Death in the Middle East

Humanitarian crisis in Gaza as half a million are made homeless, medical supplies run out, morgues overflow and ANOTHER refugee shelter gets bombed as UN says: 'It's simply intolerable

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Have been fearing that they won't stop until the place is leveled. This is utter madness.   

It's insanity, isn't it, bloodshed and destruction for - what? I have no idea what Israel thinks it's going to achieve, Lily, beyond the loathing of most of the world. And they haven't stopped 'terrorism' - they've created thousands more 'terrorists', young men who've seen their homes destroyed and families wiped out by bombs, shells and drones.

I suspect that, in the long term, Netanyahu has also guaranteed the eventual destruction of Israel. If there's anyone who should have WMDs removed from his possession, it's him, after this, he's capable of anything.

It's what happens when someone with a power mad gene in their make-up is able to convince others to believe what they do. I don't see Netanyahu stopping it, it's a drug and now he has most of the denuded fools he rules believing him. He is going to destroy Gaza and Israel, unless someone takes him out. But who? LL

Simply cannot believe that this will end in a good way for Israel at all. What they have unleashed will come back to haunt them.

I expect they can't stop now.

lily wrote:Simply cannot believe that this will end in a good way for Israel at all.  What they have unleashed will come back to haunt them.  

I expect they can't stop now.  

Oh, they can stop - but who will cut of the Hydra's heads? Who will take the law into their own hands and do what needs to be done? It must be by an Israeli, it has no value if done by someone from the outside. LL

Can't remember where, but I read a very thoughtful piece by a Jewish writer, to the effect that Netanyahu and the gang are hiding behind the rest of the world's Jewish population, that everyone of Jewish stock who condemns this barbarism is being treated like some kind of race traitor.

Certainly, Ed Milliband is currently the target of some appalling abuse from the Zionists; his family are Jewish, so how dare he speak out - he should be on Tel Aviv's 'side'. The fact that slaughtering women and children with bombs, drones and shells, when they're packed into an outdoor prison, is wrong WHOEVER does it, doesn't seem to be entering into it.

Agree, Lily, this is going to come back and haunt them; it's a stain on Israel which will never be erased and no-one is going to forget it.

Khallad Swaid ‏@theKhalude 21s
RT @DrBasselAbuward: #Gaza updates 6:50 GMT :
1841 killed
9370 injured
10080 houses destroyed #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/mvKY8ttOla

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/03/un-school-shelling-_n_5645771.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

Quote:

State Department Condemns 'Disgraceful' Shelling Of U.N. School In Gaza
AP/The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/03/2014 1:58 pm EDT Updated: 20 minutes ago

The State Department issued a statement Sunday condemning Israel's "disgraceful" shelling of a United Nations school sheltering civilians in Gaza, saying that the United States is "appalled" by the attack which left 10 people dead.

"The United States is appalled by today's disgraceful shelling outside an UNRWA school in Rafah sheltering some 3,000 displaced persons, in which ten more Palestinian civilians were tragically killed," reads the statement from State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki. "We once again stress that Israel do more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties."

Psaki continues: "UN facilities, especially those sheltering civilians, must be protected, and must not be used as bases from which to launch attacks. The suspicion that militants are operating nearby does not justify strikes that put at risk the lives of so many innocent civilians."

In language that was rare in its directness and severity, the U.S. denounced in a statement issued Sunday the attack earlier in the day that killed 10 people, noting that the school had been designated a protected location.

"The coordinates of the school, like all UN facilities in Gaza, have been repeatedly communicated to the Israel Defense Forces," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in the statement. "We once again stress that Israel must do more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties."

That won't go down well. Is it too much to hope the US is fed up with keeping Israel in money and weaponry?

Khallad Swaid ‏@theKhalude 21s
RT @DrBasselAbuward: #Gaza updates 6:50 GMT :
1841 killed
9370 injured
10080 houses destroyed #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/mvKY8ttOla

OMG. That is horrendous.

That won't go down well. Is it too much to hope the US is fed up with keeping Israel in money and weaponry?

Afraid so, Bonny. I would love to be able to say differently.

All this - and Israel's only managed to kill 88 Hamas. They have, however, killed 252 children and 181 women. Even that chart is  a couple of days out of date, it's even worse now.

Israelis break yet another cease-fire:

http://news.sky.com/story/1312587/gaza-city-attacked-minutes-into-israel-truce

Gaza City 'Attacked Minutes Into Israel Truce'
The Israeli military says it is holding fire to allow in aid - but medics report a child has died in an attack on Gaza City.

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Israel has been accused of breaking its own seven-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza.

The Israeli military pledged to hold fire from 10am to 5pm (8am to 3pm UK time) to allow in aid and so displaced Palestinians could return to their homes.

However, medics have said an eight-year-old girl has died and 30 other people were wounded in an attack on a house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. The Israelis have yet to comment.

More at link.

It's obvious from the statistics provided by the UN who the real terrorists are - it's the Israelis. They seem to be very good at slaughtering civilians from a safe distance, but not terribly good at fighting with other armed men.

Remind me NEVER to buy Garnier again. They'd have been better employed sending money to the UN to get water to Gaza, or if they wanted to 'beautify' anyone, donate money for plastic surgery to put children's faces back together again after they've been shredded by Israeli weaponry - doubtless some of it fired by that lot that feel entitled to 'pamper' themselves.

You better google does garnier support israel as it looks like quite a lot of the other beauty firms are also supporting them. LL

Just been googling, LL, and discovered that my favourite - LUSH - not only doesn't support Israel, it actively supports Palestine and Palestinian charities.


Another favourite, Nivea, was none too keen on Israel, but was targetted for abuse by Israel supporters and gave in to the blackmail.

That's OK, I can live without buying the expensive, tested-on-animals concoctions which seem to favour Israel.

The Israel supporters are obnoxious, with all the charm of numty trolls:

http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/response-from-lush-it-gets-worse.html

Look at the abuse Lush got because of this perfectly reasonable letter:

Dear Edgar,

Thank you for your email. I'm sorry to hear you're disappointed with Lush's support for the OneWorld project.

The history between Israel and Palestine is long, complicated and often under dispute. However, what is very clear is the level of suffering occurring today, in part due to the construction of the wall which is cutting Palestinian people off from vital health services and has dramatically increased poverty in the area. History does not excuse such suffering. It will take both sides to come to a solution, but what is also clear is that this is not a conflict of two equal sides and thus the onus must be on the dominating force, Israel. The OneWorld project is supported by both Palestinian and Israeli organisations and aims to help create peace for both sides.

We support organisations fighting for human rights all around the world on a variety of issues, from the freedom of West Papua and Tibet to labour rights of workers in India, women's rights in Africa and environmental rights of indigenous people in Latin America. Whilst there are many other issues we have not supported, there are sadly limitations as to how much we can do.
Throughout the course of the year we support many humanitarian, animal and environmental causes, many of which are nominated by our own customers. We welcome and value all feedback, so thank you for getting in touch with us. I will be sure to pass your comments on to our Campaigns team for future consideration.

Kind regards,

Vicky Jansson
Customer Care Manager
Lush Ltd.

Israeli abuse of Nivea:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/08/04/why-didnt-cosmetic-giant-nivea-list-israel-on-its-website/

It's odd how much they sound like self-righteous numties, or those loonies in the Yorkie camp.

Jerusalem Post:

Tractor hits bus, injuring 2 in suspected terror attack in Jerusalem
By JPOST.COM STAFF
08/04/2014 13:54

A tractor apparently attempted to hit a passenger bus in Jerusalem in what Israeli media described as a suspected terror attack.

The bus was empty of passengers, and only the driver suffered light injuries. A pedestrian , however, was seriously injured in the attack.

The driver of the tractor was shot and killed by police, according to Channel 10.

Terror tractors now, is it? That'll give Israel an excuse to kill another few hundred civilians, in case they are tractor drivers.

http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/141870/israeli-official-calls-for-concentration-camps-in-gaza

Israeli official calls for concentration camps in Gaza



Moshe Feiglin during a raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Moshe Feiglin's comments come after one of his far-right Knesset colleagues Ayelet Shaked previously called for the mothers of Hamas members to be targeted.
World Bulletin / News Desk

Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, Moshe Feiglin, has called for the use of concentration camps for the “conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters.”

Sharing a plan for the destruction of Gaza in a letter addressed to Netanyahu on his Facebook page on August 1, Feiglin wrote “What is required now is that we internalize the fact that Oslo is finished, that this is our country – our country exclusively, including Gaza.”
Feiglin's comments come after one of his far-right Knesset colleagues Ayelet Shaked previously called for the mothers of Hamas members to be targeted.

In his letter, Feiglin urged Netanyahu to “turn Gaza into Jaffa, a flourishing Israeli city with a minimum number of hostile civilians,” in reference to a Palestinian coastal city that was ethnically cleansed by in 1948 and incorporated into present-day Israel.

He called for tent encampments where the Palestinian civilian population would be “concentrated” to be established along the Sinai border until relevant emigration destinations are determined, adding that the supply of electricity and water to the formerly populated areas will be disconnected while they are “shelled with maximum fire power” in order to destroy the civilian and military infrastructure of Hamas as well as its means of communication and of logistics.

“Those who insist on staying, if they can be proven to have no affiliation with Hamas, will be required to publicly sign a declaration of loyalty to Israel, and receive a blue ID card similar to that of the Arabs of East Jerusalem,” he said.

Feiglin, who in January blasted Netanyahu for allowing his son to date a non-Jew, or a 'Gentile', also caused uproar among Palestinians when he participated in a raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, in East Jerusalem in March.

The death toll since Israel began pounding the Gaza Strip on July 7 has reached 1821, including at least 401 children, 238 women and 74 elders, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

At least 64 Israeli soldiers have also been killed in battles with Palestinian fighters and three civilians in rocket attacks.

    

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israeli-airstrike-massacres-family-prominent-physician-and-author



The family blown to bits by Israel.

From 2012, racist Israel:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/06/11/us-israel-africans-idUSBRE85A0VI20120611

Israel rounds up African migrants for deportation
BY DOUGLAS HAMILTON
TEL AVIV Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:31pm BST

(Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it had started rounding up African migrants in the first stage of a controversial "emergency plan" to intern and deport thousands deemed a threat to the Jewish character of the state.

Israel Radio reported that dozens of Africans, mainly from South Sudan, had already been detained in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, including mothers and children.

"This is only a small group of the infiltrators," Interior Minister Eli Yishai said. "I'm not acting out of hatred of strangers but love of my people and to rescue the homeland."

The goal is to repatriate all the estimated 60,000 African migrants, whose growing numbers are seen by many Israelis as a law and order issue and even a threat to the long-term viability of the Jewish state.

Illegal migration, and the pool of cheap labor it provides, is a common headache for developed economies. Israel is grappling with its own special ghosts as it tackles the problem.

For some in Israel, built by immigrants and refugees, internment and deportation are bad solutions that may damage the international image of the country needlessly.

They say rounding up members of a different racial group and holding them in camps for deportation may invite allusions to the Nazi Holocaust, however unfair such comparisons may be, and betrays Jewish values.

NOT CRIMINALS

About 500 Sudanese men held an orderly protest in Tel Aviv on Sunday against expulsion, the solution chosen by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after two months of heated debate over how to handle the flow of migrants.

"We are refugees, not criminals," the Sudanese chanted, in a retort to allegations that Africans prey on Israeli citizens, following high-profile rape allegations.

Many Sudanese, including hundreds who escaped from conflict and humanitarian disaster in Darfur, have been in Israel for several years, living in legal limbo without formal refugee status, but peaceably, they say.

Now they are caught up in a wave of hostility towards blacks in general, focused on a poor area of south Tel Aviv where they congregate.

"We're being called a cancer and an AIDs virus on the Israeli people, by politicians in the Knesset," said protest organizer Jacob Berri. He accused government right-wingers of racist incitement and inflammatory language.

The number of migrants crossing into Israel over the Sinai desert border has accelerated since 2006. It ballooned last year when revolution distracted Egypt's attention from policing Bedouin people-smugglers operating in the Sinai peninsula.

Israel has now built a high fence along the frontier.

"My policy with regard to the illegal infiltrators seeking work is clear," Netanyahu said in a May 29 speech. "First of all, to stop their entry with the fence and at the same time to deport the infiltrators who are in Israel."

He warns of Africans "flooding" and "swamping" Israel, threatening "the character of the country". Emergency measures to reverse the influx will include "detention facilities with thousands of units", Netanyahu said last week.

Berri said the South Sudanese number about 700. They know when they are not wanted and will leave, he said. But their refugee status must first be assured by the United Nations, and third-country resettlement programs established.

TIP OF THE ICEBERG

Israeli human rights and activist groups back the Africans. But rightwing and religious parties say that if they are not stopped today's 60,000 will become 600,000 in a few years, in a population of 7.8 million.

Poor south Tel Aviv residents say affluent north Tel Aviv Jews can afford to be liberal, because the Africans are not in their back yard. An opinion poll last week showed 52 percent of Israelis agree that the Africans are "a cancer".

"They've come here to rape and steal," one Israeli woman shouted at a small but ugly anti-migrant demonstration earlier this month in south Tel Aviv. "We should burn them out, put poison in their food," said an elderly man.

Netanyahu urges restraint. "We are a moral people and we will act accordingly. We denounce violence; we denounce invective. We respect human rights," he said, but added: "Israel cannot accept "infiltrators from an entire continent".

The term "infiltrators" is also used by authorities to describe armed Palestinian militants.

Voluntary deportees will get financial assistance.

"Whoever comes forward will get his grant ... from the moment you come to immigration authorities and say you will pack up, from that moment you will be given an opportunity to pack up, and the grant of 1,000 euros," Yishai said.

The first planeload is expected to leave Israel next week.

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Fences? Voluntary deportation? It reminds me of something.....

"They've come here to rape and steal," one Israeli woman shouted at a small but ugly anti-migrant demonstration earlier this month in south Tel Aviv. "We should burn them out, put poison in their food," said an elderly man.

Ah! Now I know who it reminds me of.......