Hard Lead
March 21, 2009
After publishing my dossier "The Land of Suffering and Hatred," I received some messages from readers. Not many, in the end. Because this dossier had been built on historically verified facts, considered credible by the Jews themselves. By dialoguing with them, I realized how often they ignored the source of what they consider their basic culture: the Torah, very few had actually read it. It is true that
only five to six percent of Israelis are religious, believing the Torah to be a holy book
, referring to something real, something
credible.
Most of them ignored the mythological basis of some of their traditional holidays. Many lived on the basis of a very softened vision, equivalent to what young Christians find in their "sacred stories." By reading my text, they discovered the "false flag operations" carried out by Israel, and also the terrorist actions that their historical leaders, sometimes reaching the head of their state, had conducted in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Children of Jews living in France, I heard, after a classic anti-Arab diatribe, the usual refrain:
- All we want is to live in peace. Israelis only desire peace.
These people often discovered, with surprise, the foundation of the state of Israel, which they had known nothing about:
Living in peace on the land of others.
I am surprised not to be immediately labeled an anti-Semite by a journalist like Philippe Val, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo. What silence in our press! What absence of images.
Please visit the following URL
http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/18/gilad-atzmon-–-war-on-terror-within-the-end-of-jewish-history
Gilad Atzmon
is a Jew born in Israel, who did his military service there, but had to emigrate to England due to his political positions.
He declares he refuses any contact with political leaders of any faction, and that artists (he is a jazz musician) should work for understanding between peoples.
Down the top, a difficult to sustain slideshow is displayed. Operation Hard Lead: 1400 Palestinian deaths (and 5000 injured), 14 killed among the ranks of the Israeli army.
A ratio of one to a hundred.
Down this site, I am told, is an article by a Jew, Gilad Atzmon. Here is what he writes, according to a translation I was given:
On a hilltop offering a view of Gaza,
Jews are watching the military operations while dancing in joy
During the past weeks, we have witnessed an Israeli genocidal campaign against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip. We had already witnessed one of the most powerful armies in the world crushing women, the elderly, and children. This time, we saw a hurricane of unconventional weapons exploding over schools, hospitals, and refugee camps. We had already seen and heard about war crimes. But this time, the Israeli transgression was categorically different: it was supported by the majority of the Israeli Jewish population.
Indeed, the military campaign of "IDF" in Gaza was supported by
94% of the Israeli population
. 94% of Israelis, apparently, approved the air raids against civilians. The Israeli population watched the massacre on their television screens; they heard the screams, they saw hospitals and refugee camps on fire, and yet they were not truly shaken by all they saw. Israelis did not do much to stop their merciless, "democratically elected" leaders. Instead, some of them grabbed their lounge chairs and went up to the hills overlooking the Gaza Strip, in order to
watch with their own eyes (photo above) their army transforming Gaza into a modern Hebrew coliseum, overflowing with blood. And even today, as the military campaign seems to be over and the extent of the massacre in Gaza has been revealed, the Israelis show no sign of remorse. As if that were not enough, throughout the war, Jews around the world have demonstrated their support for their "state reserved for Jews only."
Such popular support for clearly defined war crimes is absolutely unprecedented. Terrorist states do kill, certainly, but they at least feel a minimum of shame. Stalin's USSR did so, in some gulags deep in Siberia; Nazi Germany executed its victims in deep forests and behind barbed wire. In the Jewish state, no such gloves: Israelis massacre defenseless women, children, and the elderly in broad daylight, using unconventional weapons targeting schools, hospitals, and refugee camps...
The level reached by this collective barbarity screams for an explanation. The task that awaits us can be defined, without hesitation, as the quest for an awareness of the collective brutality of Israel. How could a society (the Israeli society, in this case) have arranged itself to lose all sense of compassion and pity?
Ihave read that during the Israeli operations against supposed terrorists, the Arabs displayed their dead, raised bloodstained children, using them "for propaganda purposes." Now, take a look at this long slideshow and you will discover how the Palestinians use all these dead for propaganda purposes. This time, it is done on a large scale. The images scroll by, to the point of nausea. Are these just the usual collateral damages of all wars?
Collateral damages during the operation in Gaza
In Israel and in different countries around the world, strange demonstrations are emerging:
Redrawn by Shimon Tzabar
In the Nouvel Observateur:
Continuation of the page "Hard Lead":
Voices begin to rise
March 29, 2009
The Israeli raid on Gaza may mark a date in the history of the Middle East and perhaps in the history of the world. It marks the end of a myth. In
a previous dossier
, I had first allowed my readers to discover that Zionism did not begin after the Second World War, but that this movement had started as early as the end of the 19th century. In the same vein, they could discover that many former leaders of the State of Israel had been authentic terrorists, and finally that the country had carried out operations now known under the name "false flag."
The Israeli question is one of the most delicate subjects. I therefore addressed it based on historical considerations, on facts considered established. These often surprised my Jewish readers, who had ignored some of them. But today, history catches up with us, it is on our heels.
When the Israelis rushed into the last refuge of ...