Today’s invasion of Gaza is but a repetition of Israel’s savagery under Sharon and Olmert; I’ve written about this before. How horrible that we must revisit such horror! All I can do is to reassert what was true in Rafah, Jenin, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine again and again and again since 1947 and ’48.
Photo above: Nasser Shyoukhi Jewish settlers attack elderly Palestinian woman while Israeli troops stand around and do nothing. From Hebron
As Human Rights Watch warned, Israel’s recent actions – mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes – amounted to “collective punishment”, international law’s euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians.
Image above: The family of murdered Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, July 6, 2014. /
I want to apologize for the unforgivable, for the unfathomable, and for all those on my side who never will
Image above: Young Israeli men on Jerusalem Day on May 28 2014, mass outside the old city demonstrating it is theirs by right of conquest.
Now we know, says Israeli Gideon Levy. In the Jewish state, there is pity and humane feelings only for Jews and rights only for the Chosen People. The Jewish state is only for Jews.
Image above: Palestinian inmates stand together in a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho
Image above: Palestinian inmates stand together in a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho
