{"id":361563,"date":"2018-05-17T07:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T06:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-everyday-process-of-ethnic-cleansing-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T06:56:59","slug":"the-everyday-process-of-ethnic-cleansing-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-everyday-process-of-ethnic-cleansing-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Everyday Process of Ethnic Cleansing\u2019 \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palestinians protesting at the Gaza fence posed no threat whatsoever and even if they were trying to cross the border, you don\u2019t use live fire to kill them, says Diana Buttu in this inerview with Dennis J. Bernstein. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Dennis J. Benstein<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former Palestinian negotiator. On \"\"

Buttu was outraged as she noted \u201cfrom video footage we can see that people were shot in the back. Others were shot for carrying tires or for simply walking into these areas. These were individuals who posed no threat whatsoever. Even if they were attempting to cross the border, you don\u2019t use live fire to kill people who are crossing a border.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Buttu spoke to Dennis Bernstein on Tuesday May 15th, 2018<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dennis Bernstein<\/i>:<\/strong> Diana Buttu very good to speak with you again. First of all, what is your understanding of the latest statistics? I understand the number of dead is over sixty, the number of wounded is some 2,700, of which 1,300 were hit by gunshots.\u00a0 And please put the latest Israeli slaughter into historical context.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Diana Buttu<\/i>:<\/strong> We are now at the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the commemoration of the establishment of Israel and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Today was a particularly difficult day, both because we had to bury over sixty Palestinians, including eight children and two people who were disabled.\u00a0 In addition to mourning the loss of our country and experiencing the everyday process of ethnic cleansing, we are seeing an effort on the part of the Americans and the Israelis to blame the victim. This is adding insult to injury and we are back at a place now where Israel can justify the unjustifiable. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bernstein<\/i>:<\/strong> What are hearing in terms of the ability to treat the wounded? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Buttu<\/i>:<\/strong> It is important to keep in mind that this is not just a case of overloading at the hospitals, but of the capacity of the hospitals to begin with. These are hospitals that have been running on less than three hours…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Palestinians protesting at the Gaza fence posed no threat whatsoever and even if they were trying to cross the border, you don\u2019t use live fire to kill them, says Diana Buttu in this inerview with Dennis J. Bernstein. By Dennis J. Benstein Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former Palestinian negotiator. On Monday, she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}