Heartbreak, Heartbreak and Heartbreak in Gaza

Fewer Israelis have died from Hamas' rockets than from Israeli friendly-fire. But, despite shooting itself in the foot, Israel continues on a campaign of deception and genocide in hopes of advancing its job of expulsion, started in 1948 but yet unfinished, to forcibly transport all Palestinians out of their lands.
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Truth be told, this isn't the first time a country has been forcibly taken over by non-native factions. Just this time, the global community is witness to the atrocities. And yes, we have something to say about it. My heart goes out to Abu al-Aish, whose suffering is un-enumerable.

Relevant Short-Videos:
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BBC Journalist asks Mark Regev, Israeli spokesclown, to justify the bombing of a UN school, which killed over 40 Palestinian civilians:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f45_1231783093
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Countering Israel's Lie Machine:
http://www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20081231
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Israeli Deceptions of the 1967 War:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4bc_1187741706

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Where's the Love+Peace?...

Where's the VOICES of the Artists Against South Apartheid?...

Lay down your guns
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons
I don't know if I can make it
I'm not easy on my knees
Here's my heart and GAZA broke it
We need some release, release, release
We need
Love and peace
Love and peace-U2

.........In 1985 Bono joined forces with a group of artists concerned about Apartheid in South Africa. Inspired by his meetings with several of them, he wrote "Silver and Gold".........

"Yep, silver and gold.
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City.
'Round about the time a friend or ours, little Steven,
was putting together a record of artists against apartheid.
This is a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg.
A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa.
A man who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms
against his oppressor.
A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while
they argue and while they fail to support a man like bishop Tutu
and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I buggin' you?"

Well, I mean to bug you!

The rest:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1164&Itemid=214

The Israeli woman's argument is very irrational. Her sons chose to be soldiers and soldiers are expected to be shot at. What did those young girls and their father do to deserve this fate?

Most of the Israeli claims are irrational. With this latest episode of state sponsored terrorism, more than a thousand people are killed, most of them innocent. What is the causality numbers of the Israelis?

There is something called nature's justice and I am sure Israel will suffer. This conflict has nothing to do with me, but this is an state sponsored pogrom and the western powers are doing nothing to resolve this.

This is one sad situation.

Actually, many personal stories in Gaza over the past three weeks have been just as heartbreaking..the difference is that this man's anguish was heard live on Israeli tv and some felt empathy for this Hebrew-speaking physician, particularly since he's a fertility doctor who actually helped more Israelis come into this world.
Inside the strip they still are digging out the corpses and collecting the wounded. Of the 1300 or so dead Gazans, many are of the same family, and were collateral damage in this Overkill let loose inside what effectively is an open-air prison. Nearly hald the 5500 wounded were civilians. Israeli shells & snipers killed at least 418 children, 110 women, 120 elderly over 50 years old, 16 paramedics, four journalists, and five foreigners. Grief is not good

Scott, I do not believe that this sort of sympathy, this particular emotion is appropriate or called for a particular lull, especially when it was introduced by the stronger as a "unilateral cease-fire" after all violence done to Palestinians of Gaza in the name of an "unnecessary" war. It seems to me just too pathetic a conformist to subject the experience of inhuman elements in the war of planned killing to the humanity given in the essential context by the stronger of Israel govt. It claimed a victory because it said in this war Israel has achieved its major goal (To break the will of Palestinians to fire at Israel). Something does not fit in the way the Israel's govt. would like to, not just because we hear the Hamas of the Strip still says the contrary, but primarily because the subjectivity of the planners of this useless war is in fact revealed as a game, for the unilateral cease-fire does not seem to have an objective necessity, but remains contingent upon the order from the self-interest in the higher office: at best it is hoped to show its respect for the Jan. 20 Inauguration ceremony of the incoming new Obama administration. This subjectivity of making decision like this one resonates in cheap violence upon itself, because it is no more than the arbitrariness of the animal power and its authority over the life stack of Palestinians.

If the Israeli invasion of Gaza were not a mere game of the IDF exercise of having fun targeting their object designated as pseudo-humans, if the IDF had a real concern with its "right to exist", not just the existential threat, but the measure of "to be or not to be" for the entire population, the Israel govt. is unlikely to pay any respect to the Presidential Inauguration for the new US administration. Then and only then, the rest of us would get the message: how serious Israel govt's threat is by acting independently in this "war". When these "ifs" are not useful, then there comes one last possibility: Israel as a Jewish states no longer has the political and economic autonomy in existence, simply because it has to serve the USA regardless what may come, while she may hold on what is the most ridiculous argument for "The right to exist" that begs the question.

--Can we live together on one moral category that dispenses with psycholog?

It is evident that behind the "three scenarios" that never considered the possibility of a "Unilateral cease-fire" however suspicious, there is unspoken darkness of mutual mistrust and historical antagonism, which has hit and distorted the reason for their[Both Israelis and Palestinians] living to the extent that the Israeli govt. leaders regarded the political hierarchy of the Palestinians as nothing more than, or identical with the order of psychological hatred. The term hatred or hate, that is to say, the psychological term by definition would not vanish until its object disappears or gets killed by the hater. And so, such hatred cannot be transferred to the phase of historical antagonism, because the latter in general remains contingent but not built in the nature of men as an anthropomorphic trait.

But it is this that reminds us of the conflict between the Jews of Israel and the Palestinians, which seems to require a historical healing of moral wounds that can only temporarily be covered with the superficial veil of ideology, such as the "three scenarios" offered as a face-saving of these leaders, just for them to pass the death of young men and children under the name of a "war," of which they know will recur, but do not know how to stop it.

The real question addressed to these leaders is; can we believe their claim that they really not know how to bring to a full stop the 'war' of hatred and change it into a happy end in peace? Hardly so, because we want a full confidence as well that we do know what our thought is doing, and this means we do not mock our own intelligence which may claim that we are the problem creators and the solution at the same time, but if it is otherwise, what will happen?
Two scenarios are possible in reality;
1) is that these leaders are in fact incompetent, but they are there to protect themselves as the essence of conformism, representing the fallacy of constituted subjectivity as a mishap of democracy, and
2) the other scenario may have to do with the reverse effect of the identity, especially the identity of every Palestinian with the order of psychological hatred, which may have been transferred to the mind of these leaders, the stronger who is always right in a permanent warfare, just as the taboo of a subject, according to the projection psychology, is projected into the object that the subject conceives and without knowing, the subject becomes the victim of its taboo: the Nazi-like paranoia.
It is in fact these two scenarios with which we are concerned here, because we are very afraid of the anti-reason this war of killing brings about: the reason that involves and invokes the progress of animal power, conceiving and planning the war of killing, the same reasoning used for the power of human progress becomes antireason, which is to exterminate all humanity that made reason first possible; as far as antireason is concerned, to say that a modern hero against terrorism, especially of Israeli type cannot escape sacrifice without sacrificing himself is the same thing as that Israel wants peace to attain by way of the war of invasion, which is impossible in the first place.
David D. Yun, Ph.D. Jan. 17 in Bangkok, to the Post and Time

I must ask what is the prize israel is willing to pay for peace? I mean seriously how can a person sleep at night if his neighbour's house is burning to the ground?the sanctaty of the holy land is lost in a river of blood.I want somebody to tell me why did israel blockade gaza in the first place?that started the rockets didn't it.why do they still treat every arab as a terrorist in gaza?afterall let us face it most of them if not all of them are refugees in their own country.they dont have basic freedoms and when you shove 1.5 million frustrated people in a place that is 27 miles long and 7 miles wide and you destroy their only power station and block everything including food to them for months what do you think is going to happen?

I know this land means a lot to the people of israel but what will it take for them to realize that their land is also the palestinians too.The people of palestine will not give up till they get back the land their forefathers roamed for centuries and nothing is going to stop them.I mean what are they going to lose really?their homes?their children?they live in fear everyday anyways.there is no honor in their lives as they are treated like slum dogs by people who kicked them off their own lands.How can you fight a man who has nothing to lose?I have nothing against Jews or Muslims but this conflict has showed the world how low we as humans have fallen.

If anyone tells that Israel won this war well I will tell them sure they did but they lost their sanity in doing so.They are lost in the belief that their freedom and way of life is worth more than the lives of millions of palestinians.They lost the hearts and souls who believed that a jew and a muslim can live in peace.

So rejoice in this victory of yours against Hamas while a nation mourn their loss.People like this doctor have lost everything but they will not look down in shame and sadness.Rather stand up and fight again they will till they get what was always rightfully theirs.the land of palestine and no one will be able to stop it.

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields

The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves....

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680

It's easy to support a war when you're removed from the suffering and tragedy that all wars inevitably bring. Only when those stories become real do we feel real empathy. I wish there was something I could do to help stop this pain. It's terrible.

Heartbreaking indeed. And the behaviour of the woman was abnomible.
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But...
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One of the doctor's surviving daughter's is currently in an Israeli Hospital. And preliminary analysis of metal fragments removed from her head seems to indicate they originated... In a Hamas Grad missile.
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Of course by the time the analysis is complete and the findings are published the public perception of the incident will be set in stone.
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Some of you may recall the outraged reports of the massacre at the UNWRA school two weeks ago where (according to the Hamas) 42 Palestinians died in an unprovoked Israeli Mortar strike. Israeli protests that the Hamas fired Mortars from the school and had a record of doing so in the past (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sznMP3dnCg&feature=PlayList&p=24B346594DCE3F37&index=5 ) were ignored, described as inconsistent or simply defined as "lies" prior to being made (thanks to good old Robert Fisk).
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Here is the New york times inquiry of this incident... published a week AFTER the incident led to General assembly condemmenations, hours of media coverage and outraged demonstrations:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/middleeast/17israel.html?pa...
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""Witnesses, including Hanan Abu Khajib, 39, said that Hamas fired just outside the school compound, probably from the secluded courtyard of a house across the street, 25 yards from the school. Israeli return fire, some minutes later, also landed outside the school, along the southwest wall, killing two Hamas fighters. Nearly all the casualties were in the street outside the compound**, with only three people wounded from shrapnel inside the walls.""
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**Two guesses on what they were doing in such high concentrations in the street next to the Hamas mortar team.
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One paragraph in the middle of 5 pages of backpage analysis. Come on, roll call, how many of you read or saw it? How many saw the original images of the carnage at the UNWRA school?
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IF it turns out that Hamas Grads were fired at (or, as the hysterical and illmannered Israeli woman claimed were being stored or fired FROM) the good doctor's house how many of you will ever know? Or care?

Yoni,
With all due respect, given Israel's past behavior of disseminating lies and twisting truths, the following sentence says it all:
"One of the doctor's surviving daughter's is currently in an Israeli Hospital."
Any findings of "Hamas Grad Rocket" shrapnel by Israeli sources is hocus pocus. Sorry.

No I hadn't seen that article. Thanks for the link Yoni. I've read other articles that have claimed witnesses didn't see anybody fire from the school, although they may have been talking exclusively about "within" the school. However, Israel still claims that Hamas fired from inside the school, contrary to what the NY Times reports. I'd be interested in seeing if there will be any investigations.
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As for your other question about Hamas firing from the doctor's house, I have no idea how many of us will know about it. But if it turns out that Hamas DIDN'T fire from that house (as the doctor says), how many in Israel (or the world) will know about it? Or care?
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The only thing that comes out of the doctor's pain is that it puts a name and face on the real casualties suffered by Gaza's civilians, and if that makes everyone question whether or not they are doing enough for peace then perhaps all of the deaths may eventually mean something more than just an inscription on a gravestone.

It has come to this... Which parent's grief is deeper..

The Israeli mother cannot think of anything but the safety of here children. Don't hate her for that.

But whatever the justifications for attacking Hamas, the result is always more violence.

Since majority of world member states and UN agree on Israel having committed war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian supporters with a law degree should have easy time to bring various law suit against Israel in various local and international courts which have jurisdiction over these matters, let those who destroy also pay for their reconstruction out of their pockets and not by allowing them to control how humanitarian charities suppose to be paid and spend by non guilty parties in this war, I'm sure Israelis shall understand it more than anyone else since they have being using same tactics against various country with less than any credible evidence since their creation. Boycotting companies with tie with Zionist regime shall be long term strategy to bring Israel to 21st century civilization, it worked in case of Apartheid South Africa, meanwhile US citizens should contact their representative to change current Zionist impose ruling in US which bar boycotting state of Israel in US:

http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/antiboycottcompliance.htm

I'm sure Swiss for example, is regretting how come she didn't spend small amount of money on lobbyist in US before being milked like cow in past decades!

Joe,
I believe a fundamental change in US policy is required above anything else. The policy should reflect reality instead of the influence of lobbyists; Israeli interests are not US interests.

P.A., but of course, Egypt have to pay for reconstructions of Gaza, As one of US secretary of state said, "you break it, you own it"
Israel have gave public noted affidavit in regard with Egypt being accomplice in blocking of Gaza and therefore war crimes!

This need to stop. I wish all countries will be involved in this conflict and apply pressure on both sides. It makes me very sad with all these tragic stories.

http://www.webtwist-design.com

The main issue now is how to avert Iranian influence in a post-war Gaza. See an interesting analysis by Shimon Shapira at http://tinyurl.com/8gldrj

lol ya, Judy, because Iran was the one who destroyed 50 UN and 21 medical facilities; sewage systems; displaced over 100,000 people; left 400,000 people without running water; damaged or destroyed 17,000 civilian homes; killed at least 1,300 Palestinians; some still being pulled dead from the rubble and over 400 of them children; and used illegal weapons like white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and inert metal shells on civilians, causing long-term damage like inevitable cancer or death to the 7,000+ wounded after already causing a humanitarian crisis from an inhumane military blockade that was starving women and children, almost 50% of which are now exhibiting mental defects from malnutritioned growth.
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Oh wait, no, that was Israel... and on 7 million dollars of US aid per day, more than any other country in the world. Taxpayers wouldn't pay for genocide if the media stopped lying to them thanks to Zionazi lobbyists.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ ; http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Nathan,

Kindly find me the OFFICAL IDF spokesperson saying definitively that the Hamas fired from WITHIN the School in THIS operation.

You won't find it... because he did not say it. He said:
A. That the IDF was returning fire at Hamas mortarmen.
B. That the IDF was INVESTIGATING the circumstances of the incident.
C. That the Hamas had PREVIOUSLY fired mortars on the IDF from WITHIN the School and that it was therefore POSSIBLE it did so on this occasion as well.

He declined further questions until the investigations were complete- but the reporters of course always compete with each other to publish first- rule of the free market.

Feed this to 200+ reporters, mix with a false UNWRA report that the dead were sheltering WITHIN the school and add a slew of "unofficial" Israeli sources (usualy the reporter's Israeli drinking buddy, Debka site... or just his own imagination) and what is the headline?

"40 Palestinians killed within UNWRA compund".

And five or six paragraphs later: "IDF claims Hamas fired mortars from within the school but was not clear if Hamas fired from schoolyard or".

As to your other question: The interview with the doctor, both while he was imploring his Israeli journalist friends to get him out, and afterwards his statement at the hospital, was broadcast live in Israel. So was the "reconciliation" meeting between the obnoxious woman and the doctor (which did not go very well). It resulted in slews of editorials and opinion pieces (generaly trashing the obnoxious woman) in all major newspapers.

I can assure you that however the analysis turns out most Israelis will know... and care.

Persianadvocate - who are you? Are you the spokesman of the Iranian president Hamenidjade?
Do you also want to wipe Israel out of the Map?
Let us know why the UN didn't expel Iran out of the UN after such threats.
Let us know so we can understand how to read you comments.

Frequent lies and the true answers:

On Gaza
1) There is no Israeli occupation of Gaza for the last 3 years – why do they shoot at us.
2) There can never be a blockade on Gaza. Gaza has a land border with Egypt, which is an Arab country. So how can Israel blockade Gaza if a free flow of food, medicines can come directly from Egypt. So again if they have a border with Egypt-why do they claim we put a blockade on them and shoot at us? What do they want from us?
3) The Hamas regime is an Iranian proxy in this region. They want to wipe Israel out of the map. How do you suggest Israel would react after 8 years that they are launching missiles into Israel? Should we give them our second chick? Should we give them flowers? Should we all stand before a trench shoot ourselves and cover the trench?

On Israeli occupation of the west bank
4) There are almost 100 years of terror against Israelis in the land of Israel but only 40 years of occupation. If terror against Israelis stems from the occupation how can one explain terror before 1967? There is no occupation in Gaza for the last 3 years – how can you explain terror from Gaza during those 3 years.
5) Why Israel occupied the west bank and Gaza at first place?. What do you think- one morning there was a decision “lets occupy this land”? No there was terror against Israelis from those areas and than Israel reacted. Read next item for more….
6) Just to remind you that in the months before the 1967 war Nasser the president of Egypt at that time threaten to wipe Israel out of the map, ordered the UN to go out of the Sinai desert since he wanted to attack Israel and he blockaded Eilat the southern port of Israel. Nobody helped Israel at that time. There was no UN action against Egypt. And many Israelis thought in 1967 that a second holocaust is going to happen when Egypt, Jordan and Syria threaten to attack Israel
7) 2007-2008: Mahmud Hamanidjad president of Iran threatens to wipe Israel out of the map. I want to repeat it: “2007-2008: Mahmud Hamanidjad president of Iran threatens to wipe Israel out of the map” First time ever that a member of the UN threaten to wipe another member out of the map. I didn't see any demonstrations around the world, the international media almost didn't mentioned it the UN didn't expel Iran from membership. Why – is it because it's a threat against Israelis so nobody cares?

On civilians as victims
When Palestinians (and before that Arab countries) are fighting Israelis they target civilian first- as their main target. I will repeat it: “they target civilian first- as their main target “. When Israelis hit civilians its by mistake. Yes by mistake and we apologize and regret it. Palestinian terrorists use the civilian population (their Palestine brothers sisters and kids) as human shields hostages and shoot Israelis behind their back. When Israel retaliates, sadly, civilians are being hit. This is the difference between homicide and causing death by accident.

On the international media coverage
9) When you read in the news or view in TV that a school was attacked or a mosque was hit bear in mind: its not a school anymore and not a mosque but rather a bunker or an arms hideout. The media, which cover the story, couldn't care less about this fact and by that they give a full service for the Palestinian terrorists and incite demonstrations against Israel all over the world.
10) When you read in the news that “ Israelis have killed two Palestinians” for example I am sure you feel anger against Israel. But never take such news piece as it is. The real information the media “forgot” to provide you is “two armed terrorists started to shoot / planted road mines / launched a missile – and the Israeli army luckily succeeded to hit them, other wise few Israelis would have been killed” bear this in your mind and you will better understand the real picture of the situation. Or you couldn't care less that couple of Israelis would die.

Ladak,
Yes, I represent "Iranian president Hamenidjade".
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No, he never said to wipe Israel off the map -- that is a lie being perpetuated by the media you read. He quoted Khomenei from 20 years earlier asking simply that the Israeli regime be erased from the pages of history. There is no possibility of mistake in the translation -- it was purposely mistranslated with aims to deceive the public by the Zionist lobby.
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No, Israel did not completely withdraw from Gaza. For 18 months, they imposed a blockade (see my post above). In addition, they retained control over waterways, airways, and the 3 borders, effectively making it an open air prison camp concentrated with one ethnicity -- sound familiar?.
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Again, Israel destroyed 50 UN and 21 medical facilities; sewage systems; displaced over 100,000 people; left 400,000 people without running water; damaged or destroyed 17,000 civilian homes; killed at least 1,300 Palestinians; some still being pulled dead from the rubble and over 400 of them children; and used illegal weapons like white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and inert metal shells on civilians, causing long-term damage like inevitable cancer or death to the 7,000+ wounded after already causing a humanitarian crisis from an inhumane military blockade that was starving women and children, almost 50% of which are now exhibiting mental defects from malnutritioned growth.
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And on 7 million dollars of US aid per day, more than any other country in the world. Taxpayers wouldn't pay for genocide if the media stopped lying to them thanks to Zionazi lobbyists.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ ; http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

And Ladak, Iran wasn't even so much as condemned because Iran hasn't been the one leveling threats -- it's been Israel. That translation of his speech was a lie. You only believe what you read in your own media and it is evident you are accustomed to following lies. Israel is the country with the most violations out of any member of the UN. Currently, they are being charged with war crimes, similar to that of Saddam Hussein.