E.J.Armstrong
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The oppression and persecution of the Palestinians by Israel has long been documented, yet is still denied by the supporters of the apartheid state. The Israeli state is desperate to stop the world from hearing about the human rights abuses they commit on a daily basis against the Palestinians. Now you can read the testimony of an Israeli about the facts of those human rights abuses.
The book is 'The Punishment of Gaza' by Gideon Levy. It is published by Verso Books and is available for £8.99p.
I urge people to buy the book and learn what has been happening for themselves.
Mr levy was interviewed recently by the Independent newspaper in the UK. The article can be seen here: - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...n-israel-or-just-the-most-heroic-2087909.html
That article includes this appalling fact.
'...He reported that day on a killing, another of the hundreds he has documented over the years. As twenty little children pulled up in their school bus at the Indira Gandhi kindergarten, their 20 year-old teacher, Najawa Khalif, waved to them – and an Israel shell hit her and she was blasted to pieces in front of them. He arrived a day later, to find the shaking children drawing pictures of the chunks of her corpse. The children were “astonished to see a Jew without weapons. All they had ever seen were soldiers and settlers.”...'
In a really disturbing revelation - that is corroborated by the posts of some people on JREF - he tells the Independent: -
'...There’s a whole machinery of brainwashing in Israel which really accompanies each of us from early childhood, and I’m a product of this machinery as much as anyone else. [We are taught] a few narratives that it’s very hard to break. That we Israelis are the ultimate and only victims. That the Palestinians are born to kill, and their hatred is irrational. That the Palestinians are not human beings like us? ...'
Let me repeat that last point. Israelis are taught that the Palestinians are not human like them. Where in history do you find that untermensch claim being made about entire groups of people? Throughout history that type of official degradadtion is designed to enable the most disgusting acts of inhumanity to be carried out on the targets of the demonisation. And it is being used by descendants of people who have repeatedly suffered from the same appalling demonisation. Israel is repeating that disgusting demonisation programme.
Mr Levy goes on to tell the world about how the IDF has attempted to kill him and how Netanyahu bragged abut destroying the Oslo 'peace' talks A man supposedly now engaged in trying to find 'peace'.
'...Now, he says, he is convinced it was “a scam” from the start, doomed to fail. How does he know? “There is a very simple litmus test for any peace talks. A necessity for peace is for Israel to dismantle settlements in the West Bank. So if you are going to dismantle settlements soon, you’d stop building more now, right? They carried on building them all through Oslo. And today, Netanyahu is refusing to freeze construction, the barest of the bare minimum. It tells you all you need.”
He says Netanyahu has – like the supposedly more left-wing alternatives, Ehud Barak and Tzipip Livni – always opposed real peace talks, and even privately bragged about destroying the Oslo process. In 1997, during his first term as Israeli leader, he insisted he would only continue with the talks if a clause was added saying Israel would not have to withdraw from undefined “military locations” – and he was later caught on tape boasting: “Why is that important? Because from that moment on I stopped the Oslo accords.” If he bragged about “stopping” the last peace process, why would he want this one to succeed?...'
The supporters of the apartheid state of Israel have shown that will do everything they can to stop you finding out the truth. In turn and as witnessed on this site they
1/ Accuse people who highlight the truth as anti-semitic. The desperation is evident already in that very common tactic.
2/ They will try to demonise those who tell the truth. How do they do that? Rather than discuss the topic of the thread, they try to derail threads about Israel. They call people names. They lie about them and about what they say. They simply cannot bear the truth about what Israel is doing to be highlighted and use some of the same tactics endured by Mr Levy on this site. You can watch this happening on almost any thread about Israel right here on JREF. It can be very enlightening to see how desperate the supporters of Israel get in their attempts to stop debate about this important topic.
To see it in operation simply carry on reading this thread. I will highlight it every time it occurs.
For the avoidance of doubt this thread is also about the behaviour of the site supporters of the apartheid state of Israel and its human rights abuses.
The state of Israel and all their supporters on JREF simply cannot bear you finding out the truth. By reading Mr Levy's book you will find out what they don't want you to know.
The book is 'The Punishment of Gaza' by Gideon Levy. It is published by Verso Books and is available for £8.99p.
I urge people to buy the book and learn what has been happening for themselves.
Mr levy was interviewed recently by the Independent newspaper in the UK. The article can be seen here: - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...n-israel-or-just-the-most-heroic-2087909.html
That article includes this appalling fact.
'...He reported that day on a killing, another of the hundreds he has documented over the years. As twenty little children pulled up in their school bus at the Indira Gandhi kindergarten, their 20 year-old teacher, Najawa Khalif, waved to them – and an Israel shell hit her and she was blasted to pieces in front of them. He arrived a day later, to find the shaking children drawing pictures of the chunks of her corpse. The children were “astonished to see a Jew without weapons. All they had ever seen were soldiers and settlers.”...'
In a really disturbing revelation - that is corroborated by the posts of some people on JREF - he tells the Independent: -
'...There’s a whole machinery of brainwashing in Israel which really accompanies each of us from early childhood, and I’m a product of this machinery as much as anyone else. [We are taught] a few narratives that it’s very hard to break. That we Israelis are the ultimate and only victims. That the Palestinians are born to kill, and their hatred is irrational. That the Palestinians are not human beings like us? ...'
Let me repeat that last point. Israelis are taught that the Palestinians are not human like them. Where in history do you find that untermensch claim being made about entire groups of people? Throughout history that type of official degradadtion is designed to enable the most disgusting acts of inhumanity to be carried out on the targets of the demonisation. And it is being used by descendants of people who have repeatedly suffered from the same appalling demonisation. Israel is repeating that disgusting demonisation programme.
Mr Levy goes on to tell the world about how the IDF has attempted to kill him and how Netanyahu bragged abut destroying the Oslo 'peace' talks A man supposedly now engaged in trying to find 'peace'.
'...Now, he says, he is convinced it was “a scam” from the start, doomed to fail. How does he know? “There is a very simple litmus test for any peace talks. A necessity for peace is for Israel to dismantle settlements in the West Bank. So if you are going to dismantle settlements soon, you’d stop building more now, right? They carried on building them all through Oslo. And today, Netanyahu is refusing to freeze construction, the barest of the bare minimum. It tells you all you need.”
He says Netanyahu has – like the supposedly more left-wing alternatives, Ehud Barak and Tzipip Livni – always opposed real peace talks, and even privately bragged about destroying the Oslo process. In 1997, during his first term as Israeli leader, he insisted he would only continue with the talks if a clause was added saying Israel would not have to withdraw from undefined “military locations” – and he was later caught on tape boasting: “Why is that important? Because from that moment on I stopped the Oslo accords.” If he bragged about “stopping” the last peace process, why would he want this one to succeed?...'
The supporters of the apartheid state of Israel have shown that will do everything they can to stop you finding out the truth. In turn and as witnessed on this site they
1/ Accuse people who highlight the truth as anti-semitic. The desperation is evident already in that very common tactic.
2/ They will try to demonise those who tell the truth. How do they do that? Rather than discuss the topic of the thread, they try to derail threads about Israel. They call people names. They lie about them and about what they say. They simply cannot bear the truth about what Israel is doing to be highlighted and use some of the same tactics endured by Mr Levy on this site. You can watch this happening on almost any thread about Israel right here on JREF. It can be very enlightening to see how desperate the supporters of Israel get in their attempts to stop debate about this important topic.
To see it in operation simply carry on reading this thread. I will highlight it every time it occurs.
For the avoidance of doubt this thread is also about the behaviour of the site supporters of the apartheid state of Israel and its human rights abuses.
The state of Israel and all their supporters on JREF simply cannot bear you finding out the truth. By reading Mr Levy's book you will find out what they don't want you to know.
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