`A’ishah An-Najjar, 3, has died.
“Don’t keep silent about the Israeli massacres and Holocaust against Palestinians. The demand for an end to this siege must be louder than the bombs that rain down upon us.”
ISRAEL GONE ROGUE
CONDEMNATIONS
ON HAMAS
CANADA
PLAIN WEIRD
LAST WORDS
For more than 60 years Israel has shown that it can win every battle by military might. But there is also what the Declaration of Independence calls “a decent respect for the opinions of mankind,” and the battle for opinion cannot be won by brute force alone. – Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Gaza has descended into chaos. Hamas, which despite Israeli propaganda has never mustered the sustained resistance Hezbollah carried out during the Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon, will be ruled in the future by antagonistic bands of warlords, clans and mafias. Gaza will resemble Somalia. And out of that power vacuum will rise a new generation of angry jihadists, many of whom may spurn Hamas for more radical organizations. Al-Qaida, which has been working to gain a foothold in Gaza, may now have found its opening. [...] Israel’s destruction of Hamas and reoccupation of Gaza will not bring peace or security to Israel. It will merely obliterate the only internal organization with enough stature and authority in Gaza to maintain order. The Israeli assault, by destroying Hamas as a governing force, has opened a Pandora’s box of ills. Life will become a nightmare for most Palestinians and, in the years ahead, for most Israelis. – The Language of Death
Palestinians have been so dehumanised by Israeli Jews – whether politicians, soldiers or ordinary citizens – that killing them comes naturally, as did expelling them in 1948, or imprisoning them in the Occupied Territories. – Israel’s Message
The attack on the United Nations headquarters in Gaza is further proof that a post-legal era in world affairs has taken shape; where law and moral principles are irrelevant, where might makes right, where retribution and vengeance, even against innocent children, fails to shake us from moral lethargy or political paralysis. – Dennis Kucinich
It is no longer a question of whether to support Israel. But which Israel?
Some of us, as Israelis, are grieving over what we have become.
STAY HUMAN!
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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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February 19, 2009 at 8:33 am
thank you so much for making these articles. this is one american who cares and is truly disgusted.
February 19, 2009 at 11:32 am
Thanks to you, Paulina, for visiting! I wish that I could do more. There is such a dire need for alternative information. I do believe though that every little helps and so I plod on.
Take care!