Gaza: Five reasons Israel should cease its attacks on Gaza | Scoop News

23.8.11

Gaza: Five reasons Israel should cease its attacks on Gaza | Scoop News: Article: Julie Webb-Pullman



Gaza: Five reasons Israel should cease its attacks on Gaza



Eilat incidents

Israel has provided the flimsiest of evidence that either the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), or any Gazans at all, were responsible for the attacks near Eilat that killed eight Israelis on Thursday. To claim that Kalashnikov bullets found at the scene are evidence of Gazan involvement because Kalashnikovs are also used in Gaza (1) is a trifle disingenuous and simplistic, given that Kalashnikovs are also used in Israel itself, Egypt, and another 70-odd countries around the world. Both the PRC and the Hamas government have denied any involvement in the Eilat attacks.



Or does the PRC Israel accuses really refer to the Peoples’ Republic of China, because a teeshirt at the scene was made there? Clearly the Gaulloise cigarette butt and the empty coke bottle on the roadside suggest that the putative Gazan/Chinese terrorists were working in collaboration with...a French-US cell responsible for health terrorism, perhaps?



There is certainly a lot more evidence for the last phrase, than for ANY of the former propositions.



Right to “security” and “self-defence”

Human rights are something that ALL humans are supposed to enjoy – not just Zionist Israelis. Palestinians also have the “right” to “security” – despite the international community doing precious little to uphold it for the last 63 years, from the day in 1948 they so generously gave away Palestinian land without their consent to establish the state of Israel within proscribed borders, to the present day.



Borders designate the territory within which a nation can be secure – they define the parameters to be respected by itself regarding ‘excursions’, and others regarding ‘incursions’. When territory is subjected to incursions, the occupants have the right of proportional self-defence, under international law.



Israel has not only never accepted any borders whatsoever, but it has invaded every neighbouring country with which it shares one - at whim, and for decades.