Genocide With Jam On It

by Melanie Phillips
Thursday 6 March 2008
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/542011/genocide-with-jam-on-it.thtml

The BBC news gave pride of place this morning to a report by ‘aid’ and ‘human rights’ agencies ­Oxfam, Amnesty, Care International ­ which accused Israel of causing the worst humanitarian crisis in Gaza for the past forty years.

This is of course such a twisted conclusion as to be positively pathological. The only reason there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza is because the people who control it are waging a war of extermination against Israel. Israel is accused of blocking the border so that Gazans are unemployed. For goodness sake, what do these ‘human rights’ agencies want ­ genocide with jam on it? The people who are responsible for Gaza’s misery are the gunmen and rocket firers of Hamas, who in addition to using Gaza for war against Israel are deliberately sabotaging attempts to get supplies to the population in order to stoke up a ‘humanitarian’ crisis to gain world sympathy and turn it against Israel. Israel is accused of ‘punishing’ all Gazans by denying them access to food, clean water, electricity and medical care. In fact, as has often been noted by those who inhabit the sane world, Israel is by and large supplying these things to Gaza ­ and is even treating wounded Gazans in its own hospitals alongside Israeli citizens, even the very terrorists who have just tried to murder those citizens; there is surely no other country on the planet which would, and would be expected to, provide its mortal enemies with the means of continuing to attack it.

Furthermore, as was briefly noted when the security wall with Egypt was breached, Gaza has not just one border but two. Supplies could come through Egypt, yet strangely Egypt is never fingered for the ‘blockade’. Nor do these ‘aid’ agencies ask how it can be that the Gazans are deprived of essential supplies causing a ‘humanitarian crisis’ when through that border are smuggled vast amounts of rocketry, guns, explosives and other weaponry for the purpose of killing Israeli civilians. If they are so well supplied with the means to procure death, how come they are not supplied by the same route with the means to sustain life? And how come these NGOs don’t ask such questions?

The answer, if you look at their extraordinarily distorted account of Israel’s history and behaviour in materials they have produced over many years, is obvious. Such NGOs are simply dyed-in-the-wool, vicious and bigoted Israel-haters, and everything they ever say about that most beleaguered of countries is filtered through that vile prism.

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