{"id":136825,"date":"2023-10-31T20:05:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=136825"},"modified":"2023-10-31T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:05:26","slug":"what-the-media-forgets-to-tell-you-about-israel-and-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/what-the-media-forgets-to-tell-you-about-israel-and-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ignore the fake news. Israel isn\u2019t defending itself. It\u2019s enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians<\/em><\/p>\n

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The missing context for what\u2019s going on in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state \u2013 when it was known as the Zionist movement.<\/p>\n

Israel didn\u2019t just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967. It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The aim was to move them off their historic lands, and either expel them beyond Israel\u2019s new, expanded borders or concentrate them into small ghettoes inside those borders \u2013 as a holding measure until they could be expelled outside the borders.<\/p>\n

The \u2018settler<\/em>\u2019 project, as we call it, is a misnomer. It\u2019s really Israel\u2019s ethnic cleansing programme. Israel even has a special word for it in Hebrew: \u2018Judaisation<\/em>\u2019, or making the land Jewish. It is official government policy.<\/p>\n

Gaza was the largest of the Palestinian reservations created by Israel\u2019s ethnic cleansing programme, and the most overcrowded. To stop the inhabitants spilling out, Israel built a fence-barrier in the early 1990s to pen them in. Then when policing became too hard from within the prison, Israel pulled back in 2005 to the outer perimeter barrier.<\/p>\n

New technology allowed Israel to besiege Gaza remotely by land, sea and air in 2007, limiting the entry of food and vital items like medicine and cement for construction. Automated gun towers shot anyone who came near the fence. The navy patrolled the sea, stopping boats straying more than a kilometre or two off shore. And drones watched 24 hours a day from the sky.<\/p>\n

The people of Gaza were sealed in and largely forgotten, except when they lobbed a few rockets over the fence \u2013 to international indignation. If they fired too many rockets, Israel bombed them mercilessly and occasionally launched a ground invasion. The rocket threat was increasingly neutralised by a rocket interception system, paid for by the US, called Iron Dome<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Palestinians tried to be more inventive in finding ways to break out of their prison. They built tunnels. But Israel found ways to identify those that ran close to the fence and destroyed them.<\/p>\n

Palestinians tried to get attention by protesting en masse<\/em> at the fence. Israeli snipers were ordered to shoot them in the legs, leading to thousands of amputees.<\/p>\n

The \u2018deterrence\u2019 seemed to work. Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. \u2018Quiet\u2019 had been restored.<\/p>\n

Until, that is, Hamas broke out briefly and ran amok, killing civilians and soldiers alike.<\/p>\n

So Israel now needs a new policy. It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew. The half of the population in the enclave\u2019s north is being herded south, where there are not the resources to cope with them. And even if there were, Israel has cut off food, water and power to everyone in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The enclave is quickly becoming a pressure cooker. The pressure is meant to build on Egypt to allow the Palestinians entry into Sinai on \u2018humanitarian\u2019 grounds.<\/p>\n

Whatever the media are telling you, the \u2018conflict\u2019 \u2013 that is, Israel\u2019s ethnic cleansing programme \u2013 started long before Hamas appeared on the scene. In fact, Hamas emerged very late, as the predictable response to Israel\u2019s violent colonisation project.<\/p>\n

And no turning point was reached in October 2023. This has all been playing out in slow motion for more than 100 years.<\/p>\n

Ignore the fake news. Israel isn\u2019t defending itself. It\u2019s enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Author: Jonathan Cook (Nazareth based journalist and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nOctober 31, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

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