(en) Canada, ucl-saguenay, Canada, ucl-saguenay, Emma Goldman Collective - Shake the specter of Hamas to justify the massacre (fr, pt)

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The following is not a statement supporting Hamas, but a restoration of some facts. ---- 
Since the beginning of the protective military operation'' Border'' launched by the 
Israeli army on July 8, most media portray events as a conflict between Israel and Hamas. 
The IDF military "defense" of Israel, must, according to them, destroy any military 
capability'' terrorist group'' and its allies. However, during these 20 days of offensive 
air, sea and land, it is the Palestinian population pays a heavy price with dated July 27, 
1060 dead, thousands injured es and 170,000 displaced persons in UN camps, about 10% of 
the population of the Gaza Strip. It is important to remember that the Gazan es undergo a 
third military operation in 6 years 1 . Without supporting Hamas, it is possible to see 
how Israel uses to justify its continued attacks on Gaza.

After decades of colonization, Israel has no intention of stopping:

Since 1948, named'''' Nakba (catastrophe) by Palestinians ne s, Israel continues illegal 
colonization of Palestine and established a system of apartheid restricting the rights of 
the various Palestinian restricting and controlling the access to the cities and to the 
house of those who obtained Israeli citizenship, removing the right to vote in the vast 
majority of them / them and bordering areas still under Palestinian control, these areas 
are still dwindling after decades in favor of the State of Israel which is the appropriate 
way 78% of the territory of palestinie ne s, which are now confined to es-plots of land in 
the West Bank and an air prison opened in the Gaza Strip. The latter undergoes a blockade 
since June 2007 and its economy is on the defibrillator. All commercial crossings are 
blocked by Israel, which had resulted in the closure of 90% of Gazan factories, a large 
decrease in agriculture and limiting fishing (fishermen can not go further than 5 km from 
the coast) 2 .

And that's not counting cuts in electricity and fuel shortages which cause extremely 
serious problems such as interference with functioning hospitals. More electricity and 
fuel for generators ... The water becomes itself as a very rare commodity. As if the 
situation was not dramatic enough, the arrival to power of General Al-Sissi in Egypt led 
to the destruction of tunnels where food and objects of all kinds passed, which allowed to 
overcome a little bit of the blockade Israel. As a result, 45% of Gaza's population lives 
below the poverty line and 80% of its economy dependent on humanitarian aid.

With the blockade came the creation of a Prohibited 1 km wide around the Gaza Strip area. 
All e-Gazan-e is approaching risk his life because Israeli soldiers have orders to shoot 
on sight. With the operation'' Border'' protective launched there in 20 days, this area 
increased to 3 km wide, removing another part of the territory to the Gaza Strip which 
remember, is only 45 km long and 12 km wide.

Faced with such a situation in Gaza, are asking for'' terrorist'' Hamas?

Basically, the Hamas demand three things in order to accept a cease-fire permanent. The 
first is the total abolition of the blockade set up by Israel following the Hamas takeover 
of Gaza in 2007. The second is the removal of obstacles to fisheries and agriculture in 
order to allow a restart of Gaza's economy and ultimately the release by Israel of Hamas 
prisoners. Far from being impossible, the first two applications are necessary for the 
survival of Gazan-es that qualify them / themselves their situation'' slow'' and'' death'' 
throttle.

"Hamas uses children as human shields"

Israel goes very far in his lies. Its leaders even say that Hamas uses children as human 
shields. This allows them to refrain massacre on the back of another organization they. In 
blaming Hamas, and they justify the number of civilian deaths. If Israel's leaders accept 
that the deaths of innocent people are not the result of a conspiracy Hamas but their 
fault, since the Israeli army bombed factories, hospitals, houses, etc.. would be to admit 
that Israel violates the Geneva Convention and all this would be a crime against humanity. 
This is an excellent text activist Richard Seymour on the subject:

" They hid the El-Wafa hospital.
They hid in the Al-Aqsa hospital.
They hid on the beach, where children played football
They hid in the courtyard of Mohammed Hamad, a 75 years old man.
They hid in the neighborhoods of Shejaiya.
They hid in the Zaytoun neighborhood and Toffah.
They hid in Rafah and Khan Younis.
They hid in the house of Qassan.
They hid in the house of the poet Hussein Othman.
They hid in the village of Khoza'a.
They hid in the thousands of houses damaged or destroyed.
They hid in 84 schools and 23 health centers.
They hid in a cafe, where Gazans were watching the World Cup.
They hid in the ambulances were picking up the wounded.
They are hidden in 24 corpses buried under the rubble.
They are hidden in the body of a young woman in pink slippers, spread out on the sidewalk 
and shot while trying to escape.
They are hidden in the bodies of two brothers four and eight who were in intensive care in 
the major burns Al-Shifa.
They are hidden in the body of the little boy whose remains had been collected by his 
father in a plastic bag.
They hid in the incredible tangle of bodies arriving in hospitals in Gaza.
They are hidden in the body of an elderly woman, who was lying in a pool of blood on the 
stone floor.
Hamas, they tell us, is cowardly and cynical. "

Richard Seymour

Israel has even recognized the lip that Hamas, which he accused of the kidnapping of three 
Israeli, was ultimately not the abductor. However, it is important to remember that this 
justified the removal operation'' protective'' Border. Israeli Prime Minister had then 
stated that:'' Hamas and Hamas is responsible will pay .'' 3 Since that time, the bombing 
of Gaza have not stopped, mowing down civilians by the hundreds.

Then, the acceptance of a truce is another justification strategy employed military 
offensive by Israel. Indeed, the Zionist state has the beautiful game by accepting a truce 
since a few hours seems like whoever wants to put an end to this conflict and exercised 
restraint and openness. The Israeli Intelligence Minister will even say explicitly:'' On 
the diplomatic front, accepting proposed by the UN, which was rejected by Hamas truce, we 
obtained a legitimacy for the continuation of the operation ". 4 Israel knows that Hamas 
will not stop its fire since the Israeli army did not even leave the Gazan territory 
during the truce and shows no sign that the offensive and blockade will have an end. Fawzi 
Barhoum, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, made clear this point: " No humanitarian truce is valid 
without withdrawal of Israeli tanks in Gaza, without people can not return to their homes 
and ambulances carrying the bodies are free to move to Gaza " 5 .

Who is the real terrorist?

The colonization of Palestine lasted since 1947. It is therefore normal that resistance 
groups emerge. Hamas is one. Israel calls it terrorism and wants more than anything its 
destruction. Through years of misery, bombings, shortages, assimilation and segregation, 
the State of Israel should not expect anything other than a radicalization of resistance 
movements against him. Hamas is a result of the settlement policy of Israel. Since the 
beginning of'' protective'' Frame Israel justifies while blaming Hamas. However, it begs 
the question of who is the terrorist between the Zionist state which has to date killed 
more than 1,000 people, 90% of civilians or Hamas with approximately 46 dead, including 43 
soldiers of the IDF. That's not counting the apartheid policy that leads Israel in the 
West Bank and the construction of the wall of shame (ruled illegal by the International 
Court of Justice in July 2004).

1 Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009). 1,314 Palestinian ne es s death in 21 days. Operation 
Pillar of Defense (November 2012): 163 dead are in 8 days. Source:
2 . In 2010, only 40 products could cross the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel 
against 4000 before the blockade.
3 . 
http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/2014/07/26/hamas-adolescents-israeli_n_5622700.html?1406366143&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
4 . http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/2014/07/27/gaza-israel_n_5624330.html

5 
http://www.humanite.fr/gaza-israel-rompt-la-treve-et-reprend-ses-operations-militaires-548261.