Sunday, April 23, 2006

Mehr News: "Punishing the Palestinians"

From Iran's Mehr News Agency:
The Tel Aviv regime has embarked upon a series of vicious and barbaric moves aimed at destroying the democratically elected Hamas, which now constitutes the Palestinian Authority, and at punishing the Palestinian people. In perpetrating its diabolical plans, it has been aided and abetted, directly and indirectly, by the United States government and the European Union.
The "democratically elected Hamas." It is amazing that every Arab and Muslim non-democracy in existence is trumpeting this as if it is the ultimate "gotcha" point.
Since the Hamas electoral victory, Tel Aviv has suspended the transfer of 55 million U.S. dollars in tax revenues it collects for the Palestinians --- money that rightly belongs to the Palestinians--- thus depriving the Palestinian Authority of much needed cash to pay salaries to its employees and to maintain basic services. One Israeli bank, Bank Hapoalim, has stopped the transfer of money to the Palestinian territories. This means that many Palestinian families will not be able to receive money from abroad anymore. The Tel Aviv regime has also closed the Karni checkpoint, choking off the flow of goods to parts of Occupied Palestine. At the same time, the Israeli navy is denying fishermen in Gaza access to their fishing grounds which, needless to say, has dealt yet another severe blow to the livelihoods of thousands of Palestinians.

Not content with these brutal and inhuman measures, the Israeli army has begun pounding suspected launching pads of Qassam rockets and in the process has killed dozens of Palestinian civilians, including three children. It has once again unleashed the state terror for which it is notorious. It is this that has prompted the principled Israeli journalist Gideon Levy to ask, ‘Who is a terrorist?’
He asked this in the pages of Ha'aretz, evidently, judging from a large number of pro-Palestinian blogs. This one, for instance. (The absence of a proper link to the original is a nice touch.)

Tags: , , , ,

No comments: