Here's a stunning report on Gaza from a Jewish professor of epidemiology in Canada.
It
was as if we had travelled to another planet.
The sandy track is
surrounded by the blown-up remnants of Gaza's former industrial
district. Rubble stretching for hundreds of metres lines the route…. The air reeks of burnt oil and stale food from exhaust
fumes (cars rely on used cooking oil for fuel.)
There are not many cars on the road, anyway. Donkey carts are common.
Every so often, the smell of sewage fills the air. Lack of treatment
facilities means that much of it is dumped raw into the Mediterranean.
We went first to a children's hospital on the edge of Gaza City. The
hospital director and doctors described the conditions. Of 100 beds, 40
were occupied by children with bacterial meningitis, an extremely
serious disease.
There's a shortage of basic medicines and supplies, even simple things such as alcohol swabs.
The hospital has three ventilators; only one is working. Israel won't let in spare parts for the others.
The working machine is for a "hopeless case" who can't be taken off.
Meanwhile, patients who could benefit have no working machine.
There are many cases of malnutrition –
You can read more by Harry Shannon in the Hamilton Spectator. He's with Independent Jewish Voices, an anti-occupation group. Had enough? You can go back to your comfortable life. I'm going for a hike in the woods, and out to dinner, an ethnic minority and a free man in the USA.
How is it possible that so few Americans are
aware of the unspeakable Israeli brutality
subsidized by their tax dollars? Might it
possibly have something to do with the domination of the MSM by Zionist Jews and
absurdly philo-Semitic goyim? Heaven forbid
that the question should even be asked.
That cause you are all assholes living in an asshole country (apologies to Ed, charlie, Jim etc).
And the van with 1.5 ton of medical supplies is slowly rusting away outside Rafah crossing. The supplies are from Dove and Dolphin charity in Scotland.
Who are the people who choose to do this to fellow human beings? The scary thought is that they maybe do not see them as fellow human beings. More children died from lack of medical attention since the siege started than total number of people killed by Quassam rockets.
Come on, let's be reasonable about this like Richard Witty. Don't generalize. Ignore the lopsided real power situation. Israel is a tiny democratic nation under constant attack by billions of sand monkeys. All they know is force. They do nothing else but make arranged marriages between geezers and tots. What else have they ever given human civilization? They hate life, prefer death.
Why, how many sitcoms have they produced?
'Come on, let's be reasonable about this like Richard Witty.'
Your mention of his name might be it's only appearance on this thread Charles. Richard has a good nose for when to keep his powder dry.
'The hospital has three ventilators; only one is working. Israel won't let in spare parts for the others.'
They might be terrorist spare parts. Perhaps they could be used, like the old aluminium tubes, for a 'dirty bomb'. Maybe they failed a polygraph.
Really, it's impossible to satirise the petty racism of the Jewish state. It reminds me of some old anti-semitic jokes I was told at school –
Voice of commandant – 'today ve vill play games. Ze Jews vill play hopscotch in ze minefields' or 'today, ve vill play football. Ze first team to touch ze ball vill be shot by firing squad. Ze Jews kick off' etc – you get the picture.
Well, for 'ze Jews' read 'ze Palestinians'. 'Ze Jews' are ze commandants now.