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On the Israeli offensive in Gaza that began on 27 December 2008: Two differing perspectives
chycho
On 29 December 2008, I attended a peace rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was fortunate enough to find two people willing to talk about their perspectives on the Israeli offensive in Gaza that began two days earlier. My thanks to both interviewees.
What follows are their perspectives:
Further information on a peaceful resolution at: Jews for a Just Peace.
Source: http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1959
"The implications of one of the largest one-day slaughter of Palestinians in the 60-year conflict with Israel" here: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2008/12/31/the-implications-of-one-of-the-largest-o
America's War on Islam: The 'Fort Dix Five'
Stephen Lendman
With world eyes on Gaza, the horrific carnage on the ground, innocent civilians being slaughtered, Israel's grievous crimes of war and against humanity, and its slow-motion genocide gaining speed, it's easy to forget America's war at home on Islam and its growing number of victims. This article highlights five recent ones - innocent young Muslim men called the "Fort Dix Five."
On December 22, The New York Times headlined: "5 Are Convicted of Conspiring to Attack Fort Dix" in reporting that a federal jury "convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at (the base) last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder."
Immigration within the camp
Najwa Sheikh Ahmed
Word stands helpless in front of the continuous sufferings of the Gaza people, a continuous journey of migration, but this time the migrations inside the camps of Gaza, and inside the same camp.
I and my kids got very scared from the voice of the airplanes, and the bombings, so we decided to stay few nights with my husband's family, We took the kids, some blankets, and joined the family, the funny thing that when we left the building where our apartment is, I and my kids saw a family that heading towards the building, with their pale faces, and scared lost looks, they were holding their blankets seeking a residence with relatives there, what a caustic situation……
Beirut New Year Update: Once more, the American Embassy expresses concern for its citizens - Israel's' that is
Franklin Lamb, Beirut
With daily demonstrations being held in Beirut and across Lebanon, this item just in from the morning papers here in Beirut:
Beirut, 01 Jan. 0344 "United States Advises its Citizens in Lebanon to Avoid Demonstrations in Support of Gaza"
"The American embassy in Beirut, sent an email to its citizens informing them that several protests had occurred "with little or no warning in Lebanon" and that they should "exercise extreme caution."
Plan of attack
Jim Miles
I can only witness the tragedy of Gaza from the knowledge I have gained from years of historical and foreign affairs reading, from the personal contacts and information that are readily available on the internet, and least significantly from the local evening news programs. That is more than sufficient to provide me with the overall context and the understanding of the language used in order to form a strong idea of what is really happening in Gaza.
Evening news
The language used on the local news cast perhaps reveals more than is intended if one is aware of the context of Gaza history. World governments are described as reacting with “increasing alarm”. Those alarmed governments from the west try to salve their complicity in the Israeli atrocities, while the Arab governments are alarmed not so much in support of the Palestinians or against the atrocities, but because of their own insecurity against their own populations who tend to support the Palestinian people. According to the news report “Israeli politicians expressed sorrow” at the civilian casualties, no more concerned about that reality than their U.S. supporters are about all the deaths they caused in their invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The implications of one of the largest one-day slaughter of Palestinians in the 60-year conflict with Israel
chycho
On the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and The Grand Chessboard:
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1) Setting The Stage.
2) Political Status of Gaza.
3) The Humanitarian Situation in Gaza.
4) The Significance of Palestine.
5) The Implications of the Most Recent Events.
The Gaza Strip is “one of the most densely populated tracts of land in the world,” is home to approximately 1.5 million Palestinians, “about 33% of whom live in United Nations-funded refugee camps.”
“Gaza has the highest birthrate in the Middle East, and, according to some sources, Jabalia refugee camp is the most densely populated place on earth – 65,000 people in two square kilometers.”
World must say “No” to Jewish Nazism before it is too late
Khalid Amayreh
The genocidal Israeli onslaught against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is strikingly similar to the German blitz in the initial stage of the Second World War. The pretexts are nearly the same and the behaviors of both Nazi and Israeli political and military leadership are nearly identical.
And as the German Nazis sought to justify their blitz against their neighbors to the east, using a plethora of carefully concocted lies and pretexts, Israel is doing virtually the same thing.
However, unlike the Nazis whose naked aggression was widely condemned around the world, the ongoing Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip is being condoned, even celebrated, by a huge media network throughout the western world from Sydney to Los Angeles.
Open letter from Palestinian Refugee Family living in the Gaza Strip, SOS
Najwa and Taher
I received this appeal a few hours ago. (You can listen to me reading it at this site: www.thestruggle.org) Direct link to interview: show44.mp3
Please lets put our heads together to think of effective action.
Your Excellencies,
The world looks and watches in silence, while the closure of the Gaza strip is still ongoing leaving 1.5 million people facing a severe shortage in the basics of life. With serious economic and humanitarian impacts on their lives, they even lost their faith on the international, Arabic worlds.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is intensifying, with hunger and malnutrition reaching alarming levels. Children are searching the dump compounds looking for food, or other stuff that they can sell and benefit of, instead of living their lives as other children in the world.
Israel's Wanton Aggression On Gaza
Stephen Lendman
It's not the first time and won't be the last. On December 27, AP reported that:
"Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of simultaneous attacks, and Hamas and medics reported dozens of people were killed."
Wall St. and the Fed Get Fatter, While Main St. Suffers
William Hughes
“Wall Street has hijacked the economy for the last twenty some years.” - Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
The Fed and Wall Street are the real powers in the land. During the financial meltdown crisis in the Fall of 2008, the U.S. Congress acted as a patsy for the fiscal elite. The Fed Chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., ordered the politicos to give Wall Street banksters a bailout of $700 billion of taxpayers’ money with no review. Although, it initially balked, the Congress soon caved in to that rash demand, with little or no strings attached. (1) The Fed, a/k/a “The Federal Reserve System,” was sanctioned by an Act of Congress in 1913, but it’s a quasi-private, and not a publicly owned, entity, whereas, the banksters on Wall Street are the essence of private, money-grubbing enterprises. They both have their own corporate interests and are not truly accountable to the Congress. (2) While this clique, whose laissez-faire policies helped to create this ugly financial mess, is getting fatter, more Americans, daily, are falling through the cracks.
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