Turn instead to independent non-corporate media outlets like Counterpunch where Saree Makdish wrote his article on the Gaza killing fields, Kill and Kill and Kill.
He begins:
"Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday, [May 14]. In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians -- including six children -- and injured almost three thousand others amid scenes of smoke, fire, teargas, dust, agony and blood.
"At exactly the same time, to the tinkling of champagne glasses at a glittering reception barely 50 miles away in Jerusalem, Jared Kushner and an elegant Ivanka Trump oversaw the opening of Donald Trump's new embassy there.
"The juxtaposition of these two contemporaneous scenes encapsulates at a single glance the entirety of Zionism's murderous conflict with the Palestinian people.
"The Palestinians targeted and executed one-by-one by Israeli snipers had gathered to demand their right of return to their lands and homes inside the rest of Palestine, from the coastal plain up to and including Jerusalem. They or their parents or grandparents were driven from their homes during the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 for the simple reason that they are not Jewish: too many non-Jews in the putative Jewish state would not make for much of a Jewish state after all.
"'There could be no Jewish state with a large and hostile Arab minority in its midst. There would be no such state. It would not be able to exist,' the Israeli historian Benny Morris bluntly pointed out in an interview justifying ethnic cleansing with the newspaper Ha'aretz in 2004; 'a Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians ... [therefore] it was necessary to uproot them'). They have been denied the right to return to their homes ever since for the same reason: they are not Jewish, and their presence would upset the carefully-engineered demographic tables maintained by the state to preserve its tenuous claim to an exclusively Jewish identity.
"The maintenance of that demographic balance and the suspension of their political and human rights are inseparable from one another: the one enables, produces and requires the other.
"The demographer Arnon Sofer of Haifa University is the architect of the current isolation of Gaza. In 2004, he advised the government of Ariel Sharon to withdraw Israeli forces from within Gaza, seal the territory off from the outside world, and simply shoot anyone who tries to break out.
"'When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it's going to be a human catastrophe,' Sofer told an interviewer in the Jerusalem Post (11 November 2004); 'Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It's going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.' He added that 'the only thing that concerns me is how to ensure that the boys and men who are going to have to do the killing will be able to return home to their families and be normal human beings.'"
There is more, much more, in Markdish's essay. For even more background, see his 2010 book, Palestine: Inside and Out.
Our American government opened a new embassy in Jerusalem for the sole purpose of allowing our President to satisfy the wishes of his Jewish-American financial patron Sheldon Adelson, the American casino billionaire, who attended the embassy's opening.
Of course, American presidents, when in campaign rhetorical mode, promised to "move" the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. They knew it would be an idiotic move. Once in the White House, they ignored the promise.
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