The Great Experiment
Gaza as Laboratory
by Uri Avnery

IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment in order to obtain a definitive answer. The laboratory for the experiment is the Gaza Strip, and the guinea pigs are the million and a quarter Palestinians living there.

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Good News From Gaza

This YNET report is a quite a typical example of the mainstream Israeli media coverage of the Occupation's atrocities and war crimes. Much (though by far not all) the information is open and accessible to the public. Every Israeli can now know that Israel runs a concentration camp near the allegedly no-longer-occupied Gaza, with large numbers of Palestinians, including children, abducted from the Strip and held there for unknown periods of time, some released, some moved on for further "treatment." But this piece of information – to which the article dedicates approximately 50 words – is flooded by more than 200 words of pure propaganda, like in the darkest dictatorships, which frames the news item in a safe way and silences in advance any critical questions or thoughts. The impression the reader gets is that there's some camp out there where Palestinians get more than a fair treatment.

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This is an interview with Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe. This is a must listen.

British MP George Galloway Interviews Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe