Dec 27 2008
Why There are Rockets
Photo: Palestinians carry the body of Salsabeel Abu Jalhoumm,
a 21-month-old girl who was killed in March 2008 in an Israeli air attack.
Just in time for the Christmas Season, new air strikes on Gaza that have killed over 250 people. What’s new about these most recent ones are the number and ferocity of them. Israeli air strikes themselves happen with some randomness in Palestinian life inside Gaza, as do tank attacks, crippling sanctions, and shootings of civilians by the IDF. This has all been documented, despite political claims.
Want to un-spin the puke that is on the MSM? Here’s a quick way to do it. Stop thinking the U.S. economy is the most important issue in the world for a little while . . . . men created the financial system and the financial mess, and men can fix it. If they can’t, then we don’t deserve capitalism. The rest of us have other concerns, like peace and climate change. For today, our lesson is Palestine-Israel relations. Why there were rockets, or . . . .
How to explain things to ignorant Americans
Israel is a country that builds racial colonies into Palestine, just like the White South Africa did in South Africa. They have racially segregated cites and towns in Palestine which are for Jews only and were built by force and are protected by a standing army. The entire world is against this other than America. And America’s Military Industrial Complex makes far too much money off of the conflicts to ever change its mind.
Furthermore even though “some Arabs” live in Israel, they can’t even go to High school with Jews. They are separated at the age of 14 into separate schools by race. Secondly Israel has mandatory military service and refusing to do this equates to secondary rights as citizens. You earn special rights by joining or having joined the military. Many Arab Israelis won’t join the military as they are 99% certain they will just be used to shoot at other Arabs. Thus the Jews in Israel effectively get a proxy pecking order of citizenry with the Arabs as an under class with less rights.
Why are they fighting? Because Israel maintains a military occupation, the same as America does in Iraq. The Palestinians who choose to go the route of Gorilla war do so because Israel’s army has forced 6 million of them to live in refugee camps, and uses the remainder for virtual slave labor (two dollars a week on average) and has demolished thousands of homes and killed tens of thousands of people. THAT is why Palestinians hate them, not some irrational brainwashing from Islam.
