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<p><strong>By Khalid Amayreh</strong></p>
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<p>The Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip  two years ago, which lasted  for three weeks, was pornographically  criminal and graphically  genocidal. Israel knowingly and deliberately  targeted innocent  civilians, including children, using state-of-the-art  machines of  death.</p>
<p>Entire families were simply exterminated at  the pretext that a  member was involved with the resistance. Homes,  hospitals, mosques and  other public buildings were obliterated. Even  terrified and thoroughly  terrorized people raising white banners were  mercilessly riddled with  bullets.</p>
<p>The sheer criminality of the  Israeli army gave the impression that  Israeli soldiers were probably  trying to mimic Old Testament savagery  by murdering men, women, and  children, and by destroying and  annihilating all that breathe!!</p>
<p>The  genocidal onslaught on Gaza is sufficient to render Israel an   illegitimate state. No state under the sun, Jewish or otherwise, should   behave in such a nefarious manner and remain legitimate.</p>
<p><a id="more15514" name="more15514"></a>Don&#8217;t  mention the holocaust. In the final analysis, since when did  Israel have  the right to utilize one holocaust in order to commit  another? Or use  it as red herring to divert attention from its  genocidal atrocities  against its victims?</p>
<p>To cover her crimes against humanity,  Israel used her effective  lying machine to the fullest. It claimed that  Israel was coming under  attack from Gaza and that it was merely  exercising self-defense.</p>
<p>Such a claim, coming  from a country  that is based on mass murder,  ethnic cleansing and land theft, is very  much analogous to an imagined   claim by the Third Reich that it was   forced to deal  stringently with  Jews because SS soldiers had been  coming under attack from Jewish  resistance fighters at Ghetto Warsaw.</p>
<p>I  am making this comparison because as soon as Israel ostensibly  left  Gaza in 2005, it imposed a hermetically tight blockade on the  coastal  enclave, turning it into the largest open- air prison in the  world.  Gazans were tormented and savaged and starved in manners unseen  since Ghetto Warsaw, or probably the great Ukrainian starvation under  Stalin.</p>
<p>Israel  simply wanted Gazans to die unwept and as quietly as  possible. However,  when Gazans found out that they had nothing to lose;  they decided to  die standing on their feet, rather than walking meekly  to the Israeli slaughterhouse.</p>
<p>Israel rained death on Gaza for 21 consecutive  days, hoping to get  the people of Gaza to crawl on their hands and feet, begging for mercy  from an army that combined all the elements of  barbarianism and  brutality of the Wehrmacht, Gestapo and SS combined.</p>
<p>However,  much of the so-called international community kept up  looking on as  Gaza was being killed and raped as if these abominations  were occurring  on a distant planet.</p>
<p>There is no doubt the pornographic apathy with which the so-called  civilized world related to the shameful Israeli aggression in Gaza two  years ago represented an all-time low in the  world&#8217;s morality.</p>
<p>What else can be said of powerful states, some  of which are  considered cornerstones of the international system, which  related to  the attempted lynching of nearly 2 million Gazans by merely  saying that  &#8220;Israel has the right to defend itself.&#8221;!! What kind of  fornication  with language is this, coming from the President of the most  powerful  nation on earth?</p>
<p>To be sure, moral depravity was by  means the lot of an evil empire  that allowed itself to be transformed  into a big whore by Israel and  her supporters. Many other countries  betrayed and continued to betray  Gaza, including countries that  shamelessly claim to be Arab and  Islamic.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the  passage of two years since the clouds of death  were hovering over Gaza  has not brought any solace. The brutal ugliness  of a manifestly fascist  Israel is as conspicuous as ever. And Israel  continues to gang up on  Gaza, barring the victims of the 2008-2009  aggression from rebuilding their homes by preventing building materials  from getting through into  Gaza.</p>
<p>It is true that the overall humanitarian situation in  Gaza is  slightly better in comparison to what it was two years ago.  However, it  is also true that whatever improvement there has been is not  a result  of Israeli magnanimity but rather a cynical attempt to enhance  her  tarnished image.</p>
<p>This is why the free-minded people of the  world must stay focused on  Gaza lest Israel decides to reactivate her  genocidal instincts and  gang up on Gaza&#8217;s children again.</p>
<p>We  must not allow ourselves to forget the cardinal fact that the  murder of  Palestinian children has always been a well-guarded Zionist  tradition.  Unfortunately, there is no evidence whatsoever suggesting  that the  Zionist entity is about to forgo this evil but intrinsic  tradition which  for most Zionists constitutes a way of life.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/01/04/israel-s-genocidal-aggression-on-gaza-re">Israel&#8217;s genocidal aggression on Gaza revisited</a>.</p>
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