It I important to note that Israel blew up the power supply from Gaza, we are 
getting reports that a  
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/turkish-company-send-electric-power-vessels-gaza/>
 Turkish company has decided to send an electric power vessels to Gaza. One 
hopes that some power will be available soon.

 
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/turkish-company-send-electric-power-vessels-gaza/>
  

 
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/turkish-company-send-electric-power-vessels-gaza/>
 Some few good men are still out there.

 

EM

On the 49th Parallel          

 

                    Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika 
machafuko"

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Afuwa Kasule
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 7:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: uganda-muslim-brothers-and-sisters
Subject: {UAH} From Creating to Hating Israel

 

  
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A Dutch who fought the Nazis and defended Jews right to create Israel has 
turned into its critic four decades later after an Israeli airstrike flattened 
a house in the Gaza Strip, killing six of his relatives by marriage.

“My sister lost her husband, who was executed in the dunes of The Hague for his 
involvement in the resistance,” Henk Zanoli, 91, wrote in a letter to the 
Israeli ambassador cited by The New York Times.

“My brother lost his Jewish fiancée who was deported, never to return.”

Zanoli continued, “Against this background, it is particularly shocking and 
tragic that today, four generations on, our family is faced with the murder of 
our kin in Gaza. Murder carried out by the State of Israel.”

Zanoli’s story with Jews and Israel dates back to 1943 when he took a dangerous 
trip to smuggle a Jewish boy from Amsterdam to the Dutch village of Eemnes to 
save his life from the Nazi’s Holocaust.

Seventy-one years later, his efforts were rewarded after an Israeli airstrike 
flattened a house in the Gaza Strip, killing six of his relatives by marriage.

His grandniece, a Dutch diplomat, is married to a Palestinian economist, Ismail 
Ziadah, who lost three brothers, a sister-in-law, a nephew and his father’s 
first wife in the attack.

Zanoli transformed over the decades from a champion to a critic of the Israeli 
state.

Not only Zanoli. His case was reflecting a larger shift in Europe, where 
anguish over the Nazi Holocaust led many to support the founding of Israel in 
1948.

This passion has changed after the Israeli occupation of Gaza strip and the 
West Bank in 1967 with Israeli airstrikes killing thousands of Palestinian 
civilians over the past decades.

“I gave back my medal because I didn’t agree with what the state of Israel is 
doing to my family and to the Palestinians on the whole,” Zanoli said in an 
interview Friday in his spare but elegant apartment, adding that his decision 
was a statement “only against the state of Israel, not the Israeli people.”

“Jews were our friends,” said Zanoli, a retired lawyer who uses a motorized 
scooter but remains erect and regal, much as he appears in a yellowing 1940s 
photograph archived at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

Zanoli said he had never publicly criticized Israel “until I heard that my 
family was the victim.”

>From Victims to Aggressors

In Gaza, Zanoli’s traumatized in-laws, who lost six members of their family, 
praised his gesture as a fitting response to their losses.

Hassan al-Zeyada, a psychological trauma counselor, said he admired Zanoli and 
his family for their struggle in World War II against “discrimination and 
oppression in general and against the Jews in particular.”

“For them,” he added, “it’s something painful that the people you defended and 
struggled for turn into aggressors.”

In his letter to the Israeli ambassador, Zanoli noted that among the bereaved 
were “the great-great grandchildren of my mother.”

He relinquished the honor “with great sorrow,” he wrote, because keeping an 
honor from Israel’s government would be “an insult to the memory of my 
courageous mother” and to his Gaza family.

He added that his family had “strongly supported the Jewish people” in their 
quest for “a national home,” but that he had gradually come to believe that 
“the Zionist project” had “a racist element in it in aspiring to build a state 
exclusively for Jews.”

He referred to the displacement of Palestinians, including members of the 
Ziadah family, during the war over Israel’s founding as “ethnic cleansing” and 
said Israel “continues to suppress” and occupy Palestinian areas.

Israel has been launching relentless airstrikes against Gaza since July 8 where 
more than 1,945 have been killed and thousands injured.

Health officials in Gaza said more than 1900 Palestinians, most of them 
civilians, have been killed and nearly 10,000 injured since Israel launched its 
war on the besieged strip.

According to UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 
about 80% of deaths in Gaza are civilians, including dozens of children and 
women.

The large scale of mass destruction in Gaza has left about 5,510 homes 
completely destroyed and about 31,000 partially damaged, forcing tens of 
thousands to flee their homes that were caught up in the Israeli air strikes.

Israel occupation forces started a ground invasion of besieged Gaza, home to 
two millions civilian, on Thursday, July 17.

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