Background to current fighting in Gaza

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Watch the video

It's all facts there, now I want you to tell me what else could Israel do?

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amanamission Notable Member

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Here's another perspective:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tABZpkl0k

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lol.. You guys crack me up.. Background/Perspective!!!! More like Bullshit/Propaganda..

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And another one...
How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions
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The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". I used to think that this judgment was too harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the people of Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this assault, have reopened the question.

I write as someone who served loyally in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s and who has never questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel within its pre-1967 borders. What I utterly reject is the Zionist colonial project beyond the Green Line. The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the June 1967 war had very little to do with security and everything to do with territorial expansionism. The aim was to establish Greater Israel through permanent political, economic and military control over the Palestinian territories. And the result has been one of the most prolonged and brutal military occupations of modern times.

Four decades of Israeli control did incalculable damage to the economy of the Gaza Strip. With a large population of 1948 refugees crammed into a tiny strip of land, with no infrastructure or natural resources, Gaza's prospects were never bright. Gaza, however, is not simply a case of economic under-development but a uniquely cruel case of deliberate de-development. To use the Biblical phrase, Israel turned the people of Gaza into the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, into a source of cheap labour and a captive market for Israeli goods. The development of local industry was actively impeded so as to make it impossible for the Palestinians to end their subordination to Israel and to establish the economic underpinnings essential for real political independence.
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look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCFq_CgqT8k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t3v3vFOFQA&feature=related
and this
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=10293516

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/sigh

I created a thread for the expressed purpose of posting propaganda yet none of the usual propagandists utilized it.
I guess we'll just have to deal with people posting editorials and 75 pictures of the same dead people in every other thread.

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#7

Enough threads of these, please participate in existing threads instead of creating new ones.

wisdomtool, Jan 8, 2009 IP

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