"If you need more proof that the president is no friend of Israel, just do the math. Back in 2007, President Bush supported Israel with $2.3 billion in foreign military aid. This year, President Obama wants to bring that down to just $3.1 billion. I know it looks like it's going up, but remember: in Hebrew you read charts from right to left." -- Stephen Colbert
I don't understand when we got to the point where a population (men, women, children) with no army, gets bombarded by another side's highly advanced military technology, where kids get shot by soldiers on a regular basis, indiscriminately, and we call the soldiers the heroes. One side has uniforms, tanks, the power to harrass you, imprison you, shoot you at will.
The other side is in a prison camp that goes by the name of Gaza, just waiting for their lives to further disintegrate, for their homes to be destroyed, for their hospitals and places of worship to be targeted by missiles.
You're not a terrorist if you're beseiged in your own country by invaders, when you're fighting off those who have committed every atrocity possible,
broken more UN peace resolutions than any other country in the world, ever--who have pledged to kill every last one of you publicly and countless times.
"In a BBC newsroom, an Israeli life is worth the lives of an infinite number of Palestinians," admits former BBC journalist (source)
We live in a world in which a child who is arrested, force-fed gasoline, and burned alive, remains unworthy of mainstream news coverage, unworthy of justice, because he is Palestinian.
Image below from Batesh family home airstrike (18 Palestinians killed).
Image: doctors operating on one of the victims from rehab centre in Palestine for the disabled (airstrike from 4 days ago)--
by the way Israel has announced today that those in this hospital should evacuate as it is the next target. It's nice when they occasionally issue a warning that isn't given via a 'drone tap' (missile hits your roof) as is their usual method.
Jews lived in Palestine before any of this Zionist cr@P.
Arab Jews were driven off by Zionists too. Any Jew who refused to be part of Israel was treated as any Muslim or Christian Palestinian: fair game. And-bang- goes the gun.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM AND NEVER WAS.
A country whose founders and leaders had declared war on you, for no reason except that they wanted to replace you (see Ben Gurion quote several posts ago), who arrived on your land with tanks, and initiated said war on you.
I read a good quote today:
"What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings."
Peace and justice and forgiveness, may still be possible for humanity if we resolutely hope for it, and call for it and adhere to it. Everyone who mourned Nelson Mandela but stands up for Israel is a brazen hypocrite.
