The outrage in Gaza in the words of Israeli and Palestinian activists and civilians. Shamefully, the UN Security Council won’t condemn Israeli actions due to American pressure. Washington is truly Israel’s worst friend in the world.
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Lesson unlearnt
The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Nearly 70 years ago, in a small eastern European city, an oppressed and occupied people were under siege, living under atrocious and brutal conditions, lacking food, medicine, electricity, water, and slowly being strangled in the hope they would just disappear. Warsaw Ghetto 1941 – Gaza 2008.…
Propping up Hamas
Youssef Khatib, clerk from Khan Younis, Ynetnews: The power outage in Gaza will not hurt Hamas, on the contrary – it will strengthen the Islamic organizations, so that even secular Palestinians, who used to support Fatah, will sympathize with Hamas. Israel’s collective punishment policy would not lead to results. I am not a Hamas man,…
The Zionist creed
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, January 21: Has the daily mass killing in Gaza improved the security situation? No, it has only made it worse. Has it reduced the number of Qassams? No, it has led to their proliferation. So why are we killing? We need “to do something” and there needs to be “a price tag.”…
Killing peace one step at a time
This is how a Middle East “democracy” behaves: Gaza City was plunged into darkness Sunday after Israel blocked the shipment of fuel that powers its only electrical plant in retaliation for persistent rocket attacks by Gaza militants. The Strip’s only power station is now closed and the UN has condemned the collective punishment. Meanwhile, some…
There goes the two-state delusion
Yacov Ben Efrat, Challenge Magazine, January/February: What exactly is the nature of the Jewish state that is thus endangered? It has become clear in recent years that Israel’s drive to separate the two peoples is not meant as penance for its crimes of forty years. The desire for separation results rather from the evaporation of…
Bombing without concern
War crimes aren’t war crimes when carried out by principled Zionists (according to Israeli law): The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal action against senior officers who were involved in the firing of cluster bombs into populated areas in southern Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War, the Military Advocate General said Monday. Brigadier General…
War crimes revealed
Dr. Eyad Sarraj is a psychiatrist and human rights activist who lives in the Gaza Strip. He told a group of Israeli peace activists last week in Tel Aviv the real situation in the Israeli-isolated territory: Local water is undrinkable. Israel does not let in bottled water. Nor does Israel allow the importation of water…
Home-truths ignored by Washington
Dr. Ahmad Yousuf, Hamas Senior Political Advisor, in a letter to Condoleezza Rice: On a personal note we found it amusing that a black person empathizes with Israeli deaths on the one hand and Palestinian segregation on the other if media reports are accurate. It is a military occupation, Ms. Rice. Their citizens face insecurity…
More than shady translations
Jewish groups caught out distorting Hamas statements to suggest the Islamic group hates Jews and the presence of Jews in Palestine? We shouldn’t be surprised.