On the Continuous Pillaging and Enslavement of the Palestinian People


Armed Palestinian resisters to Israeli occupation and imprisonment without trial of thousands and thousands of their brethren have shocked the “Western” world by breaking out of the Gaza Ghetto and daring to attack Israel, sort of like armed Jewish resisters once attacked Nazis in the Warsaw “ghetto”. They dared to take prisoners to exchange for the thousands of Palestinians held without trial by the Israeli occupiers, the former but not the latter considered anathema. After all, only Israelis have prisoners, those captured by Hamas are hostages. As in the first war to end all wars, “Western” media has quickly demonized those it disdains, claiming, without evidence, all sorts of atrocities and brutalities involving women and infants. Then, it was the “Huns” dining on babies; now it is Hamas purportedly raping women and beheading infants. While atrocities are probable (the thirst for revenge tends to lead to inhumane reactions), these particular reports, like those from the first war to end all wars, are highly improbable or at least, extremely exaggerated. On the other hand, the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children by the Israelis are well documented and credible. But “that” was collateral damage so it doesn’t count. And after all, the roughly forty to one ratio of Israeli to Palestinian casualties must be maintained, the score is important in this particular game.