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“Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because “God chose us.” Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, …” Amira Haas on the Gaza blockade Hass has a short history of why the recent cantonization of Palestinians is so tragic. She describes how after 1967 Palestinian culture and society flourished with 1948 and 1967 Palestinians being reunited, but since 1991 everything has fallen apart. The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. “They were sick and some were dying,” she says. “Then my mother saw these German women looking at the prisoners, just looking. This image became very formative in my upbringing, this […] JERUSALEM – Sameh Amira was fast asleep when he was jolted awake by pounding at the front door. Israeli troops were on a manhunt for wanted militants in the West Bank and decided to draft help.The terror-stricken 24-year-old Palestinian soon found himself forced onto the front lines of Israel’s shadowy war against militants, a human shield as… Israel refuses to acknowledge that, in essence, its occupation apparatus attacks civilians—undermining their right to live—and claims the prerogative to label those who resist it as criminals. The British, the whites in S. Africa, and the French, too, portrayed those who actively resisted their imposed rule as bloodthirsty terrorists. (Amira Hass) It isn’t local decisions by Israeli military officers that are fragmenting the West Bank into isolated territorial cells; nor security reasons that prevent Gazans from studying in the West Bank, or American academics from teaching in Palestinian institutions. It’s a paradigm to prevent Palestinians from organizing and making demands of Israel. Expulsions, which cleave families, occur unopposed by Israeli citizens or political organizations that speak loftily of peace, and also by Western countries that know only how to make demands of Palestinian governments, but claim that they cannot intervene in Israel’s sovereign decisions—the sovereign decisions of an occupying state
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