An article by moralistic left wing figurehead, media darling and increasingly suspect Owen Jones, uses news of recent events in Israel to convince his readers of the idea: rather than Israel's current ground invasion being a reaction to perpetual provocations and antagonism from Hamas militants in the Gaza strip; that Israeli "colonialism" and the "occupation of Gaza", has "corrupted the occupier", leading Israel to in his words: "dehumanize" the Palestinians, "because otherwise subjugation becomes impossible".
Whether Israel actually does "occupy" this land, formerly belonging to Egypt and annexed following the 1967 war, is a point of debate he seems to have completely overlooked in his portrayal of "the rationale" behind Israel's "occupation".
In 2005 Ariel Sharon withdrew Israeli military bases and dismantled Israeli settlements, uprooting around 10,000 settlers amongst widespread domestic opposition, the moderate government of Fatah took over administration of Gaza, but within 2 years militant Muslim Brotherhood offshoot: Hamas -an Islamist organization which teaches holocaust denial in schools; has vowed to destroy Israel & kill all Jews; trained & glorified suicide bombers; encouraged Jihad against the west; praised Adolf Hitler and likewise Osama Bin Laden- had come to power after a period of bloody conflict with rival Palestinian faction, their own government Fatah.
Hamas is no democratic political party self righteous, paternalistic middle class liberals like Owen, who march on the streets of London with their face-paint and placards would recognize, it is a militant political organization set up with one aim in mind, the destruction of the entirety of the State of Israel.
"...the Jewish faith does not wish for peace nor stability, since it is a faith that is based on murder: 'I kill, therefore I am'... Israel is based only on blood and murder in order to exist, and it will disappear, with Allah's will, through blood and Shahids [martyrs]."
Dr. Yussuf Al-Sharafi, Hamas representative, April 12, 2007; as reported by Palestinian Media Watch, April 23, 2007
"The Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the Earth, because they have displayed hostility to Allah"By launching unguided rocket attacks it has hit schools, hospitals, people's houses and civilians in attempts to achieve this ridiculous aim, but even the most religiously deluded of Hamas supporters must be aware that they are not going to win a military battle against Israel, no matter how many rockets the Al Qassam Martyr's brigade fire over the border.
'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, former Hamas minister of culture, aired on Al-Aqsa TV, April 8, 2011, translation by MEMRI
So the question must be asked why do they do it?
Well in my view it's part of an exercise in propaganda targeting the world at large, and psychological warfare against their own population, cultivating a deep and resounding hatred of Israel making recruitment of angry young Palestinian men alot easier than it might be if they didn't have a list of retaliatory Israeli attacks to mention.
You'll never hear the likes of Owen Jones or any members of the various 'Plebs for Palestine' protest groups that exist in the West ask why Palestinians use schools for storing missiles and weaponry, or hospitals and women and children as shields to launch rocket attacks on Israel, infact you'll never hear them mention a bad word against Hamas' tactics in general, they quite often suggest that under the 'illegal, apartheid occupation of Israel' any actions are justified, though they stop short of openly advocating terrorism they do not denounce it.
And this is where the propaganda takes effect, when Israel inevitably takes action bombing weapon cache's or the places where missiles are being launched from, Western observers immediately take to the media, to the internet and to the streets to condemn the 'heavy-handed response' of the Nation under attack, when hospitals, schools and civilians inevitably suffer from the actions of Hamas, pictures of the civilians caught in the crossfire, of the after effects of Hamas' policy of using human shields and storing weapons in schools are almost immediately dispatched and widely shared, and the idea of arbitrary Israeli destruction, lies and cries of 'genocide' propagated along with them.
It is by these methods that Hamas uses the deaths of it's population to gain credibility and sympathy in the International community, that Israel becomes a pariah state facing condemnation from all corners of the world, and that peace is further precluded, the ease with which people fall into dichotomies of who's right and who's wrong, good verses evil causing irreconcilable divisions.
"As the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect"
Johnathan Swift, The Examiner 1710
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