An Israeli bulldozer levels the hearths and homes, orchards and fields of Gaza. A Palestinian woman confronts the beast.
Poor Gaza, it never gets a break:
The title of Aldous Huxley's 1955 novel, "Eyeless in Gaza," alludes to the Biblical story of Samson, who revealed to Delilah the secret of his strength - his hair - and was betrayed to his enemies the Philistines. (one wonders who has been betrayed to who these days. drc)In an excellent article in the online Independent ('Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'), Patrick Cockburn reviews the sorry state of affairs. It is hard to believe that Israel, and its enabler in chief, the United States, could do such things to anyone, let alone over a million people, a high percentage of whom are children:
Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world's attention has been diverted by wars in Lebanon and Iraq.We sit idly by, watching that ignoramus Katie Couric blather on. What will our children think of us if they ever learn we permitted this to happen? Oh, say the winds, "they are all terrorists anyway, especially the children," and that is supposed to make it o.k. While a few miles away in Israel:
A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets.
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the Israeli army "has been rampaging through Gaza - there's no other word to describe it - killing and demolishing, bombing and shelling, indiscriminately"
At the heart of Eilat, where crystal clear Red Sea and the desert mountains meet stands the Hilton Eilat Queen of Sheba. Situated in a prime position on the sea front, in an environment of sea, sand and endless sun, Eilat enjoys a perfect year round climate and is Israel's favourite holiday resort (emphasis added).
How can they/we live with ourselves?
1 comment:
Thanks for stopping by, fakir005. I will freely admit that what you describe is a problem. I try hard to separate my condemnation of Israel from any suggestion that this is the result of it being a Jewish state. If people, either jewish or non-jewish wish to support Israel, then I include them in condemnation but not because of their being jews, but because of wht they have done to children. It is pretty simple. Unfortunately, anyone who does voice an opinon like this is labelled an anti-semite, and a jew hater, and a Hitler lover. But, we have to do what we have to do and suffer the slings and barbs of our decision. We are told over and over again that if the Arabs would just leave Israel alone everything would be fine. Unfortunately, it is almost certain that there would be an even bigger land grab at that point. Once again, however, all of this is miniscule compared to the fact that Israel has atomic weapons. They have also shown, most recently in the Lebanon war and now in Gaza, that they will probably use them eventually.
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