Israeli terror against Palestinians is behind the war in the Mideast

Israeli terror against Palestinians is behind the war in the Mideast By John Wojcik At a minimum hundreds of Israelis and even more Palestinians have already been killed in violence now marked by constant barbaric air raids Israel has unleashed on the territory of Gaza, a small enclave near the southern tip of Israel that is literally an outdoor prison for its 2 million Palestinian inhabitants. People in Gaza cannot leave there and have no recognized papers that allow them to travel anywhere in the world. The tiny “prison” enclave might work for 40,000 people but not for 2 million. The close proximity of the population to one another makes Israeli attacks even more deadly than they might otherwise be. NBC correspondent Richard Engel made note of this on Sunday when he said the attack on Israel, was not, as many in the media were saying, a “surprise.” He expected it, he said, based on the suffering of the Palestinian people. Almost immediately the editor of the Jerusalem Post was put on so he could counter what Engel had said. He claimed that setting up Gaza as an “open air prison” was the result of Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis. When truth makes it through to corporate media it often is quickly extinguished. Claims by the entire corporate media in the West that “Israel was caught off guard” by the Hamas attacks late last week lack even a shred of credibility. For millions of Palestinians that “war” or the “long war,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims it will be, didn’t begin on Saturday. Recent actions by Israel in its cruel occupation of Palestinian land and refusal of the West, led by the United States, to do anything to curb those actions, are responsible for the slaughter underway now in Gaza – a slaughter that could well expand in the region and result in many thousands of deaths.... READ MORE >> Connect with People's World Contact us 3339 S. Halsted Street | Chicago, Illinois 60608 773-446-9920 | contact@peoplesworld.org Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences