Israeli State Terror in Gaza

Horhey · Aug 31, 2012

UN inquiry finds Israel guilty of Gaza war crimes

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The New York Times reported on state terror and crimes against humanity within a context of:

The New York Times: Parsing Gains of Gaza War

The Palestinians in Gaza got the message on the first day when Israeli warplanes struck numerous targets simultaneously in the middle of a Saturday morning. Some 200 were killed instantly, shocking Hamas and indeed all of Gaza.

There are limited indications that the people of Gaza felt such pain from this war that they will seek to rein in Hamas..
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Inflicting pain on civilians for political ends is another long-standing doctrine of state terror, in fact its guiding principle. I do not, incidentally, recall the Times retrospective "Parsing Gains of Chechnya War," though the gains were great.

--Noam Chomsky
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As the war against the population escalated:

Reuters: U.S. seeks ship to move arms to Israel

(Reuters) - The U.S. is seeking to hire a merchant ship to deliver hundreds of tons of arms to Israel from Greece later this month, tender documents seen by Reuters show.

The tender for the vessel follows the hiring of a commercial ship to carry a much larger consignment of ordnance in December from the United States to Israel ahead of air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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Moreover:

New America Foundation: US Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza

Israel's intervention in the Gaza Strip has been fueled largely by U.S. supplied weapons paid for with U.S. tax dollars .
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The United Nations Goldstone report concluded that both Israel and Hamas committed "war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity:"

The New York Times: Inquiry Finds Gaza War Crimes From Both Sides

While the long-anticipated, 575-page report condemned rocket attacks by Palestinian armed groups against Israeli civilians, it reserved its harshest language for Israel’s treatment of the civilian Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, both during the war and through the longer-term blockade of the territory.

The report called Israel’s military assault on Gaza “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.”
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Horhey · Aug 31, 2012

Noam Chomsky - GAZA - One Year Later 2009 1 of 5

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On December 27, 2008, Israel began one of the bloodiest attacks on Gaza Since 1948. The three week assault killed some 1400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. One year later, little to no rebuilding has taken place and the siege in Gaza continues.

Speaking in Watertown, Massachusetts on December 6, 2009, linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky delivered a talk entitled Gaza: One Year Later.
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