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Yahoo!The online reader "nacl" [Letters, "Warsaw vs. Gaza," 7/16/09, independent.com/warsawgaza] states that "the people of Gaza have never suffered malnutrition."
Yet Christian Aid reported, on January 30, 2003, "Malnutrition in Gaza as Bad as Zimbabwe Says Clare Short" (Clare Short was British Secretary of State for International Development).
BBC News on March 19, 2009: "An Israeli military college [Oranim] has printed damning soldiers' accounts of the killing of civilians during recent operations in Gaza."
Israel News on June 16, 2009: Former President Jimmy Carter "visited a U.S. school completely destroyed in an Israeli air raid." (Carter also met with the leader of Hamas, who said Hamas would agree to peace with Israel on the basis of June 4 territorial lines, fulfillment of U.N. Resolution 242, and the Palestinians' right of return as affirmed by dozens of U.N. resolutions.)
A Red Cross report of June 26, 2009, states, "Seriously ill patients sometimes have to wait months before the relevant authorities allow them to leave the Gaza strip."
TIME, on June 29, 2009: Tim McGirk, reporting from Jerusalem, writes, "A recent report by the Geneva-based Defense for Children International states 'the ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian child prisoners appears to be widespread, systematic, and institutionalized.'"
Ha'aretz on July 3, 2009: U.N. Human Rights investigator Richard Falk calls Israel's blockade of Gaza a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (which prohibits collective punishment against an occupied people) because it restricts food, medicine, and fuel to "bare subsistence levels."
Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a people in whole or in part. The Palestinians have been the victims of 100 years of slow genocide, akin to that of Native Americans. - Nancy Withington
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Ms. Withington, it's refreshing to see someone sign his/her name to an opinion delivered here.
"nacl" and "ucsbparent" are typical anonymous posters whose irrational, sometimes racist, comments can't be assigned to the person making them.
As you accurately report, many respected international organizations have revealed the despotic violations of international law and of human rights by Israel with regard to Palestinians, violations that constitute a policy of extermination of Palestinians as a viable social/ political people.
This is why UCSB Professor William Robinson made the comparison to his students - always subject to their disagreement - of Gaza and World War II's Warsaw.
"ucsbparent" tells us Professor Robinson should accomodate his opinions to those of "parent" because "parent" is one of thousands who pay tuition at UCSB. On the other hand, "parent" tells us that Professor Robinson's campus support against the ADL-orchestrated charges only came from "Arabs" and Arab-funded professors.
This nasty bigotry, unfortunately, has become one of the current methods of the Anti-Defamation League and its supporters. The ADL, once a vigorous defender of persecuted persons, is now devoted to scurrilous smear-mongering and attempts to silence influential persons who criticize the policies of Israel.
It's time for more and more people to stand up against the Anti-Defamation League and its current methods.
William Smithers
bilwil (anonymous profile)
August 10, 2009 at 1:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)