{"id":2014,"date":"2007-05-23T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2007-05-23T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T01:07:00","slug":"imprisoning-a-whole-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoning a whole nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

By John Pilger, New Statesman<\/em>, 22 May 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how Gaza in Palestine has come to symbolise the imposition of great power on the powerless, in the Middle East and all over the world, and how a vocabulary of double standard is employed to justify this epic tragedy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is being allowed to imprison an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza, whose suffering has become a metaphor for the tragedy imposed on the peoples of the Middle East and beyond. These attacks, reported on Britain’s Channel 4 News, were ?targeting key militants of Hamas? and the ?Hamas infrastructure?. The BBC described a ?clash? between the same militants and Israeli F-16 aircraft.<\/p>\n

Consider one such clash. The militants? car was blown to pieces by a missile from a fighter-bomber. Who were these militants? In my experience, all the people of Gaza are militant in their resistance to their jailer and tormentor. As for the ?Hamas infrastructure?, this was the headquarters of the party that won last year?s democratic elections in Palestine. To report that would give the wrong impression. It would suggest that the people in the car and all the others over the years, the babies and the elderly who have also ?clashed? with fighter-bombers, were victims of a monstrous injustice. It would suggest the truth.<\/p>\n

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