The Gaza pseudo-war marked a decisive historical turn in Israeli relations with the world.  Israeli deliberately attacked the Gaza population and UN facilities with the theory of terrorizing them so badly that they will realize that they, in the words of an Israeli general, are “a defeated people.”

This view was applauded by Thomas Friedman in the Zionist NYTImes and attacked by Chomsky in a long piece yeasterday on ZNet.  It horrified and outraged the whole world.  And was supported by Bush-Obama, and inagurated in Obama’s presidency.

US-Israel ethnic cleasing can and must be fought by world opinion, which helped South Africa defeat apratheid. Holding UN hearings can helop focus and mobilize the people of the world, which helps erode US and Israel ‘soft’ power.  Already nations are breaking dipomatic recognition with Israel, and this should be demanded to isolate Israel.

world disapproval will have an effect both on Israel popular opinion and power structure opnion. Part of the strategy of attacking a population with phospherous bomgs, etc was to harden Israeli opinion for the even more horrendous attacks to come.  It is unkown to what extent this was accomplished, the piece quoted by Ed Harges being largely a propaganda piece.  But most likely did occur to some extent, the only question being to what extent an Israeli opposition ws hardened.

Israeli leaders of all parties are committed to ethnic cleansing under the quist of a two state solution, Obama’s position as well.  The only defense the Palestiains have is military-political to avoid an ever increasing sequence of population attacks.  What Hamas needs is anti-tank and anti-air missles, like those provided bin Laden, etc to fight the Soviets. A military opposition is the only thing that can prevent US-Isreael for massacres approaching genocide.  And there must be increasing world pressure on US-Israel.

  BOYCOTT ISRAEL   NO ETHNIC CLEANSIING

This is unusually harsh wording coming from Ban Ki-moon, and the moment for him to change register is well chosen.

I believe we can safely say that one of the lessons we have learned from Gaza is that Israel - much like the United States - is still above international law.

Just as Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of indiscriminate and illegal use of phosphorus, there is little doubt that accusations of war crimes perpetrated by Israel will continue to drift in.

But in all likelihood, no concrete legal actions will be taken on this issue. An example: when a Palestinian group called the International Coalition against Impunity called upon the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate possible war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, an ICC prosecutor quickly announced that the ICC lacked the jurisdiction to investigate the issue.

It is interesting to note that the 108 countries that signed the Rome Statute creating the ICC do not include Israel or the United States.

http://www.ilpodesta.org/2009/01/five-lessons-we-learned-from-gaza.html

If Mr Ki-Moon doesn’t shut up he will be out of the job.  The sec gen serves at the pleasure of the US.  When Boutrous-Ghali started speaking and acting against US wishes he was replaced.

In case anybody thinks this was a misdeed merely of the Israeli government, while many Israelis disapproved: get over it. It ain’t so.

As Neve Gordon documents, this vicious crime was almost unanimously applauded by Israeli Jews:

“… it is not so surprising that 78% of Israelis, or about 98% of all Jewish Israelis, support the war.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/16 /gaza-middleeast1

Mr Secretary General of the United Nations

I was led to believe through the ultruistic media righteous ones ,that this war was only against Hamas,after all that is what Tzipi Livni in her search for the utopian dream told us .How could it be
possible that a U.S. made ‘smart bomb’ could not differentiate between Hamas and a Gazan child-my goodness there must be an error somewhere,please help the masses to understand this unfortunate incident.The average citizens of the West are appalled by the devestation inflicted upon the UN somewhere in the Gaza Strip,somehow i didn’t realise
that so many in Gaza were actually UN and not displaced Palestinians as so many leftist’s claim.Perhaps that is why you risked your life so unselfishly to witness the truth with your own eyes and vent your anger at the perpetrators,but i am confused at this juncture ,because the media and Ehud Olmert claim that it is Hamas that is responsible for the death of 1300 Gazans and the destruction (including the UN compounds) that lie before your eyes.Mr Secretary General explain to the uncertain people how Hamas was able to blow the Gazans and the UN facilities to smitherines and still manage to combat the IDF Simultaneously.According to US the EU and the UN the Palestinians have been threatening Israel with an unbearable siege for decades now albeit with rockets that couldn’t hit a target the size of a Supertanker if they tried.Yet now you propose to rebuild Gaza only to what—having it redestroyed in the future,that’s one Hell of a job creation program that chaotic capitalism requires.

If any investigation finds against Israel, the US will simply veto away any consequences, and the Zionist-controlled US media will simply ignore or misrepresent the findings. Israel will continue to brutalize its neighbors and dictate US foreign policy.

Thank you Mr. Ki-moon.