Remembering three Palestinian victims
You may remember that in February we broadcast a moving interview with a Palestinian doctor and peace campaigner from Gaza, Isseldine Abuelaish, who lost three daughters and a niece in an Israel tank attack on his home.
He has now launched a website in his daughters' memory.
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The link to the indicated website seems at best slow.
The story was very moving and one has to admire the doctor as having lost three children I would admit to being less forgiving.
The best way for a resolution of the I/P problem is mass civil disobedience in both Israel & the Occupied Territories to continue until Israel dismantles cedes control completely of the WB & Gaza and demolishes Checkpoints, Wall, etc etc and for the repatriation of all ROR refugees and reinstatement in their stolen properties and compensation.
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Only three out of countless others who were killed on both sides. The Arabs are at fault. They won't recognize Isreal's right to exist, they won't even stop firing rockets at it or stop trying to send suicide bombers. What about all of the Israeli children the Arabs killed? Don't try to play on my sympathies for the story of the moment. There's been far too much water under the bridge for that. For most Israelis all the tears have dried up. Now it's just about survival. This is just one story out of thousands like it on both sides. Tell us again about the Palestinian woman who was treated at the Israeli hospital burn unit for severe burns suffered in a kitchen accident in her home, the heroic effort the Israeli doctors made to heal her and how she went back after her recovery...intent on blowing up the hospital with her doctors and other patients in it. Let's hear about that one again Mr. Lustig.
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Many unarmed protesters have also been shot dead by IDF troops in numerous protests in the west bank over the years. Can you name one of them? The answer is likely to be no.
If on the other hand I ask you to name an Iranian protester who was shot dead, the name "Neda" would immediately come up. The media have turned her into a symbol of defiance.
The difference between the media's handling of murdered Palestinian protesters and murdered Iranian protesters is not difficult to explain though. It fits the long established pattern of reporting the actions of enemies different to those of allies. If Neda had been shot in the West Bank, we would never have heard her name.
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Many of the Palestinian children who are killed are out mingling between IDF and terrorists in gun battles. They are there for the excitement and often throw rocks at the IDF soldiers. If they are wounded or killed by the IDf, it is always as innocent bistanders caught in the crossfire where they put themselves. We don't know if the Palestinian terrorists would deliberately shoot them to make martyrs of them but I for one wouldn't put it past them. They place no value on human lives, Palestinian Arabs any more than Israeli.
One has to wonder at the mentality of parents who would allow or even encourage their children to to out into the streets when combat is raging. They've come to hate Israelis more than they love their own children. Then if their children are killed, you see these Arab women in traditional arab dress wailing to beat the band. You have to wonder how much of it is genuine and how much is for the benefit of the cameras recording their grief.
Other times, Palestinian childeren are killed because they are in close proximity to Palestinian terrorists which include those who plan attacks on Israelis as well as those who carry them out. The terrorists keep them as human shields to make martyrs of them if their hiding places are discovered and they are attacked. If they are going to get killed, they want innocent civilians including Palestinian children to get killed along with them.
It took a long time for the Israeli government to come to the conclusion that they would have to risk the loss of life of Palestinian civilians when they engaged the enemy in combat but they learned after much bitter experience that if they held back because they did not want to risk killing Palestinian children, as a result their own children would eventually become the terrorist's victims. The decision they were finally forced to make was clear even if it was painful.
The Palestinians have created their own nightmare for themselves. They can do their best to blame the Israelis but at least some of us are not so blinded by Arab propaganda and media prejudice that we can't see the truth of the matter clearly and understand it. In the end, the Palestinians will be consumed by their own hate and nothing more. They have engineered the entire situation themselves. Their chances for escaping the inevitable consequences of it if it goes on unabated are dwindling.
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Barbarius, for so long as there exist people in the World with your barbaric simplistic views there will be no end to conflict.
I repeat that the condition precedent to stopping this appalling problem is for all sides to acknowledge that both sides have the right to exist and talk to one another. For so long as there are barbarians, such as yourself, that take the view that there should be a continuation of genocidal wars the problem will continue.
You do not want an end to conflict and suffering, do you? You do not want either people to live in peace, do you? You are content to fight a proxy war - so long as no American is injured!!!!
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The International Red Cross has now published its report on the conditions in Gaza.
It is a terrible indictment of the continual genocidal intent of the occuping power and to a different and lesser extent the media for continually misrepresenting the position of the dispossessed Palestinians whether in Gaza or West Bank in reports favouring the aggressor.
The gratuitous violence of a tank pounding the Doctor's home and killing his daughters gives lie to the so called surgical precision so talked about. The deliberate destruction of much infrastructure, particularly the water/sewage systems rather than arresting (or extra-judicially killing) those in the occupied zone is so obviously so gratuitous, that questions should continually be asked about the lack of presentation of these crimes against humanity in Western Media.
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John_From_Hendon, you are a liar.
"You do not want an end to conflict and suffering, do you?"
That's not true, I just don't want a Palestinian state. I think that would just be a prelude to even more conflict and suffering. There is no logical or historical basis for a Palestinian state. There is no reason these people can't live as peacefully as they did in the early 1940s or 1930s by reverting the areas of the West Bank not needed for Israel's security returned to Jordan and Gaza administered by the UN until it proves it is ready to live peacefully alongside of Israel as the 8th smallest nation in the world. There's nothing wrong with that.
The demand for a Palestinian state defined by the borders prior to the 1967 war is just one more way to demand the destruction of Israel. It won't happen.
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