Alik Bahshi
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"He who weaves slander does not know
That slander will later kill him"
M. Saadi
Who could have imagined that pirates would return from the depths of time to the Mediterranean, the cradle of civilization? Nor did the people sleeping sweetly before dawn in the cabins of the Turkish cruise liner "Mavi Marmara" think so when armed Israeli commandos clambered aboard and literally descended from the sky onto the upper deck. The hijacking of the peaceful liner took place in international waters, which is classified as nothing less than piracy, and the fact that the act took place under the cover of darkness underscores its malicious intent. The unarmed men's attempt to prevent this lawlessness prompted a merciless opening of lethal force. As a result, nine people were killed and dozens wounded. A significant fact, highlighting the criminal actions of the commandos, is Israel's attempt to suppress information coming from the "Free Gaza" flotilla that was attacked.
Blaming the gunned-down Turks for their own fault, having resisted illegal violence, is tantamount to excusing an armed bandit who killed a homeowner simply because the latter attacked the bandit as he was breaking into the house.
Seeing the extremely unsightly international situation Israel found itself in, Jewish journalists raised a veritable hue and cry, accusing everyone and everything: Turkey of a planned provocation and Islamization, America and Europe of the same Islamization, and human rights activists and peacekeepers of lying. In the heat of hysteria, the notorious Palestinian hater E. Bonner (http://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/7804.html ), rejecting the slogan "two states for two peoples" and attempting to justify Israel's illegal actions, calls for abandoning political correctness. And it's clear why. Because political correctness is in no way compatible with Bonner's outburst of blatant cynicism. The self-proclaimed human rights activist believes that only a "swollen belly and limbs like sticks" reflect the degree of starvation, and if this symptom isn't observed in Palestinian children, then there's no humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. In that case, one would have to assume that the tummy fused to the spine, visible in photographs of children from Auschwitz, is proof that the Nazis provided excellent nutrition to concentration camp prisoners. This isn't a question of political correctness, but rather of Ms. Bonner's complete lack of morality. Even living with a man of conscience and great morality proved ineffective in this case.
Bonner's cynicism echoes, I would say, the brazen cynicism of Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, known for his particular "peacefulness" toward Arabs. The minister shared with the world the revelation that the people of Gaza eat in expensive restaurants! This circumstance, in his opinion, exposes the absurdity of talk of a humanitarian catastrophe. It becomes clear why chocolate is included among the long list of prohibited foods for Gaza. It's purely out of concern for the health of the people, to protect Palestinians from diabetes. I wondered if Lieberman's dream for solving the Palestinian issue (http://proza.ru/2008/03/22/576 ) had really come true. He envisioned a carpet bombing campaign, then feeding the surviving Palestinians generously, and then peace and prosperity would follow.
Explaining the bloody massacre of the peaceful "Free Gaza" flotilla in neutral waters, Lieberman sees nothing extraordinary in it, because, as he says, there are far more significant human murders in the world, and a dozen dead Turks aren't worth the attention it would require to stir up a political scandal. A very interesting thought! So was it worth it for Israel to start a Second Lebanon War over two kidnapped Israeli soldiers?
I'd like to address the big lie woven into the statements of journalists hanging out at Echo of Moscow (Latynina, Radzikhovsky), who always foam at the mouth to justify any aggression on the part of Israel. I deliberately recalled the Soviet newspaper phrase "foaming at the mouth," which was considered by party propagandists to be the most apt phrase for concluding the final verdict on "Western slander," but which, in this case, is precisely true. Their lie is hidden here:
"And now regarding the so-called blockade of the Gaza Strip. Well, regarding the fact that the supposed 'blockade' is simply political isolation after the Hamas terrorist organization came to power there, a policy with which the Palestinian Authority itself, to put it mildly, disagrees. And what does 'blockade' even mean? All food, energy, and other essential goods are constantly being imported from Israel." The restrictions imposed on Gaza were a response to the kidnapping of soldier Gilad Shalit from Israeli territory by Hamas terrorists."
In justifying the military action to seize the Free Gaza flotilla, Bonner writes: "Israel, like any state, not only can but must—it is the primary responsibility of any government—defend the country from the entry of any entity that poses a threat to its citizens." But the previous quote implies that Gaza is not Israeli territory. So where is the truth? The flotilla, as we know, was heading for Gaza, not Israel. Conclusion: Bonner is not knowledgeable enough about the subject to take her amateurish approach seriously. It seems to me that Ms. Bonner doesn't even know where Israel's border is.
First, what happened before the blockade. Before the blockade, it was like this: Jewish settlers, who made up 5% of the Gaza Strip's population, owned 40% of the arable land, not counting the area where significant Israeli army forces were stationed to protect the settlers, who were also armed with machine guns. The Arab population of Gaza, squeezed into a small patch of land close to the sea (Gaza has one of the highest population densities in the world) and deprived of livelihoods, desperately resisted the occupation, and as a result, in 2005, Israel was forced to withdraw its army and dismantle the Jewish settlements. However, Israel retained control, continuing the complete isolation of Gaza from the outside world. Essentially, Gaza, surrounded by a concrete wall, became a vast open-air prison for the Arabs, and the only way out was seen as continuing the struggle for freedom. The intolerable conditions led to the radicalization of society and the rise of Hamas to power in 2006. In an attempt to suppress the resistance, Israel prevented fuel and food from passing through checkpoints and occasionally cut off electricity and water supplies. Israeli naval boats prevented all fishing. In 2007, a famine struck Gaza. Palestinians, like moles, burrowed into the ground, digging underground tunnels through which food and fuel were primarily supplied from Egyptian territory. Thus, the lies of the Echo of Moscow journalists are obvious. It wasn't the emergence of Hamas on the political scene that caused the blockade, but rather Israel's attempt to force the Palestinian people to their knees by resorting to the blockade that fuelled Hamas's popularity, making Mahmoud Abbas a political corpse in comparison.
To be continued
That slander will later kill him"
M. Saadi
Who could have imagined that pirates would return from the depths of time to the Mediterranean, the cradle of civilization? Nor did the people sleeping sweetly before dawn in the cabins of the Turkish cruise liner "Mavi Marmara" think so when armed Israeli commandos clambered aboard and literally descended from the sky onto the upper deck. The hijacking of the peaceful liner took place in international waters, which is classified as nothing less than piracy, and the fact that the act took place under the cover of darkness underscores its malicious intent. The unarmed men's attempt to prevent this lawlessness prompted a merciless opening of lethal force. As a result, nine people were killed and dozens wounded. A significant fact, highlighting the criminal actions of the commandos, is Israel's attempt to suppress information coming from the "Free Gaza" flotilla that was attacked.
Blaming the gunned-down Turks for their own fault, having resisted illegal violence, is tantamount to excusing an armed bandit who killed a homeowner simply because the latter attacked the bandit as he was breaking into the house.
Seeing the extremely unsightly international situation Israel found itself in, Jewish journalists raised a veritable hue and cry, accusing everyone and everything: Turkey of a planned provocation and Islamization, America and Europe of the same Islamization, and human rights activists and peacekeepers of lying. In the heat of hysteria, the notorious Palestinian hater E. Bonner (http://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/7804.html ), rejecting the slogan "two states for two peoples" and attempting to justify Israel's illegal actions, calls for abandoning political correctness. And it's clear why. Because political correctness is in no way compatible with Bonner's outburst of blatant cynicism. The self-proclaimed human rights activist believes that only a "swollen belly and limbs like sticks" reflect the degree of starvation, and if this symptom isn't observed in Palestinian children, then there's no humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. In that case, one would have to assume that the tummy fused to the spine, visible in photographs of children from Auschwitz, is proof that the Nazis provided excellent nutrition to concentration camp prisoners. This isn't a question of political correctness, but rather of Ms. Bonner's complete lack of morality. Even living with a man of conscience and great morality proved ineffective in this case.
Bonner's cynicism echoes, I would say, the brazen cynicism of Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, known for his particular "peacefulness" toward Arabs. The minister shared with the world the revelation that the people of Gaza eat in expensive restaurants! This circumstance, in his opinion, exposes the absurdity of talk of a humanitarian catastrophe. It becomes clear why chocolate is included among the long list of prohibited foods for Gaza. It's purely out of concern for the health of the people, to protect Palestinians from diabetes. I wondered if Lieberman's dream for solving the Palestinian issue (http://proza.ru/2008/03/22/576 ) had really come true. He envisioned a carpet bombing campaign, then feeding the surviving Palestinians generously, and then peace and prosperity would follow.
Explaining the bloody massacre of the peaceful "Free Gaza" flotilla in neutral waters, Lieberman sees nothing extraordinary in it, because, as he says, there are far more significant human murders in the world, and a dozen dead Turks aren't worth the attention it would require to stir up a political scandal. A very interesting thought! So was it worth it for Israel to start a Second Lebanon War over two kidnapped Israeli soldiers?
I'd like to address the big lie woven into the statements of journalists hanging out at Echo of Moscow (Latynina, Radzikhovsky), who always foam at the mouth to justify any aggression on the part of Israel. I deliberately recalled the Soviet newspaper phrase "foaming at the mouth," which was considered by party propagandists to be the most apt phrase for concluding the final verdict on "Western slander," but which, in this case, is precisely true. Their lie is hidden here:
"And now regarding the so-called blockade of the Gaza Strip. Well, regarding the fact that the supposed 'blockade' is simply political isolation after the Hamas terrorist organization came to power there, a policy with which the Palestinian Authority itself, to put it mildly, disagrees. And what does 'blockade' even mean? All food, energy, and other essential goods are constantly being imported from Israel." The restrictions imposed on Gaza were a response to the kidnapping of soldier Gilad Shalit from Israeli territory by Hamas terrorists."
In justifying the military action to seize the Free Gaza flotilla, Bonner writes: "Israel, like any state, not only can but must—it is the primary responsibility of any government—defend the country from the entry of any entity that poses a threat to its citizens." But the previous quote implies that Gaza is not Israeli territory. So where is the truth? The flotilla, as we know, was heading for Gaza, not Israel. Conclusion: Bonner is not knowledgeable enough about the subject to take her amateurish approach seriously. It seems to me that Ms. Bonner doesn't even know where Israel's border is.
First, what happened before the blockade. Before the blockade, it was like this: Jewish settlers, who made up 5% of the Gaza Strip's population, owned 40% of the arable land, not counting the area where significant Israeli army forces were stationed to protect the settlers, who were also armed with machine guns. The Arab population of Gaza, squeezed into a small patch of land close to the sea (Gaza has one of the highest population densities in the world) and deprived of livelihoods, desperately resisted the occupation, and as a result, in 2005, Israel was forced to withdraw its army and dismantle the Jewish settlements. However, Israel retained control, continuing the complete isolation of Gaza from the outside world. Essentially, Gaza, surrounded by a concrete wall, became a vast open-air prison for the Arabs, and the only way out was seen as continuing the struggle for freedom. The intolerable conditions led to the radicalization of society and the rise of Hamas to power in 2006. In an attempt to suppress the resistance, Israel prevented fuel and food from passing through checkpoints and occasionally cut off electricity and water supplies. Israeli naval boats prevented all fishing. In 2007, a famine struck Gaza. Palestinians, like moles, burrowed into the ground, digging underground tunnels through which food and fuel were primarily supplied from Egyptian territory. Thus, the lies of the Echo of Moscow journalists are obvious. It wasn't the emergence of Hamas on the political scene that caused the blockade, but rather Israel's attempt to force the Palestinian people to their knees by resorting to the blockade that fuelled Hamas's popularity, making Mahmoud Abbas a political corpse in comparison.
To be continued