From the Dark Side of the Moon – 12

“Some westerners have gazed at images of limp bodies as if they are the mortal remains of some lesser breed of child.”



Where would you go? If your unbelievably small and overcrowded land was being terrorized, pulverized by bombs from the world’s 4th largest military, and your borders were closed; if your house was not safe, mosque (church) not safe, school not safe, street not safe, UN refugee camp not safe … – Where would you go, run, hide?

Gaza: praise the dead, curse their killers

Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled

UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

Israelis, sipping Pepsi, watch bombardment of Gaza town

At what point does it become genocide?

What kind of security will this barbarism bring Israel?

Democrats are cowards in the face of Israel’s brutality

Ann Frank Alive In Gaza – Genocide in the Gaza Ghetto

Israel more likely than Palestine to kill first after a conflict pause

This is also mentioned by The Heathlander in his round-up here.

This is Gaza

News from Yibna Refugee Camp, Gaza

Eye-witness accounts from Gaza

Jewish women occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto

Canada condones war crimes

Protests around the world … and more

On the quirky side, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton suggests giving Palestine to Egypt and Jordan.

[...] this is not simply about security. It is not even just about innocent civilians who have seen their families obliterated and their land, a thin shard of hell, bombed to rubble. It is about humanity itself. As the tanks finally roll out of Gaza, the international community may congratulate itself on finessing the peace. The truth is that Israel has played its game exactly as it chose. If America had demanded a ceasefire sooner, or if the West had threatened embargoes and cried revulsion, then the schoolrooms of Gaza would not be graffiti-painted in its childrens’ blood. – Our humanity has failed us in Gaza

Every war Israel has waged since 1948 has had the same objective: expulsion of the native people and theft of more land. But why are we in the west silent on this truth?

Why do so few speak up for Gaza?

Why are we so indifferent to the death and destruction in Gaza? [...]

Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of President Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state?

It is not. [...]

Even if we accept the harshest portrayal of the tactics and motives of the Palestinian movements against Israel after the Six-Day War, at what point did that terrorism represent a serious challenge to the survival of the Jewish people or the state that claims to speak in their name? Yet that survival is invoked to justify the vastly excessive use of force by the Israeli war machine, with frequent allusions to the Holocaust previously visited upon the Jewish people, a holocaust that had nothing to do with Palestinians or Muslims, and everything to do with Central Europeans claiming to be Christians. [...]

The basic argument is that Palestinian terrorists represented by Hamas are given to an irrational hatred of Jews so profound that it invalidates their movement, even when they win elections. That was not the view of the Israeli security service when it earlier supported Hamas as the alternative to the then dreaded PLO. Also, history is replete with examples of terrorists becoming statesmen, even within the early ranks of Jews fighting to establish the state of Israel. – Robert Scheer

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[From the Dark Side of the Moon is a subjective listing of news, analysis & opinion that may not have made front page in North American media. Themes and topics relate to the Middle East, in particular to Palestine. ]

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The World is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
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