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=> Re: Israel-Palestine – what is the U.S. national interest? by Ralph
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One of the most obscene things about the Israeli government is how they executed a plan to collectively punish the civilians of Gaza just as the Nazis walled in Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and only allowed them a daily intake of substandard number of calories. In a film tilted A Film Unfinished a filmmaker discovered reels in the Polish archives of Nazis filming and observing their prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto, and in one scene it showed how they kept records of the number of grams of flour each family were allotted -- just enough to keep them alive. Here's an excerpt from Jonathan Cook who writes frequently about the Israel/Palestine conflict in which he describes the "Gazan diet": "The Israeli media have tried to present these chilling discussions, held in secret, in the best light possible. Even the liberal Haaretz newspaper euphemistically described this extreme form of calorie-counting as designed to “make sure Gaza didn’t starve”. But a rather different picture emerges as one reads the small print. While the health ministry determined that Gazans needed daily an average of 2,279 calories each to avoid malnutrition – requiring 170 trucks a day – military officials then found a host of pretexts to whittle down the trucks to a fraction of the original figure. The reality was that, in this period, an average of only 67 trucks – much less than half of the minimum requirement – entered Gaza daily. This compared to more than 400 trucks before the blockade began. To achieve this large reduction, officials deducted trucks based both on an over-generous assessment of how much food could be grown locally and on differences in the ”culture and experience” of food consumption in Gaza, a rationale never explained." -- Jonathan Cook, Israel’s starvation diet formula in Gaza and the expansion of the ‘Dahiya doctrine’: http://mondoweiss.net/2012/10/israels-starvation-diet-formula-in-gaza-and-the-expansion-of-the-dahiya-doctrine.html --------------------- |
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