Uri Avnery on the starvation campaign in Gaza

For those who don't know him, Uri Avnery was a hero of Israel's 1948 War of Independence, fighting in the Irgun, the army of the conservative "Revisionist" Zionist movement. Later in life, Dr. Avnery had a radical change of consciousness and is now a leader of the most radical wing of the Israeli peace movement, Gush Shalom.

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1160914974/

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His column appears regularly in the Arab News (a Saudi based newspaper) and a number of other papers in the region.

This has a very powerful affect of sending the message to the Arab world that not all Israelis are warmongers. Thus causing a lot of Arab people to reexamine their prejudices.

"The Palestinian workers were compelled to work in Israel for hunger wages (by Israeli standards). From these, the Israeli government deducted all the social payments levied on Israeli workers, without the Palestinian workers enjoying any social benefits. This way the government robbed these exploited workers of tens of billions of dollars, which disappeared somehow in the bottomless barrel of the government."

Along with bombing the power plant in the strip.

I would like to see an explanation for these things.

The Braceros got it from the US government, instead...

The Bracero Program

http://www.farmworkers.org/bracerop.html

"One of the most significant contributions to the growth of the agricultural economy was the creation of theBracero Program in which more than 4 million Mexican farm laborers came to work the fields of this nation. The braceros converted the agricultural fields of America into the most productive in the planet."

New Movement Demands Justice for Mexican Farmworkers

http://www.irc-online.org/americaspolicy/updater/1998/dec10brac_body.html

"In recent months, thousands of former braceros have attended meetings in several Mexican border states and in El Paso, Texas, to hear about the new Bracero Project, a movement that seeks to gain official U.S. recognition of the braceros' contributions as well as possible financial compensation for social security and other deductions that were made from worker’s paychecks and never returned as benefits."

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Birds of a feather flock together (Israel / USA / Australia )

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