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Wednesday 23 July 2014

GAZA FORGIVE US, OUR SILENCE IS KILLING YOU.


Forgive us for we are not humans but puppets;
Forgive us for believing Israel has the right to self defense but you don’t have the right to life and your land. We believed Israel cannot tolerate rockets fired in to its territory but you can tolerate decades of occupation and dehumanization. We believed you brought this upon yourself by firing rockets at Israel while ignoring that you are an occupied and besieged people.
Forgive us for believing Israel is a civilized state that does not target civilians but you are barbaric for firing rockets at civilians in Israel. Israelis are dying by the day from these rockets. We believed Hamas is using you as human shields hence the civilian deaths. Blame it on Hamas. The four young boys playing football on the beach whose bodies were shredded in to pieces by Israeli navy fire were being used by Hamas as human shields.
Forgive us for believing Israel is bombing tunnels used by Hamas for smuggling while it is actually bombing water pipes that supply you with that precious commodity of life. We believed Israel is bombing weapons manufacturing factories to save the world from your lethal weapons while it is actually bombing your only source of light and electricity;  the power plant.
Forgive us for believing Israel has the most precise weapons that only affect the targeted terrorists hide outs while it bombs indiscriminately targeting hospitals, schools, mosques and homes for people with disabilities. We assumed the injured and the dead were firing rockets at Israel from their death beds. We believed Israel has the right to kill an 11 month child because he will grow to be a terrorist. We were told the plan is to nip in the bud all terrorists.

Monday 21 July 2014

Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor

Dr Mads Frederick Gilbert (centre) at Al-Shifa hospital on July 17th, treating a wounded Palestinian child, after an Israeli air strike killed 4 children and wounded 5 others - See more at: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/12920-letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor#sthash.mnue6AQE.mgBd53tB.dpuf

Dr Mads Frederick Gilbert (centre) at Al-Shifa hospital on July 17th, treating a wounded Palestinian child, after an Israeli air strike killed 4 children and wounded 5 others - See more at: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/12920-letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor#sthash.mnue6AQE.mgBd53tB.dpuf
Dearest friends -
The last night was extreme. The "ground invasion" of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying - all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.
The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza's hospitals are working 12-24hrs shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment all in Shifa for the last 4 months), they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS! 

Now, once more treated like animals by "the most moral army in the world" (sic!).
My respect for the wounded is endless, in their contained determination in the midst of pain, agony and shock; my admiration for the staff and volunteers is endless, my closeness to the Palestinian "sumud" gives me strength, although in glimpses I just want to scream, hold someone tight, cry, smell the skin and hair of the warm child, covered in blood, protect ourselves in an endless embrace - but we cannot afford that, nor can they.

Saturday 12 July 2014

THE CURRENT ISRAELIS ARE NO VICTIMS BUT PERPETRATORS OF A HOLOCAUST.

They started it. That is the justification always used by Israel to bombard Gaza and the Palestinians. They use it to indiscriminately kill civilians and flatten their homes. They have turned Gaza in to a concentration camp. They have turned it in to the Warsaw of our times. Ironically, it is the same justifications used by the Nazis to kill civilian Jews. The current Israelis continue to use the sufferings of their forefathers to play the victims while committing genocide. Let us dissect this conflict together.
Palestine land historically belonged to Israelis?
For argument sake Yes,  but that was Jesus (Pbuh) time; 2000 years ago when the children of Israel (Jacob) were the main race in the world. They should also occupy Egypt since it belonged to the Jews during Moses (pbuh) and pharaoh time. If we are to apply that argument, majority of Kenyans have to leave Kenya for whoever occupied this land before the Bantus migrated from the Congo forest or before the Nilotes migrated from the Bahrel Ghazal. The Bantus should go and invade DR Congo since their ancestors lived there few hundred years ago. The Americans have no basis of claiming America as their homeland. It belongs to the red Indians. The argument used by Israel to continuously annex Palestinian land is devoid of any logic. The Jews migrated to Europe in search of a better life and the world has since changed.