PALESTINE GAZA STRIP: MURDER OF A SOCIETY ISRAELI RACISM

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• published: 04 Mar 2009
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A long list of War Crimes and Crimes against humanity perpetrated against the Palestinian people for the past 61 years. It ranges from the mass expulsions and atrocities of late 1947 to mid-1949 - 800,000 Palestinians expelled and 423 to 520 villages dynamited; the mass expulsions in the 1950s up to 1959 - thousands of Palestinians from the Galilee and the Negev; the mass expulsions of the 1967 war - 365,000 Palestinians; the attempted and actual mass expulsions in the Gaza Strip in 1956 with accompanying massacres & atrocities to terrorize the population into fleeing into the Egyptian Sinai; in the late 1960s and early 1970s with mass house demolitions the Israelis attempted again to coerce the Palestinian population into fleeing. The mass expulsion of Palestinians in West Jerusalem in 1948, amounting to 70,000 Palestinians, then in East Jerusalem where thousands were forcefully deported to the Jordan in 1967; the thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem & West Bank who were away during the 1967 War, and prohibited from ever returning - no estimate available. Golan Heights 'cleansed' of 140,000 Syrian people; dozens of villages & two towns dynamited in 1967. Israeli kibutzes wanted the land. 23,535 Palestinian homes demolished from 1967 to 2000.The thousands of home demolitions from 2,000 to 2008 resulting in the homelessness of 40,000 Palestinians - internal expulsion & ethnic Cleansing. The thousands of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories since 1967 who have had their residency rights cancelled in East Jerusalem, some 60,000, and the Occupied Territories on the basis of various pretexts, also a dimension of Ethnic Cleansing. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1978 cost the lives of 2,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians & 250,000 refugees. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 cost the lives of 30 - 40,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, 100,000 seriously wounded & half a million homeless. During that war, the Israelis devastated and levelled Lebanese towns and villages. They carpet bombed the refugee camps murdering thousands of Palestinian men, women and children. They bombarded Beirut, a major city, and laid siege to it, devastating the city and committing atrocities and massacres. They levelled the Palestinian refugee camps to the ground in an attempt to mass expel them from Lebanon and deliberately bombarded Lebanese civilian infrastructure on a wide scale like in 2006 and Gaza 2008/9. The 1st Palestinian Intifadah which began in 1987 was an unarmed rebellion and civilian disobedience campaign which cost the lives of 1,000 Palestinians versus 14 Israelis. Number of wounded unknown. The 2nd Intifadah, which began in 2000 & the Gaza War has cost the lives of more than 7,150 Palestinians, wounding and maiming 45,000, including the devastation of the Gaza Strip in 2008/9. The Israeli invasion of Palestinians towns in March/April 2002 cost the lives of more than 500 Palestinians versus 29 Israeli soldiers. Huge devastation of civilian infrastructure. Then, recently, the vicious devastating assault on the Gaza Strip cost the lives of more than 1,440 Palestinians, 40% women and children, and 83 % civilians, 140,000 made homeless and the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure on a huge scale. By April, 320 Palestinian patients have died due to the siege and denial of treatment outside the Strip. Lately, at the end of February 2009, the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality intends to demolish 90 Palestinian homes in the Silwan neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem, making 1,500 Palestinians traumatized, homeless, in addition to hundreds of home demolitions and thousands of pending demolitions on the horizon which are never reported in the Western media. Israel still maintains its status of 'Supreme Victim' with no recognition of it victims the Palestinians, the Lebanese and the Syrians on the receiving end of its overwhelming, excessive and violent use of its massive arsenal in racist wars of conquest & expansion. The Zionist Jewish racist ideology can be summed up in one phrase 'Maximum Arab Land and Minimum Arabs' or 'Maximum Arabs on Minimum Land.' Israel pushed the U.S. into devastating Iraq, costing the lives of 1.1 million Iraqi men, women and children, thereby doing Israel's dirty work. In the Lebanon July/August 2006, murdering 1,300 Lebanese civilians, 35 to 40 % children, more than 5,000 wounded versus 38 Israelis, devastating civilian infrastructure on a massive scale and imposing a blockade of that small country like the Gaza Strip and its siege, blockade, paralysis and imprisonment conditions it is perpetrating in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Long live the forthcoming Durban II Conference on Racism in April 2009.War Crimes Tribunals at the Hague are an Absolute Must and Sanctions to rein in this evil State are indispensable to end its Occupation, Ethnic Cleansing Policies its 'racist' wars.