| "Things are clear for me , the military operation in | | | | car exploded 150 meters from my home , close to |
| Gaza ,aims to destroy the infrastructure | | | | the president home, one |
| completely,to end up with no goverment no PA , no | | | | person died and 4 injured, i cannot help feeling of |
| negotiations with palestinians,peace is not israel goal, | | | | worry, i am after all |
| israel is a colonial , racist regeime,hiding behind | | | | a mother." Gaza mom--July 2nd, 2006Let's back up |
| democracy.and its citizens security.THE AIR RAID IS | | | | to the evening of September 11, 2001 when America |
| CONTINUING" Mona Elfarra-GazaOne of the most | | | | had suffered it's worst attack since Pearl Harbor. We |
| profoundly simple statements ever uttered in the | | | | won't go into what may or may not have really |
| past 100 years was done so by Rodney King of Los | | | | happened that day. I'm still trying to figure out who |
| Angeles standing behind a microphone a bit | | | | killed Kennedy. Would we have been better off if the |
| bewildered by the attention he was getting for | | | | following address to the nation was given, now that |
| having been beaten almost to death by "authorities." | | | | we can look back and see how much worse off we |
| "Can't we all just get along?"The anwer is evidently | | | | are as a nation and planet than we were on |
| no. You'd think that a country with a history of | | | | September 10th, 2001. Perphaps Israel, Paletinians, |
| recently having been the object of eradication by | | | | Iranians, North Koreans, Iraqis and Americans can |
| others, would not think they need to pass the same | | | | give this a try for a change. We'll assume that the |
| misery on to others. But alas, even as I write, the | | | | reason this speech did not take place is not because |
| small nation of Israel, that like other nations on the | | | | there is another agenda and the speaker could not |
| planet, can at times cause more problems than they | | | | give it with a straight face."Good evening my fellow |
| are worth for others, is pounding the crap out of a | | | | Americans. Today America was attacked and we |
| smaller minority of people who simply wish to be left | | | | don't know why. (I'm not naive, we do know) We |
| alone, have some place to live safely and enjoy the | | | | grieve at the loss of innocent and hard working |
| brief experience we call life on this planet. Evidently | | | | Americans who simply got up this morning to go to |
| that is asking too much of a people who looked to | | | | work and never got to come home. We grieve with |
| the German authorities not all that long ago to be | | | | and for their families. We are perplexed and while it |
| given the very same considerations. It was not and | | | | would be natural to find the real or imagined enemy |
| evidently is not to be.Is it because Israel is "The Holy | | | | that has done this to us, we are going to be patient |
| Land," what a joke, that no one seems to be able to | | | | and circumspect so as not to cause more problems |
| tell them to try talking politely with respect towards | | | | for our fellow human beings than we solve with a |
| all concerned for a change. If you were Palestinian, | | | | bad and ill advised reaction. It will not serve anyone |
| would you not fight like hell to save yourself and | | | | to treat the effect. We must ask ourselves why and |
| your family since you have already arrived on the | | | | what is the cause of this horrible act. I intend to do |
| planet and wish to stay awhile? That's also the | | | | that before we take one more human life. There has |
| current problem with our country and the current | | | | always been way too much knee jerk in our history |
| administration. Bluster, bully and then bomb seems to | | | | and it only causes more grief, short term and |
| be the way things get done, when of course they | | | | long.While it may anger those that always need to |
| don't get done at all. Anytime a North Korea, Iran or | | | | start shooting within hours or days of such an event, |
| perceive "enemy" of who, of course, hate our | | | | I am calling for a world peace conference where we |
| freedom, tries to talk to us, an excuse arises as to | | | | can find out why this has occurred and take the |
| why that won't work. Makes you think there is some | | | | steps necessary to insure it never does again, for |
| other agenda going on here.If we were talking about | | | | the good of all people. Perhaps we have become |
| Uganda, or Uzbeckistan, no one would care. God | | | | something to others that we were not aware of. |
| never lived there! It's the waste howling wilderness | | | | Perhaps we need to look more deeply at what we |
| we call "The Holy Land" that gets way too much | | | | have in common rather than what divides us. Perhaps |
| attention. I have to say, they have managed to save | | | | we can turn tragedy and hatred into something more |
| their hides over the past decades by convincing | | | | than unending rancor and war between people who |
| Christians that God still lives in Jerusalem near the | | | | share 99.9% of the same genetic family history. |
| Temple Mount, so specialness preserves and | | | | ......Perhaps, as that Great American Philosopher, Mr. |
| protects. I worked on a dig at Megiddo a few years | | | | Rodney King, said..."Can't we all get along?."...I think |
| ago and was told by an Israeli friend, "we live by our | | | | you get the point.I'm dreaming I know. But if you |
| witts around here." They surely do, don't we all, and | | | | fancy yourself a "leader of me," don't forget the |
| must I suppose, but why on earth they can't talk to | | | | women and children. If you believe with all your heart |
| others who have the same right is getting beyond | | | | you have some special quality that we all need to get |
| me.Go ahead and "Google Earth" the Gaza strip and | | | | along, then by all means, show us your stuff. If you |
| then push the retreat button and see just how small | | | | are butthead, as many are, please stay home from |
| the space is that Palestinians can't have. Of course | | | | now on and if you are currently in a position of |
| keep going and see how small Israel is. Keep going | | | | leadership, so called, retire, step down or quit. We |
| and see how small the planet is in the vastness of | | | | have had enough of your kind...."the operation against |
| space...keep going and see how small space is in the | | | | Gaza ,is continuing,it is 1.30 am,the gaza bridge |
| vastness of the universe. Then ask why these mere | | | | has been destroyed,the jet fighters are still in the |
| specks on an obscure planet cannot have an obscure | | | | sky hitting many |
| space of their own to live a relatively short time and | | | | targets. |
| be left in peace. Stupid isn't it? Most leaders of most | | | | the gaza power plant was hit bt at least 7 missiles , i |
| nations are stupid, selfserving and have forgotten | | | | can see a big fire |
| long ago what it means to give every human on the | | | | from my window , and hear the sirens of |
| planet the basic love and respect they deserve. All | | | | emergency vans,the gun boats |
| my life, the rules in African leadership, for example, | | | | started shelling too , i live by the beach...By Scott |
| seems to be kill the last guy, now comes the savior | | | | Wilson |
| of the people, he forgets his roots, robs the country | | | | Washington Post Foreign Service |
| blind and the cycle starts again. Here is the rule for | | | | Friday, June 30, 2006BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip, June |
| aspiring leaders. You were first human and wanted | | | | 29 -- Fatin Shabaat left home here Thursday with her |
| love, respect and peace before you were in charge. | | | | three hip-high children, looking for safety from a |
| Try not to forget this basic fact. Most do." I am | | | | slow-moving Israeli military assault launched to free a |
| writing while the jet fighters are in the sky , with | | | | 19-year-old soldier being held by Palestinian |
| their horrible | | | | gunmen.Israeli artillery batteries lobbed shells around |
| sound , bringing death and horror,it is 10.30pm, I am | | | | this farming community in the Gaza Strip's |
| still like everyone | | | | northeastern corner throughout the day, after |
| waiting , i hope they will not go ahead with their | | | | leaflets dropped from the sky warned residents to |
| operation into Gaza, | | | | remain clear of Israeli military operations. Shells |
| the outcome could be horrible ,the resistance | | | | whistled overhead, slamming into the fields and dunes |
| movemet are going ahead with | | | | where Palestinian gunmen regularly fire crude rockets |
| their preperation too,but the balance of power is | | | | at the Israeli city of Sderot, a white smudge along a |
| obvious to wich side | | | | ridgeline three miles away.Although she never |
| ,any way Israel with resistance or no resistance is | | | | received one of the written warnings, Shabaat |
| attacking us all the | | | | clutched her children, ages 2, 3 and 4, and headed to |
| time, but this time will be different ,and in the | | | | her father's home in the town center, far from the |
| process many civilian | | | | dirt paths that have served in the past as routes for |
| lives will be lost,iam listening to the local radio, it | | | | Israeli tanks. An Israeli airstrike had already left her |
| seems that the | | | | without electricity, along with about 700,000 other |
| operation started in khanyunis ,the artilary started | | | | residents of the strip, and artillery shells were falling |
| shelling ,under the | | | | close to her back yard."This is only going to get |
| cover of apachi heliocapters,and jet fighters , i am | | | | worse," said Shabaat, 25,And indeed it will if we don't |
| able to write now , | | | | have leadership that reflects a more enlightened |
| do not know what will happen next,the power might | | | | approach to governing besides the eye for an eye |
| cut off soon , few hours | | | | and teeth for teeth. Soon we shall all be blind and |
| ago , Mohammed and Sondos had a narrow escape | | | | guming our food. |
| during their way home , a | | | | |