Segundo a ONU, 2.015 pessoas foram mortas até agora: Pelo menos 1.402 civis, 456 deles crianças, 237 mulheres. Os feridos ultrapassam 10 mil.
Os israelenses inventaram umaa cifras próprias, dizendo que mataram, pelo menos "253 militantes do Hamas; 147 do Jihad; 65 de organizações diversas, e 603 de afiliações desconhecidas". Inventam estórias e maquiam cifras mesmo sabendo quão fácil é provar o contrário, mas essa é a estratégia do Projeto Israel, destilar o veneno e esperar que ele contamine os sectários e os manipuláveis.
Os jornalistas não têm como confirmar estes dados por causa do caos que reinava, as bombas e mísseis que não paravam, os prédios desmoronando, gente apavorada correndo por todo lado sem ter onde abrigar-se.
Muito foi escrito e muitas fotos publicadas de mortes de crianças com impacto inevitável. Muitos jornalistas presentes em Gaza eram "macacos velhos", "acostumados" com atos de violência no Afeganistão, Iraque, Síria, Líbia, Balcãs, Africa, e em outros lugares. Mas muitos nunca haviam testemunhado a violência pérfida dos ataques israelenses. A violência dos israelenses é diferente. Imagino que tenha sido a mesma que os nazistas usaram. É uma violência arrogante multiplicada à potência do desprezo total pela vítima, "inferior", uma "coisa" a anos luz de sua raça superior. Daí tantas famílias, crianças, bombardeadas sem piedade diante das câmeras do mundo inteiro.
Os jornalistas que passaram estas semanas em Gaza são unânimes, conciliar o sono era quase impossível não apenas por causa do barulho das bombas às vezes até pertinho. Sobretudo porque todos sabiam que no dia seguinte veriam mais criança espedaçada, mais criança ferida, mais criança gemendo e gritando de incompreensão por ser machucada por esse demônio que atacava sem piedade onde quer que se abrigassem onde quer que paressesse calmo, até na praia durante uma pelada.
Isto, este tipo de violência, só Israel comete. A Operação Defensive Edge foi nada mais nada menos do que uma concentração das arbitrarieades e crueldades que os colonos e os soldados da IDF cometem todos os dias na Cisjordânia; e os bombardeios dos F16 que o mundo viu nas telinhas são apenas um concentrado dos "mini-bombardeios cirúrgicos" que a IDF vira e mexe pratica na Faixa de Gaza durante o ano inteiro.
A diferença para a maioria dos jornalistas noviços na Palestina foi/é também a promiscuidade que o tamanho minúsculo da Faixa impõe (45km de comprimento e 6 a 12km de largura, menos 3km de zona-tampão que também é uma invasão; por que não fazem a tal zona do lado israelense?).
Na Faixa que sobra, não há como escapar do fogo, não há como escapar da visão dos feridos, não há como ignorar os horrores como nos outros lugares porque não dá para escapar, simplesmente. Nem os profissionais que estão trabalhando (embora possam entrar e sair quase à vontade, ficam presos quando o ataque é na cidade de Gaza) nem a população que está sendo massacrada - que esta não tem pra onde ir, mesmo).
É isto também que faz a diferença em Gaza. O fato de ser uma prisão. A Cisjordânia também, diga-se de passagem.
Portanto, quando falam em crime de guerra, eu digo que a Operação Defensive Edge e as operações militares israelenses precendentes levadas a cabo na Palestina já são em si crimes de guerra, crimes contra a humanidade. O que a IDF e seus soldados fizeram nesetas últimas semanas por ar, mar e terra - com execuções de civis para vingar colegas - são circunstâncias agravantes ao crime quotidiano. Se Israel fosse outro país, Binyamin Netanyahu e seus cúmplices já estariam presos na Háguia há muito tempo. Junto com Tony Blair e George W. Bush.
Os israelenses inventaram umaa cifras próprias, dizendo que mataram, pelo menos "253 militantes do Hamas; 147 do Jihad; 65 de organizações diversas, e 603 de afiliações desconhecidas". Inventam estórias e maquiam cifras mesmo sabendo quão fácil é provar o contrário, mas essa é a estratégia do Projeto Israel, destilar o veneno e esperar que ele contamine os sectários e os manipuláveis.
Os jornalistas não têm como confirmar estes dados por causa do caos que reinava, as bombas e mísseis que não paravam, os prédios desmoronando, gente apavorada correndo por todo lado sem ter onde abrigar-se.
Muito foi escrito e muitas fotos publicadas de mortes de crianças com impacto inevitável. Muitos jornalistas presentes em Gaza eram "macacos velhos", "acostumados" com atos de violência no Afeganistão, Iraque, Síria, Líbia, Balcãs, Africa, e em outros lugares. Mas muitos nunca haviam testemunhado a violência pérfida dos ataques israelenses. A violência dos israelenses é diferente. Imagino que tenha sido a mesma que os nazistas usaram. É uma violência arrogante multiplicada à potência do desprezo total pela vítima, "inferior", uma "coisa" a anos luz de sua raça superior. Daí tantas famílias, crianças, bombardeadas sem piedade diante das câmeras do mundo inteiro.
Os jornalistas que passaram estas semanas em Gaza são unânimes, conciliar o sono era quase impossível não apenas por causa do barulho das bombas às vezes até pertinho. Sobretudo porque todos sabiam que no dia seguinte veriam mais criança espedaçada, mais criança ferida, mais criança gemendo e gritando de incompreensão por ser machucada por esse demônio que atacava sem piedade onde quer que se abrigassem onde quer que paressesse calmo, até na praia durante uma pelada.
Isto, este tipo de violência, só Israel comete. A Operação Defensive Edge foi nada mais nada menos do que uma concentração das arbitrarieades e crueldades que os colonos e os soldados da IDF cometem todos os dias na Cisjordânia; e os bombardeios dos F16 que o mundo viu nas telinhas são apenas um concentrado dos "mini-bombardeios cirúrgicos" que a IDF vira e mexe pratica na Faixa de Gaza durante o ano inteiro.
A diferença para a maioria dos jornalistas noviços na Palestina foi/é também a promiscuidade que o tamanho minúsculo da Faixa impõe (45km de comprimento e 6 a 12km de largura, menos 3km de zona-tampão que também é uma invasão; por que não fazem a tal zona do lado israelense?).
Na Faixa que sobra, não há como escapar do fogo, não há como escapar da visão dos feridos, não há como ignorar os horrores como nos outros lugares porque não dá para escapar, simplesmente. Nem os profissionais que estão trabalhando (embora possam entrar e sair quase à vontade, ficam presos quando o ataque é na cidade de Gaza) nem a população que está sendo massacrada - que esta não tem pra onde ir, mesmo).
É isto também que faz a diferença em Gaza. O fato de ser uma prisão. A Cisjordânia também, diga-se de passagem.
Portanto, quando falam em crime de guerra, eu digo que a Operação Defensive Edge e as operações militares israelenses precendentes levadas a cabo na Palestina já são em si crimes de guerra, crimes contra a humanidade. O que a IDF e seus soldados fizeram nesetas últimas semanas por ar, mar e terra - com execuções de civis para vingar colegas - são circunstâncias agravantes ao crime quotidiano. Se Israel fosse outro país, Binyamin Netanyahu e seus cúmplices já estariam presos na Háguia há muito tempo. Junto com Tony Blair e George W. Bush.
There has been much written and many pictures published of child casualties with inevitable impact in the outside world. Many of us have covered conflicts before and witnessed acts of terrible violence in Afghanistan and Iraq, Syria, Libya, the Balkans and Africa. But in Gaza what kept some of us awake was not just the nightly explosions near our hotels, shaking the buildings, but knowing that there would be more maimed and dead babies the next day, the day after, and the day after that, an appalling and unrelenting cycle with the victims overwhelmingly the most vulnerable.
There was a dreadful intimacy to the violence, bringing home that Gaza is, as the name says, a strip, just 25 miles long and a few miles wide. Orders by the Israeli military to residents in a swathe of areas where military action would take place meant that 1.8 million people had been constrained to an even tighter killing ground.
Operation Defensive Edge itself was a war crime and a crime against humanity. What the IDF and its soldiers did from the air, from the sea, and on the ground - with revenge executions of civilians - are aggravating circunstances. If Israel were another country, Binyamin Netanyahu and his accomplices would be already convicted of war crimes and would be in jail for a long time. With George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
On 11 August 2014, the British newspaper The Guardian chocked London humanitarians publishing a wildly inaccurate and inflamatory advert anti-Hamas from supporters of Israel's policy of occupation and of Operation Protective Edge.
The advert was signed by known sectarian zionists, Elie Wiesel and immediately got readers objecting to the Guardian's decision on its letters page.
The Times and other british newspapers had refused to publish the advert that had already been published in the United States by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and others. Which was not a surprise. But The Guardian! It was too much. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/11/guardian-publisher-defends-anti-hamas-advert-decision.
It provoked a mass reaction in England and a letter in response to the ad from several British Organizations. Thousands of people have signed a petition condemning the Guardian for running the advertisement that accuses Palestinian leaders of ‘child sacrifice’. There is outrage but also surprise: how can a title that features the pro-Palestinian columns of writers like Owen Jones and Seamus Milne carry such an ad? How can a newspaper that has lambasted US and UK governments for the scale of their online surveillance systems (and that was in turn attacked by the Sun for being a ‘traitor’) show so little conscience it comes to Palestinian lives?
The media are businesses that trade in information and knowledge and a few people control much of the public conversation.
Yet the Guardian’s attitude to Israel is contradictory. It is partly influenced by the perceived pro-Palestinian sympathies of many of its readers (thus the bylines of journalists like Jones and Milne) but it is also marked by its historic association with Zionism. CP Scott, the Guardian editor whose words adorn the Comment is Free masthead, was a firm backer of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that first talked of setting up a Jewish homeland in Palestine. In his editorial for the paper, he described the Declaration as ‘the fulfilment of aspiration, the signpost of destiny’.
So what are the lessons we can draw from the fact that world mainstream media are predicated on an explosive mix of commercial and ideological considerations?
Despite all their many and significant differences, the mainstream media constitute collectively a powerful instrument for reinforcing dominant ideas. Tied to vested interests – economically and politically – it could hardly be otherwise. It has always been this way. The difference is that today there is alternative media on the web and that forces the mainstream media to pay more attention than before. That is why people around the world received more information about Operation Defensive Edge than Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Cast Lead in 2008/09.
On the same topic, in the United States, "225 Jewish survivors and descendents of Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide have signed on to this letter condemning Israel’s massacre on Gaza and calling for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people. In the letter, they also speak out against the abuse of their histories to promote the dehumanization of Palestinians advanced by Elie Wiesel among others in his recent ads placed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and the Guardian. If you are a survivor of the genocide or a descendent of survivors, please click here and scroll to the bottom to add your name to the letter. Please donate to help us place this letter with its signatories as an advertisement in the New York Times in order to convey the message that never again means NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!
Posted by & filed under Gaza.
Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.
As Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.
We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.
Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these pages to promote blatant falsehoods used to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.
We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. “Never again” must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!
Signed, Survivors:
Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, police prohibited the holding of an anti-war rally last Saturday and allowed one pro-war yesterday. Thousands of Israelis gathered to ask Netanyahu to continue Operation Defensive Edge to show the Palestinians who is the boss. The problem with the majority of Israelis is that they want to impose their will through violence instead of solving the problem.
Enquanto isso em Tel Aviv, a polícia proibiu uma passeata anti-guerra no sábado passado e permitiu uma pró-guerra ontem. Milhares de israelenses manifestaram seu desejo que a Operação Defensive Edge continue para mostrar aos palestinos quem é que manda. O problema dos israelenses é que não aprendem. Querem impor sua vontade pela violência em vez de resolver o problema.
Mas em Israel há também quem queira justiça e paz. But there are a few Israelis who want peace and justice.
There was a dreadful intimacy to the violence, bringing home that Gaza is, as the name says, a strip, just 25 miles long and a few miles wide. Orders by the Israeli military to residents in a swathe of areas where military action would take place meant that 1.8 million people had been constrained to an even tighter killing ground.
Operation Defensive Edge itself was a war crime and a crime against humanity. What the IDF and its soldiers did from the air, from the sea, and on the ground - with revenge executions of civilians - are aggravating circunstances. If Israel were another country, Binyamin Netanyahu and his accomplices would be already convicted of war crimes and would be in jail for a long time. With George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
The advert was signed by known sectarian zionists, Elie Wiesel and immediately got readers objecting to the Guardian's decision on its letters page.
The Times and other british newspapers had refused to publish the advert that had already been published in the United States by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and others. Which was not a surprise. But The Guardian! It was too much. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/11/guardian-publisher-defends-anti-hamas-advert-decision.
It provoked a mass reaction in England and a letter in response to the ad from several British Organizations. Thousands of people have signed a petition condemning the Guardian for running the advertisement that accuses Palestinian leaders of ‘child sacrifice’. There is outrage but also surprise: how can a title that features the pro-Palestinian columns of writers like Owen Jones and Seamus Milne carry such an ad? How can a newspaper that has lambasted US and UK governments for the scale of their online surveillance systems (and that was in turn attacked by the Sun for being a ‘traitor’) show so little conscience it comes to Palestinian lives?
The media are businesses that trade in information and knowledge and a few people control much of the public conversation.
Yet the Guardian’s attitude to Israel is contradictory. It is partly influenced by the perceived pro-Palestinian sympathies of many of its readers (thus the bylines of journalists like Jones and Milne) but it is also marked by its historic association with Zionism. CP Scott, the Guardian editor whose words adorn the Comment is Free masthead, was a firm backer of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that first talked of setting up a Jewish homeland in Palestine. In his editorial for the paper, he described the Declaration as ‘the fulfilment of aspiration, the signpost of destiny’.
So what are the lessons we can draw from the fact that world mainstream media are predicated on an explosive mix of commercial and ideological considerations?
Despite all their many and significant differences, the mainstream media constitute collectively a powerful instrument for reinforcing dominant ideas. Tied to vested interests – economically and politically – it could hardly be otherwise. It has always been this way. The difference is that today there is alternative media on the web and that forces the mainstream media to pay more attention than before. That is why people around the world received more information about Operation Defensive Edge than Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Cast Lead in 2008/09.
Posted by & filed under Gaza.
Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.
As Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.
Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these pages to promote blatant falsehoods used to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.
We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. “Never again” must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!
Signed, Survivors:
- Hajo Meyer, survivor of Auschwitz, The Netherlands.
- Henri Wajnblum, survivor and son of a victim of Auschwitz from Lodz, Poland. Lives in Belgium.
- Renate Bridenthal, child refugee from Hitler, granddaughter of Auschwitz victim, United States.
- Marianka Ehrlich Ross, survivor of Nazi ethnic cleansing in Vienna, Austria. Now lives in United States.
- Irena Klepfisz, child survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland. Now lives in United States.
- Karen Pomer, granddaughter of member of Dutch resistance and survivor of Bergen Belsen. Now lives in the United States.
- Hedy Epstein, her parents & other family members were deported to Camp de Gurs & subsequently all perished in Auschwitz. Now lives in United States.
- Lillian Rosengarten, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, United States.
- Suzanne Weiss, survived in hiding in France, and daughter of a mother who was murdered in Auschwitz. Now lives in Canada.
- H. Richard Leuchtag, survivor, United States.
- Ervin Somogyi, survivor and son of survivors, United States.
- Ilse Hadda, survivor on Kindertransport to England. Now lives in United States.
- Jacques Glaser, survivor, France.
- Norbert Hirschhorn, refugee of Nazi genocide and grandson of three grandparents who died in the Shoah, London.
- Eva Naylor, surivor, New Zealand.
- Suzanne Ross, child refugee from Nazi occupation in Belgium, two thirds of family perished in the Lodz Ghetto, in Auschwitz, and other Camps, United States.
- Bernard Swierszcz, Polish survivor, lost relatives in Majdanek concentration camp. Now lives in the United States.
- Joseph Klinkov, hidden child in Poland, still lives in Poland.
- Nicole Milner, survivor from Belgium. Now lives in United States.
- Hedi Saraf, child survivor and daughter of survivor of Dachau, United States.
- Michael Rice, child survivor and son and grandson of survivor, aunt died in Auschwitz and cousin in concentration camp, ALL 14 remaining Jewish children in my Dutch boarding school were murdered in concentration camps, United States.
- Barbara Roose, survivor from Germany, half-sister killed in Auschwitz, United States.
- Sonia Herzbrun, survivor of Nazi genocide, France.
- Ivan Huber, survivor with my parents, but 3 of 4 grandparents murdered, United States.
- Altman Janina, survivor of Janowski concentration camp, Lvov. Lives in Israel.
- Leibu Strul Zalman, survivor from Vaslui Romania. Lives in Jerusalem, Palestine.
- Miriam Almeleh, survivor, United States.
- George Bartenieff, child survivor from Germany and son of survivors, United States.
- Margarete Liebstaedter, survivor, hidden by Christian people in Holland. Lives in Belgium.
- Edith Bell, survivor of Westerbork, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Kurzbach. Lives in United States.
- Janine Euvrard, survivor, France.
- Harry Halbreich, survivor, German.
- Ruth Kupferschmidt, survivor, spent five years hiding, The Netherlands.
A brief reminder of one of many Israeli lies of ceasefire
Uma lembrança de uma das muitas mentiras israelenses sobre cessar-fogo inexistentes e que quando o Hamas respondia em defesa de seus compatriotas, a IDF dizia: "É culpa do Hamas!"
Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, police prohibited the holding of an anti-war rally last Saturday and allowed one pro-war yesterday. Thousands of Israelis gathered to ask Netanyahu to continue Operation Defensive Edge to show the Palestinians who is the boss. The problem with the majority of Israelis is that they want to impose their will through violence instead of solving the problem.
Enquanto isso em Tel Aviv, a polícia proibiu uma passeata anti-guerra no sábado passado e permitiu uma pró-guerra ontem. Milhares de israelenses manifestaram seu desejo que a Operação Defensive Edge continue para mostrar aos palestinos quem é que manda. O problema dos israelenses é que não aprendem. Querem impor sua vontade pela violência em vez de resolver o problema.
Mas em Israel há também quem queira justiça e paz. But there are a few Israelis who want peace and justice.
LIFT THE BLOCKADE!
MOVE FROM THE CEASE-FIRE TO A PERMANENT AGREEMENT!
Published in Haaretz - August 15, 2014
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