Suicide bombing is reprehensible, but it is a direct and, in my opinion, consciously programmed result of years of abuse, powerlessness and despair. It has as little to do with the Arab or Muslim supposed propensity for violence as the man in the moon
Edward Said (from Punishment by Detail)
Let us all stand together against the disgusting actions and ever increasing occupation of Palestine by Israel. The Palestinian-Israeli/Zionist conflict is the worst and most inhumane conflict of our time! As we speak, Israeli forces have killed over 350 Palestinians, many of these civilians. So much for the western rhetoric of democracy, development and human rights! In 2008 an estimated 2.8 billion US dollars went to Israel as "aid", most of it spent on military equipment used to bomb innocent Palestinians, caged into the Gaza strip, the most densely populated area in the world. The Palestinians have for generations been growing up in refugee camps with terror and insecurity, suffering under incomprehensible structural violence, embargoes and closed borders, deprived of basic services, food, medicine, electricity, health care, fuel! The continuous support by the US, the UK and a completely lame duck, the UN, needs to stop!
"Imprisoning of a whole nation" by John Pilger can be read here!
"What is Israel's idea of a truce? It is very simple: Palestinians have the right to remain silent while Israel starves them, kills them and continues to violently colonise their land."
"Diplomatic fronts, such as the US-dominated Quartet, continue to treat occupier and occupied, coloniser and colonised, first-world high-tech army and near-starving refugee population, as if they are on the same footing. Hope is fading that the incoming administration of Barack Obama is going to make any fundamental change to US policies that are hopelessly biased towards Israel."
Read the whole M&G Article We have no words left.
FREE PALESTINE!
"Imprisoning of a whole nation" by John Pilger can be read here!
"Diplomatic fronts, such as the US-dominated Quartet, continue to treat occupier and occupied, coloniser and colonised, first-world high-tech army and near-starving refugee population, as if they are on the same footing. Hope is fading that the incoming administration of Barack Obama is going to make any fundamental change to US policies that are hopelessly biased towards Israel."
Read the whole M&G Article We have no words left.
