Two reports about Israel/Palestine in NZZ of 2007.08.22

The occupation of Palestine by Jews is theme of two articles in today’s NZZ. The first is about the situation in Gaza’s hospitals. Fatah demands, that all medical workers in Gaza’s hospitals only work during the morning, or they will not get paid. Needless to say, that this kills Palestinians. One more reason to hate Fatah.

And the Israeli have stopped shipment of fuel to Gaza for several days therefore leaving the hospitals partly without electricity. This because the EU stopped payments but also because Israel still withholds millions worth of tax dollars they are obliged to pay to the Palestinian authorities. The article is a bit out of date because deliveries of fuel have restarted. But still spare parts for machines are withheld.

The chief surgeon says that Hamas is not corrupt as Fatah was, but replaces the old leaders with their own people. I don’t know, but perhaps they were replaced, because they were corrupt.

On the other hand Scort for Peace, for Aid, for Development, organized soccer training in Israel between Israelis and Palestinians. On the second day, of the 14 boys from Jericho, only two were allowed to enter Israel. The rest was sent back at Israeli road blocks. It is unfair just to blame the Israelis. In Fatah-controlled West Bank, a soccer tournament was named after Ziyad Daas, a Fatah-member who in 2002 killed 6 people and maimed 35 at a Bar Mizwa.

Israel deliveres arms to Fatah

Today the NZZ had a very good article about the Gaza Strip and about its future. As you should know, Hamas won the election, Fatah lost, mostly due to its corruption and failure to aid the Palestinian cause. Israel boycotted Hamas, delivered and delivers weapons to Fatah, which of course only strengthens the voices, that Fatah is a kind of Kapo, who help Israel steal more land from the Palestinians. I think, as the acts of the Israelis have turned Gaza Strip and the West Bank in a big prison or Ghetto, Fatah should be renamed to something more suitable, showing their submissive attitude towards the Israeli occupiers.

Fatah might win the next elections, at least in the West Bank, possibly also in the Gaza Strip. But I do also think, that we have shown the Palestinian people, that Democracy is something we in the West talk about, but do not respect. The Palestinian people will find out, that Fatah has no interest in the wellbeing of the ordinary people, but only in its own survival.

And the Muslim world, one again, sees our double standard (which they have themselves too) regarding Democracy and recognition (we still talk, trade, etc. with the Jewish State, even though we know, they are one on the largest Human Rights Violators worldwide. Of course, the last point also goes with every other Muslim country, in which I wouldn’t want to live either.)