http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh281209.htm Printer Friendly Version An International Crime Called Gaza By Dr. Elias Akleh 28 December , 2009 Countercurrents.org A fully pre-meditated international crime of genocide has been taking   place during the last 62 years in the heart of the Arab World. The   victims are the Palestinian people especially those in the Gaza Strip.   The assassin is the worst ever terrorist group deceptively called the   Israeli Defense Forces under the leadership of the theocratically most   racist “god's chosen” deceitfully self-proclaimed “democratic Jewish- only” Israel . Israel had been created, financed, armed, and   politically protected by, mainly, British and American rapture-vision- obsessed Talmudist power elites consisting of profit-seeking   financiers and military-industrial complex. In December 2008 this Israeli Terrorist Forces added another war crime   to its long list of war crimes against the Palestinians since 1948.   One more time the international political community had become an   accomplice to one more Israeli war crime either by being a passive   silent witness or by becoming an active participant and protector of   Israeli war criminals. One more international war crime had been   perpetrated against the Palestinians. It is an international crime   since multi political regimes; Israeli, American, European and even   Arab governments, had joined in this crime that is STILL GOING ON up   to this very minute. For almost the last three years Israel had subjected Gaza to an   illegal economic siege, which in itself constitutes a crime against   humanity. Israel had, and still is, preventing the entry into Gaza of   vital life sustaining products such as food stuff, fuel, medicine and   needed medical equipment, water purification equipment and many   building materials. This is a genocidal crime using hunger and thirst   as weapons. Starting late December of 2008 and for continuous 22 days Israeli   terrorist army had perpetrated a genocidal war crime against Gaza   Palestinians. The Israeli army, known to be the fourth powerful army   in the world, attacked unarmed civilian Palestinians of Gaza   comprising mostly of children, women, and old people. There was no   regular army in Gaza to face the well equipped, well trained to murder   Israeli army. Only few male civilians, who took it on themselves to   carry the light arms they could obtain to resist the Israeli war   criminals in order to protect their own families. The Israeli military radio station announced that half of the Israeli   air force had conducted 2500 air sorties dropping a total of 1,000,000   KG of explosives on the civilian families of Gaza . This is not   counting the shells fired by the artillery and tanks. They had used   high precision GPS -guided bombs to destroy vital locations such as   the UN food warehouse and schools, government buildings, hospitals and   medical clinics, religious buildings and civilian institutions.  From his observation of the video taped explosions in Gaza , the   British weapons expert Dy Williams concluded that the Israeli army had   used DIME bombs to guarantee murder of victims, Phosphorous bombs   producing 900 centigrade degrees of heat, and DU bombs producing 5,000   centigrade degrees of heat, that is equal to the heat of the sun   surface. The Israeli soldiers, themselves, had admitted and boasted to   “Breaking The Silence” organization of committing war crimes in Gaza .   These included, among many, the deliberate murder of civilians   including women and children, using civilians as human shields,   shelling homes after hording groups of civilians inside, destroying   and vandalizing properties and civilian homes, and writing hate and   racial graffiti on walls. Israeli criminal leaders were not satisfied with mere destruction of   Gaza infrastructures, contaminating agricultural land and water, and   murdering some 1500 Palestinians. They had carefully chosen the most   lethal weapons of mass destruction (WMD)that will cause the death of   Palestinians, who survived the attack, and the death of their future   born generations. Besides their devastating environmental   contamination effects the Israeli bombs were found to have long   lasting reproductive toxic, carcinogenic, genotoxic, fetotoxic and   pathogenic effects on humans. A study _title_d “Craters Gaza 2006/09 and respectively WP Bomb Gaza   2009” published on www.newweapons.org was done by Prof. Mario Barbieri   CNR, Rome, Prof. Maurizio Barbieri, University of Rome, and Prof.   Paola Manduca, University of Genova. They analyzed dirt samples from   four bomb craters in Gaza , and residual components of spent Israeli   bombs. Their analyses found unusual concentrations of Molybdenum (male   sperm toxicant), copper, nickel, cadmium and Mercury (carcinogenics),   Tungsten (genotoxic and fetotoxic), Zinc and Manganese (carcinogenic   and fetotoxic) Aluminium (fetotoxic and pathogen affecting nervous   system and kidneys), and Cobalt (DNA repair inhibitor and mutagenic). Even now, after a year of the Israeli barbaric war crimes against   Gaza , the Israeli air force bombards life vital centers, while the   Israeli army use bulldozers to raze fertile farm lands, destroy crops,   and shoot farmers. The Israeli attack boats have become worse than the   Somali pirates. They attack and sink Palestinian fishing boats. They   fire at, kidnap, and confiscate international humanitarian aid   materials loaded on boats of “Free Gaza” organizations. In a blatant violating of all international laws and a disdain to all   humanitarian appeals the terrorist Israeli state had severely   tightened its military siege against the Gaza Strip after the end of   its last onslaught in January 2009. Palestinians in Gaza are living   without clean drinking water, bare minimum food, without electricity,   and without the necessary medical supplies. This is a real holocaust.   A holocaust is the premeditated plan to exterminate masses of people   (such as the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza), whether through   gassing, incendiary phosphorous, DU and WMD bombs, hunger and thirst,   or any other means leading to mass death. Instead of coming to the aid of Palestinians the UN reverted to its   old tactic of blaming the Palestinian victims and Ban KI-moon   requesting a permanent cease fire. In its meeting the UN had totally   ignored the Palestinian elected Hamas government; a major part of this   conflict. Rather it listened to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,   who humiliatingly begged the UN for help, promising to do “everything”   to secure peace. In an indirect way he blamed Hamas government and did   not even criticize Israel 's aggression. The UNSC issued Resolution 1860 that ignored realities of Israeli   genocide of Palestinians, exonerated the Israeli terrorists, blamed   the Palestinian victims (as usual) and equated them with the Israeli   terrorist army. It stressed the urgency of and called for an immediate   durable ceasefire leading to full withdrawal of Israeli forces. It   called for efforts to prevent alleged illicit trafficking of arms into   Gaza (but not the sale of arms to Israel ). Thus denying the   Palestinians any means of defending their lives against terrorist   Israel . It misrepresented the conflict as a humanitarian crisis by   calling the international community to provide humanitarian aid to   alleviate the suffering of Gazans. This is not a humanitarian crisis;   an Israeli occupation. It is a political conflict with grave   humanitarian consequences. This is a genocidal holocaust of 1.5   Palestinians through thirst, starvation and use of WMD. THIS IS   BLATANT NAKED WAR CRIMES. Ban Ki-moon was sent to visit Gaza after the Israeli onslaught. He   cared only to check the bombed UN warehouse and schools but not the   civilian sufferings. He cared more about buildings than humans. He   later expressed his “pleasure” that Israeli leaders had agreed to meet   with UN representatives to discuss precautions that further   “accidental bombing” of UN facilities could be avoided. Thus meeting   with Israeli war criminals has become a UN pleasure. He stated,   further, that he would close any investigation into Israel 's war   crimes. Whatever Israel bombs and destroys Western donors volunteer to pay   for. These donor countries pledged $4.5 Billion for Gaza   reconstruction on the condition that such money is paid to Abbas'   Palestinian Authority and not Hamas. After a whole year of the   onslaught, Gaza Palestinians had never received one cent of that   money, and no reconstruction had even started. Most of the money had   gone into the private pockets of Abbas' gang and to his security forces. After the failure of Israeli siege of Gaza and its onslaught on the   Strip to destroy the democratically elected Hamas government The   Western countries stepped in to produce harsher measures. In February   2009 experts from nine Western countries (US, UK , France , Canada ,   Germany , Italy , Spain , the Netherlands , and Norway ) met in   Copenhagen to discuss ways of combating alleged weapons smuggling into   Gaza . Their main concentration was to use Egypt as a land front to   further tighten the siege against Gaza , specifically to target the   underground tunnels Gazans use to smuggle in food stuff, goods, and   fuel. They also decided to send NATO warships into the Mediterranean ,   Red Sea , and Persian Gulf to intercept alleged weapon smuggling from   Iran to Gaza . At the end of January 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent a   frigate with helicopters to the waters off Gaza to combat arms   smuggling into Palestinian territories. He ordered his Foreign   Minister Bernard Kouchner to coordinate closely with the US and EU to   come up with more effective ways to fight arms smuggling on land and   sea. Sarkozy said: “We have pledged to help Israel and Egypt with all   the technical, military, naval and diplomatic ways to help end the   smuggling of weapons into Gaza .” British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, issued an order to deploy the   British Navy to the region to help fight weapons smuggling. “We'll   send Royal Navy to help fight weapon smuggling” He stated   courageously. Latest British scandal came this month when its Foreign   Office Minister Ivan Lewis said that UK is urgently looking into   reforming its laws to protect Israeli war criminals, such as Tzibi   Levni, from being arrested. Germany sent end of January border police exports and equipment to   detect and destroy tunnels in Gaza Strip. German Deputy Interior   Minister, August Hanning, claimed that Egypt had requested the   detection equipment and the technical skills. The newly elected American President at the time Barak Obama had also   sent American vessels into the region to board all suspected vessels   of smuggling weapons. He also had asked the Gulf States , especially   Saudi Arabia , to help combat arms smuggling. The US had sent   surveillance cameras and underground sound sensors to Egypt to be   installed on the border with Gaza . Recently the US Army Corps of   Engineers had constructed treated steel plates and is helping Egypt   install them as an underground wall on the Gaza border to prevent   tunnel digging. While denying Palestinians acquire any arms for self defense the US   and EU member states are major arms exporters to Israel . According to   figures from Brussels the European Union member states authorized the   export of €200 million in arms exports to Israel in 2007, with France   far and away the Israel 's biggest European weapons supplier.   According to the EU's 2008 report on arms export licenses, published   in December for the 2007 calendar year and consolidating the accounts   that member states must annually submit, 18 member states authorized a   total of 1,018 such licenses to Israel worth €199,409,348. The US is the largest arms exporter to Israel . Successive American   Administration had sold Israel the latest and most technologically and   most devastating weapons. According to Amnesty International the US   had provided Israel with $8.3 Billion worth or weapons between 2004   and 2007. In 2002 the US granted Israel $21 Billion worth in military   aid. Israel 's 2006 war against Lebanon and its 2008/09 war against   Gaza were carried using American weapons. Still Obama's administration   had delivered late last January 14,000 tons of weapons to Israel   delivered by the German cargo ship, Wehr Elbe, to Israeli port of   Ashdod . Recently, peace prize winner, President Obama has signed off   $2.775 Billion in further defense aid for Israel , a part of the $30   Billion over 10 years. Last Monday 12/21 Obama has approved a defense   spending bill that includes $2.2 Million in funds for Israel 's   missile defense program, more than double what was approved last year.   All this while American economy is collapsing, housing crisis is   exacerbating, and unemployment rate is rising. It seems for Obama   administration the Israeli citizen is more important than the American   tax payer. Also refer to my article “Arming Terrorist Israel”. EU and US don't mind breaking their own laws for the sake of arming   terrorist Israel . Under Criterion 2 of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms   Exports, Member States are supposed to “deny an export license if   there is a clear risk that the proposed export might be used for   internal repression, or be used in the commission of serious   violations of international humanitarian laws”. Israel is proved to   commit both offenses. The US breaks three of its own arms export laws; US Arms Export   Control Act (P.L. 80-829), Foreign Assistance Act (P.L. 97-195), and   the Leahy Law (Foreign Ops Appropriation Act). With such extraordinary consorted international efforts and the use of   such amassed technical and military powers one would imagine that   Israel , EU and US are fighting a war against a great global enemy not   impoverished and starved civilians trying to survive on a small and   narrow war-scorched strip of land. The reality is that this   international power is fighting the resisting spirit of these people   against colonial occupation. They are afraid that such spirit may   spread over and impede their own occupation in the region. To destroy   this spirit these Western governments are willing to unconditionally   support terrorist Israel financially, militarily and politically, on   the expense of their citizens tax payers despite their own economic   crises and joblessness. The worst accomplices in this international crime are the Arab   governmental regimes, who are supposed to protect their Palestinian   brothers from such a holocaust. Rather than united in one nation, one   government, one military, and one economy Arab leaders had, instead,   asserted the division of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Thus they keep   themselves weak and vulnerable to foreign occupation, interference and   control that can be overtly and covertly seen in almost every Arab   state. The Arab League is just a tool to keep the leaders in a chaotic   disagreement unable to make any national decision. For the last 61   years they have watched Palestinian land gradually gobbled by the   Zionist occupation and had not taken any significant action to free   Palestine . Rather they spend their Billion oil money in buying   obsolete weapons to rust in the desert. Finally they stopped financing   Palestine freedom fighters and surrendered the penniless Palestinian   Authority to the merciless manipulation of the pro-Israeli Western   donor countries. While some had completely withdrawn from the Arab/ Israeli conflict, others like Jordanian and Egyptian regimes had   actively contributed to the suppression of all forms of Palestinian   resistance against Israeli occupation. During the Israeli 22 days onslaught on Gaza Arab leaders kept coming   up with unreasonable excuses for not convening an urgent summit   meeting. When they finally did meet, they, as usual, agreed to   disagree on how to deal with the Israeli aggression. They finally   begged the UN to interfere. Such delay gave Israelis longer time to   murder more Palestinians and destroy more homes. The Arab League, later on, issued a resolution calling for breaking   Israel 's siege of Gaza , yet they donated money to Abbas' security   forces, controlled by American general Dayton , to oppose the   democratically elected Hamas government. Instead of feeding the   starving Palestinians in Gaza the League is spending $50 Million to   protect the lives of endangered marine turtles on 8000 square meters   coast land off Al-Arish in Egypt . What a humanitarian gesture! Like all colonial puppet local regimes, the present Palestinian   Authority, under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas and his thugs, had   hijacked the Palestinian leadership and offered Palestine and its   people on the Israeli alter to glorify a genocidal god and his chosen   people. My previous articles ( here and here ) discuss the betrayal of   the present Palestinian Authority. This betrayal was recently exposed   by Israeli audio and video recording of these so-called Palestinian   leaders urging the Israelis to attack Gaza to finish off the elected   Hamas government regardless of any Palestinian casualties. Abbas and   his PA had also tried to muffle Goldstone's Reportabout Israel 's crime. Besides crushing dissidents and any form of pro-Palestinian   solidarity, Jordan has become a training campground for Abbas'   security forces under the supervision of the American General Keith   Dayton. Dayton had established a twin sister of the American School of   Assassins to suppress Palestinian resistance. It was reported that   about four thousands trainees of this School were ready to enter and   control Gaza after the anticipated destruction of Hamas government. Besides suppressing and robbing its own citizens for the last 28   years, Hosni Mubarak's Egyptian regime has played the most active   role, second to Israel , in opposing elected Palestinian government   and in the destruction of Gaza and starving its people. To ease   Mubarak's conscious for participating in such genocide of his Arab   brothers his regime is paid a handsome $2 Billion in the form of   American Aid. Mubarak's regime has committed crimes against humanity by fully   participating in the Israeli siege against Gaza . Rather than helping   the next door homeless and hungry Arab brothers of Gaza Strip the   Mubarak's regime preferred to send, last May, an airplane full with   humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka on the opposite side of the globe. This   regime was a stubborn obstacle in the face of every international   solidarity movement and organizations, who tried to break the siege   against Gaza . The regime blocked the entry of thousands of tons of   badly needed food aid to Gaza; letting them rot in the desert heat,   and finally burn them as spoiled food. Under the deceptive banner of   “fighting arms smuggling into Gaza ” it erected the most sophisticated   surveillance equipment to detect and prevent life-sustaining materials   delivered to Gaza through tunnels. This month, December 2009, Egyptian Mubarak's regime, with the help of   American Army Corps Engineers, is building an underground steel wall   to block tunnel digging, and is running underground pipes to flood the   existing tunnels with sea waters. Egyptian regime has opposed the elected Hamas Palestinian leadership   and sided with the Western puppet Abbas, whose presidency has expired.   It has sabotaged all reconciliation attempts between the two   Palestinian factions by imposing harsh conditions against Hamas   government and altering the text of agreements before signature. The Egyptian policy towards their Palestinian brothers in Gaza , many   of whom carry Egyptian citizenship, was reflected in the confession of   its Foreign Minister, Ahmad Aboul-Gheti, in 11 th of November 2008   when he stated that Egypt was closing Rafah Crossing with Gaza to   punish a Palestinian faction (Hamas). Opening the Crossing, in his   opinion, constitutes recognition of Hamas' legitimacy. Unlike the silence over the Holocaust during WWII conscientious   citizens of these same international criminal governments are actively   mobilized to act against terrorist Israel and the genocidal policies   of their governments. Through Breaking Gaza Siege Campaigns many of   them, such as Viva Palestina and The Hope convoys, are delivering   humanitarian aid to Gaza . They have also organized boycott,   divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns to boycott companies that   sustain Israeli occupation on Palestine such as Motorola and   Caterpillar, as well as academic and cultural boycott of all Israeli   academic and cultural institutions, all of them are supported by the   Israeli government. The effects of these campaigns had penetrated the   blindly pro-Zionist American congress, where on December 18 th   Representatives Jim McDermott and Keith Ellison are seeking signature   on a “Dear Colleague” letter to President Obama criticizing Israel 's   siege of Gaza . Representatives Jim Moran and Bob Inglis are also   seeking signatures on another “Dear Colleague” letter to Secretary of   State Clinton urging her to pressure Israeli government to end the ban   on student travel from Gaza to the West Bank . This week protests are organized in major countries around the world   in US, UK, France, Turkey, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Australia,   Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, Poland, Denmark, Greece, Jordan,   and occupied Palestine (Israel), commemorating the first anniversary   of the Israeli onslaught against Gaza. Under the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction we are witnessing   Western courts issuing arrest warrants against Israeli leaders (Tzibi   Livni) and army generals (former military chief Moshe Yaalon and   General Doron Almog) for committing war crimes. International lawyers   are filing for more arrest warrants against more Israeli war   criminals. 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