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“Israel keeps Palestinians a centimeter above the line of starvation”
Published: 28 May, 2010, 21:54
Edited: 06 June, 2010, 20:45
TAGS: Conflict, Middle East
Israel’s policies in Gaza and the West Bank are an attempt to break Palestinians’ resistance, says author and activist Jeff Halper.
“It is simply not true that there is no humanitarian crisis. Actually two-thirds of the people of Gaza live in what the World Health Organization calls food insecurity,” Halper said. "More than 10 percent of the children suffer from chronic malnutrition. Goods like bananas, chocolate, beans and fresh meat are prohibited in Gaza. Each person in Gaza gets about half of the required calories for a normal life.”
“There are great problems with babies, iron deficiency with pregnant women. This is a controlled experiment in how to keep people hungry, to punish them, to keep them just a centimeter above the line of starvation,” the activist said.
“The thing behind it – and it’s true of the West Bank as well – that Israel is trying to impose a permanent occupation. Everything that Israel is doing is attempt to break the resistance and the will of Palestinian people, so in the end they give up and accept whatever Israel wants. But that is not succeeding,” he added.
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The Palestinians will survive the Israeli blockade designed to starve them just as the Russians survived the German Leningrad blockade. The future of Israel is very bleak and they know it.
so true jim, israel is america's new partner in crime, just like iraq was our partner in crime during the 80s (when we helped saddam kill hundreds of thousands of innocent iranians, turning iran into a resentful hotbed of islamists). now the palestinians are the victims. occupation breeds resentment--we saw this with the native americans, with every british colony, with ireland, with haiti. the only just solution is to give the little palestinian land that has NOT been taken over by the zionists (gaza, east jerusalem, and the west bank) back to palestine. israel can keep the rest. is that really too much to ask?
What stupidity has been published here. The Nazis built gas chambers and concentration camps in which they purposely murdered more than Jews. Israel is not doing that. One side of Gaza is Isreal and on the other side is Egypt(fellow Muslims) The Jews are the only ones sending in aid every day. Egypt has closed borders with Gaza because they are afraid of Hamas. Egypt does nothing too help their fellow Muslems. Open your eyes and stop hating Jews.