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Occupation profit center
Xymphora
January 2, 2006
Ghada Karmi on the international aid industry and the Palestinians:
"By
paying up without caveat, donors in effect relieve Israel of its
obligations under international law. As the occupying power, Israel
must deliver assistance and services to the Palestinian population. As
high contracting parties to the Geneva conventions, the donors are
obliged to ensure Israel's compliance with the law. None of this has
happened. Instead, international aid has rendered the occupation
cost-free. It has even enriched Israel's economy: according to the UN
Conference on Trade and Development, for every dollar produced in the
occupied territories, 45 cents flows back to Israel."
Israel's
recent unilateral decision to control Palestinian use of certain areas
of Gaza proves that Israel is still an occupying power over Gaza,
despite the well publicized withdrawal. Of course, Israel is still
clearly the occupying power over the West Bank. The Israeli
'uniqueness' means that the world doesn't even question the fact that
Israel makes absolutely no effort to meet its international law
obligations as an occupying power, and in fact constantly strives with
its American stooges to eliminate U. N. efforts to provide relief to
the Palestinians. Israel even blows up facilities provided by
international donors, who simply send more money in with no complaint
about the Israeli actions or the fact that a good portion of the
reconstruction money will flow directly back into Israel. For Israel,
the occupation is even a profit center! Blow up a school paid for by a
donor nation with a helicopter and a bomb paid for by American
taxpayers, then grab a good portion of the new donor money provided to
rebuild the school. What a deal! Rather than face being called
anti-Semites, and feeling guilty about the mass poverty in the
Palestine, the donor nations do the only thing they can do, which is
send more money.
With everybody waging and planning
illegal wars of aggression, with American rendition and torture and
Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, with Israel's constant scoffing at its
obligations under international law including its obligations as an
occupying power, you really have to ask: Does international law still
exist?
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:: Article nr. 19189 sent on 03-jan-2006 02:26 ECT
www.uruknet.info?p=19189
Link: xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/01/occupation-profit-center.html
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