Rest in Peace
The Israeli holocaust in Gaza is almost over after three weeks of mass destruction and mass murder.
1600 “terrorists” were killed or injured, 418 killed, some were killed in the wombs of their mothers, before they even see the sun. When “war on terrorism” kill 418 children, you should stop this war, especially, if it is done with your votes and tax money.
Injured Child in Gaza
Some sick minds want to convince us that killing 418 is a legal act of self-defense! This is a war crime, especially when they use illegal weapons or use white phosphorus that killed and blinded some of these children.
Some sick minds want to convince us that these 418 children are “collateral damage”! These people don’t appreciate life. How can someone consider the life of 418 child as a “collateral”?.
Some sick minds want to convince us that Hamas is trying to use children as human shields, they used the same allegations to justify their war crimes in Lebanon and almost everyone know they were lying. But even if it is true, if someone is using a child as a human shield, they kill that child and blame it on the kidnapper?!
Some sick minds want to convince us that we are “anti-semitic”! That we are promoting “hatred”! This is just a bad joke. Israel killed 418 children, and I can think of only few ethical feelings and thoughts toward such war criminals.
The Israeli propaganda machines were trying to convince the world, that these children are not “innocent”, that killing them is self defense and legal activity, that killing them is war on terrorism! Killing 418 child is terrorism and not counter terrorism. There are laws and rules for self-defense and armed conflicts.
If you saw the videos of some children being trained on self-defense, maybe now you understand how much they need this training.
For every child they killed, 2 fighters are born, not because they want revenge, but because they want justice and they want to stop this from happening again in the future.
418 children killed, hundreds others are laying in the hospitals suffering from injuries and some of them will suffer from permanent damages or disabilities.
If you are wondering how Hitler’s holocaust could happen, well you have seen two live examples, 2 episodes of israel’s holocausts, in 2006 in Lebanon and in 2008 in Gaza, which is more dangerous if you consider the telecommunication and media progress that broadcasted some of these Israeli war crimes in real time!.
Crying Child in Gaza
May these children, women and men rest in peace, and may God ease the suffering of their families and help the wounded and sick people get better.
Quest for Justice! | Jewish Editor Fired.
Jewish editor sacked for publishing article (freedom of expression thing)
Photo by farfahinne- Paris- 10/01/09
This article was sent to Debbie Ducro, a American-Jewish journalist with the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle. She published it, and was fired the next day.
Quest for justice
By Judith Stone
I am a Jew. I was a participant in the Rally for the Right of Return to Palestine. It was the right thing to do.
I’ve heard about the European holocaust against the Jews since I was a small child. I’ve visited the memorials in Washington, DC and Jerusalem dedicated to Jewish lives lost and I’ve cried at the recognition to what level of atrocity mankind is capable of sinking.
Where are the Jews of conscience? No righteous malice can be held against the survivors of Hitler’s holocaust. These fragments of humanity were in no position to make choices beyond that of personal survival. We must not forget that being a survivor or a co-religionist of the victims of the European Holocaust does not grant dispensation from abiding by the rules of humanity.
“Never again” as a motto, rings hollow when it means “never again to us alone.” My generation was raised being led to believe that the biblical land was a vast desert inhabited by a handful of impoverished Palestinians living with their camels and eking out a living in the sand. The arrival of the Jews was touted as a tremendous benefit to these desert dwellers. Golda Meir even assured us that there “is no Palestinian problem”.
We know now this picture wasn’t as it was painted. Palestine was a land filled with people who called it home. There were thriving towns and villages, schools and hospitals. There were Jews, Christians and Muslims.
In fact, prior to the occupation, Jews represented a mere seven per cent of the population and owned three per cent of the land.
Taking the blinders off for a moment, I see a second atrocity perpetuated by the very people who should be exquisitely sensitive to the suffering of others. These people knew what it felt like to be ordered out of your home at gun point and forced to march into the night to unknown destinations or face execution on the spot. The people who displaced the Palestinians knew first hand what it means to watch your home in flames, to surrender everything dear to your heart at a moment’s notice. Bulldozers levelled hundreds of villages, along with the remains of the village inhabitants, the old and the young. This was nothing new to the world.
Poland is a vast graveyard of the Jews of Europe. Israel is the final resting place of the massacred Palestinian people. A short distance from the memorial to the Jewish children lost to the holocaust in Europe there is a levelled parking lot. Under this parking lot is what’s left of a once flourishing village and the bodies of men, women and children whose only crime was taking up needed space and not leaving graciously. This particular burial marker reads: “Public Parking”.
I’ve talked with Palestinians. I have yet to meet a Palestinian who hasn’t lost a member of their family to the Israeli Shoah, nor a Palestinian who cannot name a relative or friend languishing under inhumane conditions in an Israeli prison. Time and time again, Israel is cited for human rights violations to no avail. On a recent trip to Israel, I visited the refugee camps inhabited by a people who have waited 52 years in these ‘temporary’ camps to go home. Every Palestinian grandparent can tell you the name of their village, their street, and where the olive trees were planted. Their grandchildren may never have been home, but they can tell you where their great-grandfather lies buried and where the village well stood. The press has fostered the portrait of the Palestinian terrorist. But the victims who rose up against human indignity in the Warsaw Ghetto are called heroes. Those who lost their lives are called martyrs. The Palestinian who tosses a rock in desperation is a terrorist.
Two years ago I drove through Palestine and watched intricate sprinkler systems watering lush green lawns of Zionist settlers in their new condominium complexes, surrounded by armed guards and barbed wire in the midst of a Palestinian community where there was not adequate water to drink and the surrounding fields were sandy and dry. University professor Moshe Zimmerman reported in the Jerusalem Post (30 April, 1995), “The [Jewish] children of Hebron are just like Hitler’s youth.”
We Jews are suing for restitution, lost wages, compensation for homes, land, slave labour and back wages in Europe. Am I a traitor of a Jew for supporting the right of return of the Palestinian refugees to their birthplace and compensation for what was taken that cannot be returned?
The Jewish dead cannot be brought back to life and neither can the Palestinian massacred be resurrected. David Ben Gurion said, “Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves…politically, we are the aggressors and they defend themselves…The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country…”.
Palestine is a land that has been occupied and emptied of its people. Its cultural and physical landmarks have been obliterated and replaced by tidy Hebrew signs. The history of a people was the first thing eradicated by the occupiers. The history of the indigenous people has been all but eradicated as though they never existed. And all this has been hailed by the world as a miraculous act of God. We must recognise that Israel’s existence is not even a question of legality so much as it is an illegal fait accompli realised through the use of force while supported by the Western powers. The UN missions directed at Israel in attempting to correct its violations of have thus far been futile.
In Hertzl’s ‘The Jewish State’ the father of Zionism said: “We must investigate and take possession of the new Jewish country by means of every modern expedient.” I guess I agree with Ehud Barak (3 June 1998) when he said, “If I were a Palestinian, I’d also join a terror group.” I’d go a step further perhaps. Rather than throwing little stones in desperation, I’d hurtle a boulder.
Hopefully, somewhere deep inside, every Jew of conscience knows that this was no war; that this was not G-d’s restitution of the holy land to it’s rightful owners. We know that a human atrocity was and continues to be perpetuated against an innocent people who couldn’t come up with the arms and money to defend themselves against the western powers bent upon their demise as a people.
We cannot continue to say, “But what were we to do?” Zionism is not synonymous with Judaism. I wholly support the rally of the right of return of the Palestinian people here.
© Independent Catholic News 2000 : http://www.indcatholicnews.com/speech.html
Turnkey Websites | Transfer Domain Names | Gaza Crisis
Gaza ceasefire!
If you think that the ceasefire in Gaza was a good thing, then let this expert tell you, what it really was. Aparently, the world gave Palestinians two choices:
- Slow death under siege
- or being slaughtered in massacres.
That is why Hamas was not inclined to renew the ceasefire, and not because of any Iranian or regional agenda. Because sick people, including a 3 months old infant, were dying on the borders because of the siege and because of lack of medicine.
Please send this video to some ambassadors or ministers of foreign affairs, maybe they will change their foreign policy!
Salam,
M.G.
Peace and Israel Propaganda
Peace,Propaganda and The Promised Land
An interesting video about the israeli propaganda and the American media and the Occupation of Palestine. Although this video talk about the conflict since 1967 only and not 1948, but it presents a good overview, especially for people who don’t live in the region.
You really should watch this video, it might help you understand better the conflict and the US Media.
“This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites - working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies - exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American & British TV news clips and interviews with analysts, journalists, and activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land exposes frequently biased, pro-Israeli reporting and how it shapes American perceptions.”
By Media Education Foundation.
Israel stole the Palestinian lands and commited Ethnic Eleansing
Some facts and references on how israel stole the Palestinian lands through massacres and ethnic cleansing.
The Seizure of the Land
http://takingaimradio.com/hhz/ch05.htm
“After less than six months only 138,000 people remained. (Figures vary from 130,000 to 165,000.)The great majority of Palestinians were killed, forcibly expelled or fled in panic before slaughtering bands of Israeli army units.
Having thus eliminated most of the Palestinian inhabitants from the land of Palestine, the Israeli government undertook the systematic destruction of their homes and possessions. Nearly 400 villages and towns were razed to the ground during 1948 and 1949. More followed in the 1950s.
Moshe Dayan, former Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense, was uninhibited in his summary of the nature of Zionist colonization before students at the Israel Institute of Technology (The Techniyon):
We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs, and we are building here a Hebrew, Jewish state. Instead of Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You do not even know the names of these villages and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist. Not only the books, but also the villages do not exist.
The following table was prepared by Israel Shahak, Chairperson of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, under the heading ” Arab Villages Destroyed in Israel.”
http://takingaimradio.com/hhz/ch05.htm
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
by Pappe, Ilan
http://www.zmag.org/zaudio/2470 ( Audio Interview)
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer at Haifa University.
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitbeck01272007.html
The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine
Review By Stephen Lendman
2-8-7
http://www.rense.com/general75/eth.htm
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Al Nakba:
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/171.shtml
Maps:
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Maps/index.html
Palestinian Land Society :
http://www.plands.org/power/index.htm
The largest planned ethnic cleansing operationin modern history
This started with 1,500 sq. km. of Jewish land (5% of Palestine)
By military conquest, expulsion and massacres, the conquered land became 20,500 sq. km
(78% of Palestine)
The Anatomy of Ethnic Cleansing
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“The fact is that JNF, in its operations in Israel, had expropriated illegally most of the land of 372 Palestinian villages which had been ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces in 1948.”
http://tinyurl.com/522q7l
Brief History of Palestine:
Photo by Farah Kobaissy
1895
The total population of Palestine was 500,000 of whom 47,000 were Jews who owned 0.5% of the land.
1904
Fourth Zionist Congress decided to establish a national home for Jews in Argentina.
1906
The Zionist congress decided the Jewish homeland should be Palestine.
1914
With the outbreak of World War I, Britain promised the independence of Arab lands under Ottoman rule, including Palestine, in return for Arab support against Turkey which had entered the war on the side of Germany.
1917
Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary sent a letter to the Zionist leader Lord Rothschild which later became known as “The Balfour declaration”. He stated that Britain would use its best endeavors to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. At that time the population of Palestine was 700,000 of which 574,000 were Muslims, 74,000 were Christian, and 56,000 were Jews.
http://www.cyberus.ca/~baker/pal_hist.htm
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Palestine in some historical documents: ( Note the Name: Palestine)
The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917)
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/historicaldocuments/21.shtml
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a…..”
Foreign Office , November 2nd, 1917 / Arthur James Balfour.
The Palestine Mandate (1922):By the League of Nations. Palestine mentioned 45 times in this document. Nothing is called Israel.
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/historicaldocuments/27.shtml
“The Secretary of State for the Colonies has given renewed consideration to the existing political situation in Palestine,”
British White Paper (1939)
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/historicaldocuments/28.shtml
“In the statement on Palestine, issued on 9 November, 1938, His Majesty’s Government announced their intention to invite representatives of the Arabs of Palestine, of certain neighboring countries and of the Jewish Agency to confer with them in London regarding future policy.”
Nothing called “israel” in that document either.
UNGA 181, partitioning Palestine (1947)
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/historicaldocuments/29.shtml
“The General Assembly,
Having met in special session at the request of the mandatory Power to constitute and instruct a special committee to prepare for the consideration of the question of the future government of Palestine at the second regular session”
Again, it is called Palestine, nothing called israel in all of these documents.
“the land without people for people without land” is simply a zionist lie, propaganda and “historical terrorism”
Salam,
M.G.
Majida El Roumi
Majida presented a clear Lebanese message to the whole world, a message that was stronger than any other political or diplomatic letter
Although it is 12 years old song, the message still valid and I think the same message apply for Gaza. Beware, it is not the typical songs video clip! Press Play!
The song was so powerful in its meanings that israeli embassies in some Arab capitals had to protest and to request seizure of its broadcasting.
The song is in Arabic with English subtitles.
Salam,(Peace, in Arabic)
Some Events to stop the Siege on Gaza
Friday 19 December:
Saturday 20 December:
Bethlehem Christmas cancelled: The Wall must fall
Web 2.0 to end the siege on Gaza
250 people joined the candle march launched by 3 persons in Hamra street- Beirut in solidarity with the palestinian people in Gaza- the demonstrators wrote with candles on the ground in arabic: GAZA- by Farah Kobaissy
What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a term coined to describe a new mindset and attitude in using the web and some new technologies and patterns:
• Web 2.0 is social: it is about networking and online communities, sharing of news, photos and videos and connecting people and cultures and even integrating web applications.
• Web 2.0 is democratic: it changes the power structures so that everyone can have their say about everything, unlike mainstream media where it is controlled by few and the masses are just audience, Web 2.0 allows anyone to be a producer, editor and publisher and not just listener. Also, it allows people to rate, rank, and review and choose the news and stories and products.
• Web 2.0 is also Global and Mobile: it removes to an extent the language barriers and the location limitations.
• Web 2.0 is Powerful: it is one of the platforms Obama used to win the US presidential elections; he used it to communicate and engage his supporters and to raise funds in a very smart way. It is the platform that allows some people to leverage their passion and make lot of money even in times of recessions.
