{"id":44551,"date":"2014-07-14T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=44551"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:41","slug":"the-true-gaza-back-story-that-the-israelis-arent-telling-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/07\/the-true-gaza-back-story-that-the-israelis-arent-telling-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Gaza Back-Story That the Israelis Aren\u2019t Telling This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

A future Palestine state will have no borders and be an enclave within Israel, surrounded on all sides by Israeli-held territory.<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, so by this afternoon [9 Jul 2014], the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won\u2019t be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about land. The Israelis of Sederot are coming under rocket fire from the Palestinians of Gaza and now the Palestinians are getting their comeuppance. Sure. But wait, how come all those Palestinians \u2013 all 1.5 million \u2013 are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn\u2019t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out \u2013 or fled for their lives \u2013 when the Israeli state was created.<\/p>\n

And \u2013 a drawing in of breath is now perhaps required \u2013 the people who lived in Sederot in early 1948 were not Israelis, but Palestinian Arabs. Their village was called Huj. Nor were they enemies of Israel. Two years earlier, these same Arabs had actually hidden Jewish Haganah fighters from the British Army. But when the Israeli army turned up at Huj on 31 May 1948, they expelled all the Arab villagers \u2013 to the Gaza Strip! Refugees, they became. David Ben Gurion (Israel\u2019s first Prime Minister) called it an \u201cunjust and unjustified action\u201d. Too bad. The\u00a0 Palestinians of Huj were never allowed back.<\/p>\n

And today, well over 6,000 descendants of the Palestinians from Huj \u2013 now Sederot \u2013 live in the squalor of Gaza, among the \u201cterrorists\u201d Israel is claiming to destroy and who are shooting at what was Huj. Interesting story.<\/p>\n

And same again for Israel\u2019s right to self-defence. We heard it again today. What if the people of London were being rocketed like the people of Israel? Wouldn\u2019t they strike back? Well yes, but we Brits don\u2019t have more than a million former inhabitants of the UK cooped up in refugee camps over a few square miles around Hastings.<\/p>\n

The last time this specious argument was used was in 2008, when Israel invaded Gaza and killed at least 1,100 Palestinians (exchange rate: 1,100 to 13). What if Dublin was under rocket attack, the Israeli ambassador asked then? But the UK town of Crossmaglen in Northern Ireland was under rocket attack from the Irish Republic in the 1970s \u2013 yet the RAF didn\u2019t bomb Dublin in retaliation, killing Irish women and children. In Canada in 2008, Israel\u2019s supporters were making the same fraudulent point. What if the people of Vancouver or Toronto or Montreal were being rocket-attacked from the suburbs of their own cities? How would they feel? But the Canadians haven\u2019t pushed the original inhabitants of Canadian territory into refugee camps.<\/p>\n

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Robert Fisk, based in Beirut, is a multiple award-winning journalist on the Middle East and a <\/em>correspondent for <\/em>The Independent, a UK newspaper.\u00a0 He is the author of many books on the region, including <\/em>The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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OK, so by this afternoon [9 Jul 2014], the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won\u2019t be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours. It\u2019s about land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}