<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br>Thank you, Brian and Sylvia. Here is an excellent item, from Chris Hedges.<div>Chris is a prophet. He speaks truth to power.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope the article arrives intact.</div><div><br></div><div>Elizabeth<br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> "Sympatico(palnet)" <palnet@sympatico.ca><br><b>Date:</b> October 9, 2023 at 11:43:48 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> Karin Brothers <kbrothers@sympatico.ca><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Hedges: Palestinians speak Israel's Language</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>The message that most commentators seem to have missed....<br>
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font-weight: bold;">Israel follows the colonial playbook.
Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always
the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades
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<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
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indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other
Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of
civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone
attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated
machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the
Israeli occupier.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Israel has spoken
this blood-soaked language of violence to the Palestinians
since Zionist militias seized more than 78 percent of
historic Palestine, destroyed some 530 Palestinian
villages and cities and killed about 15,000 Palestinians
in more than 70 massacres. Some 750,000<span> </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Palestinians</a><span> </span>were
ethnically cleansed between 1947 and 1949 to create the
state of Israel in 1948.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Israel’s response to these armed
incursions will be a genocidal assault on Gaza. Israel will
kill dozens of Palestinians for every Israeli killed.
Hundreds of Palestinians have already died in Israel air
assaults since the launch of “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” on
Saturday morning, which left 700 Israelis dead. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prime Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/PDeepdive/status/1710753589080027411?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Netanyahu</a> warned Palestinians
in Gaza on Sunday to “leave now,” because Israel is going to
“turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble.”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But where are Palestinians in Gaza
supposed to go? Israel and Egypt blockade the land borders.
There is no exit by air or sea, which are controlled by
Israel. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The collective retribution against
innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers.
We used it against Native Americans and later in the <a href="https://www.shsu.edu/his_rtc/2014_FALL/Balangiga_massacre.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Philippines</a> and Vietnam.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Germans used it against the Herero
and Namaqua in <a href="https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/what-was-the-holocaust/what-was-genocide/the-herero-and-namaqua-genocide/" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Namibia</a>. The British in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/18/uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Kenya</a> and Malaya. The <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lidice" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Nazis</a> used it in the areas they
occupied in the Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Israel follows the same playbook.
Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the
occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles
of corpses for higher piles of corpses.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is not to defend the war crimes
by either side. It is not to rejoice in the attacks. I have
seen enough violence in the Israeli occupied territories,
where I covered the conflict for seven years, to loathe
violence. But this is the familiar denouement to all
settler-colonial projects.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regimes implanted and maintained by
violence engender violence. The Haitian war of liberation.
The Mau Mau in Kenya. The African National Congress in South
Africa. These uprisings do not always succeed, but they
follow familiar patterns. The Palestinians, like all
colonized people, <a href="https://www.cjpme.org/fs_236" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">have a right</a> to armed
resistance under international law. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Israel never had
any interest in an equitable settlement with the
Palestinians. It built an apartheid state and has steadily<span> </span><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">absorbed</a><span> </span>larger
and larger tracts of Palestinian land in a slow motion
campaign of ethnic cleansing. It turned Gaza in 2007 into
the world’s largest open air prison.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">What does Israel,
or the world community, expect?</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">How can you trap
2.3 million people in Gaza, half of whom are unemployed,
in one of the most densely populated spots on the planet
for 16 years, reduce the lives of its residents, half of
whom are children, to a<span> </span><a href="https://imeu.org/article/putting-palestinians-on-a-diet-israels-siege-blockade-of-gaza?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">subsistence</a><span> </span>level,
deprive them of basic medical supplies, food, water and
electricity, use attack aircraft, artillery, mechanized
units, missiles, naval guns and infantry units to randomly
slaughter unarmed civilians and not expect a violent
response?</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Israel is
currently carrying out waves of aerial assaults on Gaza,
preparing a ground invasion and has cut the<span> </span><a href="https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/4591831-israel-halts-electricity-supply-gaza-says-energy-minister" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
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border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">power</a><span> </span>to Gaza,
which usually only operates two to four hours per day.</span></span></p>
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border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many of the resistance fighters who
infiltrated into Israel undoubtedly knew they would be
killed. But like resistance fighters in other wars of
liberation they decided that if they could not choose how
they would live, they would choose how they would die.</span></p>
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color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong style="font-family: Georgia;
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font-weight: bold;">Warsaw</strong></span></p>
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break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;
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font-size: 12pt;">Suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
– Captured Jews are led by German Waffen SS soldiers to
the assembly point for deportation, “Umschlagplatz.”<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 10pt;"> (Unknown
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<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I was a close friend of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Margolis-Edelman" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Alina Margolis-Edelman</a> who was
part of the armed resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
in World War II. Her husband, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Edelman" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Marek Edelman</a>, was the deputy
commander of the uprising and the only leader to survive the
war.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Nazis had sealed 400,000 Polish
Jews inside the Warsaw Ghetto. The trapped Jews died in the
thousands, from starvation, disease and indiscriminate
violence. When the Nazis began to transport the remaining
Jews to the extermination camps the resistance fighters
fought back. None expected to survive.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Edelman, after the war, condemned
Zionism as a racist ideology used to justify the theft of
Palestinian land. He sided with the Palestinians, supported
their armed resistance and met frequently with Palestinians
leaders. He thundered against Israel’s appropriation of the
Holocaust to justify its repression of the Palestinian
people.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">While Israel dined out on the
mythology of the ghetto uprising, it treated the only
surviving leader of the uprising, who refused to leave
Poland, as a pariah. Edelman understood that the lesson of
the Holocaust and the ghetto uprising was not that Jews are
morally superior or eternal victims. History, Edelman said,
belongs to everyone. The oppressed, including the
Palestinians, had a right to fight for equality, dignity and
liberty.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“To be a Jew means always being with
the oppressed and never the oppressors,” <a href="https://www.rebelnews.ie/2018/10/03/a-tribute-to-marek-edelman/" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Edelman</a> said.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
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overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.05em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;
box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;
font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://consortiumnews.salsalabs.org/ClassicDonationPage1/index.html" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
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border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-family:
Georgia; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap:
break-word; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Donate</span></a><span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">to</span><span> </span>CN’s<br style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(255,
153, 0);">Fall </span></span></span><strong style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;
box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fund<span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Drive</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Warsaw uprising has long inspired
the Palestinians. Representatives of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) used to lay a wreath at the
annual commemoration of the uprising in Poland at the Warsaw
Ghetto monument.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The more violence the colonizer
expends to subdue the occupied, the more it transforms
itself into a monster. The current government of Israel is <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/12/chris-hedges-israel-and-the-rise-of-jewish-fascism/" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">populated</a> by Jewish extremists,
fanatic Zionists and religious bigots who are dismantling
Israeli democracy and calling for the wholesale expulsion or
murder of Palestinians, including those who live inside
Israel.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Israeli philosopher <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibowitz-yeshayahu/" style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Yeshayahu Leibowitz</a>, whom Isiah
Berlin called “the conscience of Israel,” warned that if
Israel did not separate church and state it would give rise
to a corrupt rabbinate that would warp Judaism into a
fascistic cult.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Religious nationalism is to religion
what National Socialism was to socialism,” said Leibowitz,
who died in 1994.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He understood that the blind
veneration of the military, especially after the 1967 war
that captured Egypt’s Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank (including
East Jerusalem) and Syria’s Golan Heights, was dangerous and
would lead to the ultimate destruction of Israel, along with
any hope of democracy.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Our situation will deteriorate to
that of a second Vietnam, to a war in constant escalation
without prospect of ultimate resolution,” he warned.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He foresaw that:<br style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
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</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“the Arabs would be the working
people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors,
officials, and police — mainly secret police. A state
ruling a hostile population of 1.5 million to 2 million
foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state,
with all that this implies for education, free speech and
democratic institutions.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The corruption characteristic of
every colonial regime would also prevail in the State of
Israel. The administration would have to suppress Arab
insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab Quislings on
the other. There is also good reason to fear that the
Israel Defense Force, which has been until now a people’s
army, would, as a result of being transformed into an army
of occupation, degenerate, and its commanders, who will
have become military governors, resemble their colleagues
in other nations.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He saw that prolonged occupation of
the Palestinians would inevitably spawn “concentration
camps.”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Israel,” he said, “would not deserve
to exist, and it will not be worthwhile to preserve it.”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The next stage of this struggle will
be a massive campaign of industrial slaughter in Gaza by
Israel, which has already begun. Israel is convinced greater
levels of violence will finally crush Palestinian
aspirations.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia; box-sizing: border-box;
overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; box-sizing:
border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14pt;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Israel is mistaken. The terror Israel
inflicts is the terror it will get.</span></p>
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