2014-07-31 Gaza File - essential reading:
Israel:
"Why are you kicking me?"
Gaza: "Because you're strangling
me"
USA: "You have a right to strangle
him because he is kicking you"
This
YouTube is inspiring! God bless these Israelis!
Israelis protest
against Gaza invasion
- and plea for Jews
and Arabs to be friends
Palestine
is still the issue
(Documentary by John Pilger -
in English with Spanish subtitles)
The
US Harms Its Global Prestige Over Israel (by a US
editor)
American pretensions to be an evenhanded peacekeeper go down the drain
Jon Snow of channel 4 news from Britain after returning from Gaza. Watch and share Average age of Gaza population is 17 ! (this report caused me to do this)
Time to restore
balance - It's about time Australia put pressure on Israel
Australia's biased friendship towards Israel
undermines peace and forsakes justice for Palestinians, while
serving neither Australian nor Israeli interests
Gaza
Again (America Magazine)
Why should Israel negotiate when it has the United
States sending it billions of dollars every year to buy weapons and build
settlements and blocking efforts in the United Nations to hold Israel
accountable for its actions?
Israel’s
Media Blackout
Why
aren’t Israeli journalists questioning their
military’s devastation in Gaza?
Stop the U.S.-backed war on Gaza! (Fr John Dear)
If Americans knew what was happening in Israel, their views would change overnight (Washington Post)
The
Guardian view on the causes of the fighting in Gaza
The roots of the violence go back to the Israeli withdrawal in 2005
China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, has urged Israel to end military operations in Gaza and lift its blockade of the Palestinian enclave. (This is what is needed: many calls to lift the blockade which is the basic cause for the conflict)
Hamas Needs to Be Recognised By Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson
Irish
senator condemns Gaza massacre
and calls for recall of Israeli ambassador, in
an old fashioned
"no punches pulled" speech
The
Observer view on Gaza and Israel's international reputation
It
is clear that more and more people across the world – justifiably or
not – are asking why western governments may assert a moral and legal
right to mount air strikes in defence of embattled women and children
dying in the mountains of northern Iraq, but should simultaneously
ignore the plight of those buried under rubble in Gaza.
With Israel's latest, often indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, that
question gets harder and harder to answer.
NCR Editorial: Both
sides must look for alternatives to violence in Middle East
The first step in breaking this cycle of violence is for
the parties to accept the other's right to exist peacefully in states of
their own
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The second half of this article is most important reading:
Conflict Resolution 101- Talking With Hamas
- by a U.S. Jewish feminist!
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, has described a missile strike close to a UN-run school in Gaza as "a moral outrage and a criminal act".
U.N. Chief Calls Gaza Carnage 'Too Much'
- 11 U.N. staff killed in the conflict.
- 90 U.N. buildings damaged
- attacks on six U.N. schools that killed dozens of Palestinian
civilians who had sought shelter.
Ban called for swift investigation of the attacks on U.N. premises and
other suspected breaches of international law. “U.N. shelters must be
safe zones, not combat zones. Those who violate this sacred trust must
be subject to accountability and justice,” he said. “Mere suspicion
of militant activity does not justify jeopardizing the lives and safety
of many thousands of innocent civilians.”
Outrage after third Israeli strike on a United Nations school in Gaza Note the same words from the US after each school attack: the US state department called on Israel to do "more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties". This is the problem: Israel's standards are a farce.
In one strike early on Sunday morning, 10 members of the al'Ghoul family died when their house down a narrow alley was obliterated. The dead included a new-born, six children under eight and three adults. They were sleeping (in this report)
Despite police ban, hundreds of anti-war demonstrators march in Tel Aviv
UN says illegal Gaza blockade must be lifted
When will we get it? Palestinians are fighting for their freedom
Letter
from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor
And as I write these words to you, alone, on a bed, my tears
flow, the warm but useless tears of pain and grief, of anger and
fear. This is not happening! And then, just now, the orchestra
of the Israeli war-machine starts its gruesome symphony again,
just now: salvos of artillery from the navy boats just down on
the shores, the roaring F16, the sickening drones, and the
cluttering Apaches. So much made in and paid by the US.
Mr. Obama - do you have a heart? I invite you - spend one night
- just one night - with us in Shifa. Disguised as a cleaner,
maybe. I am convinced, 100%, it would change history.
Israeli
officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child
Radio exchange contradicts army version of Gaza killing
(note: this story is from an earlier conflict)
UN spokesman cries on camera over Gaza school attack
When I served, the Israeli military was the most moral in the world. No more
How
Israel Refuses To Learn Lessons From Ground Invasions Past
Israel Is Repeating Mistakes of Lebanon and Gaza
I will never forget the evening my friends and I were sent to kill Palestinian police officers in a revenge attack. We went from soldiers sent to defend our families to murderers of innocent people. I am breaking my silence again today because I believe that the Israeli public and its leadership need to know what they are asking for when they call for revenge. They need to know that when they seek revenge they are actually asking us to turn today’s soldiers – our friends, siblings, and children – into murderers.
Breaking the silence on Palestine (Sydney Morning Herald)
'World
stands disgraced' as Israeli shelling of school kills at least 15
UN condemns Israeli attack on sleeping children as violation of
international law (with video)
Jewish peace activist Antony Loewenstein - Video: Sydney speech on Gaza ..hoping "that more Jews begin to find their voice on this vital humanitarian issue and refuse to allow Israel to speak in our name"
Pentagon
confirms that US resupplied Israel with ammunition
- Shame USA, shame, shame, shame! Palestinian children
are being murdered with US ammunition!
2014 Israel is like 1931 Japan - John W
Gaza desperation breeds violence - Patriarch
Crimes against humanity in Gaza- is it really a 'buffer zone' – or a bigger plan? It’s time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land
Who Bears More Responsibility for War in Gaza?
El Salvador becomes fifth Latin American country to recall Israel envoy Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Peru have also recalled ambassadors to protest Israel's operation in Gaza Strip.
Another UN school hit in further night of fierce bombardment
Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN agency for
Palestinian refugees, condemned “in in the strongest possible
terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli
forces”. He
said in a statement: “Last night, children
were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a
classroom in a UN-designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in
their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of
universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced"
Chris McDonnell's "No, It Won't Do" Gaza reflection has now been posted here at Pray Tell
How can journalists be objective when writing about dead children?
Eight children playing in a park in a Gaza refugee camp were killed, the main public hospital was struck ....... According to the UN, more than 20 hospitals and medical centres have been hit by Israeli shelling and about 1,060 people – mostly civilians – killed, with 6,000 injured. The Israeli death toll exceeded 50. (in this report, with video)
“Gaza is a graveyard,” sing joyful Israeli youths - This video shows an Israeli mob singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.” (c.f.r. Nazis gloating over Jewish deaths?)
Israeli attacks designed to “terrorize” Gaza population, international law experts say
Not
In Our Name:
Jewish Peace Activists Arrested in New York - Video
Israeli peace movement:
Gush-Shalom
Petition
by Coalition of Israeli Peace Organizations
(I have signed this petition)
All
6 Former Israeli Security Chiefs Slam Occupation of Palestine
(Washington Post)
“[We’ve become] a brutal occupation force similar to the
Germans in World War II,”
If Americans knew what was happening in Israel, their views would change overnight (Washington Post)
We
are Israeli reservists. We refuse to serve (W.
Post)
Melbourne
rally against Israel's Gaza 'massacres'
Malaysian cyclist reprimanded for wearing "Save Gaza" gloves
Teenager killed on birthday in West Bank
Israeli Filmmakers Petition, Urging a Ceasefire On Attacks On Gaza Strip (Huff Post)
Campaign to expel Israeli ambassador from Ireland
This
report says how ten Israeli human
rights organisations have written to the attorney general to
raise concerns about grave violations of international law in
the conflict. Same report also has these lines:
On Monday, 25 members of the Abu Jame' family were killed when
Israeli forces struck a house near Khan Younis, apparently
without warning, the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem
said. A Hamas militant was also killed. The
dead included 18 children and five women, three of whom were
pregnant. The family was
eating iftar, the meal that breaks the Ramadan fast
Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 15 and leaves 200 wounded
Thursday's assault on the school occurred at about 2.50pm as
the playground was crowded with families waiting to be ferried to
safety. According to survivors, one shell landed in the schoolyard
followed by several more rounds that hit the upper stories of the
building
UN spokesman cries over Gaza school attack
The
Guardian’s view on the
killing of children in Gaza
Gaza:
Law of war needs testing at International Criminal Court
http://www.v2catholic.com/background/2014/07/2002-04-01chinadaily.jpg
Expel Palestinians, populate Gaza with Jews, says Knesset deputy speaker
The
truth about Israel's new war on Gaza – the energy rush
This report says how ten Israeli human rights
organisations have written to the attorney general to raise concerns about grave
violations of international law in the conflict. Same report also has these
lines:
On Monday, 25 members of the Abu Jame' family were killed when Israeli forces
struck a house near Khan Younis, apparently without warning, the Israeli human
rights organisation B'Tselem said. A Hamas militant was also killed. The
dead included 18 children and five women, three of whom were pregnant.
The family was eating iftar, the meal that breaks the Ramadan fast
How
Israel turned tragedy into opportunity
- a cover-up re "kidnapping" of 3
Israeli teenagers?
No,
it won't do - Chris McDonnell (UK)
There on a narrow, coastal strip of land, caught between hot desert sand and
cooling sea, cries conscience
Global Jews say end the massacre in Gaza
Campaign to disinvest from Israel
The movement that dare not speak its name in Israel
Gaza is a crime made in Washington as well as Jerusalem
Israel has colonised, bombed and reinvaded the Palestinian territories
it illegally occupies (along with Syria and Lebanon) time and again: in
2002, 2006, 2008 and 2012
Taking stock of the effects of fighting on Palestine during Middle East cease-fire
