by Erik Zuesse, The Duran:
Israel proceeds with its ethnic cleansing to get rid of the inmates, Palestinians, born living and now dying en-masse, in the world’s largest open-air prison, Gaza, where millions have been held, locked-in by Israel for decades unable to leave, but now are being bombed to death by Israel, and even their hospitals are being bombed by Israel so as to prevent their surviving. Israel wants the land but not the people they’ve been penning up in it for decades.
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A recent interview with Chris Hedges, one of the greatest war-reporters, is titled “Chris Hedges: Israel’s endgame in Palestine is genocide”, at The Real News Network, and it has these passages:
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I want to put that bombing campaign in perspective. I
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was in Sarajevo during the war. We were being hit with three to 400 shells a day, four to five dead
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a day, two dozen wounded a day, and I don’t want to minimize that. I, almost 30 years later, still
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have nightmares because of it. But that’s nothing compared to what’s happening in Gaza. I mean,
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the first two weeks, they damaged or destroyed 45% of the housing stock. They’ve dropped, I think,
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it was just in the first two weeks, 20,000 tons of bombs. I mean, this is a Stalingrad level. It’s
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as bad as Sarajevo was. [But] that doesn’t come close. Thousands of Palestinians are trapped under
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the rubble and they have surrounded the northern part. I mean, they will do it
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piecemeal. They learn that from the Americans, in Fallujah. You don’t essentially attack on a
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wide front. You break up your urban areas into sectors that you then dominate. So,
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they’ve cut off Gaza City from the South, which is Gaza’s largest city, about 700,000 people.
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And they’re about to go in. Well, they’ll go in. I mean, the problem with
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urban warfare, which I’ve been in, is that all of your heavy machinery doesn’t really give you much
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of an advantage. So, I think that it’s saturation bombing. I mean, they will keep the northern part
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of Gaza corded off, surrounded, but I expect them to kind of bomb their way to victory,
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or what they’re going to continue or call victory. Call victory, right.
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They don’t really want to start crawling through the rubble fighting Hamas fighters. The tunnels
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are an issue. We don’t know how big, but they’re big. But they need generators in order to pump
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down air into the tunnels. Right.
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I think most of the hostages are probably in the tunnels. This is also a very cynical decision on
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the part of the Netanyahu government. I don’t think many of those hostages are going to come
