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While President Obama strikes out to his second day in office, he should take some time to consider the increasing resemblance to Fascism being exhibited by the Israeli regime. Their military spokeswoman accused Hamas of being a racist antisemitic organisation, built upon the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just the sort of people who would push women and children in front of tanks. Ehud Olmert feels the pain of every Palestinian civilian casualty, and Tzippi Livni tells us everything is as it should be in the Gaza Strip. The PR was planned long before the bombers took off, as was the timing of the calloff to coincide with Obama's inauguration.

There's an interview here with Noam Chomsky about the Israeli attack on Gaza. For those who haven't the time to read it all here's a short piece :

Ehud Olmert was in the United States in May 2006 a couple of months after the withdrawal. He simply announced to a joint session of Congress and to rousing applause, that the historic right of Jews to the entire land of Israel is beyond question. He announced what he called his convergence program, which is just a version of the traditional program; it goes back to the Allon plan of 1967. Israel would essentially annex valuable land and resources near the green line (the 1967 border). That land is now behind the wall that Israel built in the West Bank, which is an annexation wall. That means the arable land, the main water resources, the pleasant suburbs around Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and the hills and so on. They'll take over the Jordan valley, which is about a third of the West Bank, where they've been settling since the late 60s. Then they'll drive a couple of super highways through the whole territory — there's one to the east of Jerusalem to the town of Ma'aleh Adumim which was built mostly in the 1990s, during the Oslo years. It was built essentially to bisect the West Bank and are two others up north that includes Ariel and Kedumim and other towns which pretty much bisect what's left. They'll set up check points and all sorts of means of harassment in the other areas and the population that's left will be essentially cantonized and unable to live a decent life and if they want to leave, great. Or else they will be picturesque figures for tourists — you know somebody leading a goat up a hill in the distance — and meanwhile Israelis, including settlers, will drive around on "Israeli only" super highways. Palestinians can make do with some little road somewhere where you're falling into a ditch if it's raining. That's the goal. And it's explicit. You can't accuse them of deception because it's explicit. And it's cheered here.

Robert Fisk speculates here about the chances of a War Crimes Tribunal to investigate Israeli attacks on schools and UN compounds, and the use of chemical weapons on Palestinian civilians:

After killing hundreds of women and children, Israel was the good guy again, by declaring a unilateral ceasefire that Hamas was certain to break. But Obama will be smiling on Tuesday. Was not this the reason, after all, why Israel suddenly wanted a truce?

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