Israel is a deeply racist state.Not only does it almost permanently attack the Palestinian refugees in all kinds of ways it is also discriminatory to those they call "Israeli arabs"who are Palestinians who live "legally" [and i use that in a guarded way ] in Israel.These Palestinian citizens make up 20 percent of the population but are kept in line by the Israeli state.

Moreover, the pre zionist Jewish community in Israel is also looked on in disfavour by those running the state who are often far more recent migrants [or the sons of migrants ] to Israel.

It must be very galling and indeed humiliating for a Palestinian grandad to be told to get out of his farm which his family have worked for generations , by some jumped up thug with an uzi who was born and raised in New York.

On the West Bank where tonight an Israeli spokesman claimed the Palestinians were being treated fairly we have seen Palestinians assassinated without warning by secret death squads. We have heard about Palestinian teenagers shot dead by rubber coated steel bullets.We have seen Palestinian villagers attacked in their homes by armed Israeli settlers while troops look on doing next to nothing. We have seen protestors against the Apartheid Wall being brutally beaten or attacked with staves and tear gas. We have see the Palestinian population of Hebron terrorised by armed thugs and so on.All this on the supposedly moderate West Bank.

However, even these awful crimes pale in comparison to the mass murder being committed in Gaza as a deliberate act of terror by the Israeli state.

The UN representatives are quite right to call for an INDEPENDENT investigation   into the killing of so many babies,children and civilians in the killing zone of Gaza.
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