To those of you who don’t know, we in Lebanon have lived three major wars with Israel, in 1993, 1996 and 2006 not to mention the daily brutalities that Israeli soldiers committed at check points and villages as they conquered various parts of Lebanon from 1982 till 2000.
I know what it feels like to hear the bomb as it drops down wondering if it’s going to hit our house next. I know what it’s like to be a 5 year old boy unable to comprehend why we can’t go out of the house for days, why we have to sleep on the floor with a mattress on top! I know what it’s like to hear the airplane missile as it passes above us and crashes into a neighboring building… what it’s like to hear a human being screaming his last words as he dies … to see a mother looking for her children’s bodies under what’s remained of her house… a father holding the dead bodies of his infants as he tries to save even the bodies from the brutality of Israeli bombs… we’ve lived that and wish that nobody will ever have to live what we’ve seen, heard and felt.
Those scenes are being repeated now in Gaza and the West Bank. Every day Israelis are bombing and killing Palestinian civilians most of whom are children and women.
This is the truth that the world is not allowed to see. You are not allowed to see Israel’s tyranny. But in a world of free social media I wonder what’s preventing us from searching for the truth on our own! Are we that self centered? If the bombings and deaths are not near us then it’s okay not to care? It really is shameful how we treat Palestinians as numbers, we just count their bodies and don’t care to even know the names because they’re just too many.
Stop portraying this vicious attack on Gaza as a mutual conflict or an “exchange of fire” where poor Israel is merely responding for missiles fired from Gaza! If that is the case then why are all the civilian casualties from the Palestinian side only? Why the numbers of Israeli air strikes and bombs are not even slightly comparable to the very few number of low quality missiles from Gaza!
I remember on September 11, 2001 we cried for the innocent civilians who died, we mourned for them because we know what it’s like to live through terrorist attacks. We condemned those acts and stood by the American citizens as they were passing through a national crisis. That’s why I’m reaching out for citizens not governments! Look for the truth, read the true history, don’t settle for what you receive through biased corporate media! Get out of your 1st world issues and see what’s going on in the real world; after all we are all humans, we are equals and no life is more worthy than another! The only way for freedom is for citizens all over this earth to support one another, to look for the truth and push their governments to take the right decisions.
Peace will prosper again in the Middle East, but how many more people have to die for this peace to be achieved? Will this peace be worth it then?
Last count 166 Palestinians, over 900 injured. The massacre sadly continues.
26 of those Palestinians killed are below the age 16 years.
UN: 77 percent of those killed are CIVILIANS.
If that is not a brutal slaughter of innocents, then I don’t know what it.
Israel is ruthlessly choosing who Hamas members are, and wiping out entire families.
If Hamas sent a bomb into the home of an IDF member (they can be seen as terrorists too, even though they wear the uniform of their country), would Israelis world wide be okay with it? Why are the lives of Palestinian babies , women, and even men,
not valued by the US, UK, Canada, and other nations? Why are they not condemning the excessive killing of civilians by Israel? Does Israel control how these nations react to their war crimes? I think yes.
Watch the repeat of Fareed Zakaria GPS. Brett Stephens the shameless apologist for Israel, is advocating that Israel takes over Gaza, again, which we all know that means massacres on the ground. It simply is appalling that these Israeli lovers are so indifferent to the loss of Palestinian lives, as long as Israel prevails, even though the international community condemns it’s war crimes in doing so.
Brett Stephen was totally debated down, by the rest of the panel, including Richard Haas, which was a nice surprise.
and once again, izrael is using BANNED WEAPONS in Gaza! http://www.worldbulletin.net/headlines/140588/israel-uses-banned-weapons-in-striking-gaza-official
Israeli propaganda at work. Busy justifying retaliatory slaughter!
Fake rocket strikes, fake damage. They’re PATHETIC!!!!!
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There’s nothing too low for the Zionist Movement‘s state!
What did Pete “slow” Lerner (sorry seafoid, I’m stealing that) have to say about the FAILED commando raid last night? I first read this on twitter last night and Silverstein this morning. Apparently our brave heroes came ashore to blow a missile launcher and met with stiff resistance. They had to call up some airstrikes and STILL they had to withdraw.
Tell me, lads, what was it like to have to fight someone who was armed with something more than a chair or a cell phone?
Palestinians don’t count. Americans are led by the nose by the 5th Column in the USA and their bribed WH and Congress. It’s simple. And the 3rd branch of government, the SCOTUS, is intent on keeping the US political campaign system a cheap bribery operation. Sheldon Adelson, George Soros, Koch Bros, I hope you’re all happy. Dick n Jane are really ignorant, and the US 4th Branch of government, Main Media, keeps you that way. Hope everybody likes it. I don’t.