OMNI
GAZA
NEWSLETTER # 8
BUILDING A
CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY.
MAY 13, 2021.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of
Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
(#1: 3-3-08; #2 Nov. 16, 2012; #3 Nov. 17, 2013; #4 May 31, 2014; #5 July
28, 2014; #6 August 30, 2014; #7 April 8, 2015).
What’s
at stake: Over 1.5 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip. It is not a
battlefield. It is becoming
an Extermination Camp.
Contents of Gaza Newsletter #8
PART I
ASSAULT ON GAZA MAY 2021
PART II
BACKGROUND: OCCUPATION AND REPRESSION
2010
2014
2018
RESISTANCE
TEXTS
PART I
ANOTHER ISRAELI DECIMATION OF GAZA, MAY 2021
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A JEWISH AMERICAN SOURCE
Weekly
Update - Israel and Gaza on Fire
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CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
What if
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Protests in 50 U.S. cities demanding end to U.S.-backed Israeli
apartheid. ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War
and End Racism).
FREE
PALESTINE
In response to the Israeli government and Zionist extremists'
murderous actions in the last week, there is a new wave of Palestinian mass
resistance not only in cities and towns across the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, but also in many Palestinian cities inside the 1948 borders of
Israel. On May 10, a horrifically violent and desecrating attack on the
Al-Aqsa mosque left more than 400 Palestinians wounded, with 250 suffering
injuries serious enough to require hospital treatment.
In the latest escalation, Israel has launched hundreds of air
strikes on the Gaza Strip. The death toll now reaches over 65, in Gaza. At
least 365 people have been wounded, including 86 children and 39 women.
Meanwhile, six people were killed on the Israeli side by rocket fire,
including the first death of an Israeli soldier in this round of
conflict. About 100 Israelis have also been wounded.
Free Palestine! Please make an urgently needed donation
to the antiwar and anti-racism movement today. We can only carry on this
crucial work with contributions from supporters like you.
Click here to read the full statement by
the ANSWER Coalition – Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
Find local actions in
your city: https://www.answercoalition.org/?utm_campaign=palestine_3_may_12_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=answercoalition
PART II BACKGROUND
US
CAMPAIGN FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS
Ahmad Abuznaid, USCPR via uark.onmicrosoft.com , 5-13-21
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Norman Finkelstein: Palestinians Have
the Right to Break Free of the “Unlivable” Cage That Is Gaza
DEMOCRACY NOW STORYMAY 16, 2018
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/16/norman_finkelstein_palestinians_have_the_right
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2 Articles from Popular Resistance.org
Israel: Arms
Embargo Needed As Military Unlawfully Kills And Maims Gaza Protesters
By
Amnesty.org. Israel is
carrying out a murderous assault against protesting Palestinians, with its
armed forces killing and maiming demonstrators who pose no imminent threat to
them, Amnesty International revealed today, based on its latest research, as
the “Great March of Return” protests continued in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli
military has killed 35 Palestinians and injured more than 5,500 others – some
with what appear to be deliberately inflicted life-changing injuries – during
the weekly Friday protests that began on 30 March. Amnesty
International has renewed its call on governments... -more-
Why Are
Palestinians Protesting In Gaza?
By Mike
Merryman-Lotze, Otherwords.org. Once
again, the Israeli military has turned its guns on Gaza — this time on unarmed
protestors, in a series of shootings over the last few weeks. Gaza’s already under-resourced
hospitals are straining to care for the thousands of protesters who have been
injured, on top of 40 killed. According to a group of United Nations experts,
“there is no available evidence to suggest that the lives of heavily armed
security forces were threatened” by the unarmed demonstrators they fired on.
The violence is getting some coverage in the news. -more-
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Demolition of
Palestinian homes is illegal, UN official says Israel's demolition of Palestinian
homes outside Jerusalem violates international laws and increases many
Palestinians' risk of forcible transfer, warns Rosemary DiCarlo, head of the
United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. Palestinian
envoy Riyad Mansour has asked the UN Security Council to investigate, while
Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon says the homes are being demolished
legally because they were built without permits. Al Jazeera (7/23) |
Uninhabitable:
Gaza faces the moment of truth - Jonathan Cook
https://www.jonathan-cook.net
› uninhabitable-gaza
Oct 13, 2019 - Israel
has ignored warnings by the United Nations that Gaza is about to become uninhabitable,
acting as if Palestinians there can be caged, ...
Uninhabitable -
Americans for Middle East Understanding
ameu.org ›
getattachment › Uninhabitable
The
Link pblished by Americans for. Middle East Understanding, Inc.
Volume 52, Issue 3. Link Archives: www.ameu.org. Uninhabitable.
By. Jonathan Cook ...
Can an
Error This Egregious Be Called a Mistake?
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ACTION ALERT: What NYT
Called Israel’s ‘1st Incursion’ Was at Least Its 263rd by JOHN MCCULLOUGH. FAIR Fairness and accuracy in reporting, NOVEMBER 16, 2018.
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A New York Times article (11/11/18) misstates the number of recent
Israeli ground incursions into Gaza by two orders of magnitude.
In a
piece headlined “Deadly Gaza Raid by Israel Threatens Nascent Ceasefire” (11/11/18), the New York Times described
an Israeli assault near the city of Khan Yunis that killed seven Palestinians
as
the first known Israeli
ground incursion into Gaza since Operation Protective Edge, in July 2014, set
off a seven-week war.
This
depiction of the attack as a unique occurrence in recent times is wildly
inaccurate. Since the 2014 Gaza War, the IDF has carried out 262 ground
incursions into the Gaza strip, according to the UN Office for Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs. Seventy of these have occurred in the past year alone. As
Henriette Chacar, writing for +972 Magazine (11/13/18), points out:
Israel carried out 21
incursions into Gaza in 2014…. The next year, in 2015, that number more than
doubled, to 56 incidents. In 2016 and 2017, 68 and 65 incursions took place,
respectively. By end of October 2018, 73 such incidents had been recorded,
according to the UN data.
Such
incursions are a regular occurrence, but are rarely reported by media or known
to the general public. Chacar’s article (which was reposted by Lobe Log—11/14/18) quotes retired Israeli Gen. Tal
Russo: “Activities that most civilians aren’t aware of happen all the time,
every night and in every region.”
Operations
by the Israeli military can have a devastating effect on ordinary Palestinians
in Gaza. Combined with the ever-changing “buffer zone” declared by the IDF,
they make it difficult for nearby farmers to grow
crops or raise livestock, worsening the area’s already tenuous economic
situation.
Errors
like the New York Times’ minimize the degree to which Israel
continues to occupy Gaza, despite claiming to have “disengaged” in 2005, and
aid a media narrative in which the IDF is reacting defensively rather than
acting as an aggressor.
[I read about this in FAIR’s Extra! (Soundbites, Jan/Feb 2019), to
which I subscribe, and in search of it I found the preceding larger original
report. –Dick]
Why
We Sail, Sail, and Sail Again: Freedom Flotilla 2020 ...
https://canadaboatgaza.org ›
2020/01/28 › why-we-sail...
Jan 28, 2020 — The Flotilla will sail
again in 2020, at
the request of Palestinians of Gaza. This
is the year the UN report declared that Gaza will
be unliveable. Right now, most of its drinking water is contaminated. Every
child shows symptoms of psychological distress.
New Freedom Flotilla will sail for Gaza in
summer 2020 ...
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com ›
20191202-new-f...
Dec 2, 2019 — The
International Coalition of the Freedom Flotilla has
announced that it will sail again to the Gaza Strip
in the summer of 2020 to try to break ...
51 DAY WAR 2014
UN report on the 2014
Gaza conflict
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UN report is a reminder: Over 1.5 million people live in the Gaza
Strip. It is not a battlefield. B’Tselem, June 30, 2015 |
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The UN report on the 2014 Gaza conflict rejects
Israeli government and military officials’ view of what is permissible in
combat in densely populated areas. The UN commission’s premise differs from
that of these officials, seeing Gaza as the home of over 1.5 million
civilians where combat took place, not as a battlefield on which civilians
live. The report states that the immense harm to civilians during the
fighting cannot be justified nor can IHL be interpreted so as to legalize it,
even considering the modus operandi of Hamas and other armed groups. The
commission also found that the responsibility for violating IHL rests with
the senior political and military officials who drew up the policy and did
not change it even when its lethal consequences became clear. |
Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist and
author. He is Institute Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he has taught for more than 50 years.
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all Democracy Now! interviews about the Gaza conflict
Watch more Noam
Chomsky interviews on Democracy Now!
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MIT Professor Noam
Chomsky discusses U.S. support for Israel; the boycott, divestment and
sanctions movement (BDS); and the blockade of Gaza. "In the Occupied
Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid," Chomsky
says. "To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by
'apartheid' you mean South African-style apartheid. … There’s a crucial
difference. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That
was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the
Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them. They want
them out, or at least in prison."
Click
here to watch Part 1 of the interview.
Click
here to watch all of Part 2 of the interview.
TRANSCRIPT
This is a rush
transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: This
is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org,The War and Peace Report.
I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue our conversation with MIT Professor
Noam Chomsky. The world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author has
written more than a hundred books; one of his latest, Gaza in Crisis.
I interviewed him on Thursday.
AMY GOODMAN: Noam,
I wanted to ask you about your recent piece for The Nation on
Israel-Palestine and BDS. You were critical of the effectiveness of the
boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. One of the many responses came
from Yousef
Munayyer, the executive director of
the Jerusalem Fund and its educational program, the Palestine Center. He wrote,
quote, "Chomsky’s criticism ofBDS seems to be that it hasn’t changed
the power dynamic yet, and thus that it can’t. There is no doubt the road ahead
is a long one for BDS, but there is also no doubt the movement is growing
... All other paths toward change, including diplomacy and armed struggle, have
so far proved ineffective, and some have imposed significant costs on
Palestinian life and livelihood." Could you respond?
NOAM CHOMSKY: Well,
actually, I did respond. You can find it on The Nation website. But in brief, far from being critical of BDS, I
was strongly supportive of it. One of the oddities of what’s called
the BDS movement is that they can’t—many of the activists just can’t
see support as support unless it becomes something like almost worship: repeat
the catechism. If you take a look at that article, it very strongly supported
these tactics. In fact, I was involved in them and supporting them before
the BDS movement even existed. They’re the right tactics.
But it should be second
nature to activists—and it usually is—that you have to ask yourself, when you
conduct some tactic, when you pursue it, what the effect is going to be on the
victims. You don’t pursue a tactic because it makes you feel good. You pursue
it because it’s going—you estimate that it’ll help the victims. And you have to
make choices. This goes way back. You know, say, back during the Vietnam War,
there were debates about whether you should resort to violent tactics, say
Weathermen-style tactics. You could understand the motivation—people were
desperate—but the Vietnamese were strongly opposed. And many of us, me
included, were also opposed, not because the horrors don’t justify some strong
action, but because the consequences would be harm to the victims. The tactics
would increase support for the violence, which in fact is what happened. Those
questions arise all the time.
SHOW FULL TRANSCRIPT ›
MESSAGES VIA AMY GOODMAN’S
DEMOCRACY NOW 8-11-14
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- Second
72-Hour Ceasefire Takes Effect After New Israeli Strikes on Gaza
- Palestinian
Toll Nears 2,000, Including 456 Children
- Israeli
Forces Kill Palestinian Boy, 11, in West Bank
- Tens
of Thousands Rally Worldwide in Day of Action for Gaza
Delinda Hanley.
What Looms Ahead for the Forgotten Heroes of
Gaza? Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs. May, 2015. WRMEA, May, 2015, pp. 16-17.
Especially about the
Gazan and UNRWA victims and heroes of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in
2014. Focuses particularly on UNRWA
Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl and the Gazan victims. --D
The
51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in
Gaza
by Max Blumenthal.
Best-selling author reports on Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza
in July 2014
Beginning July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes and a ground
invasion of Gaza that lasted fifty-one days, leaving over 2,000 people dead,
the vast majority of whom were civilians. During the assault, at least 10,000
homes were destroyed and, according to the United Nations, nearly 300,000
Palestinians were displaced.
Max Blumenthal was on the ground during what he argues was an entirely
avoidable catastrophe. In this explosive work of reportage, Blumenthal reveals
the harrowing conditions and cynical deceptions that led to the ruinous war.
Here, for the first time, Blumenthal unearths and presents shocking evidence of
atrocities he gathered in the rubble of Gaza.
Reviews
“Max Blumenthal’s new book about this Israeli
attack [is] so compelling, so necessary … It humanizes this event like nothing
else I’ve read … The book is filled with very well-documented history, facts
and statistics relevant to what the Israeli military calls Operation Protective
Edge. And all of those are both interesting and important.”– Glenn
Greenwald, The Intercept
“This will be the definitive history of the Israeli war of 2014
against Gaza. Blumenthal has once again demonstrated his devotion to truth and
justice.”– W. Patrick Lang, Former Defense Intelligence Agency head for Middle
East / South Asia
“Max Blumenthal audaciously takes in-your-face, on-the-ground
journalism into the realm of geopolitics.”– Juan Cole, author of The
New Arabs and Engaging the Muslim World
“To really understand what happened, read Max Blumenthal's The
51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. His concision and clarity are
established in the introduction” – Independent
“Max Blumenthal has spent the last decade transforming himself
into one of the most vital voices in journalism today, always speaking truth to
power with fearlessness and integrity. As with his previous books, The 51 Day
War is sure to be talked about for years to come.”– Reza Aslan, author of Zealot and No
god but God
“Explosive, pull-no-punches reporting that is certain to stir
controversy.”– Kirkus Review
“A gripping eyewitness narrative of the latest pointless war in
Gaza last year.”– Foreign Policy
“Tells a powerful story powerfully well.”– David Swanson
“The definitive account of the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza. Max
combines the very best of humanistic, on-the-ground journalism with detailed
documentation backing up every point he makes.”– Asa Winstanley, Middle
East Monitor
In Max
Blumenthal’s ‘The 51 Day War,’ Life
in Gaza Looks Bleak, But Resistance is Growing BY BEN LORBER Email Print. In These Times (July 2015). Blumenthal
offers an unembellished look at the misery on the ground in the Gaza Strip
during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
Blumenthal
allows the young men and women of Gaza to speak.
When American
journalist Max Blumenthal arrived in the Gaza Strip on August 14, 2014, it was
the 38th day of Israel’s bombardment of the coastal enclave. By the time
Operation Protective Edge ended on August 26, over 2,100 Palestinians had been
killed, including more than 1,500 civilians and over 500 children, and over
10,000 wounded. With more than 7,000 homes destroyed and 10,000 more severely
damaged by Israeli bombing, approximately 30 percent of the 1.8 million
residents of Gaza were internally displaced, with hundreds of thousands needing
emergency food assistance and seeking shelter in UN-run schools.
Blumenthal’s new
book, The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance
in Gaza, lays bare some of the names, faces and experiences behind
these statistics, and stands both as a harrowing account of the destruction
wrought by the Israeli army, and a testament to the resilience and strength of
the Palestinian people. The book takes us inside the halls of hospitals
overflowing with wounded patients and the corpses of innocent adults and
children; through the streets of shell-shocked cities and towns, flooded with
refugees dodging shrapnel, frantically searching for loved ones and fleeing for
safety; and across the blood-stained courtyards of UN schools scorched and
decimated by Israeli airstrikes.
MORE https://inthesetimes.com/article/18068/the-51-day-war-operation-protective-edge
"Sadistic
& Grotesque": Noam Chomsky on How Israel Limits Food & Medicine in
Occupied Gaza
Massacre in Gaza 2018
UN WIRE, April 27, 2018
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Tell
Your Members of Congress to Speak Out Against Gaza Massacre
The death toll continues to rise from today’s
massacre of unarmed Palestinian protestors by the Israeli military. We urge you
to take action by
contacting your members of Congress and demanding significant changes to U.S.
policy in the region.
Just days after announcing his administration’s
intention to violate the nuclear deal with Iran, President Trump went ahead
with the provocative move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
For decades, the U.S. government has supported
Israel’s development and possession of a substantial nuclear arsenal while
going to war against other nations over non-existent weapons of mass
destruction.
While Israeli snipers were shooting unarmed
Palestinians, including children, from long range, President Trump was hard at
work on Twitter. This morning, he tweeted, “Big day for Israel.
Congratulations!”
While thousands of Gazan families mourned the
injuries and deaths from Israeli bullets, White House Deputy Press Secretary
Raj Shah called the massacre “a gruesome and unfortunate propaganda attempt” by
Hamas.
As long as the United States government
continues to unconditionally support Israel’s unlawful actions, peace between
Israel and Palestine, and in the Middle East more broadly, will remain
elusive.
Please contact your senators and
representative today, and demand that they condemn Israel’s killing
of unarmed protestors. Ask them to support sensible, balanced policies that
will foster peace and a nuclear-free Middle East, instead of willfully
provocative policies designed to further inflame tensions.
Noam
Chomsky on Media’s "Shameful Moment" in Gaza & How a U.S. Shift
Could End the Occupation
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Gaza, My Love
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Dear Dick, This week marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of
Israel’s ruinous assault against the besieged people of Gaza, the third such
operation since 2008 and the most devastating. Over 2,200 Palestinians were
killed during Israel’s 50-day military incursion; 547 of the casualties were children. Many
families in Gaza are still living in the rubble of their destroyed homes, and
there is little hope of rebuilding while the Israeli blockade of land, sea
and air continues. Today—July 9th—we mark the tenth anniversary of the
Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. We believe that
BDS is the most effective means at our disposal to hold Israel to account for
its war crimes, as well at for its ongoing land theft, dispossession, and
discrimination against Palestinians. At CODEPINK we’ve been working to expose real estate giant
REMAX for selling illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian
land. Please take a moment to send a note to the CEO of REMAX,
and tell him to respect international law and immediately halt the sale of
illegal Israeli settlements! The growing strength and power of this global movement has
Israeli leadersworried, and just this week Hillary
Clinton paid tribute to our influence in a letter to top donor Haim Saban in
which she vowed to fight BDS. So as we remember those who died in Gaza last summer, we
commit ourselves to redouble our efforts on behalf of dignity, equality and
justice. Check out our ongoing boycott campaigns: Stolen Beauty, Stop SodaStream, and No Open House on Stolen Land, and send a note to the CEO of REMAX today. In solidarity, Alli, Chelsea, Janet, Jodie, Lia, Medea, Michelle, Mike,
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Contents of Gaza Newsletter #7
Gaza Newsletter #7 is mainly about the 51 Day War that began July 8, 2014
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/04/gaza-newsletter-7.html
Dick, Conversion of US Funds
Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Sept. 25, 2014
Twelve Articles Report the Siege of Gaza, by the Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs
Gaza’s Ark’s Weekly Digest[DB1]
Gaza’s Ark’s Weekly Digest
Gaza’s Ark’s Weekly Digest, Dec. 27, 2014
Noam Chomsky, Brutal Israeli Occupation
Two Reports from Democracy
Now
Henry Siegman, “A Slaughter of Innocents”
Amy
Goodman and Denis Moynihan, “The Guns of August,” Context of WWI
Three Articles by Marjorie Cohn, Our Country’s Truth
and Justice Conscience
Debra DeLee, Americans
for Peace Now Available Online Free Daily
Contact
President Obama
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