People in Palestine are burying dead children again!
So like many people I opened my paper yesterday to be confronted by pictures of the three dead children of the Samouni family in Gaza,
like most people it sickened me to my stomach so I was both surprised and disgruntled that the first person I heard mention it when I went into town was sticking to the same old line of “its justifiable, Israel are just defending themselves”. I have tried to understand this ideology but it just doesn’t really hold any water, in a purely statistical sense it is recorded that only 13 Israelis have been killed by rocket attacks from Gaza since the attacks started in 2001, so how can that justify the continuous years of massacres and brutality perpetrated on a people forcefully evicted from their homes in what is now part of the state of Israel and pushed into the Gaza strip by a foreign aggressor? The Gaza strip is only 25 miles long and at its widest about seven miles wide, so not dissimilar to the Isle of Wight except it has a population of approximately 1.4 million Palestinians making it one of the most densely crowded places on earth. A place that has over the last few years had its infrastructure systematically destroyed by the IDF who have been known to intentionally target the power station, bridges, mosques and schools. Gaza has been subjected to fuel and electricity blockades’ by Israel, on whom they are now dependant on for their supplies, a blockade that has seen the Palestinians resort to blowing a hole in the Egyptian border in an attempt to get food, medical and household supplies.
So we have a population that has been described by a Palestinian blogger as “Trapped, Traumatized, Terrorized” that is now having to endure a full on ground invasion by one of the world’s best equipped armies that is intentionally targeting the civilian population. I think the doctor Mads Gilbert talking in the video sums it up best when he says “This is an all out war against the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza”...”They are bombing one and a half million people in a cage”. Not really very justifiable then.
Despite Israel’s historical and continuing utter disregard to international legal standards the international community appears largely useless to the point of complicity, Bush has pretty much backed Israel as usual and Obama has managed this statement "President-elect Obama is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza, but there is one president at a time." I’m sure that’s a lot of comfort to the people in Palestine that are burying dead children today.
Photos courtesy of WAFA and AFP.
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like most people it sickened me to my stomach so I was both surprised and disgruntled that the first person I heard mention it when I went into town was sticking to the same old line of “its justifiable, Israel are just defending themselves”. I have tried to understand this ideology but it just doesn’t really hold any water, in a purely statistical sense it is recorded that only 13 Israelis have been killed by rocket attacks from Gaza since the attacks started in 2001, so how can that justify the continuous years of massacres and brutality perpetrated on a people forcefully evicted from their homes in what is now part of the state of Israel and pushed into the Gaza strip by a foreign aggressor? The Gaza strip is only 25 miles long and at its widest about seven miles wide, so not dissimilar to the Isle of Wight except it has a population of approximately 1.4 million Palestinians making it one of the most densely crowded places on earth. A place that has over the last few years had its infrastructure systematically destroyed by the IDF who have been known to intentionally target the power station, bridges, mosques and schools. Gaza has been subjected to fuel and electricity blockades’ by Israel, on whom they are now dependant on for their supplies, a blockade that has seen the Palestinians resort to blowing a hole in the Egyptian border in an attempt to get food, medical and household supplies.So we have a population that has been described by a Palestinian blogger as “Trapped, Traumatized, Terrorized” that is now having to endure a full on ground invasion by one of the world’s best equipped armies that is intentionally targeting the civilian population. I think the doctor Mads Gilbert talking in the video sums it up best when he says “This is an all out war against the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza”...”They are bombing one and a half million people in a cage”. Not really very justifiable then.
Despite Israel’s historical and continuing utter disregard to international legal standards the international community appears largely useless to the point of complicity, Bush has pretty much backed Israel as usual and Obama has managed this statement "President-elect Obama is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza, but there is one president at a time." I’m sure that’s a lot of comfort to the people in Palestine that are burying dead children today.
Photos courtesy of WAFA and AFP.
More political comment here
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