It is no longer possible to believe with an honest conscience that the deplorable conditions in which Palestinians live and die in Gaza and the West Bank come as the result of specific policies, leaders or parties on either side of the impasse. The problem is fundamental: Founding a modern state on a single ethnic or religious identity in a territory that is ethnically and religiously diverse leads inexorably either to politics of exclusion (think of the 139-square-mile prison camp that Gaza has become) or to wholesale ethnic cleansing.
Ben Ehrenreich
Los Angeles Times
Mon, 16 Mar 2009
Anyone who would take a fresh look at this would easily turn and say, make it one country or federal state for all its citizens and leave racism at the door.
Monday, 16 March 2009
Monday, 2 March 2009
Make peace not war
And if you hear any of the statements from the donars conference, we just ignore reality and carry on ..... Is Bush pulling Obama's Strings !!
It appears that people need reminding of the masacre of a few weeks ago.... DAILY i think for some.. The following are the facts that the US And UK like to ignore, that dam pesky, ugly TRUTH !
After the Gazans were starved for months, Israeli forces bombed homes, mosques, hospitals, ambulances and UN aid distributing centers and sanctuaries; most of the factories and food processing plants were destroyed; businesses, Gaza's major municipal buildings, including its parliament building (legislative assembly building), police stations and whole neighborhoods were reduced to rubble; 70 per cent of the agricultural sector in Gaza was destroyed.
Talk of peace sits ill in the mouth of those who let loose a devastating attack in which, on the very first day of the offensive, fighter jets and attack helicopters struck more than 170 targets, killing at least 230 and wounding 780 and which, by the time it was over, killed 1300 (equivalent of 300,000 dead in US terms, on the basis of population ratio), more than half of them civilians, including 420 children, and injured more than 5400.
A million and a half tons of explosives were dropped on Gaza after the Gazans had been starved for 50 days.
Every single police station in Gaza was bombed.
Israel used white phosphorous and Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME) weapons that have inflicted horrific injuries on victims and are having unusual effects, never before seen by doctors; its forces killed wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, children in front of the eyes of those who escaped the bloodbath; ambulances were prevented from getting near the injured and the dying; most houses visited by the Israeli Defense Forces were demolished and some, from those left standing, were defaced by graffiti.
In numbers, 100,000 were displaced; 50,000 made homeless; 4,100 residential homes and buildings were destroyed; 17,000 residential homes and buildings, accounting for 14 per cent of all buildings in Gaza, were damaged; 3 UN schools being used as shelters for displaced persons were bombed, leaving 45 dead, including 13 children; 21 hospital and clinics and 16 ambulances were destroyed or damaged; 40 mosques and 29 educational institutions were destroyed and about 30 more damaged, including the American International School and Gaza Music School; 1,500 shops, factories and other commercial factories were destroyed.
Even a cemetery came under fire and body parts were strewn all over.
It appears that people need reminding of the masacre of a few weeks ago.... DAILY i think for some.. The following are the facts that the US And UK like to ignore, that dam pesky, ugly TRUTH !
After the Gazans were starved for months, Israeli forces bombed homes, mosques, hospitals, ambulances and UN aid distributing centers and sanctuaries; most of the factories and food processing plants were destroyed; businesses, Gaza's major municipal buildings, including its parliament building (legislative assembly building), police stations and whole neighborhoods were reduced to rubble; 70 per cent of the agricultural sector in Gaza was destroyed.
Talk of peace sits ill in the mouth of those who let loose a devastating attack in which, on the very first day of the offensive, fighter jets and attack helicopters struck more than 170 targets, killing at least 230 and wounding 780 and which, by the time it was over, killed 1300 (equivalent of 300,000 dead in US terms, on the basis of population ratio), more than half of them civilians, including 420 children, and injured more than 5400.
A million and a half tons of explosives were dropped on Gaza after the Gazans had been starved for 50 days.
Every single police station in Gaza was bombed.
Israel used white phosphorous and Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME) weapons that have inflicted horrific injuries on victims and are having unusual effects, never before seen by doctors; its forces killed wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, children in front of the eyes of those who escaped the bloodbath; ambulances were prevented from getting near the injured and the dying; most houses visited by the Israeli Defense Forces were demolished and some, from those left standing, were defaced by graffiti.
In numbers, 100,000 were displaced; 50,000 made homeless; 4,100 residential homes and buildings were destroyed; 17,000 residential homes and buildings, accounting for 14 per cent of all buildings in Gaza, were damaged; 3 UN schools being used as shelters for displaced persons were bombed, leaving 45 dead, including 13 children; 21 hospital and clinics and 16 ambulances were destroyed or damaged; 40 mosques and 29 educational institutions were destroyed and about 30 more damaged, including the American International School and Gaza Music School; 1,500 shops, factories and other commercial factories were destroyed.
Even a cemetery came under fire and body parts were strewn all over.
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