Indiscriminate Injustices

Israel’s siege of Gaza amounts to a massive crime against humanity.


In his article, "Israel's Crime Against Humanity," Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges speaks with the former US ambassador to Jordon, Richard N. Veits:

"This is a stain on what is left of Israeli morality," I was told by Richard N. Veits, the former U.S. ambassador to Jordan who led a delegation from the Council on Foreign Relations to Gaza to meet Hamas leaders this past summer. “I am almost breathless discussing this subject. It is so myopic. Washington, of course, is a handmaiden to all this. The Israeli manipulation of a population in this manner is comparable to some of the crimes that took place against civilian populations fifty years ago."

Hedges concludes by wondering whether this contemporary tragedy will breed a new generation of militants and radicals.

The Israelis in Gaza, like the American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, are foolishly breeding the next generation of militants and Islamic radicals. Jihadists, enraged by the injustices done by Israel and the United States, seek to carry out reciprocal acts of savagery, even at the cost of their own lives. The violence unleashed on Palestinian children will, one day, be the violence unleashed on Israeli children. This is the tragedy of Gaza. This is the tragedy of Israel.

Read the complete article at AlterNet.

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Anonymous

Thank you for your skillfull excerpts from Hedges' article. Your intention to inform has and continues to villify a country that no reader here, on this blog will ever visit and therefore take your sad attempt at informative media as fact.In reality, Abdul, your baised support of a culture/religion/ethnicity that breads modern day terrorism. What you are indeed forgetting to mention is that your readers lives are being threatened by this group that is so oppressivly being restrained in Gaza.

Anonymous

Thank you for your skillfull excerpts from Hedges' article. Your intention to inform has and continues to villify a country that no reader here, on this blog will ever visit and therefore take your sad attempt at informative media as fact.In reality, Abdul, your baised support of a culture/religion/ethnicity that breads modern day terrorism. What you are indeed forgetting to mention is that your readers lives are being threatened by this group that is so oppressivly being restrained in Gaza.

Anonymous

Utter poppycock! So sad to see how the Jews have brainwashed their offspring into little Sharons and Shamirs. No ones livse are threatened more than those of us who are threatened by JudeoSupremecists like you. Your desperate attempt to witewash the news with your racist propaganda is deteriorating and you know it which is why you troll on sites like this. You know that your time has come and that people all over the world are finally seeing "Israel" for what it is: A continuation of the Third Reich in the Middle East which is what it was designed to be since it's invention in 1947. You can view the actual documents that chronicle the correspondence between Nazi wanna-be scumbags like Yitzak Shamir and the Reich in Germany, begging to join and be a wing of the Axis. Sad. Shocking. Nearly unbelievable but unfortunately true. Fact. Look it up. Start with The Stern Gang and Irgun and you will reveal the twisted history that is the invention of "Israel." This is what the Jewish Establishment doesn't want you to know.

Anonymous

Utter poppycock! So sad to see how the Jews have brainwashed their offspring into little Sharons and Shamirs. No ones livse are threatened more than those of us who are threatened by JudeoSupremecists like you. Your desperate attempt to witewash the news with your racist propaganda is deteriorating and you know it which is why you troll on sites like this. You know that your time has come and that people all over the world are finally seeing "Israel" for what it is: A continuation of the Third Reich in the Middle East which is what it was designed to be since it's invention in 1947. You can view the actual documents that chronicle the correspondence between Nazi wanna-be scumbags like Yitzak Shamir and the Reich in Germany, begging to join and be a wing of the Axis. Sad. Shocking. Nearly unbelievable but unfortunately true. Fact. Look it up. Start with The Stern Gang and Irgun and you will reveal the twisted history that is the invention of "Israel." This is what the Jewish Establishment doesn't want you to know.

Anonymous

Nobody breeds the next generation of militants and Islamic radicals They will breed(terrorists) as long as some part in the world isn't fully Islamic This religion is focused on global religiouse domination(read:they are against religious freedom) I do not undesand why the western world has such a hard time understanding this very simple fact, while they have the technology to translate the holy koran Ok it's one thing to ignore them and an other to poke them, But eventualy they will come to overtrow each weak faith or religion in the north east south n WEST But I doubt manny take time and hounesty to fully realize this hard fact

Anonymous

Nobody breeds the next generation of militants and Islamic radicals They will breed(terrorists) as long as some part in the world isn't fully Islamic This religion is focused on global religiouse domination(read:they are against religious freedom) I do not undesand why the western world has such a hard time understanding this very simple fact, while they have the technology to translate the holy koran Ok it's one thing to ignore them and an other to poke them, But eventualy they will come to overtrow each weak faith or religion in the north east south n WEST But I doubt manny take time and hounesty to fully realize this hard fact

Ziang Z

Radical Zionist Judaism is focused on world domination and it won't stop until somebody stops them. It's great so many people are finally seeing what monsters the Jews are who occupy Palestine. The Jewish Establishment controls mainstream media and have a hand in the financial control of the majority of the worlds powers. They exists not as a country though Israel is clearly a pet project for Jews to pretend they have a country. The Jewish Establishment functions more as a global network of sympathetic corporations all run at the highest levels by Zionist Jews. This is exactly who the corporate media is infiltrated by. Jews hold every single senior post and all majority stakes in ownership. They dictate content and coverage. That's well documented. The people who aren't Jewish and hold powerful positions are of course beholden to the Jews by Zionist design. Don't think it's true? Ask them. They will support Israel or they will be removed. The Zionist Establishment/Jewish Establishment doesn't care if you're black or white or republican or democrat. In fact they play these factions off each other to divide and conquer and laugh from their American tax payer funded beach houses built in Occupied Palestine. The bottom line is that if you don't do as the Jews say you will be removed from power. If you don't support Nazi Israel you will not be employed in any meaningful position. In our hearts we all know this is true and are afraid to admit the ugly truth about a people that has conned us into believing their insane propaganda. We want to believe that such things aren't possible any more - that such fraud can't possibly come from the very people who it would be most inappropriate to be guilty of such crimes. And yet it is and we all know it in our hearts. And people are dying for it and it's time to stop this maddness. We all know it and we're all afraid of the evil emperor. No one wants to be the first. But if no one was the first with civil rights in the U.S or the first with overthrowing Apartheid or any other popular resistance - if no one was the first nothing would change just as it wont with Israel unless everyone is brave enough to be the first in your social circle, in your town or your family. We all must be the first to stand up to the painful reality that Jews are allowing Zionism to kill this world and the cause of justice. This is far from conspiracy theory and evident by merely cataloging the names and organizations that wield influence over powerful office. Take a look at who runs and indeed owns Obama. Same goes for Bush. and Clinton. And so on.. See for yourself who runs and owns Fox, MSNBC, TIME WARNER, The New York Times etc, etc. Look at the most powerful corporations in the world. Who owns the stock and calls the shots? Financial bailouts? Same thing. Like Howard Zinn says this massive control will be broken when there is a changing of the guard. When enough Jews of conscious can't stand the putrid stench coming from the good name that has been soiled by Zionism. Thankfully that is now happening. Thousands of Jews are disassociating themselves fr Israel and Zionism and even Judaism. The more it remains mired in the past - tied to it's own narcissistic fairytale of "victim hood" the more sane minded Jews find nothing of value in identifying themselves with it. And thank god for the brave Jewish resistance who call out their own family members and stand up for the oppressed and injustice that is done in their name. Thank god for all of us who know that lasting peace can only be achieved through justice. "Never again"? Yes. Never again. Free Palestine.

Ziang Z

Radical Zionist Judaism is focused on world domination and it won't stop until somebody stops them. It's great so many people are finally seeing what monsters the Jews are who occupy Palestine. The Jewish Establishment controls mainstream media and have a hand in the financial control of the majority of the worlds powers. They exists not as a country though Israel is clearly a pet project for Jews to pretend they have a country. The Jewish Establishment functions more as a global network of sympathetic corporations all run at the highest levels by Zionist Jews. This is exactly who the corporate media is infiltrated by. Jews hold every single senior post and all majority stakes in ownership. They dictate content and coverage. That's well documented. The people who aren't Jewish and hold powerful positions are of course beholden to the Jews by Zionist design. Don't think it's true? Ask them. They will support Israel or they will be removed. The Zionist Establishment/Jewish Establishment doesn't care if you're black or white or republican or democrat. In fact they play these factions off each other to divide and conquer and laugh from their American tax payer funded beach houses built in Occupied Palestine. The bottom line is that if you don't do as the Jews say you will be removed from power. If you don't support Nazi Israel you will not be employed in any meaningful position. In our hearts we all know this is true and are afraid to admit the ugly truth about a people that has conned us into believing their insane propaganda. We want to believe that such things aren't possible any more - that such fraud can't possibly come from the very people who it would be most inappropriate to be guilty of such crimes. And yet it is and we all know it in our hearts. And people are dying for it and it's time to stop this maddness. We all know it and we're all afraid of the evil emperor. No one wants to be the first. But if no one was the first with civil rights in the U.S or the first with overthrowing Apartheid or any other popular resistance - if no one was the first nothing would change just as it wont with Israel unless everyone is brave enough to be the first in your social circle, in your town or your family. We all must be the first to stand up to the painful reality that Jews are allowing Zionism to kill this world and the cause of justice. This is far from conspiracy theory and evident by merely cataloging the names and organizations that wield influence over powerful office. Take a look at who runs and indeed owns Obama. Same goes for Bush. and Clinton. And so on.. See for yourself who runs and owns Fox, MSNBC, TIME WARNER, The New York Times etc, etc. Look at the most powerful corporations in the world. Who owns the stock and calls the shots? Financial bailouts? Same thing. Like Howard Zinn says this massive control will be broken when there is a changing of the guard. When enough Jews of conscious can't stand the putrid stench coming from the good name that has been soiled by Zionism. Thankfully that is now happening. Thousands of Jews are disassociating themselves fr Israel and Zionism and even Judaism. The more it remains mired in the past - tied to it's own narcissistic fairytale of "victim hood" the more sane minded Jews find nothing of value in identifying themselves with it. And thank god for the brave Jewish resistance who call out their own family members and stand up for the oppressed and injustice that is done in their name. Thank god for all of us who know that lasting peace can only be achieved through justice. "Never again"? Yes. Never again. Free Palestine.

Anonymous

The fact that people can believe Israel is the victim in this conflict, in which the violence is so one sided, betrays the astonishing effects of media control. The Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed from the majority of the country, forced into two small portions of the nation and brutalised for decades. When they respond with a small reflection of this violence, they are condemned as the aggressors. It is not hard to establish by simply looking at the casualty figures, who holds a monopoly on the violence. What we see is a grotesque revision of history, by intellectual cowards who seem to have made evasion of the facts into an art form. Israel's recent attacks are an example of collective punishment, yet another addition to the list of violations of the Geneva conventions. This conflict will continue as long as Israel maintains it's policy of seeking unilateral peace, unfortunately that will not change anytime soon. The only unilateral peace is desolation.

Anonymous

The fact that people can believe Israel is the victim in this conflict, in which the violence is so one sided, betrays the astonishing effects of media control. The Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed from the majority of the country, forced into two small portions of the nation and brutalised for decades. When they respond with a small reflection of this violence, they are condemned as the aggressors. It is not hard to establish by simply looking at the casualty figures, who holds a monopoly on the violence. What we see is a grotesque revision of history, by intellectual cowards who seem to have made evasion of the facts into an art form. Israel's recent attacks are an example of collective punishment, yet another addition to the list of violations of the Geneva conventions. This conflict will continue as long as Israel maintains it's policy of seeking unilateral peace, unfortunately that will not change anytime soon. The only unilateral peace is desolation.

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