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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] {fwd) gaza and use of food for collective punishment
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:15:46 -0500

=https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/permaculture/2009-January/032623.html
=[permaculture] {fwd) gaza and use of food for collective punishment
=Robyn Francis erda at nor.com.au
=Sun Jan 18 22:17:41 EST 2009
=
=> However, we should recognize that
=> this was started, in part, because of a months long blockade that prevented
=> the entry of food, fuel and other vital
=> supplies into Gaza.
=>
=> The collective punishment of a civilian population that lives under an
illegal
=> blockade, military control and occupation
=> is illegal according to the Geneva convention.
=>
=> Unfortunately, Israel-- basically our client in the Middle East-- is not
=> alone, nor the first in the use of food to
=> punish civilian populations.
=
=The US blockade of Cuba had a similar rational, and after the USSR collapsed
=the US tightened its blockade, presumably to 'starve' Cuba into submission.
=Even now after the biggest national disaster following hurricanes Ike and
=Gustav when 80% of Cubas crops were destroyed, major food warehouses damaged
=and food supplies spoiled, the US refused to relax the blockade to allow
=Cuba to purchase from US companies.
=RF

The treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza and balkanization of Palestinian
land in the West Bank by the israelis is no different from the treatment of the Spanish people, Gypsies, peasants, villagers in Spain by the Nazis and Franco (Franco gave the Nazis the go ahead to bomb villages (Guernica for example) for target practice and the invasion of Tibet in 1959 by the chinese and the continued abuse of Tibetens by them.
The chinese also want to claim Taiwan (a beautiful country!) as their own.
News of interest:
Vive la France!!! I hope my Huguenot ancestors' descendants were helpful to
Sarkozy, who ROCKS!

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese PM's trip 'snubs France'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7839668.stm
Page last updated at 11:17 GMT, Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Chinese PM's trip 'snubs France'
Nicolas Sarkozy, left, meets the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, Poland, 6 December 2008
Mr Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama early in December

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is due to travel to Europe next week, the foreign ministry has announced - but his trip will pointedly exclude France.
Mr Wen will visit Germany, Spain and Britain, as well as the EU in Brussels
and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Correspondents say Beijing continues to snub Paris because of a meeting between President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama late last year.
China reacted at the time by cancelling a scheduled summit with the EU.
'Mutual understanding'
Mr Wen's visit is being seen by analysts as a sign it is ready to mend relations with European leaders following the heated row last year over China's crackdown on Tibetan protesters.
"We hope that the visit will further enhance mutual understanding and trust," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
"Setbacks that have happened in the past are not what we want to see," she
said.
This attempt at a rapprochement does not appear to include France.
Ms Jiang gave no reason as to why Mr Wen's visit did not include meeting the French, but correspondents say officials in Beijing are still angry at Mr Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama.
The Chinese foreign ministry recently warned that the future of China's ties with France depended on whether Paris was prepared to "correct its wrongdoing" over Tibet.
China accuses the Tibetan spiritual leader of trying to seek Tibetan independence from Chinese rule, and opposes any foreign leader meeting the Dalai Lama.
But Beijing was particularly incensed by Mr Sarkozy's decision, because at the time France held the rotating presidency of the EU.

SEE ALSO
Sarkozy scorned for Dalai meeting
12 Dec 08 | Asia-Pacific
China protest at EU-Dalai meeting
07 Dec 08 | Europe
Dalai Lama in address to Euro MPs
04 Dec 08 | Europe
China condemns France over Tibet
27 Nov 08 | Europe
Tibet row puts off China-EU talks
26 Nov 08 | Europe
Tibet 'should keep China links'
22 May 08 | Asia-Pacific
Q&A: China and Tibet
19 Jun 08 | Asia-Pacific

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