[MCM] Report on Gaza, from Physicians for Human Rights/Israel and PMRS

[Mark Crispin Miller]

>From Susan Adelman:

Dear Friends

Below is the news release from Physicians for 
Human Rights-Israel on the release of the report 
they did jointly with the Palestinian Medical 
Relief Society (PMRS) about the recent Israeli 
offensive in Gaza.  It includes a link to a site 
where you can download both the whole report and 
an abbreviated version. I believe that human 
rights have no nationality. All crimes against 
civilians must be condemned and I condemn the 
launching for rockets from Gaza into the southern 
portion of Israel. That, however, is not the 
subject of this report. The scientific evidence, 
the first-person accounts and the conclusions are 
chilling. Please read it.

Peace and lift the siege of Gaza (now!!), Susan

From: <<>t...@phr.org.il>
Date: 2009/4/6
Subject: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and 
the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) 
published today its special report on the Israeli 
offensive in the Gaza Strip, 27.12.2008 - 
18.01.2009

Independent fact-finding mission of medical 
experts commissioned by Physicians for Human 
Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief 
Society (PMRS) published today its special report 
on the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, 
27.12.2008 - 18.01.2009

In their report, the experts detail 44 
testimonies by civilians who came under attack 
and by medical staff who were prevented from 
evacuating the wounded. The report provides 
first-hand evidence regarding the broader effects 
of the attacks on a civilian population that was 
already vulnerable on the eve of the offensive.

To download the Report click here 
<http://www.phr.org.il/phr/article.asp?articleid=708&catid=54&pcat=-1&lang=ENG>

The experts collected samples of human tissue 
earth, water, grass and mud suspected to be 
contaminated by unidentified chemicals. These 
were sent by the team to laboratories in the UK 
and South Africa for analysis.

During the military operation in January, 
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel called for an 
external independent investigation into the 
events, for the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip 
and for the opening of the Crossings.

Five independent experts in the fields of 
forensic medicine, burns, medical response to 
crises and public health, from Germany, Denmark, 
South Africa and Spain, immediately answered the 
call and traveled to Gaza between 29 January and 
5 February 2009 for their first fact-finding 
investigation, and then to hospitals in Egypt, 
where some of the most seriously wounded were 
being treated.

The medical experts are:Professor Jorgen Thomsen 
from Denmark, expert in Forensic pathology; Dr. 
Ralf Syring from Germany, an expert in Public 
Health in crisis regions; Professor Shabbir Ahmed 
Wadee from South Africa, an expert in Forensic 
pathology;Professor Sebastian Van As from South 
Africa, an expert in Trauma surgeryand Ms. Alicia 
Vacas Moro from Spain, an expert in International 
health.

>From the conclusion of the report:

"...Besides the large-scale, largely impersonal 
destruction that the team witnessed and heard of, 
it was especially distressing to hear of 
individual cases in which soldiers had been 
within seeing, hearing and speaking distance of 
their victims for significant stretches of time, 
but despite the opportunity for 'humanisation', 
had denied wounded people access to lifesaving 
medical care, or even shot at civilians at short 
range..."


One of the testimonies in the report describes 
the aftermath of an attack. Muhammad Saad Abu 
Halima had lost two brothers and a young sister; 
his wife and daughter were wounded. He told the 
delegation his experience of evacuation:


"ŠWe were going down the street Kamal Adwan, and 
we had almost reached the school when the 
soldiers halted us. A tank appeared on the street 
and stopped close to the school. The soldiers 
were occupying the second floor of a building 
which was only 20 meters away from the street. 
They could see that we were all wounded and dirty 
from the explosions, because the tractor was open 
at the back. They shot at us, killing my cousins 
Matar Saad Abu Halima and Muhammad Hikma Abu 
Halima, who were driving us to the hospital. The 
soldiers ordered us to get out of the tractor, 
and they asked me to take off my clothes. I did 
it and they checked all my body. I think they 
were looking for explosives, but we were all 
injured and in pitiful conditions. How could we 
think of carrying explosives when my younger 
siblings and my own children were dying? Then, 
when I was almost expecting death, they shouted 
at me: "you can get dressed and go". They did not 
allow us to use the tractor.
I held my sister Shahed in my arms Š but the 
soldiers said that the baby was already dead, so 
they forced me to leave her in the car. I tried 
to help my wife Ghada, who was completely burned, 
and they forced us to walk to the hospital. For 
about 300 meters t

[MCM] Paul Minor

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Updates on Paul Minor's case:

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/a-surprise-recusal-and-pr_b_181864.html


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[MCM] The "greening" of Sarah Palin

[Mark Crispin Miller]

See how this bit of propaganda tries to kill all thought of Palin's 
actual toxic stance on the environment, by making it appear as if she 
has herself sprung up out of Alaska's green and
pleasant land: a well-groomed, forward-looking, giant (Christian) wood nymph.

It's pretty good, as such deceptive visuals go, since someone 
uninformed would never know,
from looking at it, just how crazy Palin really is, or how ruinous 
her End-Times policies would
really be (especially, although not only, for the green parts of the Earth).

There's one detail, however, that gives the game away (as often 
happens). That weird image
of the continental USA, with the outline of Alaska superimposed upon 
it, makes it look as if
a huge chunk of the nation--or even of the planet--has been taken 
out, as if by some
immense explosive.

So in one way it is an honest image, since Palin and her husband Todd 
were both staunch
members of the Alaska Independence Party--a secessionist 
party--before they made
themselves "Republicans." And their secessionism is based squarely on 
the notion that
Lord Jesus, when he comes back to take command, will establish his 
new earthly kingdom
in Alaska; and then the rest of us down in the Lower 48 will all be 
screaming to get in,
while everything, and everyone, around us goes to hell (literally).

Now, whether that's a coded image, or merely poor design, I couldn't 
say. But I can say with
certainty that we who still believe in the Enlightment had better 
keep a wary eye on SarahPAC.

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