According to the Palestinian health ministry ih ministry in Gaza 50,000 Gazan women are set to give to birth in Gaza within the next 14 days.
Israel’s abhorrent genocidal destruction of Gaza continues unabated. The ongoing targeting of the living, the dead and now it appears the unborn, garners no criticism from the political elite in the West but only unquestioning support. American boots may be seen on the ground soon.
There are nearly 3000 dead with a suspected further 1000+ Gazans missing presumed buried under the rubble of their homes and more than 10,000 wounded. Figures that we endured in 30 years of conflict have been visited upon Gazans in just ten days.
No water, no electricity, no food and no fuel is condemning the most vulnerable in society to death, that is the very young and the very old. How many miscarriages, still births and deaths in labour can we expect to see when there are no hospital beds, medicines or sterile equipment to help facilitate these births?
Like baby Jesus in the biblical tale who was born in a stable in Bethlehem in Palestine 2000 years ago because there were no available lodgings, will we witness Gazan children being born in stables, in the back seats of cars or by the roadside as tens of thousands flee from one unsafe area only to discover their new place of refuge is to be bombed too? Accompanied only by the cries of dying children, dying mothers, dying grandparents and their extended families, carried on a fetid breeze filled with disease and death.
Some may question the actions of the United resistance in Gaza who mounted operation Al Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023.
People should remember, all resistance from Gaza is purely reactionary to the ongoing policies of the Zionist apartheid regime.
Netanyahu at the UN assembly recently, showed his new map of the Middle East which erased Gaza and the illegally occupied lands of the West Bank to show one Israel from the river to the sea.
Let us not forget Ariel Sharon, the’ Butcher of Beirut’ in 1982, desecrated the Al Aqsa mosque in Al Quds, East Jerusalem when he led illegal settlers into the building sparking the first Intifada.
While Netanyahu played his game of provocation at the UN, right-wing, Jewish religious fundamentalist broke into the Al Aqsa Mosque and desecrated the third holiest shrine in Islam just last week potentially igniting the current situation.
240 Palestinians in the West Bank have been murdered just this year alone, and that was before the Gazan resistance launched operation Al Aqsa flood.
Between 800 and 1000 Palestinian children are arrested and detained in the occupied territories each year, many as young as 12 and charged with throwing stones at occupation forces and imprisoned.
More than 5,000 Palestinians are currently languishing in Israeli prisons many without charge or due process under administrative detention. Hundreds suffering with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and cancer are refused medical treatment.
Illegal settlers continue to steal Palestinian land and water resources, they attack Palestinian farmers out collecting their harvest and burn the olive groves upon which many families rely.
Israel ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians before their self declared state was recognised in 1948. The Stern gangs, Leahy and Hagganah were terrorists who genocidally purged Palestine of many of its indigenous people, levelling 500 villages, so Palestinians had no homes or land to return to. To this day Israel refuses the Palestinians their Right of Return enshrined in UN Resolution 194.
Believe me that is what we are witnessing today in Gaza. The whole-sale destruction of Northern Gaza is designed to prevent the people from returning to their homes and land. 2.3 million people will now be herded like cattle into a strip of land now halved in size to 3 miles by 12 miles, half the size of the Ards peninsula where life will be untenable.This is Israel’s intended endgame.
They want Gazans to be forced into the Sinai in Egypt and the people of the occupied West Bank to be forced into Jordan. The Americans are using the refugee crisis to assist Israel in its long-term goal of expelling every last Palestinian from their homeland when it asked Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to take the Gazans in.
Not content with creating millions of refugees from Syria to Iraq and from Yemen to Afghanistan they want another 2.3 million on the road with nothing but the clothes on their back, the shoes on their feet accompanied by the cries of dying children, old men, old women and the disabled, all fleeing for their lives.
For those of you who wave flags and then go for a beer a coffee or a shopping spree while in town I would ask is that really enough for you?
Waving a flag?
Like snow on a ditch on a spring morning will you disappear back into the comfort of a Saturday bet, minding the grand kids or booking a holiday? Will we really not see you do anything until the next attack, maybe in Jordan, or Lebanon, in Syria or Yemen,in Iran or Iraq. Greater Israel has designs on lands far bigger than Palestine They already illegally occupy parts of Lebanon and Syria.
Give yourselves a shake.
Commendable as it is for tens of thousands of people of good conscience across this island to call for an end to the bloody unilateral coercive measures imposed on Gaza, if that’s all you intend doing I respectfully suggest you question your motives.
You are obviously following your conscience and I commend you for that, but once the gunpowder residue and the building dust settles are you going to help the people on the ground or simply put Emmerdale on the TV, and have another coffee, put on another bet, warch the champions league or have another round of shopping ?
Only you can answer that question
Well, you and your conscience.
A 71-year-old American landlord assaulted his tenants in a frenzied attack last night. He stabbed a 6 year old boy 26 times leaving him dead and his mother fighting for her life in hospital saying “You Muslims must die.”
An isolated deranged loner or a sign of the huge rise in Islamophobia created by our cherished political leaders who are beating Palestinian supporters on the streets of Germany, banning the Hijab in France while allowing nuns to continue to wear their habits, and equating Zionism with anti-Semitism in order to obscure the difference and de-platform and criminalise those who stand against political Zionism?
Corbyn won’t be the last victim of smears lies and distortions, you can bet on that.
Israel has now given orders to its storm troopers to shoot any male of fighting age.
Not content with wiping out a generation of unborn Palestinian children, they are going to kill the present generation of 16 to 60 year olds without justification.
If you’re 14 and you look older or 70 and look younger well that’s just too bad.
The only good Palestinian apparently is a dead Palestinian.
Palestinians have the right under international law to resist the illegal occupation of their lands and homes .
If it's good enough under international law then that’s good enough for me.
I stand by the right of Palestinians to choose how, when and where they resist that illegal occupation.
The question is, do you?
Israel’s abhorrent genocidal destruction of Gaza continues unabated. The ongoing targeting of the living, the dead and now it appears the unborn, garners no criticism from the political elite in the West but only unquestioning support. American boots may be seen on the ground soon.
There are nearly 3000 dead with a suspected further 1000+ Gazans missing presumed buried under the rubble of their homes and more than 10,000 wounded. Figures that we endured in 30 years of conflict have been visited upon Gazans in just ten days.
No water, no electricity, no food and no fuel is condemning the most vulnerable in society to death, that is the very young and the very old. How many miscarriages, still births and deaths in labour can we expect to see when there are no hospital beds, medicines or sterile equipment to help facilitate these births?
Like baby Jesus in the biblical tale who was born in a stable in Bethlehem in Palestine 2000 years ago because there were no available lodgings, will we witness Gazan children being born in stables, in the back seats of cars or by the roadside as tens of thousands flee from one unsafe area only to discover their new place of refuge is to be bombed too? Accompanied only by the cries of dying children, dying mothers, dying grandparents and their extended families, carried on a fetid breeze filled with disease and death.
Some may question the actions of the United resistance in Gaza who mounted operation Al Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023.
People should remember, all resistance from Gaza is purely reactionary to the ongoing policies of the Zionist apartheid regime.
Netanyahu at the UN assembly recently, showed his new map of the Middle East which erased Gaza and the illegally occupied lands of the West Bank to show one Israel from the river to the sea.
Let us not forget Ariel Sharon, the’ Butcher of Beirut’ in 1982, desecrated the Al Aqsa mosque in Al Quds, East Jerusalem when he led illegal settlers into the building sparking the first Intifada.
While Netanyahu played his game of provocation at the UN, right-wing, Jewish religious fundamentalist broke into the Al Aqsa Mosque and desecrated the third holiest shrine in Islam just last week potentially igniting the current situation.
240 Palestinians in the West Bank have been murdered just this year alone, and that was before the Gazan resistance launched operation Al Aqsa flood.
Between 800 and 1000 Palestinian children are arrested and detained in the occupied territories each year, many as young as 12 and charged with throwing stones at occupation forces and imprisoned.
More than 5,000 Palestinians are currently languishing in Israeli prisons many without charge or due process under administrative detention. Hundreds suffering with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and cancer are refused medical treatment.
Illegal settlers continue to steal Palestinian land and water resources, they attack Palestinian farmers out collecting their harvest and burn the olive groves upon which many families rely.
Israel ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians before their self declared state was recognised in 1948. The Stern gangs, Leahy and Hagganah were terrorists who genocidally purged Palestine of many of its indigenous people, levelling 500 villages, so Palestinians had no homes or land to return to. To this day Israel refuses the Palestinians their Right of Return enshrined in UN Resolution 194.
Believe me that is what we are witnessing today in Gaza. The whole-sale destruction of Northern Gaza is designed to prevent the people from returning to their homes and land. 2.3 million people will now be herded like cattle into a strip of land now halved in size to 3 miles by 12 miles, half the size of the Ards peninsula where life will be untenable.This is Israel’s intended endgame.
They want Gazans to be forced into the Sinai in Egypt and the people of the occupied West Bank to be forced into Jordan. The Americans are using the refugee crisis to assist Israel in its long-term goal of expelling every last Palestinian from their homeland when it asked Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to take the Gazans in.
Not content with creating millions of refugees from Syria to Iraq and from Yemen to Afghanistan they want another 2.3 million on the road with nothing but the clothes on their back, the shoes on their feet accompanied by the cries of dying children, old men, old women and the disabled, all fleeing for their lives.
For those of you who wave flags and then go for a beer a coffee or a shopping spree while in town I would ask is that really enough for you?
Waving a flag?
Like snow on a ditch on a spring morning will you disappear back into the comfort of a Saturday bet, minding the grand kids or booking a holiday? Will we really not see you do anything until the next attack, maybe in Jordan, or Lebanon, in Syria or Yemen,in Iran or Iraq. Greater Israel has designs on lands far bigger than Palestine They already illegally occupy parts of Lebanon and Syria.
Give yourselves a shake.
Commendable as it is for tens of thousands of people of good conscience across this island to call for an end to the bloody unilateral coercive measures imposed on Gaza, if that’s all you intend doing I respectfully suggest you question your motives.
You are obviously following your conscience and I commend you for that, but once the gunpowder residue and the building dust settles are you going to help the people on the ground or simply put Emmerdale on the TV, and have another coffee, put on another bet, warch the champions league or have another round of shopping ?
Only you can answer that question
Well, you and your conscience.
A 71-year-old American landlord assaulted his tenants in a frenzied attack last night. He stabbed a 6 year old boy 26 times leaving him dead and his mother fighting for her life in hospital saying “You Muslims must die.”
An isolated deranged loner or a sign of the huge rise in Islamophobia created by our cherished political leaders who are beating Palestinian supporters on the streets of Germany, banning the Hijab in France while allowing nuns to continue to wear their habits, and equating Zionism with anti-Semitism in order to obscure the difference and de-platform and criminalise those who stand against political Zionism?
Corbyn won’t be the last victim of smears lies and distortions, you can bet on that.
Israel has now given orders to its storm troopers to shoot any male of fighting age.
Not content with wiping out a generation of unborn Palestinian children, they are going to kill the present generation of 16 to 60 year olds without justification.
If you’re 14 and you look older or 70 and look younger well that’s just too bad.
The only good Palestinian apparently is a dead Palestinian.
Palestinians have the right under international law to resist the illegal occupation of their lands and homes .
If it's good enough under international law then that’s good enough for me.
I stand by the right of Palestinians to choose how, when and where they resist that illegal occupation.
The question is, do you?
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| Fra Hughes is a Belfast based writer and activist. |
I stand with the Palestinians right to resist and condemn the the crimes against humanity being inflicted on them.
ReplyDeleteBut this article appears more about the Left's support for a fundamental Islamist Terrorist group and genocide of non-Muslims or Muslims who don't meet their standards? The Terror attacks on 7th October were but the 1st part of what seems a 3 part plan, the second was the predictability of Israeli disproportionate response, the 3rd seems to involve whatever traps and ambushes set in the tunnels below Gaza. Hamas knew and used Palestinians as human shield as they sit safely in their tunnels deep below Gaza.
Islamism is a global terrorist threat and should be wiped out wherever it exists. In the Islamist latest atrocities I hoped, given the terrorists made so many selfies and videos of each other -the Israeli's ought to have used that material to track down everyone of them rather than their undeserving collective punishment of the entire population of Gaza.
Islamism will sacrifice anything to achieve its fundamentalists goals and they are as multidimensional as the Taliban, Nazis or ISIS are.
The moral high ground is lost if Russia is supported for its invasion and atrocities but Israel is attacked for its. The case for the Palestinians is subsequently weakened. Much the same happens when we refuse to speak up for all the victims of war crimes.
DeleteBottom line is: everybody should have an inalienable right not to be the victim of a war crime; nobody has a right to make anyone the victim of a war crime. Elements of the Left can disappear up the backsides of Animal Farm pig's once that tenet is abandoned.
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ReplyDeleteI agree.
The similarities between the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure are so aligned that Russia and Israel are indistinguishable. The only distinction between the 2 is that one was unprovoked and the other was triggered by terrorist atrocities.
Caution should be used when discussing the supposed threat of Islamism, and even more so in the context of Israel/Palestine.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that Hamas as an organisation contains and employs doctors, postmen, police, teachers, and all of the personnel that any governing entity would.
They also include The Al-Qassam Brigades, some of whose members launched the murderous assaults on Israeli civilians and the IDF on 7th October this year.
Wiping out Hamas would be the equivalent of wiping out the governmental structures of the six counties, having first killed (at the time of writing) 3% of the population, and wounding another 6%.
The PUL community voted in significant numbers for the demagogue Ian Paisley. They did so for a variety of reasons, in particular fear of The Other. Paisley, of course, abused the notion of Christianity to vent his own dark hatreds. I do not believe that a majority of those who voted for him shared his hatreds, or his (supposed religious fervour).
I think the same is true of Hamas. Yes, they were voted in, by a frightened, persecuted people. That does not make Gazans Islamists. I doubt a majority of people within Hamas are Islamists.
There is a clear campaign of dehumanisation raging across the world aimed at the population of Gaza. It is important that this is challenged.
Wiping out the totality of the governing body of Israel because of atrocities carried out by settlers, or Shin Bet, would be grotesque, destabilising, and criminal.
The Al-Qassam Brigades are legitimate targets. But almost all of those who murdered on 7th of October are already dead.
I think there are many good points here Brandon.
DeleteA large problem with the terrorist definition of the entire body is that it has been generated by Western legislators more concerned with strategic positioning than with ethical or humanitarian concerns. They can designate Hamas a terrorist group but not the Israeli government. Were those governments to define both entities as terrorists, I would be less troubled by it.
I think there is much more plausibility and logic in the reasoning of people like Chomsky or Ilan Pappé than in the line pushed by the Western governments. The Hamas as mere Jihadis line has been pushed by the Pro-Israeli lobby in a bid to portray Israel as a civilisation faced by barbarians at the gates.
But if we flip that and say Hamas cannot be described as a terrorist body for the reasons outlined by you, then the criteria employed would seem to leave us unable to describe the Israel government as a terrorist group.
It doesn't ring logical to advocate wiping out Islamicism but not advocating the same for Zionism. It also has a genocidal tone. I think when we start talking about wiping out we move perilously close to genocide.
I am more persuaded by the view that Hamas is a resistance body that engages in terrorism. I think the breakdown you offer is very useful.
On another aspect I thought the point made by Pappé was insightful: some of the kibbutzim attacked and destroyed were built on lands stolen from Palestinian families who were then forced to Gaza. Imagine the non- theocratic molten anger that such a thing can is likely to stir up. Forced to live in a concentration camp because your home and land was stolen. None of it justifies killing civilians but it might help inform considerations as to what brings it about and how it might be ended. But I despair, probably like most others.
Islamism and Zionism are similar as comparing Hamas to the IRA. Yes Zionism is fundamentalists but not like Islamism which is for global Islamic fundamentalism.
ReplyDeleteI use the term terrorism about Islamism because it's the glove that fits. Islamism objective is to cleanse the path for Islam and it uses the most sadistic and depraved acts of barbarity imaginable. It should be wiped of the face of the planet and good riddance.
I was listening to a pro-Israel podcast yesterday which stated the vast bulk of Islamicists are not violent nor advocate violence. It was scathing of Hamas but not the wide array of Islamists across the globe who religiously believe in the Islamification of society.
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DeleteI dont buy into an acceptable level of Islamic extremism or moderate extremists, religious fanaticism is what it is and cannot be trusted. US Evangelicalism might be seen at the lower end of the scale of extremism but I see them as a potential threat seeking to mirror Islamic fundamentalism.
PS: That Islamism should be wiped out of existence is not excuse or justification for wholesale attacks on Palestinian civilians -nor ordinary decent political liberation or resistance organizations.
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ReplyDeleteAmerican religious extremists kept a man who was going senile in the White House and elected a dangerous authoritarian who plans to rewrite the US constitution.