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