of "death by hunger". Im reminded of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto.

These policies, the carpet bombing of Gaza and other war crimes, are carried out and monitored by the Israeli military, among them thousands serving in HaKirya, in the heart of Tel Aviv.

Visiting the clubs, beach and cafes in Tel Aviv, there is no escape from being next to Israeli soldiers, with or without uniform. This is why I no longer live in Tel Aviv. I now live in London and disgusted to see the despicable attempt to promote Tel Aviv here.

One of the posts here denied that Gaza was carpet bombed by Israel - how can anyone deny this?? My parents escaped Nazi Germany and my lesson was to never deny a holocaust, but fight it before it is too late. I therefore find many of the posts here, denying the Israeli atrocities and war crimes, as offensive as Holocaust denial.

Yael Oren Kahn

No2Genocide (1)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/13/tel-aviv-origins-centenary

13 Oct 09, 3:16pm
[note this post attracted 100 recommendations before it was deleted]

I lived in Tel Aviv during the first Palestinian Intifada and I travelled weekly to Gaza during the 1988-2001 uprising [that was before the current siege imposed by Israel, which now suffocates Gaza and makes such visits completely impossible].

Even then, long before the Israeli carpet bombing of Gaza earlier this year, I found horrendous hardship in Gaza in strike contrast to affluent Tel Aviv.
Travelling to Gaza by public transport from Tel Aviv was from … Jaffa. That was a poignant reminder that my journey to visit the refugee camps started from the town from which the Palestinian refugees had been ethnic cleansed in 1948.
As Abe Hayeem eloquently writes, Tel Aviv was built on the ruins of a number of Palestinian communities. The Palestinians were ethnic cleansed, many of them transferred into Gaza.
The propaganda stunt this week of promoting Tel Aviv in the heart of the city of London is despicable not only because of its history, but because Tel Aviv is closely linked to the latest war crimes against Gaza [see the Goldstone Report and Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/18/israel-war-crimes-gaza-conflict, .
For example, the heart of Tel Aviv is the home for the Israeli military, in an area called HaKirya, which has served as the IDF headquarters since its founding in 1948 [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaKirya ]. It accommodates the Israeli military in numerous buildings and underground bonkers. As an Israeli, I suspect the pre-planning [e.g. the Israeli military legal team authorising the usage of white phosphorous and other lethal attacks on civilians, etc] and the daily orders for the assaults on Gaza were made in HaKirya, in the heart of Tel Aviv.
Celebrating Tel Aviv is like dancing on the graves of Palestinians just before the first anniversary of Israels wanton killings and mass destruction in Gaza.
Yael Oren Kahn

Criticising Zionist outrage at Goldstone

This was removed but re-instated after I protested. There is a mistake in the post I should have referred to mole or agent-provacateur in the first line and not stool pigeon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/16/richard-goldstone-report-israel-gaza

Kosky must be a Hamas stool-pigeon within the Zionist establishment, either that or an expert satirist. His extremist defence of Israel is so patently incredible it cannot have been posted with the serious intent of defending Israel.
Why else would he discount evidence form the UN, ICRC and many others? Why would he fail to recognise the crime of the blockade of Gaza/ Why would he not se ethat a kill ration of 100:1 in itself raises crucial questions of proportionality? - more rhetorical questions would become tedious.
Kosky complains "Goldstone's so-called investigation is largely reliant upon "eyewitness" Gaza testimony". It has always appeared to me that interviewing witnesses is the normal start of any forensic investigation - if it is unnecessary police forces around the world could save much time and money. It would appear that Kosky's preferred approach would have been a phone call to the alleged perpetrator along the lines 'Did you do do it?', 'No', 'Sorry to bother you have a good day.'  Job done. Investigations of the banking crisis seems to have followed that path to much derision

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