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If history can provide a perspective for the present, consider the following two observations:
Before the UN partition plan was proposed in 1947, the Jews in the historic Palestine owned no more than 6 to 8% of the land. The UN Partition plan, written by the imperial powers of the time, gave 54% of the land to the Jews. The Jews were not even a majority in the land, which shows that the unequal treatment of Palestinians was built into the imperial policies. Within a year of the proposed plan, the Zionists occupied 78% of the land using tactics of deceit and terror. In the Six-Day war in 1967, Israel occupied the remaining 22% of the historic Palestine, including Gaza and the West Bank] Although Israel removed its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, it still controls exits and entrances. On the West Bank side, 40% of the land is off limits to Palestinians. There are over 500 checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank alone, and the so-called Security Wall separating Palestinians from Israelis extends deep into the West Bank. The illegal Zionist settlements continue to expand by the tens of thousands.
The second observation. Consider the massacres committed by the Zionist state from its very inception. The bombing, carried out by Irgun, a Zionist terrorist organization, at the King David Hotel in Palestine in 1946 killed 92 Britons, Arabs, and Jews. The massacre at Dair Yasin carried out by the Zionist terrorist groups Tsel, Irgun, and Hagana in 1948 killed 250 people. The massacre at Qibya in 1953 killed 67, Khan Yunis in 1956 killed 275, Lebanon in 1982 killed 17,500, Qana in 1996 killed 106, Jenin in 2002 killed 56, Lebanon in 2006 killed 1200. In Gaza, where we witnessed the most recent massacre, although not the first time for this area, over 1300 people were kiled . These are just to name a few among over 60 massacres that the Zionists have committed in the last sixty years.
The experience of the last sixty years makes it very clear that the expansions and massacres are built into the project of political Zionsim called the state of Israel. The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, made this point very clear when he said in 1944, ''There is no example in history of a people saying we agree to renounce our country, let another people come and settle here and outnumber us.''
Anyone who understands the history and project of the Zionist state would certainly understand that the recent carnage in Gaza was not just about rocket fire or border security. It was not retaliation in self-defense by supposedly peaceful, democratic, and respectable Israeli state. The real target of the slaughter was the cause of resistance against the occupation. With the ostentatious display of savagery in the 22-days, killing over 1300 and injuring another 5000 people, Israel wanted to convey the message to Palestinians and to the rest of the world that it would stop at nothing to maintain its existence.
