While we were Apologies for the posting drought- I came down with a virus a couple of days after Christmas and have mostly been too tired to do anything (and I'm now back at work) and Gam has been back at work since the 2nd. So, a belated happy new year to everyone... Well, everyone except the poor sods stuck in the hellhole called Gaza. We all have a responsibility to stay aware of what's happening there. The world still pretends people didn't know what was going on during the first Holocaust, but there should be plenty of people alive to call the bastards liars when they finally claim not to have known the true extent of the humanitarian catastrophe being perpetrated upon the Palestinian people this time around.
- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
- Dick Cheney, Vice-President of the United States of America
- Harry Reid, Democrat Senator, Nevada
- Dick Durbin, Democrat Senator, Illinois
If I were to include everyone who has tacitly supported the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian civilians- women, children and men, despite the apparent assumption by Israel and every member of the western media that every male over the age of 14 is a terrorist- the list would be even longer. Most members of the Rudd government would be on it, most members of Malcolm Turnbull's Opposition would be on it. Barack Obama, who has also failed to condemn the state-sanctioned mass murder of Palestinians, would be on it.
The excuse de jour for Israel's 'collateral damage' seems to be the old 'Hamas are hiding in civilian areas' bullshit. What no-one in the western media sees fit to point out is that Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. There are no wide open spaces, Hamas has no tanks, no planes with bombs to drop on Israeli houses or troops- they have ordinary guys with guns and pathetic rockets that kill one or two Israelis per year. Complaining that Hamas is 'hiding' behind civilians when they exist in this tiny, densely populated ghetto created by Israel, is a bullshit excuse for blowing up children. Those deaths can never, ever be justified, and it takes a special kind of inhuman scum to even try it.
UPDATE: Good article from Online Opinion by Greg Barns, who comments on the rank hypocrisy of the Australian and US governments in their positions against Hamas and the Palestinian people:
In Australia you can go to jail for donating money to a cause like Hamas, which runs the lives of 1.5 million Palestinians on the Gaza Strip.
However, it is not an offence for you to support organisations in Israel, which actively disrupt the lives of Palestinians by ripping up their olive groves or financing illegal settlements in areas of clear dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.
Hypocritical? You bet.
1 comments:
It's astonishing isn't it. Estimates are that 300 children have died. That's what 10 times the entire losses of Israel?
All because they wanted to get some whacks in before Obama took office. Pathetic.
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