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For example...
1. Gaza, New Year 2009 - see also UNICEF
Excuse
me, but I can’t keep quiet about this any longer.
As if the attacks on Lebanon (2006) had never existed, the government of one of one God’s chosen peoples are at it again, ‘defending’ their promised land (that God must be turning in his/her/its grave) against terrorism, showering a densely populated Arab area with illegal phosphorous bombs and high-explosive shells, reducing homes and schools to rubble and killing over 1,000 civilians, of which 30% are children. It’s David the Philestine versus Goliath the Israelite to the power of n. The Israeli forces seem hell bent on perpetuating terrorism, because, once again, they’re themselves using terror to encourage the most predictable response —retaliation— from their victims. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or a Hamas rocket launcher to work out that, without high-tech weaponry, the obvious response to the Israeli attacks will be more home-made rockets, more suicide bombings, more airline hijacking and similar low-tech acts of death and destruction. Add to all this the alienation Israeli actions are causing among its previous friends and allies and it seems quite possible that these events will turn out to be the beginning of the end of the nation state of Israel.
More
Gaza info and details here,
here,
here, here,
here, here
and here.
Looking
to do something constructive?
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Donate to UNICEF Children of Gaza Fund •
P.S.
Just in case, as Jewish, you’re tempted to knee-jerk and accuse me of
anti-semitism (a moral issue the Israeli state seemingly wants to monopolise),
please calm down and be aware that:
1. Most Arabs, like many Jews, are Semitic;
2. A large proportion of Jews are against the violence
committed in their name;
3. If I’d been living in the 3rd Reich I’d be
Jewish
enough by birth to end up in an
extermination camp.
P.P.S. Today (15 Jan. 2009) the Israelis shelled the UN compound in Gaza, killing 3 people.
Gaza body count 15 January 2009: 1,105 killed, 5,100 wounded.
13 innocent people were killed by Hamas rockets. That’s very bad.
Over 1,000 Gazans were killed between 27 December 2008 and 15 January 2009. How bad is that?
How many Palestinian kids died as a result of the illegal blockade of Gaza before 27 December?
Road blocks, concrete walls, systematic apartheid and illegal occupation on the West Bank, all against UN resolutions and international law, then 1½ million people living in a tiny prison of blockaded and often occupied territory... Why do you think Hamas won the Gaza elections? Are you surprised they’re firing erratic rockets at Israel?
No Western journalists allowed in Gaza. If you think that I think that what you stop me from seeing I’ll never know about, you think wrong.
I’m someone’s
Dad, too. I can only guess how this Gazan Dad is feeling.
Ten eyewitnesses saw Israeli forces execute 23-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Salah (right, below) on an open street in early March, 2002.
‘He was arrested on the street and immediately handcuffed. Then the policemen raised his arms and through him against my car’, said 56-year-old Yehiya Al Waari.
‘A policeman had put his foot on his neck. Another was holding his legs. All the neighbours and myself saw from our windows how he was executed half an hour after his arrest. Members of the special units who executed Salah were repeating “Let’s kill him”.’
Why did the Israeli forces stand right by Salah for half an hour if if he was loaded with explosives? He obviously wasn’t even carrying any weapon at all.
My opinion?
It’s all very well for madman Bush and his lapdog Blair to rant on about their ‘Axis of Evil’ and quote UN resolutions about the wrongdoings of Sadam Hussein, but 50 years of UN resolutions about the Palestinians’ right to their own homeland have been consistently sidelined by the US government and its supporters. Until that conflict is solved we can expect more September 11ths. Unless we stop Sharon and his thugs from committing the kind of brutality shown here we are asking for more.
Another story about these 3 pictures
In August 2002, my immediate line manager here in Montreal asked me, quite politely, to withdraw the pictures, shown next, from my website, in order to avoid offending certain individuals.
The death of Mahmoud Salah
Since I was new in the job and the city, I felt obliged to comply, but since that time, with increasing knowledge of the real causes of the atrocities in New York on 11 September 2001, I have decided to allow these pictures to re-appear. The reasons for this decision are:
[1] this is my personal website which can in no way be seen to represent the ideas, policies or opinions of anyone else, let alone those of my employers;
[2] given the amount of propaganda for the war in Iraq and for the Israeli régime’s actions in the occupied territories, a different view, presented by one individual on a personal website, can hardly be regarded as a major threat by those denying Palestinians the right to their own homeland;
[3] Zionism is incompatible with the basically humanistic character of Judaism; therefore, opposing the actions of the Israeli occupation forces and the ideology of Zionism ought to be seen as pro-Jewish;
[4] to appease those who want to confirm their belief in the unjust world order we suffer under, I have included a barrage of anti-communist propaganda on this site;
[5] I still have the right to express my opinion publicly, as long as it is not racist or anti-human.
Why Western journalists aren’t
allowed into Gaza?
Gazan boys learn about the free world
in January 2009
.