Gaza: Between the Devils and the Deep Blue Sea
by Julie Webb-Pullman
March 6, 2014
WTF? Israel carries out ANOTHER blatant act of piracy in international waters? And expects the world to believe the fiction they were headed for Gaza? A country under Israeli naval blockade for the
last seven years??? Even the BB boys Bush and Blair managed better Words of Mass Deception than THAT!
Of course it is AIPAC week, so we can expect a series of attention-seeking missiles across the bows to distract the
public from the spectacle of servility and sycophancy assaulting our senses from Washington. But a freaking great
shipload of M302’s to go where even Gaza’s fishermen fear to row?!! I don’t think so.
Such nonsense is surpassed only by Netanyahu’s AIPAC-aired demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which is neither part of the agreed negotiating terms nor even
part of any recognised approach to international diplomacy. Does EVERY country have to recognise Israel as such? When
and where can we all join the “Israel is a Jewish state” club? At the same time as we join the “Egypt and the Ukraine
are democracies” clubs, perhaps?
Not only is it AIPAC week, but also Ukraine week, where the self-proclaimed government in Kievjust appointed dual Israeli-Ukranian citizen Igor Kolomoysky as governor of Dnepropetrovsk. He also happens to be the
third richest man in the Ukraine, which may help overcome the difficulty of governing a Ukranian region from his home in
Switzerland…
And Cairo week was also a bit of a coup, with a court managing to ban purported activities in Egypt of Palestinian political party Hamas. Who cares about legal niceties such as presenting evidence, or the right to mount a defence when you have enough
kangaroos jumping around to keep all eyes off who is filling their pouches?
And Gaza week – well, that is every week. Forget the truce – that is only for the Palestinians. Israel assassinated two
young men this week in a drone strike, in a blatant breach. And militants aren’t their only targets. From the scrap
collector shot in the head to the middle-aged woman shot in the stomach, the football players shot in the legs and feet
to end their potential careers, civilians are being killed and maimed daily. Since 20 December 2013, 55 Gazan civilians have been injured ON THEIR OWN SIDE OF THE BORDER by Israeli soldiers – 43 by live fire, 10 by
rubber-coated metal bullets, and two hit in the head by canisters.
But that’s Israel. That’s Egypt. That’s Gaza.
Gaza, the elephant at the so-called peace talks.
Gaza, already reeling from seven years of siege and the theft of its water by Israel, now facing certain strangulation
from the south.
Gaza, the Yarmouk about to happen, but from which everyone turns away.
Gaza, bordered by the magnificent Mediterranean – but which they can barely enter. Gaza, Bordered by Egypt, whose enmity
has now been slammed on the tabletop, and by Israel, whose ongoing crimes speak for themselves – to a deaf world.
Gaza, land of life and love, and love of life and Allah, whatever the faction.
Gaza, between the devils and the deep blue sea.
ENDS