Gaza !! Israel kills civilians ,, among international silence .. What do you think ? share ! ( Locked) (736)

Olsojente: Came across this and just thought I'd share...
it's from The Boston Globe..."My life in Gaza
By Mona El-Farra | July 10, 2006

THE IRONY IS almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier on June 25, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls ``Summer Rain." Because Israel bombed the power plant, and the area needs electricity to pump water, most of Gaza now has almost no access to drinking water. In the heat of summer, rain would be a blessing far more welcome than the ongoing bombings.

I am already starting to lose track of days and nights, of how many bombs have dropped. Since the main power plant was destroyed, we have had to live with no electricity. What we do get is patchy, and barely enough to recharge our mobile phones and our laptops so that we do not lose all touch with each other and with the outside world.

As a physician, I fear for our patients. Twenty-two hospitals have no electricity. They have to rely on generators, but the generators need fuel. We have enough fuel to last a few days at most, because the borders are sealed so no fuel can get in. The shortage of power threatens the lives of patients on life-support machines and children in intensive care, as well as renal dialysis patients and others. Hundreds of operations have been postponed. The pharmacies were already nearly empty because of Israeli border closures and the cutoff of international aid. What little supplies were left have gone bad in the absence of refrigeration.

Food too is spoiling without refrigeration, and food supplies are low. West Bank farmers threw away truckloads of spoiled fruit after sitting for days and then being denied Israeli permission to enter Gaza. Children grow hungry as we watch the food that could nourish them thrown into the garbage instead. More than 30,000 children suffer from malnutrition, and this number will increase as diarrhea spreads because of the limited supply of clean water and food contamination.

As a mother, I fear for the children. I see the effects of the relentless sonic booms and artillery shelling on my 13-year-old daughter. She is restless, panicked, and afraid to go out, yet frustrated because she can't see her friends. When Israeli fighter planes fly by day and night, the sound is terrifying. My daughter usually jumps into bed with me, shivering with fear. Then both of us end up crouching on the floor. My heart races, yet I try to pacify my daughter, to make her feel safe. But when the bombs sound, I flinch and scream. My daughter feels my fear and knows that we need to pacify each other. I am a doctor, a mature, middle-aged woman. But with the sonic booming, I become hysterical.

This aggression will leave psychological scars on the children for years to come. Instilling fear, anger and loss in them will not bring peace and security to Israelis.

Ostensibly, this bombing campaign started because of the soldier's capture. To the outside world it might seem like an easy decision for Palestinians: Let the soldier go, and the siege will end. Yet for Gazans, even in the face of this brutal violence, another decision comes, not with ease, but with resolve. He is one soldier who was captured in a military operation. Today, several hundred Palestinian children and women are locked in Israeli prisons. They deserve their freedom no less than he does. Their families mourn their absence no less than his family does. So while Gazans endure Israel's rainstorm, most want the soldier held -- not harmed -- until the women and children are released."cont.

cosmicwonderer: Not at all Babe I`m just having some real fun with a real woman right now and I dont have time for gene analysis while I´m planting my seeds

Hugz_n_Kissez: There are many commonalities among those people who have suffered oppression and genocide...

Antjo39: Hi baby!
Will you shoot a couple of LUV-rockets to Peru?
Still we are fighting though some people have come up with good arguments ... you will admit.
Unfortunatel the slaughter of the Israel army is still there whatever reasons or culprits they state have caused this havoc.

highfidelity: If you get your news from an American television network, no matter how horrible you think what’s happening in Gaza is the reality !! Its much, much, much worse.
See any French channel (has an english program as well!)
or the English-language Al-Jazeera channel, followed and received in the rest of the world, is unofficially banned in the US ...not a single cable or satellite provider carries it..
so far for free press.. Wake up !

And yet even with this imperfect coverage people all over the world, are protesting about what they are seeing. over a Million person demonstrations have been held, from Melbourne to Jakarta, from Calcutta to Istanbul, and from Vienna to London, not to mention the huge popular protests in Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Amman, across the length and breadth of the West Bank, and in some of the largest protests ever held in Palestinian communities inside Israel.

Across the US, too, people have been protesting, writing letters to the editors of the newspapers, the internet has been a major source of information for all those millions who have figured out that they will never learn what they need to learn from the New York Times or the Washington Post or ABC or CNN ect. but you find (if you look for it ) that many others that have carried extraordinarily intelligent and detailed news by commentators whose sense of what is happening far exceeds to the mainstream press—including many superb pieces by Jewish that they are not accepting Israel’s violence.