[Marxism] Israel's aim in Gaza attack - At what point does it become genocide?

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Lenin's Tomb -   
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 
 
_At what point does it become genocide?_ 
(http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/01/at-what-point-does-it-become-genocide.html)
  posted by _lenin_ ()  


 
 
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There is also an aspect of territorial expansionism in this war, which will  
squeeze the population of Gaza into an even tighter, more overpopulated and 
less  viable space. The threatening phone calls and leaflets being dropped on 
Gaza, it  is now confirmed, comprise part of an ethnic cleansing operation 
starting in the  north of Gaza similar to that attempted in southern Lebanon in 
2006. The  Guardian _reports_ 
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-palestine-civilian-toll)
  that  15,000 people have responded to the 
threats by fleeing major urban centres such  as Beit Hanoun. The next step is 
surely the annexing of a sizeable portion of  Gaza (or 'the Land of Israel' as 
Israeli politicians call it and any other  territory they think belongs to them 
by right) under the rubric of creating a  'security zone'. (It was _reported_ 
(http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/03/israel-planning-ethnic-cleansing-in.html
)  as  early as March last year that the Israeli government was considering 
an  operation to secure such ends.) Israel now claims that its aim is to _drive 
Hamas out of Gaza_ 
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-hamas) . Taken 
literally, and on  Israel's own terms, this would mean the 
expulsion of the greater part of the  population of Gaza.

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