some truth dug up. prison or concentration camp ?
Sorry Mr Chomsky, Gaza is not the world's largest open-air prison. People in prisons - the Prisoners- have certain rights and the Wardens who run the prisons, have well defined responsibilities towards their prisoners. Responsibilities that would not allow Israel to" put the Palestinians on a diet". A near starvation diet.
Gaza is, in reality, the biggest Concentration Camp in the world.
It is a concentration camp that becomes a testing ground for weapons, technologies and other systems of "Mowing the Lawn" - as the Israelis call it. Systems that are 'battle tested' in Gaza are then easily sold, as proven technologies, around the world.
India is, I am sad to say, among the many countries that import Israeli systems of surveillance and control. Systems that are destroying Human Freedoms, all around the world in the name of a false 'Security'.
Since 2000, according to an article from the British medical journal The Lancet, the Israeli military has killed more than 6,000 Palestinians. They are harassed at checkpoints, imprisoned arbitrarily, denied clean water and sanitation, and suffer from systemic malnutrition, all part of the illegal siege and blockade. World-renowned linguist and author Noam Chomsky recently visited Gaza, describing it as the world’s largest open-air prison.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/in_gaza_its_the_occupationg_stupid_20121121/
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/101117_put_the_palestinians.php
In early 2010, one of Washington DC’s most prestigious think tanks was holding a seminar on the Middle East which included a discussion of Israel’s December 2008-January 2009 assault on Gaza which killed about 1,300 Palestinians. When the death toll was mentioned, one expert on the panel smiled enigmatically and intoned: “It’s unfortunate, but every once in a while you have to mow the lawn.”
http://www.alternet.org/world/killing-people-mowing-lawn-how-israeli-hardliners-and-official-washington-dehumanize-people
Gaza is, in reality, the biggest Concentration Camp in the world.
It is a concentration camp that becomes a testing ground for weapons, technologies and other systems of "Mowing the Lawn" - as the Israelis call it. Systems that are 'battle tested' in Gaza are then easily sold, as proven technologies, around the world.
India is, I am sad to say, among the many countries that import Israeli systems of surveillance and control. Systems that are destroying Human Freedoms, all around the world in the name of a false 'Security'.
Since 2000, according to an article from the British medical journal The Lancet, the Israeli military has killed more than 6,000 Palestinians. They are harassed at checkpoints, imprisoned arbitrarily, denied clean water and sanitation, and suffer from systemic malnutrition, all part of the illegal siege and blockade. World-renowned linguist and author Noam Chomsky recently visited Gaza, describing it as the world’s largest open-air prison.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/in_gaza_its_the_occupationg_stupid_20121121/
The released documents, whose existence Israel had denied for eighteen months, reveal that the state approved “a policy of deliberate reduction” of basic goods, including food and fuel, in the Gaza Strip. Gisha Director Sari Bashi explains:
“Instead of considering security concerns, on the one hand, and the rights and needs of civilians living in Gaza, on the other, Israel banned glucose for biscuits and the fuel needed for regular supply of electricity – paralyzing normal life in Gaza and impairing the moral character of the State of Israel. I am sorry to say that major elements of this policy are still in place.” (Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, ‘Due to Gisha's Petition: Israel Reveals Documents related to the Gaza Closure Policy’, October 21, 2010; http://www.gisha.org/index.php ?intLanguage=2&intItemId=1904&intSiteSN=113)
As Saeed Bannoura of the International Middle East Media Center reports, the Israeli government imposed a deliberate policy:
“in which the dietary needs for the population of Gaza are chillingly calculated, and the amounts of food let in by the Israeli government measured to remain just enough to keep the population alive at a near-starvation level. This documents the statement made by a number of Israeli officials that they are ‘putting the people of Gaza on a diet’.” (Saeed Bannoura, ‘Israeli government documents show deliberate policy to keep Gazans at near-starvation levels’, International Middle East Media Center, November 6, 2010 21:32; http://www.imemc.org/article/59843)
“in which the dietary needs for the population of Gaza are chillingly calculated, and the amounts of food let in by the Israeli government measured to remain just enough to keep the population alive at a near-starvation level. This documents the statement made by a number of Israeli officials that they are ‘putting the people of Gaza on a diet’.” (Saeed Bannoura, ‘Israeli government documents show deliberate policy to keep Gazans at near-starvation levels’, International Middle East Media Center, November 6, 2010 21:32; http://www.imemc.org/article/59843)
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/101117_put_the_palestinians.php
In early 2010, one of Washington DC’s most prestigious think tanks was holding a seminar on the Middle East which included a discussion of Israel’s December 2008-January 2009 assault on Gaza which killed about 1,300 Palestinians. When the death toll was mentioned, one expert on the panel smiled enigmatically and intoned: “It’s unfortunate, but every once in a while you have to mow the lawn.”
http://www.alternet.org/world/killing-people-mowing-lawn-how-israeli-hardliners-and-official-washington-dehumanize-people
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