For the morons who doubt the footage of Houda's family massacre (aka, Gaza beach massacre) which showed the world the Israeli terrorist army killing innocents; here is a slideshow of the Houda's family funeral.
Enjoy the show; blood suckers!!
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What could be more brutal?allah yer7amhom !!It bothers me to think what if this family was israeli?the whole world would be protesting against this!
Here in the US, I’ve seen the footage played multiple times on CNN and ABC News. But I haven’t heard a single politician speak up about it. It’s absolutely horrifying and heart wrenching.
Another case of “ignore it, and maybe it will go away”.
Alternatively, there are some people willing to talk to the US citizens about it and other issues regarding Palestine and Israel. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4789.shtml
Andy’s right. The footage got heavy play, but where is the political outrage? Oh, I know, it’s all about the money, honey.
Raymond,
I linked on to your site but the download of the Chicago Radio interview with Ali Abunimah wouldn’t work for me for some reason.
I found it here http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/inc/rss/news.asp?news_source=bbc
Thank you very much for offering it because it really helps explain alot.
For All,
These photos are sickening, literally, I feel a pain in my throat. But why on earth does it take these offered photos to try to get the world’s attention? I’ve been perusing alot of other blogs on this issue and to my horror I find many saying that the footage of the beach incident are manufactured and that all this showing of Palestinians grieving their dead is simply an attempt to garner sympathy. What? The Palestinian dead to not deserve sympathy? The Palestinians living in the occupation do not deserve sympathy? Honestly, I have only one comment: Anyone diminishing ANY life is a monster, not worthy of being called human. Even many animals grieve for their dead. What are these people, vultures or hyenas? It bothers me too much to say more.
God grant us peace.
Horrifying….
Robin,
Claiming “the footage is manufactured” is something you’ll find again and again. Many still dispute the extent of the damage done in Jenin and Nablus in 2002 for similar reasons. Many like to call Chomsky a liar outright, claim that his scholarship is faulty or fabricated, to which he simply responds that if you don’t believe him, you are welcome to review the sources yourself.
The Gaza attacks were as real as the nose on Olmert’s face. They are real every day, cameras rolling or not.
PS – the same denials of authenticity are regularly aimed at documentaries coming out of Palestine, from “Jenin, Jenin” to “Gaza Strip”, I have heard critics accusing the directors of editing for effect. At my first viewing of “Gaza Strip” several years ago, an audience member challenged director James Longley on this point. His response was that he could have turned the camera on at any point during his stay in Gaza, and recorded nearly the same tragedies and atrocities that he actually captured in the film.
In a final note, I challenge anyone who makes such denials to go live in Gaza City, or Rafah, or Djabalia refugee camp for one month before uttering another syllable. Spend a single day in Hebron or Nablus, Qalqilya or Qalandia and you will prove yourself a liar.
Raymond,
Funny you should mention noses, since Olmert’s is outgrowing Pinocchio’s. If anyone cares to read the entire transcript of his address to Congress, here it is http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/historicalspeeches/436.shtml
In Olmert’s case, his “nose” is a sharpened sword slashing to and fro covering his true intents.
Here is the IDF (please don’t chop my head off for going there)
statement concerning the official Israeli Settlement Policy straight off their own site:
“In order to disrupt the Arab territorial contiguity, a decision was made to establish Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip. This policy was symbolized as ‘a five finger print’ on the Gaza Strip ? each community and the road leading to it (both under Israeli control) is similar to a finger placed on the map.
? 1st finger: north block ? later to become Elei Sinai, Dugit and Nissanit. This ‘finger’ was to stretch Israeli settlement from south of Ashkelon to the outskirts of Beit Hanun and Gaza.
? 2nd finger: Netzarim ? to disrupt the Arab territorial contiguity between Gaza and Dir-al-Balach.
? 3rd finger: Katif, Netzer Hazani, Ganei Tal and Kfar Darom
? 4th finger: Gan-or, Gadid, Bdolach, Bnei-Atzmon, P’at Sade, Morad and Rafia Yam ? after the Sinai evacuation, a large population center was established between the 3rd and 4th fingers, in order to unite the two into one block, called Gush Katif.
? 5th finger: was “severed” in the peace accord with Egypt.”
This is on their site TODAY so if anything has changed I strongly urge them to update their site. If anyone wants to see what the IDF has to say, here is their website http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/mainpage.asp?sl=EN&srch=&id=7&clr=1&init=1. It is so interesting to compare what the Pinocchio Olmert says and what the IDF is actually doing.
I hope posting the link does not cause a virus!
Funny thing, that IDF website. According to their History pages, from 1984 to the present, the IDF has been involved only in humanitarian missions. ;)
http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/mainpage.asp?sl=EN&srch=&id=5&clr=1
Here’s their statement regarding “the incident on the Gaza beach”
“The chief of staff has ordered an immediate investigation the incident. As of now it is clear that Israeli naval fire did not cause this incident. The possibility of land-based artillery fire is being examined. The IDF deeply regrets any harm caused to innocent civilians and has offered any medical assistance needed including hospitalization in Israel. The chief of staff has ordered all artillery fire stopped until the incident is clarified.”
I am puking!! Offering THEIR hospitals? Give me a FREAKIN HUMANITARIAN BREAK!!!!!
I am LOL. I linked onto Raymond’s link above and then clicked “from 1992″. Then linked to Macedonian and Indian humanitarian aid stories. Guess what comes up? Stories about “battle for the roads”
(1948) and the other about the “battle for Tiberius” They faked you out Raymond when they were posted as Humanitarian operations!!
They HAVE NO HUMANITARIAN DESIGNS!!!!
But here’s the latest from an Israeli newspaper, it was PALESTINIAN artillery that cased the “accident” Puke Puke
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260958,00.html
May God bless the souls of all who die at the hands of the monster IOF
I assume their webmaster mislinked the Macedonia aid story to their earlier history of the 1948 war.
The Kenya link is working. But that’s besides the point. As we all know, the occupation didn’t end in 1984, with the IDF stationed in the West Bank and Gaza through the present day and even occupying southern Lebanon until 2000, and still occupying the Golan, which is part of Syria.
They murder in private and dole out humanitarian aid in public. Thankfully, we don’t solely rely on the IDF to report on their operations.
Just linked to your ynet report.
After years of lying, truth becomes, not the report of the factual, but simply a matter of perpective. If your perspective holds that you are right and everyone else is wrong, then anything you say, regardless of its merit, must be the truth.
PS – they’re publicly offering their hospitals, but will privately rocketing and denying the ambulances passage.
http://www.palestinercs.org/pressreleases/Year%202006/pr290506wbra.htm
http://www.palestinercs.org/pressreleases/Year%202006/pr280506wbra.htm
I am sorry that there is need to show such suffering. I feel sorrow, anger, bur don’t have the right words to express myself.
At the risk of sounding naive (or worse — objective) may I ask upon what evidence or reason do you reject the Israeli claim that the beach massacre was a terrible accident, incident to the pre-emptive shelling of areas recently used to fire rockets into Israel? As I understand it, Hamas endorsed firing rockets from nearby locations, which if successful would have the precise same indiscriminate effect as the beach massacre — no? If the beach shelling was not merely errant, but rather a manifestation of military strategy, why aren’t the Israelis persistently shelling Palestinian population centers without any pretext — in other words, with their current state of arms, couldnt they just get the whole thing over with in about a week, if that was their true aim? When the Israelis destroy a target that neither side disputes is militant, do they generally offer hospital care to the wounded? why here if it was intentional? Finally, did this site go to the same lengths to refute the ludicrous claims in the middle east that the 911 massacres were really carried out by Jews? Just asking. Thanks.
Israel was not responsible. It was an accident with a Hamas mine. Check it. It is all over the newspapers now.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/726162.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150035838991&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull (free registration)
(Unless you cannot access Israeli newspapers, then go to my blog).
Well now let’s see. There are ALWAYS to sides to every story and since the above two posts are questioning the validity of Palesinian claims here are the quotes from the Israeli papers that we should be accepting as truthful:
Haartz: “The importance of the committee’s findings are obviously mitigated by the fact that ultimately, the IDF is being cleared by an IDF investigation. This is not an international inquiry, or even an external, civilian inquiry. Nevertheless, the army hopes that the findings will clear its name.” Yes indeed, a very good example of the lamb watching the hen house :) EVERYONE, the whole world should accept the IOF’s explanation. After all, they are all part of God’s chosen people.
Haartz: “The main hole in the army’s evidence is the missing sixth shell actually, the first to be fired whose landing site has not been determined. From an examination of the cannon, the army is convinced that the shell could not have fallen on the beach, almost half a kilometer from its intended target. But there is no firm proof of this, only an educated guess.” Sure, the world should accept the offering of the IOF”s “educated guess” We all know they are superior in their guessing and once again, accept, subject closed.
Jpost: And here’s the best explanation of all: “Unconfirmed reports further suggested attempts by Palestinians to remove shrapnel from the bodies of the wounded, treated in Israeli hospitals, thus impeding the investigation.” Yes indeed, the shrapnel that has been taken from the bodies MUST have been from a bomb planted on the beach by Hamas to prevent the IOF from landing there. Then when the truth started coming out secret Hamas agents were sent to remove the shrapnel with tweezers before they got caught. This is all after they planted camera men on the booby-trapped scene just waiting to make a snuff film and blame it on the IOF. Seems absolutely plausible to me. Case closed. Can we move on to more important matters now like finishing the wall, relocating our settlements, getting rid of the trouble makers, and sit down to a nice cup of hot tea with the bush administration?
Fabian,
The IDF findings are, as yet, inconclusive. I read the Haaretz report. Of certain interest is the following paragraph:
“The importance of the committee’s findings are obviously mitigated by the fact that ultimately, the IDF is being cleared by an IDF investigation. This is not an international inquiry, or even an external, civilian inquiry. Nevertheless, the army hopes that the findings will clear its name. Thus the next step will be leveraging these findings to affect public opinion Israeli (where the battle is already largely won; even human rights organizations cast doubt on the Palestinian claims on Monday), international and even Palestinian.”
“…leveraging these findings to affect public opinion”. Leveraging. Hmm. Another way of saying “spinning” these findings.
And where is that 6th and missing Israeli shell? And why were they firing them at the beach? Sounds like less of a mistake than Israel cares to admit.
I don’t rule out that it was a Hamas mine. I don’t rule out that it wasn’t. And neither has the IDF investigation.
Think what you want, you obviously won’t change your mind. But everyone of us read that the people at the beach heard an explosion, began to move away and then came the blast that killed the family. If the sixth shell was the last (and indeed, the IDF says that if was fired much to the north and farther from the site), how come this shell is the one who killed the family?
It wouldn’t make sense. But, again, you are obviously not going to believe anything that the IDF says.
BTW, there was no Jenin Massacre. You know that, don’t you?
BTW, Israel is oppressing over 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as we speak. You know that, don’t you?
and BTW, Jenin claimed the lives of 52 Palestinians. Is that enough for you? Apparently not. But your obviously not going to believe anything that the UN says.
The BBC covered the denial reports as well
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5074792.stm – It also has the counter-reply by local Human Rights Organizations and the UN.
You don’t need to register for this one :)
Are we back to denying Massacres again?? Isn’t that like saying the Holocaust never happened? I mean I know 52 people is no where near the amount in the holocaust, but denials denial as I see it….
Fabian, you have your sensitive subjects as do we… please post up your Jenin denial sources rather then just declare that it never happened!
Moclippa,
The denial sources are all Zionist sites, none of them journalistic in nature. Why post them when we can simply type “Jenin 2002″ into Google and find a deep hole filled with Zionist propaganda?
Fabian prefers the lie. It helps him live with himself.
Robin,
I can’t watch the pictures.
They hurt too much.
I have seen too much death.
Bush still supports the IOF.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=6595
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1799835,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2230076,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1089712.ece
Notice that the IDF says its reports were ?flawed?, instead of saying, ?We lied.? The reports were flawed? and people don?t kill people, guns kill people. Doublespeak for the new millenium.
I offer this poem to all who are troubled by these pictures.
A song
I sing a sad song – -
sadder than the sunset’s walk
in the city streets;
I feel grief in my blood
flowering from some hidden spring;
my friends, we die – -
we sail into the end
without pausing to say goodbye;
our dreams, our hopes, our loves
come to an end
like footprints in the sand
chewed by the desert.
I sing a happy song – -
happier than the sunrise
on another shore;
happier than the smile
a birthday-child smiles;
happier than a new kiss;
I feel a stubborn joy
conquering my blood;
my friends, we live – -
we live each instant
to its deepest cores, collect
its treasures, trifle with its secrets,
lave ourselves within its ecstacy.
Of death and life I shall
a happy/sad sad/happy song
sing . . .
Dr. Ghazi Algosaibi
I Am There
I come from there and remember,
I was born like everyone is born, I have a mother
and a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends and a prison.
I have a wave that sea-gulls snatched away.
I have a view of my own and an extra blade of grass.
I have a moon past the peak of words.
I have the godsent food of birds and an olive tree beyond the kent of time.
I have traversed the land before swords turned bodies into banquets.
I come from there, I return the sky to its mother when for its mother the
sky cries, and I weep for a returning cloud to know me.
I have learned the words of blood-stained courts in order to break the rules.
I have learned and dismantled all the words to construct a single one:
Home
-Mahmoud Darwish
This is so sad to watch day after day what is going on in Gaza and Lebanon. Soon Bush will be out of office and we can get a compassionate leader in the White House. Murder is Murder, no matter who is behind it and those responsible will pay in this life or after one way or another.
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