Gaza: "It is not a war, it is murder." N.Chomsky

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Noam Chomsky Statement on Israel's War on Gaza

Chomsky Statement on Israel's War on Gaza  

It is not a war, it is murder.  

The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is
not about stopping rocket fire into Israel, it is not about achieving peace.


The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal
weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian
population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to
ethnically-cleanse Palestinians.  

Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb
densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums
to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no
heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in
control, no army… and calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder.  

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend
themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military
occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You
can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land.
That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.  

Noam Chomsky