From Wallwritings
Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump have one thing in common: They both have as much credibility as the man who killed his parents and then begged the judge for mercy because he was an orphan.
Why should we believe what they say? President Trump is an accomplished prevaricator in a job he is clearly not qualified to hold.
But we know that already.
What concerns me at the moment is the way in which Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu follows the classic colonial playbook by living a lie and inducing the colonized to fight among themselves.
The current internal Palestinian conflict involves a severe drop in medical care and adequate electrical power in Gaza, two essential elements which must be provided for a civilian population.
Instead of providing, Bibi Netanyahu greatly reduces these elements from Gaza and then lies that he is not to blame. The harsh truth is that Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza for fifty years.
Occupiers are responsible for the occupied whether for one year or fifty years.
If you feel as though you are just now arriving to see a movie that has been running for an hour, its because this current movie, a Gaza-West Bank blame game, has been evolving on the screens of the Israeli and Palestinian media.
Preoccupied with the Donald's twitters and threats, the American press has largely ignored the story of lies about Gaza. To our media, it is a conflict waged within a distant land between "long-time foes."
To Palestinians, it is not a conflict. It is an occupation that blames the occupied.
To catch you up on the latest set of Bibi lies, here is some background:
Israel's occupiers "withdrew" from Gaza in 2005. But the occupiers did not "withdraw" Israel's control over what is now an outdoor Gaza prison in which essential ingredients of life -- food, water, medical care, and electrical power -- remain completely in Israeli hands.
To remind Gazans who holds the power, Israel stages vicious military attacks and periodic wars against Gaza citizens.
The 1993 Oslo Accords looked at the time like a good stop-gap measure. It was, in reality, a moment in history when Israel sold the world and occupied Palestinians, a package of wampum disguised as a "peace process."
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