Israel, the Big Lie [Chris Hedges]

Chris Hedges:

"Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S.

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I spent seven years in the Middle East as a correspondent, four of them as The New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief. I am an Arabic speaker. I lived for weeks at a time in Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison where over 2 million Palestinians exist on the edge of starvation, struggle to find clean water and endure constant Israeli terror. I have been in Gaza when it was pounded with Israeli artillery and air strikes. I have watched mothers and fathers, wailing in grief, cradling the bloodied bodies of their sons and daughters. I know the crimes of the occupation—the food shortages caused by the Israeli blockade, the stifling overcrowding, the contaminated water, the lack of health services, the near constant electrical outages due to the Israeli targeting of power plants, the crippling poverty, the endemic unemployment, the fear and the despair. I have witnessed the carnage. "

Read more here :

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/14/chris-hedges-israel-the-big-lie/

Israel continues the ethnic cleansing it began in 1948 and continues to deny basic human rights to 6 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Justice for Palestinians does not exist in Israel. International pressure is essential. US should stop all arms sales to Israel and reconsider all political and financial support. All nations that value human rights should boycott, sanction and divest now! 

Unless Israel agrees to become a secular democratic state that includes the 6 million Arabs in occupied territories or agrees to a two state solution. If we fail (currently both options look very unlikely to me), then a very bloody civil war in Palestine is certain - sooner or later.