• by Eduardo Galeano
• Tuesday, March 17, 2009
• Inter Press Service

To justify itself, state terrorism creates terrorists: it sows hatred and harvests alibis. Everything indicates that this bloodbath in Gaza, which its creators claim was designed to eliminate terrorists, will result in a proliferation of them, writes Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer and journalist and author of ''The Open Veins of Latin America'', ''Memories of Fire'' and "Mirrors/An Almost Universal History".

In this article Galeano writes that since 1948 Palestinians have lived condemned to perpetual humiliation. They have lost their country, their land, their water, their freedom, their everything. They don't even have the right to elect their own leaders: when they vote for someone they aren't supposed to vote for, they are punished. Democracy is a luxury that not all peoples deserve.

Israel is the country that has never complied with UN resolutions or recommendations, never abides by judgements of international courts, and mocks international law. It is also the only country that has legalised the torture of prisoners. What gives them the right to deny the rights of others? Who is granting them the impunity with which they are carrying out the slaughter of Gaza?

(*) Eduardo Galeano is a Uruguayan writer and journalist and author of ''The Open Veins of Latin America'', 'Memories of Fire'' and "Mirrors/An Almost Universal History".

//NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, IRELAND, POLAND, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM//

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