The Predatory War on Palestine

The withdrawal of Israeli ground forces and Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 was a reconfiguration of control from outwith the Strip.

It was an Israeli Public Relations stunt to display to the International Community Israel's purported 'Genuine Peace Credentials'. In fact, the real agenda is the much coveted East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The Strip represents a mere 1 % of Mandate Palestine. It is heavily populated to the tune of perhaps, now, 1.6 million Palestinians. It has always been the deep desire of Israel to detach the Strip from Israel's legal and moral obligations for its welfare. The riddance of its inhabitants has been deeply longed for. It has a whole background in itself! It is actively isolating it from the rest of the Occupied Territories, trying to create two separate entities. It wants to 'cancel out' the existence of 1.6 million Palestinians as not being part of Israel/Palestine, so that it can claim the latter do not count, falsely asserting that it is ahead in demographics.

It is the largest prison on earth. Israel controls everything! It decides everything. Israel wields unconscionable power of life and death. It has veritably been a slow death. Everything has collapsed: social services, the fishing industry, the economy, factories and industry, the devastation of agriculture, the health system.

If the words of Dov Weissglass, advisor to the Israel prime minister, on February 16th, 2006, are anything to go by, then the siege and blockade are barbaric and inhumane:

'It’s like a diet –
the Palestinians will
lose lots of weight,
but they won’t die.'