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Stop
Israel's Attacks on Gaza - Take action.
Some things you can do. "Israel's
month of killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure in the Gaza
Strip, highlighted below, is a clear reminder that Israel remains the occupying
power of the Gaza Strip despite last year's "unilateral disengagement." Living
under military occupation, the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip are "protected
persons" under the terms of the Geneva Conventions. Israel's attacks on
civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip are a violation of the
Geneva Conventions and constitute war crimes."
Patrick
Seale - Palestinians moderates are Israel's real enemies - It
would seem that there are two broad reasons for Israel's destructive rampage in
Gaza. Neither reason has much to do with the young Franco-Israeli corporal,
Gilad Shalit, captured during a cross-border operation by Palestinian guerrillas
against an Israeli military post.
Letter
from Palestine - Morning Came - By Bell
Way - Israel has over 10,000
Palestinian hostages, hundreds of them children, and slaughters Palestinians of
any age on a daily basis. When Palestinians take 2 Israeli hostages and kill two
soldiers, Israeli bombs Gaza. Bombs out the power stations, the water
reticulation; no electricity, no water, bridges blasted severing cities from
each other. Gaza Strip, the most densely populated area on earth on account of
Israel using it as a specially designed human garbage can where refugees are
disposed off and hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world.. Brilliant,
but unsuccessful. If you treat humans as garbage and they know that they are
humans and not garbage, they will not quietly disappear. You will never sleep
safe at night. You will never have the right to sleep safe at night. May you
never sleep safe at night.
AIPAC
vs Norman Finkelstein Debate on Democracy Now - JOSH BLOCK: You're absolutely right.
Those incidents are deeply regrettable. I think any one of us would say that.
And I think any American, any Israeli, would say that innocent people who are
killed as a result of a military action unintentionally, that's a tragedy. But
there's, again, a moral difference between an army -- Israel's military goes to
great lengths to prevent those kinds of incidents, and if you look at the number
of preventative attacks that Israel has carried out with the number of those who
have been incidentally and unfortunately killed in those incidents, there's a
tremendous preponderance of occasions when, in fact, Israel has gone to great
lengths not to harm innocent civilians.
AMY
GOODMAN: We just have a minute. We gave Josh Block the first word.
Professor Norman Finkelstein, the last.
NORMAN
FINKELSTEIN: Well, the question is whether or not there is a
significant difference between what Israel does and what the Palestinians do,
apart from the fact that Israel does it in a much higher proportion than
Palestinians. If you indiscriminately fire on a civilian population, which
Israel routinely does, under international law -- and here I can quote the
president of Tel Aviv University, Yoram Dinstein, who's one of the leading
international experts on these matters; he says, "There's no difference
whatsoever between intentionally targeting civilians and indiscriminately firing
into a civilian crowd."
Stop
Israel NOW!!! -The actions of the racist Israeli state and
that of their supporters, which includes the BBC, illustrate their total
disregard and contempt for Palestinian lives. Rabbi Moshe Levinger, the worst
kind of Zionist extremist, founder of the settlements in Hebron, could be the
spokesperson for Olmert, Bush, the BBC and our very own government and great
leader Tony Blair when, in response to a question about the massacre of
Palestinians carried out by one of his followers in Hebron 1994, he says he is
"sorry not only about dead Arabs but also about dead flies". It is nothing new
that Israel prefers the word 'operation' to massacre as a poll carried out by
Israeli TV showed following the massacre of Palestinians in 1994. The poll
"established that at least 50% of Israeli Jews would approve of the massacre,
provided that it was not referred to as a massacre but rather a 'Patriach's Cave
Operation'". In Hebron today there is a monument to the mass murderer 'Saint
Baruch Goldstein'. Whether carried out by a far right extremist settler or by
the Israeli government, massacre of Palestinians seems to be acceptable through
the eyes of the media and by the 'British values' our government wishes us all
to adopt.
Hans
Lebrecht, the Right to Resistance according to International Law - According to international law, the people of a country, occupied by a
foreign power, has the full right to fight for their liberation. The Palestinian
people, inhabitants of the territories, Israel has conquered and is occupying by
military means since June 1967, too have this briefed right. This right is
based, among other reasons, also upon the guiding lines set for the
International Tribunal in Nuremberg, which, after World War II, had been
established to judge the main Nazi criminals. And let us never forget this fact!
Remy
Kanazi - Missing the Point and the Target - The
recent Israeli artillery strikes on the Gaza Strip have outraged Palestinians,
raised eyebrows in the international community, prompted condemnation from human
rights organizations, and put the Israeli government on the defensive. One thing
is certain: the loss of innocent Palestinian life in Israeli attacks has been
the rule rather than the exception.
Since the start of the month, Israeli
forces have killed nearly 50 Palestinians, the majority of them being innocent
civilians.
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