Israel: “Indiscriminate” Murder; Apartheid “Infinitely Worse” Than South Africa
May 11, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
A new and damning exposure of Israeli war crimes in Gaza last summer has recently been released by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli veterans group. Based on the testimony of Israeli soldiers who took part in Israel’s attack, the report found a deliberate policy of “indiscriminate fire” at any Palestinian the soldiers saw. One soldier testified he was told: “The rules are: Any person at a distance that could put you at risk, you kill him with no need for clearance.” More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed and 20,000 homes were destroyed during Israel’s 50-day military assault. (Democracy Now!, May 6, 2015)
On April 1, the Palestinian Authority formally joined the International Criminal Court in The Hague, over U.S. and Israeli objections. This creates the possibility, according to former U.N. Special Rapporteur John Dugard, that Palestinians could now bring an apartheid case against Israel before the Court. "I’m a South African who lived through apartheid," Dugard told Democracy Now! (May 6). "I have no hesitation in saying that Israel’s crimes are infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of South Africa.”
Bringing Foward Another Way is an edited version of a talk by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, to a group of Party supporters, in 2006. It is must reading for a serious understanding of what the U.S. "war on terror" is really about and how to bring forward a positive force in the world in opposition to both Western imperialism and Islamic Jihad.
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