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Old 07-19-2014, 01:08 PM
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Pounding Gaza, World’s Largest Open-Air Prison
Time for a fair and balance opinion piece on the Gaza situation.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/1807201...r-prison-oped/

July 18, 2014 Ralph Nader

By Ralph Nader

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With over 1,700 explosive strikes so far, the Israeli military has pounded homes, schools, mosques, electric and water facilities, municipal buildings, health clinics, moving vehicles, a home for the seriously disabled and even tiny agriculture areas. As a result of these attacks, over two hundred and thirty Gazans have died and over seventeen hundred have been injured so far, about eighty percent are civilians, a majority of whom are women and children, according to UN observers.

That is only part of the continuing war against Gaza. For years, Israel has maintained a siege/blockade, restricting the importation of adequate food, medicine, water, electricity, construction materials and other necessities needed by the refugees in the world’s largest open-air prison. These daily deprivations have taken a deadly toll. Fatalities, sicknesses, untreated cancers have resulted. Half of the children are seriously malnourished due to the dire poverty associated with the Israeli air, land and sea encirclement. (There are even harsh restrictions on Gazan fishermen.)
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It's been an open-air prison for 65 years.
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It's been an open-air prison for 65 years.

I am at a loss as to why the US continues support for Zionism and extremest settlers. I just don't get it.
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I am at a loss as to why the US continues support for Zionism and extremest settlers. I just don't get it.
Electoral politics in our country. The same reason we have such idiotic policies vis-a-vis Cuba.
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Electoral politics in our country. The same reason we have such idiotic policies vis-a-vis Cuba.
It is a little more than that. Jews are dominant in ownership of the media.
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It is a little more than that. Jews are dominant in ownership of the media.
That plays into it for sure. Namely, if a politician is bold enough to say anything other than absolute fawning over Netanyahu/Israel's policies, they're skewered in Congress, newspapers, TV and by AIPAC. I heard that a couple of days ago that the Senate voted to support Israel's current actions in Gaza by 100-0.
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Bush's War on Terror has pushed us a lot closer to Israel.
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Bush's War on Terror has pushed us a lot closer to Israel.
Funny how that worked. A number of the NeoCons pushing for that war were Jewish.
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Of course criticism of Israeli practices and policies isn't necessarily anti-semitism.

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