“Poetry for Palestine

Children of Palestine 2
 
Don’t Say You Didn’t Know”!!

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Notice how this article was quickly moved & tucked away to page 2 of “Ear to the Ground” section. One doesn’t see it on page 1, but “Larry’s List” which comes after this article, is still seen on page 1. It must be that “PICTURE” of the dead Palestinian infant…

Thanks to Nahida who is a commenter on TD from time to time. She has provided this link with her comments/posts & the pictures tell the real tragedy of the Palestinian people. Israel’s brutal occupation with ethnic cleansing/horrific murders of a most civilian and unarmed population.

Click on link to see for yourself the “Children of Palestine 2” and others :

http://poetryforpalestine.spaces.live.com/

Well said, montanawildhack, January 7 at 3:33 pm.

“...The charge that criticism of Israel is implicitly anti-Semitic—is regarded in Israel and the United States as Israel’s trump card. If it has been played more insistently and aggressively in recent years, that is because it is now the only card left. The habit of tarring any foreign criticism with the brush of anti-Semitism is deeply ingrained in Israeli political instincts: Ariel Sharon used it with characteristic excess but he was only the latest in a long line of Israeli leaders to exploit the claim. David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir did no different. But Jews outside of Israel pay a high price for this tactic. Not only does it inhibit their own criticisms of Israel for fear of appearing to associate with bad company, but it encourages others to look upon Jews everywhere as de facto collaborators in Israel’s misbehavior. When Israel breaks international law in the occupied territories, when Israel publicly humiliates the subject populations whose land it has seized—but then responds to its critics with loud cries of “anti-Semitism”—it is in effect saying that these acts are not Israeli acts, they are Jewish acts: The occupation is not an Israeli occupation, it is a Jewish occupation, and if you don’t like these things it is because you don’t like Jews. In many parts of the world this is in danger of becoming a self-fulfilling assertion: Israel’s reckless behavior and insistent identification of all criticism with anti-Semitism is now the leading source of anti-Jewish sentiment in Western Europe and much of Asia…”
(excerpted from the article “The Country that Wouldn’t Grow Up” by Tony Judt Ha’aretz, http://www.haaretz.com, 5/5/06)

“An officer for whom you are responsible has sentenced me today to twenty-eight days in military prison for my refusal to serve in reserve duty. I did not refuse only to serve in the Occupied Palestinian Territories-as I have for the past fifteen years. I refused to serve in the Israeli army in any capacity. ...It is clear to me that you have risked all of our lives only in order to continue building illegal and immoral settlements…. For the past thirty-five years, the settlements have turned the Israeli society into a danger zone. The Israeli state has sowed despair and death both for the Palestinians and Israelis.
“Therefore I will not serve in your army. Your army that calls itself the ‘Israeli Defence Force’ is nothing more than the armed wing of the settlement movement. This army does not exist to bring security to the citizens of Israel; it exists to guarantee the continuation of the theft of Palestinian land. As a Jew, I am repelled by the crimes this militia commits against the Palestinian people.
It is both my Jewish and human duty to resolutely refuse to take any part in this army. As the son of a people victim to pogroms and destruction, I cannot be a part of your insane policies. As a human being, it is my duty to refuse to participate in any institution which commits crimes against humanity.”
(Sergio Yahni, Israeli army ‘refusnik’)

“It is ludicrous and preposterous to continue to treat the United States as “the honest broker.” Viewing the United States, or expecting it to be honest, fair, and impartial in the efforts to find a peaceful settlement for the Israeli-Palestinian strife, reflects an astounding degree of ignorance of the way the United States conducts its policy toward Israel and the Palestinians. How can a thief, who is also a murderer, be trusted to make justice prevail?”
(Dishonest Broker: Bad Faith Toward Palestinian Cause, Palestine Times, London, England, June 2001)

Zionist Zealots paying for damage to UN facilities in Gaza ,how can that be possible? After all the altruistic righteous ones were only trying to subdue -with an extremely cautious - explosive approach-
to pacify the Gazans that somehow were close to the UN buildings and therefore became the recipients of Collateral Damage which is perfectly legal by Western Standards .The application of this
tactic -CD- is uniformly accepted by the ratifying belligerents and has become the Modus Operandi throughout the Middle-East regardless of how the children die.So don’t be upset if your tax dollars
are being redirected to the UN and not the Gazans , even though that may upset some ;remember the Zealots are the holy bible preaching chosen ones just waiting for the Horseman to arrive.

Israel isn’t gonna pay for shit!  The US taxpayer is footing the bill… Just like the US taxpayer paid for every tank, plane, bomb and bullet used against the people of Gaza….

And we wonder why Muslim Freedom Fighters all over the globe hate our guts….