Ceasefire, Israeli def.:We cease firing at your soldiers, and start starving your children instead
Uri Avnery draws our attention to the fact that shooting off the odd unaimed rocket is just one way to break a ceasefire. In fact, the Israelis “broke” it the first day they turned off the electricity so the Palestinians could drown in their own shit; shut down the food so they could starve; held up the ambulences in which they died like dogs, waiting for some IDF corporal to decide to grant them life:
“The blockade on land, on sea and in the air against a million and a half human beings is an act of war, as much as any dropping of bombs or launching of rockets.”
This is an important detail to hold in one’s consciousness, when assailed by pious bleatings, the schrei SDEROT.., SDEROT…from the replicators of the *Warsaw Ghetto for a million and a half people.
*without the amenities…
Jolly I missed this post. Great cite. I neveer heard of Uri.
I also missed the embargo issue. I knew that these tactics had been used before.
I wake up and actually learn something.
January 3, 2009 9:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great cite
Thanks go to Helena Cobban, where I found it.
Actually, Edenbaum beat me to it by an hour in a different thread.
It's easy to get distracted by the concentration on weaponry both primitive (qassams) and sophisticated (F-16s) where the advantage is merely obvious, so as to ignore entirely the ongoing use of disease and starvation as weapons of totally onesided annihilation.
January 3, 2009 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Israel has been asked not to deliver more food by the agencies which have full storehouses: the problem is that Hamas has been too busy to deliver it. Although, of course, not too busy to direct photographers to long lines of people waiting for food.
January 3, 2009 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Israel has been asked not to deliver more food
It is difficult to distribute food when bombs are falling, ya feel me?:
"SITUATION IN GAZA REMAINS “APPALLING” AS UNITED NATIONS STARTS EMERGENCY BREAD DISTRIBUTIONS"
http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:-nn66A6I-kkJ:www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites.shtml+food+relief+gaza+foll+warehouses&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera
You are going to have to do a little better on the cite side, troll. See, you don't even have to master the HTML code, just paste your link in or no one will take you bullshit seriously.
You are really full of shit; the IDF Jailors clamp down on the spigot at will, and as a matter of policy.
"Putting the issue of the supplies and crossings into context, he said that 60 truckloads a day were presently entering Gaza, as compared to 125 truckloads daily in October 2008 and 475 truckloads per day in May 2007, just before the Hamas takeover."
http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:qGVlu4XqZ0cJ:www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-7MV55E%3FOpenDocument+food+relief+gaza+foll+warehouses&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=opera
January 3, 2009 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink