Please don’t open this video if you don’t wish to know what horrific violence is being visited on Palestinian families with the support of the U.S. government. Don’t open it if you don’t wish to have scarred into your mind the devotion and nurturing and wild grief of a Palestinian father.
Don’t open it if you don’t wish to see highly disturbing images of a dead child. Omar Ghraieb, Gaza blogger, states the matter clearly:
GRAPHIC vid: Father asking his dead son 2 wake up & see the doll he got him http://t.co/81Vl42ckGt heart shattering! #GazaUnderAttack #Gaza
— Omar Ghraieb (@Omar_Gaza) July 12, 2014
I see the video has already been removed from one site, Veooz. It doesn’t matter; these images are indelible. Thanks to Max Blumenthal.
P.S. Speaking of fathers, here is some discourse monitoring from the former Israeli soldier who’s now America’s leading expert on the conflict:
@lrozen @BowenBBC Request should also be made to Hamas leaders in their bunkers, firing missiles at civilians that draw return fire.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) July 11, 2014
Goldberg’s response to Rozen – hardly an out and out supporter of Palestinian resistance – shows the utter heartlessness and autism of Israel – not of course that Goldberg still lives in the kip.
Not one word of commiseration or regret. Not even an acknowledgement of suffering. No – just kneejerk ‘look away’ tactics. Surprised he didn’t dismiss the video as a ”Pallywood” fake but I expect that’s next. And I also expect that 99% of Israeli Jews would find nothing wrong with this words.
Israel is rotten to the core.
He’s not kidding, folks. By accident I got saw it on twitter. Anyway most of the people here don’t need to see it, it’s the Jeff Goldbergs that need to.
Also if you find it hard to understand what Jeff is trying to say imagine him saying it while in an SS uniform.
Goldberg, there is zero equivalence, especially when no Israeli child has been harmed like this, yet there will be more Palestinian children who will die in the coming days. All to prove what? That you have bigger and deadlier weapons than them? After all the killings to sate your revenge, what will have changed? Nothing, apart from the increased suffering of people already subjugated and held hostage by your glorious leaders. You are corrupted by your ideology when you can’t register any feeling at all at the hideous unwarranted deaths of innocents thanks to your permanent war syndrome. Wildly exaggerating the threat to Israel to justify indiscriminate targeting of civilians with none or the most tenuous links to the Gaza administration is posturing dishonesty of the worst kind. And even worse is trying, as you all do, to co-opt the appalling suffering into some version of ‘we are suffering too’, when you aren’t even in the firing line. Gross, arrogant, unfeeling, making excuses for mass murder of civilians – how did you get like that? As if we didn’t know.
I always want to know EVERYTHING that is going on, but I can no longer bear to look. I just can’t.
This is heart breaking. I did not watch, but I did see a picture of this sad scene.
What kind of evil does this to children? They have shown time and time again, that their children are more precious, and that they treat non Jewish children, like dirt. What is the damn international community doing about this? Why are they allowing brutal monsters to use their deadly weapons on unarmed civilians? Why are the Arab nations sitting on their big behinds and not speaking out? We are watching genocide and the wiping out of occupied people, and the US and the UK are complicit in this massacre. Who defends these people, and how about their rights? Do occupied civilians, with no iron domes and bomb shelters, NOT have rights?
The butchers of Tel Aviv, that is what they should be called.