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We hear nothing whatsoever from British Government sources, nor individual New Labour MPs, about the deliberate Geneva Convention busting collective punishment of 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip, described here by Jonathan Cook. If the current devastation in Gaza was the result of a hurricane or earthquake it might merit a few respectful condolences from the floor of the House, or a couple of minutes on primetime news. But the turning of Gaza into a vast concentration camp, without enough food, medical supplies or electricity, is Israeli Government policy, & is supported to the hilt by the US & Europe.

The justification for the West's support for this murderous policy, & the reason why it is willing to turn a blind eye to Article Four of the Geneva Convention, is supposedly to turn Gaza's population against the Hamas government it elected in a free & fair ballot in 2005. The international sanctions aimed at the Saddam Hussein regime, which killed as many as half a million children, were in part justified by the same objective, & continued for over a decade without achieving it.

Obviously, there are Gazans who aren't supporters of the Hamas Islamist program, but many voted for them because they promised an end to Fatah corruption & vacillation & a more honest pursuit of the stuggle for Palestinian national liberation. This is what the whole population of Gaza is being punished for.

Earlier this year a senior Israeli defence official spoke frankly about creating a 'shoah' in Gaza. The incremental tightening of the stranglehold over Gaza is clearly not the result of a few homemade rockets fired at Israeli settlements, but the working out of a long term policy of ethnic cleansing. The Israeli Zionists routinely accuse the Palestinian resistance of wanting to push them into the sea, & it looks as though the Israeli Government, with the connivance of the West, is planning to force the Gazans, if not into the sea then over the border into the Sinai Desert.

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