The Palestine thread

[give her dixie]

Gilad Sharon, nephew of murderous vegetable Ariel Sharon, is just as bloodthirsty as his uncle.

"We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too."

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=292466

[Íseal agus crua isteach a]

My God in heaven Israel is carpet bombing Gaza right now, many dead..

[give her dixie]

Another family wiped out by Gods chosen people, fully funded by the US taxpayers.

[seafoid]

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/haaretz-poll-more-than-90-percent-of-israeli-jews-support-gaza-war.premium-1.478903#

Six days into the aerial attack on Gaza, 84 percent of the Israeli public supports Operation Pillar of Defense, with 12 percent opposing it, according to a Haaretz-Dialog poll taken Sunday. The poll surveyed proportional samples of Jews and Arabs, indicating that Jewish support for the war stands at upwards of 90 percent.
Previous experience shows that from now on, it will only get worse for the leadership as matters become more complicated and the public's exuberance wears off.

[seafoid]

How to get war approval rates in excess of 90% :

You need to doctor some pictures

http://972mag.com/on-facebook-idf-illustrates-palestinian-violence-with-photo-from-bahrain/58550/
http://972mag.com/war-trauma-kid-not-if-youre-asian/45238/

[glens abu]

Rally in support of the people of Gaza tomorrow night at 7.00pm City Hall Belfast,try and be there if you really care.

[Harold Disgracey]

[southdown]

Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, seems very quiet.  Saw a report on the news last night of Israeli military trucks carrying what were clearly labelled cluster bombs.  If they use these they cannot claim to be carryng out "surgical" strikes.

The hypocrocy of this whole episode sickens my hole.

[Denn Forever]

Do you have any links to this news item showing these trucks carrying cluster bombs?

[southdown]

Was on sky news last night at about 8, then went on to say how Israel and the US were the only major powers not to have signed the treaty banning the use of these.

[seafoid]

Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, seems very quiet.  Saw a report on the news last night of Israeli military trucks carrying what were clearly labelled cluster bombs.  If they use these they cannot claim to be carryng out "surgical" strikes.

The hypocrocy of this whole episode sickens my hole.

"Surgical strikes" is war porn . And BS.

It seems the Israelis have run out of soft targets so the likelihood of family wipeouts is higher than it was on Thursday.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

USA shields Israel
Russia shields Syria
China shields North Korea

Rogue superpowers shielding rogue regional powers.

[nrico2006]

Haven't followed this too much since it all started last week, but was it not started by Palestinians? 

[give her dixie]

Excellent statement from Mark Durkan where he pulls no punches in seeking an end to the massacre unfolding in Gaza. We need more Irish politicians to take a leaf out of his book and speak out and tell the truth without fear of offending Israel or the US.

Durkan: End the slaughter in Gaza

SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan has written to the Foreign Secretary William Hague to register his deep concern at the deteriorating situation in Gaza and has called for urgent intervention by the international community to stop the humanitarian catastrophe which is currently unfolding.
Mon 19th November

Mr Durkan, a member of the All Party Group on Palestine (at Westminster) said: "I have written to the Foreign Secretary William Hague to register my deep concern at the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the inadequacy of the international response to Israel's violence against the Palestinian people.

"I would also stress that I have registered my full condemnation of any and all attacks on Israelis by Hamas or any other armed interest. Rocket attacks on Southern Israel have to be totally repudiated not only because of the death and destruction they bring to Israeli civilians but also because of the retaliatory violence which Israel feels it has the right to visit upon the afflicted people of Gaza.

"It is not good enough for governments – including the UK government – to hide behind superficial even-handedness or to call for a two-way ceasefire in terms that suggest that Israel is not to be held to any particular account for the scale, nature and humanitarian impact of the military action it has deployed.

"Israel has been able to execute recent attacks because they know that they are immune from meaningful international sanction or diplomatic rebuke.

"I have made it clear to the Foreign Secretary that if current policy approaches are rendering the UK and Europe devoid of influence or meaningful intervention, then they need to change.

"I would also stress the fact that now President Obama has secured a second term with a positive mandate he needs to be more active and ethical in using his stature in pursuit of peace, international justice and human rights in the Middle East.

"This should begin with a truly unequivocal condemnation of Israel's current excesses.

"His administration and European governments must also reflect strongly on their thwarting of the Palestinian application at the UN General Assembly later this month.

"There must be a redoubling of international efforts to secure a lasting settlement with a secure and independent state of Palestine alongside a secure and independent Israel.

"President Obama and the responsible international community would find more progress towards the 'two states' solution if they allowed more semblance of a 'two states' process."

[give her dixie]

Haven't followed this too much since it all started last week, but was it not started by Palestinians?

You are 100% correct. The Palestinians started this by not moving off their homeland and hand it all over to Israel, as was promised to them thousands of years ago in some book.