Last time I looked Palestine (Gaza included) had more than one international border and a couple of seaports. Why is it necessary to come and go through Israel ? Oh, thats right, the other mid east MOSLEM and ideologically compatible (?) nations won't give them free access either......... but that doesn't make good press, does it ??
A cease fire has been in effect for several months now and Israel has taken over a thousand rocket hits in its territories from Palestine. If your contention is correct and Gaza is such an overcrowded, cramped place then surely the Democratically elected Hamas Government and all those "innocent" people can not logically claim ignorance about the mass production of rockets and portable launch facilities, can they ?? Surly not, especially when the R&D facilities are located in the only University and the rockets/arms are stored in practically every public building including schools and hospitals. How many Moslem nations are there with automatic Visas for these poor people so they can visit and or shop across that border freely ?? Why, when there are such basic religious, ethnic and traditional differences would any self respecting Gazan wish access to Israel when the most Holy of sites are in Saudi Arabia just two friendly (?) borders away to the south ?? On Dec 29, 4:58 pm, Morpheal <[email protected]> wrote: > GAZA “HOLOCAUST” REQUIRES WAR CRIMES TRIALS > > BBC quotes a Palestinian in Gaza: “There are shortages of everything > here from bread to electricity. People just want to live as humans but > have to go without fuel, without being able to heat their homes, > without electricity for 18 hours at a time.” > > That was the situation before the attack by Israel. The situation in > the Gaza ghetto, where Israel has kept a concentration of arab, > muslim, palestinians virtually prisoners, never knowing if they will > have any food, medicine, fuel for cooking, electricity,... or if they > will not have anything at all. Can we expect every Gaza Palestinian to > control his or her anger, during years of suffering, held in what > increasingly becomes an Israeli concentration camp ? No. Some have > attempted to express their frustration and anger at Israel, by > retaliating. While Palestinian anger and violent retaliation, using > rockets against Israel, is never right, can it be considered > provoked ? Certainly it has been provoked. Provocation to anger, and > loss of tempers, has occurred. The historical record in Gaza, as to > the suffering of the people there, is enough to show that there has > been continued, consistent, repeated, provication to anger. > > Who then is guilty ? The provoked or those who have continually > chosen to provoke them ? > > In a civilized world one nation cannot take upon itself the punishing > of a whole population, by violent means, simply because a minority > within that population are alleged to be acting wrongfully. When one > such group does so to another, injuring and killing women, children, > non combatants, indiscriminately, simply because they happen to belong > to a particular ethnic, religious, and national group, then that > nation is conducting the equivalent of a “holocaust”. The world cannot > permit Israel to conduct the equivalent of a “holocaust”. When will > the historical victims of that type of violence learn that they > themselves must never, under any circumstances, victimize others in > any way similarly to the manner than they were victimized. Jewish > people were deprived of the means to life, segregated due to their > Jewish religion, as an ethnic group, wrongfully tortured (traumatized, > wounded) and killed. Now Palestinians, who are arabs according to > ethnicity, and of the muslim religion, who have already been > segregated and substantially deprived, are now being wounded, killed, > and further deprived of the means to life, simply because they are > muslims, arabs, and chance to be living segregated on the border of > Israel. It is not likely that any of the wounded and killed are rocket > firing terrorists. And even if one is, among a hundred casualties, it > cannot be right. Where the practice follows such similar principles, > the victimization, of ten, a hundred, thousands, or millions, is not > the question. The question is the victimization as such, and it must > not be allowed to happen, and it cannot be right, no matter who the > people happen to be, according to religious creed, or ethnicity. > > Punishing a whole people, for the wrongs of a few of their numbers, > cannot ever be right. It cannot ever be justified. It cannot ever be > tolerated by humanity, and it must never be tolerated or excused, for > the sake of humanity. Much more so when the people who have acted > wrongfully were provoked. > > I recall a Palestinian saying that peace with Israel was, in his > opinion, an impossibility, and that living with Israel was also an > impossibility. I did not really agree with or perhaps understand his > contention on that issue. Surely Israel’s current actions in Gaza are > proving him right, and are proving me wrong, in my naive belief that > peace between arab muslims and Israeli Jews can be realized and is > possible. I was naive, before the Gaza holocaust began. I thought both > sides would and could find common ground, and work together for a > common peace and betterment of the shared human situation. Not so. The > Gaza holocaust has destroyed that possibility. I now cannot see how > that possibility could, or would, ever likely be restored as a real > possibility. Arab muslims will be hunting their jewish attackers, both > those who gave the orders and those who followed the orders, for > generations, in the same way as Jews today still hunt Nazi war > criminals. The Jewish criminals of the Gaza holocaust, will eventually > have to pay the same price as the Nazi holocaust criminals paid after > that era came to an end. Will they not ? Isn’t it the same logic, of > segregate, deprive, attack and murder, women, children, non > combatants, innocents, and isn’t it the same price to be paid ? > > There will have to be a war crimes trial after the Gaza holocaust. > Will there not ? > > How else can the United Nations, and the world community, possibly > claim any sense of justice in the matter ? > > What Israel has now done is create a situation in Gaza from which > those imprisoned there, starved, deprived, segregated, and oppressed > in a climate of constant fear, cannot possibly recover. There are no > ways, no means, for recovery. There is nothing there, in Gaza, to > facilitate proper care for the injured, or to provide means for the > living. They say “the city is dead”, and in fact it means humanity is > dead. Israel is murdering humanity. > > Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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