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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere is the United Nations re the bombing of Gaza?
Where are the so called defenders of human rights on this planet?
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)hiding out from indiscriminately-fired rockets from Hamas.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)Did not see that
as usual. As a friend said today, every time Israel starts bombing someone, we go the UN and act like their lawyer.
malaise
(267,784 posts)back to December 2008 and January 2009. This time there's a World Cup for diversion - that time was the Christmas holidays and the Obama victory.
I weep for this planet.
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)elleng
(130,126 posts)UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
Mr Ban urged both sides to exercise restraint, saying the Middle East could not afford "another full-blown war".
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28252008
malaise
(267,784 posts)elleng
(130,126 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)as if this was an equal situation rather than the most massive force in the region, funded by your tax dollars, with an army, navy , and air force, bombing a civilian population which cannot even flee.
malaise
(267,784 posts)at both sides as if people are being killed on both sides as if the weapons can be compared.
I'm sick of this planet and persons who defend this madness.
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)unfortunately many otherwise intelligent people get caught up in the victimization thing that Israel plays so well.
so here I have to say 'I'm a Jew' otherwise I get called anti-semitic.
otoh, there are always a small number, even in Israel, who bravely continue to speak truth.
malaise
(267,784 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)As if you could find an Israeli home which has been destroyed.
I don't know if that was a mistake, so much as showing her ideology.
If you can get Euronews (it is online - I get it on tv thru cable) they do some good reporting. They show the remains of the houses, the Palestinian dead and wounded, and the hospitals which run out of medicine.
malaise
(267,784 posts)Chris Haynes has a very good rant on this now. He's discussing the imbalance
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)Weak as are all US presidents re Israel
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)tv.
i will try to catch his show.
tritsofme
(17,320 posts)has been admirable.
It is encouraging to see the success of the Iron Dome repelling the rockets flung by Hamas terrorists.
PCIntern
(25,341 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I always wonder. if this is what you regard as a "restrained" response, what would an "expected" response be?
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)on an unarmed, imprisoned, civilian population?
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)The US govt, not so much.
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Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And, offer U.S. troops to don Blue Helmets in the peace keeping force.
They will do this as soon as they get permission to do so from Jerusalem.
malaise
(267,784 posts)Yah think?
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malaise
(267,784 posts)from Israeli missiles. Until the US condemns both sides we're wasting time in this modern day apartheid.
Jimmy Carter was right.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)or the nobel peace prize winner who keeps writing checks for the military coup in Egypt that sentenced over a thousand people to death for supporting a political party?
Did you mean the nobel peace prize winner who sent arms and training to the guys who are now tearing up iraq, in an effort to further inflame a civil war in Syria in the hopes of "regime change"?
Or the nobel peace prize winner who funded and armed the king of Bahrain to put down a peaceful democratic movement with extreme lethal force?
Further US involvement in the middle east needs to be strenuously avoided, both for our sake and for theirs. let Norway try it again. or hell, nobody ever asks Madagascar for help, maybe thye have some tricks up their sleeves?
Now get me clear, i like Obama - I like most of his domestic policy, at least. But really? He's not at the top of the list for this sort of thing. No US president is, until we get one that will extricate the Us from the situation and try to approach it for the situation it is - the 11th strongest military on the planet waging war against a captive stateless population.
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Hamas is an affiliate organization of the same political party al-Sisi sentenced all those people to death for supporting. he also literally killed an additional two thousand people in Cairo for supporting the same party, plus an undisclosed number through Egypt.
I'm sure that if you put Israel, Israel's sugardaddy, and al-Sisi into a room together, they'll come up with something
elias49
(4,259 posts)It drives me crazy listening to the MSM going on and on about the 'hundreds of rockets launched by Hamas'. And there are no Israeli injuries,? Huh? That's because Hamas' bottle-rockets generally land in vacant lots or don't detonate. Then Israel sends in fighter jets and blows the shit out of a whole town...children be damned.
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)others in the world.
There are plenty of situations in the world where one people brutalize, murder, oppress another.
But there is none other - as far as I can think - where the one that is doing the oppressing is regarded as the "good guy" and the victim of the oppression becomes the "bad guy".
I believe the reason for this is the Holocaust and the Israeli propaganda machine which has worked very efficiently, in the world, but particularly in the US.
Someone said - Edward Said? - that the Palestinians have the misfortune to be the victims of the Holocaust too.
I do not believe there will be an end to the carnage until American Jews wake up to the truth.
Which actually is happening. There is a lot less of a "forced consensus" on Israel than there used to be.