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Part 1:

Question: Israel says it is only defending itself against recurrent attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian “terrorist” organizations?

Answer: All aggressors say they are only defending themselves. Nazi Germany said it was defending itself. Israel is the last country in the world that is fit to complain about terrorism. After all, Israel represents, encapsulates and embodies terror in its ugliest and most nefarious forms.

Indeed, from the very inception of its misbegotten birth, Israel has been a mass murderer, a child killer, a land thief and an irredeemable liar.

The genocidal rampage Israel is carrying out in Gaza represents the norm rather than the exception as far Israeli behaviors are concerned. In the final analysis, one can safely claim that Israel’s entire history has been an uninterrupted chain of massacres and terror. What makes the present mini-holocaust in Gaza look especially gruesome is the live television coverage from the field. This didn’t exist in 1984 and the few subsequent years when Judeo-Nazis thugs committed numerous even more heinous massacres against the native Palestinians.

As to the current criminal onslaught, it is amply clear for those who value the truth that Israel is fully responsible for this huge crime against humanity. Ever since Hamas won the Palestinian elections in 2006, Israel has been blockading and besieging the Gaza Strip, pushing the region’s estimated 1.5 million Palestinians to the edge of physical extermination. In brief, Israel imposed two alternatives on Palestinians, either to live a dog’s life and die quietly of starvation as a result of the Nazi-like siege, or be exterminated by the Israeli war machine.

Question: Israel claims it doesn’t deliberately target Palestinian civilians. How would you respond to that?

Answer: As an essentially criminal state which murders children and bomb apartment buildings, killing and maiming thousands of innocent children, Israel feels it has to lie to cover up her crimes. Criminality and mendacity are two sides of the same coin.

To put it simply, the Israeli claim is a pornographic lie, which unfortunately is constantly echoed by much of the western media. And there is a great deal of cynicism here because these lies are echoed while the Israeli army, air force and navy are seen raining death on apartment buildings, mosques, drug stores, private homes, college buildings including dormitories, shopping centers, petrol stations, schools, and police stations.

You see, it is a no-holds-barred approach, very much like the Nazis behaved during the Second World War.

Question: But Israel says it doesn’t kill Palestinian l civilians deliberately like the Palestinians do.

Answer: Well, first of all, whatever modest and primitive means of resistance the Palestinians possess don’t pose a real strategic threat to nuclear-armed Israel. The Palestinian projectiles fired from Gaza should only be seen as a desperate outcry by a people who are being exterminated by the Israeli war machine. Certainly, these homemade projectiles are no match for the state-of-the-art of the American technology of death such as the F-16 Jet fighter, the Bunker Busters, and the Abrams tanks which Israel is using to wreak death and havoc on unprotected Gaza and its defenseless civilians.

Second, Israel doesn’t tell the truth when it claims it doesn’t target civilians. Mistakes happen once, twice, even ten times. However, when thousands of innocent civilians, including entire families, are murdered in indiscriminate aerial bombing, it means the killing of civilians is deliberate. After all, killing knowingly is killing deliberately. And it doesn’t matter if you call it collateral damage or use other euphemisms in reference to the killings.

Besides, when the number of innocent victims is so high and so disproportionate as is the case in Gaza now, even intent becomes irrelevant.

Question: Israel says that Hamas hides weapons inside mosques?

Answer: Israel is saying many things to justify its genocidal wars against the Palestinian people. Last week, the Israeli air force bombed a small truck it said was carrying rockets. However, it turned out, as the Israeli Human Rights group B’tselem pointed out, that the truck was carrying cooking gas canisters.

Besides, are weapons stored in mosques? Last night, the Israeli air force bombed a mosque packed with worshipers in northern Gaza, killing 18 people and injuring dozens others. This is a an evil war crime and who ever carried out the bombing and gave the orders are war criminals that should be prosecuted and punished. Otherwise, we are in a huge jungle.

Question: How could Palestinian reporters and journalists function under the current circumstances?

Answer: They are trying their best, and they take nothing for granted. Last week, Israeli war planes bombed a Television station and two days ago the offices of the Gaza-based Arabic-daily, al Risala, was bombed and destroyed. So, they are targeting every thing…everything.

Question: will Israel succeed in eradicating the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation?

Answer: Israel may well succeed in weakening the resistance, but it can’t destroy it. The reason for that is simple. The resistance is not a “cause” but an “effect.” The real “cause” is this Nazi-like occupation of Palestine which seeks to complete what Israel started in 1948, namely the uprooting and ethnic cleansing of the remaining Palestinians in order to replace them with Jewish immigrants from around the world. This is very much like the Nazi concept of “lebensraum.” But here in Israel they call it “security.”

In short, Israel can’t eliminate the “effect” as long as the “cause” remains intact.

especially with this pop psychology stuff he’s on to.

If there are doubts about its reality and efficacy as a driving force, reflect for a moment on the abject absurdity and yet undeniable reality of hooliganism and of violence and deaths erupting OVER SPORTING MATCHES FOR FRACKS SAKE. Gee, what’s that about? As the poet notes:

“Americans exhult and luxuriate in religiously rooting sides

I once witnessed a near fatal fist fight between a New Orleans Saints fan and A Pittsburg Steelers fan.

In American movies most essentials are neatly reduced to a side of wrong, a side of right, a side of black, a side of white...no complex gradations in this most infantile of all modern and industrial nations.”

The type of (almost entirely) men who would be driven to such senseless violence are men who are, as GG notes, fearful, with distorted and real beliefs and anxieties about being less than, of lowered status, vulnerable, with insecure futures and with an overwheming and regressive need to identify the diminished self with something larger and more powerful, in order to gain in status and safety against Others. They also tend to become wife beaters, good germans, or america-first!ers, depending on context and availability of demagogues. Their maladaptive behaviors and beliefs are driven by pathological economic and social systems that create winners and losers, deprivation, insecurity, and acute awareness of status and differentials in power, success and safety.

Or, research the significant body of psychological work on in-group / out-group dynamics and how, for example, simply dividing school children into identified groups leads to changes in how the individuals view each other (previously just playmates) and in attitudes and behaviors related to relative status, worth, esteem, regard, threat, competition, aggression, etc.

The only soulutions – only – are radical solutions that aim at inner personal change and consequent changes in social systems and conditions of living, and have nothing to do with “nations”, “diplomacy”, or “political processes”. Those constucts are the enemy, because they perpetuate tribalisms.

As poster StephenAshley put it:

“We have no choice but to remove the very problem Greenwald is elucidating; we need to make it impossible to view any other human being as The Other.’

That’s a radical concept. The very thought of universal brother/sisterhood almost seems intolerable.