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Villagers Tell of Israeli 'War Crimes'
White flags ignored and houses bulldozed with families inside, claim residents
Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on a village in southern Gaza last week in which 14 people died.
A woman cries as she holds the body of one of her relatives at the mortuary of Al-Shifa hospital on January 16, 2009. An international group of lawyers and jurists said Saturday they would ask the International Criminal Court to probe alleged "war crimes" committed by Israel during its offensive in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/File/Mahmud Hams) In
testimony collected from residents of the village of Khuza'a by the
Observer, it is claimed that Israeli soldiers entering the village:
- attempted to bulldoze houses with civilians inside;
- killed civilians trying to escape under the protection of white flags;
- opened fire on an ambulance attempting to reach the wounded;
- used indiscriminate force in a civilian area and fired white phosphorus shells.
If the allegations are upheld, all the incidents would constitute breaches of the Geneva conventions.
The denunciations over what happened in Khuza'a follow repeated claims of possible human rights violations from the Red Cross, the UN and human rights organisations.
The Israeli army announced yesterday that it was investigating "at the highest level" five other attacks against civilians in Gaza, involving two UN facilities and a hospital. It added that in all cases initial investigations suggested soldiers were responding to fire. "These claims of war crimes are not supported by the slightest piece of evidence," said Yigal Palmor, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman.
Concern over what occurred in the village of Khuza'a in the early hours of Tuesday was first raised by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Although an Israeli military spokesman said he had "no information that this alleged incident took place", witness statements collected by the Observer are consistent and match testimony gathered by B'Tselem.
There is also strong visible evidence that Khuza'a came under a sustained attack from tanks and bulldozers that smashed some buildings to pieces.
Pictures taken by photographer Bruno Stevens in the aftermath show heavy damage - and still burning phosphorus. "What I can tell you is that many, many houses were shelled and that they used white phosphorus," said Stevens yesterday, one of the first western journalists to get into Gaza. "It appears to have been indiscriminate." Stevens added that homes near the village that had not been hit by shell fire had been set on fire.
The village of Khuza'a is around 500 metres from the border with Israel. According to B'Tselem, its field researcher in Gaza was contacted last Tuesday by resident Munir Shafik al-Najar, who said that Israeli bulldozers had begun destroying homes at 2.30am.
When Rawhiya al-Najar, aged 50, stepped out of her house waving a white flag, so that the rest of the family could leave the house, she was allegedly shot by Israeli soldiers nearby.
The second alleged incident was on Tuesday afternoon, when Israeli troops ordered 30 residents to leave their homes and walk to a school in the village centre. After travelling 20 metres, troops fired on the group, allegedly killing three.
Further detailed accounts of what occurred were supplied in interviews given to a Palestinian researcher who has been working for the Observer, following the decision by Israel to ban foreign media from the Gaza Strip. Iman al-Najar, 29, said she watched as bulldozers started to destroy neighbours' homes and saw terrified villagers flee from their houses as masonry collapsed.
"By 6am the tanks and bulldozers had reached our house," Iman recalled. "We went on the roofs and tried to show we were civilians with white flags. Everyone was carrying a white flag. We told them we are civilians. We don't have any weapons. The soldiers started to destroy the houses even if the people were in them." Describing the death of Rawhiya, Iman says they were ordered by Israeli soldiers to move to the centre of the town. As they did, Israeli troops opened fire. Rawhiya was at the front of the group, says Iman.
Marwan Abu Raeda, 40, a paramedic working for the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, said: "At 8am we received a phone call from Khuza'a. They told us about the injured woman. I went immediately. I was 60 or 70 metres away from the injured woman when the Israeli forces started to shoot at me." As he drove into another street, he came under fire again. Twelve hours later, when Rawhiya was finally reached, she was dead.
Iman said she ended up in an area of rubble where a large group of people had sought cover in a deep hole among the debris of demolished houses. It is then, she says, that bulldozers began to push the rubble from each side. "They wanted to bury us alive," she said.
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Show AllGenocide plain and simple!
...and has been from day one. Read any (fair) history - from Shlaim to even H.G. Wells' "Outline" and it is clear. Read the recorded words of Israel's prime ministers. It calls into question Israel's fundamental right to even exist.
Unfortunately, it is a fait accompli. And while the fault can be placed on the doorsteps of Great Britain and the U.S., the neighboring Arab states also shoulder a good deal of the blame (some, like Jordan - especially under King Abdullah - more than others).
As far as I can see, it is only the Palestinians who are the victims: of Israel's planned genocide/expulsion from the onset; of Britain's contradictory promises made to Palestinians and newly-arriving Zionists (while Britain was exercising its mandate from the (by then) expired League of Nations); of the developed world's apathy; and of middle East Arab states' disinterest other than in using the Palestinian cause as a pawn in their own grander schemes.
The only friends they've had -- Cuba, Chavez' Venezuela, and a nascent South Africa -- have been impotent when arrayed against the powers lined up with Israel.
"no gods, no masters" --m. sanger
Bolivia, Mauritania, and alone among Arabian states, Quatar, have also condemned Israel and ejected their Isreali ambassadors. Of course, Syria and Iran already don't have diplomatic relations with Israel. Good for them.
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Please watch the wonderful brave Sir Gerald Kaufman - a jewish a member of British Parliment
u can read it/watch it or both
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7834487.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7834598.stm
Lets see some of our fox news fanatics accuse Sir Gerald of anti-sementic remarks!
Three-Cheers for an honest man who equates an Israeli warcrime on par with the Nazi's.
How does that go?
"All that is required for evil to prosper is for good men to say nothing."
"....for good men to DO nothing."
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
Thanks ardee,
Do you recall who the quote was attributed to?
Quote attributed to Edmund Burke.
(Hi ardee)
Ayuh. Talk is cheap - DOing is what matters. I am learning this myself.
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
Ted Markow wrote:
Talk is cheap - DOing is what matters.
COMMENT:
Protest marching, sign making, letter writing are all doing, and all take little or no courage, and have proven to have little or no effect. In London, February 15, 2003, as many as two million (depends who was doing the counting) protested British involvement in an Iraq war. Two million got out and did something. Millions more in Spain and Italy. The turnout in the US was considerably less, to the eternal shame of the nation's citizens, but still a lot. And what did all this "doing" do?
Perhaps for others to speak out against Israeli atrocities is merely talk. However, as a Jew, to stand up in Parliament and say what Sir Gerald Kaufman said is more than merely saying something: he said it to his government and to the world.
That is an act far more courageous, and more powerful that mere talk, and far more likely to affect more people than ten thousand in a March. To suggest otherwise is to devalue the courage of one of the truly "good men."
Next Tuesday a black man will become president of a nation infamous for its bigotry against non-white people. What little the man has done as a senator isn't impressive, and even though he has attempted to quell serious concerns about the people he is surrounding himself with so far he is only talk. But talk got him elected, not what he has done. For that, we must wait and see.
Do not underestimate the value of talk, nor the courage it may take.
How many of us call ourselves the weeny word "progressive" because we lack the courage to admit we're liberal. How many of us liberals/progressives have the courage to challenge our conservative friends or our Republican in-laws or bosses, or our Jewish friends on the questions of Israel or the pure evil of the Republican Party?
A prominent orthodox, Zionist Jew stood up before the world and condemned Zionist Israel for its atrocities. That's courageous "doing." Sir Gerald Kaufman is, indeed, one of the truly good men. I wish we had a country, a world of such as he.
Excellent commentary, ADVOCATE.
Although, i would say that in certain cases, as in Gerald Kaufman's, talking and doing can intersect. Sometimes, the standing up before the world and using one's position to speak one's truth is much more than just talking...
But i can understand Ted's frustration.
"But i can understand Ted's frustration."
What I'm frustrated by is people who complain...and do nothing. I don't know what others here on CD do, but other than airing opinions, we influence no one. While I certainly learn here and get some of my undies aired (sorry for the graphic use of language), I highly doubt than anything significant is changed.
When I communicate with others in the real world, through the media or through letters or by protesting, I am making an impact, no matter how small.
Gerald Kaufman is a gutsy hero, and I take my hat off to him (and have circulated his speech far and wide). However, for every Gerald Kaufman, there are millions of ordinary people who have no soapbox other than what's available to voice their grievances. So...let's use what's available as best we can. Waiting for the next Gerald Kaufman is like waiting for Godot. We must act, in big ways and small.
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
Hey Ted, i thoroughly agree with you.
Maybe i was projecting my own frustration. It seems that all the marches i've been in, articles, letters, lobbying, etc, etc. I wonder if it matters anymore. Truly.
I believe that we are at a creative impasse. The tools of the twentieth century do not seem to make an impact now. And civil disobedience. It doesn't seem to matter. So we get arrested and who cares?
I feel good when i do these things, but does it make a real difference? Sometimes i think if we'd have had no marches against the invasion and occupation of iraq it would be no different than now...
I don't call myself a "Liberal" because:
1. In the US sense of the term, "liberals" from Clinton onward, have completely denigrated themselves - that stand for the interests and sensibilities of "yuppie" bourgeois and nothing else. The have bought into the program of US imperialism and exceptionalism as well. Self-described "liberals" are some of the greatest supporters of this Gaza slaughter.
2. In the international sense, "liberalism" or specifically, neoliberalism, refers to the program of forced privatization, lazzez-faire capitalism, and consequent corporate domination of a nations polity. This isn't a good thing either.
So, "progressive" is indeed preferable to "liberal". I describe myself as a "leftist" myself.
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"Protest marching, sign making, letter writing are all doing, and all take little or no courage, and have proven to have little or no effect."
I couldn't disagree more with this statement.
It certainly took courage to do what Kaufman did, however, very few people are in his position to garner such media coverage. Ordinary people have access to ordinary means of dissent, and they should avail themselves of every one they can.
I write letters to the editor of my papers, and I write to my mis-reps in Congress. While I feel both are important in a democracy, I feel the former is more important. I have had people tell me that my opinions have moved them...some to the point of influencing their vote. I also think protesting is essential to a democracy, as we see in other countries. The problem in the US is that we don't do that enough. In democracies, the governments fear the people - in fascist states, the people fear the government.
Much better to promote direct democracy than to wait for the occasional hero like Kaufman. We are all needed, and the sooner we DO things, the better. And yes, letter writing is DOing something. Merely posting on CD about what works and what doesn't is mere talk...which is cheap.
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
Its like being in a schoolyard and the big guy beat the small one and noone does anything, and worst, the senate say its ok to defend yourself. wow, what a world we live in.
AldoinSF
aldo wrote:
the senate say its ok to defend yourself.
COMMENT:
The US senate and US government have rather consistently said that Palestinians do not have a right to defend themselves, and have rather consistently sided with the big guy who is doing the beating. In the schoolyard, the bully may take the little guy's lunch money, in Palestine the bully is taking everything the little guy has.
I suggest the "Good Israelis" be forced to tour the shattered streets of Gaza and view the blood stained homes where women and children were massacred, parade them through the hospitals to witness the hideously burned and limbless children, force them to view the cemeteries where there is no room to bury the dead, and force them to look upon the sick, the elderly, with no food or water or medicine.
I wonder, will they be heard murmuring "we just didn't know"?
I think we should make this a very real movement. Excellent idea.
As you are obviously referencing, this is what many German citizens were made to do after the concentration camps were liberated.
Yes I am referring to the fact that many German citizens were forced to look at the liberated concentration camps, but as hoodeet asks above, who is going to liberate these imprisoned people? Who is going to hold the Israeli's accountable? Who will enforce war crimes?
I think the world stands at a crossroads. Are we going to allow this criminality by a supposed Democratic state? Will the worlds outrage force accountability? Or will this pass and silence return as the Palestinians continue to live caged, humiliated, and under continued threat of firebombs, tanks, and snipers.
Very true...I also have thought that americans should be forced to to to Fallujah and other places in Iraq...But then, there would be El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc. How about Guantanamo while we are at it? The list goes on and on.
Of course, it is more poignant, as we've said, in this case, since the germans were forced to do it after wwII.
Good point, it's easier to point fingers at the Israeli's while US crimes go on unimpeded. We seem to forget that there are still over 5 million Iraqi refugees who are too frightened to return home, not to mention the thousands upon thousands of Iraqi's killed or wounded by the US forces in the process of "liberating" them. Israel is behaving no differently than their great benefactor and partner in crime.
If you're referring to what the Allies forced Germans and (Catholic) Poles to do at the concentration camps in 1945, I think it would be a very good idea. But who will do it? Peace Now? The UN? The Israeli political parties and the IDF wouldn't allow it. Nice thought, though.
Dear “hoodeet” as I agree with your intentions you need learn some history. Germans were the oppressors Poles were the victims. Now some history lesson for you, 6 million Jewish and "3 millions (Catholic) Poles" lost they lives during holocaust. Poles did not build or run the concentration camps they were the victims of extermination. For your information read this http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous_new/statistics.html
Advice for you, do not mix the history, go to library and start reading.
Bring America Back !!!! Again, Israel earns its well deserved reputation as "The Butchers of Beirut". Genocide, War Crimes yellow bellied slaughters.
All with the full compliance of King George Bush and the US Congress !!
What a disgrace this is to Mainstream America.
It is abundantly clear that Israel is the Tail that wags the American Dog !
Throwing shoes at the War Criminals just does not seem to fit the crimes.
How convenient, a 10 day cease fire just in time for the Inaugural Balls !
As Kucinich screamed out at the Dem Convention: WAKE UP AMERICA !!! 4 TIMES
How convenient, a 10 day cease fire just in time for the Inaugural Balls !
Good observation!
"How convenient, a 10 day cease fire just in time for the Inaugural Balls !"
What? Are you insinuating that Israel planned it this way? (Said with tongue in cheek)
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
Why not?
Actually it might be more precise to say that the attack had to take place between Nov. 4 and Jan. 20, to take advantage of the political vacuum and get away with as much as possible under a proven friendly admin., and also to test Obama and drop it squarely in his lap. Their insurance, of course, is Rahm Emanuel, of dubious national allegiance...and O's pledge of fealty to AIPAC
It's truly sad, but I need to post this:
NOTE: "Tongue in cheek" means I was being facetious - using irony.
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
A disgrace to "mainstream america"? Please...And everything in the past eight years is a disgrace to whom, might i ask?
My comment isn't about the atrocities that israel has obviously committed, but about the pretense that america is pure. I mean, why are you surprised about congressional compliance after they gave us the patriot act, renditions, pre-emptive invasions, FISA, all manner of fascist dictatorships around the world, white phosphorous in Iraq? Somehow, you think this is beneath the u.s. to support such a thing?
Just wondering.
Bombing a ghetto is so overtly over the top, I'm going to say that there looks like there's something we're not seeing.
No facts to back this up, just a hunch, but thought I'd throw it out there.
Israel didn't get their attack on Iran, most likely because the economy couldn't take another blow right now.
Maybe this is a round about way of provocation to get Hamas allies in the game?
Just asking.
"to punish civilians in the hopes that this will force the political change you prefer. This is precisely the "logic" of terrorists."
Umlaut wrote:
to punish civilians in the hopes that this will force the political change you prefer.
COMMENT:
genocide: 1.: the use of deliberate systematic measures (as killing, bodily or mental injury, unlivable conditions, prevention of births) calculated to bring about the extermination of a racial, political, or cultural group or to destroy the language, religion, or culture of a group 2: one who advocates or practices genocide.
-from Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Unabridged, 1986, the most used reference for definitions in US courts of law.
You can call what Zionist Israel is doing terrorism.
You can call what Zionist Israel is doing ethnic cleansing.
Or you can call it what the dictionary defines it as: GENOCIDE.
Genocide is what the Germans did with Jews who are now doing it to the Palestinians.
Did they learn how from the Third Reich? Or did they learn nothing?
And we wonder why we are attacked by terrorist.
It´s the politicians who are the terroists....¿when the US Congress and House support the war 99.9%, what does that say of the elected oficials? ¿When it is the elected oficials of the US who stopped the the vote of the UN Council, what does that say of the elected oficials? Shame on you USA for fabricating, selling and supporting the guns, bombs, tanks and associated wepons used to kill not only those in this war but those in EVERY previous war in the past 100 years. Your empire is failing and falling fast! The war machine and the capitalistic way MUST be stopped.
I believe it was the Israeli assassination of six democratically elected members of the Gaza government that triggered the start if this pre-planned holocaust.
Isratl has made a high art of political assination calling it 'targeted killing' instead of premedidated murder. Tit-for-tat (the Golden Rule) applies.
Iranian cleric calls for someone to shoot Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni...
It seems unlikely that a majority of Israelis would care if they saw burned out palestinian homes. Polls suggest they love George Bush and their press is supposedly free.
A boycott and deinvestment campaign is probably the best action at this point.BUt it faces hurdles from people like Chomsky, who admits to being a zionist even though he details Israeli actions.
If any headway is to be made in terms of propaganda, I think it should start with quoting Gandhi. In all the years I have viewed progressive meda, the only time I heard Gandhi and Palestine talked about was in Common Dreams in a Sean Gonzales piece.
Since Gandhi was a neutral and regarded as a peace figure, his assessment is worth mentioning, especially in order to get to the root cause of things, which has been lost(due to effective zionist propaganda).
Its hard to label divestment as an act of anti semetism.
Also, not only do jews need to be more vocal, but non jews need to get over any residual Holocaust guilt. I have zero guilt about what Europeans did in WW2. There are many current reasons to be ashamed to be human, we dont need to base it on ethnicity.
Since Israel claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East, focusing a divestment campaign on them(and maybe Egypt-although it is a dictatorship so it would probably have little effect) makes all the sense.
I also think the environmental crimes of Israel should be highlighted(i.e. polluting Lebanon's coastline, blowing up farm animals, etc. You cant accuse fish of being terrorists(I am sure some pro Israel wackos would try though).
The West has an image of the hostile arab/muslim. It is difficult to break through that image the way the media is currently. Attempting to focus on what israel has done ecologically speaking might help put them on the defensive.
In the end though, divestment is the only answer.
Hurt Israel where it hurts the most-in their quest to have leisure and a normal life.
Shun then from concerts, festivals, universities and they WILL feel it.
I just couldn't understand why Israel refused to give exit permits to 670 students in Gaza to leave Gaza to attend universities abroad, in countries including Egypt, Jordan, Germany, Britain, and the U.S., http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/11/19/gaza-israel-blocks-670-students-studies-abroad but now that we have seen the carnage in Gaza, and know that Israel planned this attack for years, I'm afraid that
Israel kept the students in Gaza in order to target and kill them during the attack on Gaza. I hope that some investigator will look into this, and find out how many of these bright young Palestinians are still alive and unwounded. The most precious resource any people has is its children, as Israel well knows. These bright young Palestinians are the hope of their people.
I realized this may well be Israel's reason behind the otherwise inexplicable cruelty of preventing Palestine's young people from accepting their opportunities to study abroad, when I saw the video of Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish on Israel's Channel 10, just after his three daughters had been killed by an Israeli strike on his home. Dr. al-Aish said that his daughters had been involved in peace camps, etc., ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UxJWdCwOpc Palestinian doctor Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish was giving Israel's Channel 10 his daily account from inside the war zone in Gaza when three of his daughters were killed in an Israeli attack.). It is very likely that the older girls would have been among those denied their chance to study abroad.
And then in a press conference later, when Dr. Abu al-Aish pleaded for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, he was almost attacked by Israelis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh_F0p8Jcrc almost attacked),
As I watched these Israelis hurl venom at a man whose family had just been destroyed, I realized I had seen faces like that before: I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Texas, and these were the very same faces I saw then on the racists who continually victimized the black Americans. These white racists, like many Israelis, believed they were a superior race and deserved superior rights. They thought that the black citizens were satisfied with second class citizenship, and just became "uppity" because of "outside agitators" from northern states.
I would like to urge everyone to get the free download at http://www.livestation.com/ , so you can watch the English Al Jazeera's broadcasting network's very excellent reports. We Americans need to know what the rest of the world knows about what is happening in Gaza and the rest of the Middle East, including Israel.
What is required is a massive boycott of Israel goods and services. The UK has been quite active in promoting the boycott Israel protests. Hell, they even destroyed a Starbucks coffee shop. Naturally, the US zionist press refuses to print anything that would critize Israel and considers any anti-Israeli stand anti Semitic. Here's a read from the Scotland press on what we should all be doing to slap Israel and their chosen people.
http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2482514.0.israeli_fruit_and_veg_leave_a_bitter_aftertaste.php
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American Congess Generally 'Praise " the Israel ,Bill Crystal and other of his ilk with the podium and media also , not to forget the Silence of the Lambs who allow it all. BUT! no Justice in GAZA or Palestine OH! NO!
They Bad Israel and good??? Always Good? Always .
Justice and Liberty for All
I know, I know, they're only Arabs. And what's the lives of many Arabs compared to one Jew?
And there is nothing new about this, nothing new at all. Israeli bulldozers have crushed buildings with all the inhabitants inside included before. The lives lost of Arab "civilians" are "collateral damage," and unfortunate. "But that's war."
Precisely. That is why war is so terrible. And only fanatics can accept this as an acceptable excuse. The blindness regarding the value of human life expressed with such rationalizations is incredible.
When will we here in the United States finally recognize that the Holocaust did not provide Zionists with the right to perform a mini holocaust of their own?
And where do we go from here if and when the ceasefire holds. If the borders remain closed, how can Gaza be rebuilt since the Israelis prevent cement from entering Gaza. Let there be a movement of professionals from all over the world coming to rebuild, assist and offer much support for a nation that has been abandoned by most of the democratic world, especially the US and EU, and its Arabic neighbors. And demand that Israel take financial responsibility for the damage it's caused. Now is not the time to step back but to keep pushing our own governments to recognize that the rights of Palestinians are just as valid as the rights of Israelis and that the occupation has to end and dignity restored to those whose lives and livelihoods have been systematically destroyed over decades. "Silence equals death".
The natural Gas field of The Gaza strip has several billions dollars worth of natural gas. Indeed some indication suggest there could be substantial oil there as well.
Israel in defiance of ANY law I know has entered into a deal with a British Company to exploit those resources. Israel has given a licence to this british firm to exploit those resources.
Israel claims that the Monies due the Palestinians will be kept in a trust account on their behalf because the Palestinians can not be trusted with it.
This is akin to how the US Governmnet kept the native tribes in poverty wherein they banked billions of dolars in trust for the native tribes and will NOT GIVE the money too them even when ordered to by the courts.
Israel will dole this money out in small amounts and keep the Palestinians from building any sort of real state. Any time the Palestinians look like they might prosper , Israel will make an excuse to start another war against them.
Israel, the Zionist state can not afford to have a strong and flourishing Palestine on its borders. What they want is a weak subject state that exists at their pleasure.
The Zionist government of Israel doesn't want ANY Palestinian state on its borders, nor does it want to see Palestinians become equal citizens of Israel. It will take a weak subject state if it has to, much as the United States has accepted that Indians will not go away or be culturally assimilated so that they must be confined to reservations and kept on the dole. Apartheid is a state of mind, and it is flourishing in Israel (and the United States). There is a reason why the United States feels so comfortable with the policy and actions of Israel.
There are many non profits providing medical assistance to the citizens of the Gaza strip and are in need of funding, but be warned if you're an amerikan donating, you maybe considered "a person supporting terrorist" and could wind up in Egypt, so check with you congress critter before donating.
www.mercycorps.org
www.irw.org/GazaCrisis
www.map-uk.org
These are just a few.
Also consider:
Life for Relief and Development
www.lifeusa.org
Or the United Palestinian Appeal:
www.helpupa.com
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Anti-Semites, from the Nazis to the Russians, have always insisted that Jews think of themselves as separate and superior. While I'm aware that, as an Anglo-American, a feeling of superiority is not endemic to one race, culture, or religion, it does make you wonder--I mean the way some Israelis look at and treat Palestinians. Did their ancestors see the same attitude on the faces of storm troopers and the SS as they were being herded into gas chambers?
I'd like to thank Sir Gerald Kaufman for his honest and courageous position on massacre in Gaza. Thank You.
Russia.
Mark my words, Nazi Israel will be even more dangerous to the world than Nazi Germany!
Your words are marked, and understood.
While I hope you are proven wrong, I also strongly believe that if there is another world war, or, God forbid, a nuclear explosion, it will come from the Middle East, with Israel as it progenitor.
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.