“count the kids” has visualized the number of palestinian and israeli children who were murdered by the other side since 2000.numbers are dehumanizing, but visualized like this, they manifest a blatant asymmetry and therefore allude to the hypocrisy of western madia and policitians
as i argued yesterday, western media and politicians are once more being hypocrites and complicit in granting israel absolute impunity for its repeated war crimes when they uncritically claim that israel had agreed to a ceasefire that hamas had rejected.
we would love a ceasefire, and so would hamas. in fact, as i argued yesterday, hamas has repeatedly offered a ceasefire based on the conditions of the last ceasefire of 2012 that hamas respected until israel broke it on june 29, but netanyahu repeatedly refused to even negotiate one. see ali abunimah’s post on ei with details on the conditions that hamas insists on.
as i’ve argued yesterday, hamas was never contacted about the ceasefire deal that egypt apparently negotiated with the zionists alone. they found out about it through the media, hence they never even got to reject it.
now more information is now emerging about the bizarre process that lead to this ceasefire annoncement. israeli newspaper haaretz offers more details here and ramzy bargout discusses the process – which he calls a conspiracy in this video:
ramzy bargout now
another article on the genocidal lust for palestinian blood among israelis
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/patrick-strickland/bombing-gaza-children-gives-me-orgasm-israelis-celebrate-slaughter-facebook
there were previous reports of forbidden weapons used in this onslaught on gazans. This article quotes a norwegian physician mads gilbert who describes injuries that indicate the use of forbidden weapons in the current bombing of gazans.
“Israeli bombs cause injuries that cannot be immediately seen via x-ray,” Gilbert said, “After a period of time, the injury starts to bleed.”
“The material used in these bombs is uncommon, which explains why we cannot cure the injured parts, and in some cases doctors are forced to amputate them,” he says.
the electronic intifada quotes Dr. gilbert and youssef abul resh from the gaza ministry of health giving testimony of injuries that appear consistent with the use of DIME [dense inert material explosives] that have been tested on the population in gaza since they were first developed by the US military in 2006, as well as the use of “other banned weapons”. “DIME bombs contain tungsten, a cancer-causing metal that helps to produce incredibly destructive blasts which slice through flesh and bone, often decapitating the lower limbs of people within the blast radius.”
israel has repeatedly experimented with illegal weapons – or used weapons illegally – in gaza. during cast lead, israel used white phosphorous, NOT as a smoke screen in the air over uncrowded areas as it is intended to be used, but as a chemical weapon against civilians. when white phosphorus comes into contact with the human body, it painfully burns through all the tissue until it reaches the bone. during cast lead, 12 palestinians reportedly burned to a very painful death through white phosphorus and many ended up scarred or maimed for life. as usual, the israeli army first denied they used white phosphorus, then, when faced with evidence, claimed it only used it as a smoke screen, and then admitted it might have used it in populared areas as well. at one point, the army fully admitted its use when it stated its decision to no longer use white phosphorus because “it doesn’t photograph well”.
as usual, we won’t find out for sure until afterwards, but it has been well established that the zionists use gaza and the west bank as a laboratory for new weapons. “tested in the palestinian territories” actually guarantees the zionists a leading position in the weapon industry and at weapon fairs.
yotam feldman made a documentary about the israeli weapon industry. watch this report by the real news network about his film:
i want to say, the “all jews are shit, hitler was good, may islam prevail and free palestine” shit doesn’t help either. this is NOT a religious war, it’s one of almost classic colonization, apartheid, white supremacism. by repeating the islam-versus-judaism crap, we affirm zionist narratives and miss the point. ALSO, i feel VERY uncomfortable by a lot of the “solidarity” coming from many turks who REALLY know very little about palestine (sorry, the turkish flag has no place in pro-palestine rallies, those people should look into their own governments cooperation, history and continuous close ties to the zionists and do something about THAT instead of boasting like they are the saviors of some sanctified, superhuman palestinians (who are all imagined as pious muslims on top)
i want to add that i encounter this attitude here in europe among some islamic communities that really have no idea what is going on in palestine. the usual palestine-solidarity folks i am accustomed to have nothing to do with this attitude.
