Posted by John, May 31st, 2010 - under Israel, Palestine.



The terrorist state of Israel has killed 19 unarmed activists on a Turkish ship in the Freedom Flotilla bringing aid to the people of Gaza. 60 or more are wounded.

The Israeli butchers blockade Gaza to prevent supplies of basic necessities reaching the strip. This is collective punishment for Palestinians democratically electing Hamas as their Government. Hamas is the main group resisting the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.

The blockade is part of that 60 year campaign of genocide Israel has conducted against the Palestinians.

Of the 1.5 million people in Gaza, over 90 percent survive only through external assistance. The blockade means that supplies of food, water, materials for housing and education cannot get through other than “illegally”. Palestinians are dying from preventable diseases because they cannot get access to medicines you and I would regard as routine or cannot get to hospitals in Israel.

The murder of the Freedom Flotilla activists is a symbol of what the Palestinians endure every day.

The United States, Israel’s paymaster, has so far said nothing about this latest terrorism. Even if it condemns Israel it will be the condemnation of a doting and besotted parent.

Israel is the armed wing of US imperialism in the Middle East, the most important strategic region for America in the world. It controls and by its existence and actions destabilises the region. This allows US control of oil supplies, especially the power of supply to potential rivals of the US such as China.

The assassinations show Israel will disregard world opinion because it knows it has the backing of the United States. It did this over the invasion of Gaza last year when it killed 1400 Palestinians. It did this yesterday with its refusal to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, ensuring its stockpile of 200 nuclear weapons remains to threaten the rest of the peoples of the region.

Indeed, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post, US President Obama gave Prime Minister Netanyahu “concrete guarantees that the US will strengthen Israel’s strategic capabilities.”

Israel is the North Korea of the Middle East, with the US its China.

Israel could not survive without US aid, currently running in the tens of billions each year.

Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd cheered on Israel when it slaughtered the women and children of Gaza last year. They will no doubt issue expressions of ‘regret’ about this ‘heavy handed’ action and then go back to supporting Israeli terrorism.

The hypocrisy of the West is boundless. If Hamas had done this US drones or their Israeli counterparts would be destroying women and children right now in Gaza and there would be condemnations of their actions as terrorism.

Yet when a state which has conducted terrorism and genocide against the Palestinians for the last 60 years kills peace activists bringing aid to starving people, the Western powers do nothing of substance.

Israel is the lynch-pin of US repression in the region and so the functions the zionist state performs for American imperialism are more important to it and its allies like Australia than a few dead activists and hundreds of thousands of dispossessed, dead and dying Palestinians.

Boycott the butchers. Lift the blockade. End the occupation. Victory to the Palestinians in their struggle against the terrorist state of Israel.

The Sydney protest is on Tuesday June 1, 5.30pm at the Town Hall, organised by Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine.

In Melbourne, the protest will be on Tuesday June 1, 4.30pm at the State Library.

In Perth there will be a snap protest on Tuesday June 1, 5pm, Wesley Church, cnr William & Hay Sts, Perth. Organised by Friends of Palestine.

In Brisbane the demonstration is on Tuesday, June 1 at 5:00pm, Brisbane Square (end of Queen St Mall).

In Canberra there is candlelight vigil and Gaza protest on Tuesday 1 June at 5 pm at the Israeli Embassy, 6 Turrana St Yarralumla.

Then at 4 pm on Thursday 3 June in Garema Pl in Civic in Canberra there will be a demonstration againt Israel’s butchery.