Two former CIA analysts on the effects of Israeli occupation
You might expect that CIA analysts, present or former, would approve of the US-funded Israeli occupation of Palestine. Read on: "We have long played with words about this, labeling Israel's policy ' ethnocide,' meaning the attempt to destroy the Palestinians as a people with a specific ethnic identity. "Others who dance around the subject use terms like 'politicide' or, a new invention, 'sociocide,' but neither of these terms implies the large-scale destruction of people and identity that is truly the Israeli objecti ve. "'Genocide'--defined by the UN Convention as the intention 'to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religi ous group' -- most aptly des cribes Israel's efforts, akin to the Nazis', to erase an entire people. (See William Cook's "The Rape of Palestine," CounterPunch , January 7/8 , 2006 for a discussion...