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Dr. Mads Gilbert: A Physician in Gaza
Dr. Mads Gilbert has worked and practiced medicine in Gaza for more than thirty years. One of the few western observers on the ground during Israel's January bombardment, Gilbert's testimony during the offensive was a critical source of information.
On January 3, after an Israeli strike on a Gaza vegetable market, Gilbert sent a text message to his Norwegian and International contacts:
"From doctor Mads Gilbert in Gaza: Thanks for your support," it read. "They bombed the central vegetable market in Gaza city two hours ago. 80 injured, 20 killed. All came here to Shifa. Hades! We wade in death, blood and amputees. Many children. Pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything this horrible. Now we hear tanks. Tell it, pass it on, shout it. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We're living in the history books now, all of us!"
We spoke with Gilbert recently as he embarked on a speaking tour in the United States.
GRITtv with Laura Flanders streams live weekdays at noon eastern, at www.grittv.org and is broadcast on cable and satellite TV. (On DishNetwork Ch. 9415 Free Speech TV 8 pm EST. For cable check local listings.)

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Show AllGreat interview and excellent discussion about the Pentagon's DIME weaponry.
Sick! Chosen people...lol!
18 minutes of a must watch interview. We all must be held accountable for allowing Israel to continue with such atrocities toward their fellow human beings. As Gilbert expressed the damage done to the Israeli psyche is also terrible. Come on America call this occupation for what it is!
Dr. Mads Gilbert is a model humanitarian worker and truth-teller. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." (Matthew 11:15)
The Berlin wall came down and the USA and israeli wall went up.
EDIT: MY mistake. The youtube videos aren't of large viewing format, not having viewed them before posting the youtube links. Viewing them now, they aren't copies of the video file, but instead show the apparently original video embedded, with full viewing window, within the youtube, .flv, frame; a first seen, for me.
For the GritTV video with Dr Mads Gilbert and people wanting a slightly larger video viewer than the one with the article, above, the video's provided in two parts at Youtube.
Part 1 (8:20),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68J6_-4h8I8
Part 2 (9:10),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QjPPprBacM
Following is a short, but complementary article about what two other doctors who were in Gaza during this latest Israeli government and military aggression have to say; only a few of their words, but strongly descriptive of the extreme criminality committed by the Israeli government and military.
"Physicians offer chilling account of Gaza atrocities",
by Marc Abizeid, Special to The Daily Star (Lebanon, I believe),
April 28, 2009
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m53771
QUOTE:
BEIRUT: Renowned Chinese-English physician Dr. Swee Ang gave a moving testimony on Saturday of Israel's destruction in the Gaza Strip as witnessed in her recent trip to the tiny Palestinian enclave. "Cluster bombs, deliberate assassinations of whole families that they would line up and shoot," Ang said as she listed a number of acts committed by Israel during its 22-day assault on Gaza in December and January that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead.
"The Israelis would wait until the ambulances got the wounded and then attack them, killing and injuring the drivers," she continued.
Ang and Norwegian physician Hans Husum were invited to offer an assessment of the situation in Gaza during the "Wounds of Gaza" lecture at the UNESCO Palace organized by the Sabra Shatila Foundation.
Ang, who bears distinct Asian features, also remarked that Israelis couldn't distinguish her from the Palestinians during her visit - a fact that made her proud.
"The Israelis attacked me in London for saying that 1.5 million tons of bombs had been dropped on Gaza, but I will show you the evidence," she said while presenting nauseating photographs taken during her visit of charred victims burned with phosphorous and large civilian buildings collapsed with vacuum bombs.
"I was very angry when I learned that Israeli tanks would come in front of a house and first fire a normal shell to break open the wall, then shoot a phosphorous shell into it," she said.
Husum, equally angered by the war in Gaza, lashed out at the United States which he said provided Israel with the experimental Dense Inert Metal Explosives, or DIME weapons, to test on the Palestinians.
"This weapon tears the flesh off the bone, it opens up the chest, ... it kills a lot of people," he said, adding that the "new kind of wars" like in Gaza and Israel's summer 2006 war on Lebanon were launched not to make conventional military advancements, but rather with the aim of breaking the will of the people.
He went on to predict that the next war in Lebanon would be an urban one, systematically targeting cities in order to "break society" because, as he put, "humanitarian law is dead - it's out."
"I've been a war surgeon for 30 years. I've seen a lot, but I am shocked," he said. "If the aim of the enemy is to scare us into subjugation and to put us down on our knees, then we have to stand up - we do not bend down."
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Quote: ""This weapon tears the flesh off the bone, it opens up the chest, ... it kills a lot of people," he said, adding that the "new kind of wars" like in Gaza and Israel's summer 2006 war on Lebanon were launched not to make conventional military advancements, but rather with the aim of breaking the will of the people".
I'd say that that's a perspective based on adequately observable facts; not that I could observe the events first-hand, but a distant observation from the quality reports I read about the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza, Dec. 27, 2008, to, officially anyway, Jan. 20 or 22, 2009. I say 'officially' because Israel hasn't ceased committing murders, etc., of Gazans since January; and Uruknet, and perhaps other websites, has had plenty of articles about this. I thought this was much what this Israeli aggression was really aiming for very early on, for there were very early articles reporting on the extreme aggression on Gazans in general, and relatively little aggression directly against Hamas. I also thought that that meant Israeli leadership was aiming to try to get the Gazan population to turn against Hamas; although can't say for sure that this was the or a real motive of the Israeli leadership.
Note that I said Israeli government, military (meaning the officer corps, or whatever they're called, because they're the most guilty, along with the political leadership), and leadership (meaning political leadership). This is to expressly avoid overgeneralising about the population of Israel, where there evidently are a number of good Israeli activist groups (and individuals, such as Ilan Pappe, f.e.) who are opposed to Israel's crimes against Palestinians (and, I suppose anyway, the population of Lebanon). IDF troops are also very guilty, but their senior officers are clearly, unquestionably far more guilty.
Bring America Back !!!!...........To magnify the complicity and atrocity of Gaza the World must also understand this:
****The US Army Corps of Engineers built a mock Gaza city on Israeli property, then trained the Zionist IDF troops on the best way to attack the defenseless
Gaza Strip.
======Therefore, the Bush Tribe, nor the Obama Tribe could hardly speak out against the Israeli Genocide when US resources were right in there contributing to the success of the Atrocities described in this Article by eye witnesses !
Obama made an inoccuous statement that if his daugters were in the line of rocket fire, He would do the same as Israel.
----The IDF decided to roll out of Gaza on Obama's Inauguration Day !!
----Problem here is that the attendees at the Balls were dancing on the graves
of 300 to 400 Gazan innocent children, and 1100 other Dead!
We need a real solid investigation into the full extent of the complicity
of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the genocidal attacks at Gaza !!!
"TruthKnoller April 29th, 2009 6:59 am
...
****The US Army Corps of Engineers built a mock Gaza city on Israeli property, then trained the Zionist IDF troops on the best way to attack the defenseless
Gaza Strip.
======Therefore, the Bush Tribe, nor the Obama Tribe could hardly speak out against the Israeli Genocide when US resources were right in there contributing to the success of the Atrocities described in this Article by eye witnesses !"
WAS THE US Army Corps of Engineers, US ACE for short, doing this only before, or before and after Obama was elected U.S. President, as well as, and I guess especially, after Obama's inauguration? If it was before Obama was elected, then I don't see how he can be held responsible, as stated in the above words of TruthKnoller.
TruthKnoller:
"Obama made an inoccuous statement that if his daugters were in the line of rocket fire, He would do the same as Israel.
----The IDF decided to roll out of Gaza on Obama's Inauguration Day !!
----Problem here is that the attendees at the Balls were dancing on the graves of 300 to 400 Gazan innocent children, and 1100 other Dead!"
I RECALL having read about the first two of these above three points, BUT would certainly appreciate a link or links for the third point about the 'attendees', at which (?) Balls, and the attendees' dancing on graves of Gazans. This is the first time I've heard or read about that third point.
TruthKnoller:
"We need a real solid investigation into the full extent of the complicity of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the genocidal attacks at Gaza !!!"
SURE, but since 'THE BUCK STOPS at the" White House administration, the US presidency, I'd think that it would also need to be fully and truthfully investigated for this criminal use of the US ACE in Israel against Palestinians, instead of only investigating the US ACE, alone. After all, the US ACE was following US presidential orders, as I understand the US presidency and C-in-C sh*t anyway.
Nice article, I must say I never scan one thing that summed it up therefore well. One thing like this could be scan once in an exceedingly whereas, to remind us of some essential concepts.
http://www.physician.com/
Israel: a people without conscience!