Het extremisme van Ratna Pelle. Ohad also says: "We needed to cleanse the neighbourhoods, the buildings, the area. It sounds really terrible to say "cleanse", but those were the orders....I don't want to make a mistake with the words."
Een maand geleden schreef ik dit:
Dit beweerde de extremiste Ratna Pelle begin 2009, op het hoogtepunt van de Israelische oorlogsmisdaden in het belegerde Gaza:
Onderstaand opiniestuk staat vandaag in ingekorte vorm in Trouw. Geweld Israël in Gaza is niet buiten proportie
De Israëlische bombardementen op de Gazastrook worden, zoals bijna iedere Israëlische militaire operatie, alom als buitenproportioneel bestempeld, zo ook in Trouw. Zowel in het hoofdcommentaar als een opiniestuk door Tijs Berman en Tineke Bennema wordt de operatie afgekeurd, gesteld dat alleen de extremisten baat hebben bij het geweld en gepleit voor hervatting van het vredesproces.De vraag is echter: wat is proportioneel? Israëls raketten zijn onnoemelijk effectiever dan die van Hamas. Mag Israël alleen terugschieten met even primitieve raketten als Hamas, en mag het maar evenveel doden en gewonden veroorzaken als Hamas doet? En geldt dat dan alleen voor burgerdoden of ook voor strijders?'
De vraag is nu waarom de extremiste Ratna Pelle loog dat 'Israels capagne in Gaza niet buitenproportioneel'was? Per slot van rekening had zowel de toenmalige premier Olmert en de zionistische legertop al laten weten dat het militaire geweld van de 'Joodse staat' tegen de Palestijnse bevolking 'buitenproportioneel' zou zijn. Vooraf wist de geinformeerde waarnemer dit al. Dat de Nederlandse journalisten dit niet wisten komt omdat ze doorgaans slecht geinformeerd zijn, en bij gebrek aan onderzoek pro-Israelische bronnen citeren. Wat was nu precies bekend voor de Joodse terreur begon? In elk geval was in Israel begin oktober 2008 het volgende publiekelijk bekend:
Gaza is, after all, the third most densely populated place on earth, with 50 per cent of its inhabitants less than 16 years of age. Gaza has been a closed military area since 1967. Its citizens have nowhere to go to flee Israeli bombs and rockets. I suggest you look up Israel’s Dahiya Doctrine (or strategy), which is designed to punish a civilian society for the actions of its leaders (a war crime). As General Gadi Eisenkot said after Lebanon:
'We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. This isn’t a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized.'
Israel’s most eminent military strategist, Zeev Schiff, said:
“the Israeli army has always struck civilian populations, purposely and consciously... the army ... has never distinguished civilian [from military] targets ... [but] purposely attacked civilian targets.”
Former Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur, a moderate, admitted that Israel always targeted civilians (see [David] Hirst). Rafael Eitan, chief of staff during Israel’s destruction of Lebanese society in the early 1980s, was an extreme hawk who served for years as Ariel Sharon’s second-in-command. He was responsible for the murders of hundreds of Egyptian PoWs at the end of the Suez War. He proposed that for every incident of stone throwing Israel should build 10 settlements. He said
“the only good Arab is a dead Arab”.
He was founder of the extreme right ultra-nationalist Tzomet party (Movement for Zionist Renewal). Later in life he admitted ordering his troops to brutalize prisoners and impose collective punishment upon Palestinians (both war crimes). He said:
“I don’t believe in peace, because if they had done to us what we did to them we’d never agree to make peace.”
Think of the implications of that statement. Yitzhak Rabin admitted that
“ruling over another people has corrupted us”.
Operation Cast Lead was not
Operation Cast Lead was not
“a reaction due to the Islamic Resistance Movement”.
It was collective punishment designed to intimidate a people into rejecting Hamas; and it was a re-establishment of the deterrent force Israel relinquished to a certain extent in Lebanon. Ephraim Halevy, former head of Mossad and former National Security Director, said:
“If Israel’s goal were to remove the threat of rockets from the residents of southern Israel, opening the border crossings would have ensured such quiet for a generation.”
http://www.redress.cc/palestine/rforer20100621
"What happened in the Beirut suburb of Dahiya in 2006 will happen in every village from which shots are fired in the direction of Israel,"
http://www.redress.cc/palestine/rforer20100621
"What happened in the Beirut suburb of Dahiya in 2006 will happen in every village from which shots are fired in the direction of Israel,"
Eisenkot said to journalists from Yedioth Ahronoth.
"We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. This isn't a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized."
Hence, in two short sentences, one of the Israel Defense Force's senior commanders stated, with the world as his witness, his intention to violate the two central tenets of the international laws of war: the principle of distinction, which states that every time military force is used, it is imperative to differentiate enemy combatants from enemy civilians, and that attacks may be directed only at the former; and the proportionality principle, which states that even in attacks against enemy combatants, disproportional use of power is prohibited.
It is important to understand this: The international legal definition of an illegal military attack is one directed at civilians, or one that involves a disproportional use of force. It was as if Eisenkot, then, was standing on a hilltop, declaring his intention to commit war crimes, yelling to passersby,
Hence, in two short sentences, one of the Israel Defense Force's senior commanders stated, with the world as his witness, his intention to violate the two central tenets of the international laws of war: the principle of distinction, which states that every time military force is used, it is imperative to differentiate enemy combatants from enemy civilians, and that attacks may be directed only at the former; and the proportionality principle, which states that even in attacks against enemy combatants, disproportional use of power is prohibited.
It is important to understand this: The international legal definition of an illegal military attack is one directed at civilians, or one that involves a disproportional use of force. It was as if Eisenkot, then, was standing on a hilltop, declaring his intention to commit war crimes, yelling to passersby,
"My intentions are biggest of all!"
Lees verder: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027755.html
Nogmaals, drie maanden voordat Ratna Pelle vanuit het katholieke zuiden van Nederland beweerde dat Israel geen 'buitensporig geweld' inzette, werd de Israelische militaire strategie van 'buitensporig geweld' tegen de Palestijnse bevolking aldus verwoord door generaal Eisenkot in het Israëlische dagblad Yedioth Ahronot:
Lees verder: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027755.html
Nogmaals, drie maanden voordat Ratna Pelle vanuit het katholieke zuiden van Nederland beweerde dat Israel geen 'buitensporig geweld' inzette, werd de Israelische militaire strategie van 'buitensporig geweld' tegen de Palestijnse bevolking aldus verwoord door generaal Eisenkot in het Israëlische dagblad Yedioth Ahronot:
'We zullen disproportioneel geweld gebruiken tegen ieder dorp van waaruit schoten worden gelost op Israel, en we zullen immense schade en vernietiging te weeg brengen. Vanuit ons gezichtspunt zijn zij militaire bases. Dit is geen overweging, dit is een plan dat reeds is geautoriseerd.'
In een rapport voor het Instituut voor Nationale Veiligheid van de Universiteit van Tel Aviv onderstreepte kolonel Gabiel Siboni even onverbloemd, dat het antwoord op het verzet van de Palestijnen tegen de blokkade van Gaza de
'disproportionele aanval in het hart van de zwakke plek van de vijand is, waarbij pogingen de lanceringcapaciteit te schaden op de tweede plaats komt.'
Deze militaire doctrine van het ‘disproportioneel geweld’ is in flagrante strijd met de Geneefse Conventies, waarbij bepaald is dat de burgerbevolking zoveel mogelijk voor het geweld gespaard dient te worden, en zeker niet collectief gestraft mag worden.
http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/search?q=eisenkot&updated-max=2010-02-19T13%3A14%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=20
Deze militaire doctrine van het ‘disproportioneel geweld’ is in flagrante strijd met de Geneefse Conventies, waarbij bepaald is dat de burgerbevolking zoveel mogelijk voor het geweld gespaard dient te worden, en zeker niet collectief gestraft mag worden.
http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/search?q=eisenkot&updated-max=2010-02-19T13%3A14%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=20
En ondanks al deze toen al openbaar gemaakte feiten loog de raciste Ratna Pelle, die haar antisemitisme nu op Arabieren projecteert dat er geen sprake was van 'buitenproportioneel' geweld. Vanwaar haar Arabierenhaat, de moderne variant van de aloude christelijke jodenhaat? Meer daarover in een volgend stukje.
Inmiddels vertellen nu ook Joods-Israelische soldaten over hun terreur:
Monday 24 January 2011
Alex ThomsonChief Correspondent
Israel's controversial invasion of Gaza deliberately aimed to "cleanse" Palestinian neighbourhoods, former soldiers have alleged, in claims that will reignite the debate over the legality of the three week military campaign two years ago.
Israel invaded Gaza at the end of 2008 in a bid to halt rocket attacks from the territory it ceded in 2005. It says it focused on military targets controlled by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, and bitterly countered a 2009 UN report that stated civilians had been deliberately targeted.
But in startling interviews with Israeli filmmaker Nurit Kedar for her film Concrete, former soldiers have for the first time allowed themselves to be named while blaming their commanders for encouraging a "disproportionate" response to Hamas's rockets. They said their commanders used to "psych up" soldiers before an operation so they were ready to shoot indiscriminately.
One soldier says he was told to shell every house in a neighbourhood. Richard Goldstone’s report for the UN alleged that war crimes and possible crimes against humanity committed by both sides, but highlighted the moral and legal severity of the IDF's attacks.
The IDF [Israel Defence Forces] has said its operational orders during the war emphasised "proportionality" and "humanity". The importance of minimizing harm to civilians was made clear to soldiers, the IDF said at the time. By the end of the 22 day long operation some 1,400 Palestinians had been killed and large areas of Gaza razed. Ten Israeli soldiers and three Israeli civilians also died.
Soldier stories
In a report to be shown on Channel 4 News this week, 24-year-old tank commander Ohad remembers being told the night before the operation that the entry into Gaza was to be "disproportionate". Once into Gaza, he says his orders were unambiguous:
"The order was very clear that if a car came within 200 metres of me I could simply shoot at it. Shoot a shell at it."
Some of the most disputed claims about the operation centre around firing at family homes and mosques.
Ohad also says: "We needed to cleanse the neighbourhoods, the buildings, the area. It sounds really terrible to say "cleanse", but those were the orders....I don't want to make a mistake with the words."
Thirty-year-old Shay who was in the Elite Combat Unit, still appears disturbed by taking over the house of a wealthy Palestinian family to fight Operation Cast Lead. He recalls being disgusted that Israeli conscripts had already defecated all over the bathroom of this family house. The family photos had been scrawled over. Graffiti was on the walls saying "long live Israel".
"All the time we were there you could sense this family with us. Meaning they were there. All the clichés. There was a wooden rocking horse, I remember, you’d be on guard and next to you there's a wooden rocking-horse," Shay says.
Last year, the UN criticised Israel and Hamas for failing to adequately investigate the findings of its report.
Today, the Israeli Embassy said: "Over 12,000 rockets and shells rained down on Israeli civilians from Gaza forcing the IDF to carry out a military operation.
"Unlike much of the region, the open society within Israel allows for all allegations such as these to be aired and investigated. Israel has already authorised over 100 separate investigations into the operation, five broader investigations, and close to 50 criminal investigations are also taking place. Our judicial process is renowned across the world for its independence."
De vraag is waarom Ratna Pelle haar antisemitisme nu op Palestijnen projecteert. Het kan een katholieke achtergrond zijn, een haat tegen islamieten, een krampachtig zoeken naar een eigen identiteit, het kan van alles zijn. Maar 1 ding kan het niet zijn: te weten een poging om de werkelijkheid te traceren. Daar liegt ze teveel voor.
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