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Edward Said called it "America's Last Taboo" in an article he wrote shortly before his death. It was also a chapter heading in John Pilger's book titled, "Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire."
Said blamed the power of Zionism to inflict unspeakable abuses on an entire people and get away with it for so long. Pilger referred to a "five and a half decade cover-up of Israel's oppression of the Palestinians."
With US political and financial backing, they've terrorized Palestinians with impunity. When victims dare defend themselves, they're called terrorists. Scoundrel media reports regurgitate the lie.
Human rights and other organizations, as well as growing numbers of Palestinian supporters worldwide speak freely. At a mid-March Geneva UN Human Rights Council conference, about 300 international organizations called on Israel to lift repressive restrictions on Palestinians' free movement and other discriminatory practices.
Observatory regional director Amani al-Sinwar discussed grave Israeli human rights abuses, including unjustifiable restrictions controlling their lives.
Separately, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem (Navi) Pillay said her visit to Occupied Palestine "brought (her) face to face with many large-scale human rights violations stemming from Israel's occupation...."
Among others, she mentioned illegal Palestinian transfers from their home areas, settlement expansions, settler violence, excessive Israeli security force abuses, and Gaza's suffocating siege.
Last summer, Haaretz writer Yitzhak Laor headlined his article, "Siege of Gaza has become a moral blockade of Israel." He called it "an international symbol of cruelty (and) further proof of the stupidly of our leaders."
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