Israel's gift to the world

Israel's gift to the world by AnomalousNYC.

In Palestine, Israel completed its latest weekly ritual ransacking of Gaza. Israelis like to give their Kristallnachts cute military codenames, to make them sound like something more organized than just explosions of furious ethnic hatred. This one was called "Gan Na'ul" - "Operation Locked Kindergarten." Gideon Levy asks in a Ha'aretz editorial: " Did the planners of the operation give thought to the children who would be killed before giving it this satanic name?"

ORIGINAL IMAGE: Paolo Pellegrin, Beirut, August 13, 2006
IMAGE ALTERATION: /anomalous

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Zoubys says:

Love the pic & the treatment.. But won't take sides about the conflict.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

ibarak says:

terrible
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Laurie York says:

Zoubys: To "not take sides" feels to me like not bothering to get enough information to be able to intelligently see the big picture of what's going on in the Middle East. It's easier, I guess... Thanks AnomalousNYC's for your persistance...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Thanks Zoubys.

"Not taking a side" is the most pernicious form of siding with Israel.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Israeli soldiers severely abuse young Palestinian and take a picture of themselves on his cell phone
B`Tselem
September 6, 2006
source

On 26 August 2006, soldiers detained Tha`ir Muhsen, 18, from a-Neqora, a village near Nablus , while he was on his way home after registering at a-Najah University , in Nablus .

The soldiers sat him down next to another Palestinian who had been detained. The other fellow told Muhsen that the soldiers had beaten him. When one of the soldiers threw a stick to another soldier present, the other detainee fled. The soldiers chased him but returned empty- handed. They then began to abuse Muhsen.

The maltreatment lasted for about two hours, during which time the soldiers beat him over his whole body with their hands, sticks, and stones, kicked him, pulled his hair, and threw him to the ground. Muhsen lost consciousness. When he regained consciousness, the abuse continued. Among other kinds of abuse, one of soldiers practiced karate kicks to Muhsen`s head while the other soldier held Muhsen in place.

At some time during the events, one of the soldier`s took Muhsen`s cell phone and photographed two of the soldiers who beat Muhsen.

In his testimony to B`Tselem, Muhsen described how, toward the end of the abusive treatment, the soldiers made a circle on the ground and ordered him to crouch inside it.

`I tried to sit down, but I was really dizzy… I barely managed to sit down inside the circle, as he demanded. I felt as if I were rocking back and forth and was about to fall…. another soldier gave him a rifle, and he aimed it at me. He put the barrel of the rifle to my head a few times and cocked the trigger. He laughed and said, `I am going to come to your house tonight and arrest you.` He spoke in Hebrew, and the soldier who took the cell phone translated and said to me, `Do everything that the officer says.` He was referring to the soldier who beat me with the stick and aimed the rifle at me. Afterwards, the officer gave the rifle to the soldier who translated, moved back a few meters, ran toward me and kicked me in the head. He did this a few times, as if my head were a ball in a game. Then the officer grabbed my head and slammed it into the armored vehicle and went away.`

Two days later, after he gained some strength, Tha`ir filed a complaint at the army liaison office and gave the soldiers there a copy of the photo that the soldiers took with his cell phone.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

`Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now`
By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent (UK)
September 8, 2006
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/arti cle1372026.ece

Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world`s attention has been diverted by wars in
Lebanon and Iraq.

A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets.

Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur every day by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded, of whom 60 had arms or legs amputated, since 25 June, says Dr Juma al-Saqa, the director of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is fast running out of medicine. Of these, 64 were children
and 26 women. This bloody conflict in Gaza has so far received only a fraction of the attention given by the international media to the war in Lebanon.

It was on 25 June that the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was taken captive and two other soldiers were killed by Palestinian militants who used a tunnel to get out of the Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of this, writes Gideon Levy in the daily Haaretz, the Israeli army `has been rampaging through Gaza - there`s no other word to describe it -
killing and demolishing, bombing and shelling, indiscriminately`. Gaza has essentially been reoccupied since Israeli troops and tanks come and go at will. In the northern district of Shajhayeh they took over several houses last week and stayed five days. By the time they
withdrew, 22 Palestinians had been killed, three houses were destroyed and groves of olive, citrus and almond trees had been bulldozed.

Fuad al-Tuba, the 61-year-old farmer who owned a farm here, said: `They even destroyed 22 of my bee-hives and killed four sheep.` He pointed sadly to a field, its brown sandy earth churned up by tracks of bulldozers, where the stumps of trees and broken branches with wilting leaves lay in heaps. Near by a yellow car was standing on its
nose in the middle of a heap of concrete blocks that had once been a small house.

His son Baher al-Tuba described how for five days Israeli soldiers confined him and his relatives to one room in his house where they survived by drinking water from a fish pond. `Snipers took up positions in the windows and shot at anybody who came near,` he said. `They killed one of my neighbours called Fathi Abu Gumbuz who was 56 years old and just went out to get water.`

Sometimes the Israeli army gives a warning before a house is destroyed. The sound that Palestinians most dread is an unknown voice on their cell phone saying they have half an hour to leave their home before it is hit by bombs or missiles. There is no appeal.

But it is not the Israeli incursions alone that are destroying Gaza and its people. In the understated prose of a World Bank report published last month, the West Bank and Gaza face `a year of unprecedented economic recession. Real incomes may contract by at least a third in 2006 and poverty to affect close to two thirds of the population.` Poverty in this case means a per capita income of under $2 (£1.06) a day.

There are signs of desperation everywhere. Crime is increasing. People do anything to feed their families. Israeli troops entered the Gaza industrial zone to search for tunnels and kicked out the Palestinian police. When the Israelis withdrew they were replaced not by the police but by looters. On one day this week there were three donkey carts removing twisted scrap metal from the remains
of factories that once employed thousands.

`It is the worst year for us since 1948 [when Palestinian refugees first poured into Gaza],` says Dr Maged Abu-Ramadan, a former ophthalmologist who is mayor of Gaza City. `Gaza is a jail. Neither people nor goods are allowed to leave it. People are already starving. They try to live on bread and falafel and a few tomatoes and
cucumbers they grow themselves.`

The few ways that Gazans had of making money have disappeared. Dr Abu-Ramadan says the Israelis `have destroyed 70 per cent of our orange groves in order to create security zones.` Carnations and strawberries, two of Gaza`s main exports, were thrown away or left to rot. An Israeli air strike destroyed the electric power station so 55 per cent of power was lost. Electricity supply is now becoming almost as intermittent as in Baghdad.

The Israeli assault over the past two months struck a society already hit by the withdrawal of EU subsidies after the election of Hamas as the Palestinian government in March. Israel is withholding taxes owed on goods entering Gaza. Under US pressure, Arab banks abroad will not transfer funds to the government.

Two thirds of people are unemployed and the remaining third who mostly work for the state are not being paid. Gaza is now by far the poorest region on the Mediterranean. Per capita annual income is $700, compared with $20,000 in Israel. Conditions are much worse than in Lebanon where Hizbollah liberally compensates war victims
for loss of their houses. If Gaza did not have enough troubles this week there were protest strikes and marches by unpaid soldiers, police and security men. These were organised by Fatah, the movement of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, which lost the election to Hamas in January. His supporters marched through the streets waving their Kalashnikovs in the air. `Abu Mazen you are brave,` they shouted. `Save us from this disaster.` Sour-looking Hamas gunmen kept a low profile during the demonstration but the two sides are not
far from fighting it out in the streets.

The Israeli siege and the European boycott are a collective punishment of everybody in Gaza. The gunmen are unlikely to be deterred. In a bed in Shifa Hospital was a sturdy young man called Ala Hejairi with wounds to his neck, legs, chest and stomach. `I was laying an anti-tank mine last week in Shajhayeh when I was hit by fire from an Israeli drone,` he said. `I will return to the resistance
when I am better. Why should I worry? If I die I will die a martyr and go to paradise.`

His father, Adel, said he was proud of what his son had done adding that three of his nephews were already martyrs. He supported the Hamas government: `Arab and Western countries want to destroy this government because it is the government of the resistance.`

As the economy collapses there will be many more young men in Gaza willing to take Ala Hejairi`s place. Untrained and ill-armed most will be killed. But the destruction of Gaza, now under way, will ensure that no peace is possible in the Middle East for generations to come.

The deadly toll

* After the kidnap of Cpl Gilad Shalit by Palestinians on 25 June, Israel launched a massive offensive and blockade of Gaza under the operation name Summer Rains.

* The Gaza Strip`s 1.3 million inhabitants, 33 per cent of whom live in refugee camps, have been under attack for 74 days.

* More than 260 Palestinians, including 64 children and 26 women, have been killed since 25 June. One in five is a child. One Israeli soldier has been killed and 26 have been wounded.

* 1,200 Palestinians have been injured, including up to 60 amputations. A third of victims brought to hospital are children.

* Israeli warplanes have launched more than 250 raids on Gaza, hitting the two power stations and the foreign and Information ministries.

* At least 120 Palestinian structures including houses, workshops and greenhouses have been destroyed and 160 damaged by the Israelis.

* The UN has criticised Israel`s bombing, which has caused an estimated $1.8bn in damage to the electricity grid and leaving more than a million people without regular access to drinking water.

* The Israeli human rights group B`Tselem says 76 Palestinians, including 19 children, were killed by Israeli forces in August alone. Evidence shows at least 53 per cent were not participating in hostilities.

* In the latest outbreak of violence, three Palestinians were killed yesterday when Israeli troops raided a West Bank town in search of a wanted militant. Two of those killed were unarmed, according to witnesses.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Victoria Frigerio/ Photography says:

I have No Words to describe how I feel about this terrible masacre to my Beloved Lebanon."
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

nis.jensen says:

It's Ok Honey - the picture speaks for itself. Doesn't it??
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

"I looked everywhere but couldn`t find him. I thought maybe he was in surgery, but no. I had a feeling that Mohammed was a shahid [martyr]. I thought maybe he was transferred to another hospital and I sent relatives to look in Al-Quds Hospital. They didn`t find him there. I thought that if he was not in the hospital, he must be lying at the place where he was killed. It would be very hard to get there and get him out. We know that if anyone is wounded there, no one can get close enough to get him out. We know that the army shoots at anyone who approaches there, even at rescue parties. Then I thought he must be in the hospital refrigerator. I asked my cousins to go and check. There were a few shahids there, and they saw them, but they came back and said they did not find Mohammed. But there was no announcement. I decided to go to the morgue and look. I went in but I didn`t find Mohammed. Then I saw half a body, the only one that was not identified. I saw that it was Mohammed`s half-body. By the belt. It`s a belt that I bought him. And the shoes he wore. I looked at the socks and I knew it was Mohammed. I was sure it was Mohammed. The upper half of the body had disappeared. Mohammed was killed by two shells fired by a tank, and both shells hit him. Mohammed is fourteen years and four months old. He was not armed and he didn`t know what a weapon was. They saw that he was a boy. Maybe he went there to see the defenders, maybe he wanted to take part. Maybe he threw stones at a tank. They fired a shell at him. That is Mohammed`s story and that is the end of Mohammed."
--Mohamed's mother, quoted in "The boy who was buried twice" by Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz

...

"The IDF is not aware of a 14-year-old boy being hit other than from media reports, and is not familiar with the circumstances in which he was hit. It should be noted that on the day the report was published there were heavy exchanges of fire, which included the firing of antitank missiles, the detonation of explosive devices, and light-arms fire against IDF forces."
-- Israeli 'Defence' Forces spokesperson.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

they couldn't possibly report all the deaths of Palestinian children - there are so many every week, people would stop reading. And besides, they are so busy reporting about the unbearable anxiety of Jews who worry that someone might speak arabic while they are drinking their mocha latte's in Tel Aviv - there is no time left for trivial irrelevancies like the deliberate starvation of a million non-Jews in Gaza.

In the last 1800 days, Israelis have shot somewhere between 10,000-15,000 children. About 800 of them died.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

~ boxBOX says:

"I want to say to those who support the removal of Hamas from the government that Israel will one day want them out as well. If the Israelis want Hamas out today and place Fatah in power, tomorrow they will turn around and fight Fatah.
They themselves nominated Arafat for the Noble Prize, and then at the end they killed him.
I want all sides to know clearly that the Israelis want ethnic cleansing for all Palestinians." - Ahmed Bahar
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

After Lebanon, Israel is Looking for More Wars
Jonathan Cook, Nazareth
August 21, 2006

Late last month, a fortnight into Israel’s war against Lebanon, the Hebrew media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a “missile-trapping” steel net that can shield buildings from rocket attacks. The Israeli government, it claimed , would be able to use the net to protect vital infrastructure -- oil refineries, hospitals, military installations, and public offices -- while private citizens could buy a net to protect their own homes.

The fact that the government and scientists are seriously investing their hopes in such schemes tells us more about Israel’s vision of the “new Middle East” than acres of analysis.

Israel regards the “home front” -- its civilian population -- as its Achilles’ heel in the army’s oppression of the Palestinians in the occupied territories, its intermittent invasions of south Lebanon, and its planned attacks further afield. The military needs the unconditional support of the country’s citizenry and media to sanction its unremitting aggression against Israel’s “enemies”, but fears that the resolve of the home front is vulnerable to the threat posed by rockets landing in Israel, whether the home-made Qassams fired by Palestinians over the walls of their prison in Gaza or the Katyushas launched by Hizbullah from Lebanon.

Certainly Israel’s leaders are not ready to examine the reasons for the rocket menace -- or to search for solutions other than of the missile-catching variety.

The bloody nose Israel received in south Lebanon has not shaken its leaders’ confidence in their restless militarism. If anything, their humiliation has given them cause to pursue their adventures more vigorously in an attempt to reassert the myth of Israeli invincibility, to distract domestic attention from Israel’s defeat at the hands of Hizbullah, and to prove the Israeli army’s continuing usefulness to its generous American benefactor.

If Israel’s soldiers ever leave south Lebanon, expect a rapid return to the situation before the war of almost daily violations of Lebanese airspace by its warplanes and spy drones, plus air strikes to “rein in” Hizbullah and regular attempts on its leader Hassan Nasrallah’s life.
Expect more buzzing by the same warplanes of President Bashar al-Assad’s palace in Damascus, assassination attempts against Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshal and attacks on Hizbullah “supply lines” in Syria. Expect more apocalyptic warnings, and worse, to Iran over its assumed attempt to join Israel in the exclusive club of nuclear armed states. And, of
course, expect many more attacks by ground and air of Gaza and the West Bank, with the inevitable devastating toll on Palestinian lives.

Despite its comeuppance in Lebanon, Israel is not planning to reconfigure its relationship with its neighbors. It is not seeking a new Middle East in which it will have to endure the same birth pangs as the “Arabs”. It does not want to engage in a peace process that might force it to restore, in more than appearance, the occupied territories to the Palestinians. Instead it is preparing for more asymmetrical warfare -- aerial bombardments of the kind so beloved by American arms manufacturers.

Where does all this “defensive” Israeli activity leave us? Answer: on the verge of more war and carnage, whether inflicted on the Palestinians, on Lebanon, on Syria, on Iran, or on all of them. Iran’s head of the army warned on Saturday that he was preparing for an attack by Israel. It’s probably a wise assumption on his part, especially as US officials were suggesting at the weekend that the UN Security Council is about to adopt sanctions that will include military force to stop Iran’s assumed nuclear ambitions.

In fact, Israel looks ready to pick a fight with just about anyone in its neighborhood whose complicity in the White House’s new Middle East has not already been assured, either like Jordan and Egypt by the monthly pay cheques direct from Washington, or like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states by the cash-guzzling pipelines bringing oil to the West. The official enemies -- those who refuse to prostrate themselves before Western oil interests and Israeli regional hegemony -- must be brought to their knees just as Iraq already has been.

What will these wars achieve? That is the hardest question to answer, because every possible outcome appears to spell catastrophe for the region, including for Israel, and ultimately for the West. If Israel received a bloody nose from a month of taking on a few thousand Hizbullah fighters on their home turf, what can the combined might of Israel and the US hope to achieve in a battleground that drags in the whole Middle East? How will Israel survive in a region torn apart by war, by a new Shiite ascendancy that makes the old colonially devised mosaic of Arab states redundant and by the consequent tectonic shifts in identity and borders?

President Bush observed at the weekend that, although it may look like Hizbullah won the war with Israel, it will take time to see who is the true victor. He may be right, but it is hard to believe that either Israel or the United States can build a missile-catching net big enough to withstand the fall-out from the looming war.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

"We are now in a process of renewed escalation. We will continue hitting everything that moves in Hezbollah – but we will also hit strategic civilian infrastructure. It could be that at the end of the story, Lebanon will be dark for a few years"
--A senior Israeli General Staff officer quoted in Ha'aretz, Aug. 7, 2006
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

cajueiro says:

perfect shot!!!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Valerie Lewis [deleted] says:

Just horrible, and the picture is excellant to show it. Don't want to know, but got to know, don't want to look but have to look. I'm not there, but feel the touch of the pain... guess I'll just go wipe my tears off...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Mylens* says:

War is the most terrible thing there is.
I see horror in his face because horror it is.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

judo_dad1953 says:

Prize winning Phioto!!! WOW!!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Ashenzil says:

this is such a powerful shot.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Hudlu [deleted] says:

Wonderful work, my friend!

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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

☜Angel☞ says:

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Best R
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

alicious_from_the_org says:

Two points.....

1) Very Powerful and amazing shot, it really brings out the hartship and disturbing reality of war.

2) AnomalousNYC - I understand that you are passionate about the situation and what is happening/has happend over there but Zoubys is entitled to her opinion. It's called free speech, and this (Flickr) is not some political or even rather an ethical sounding board for you to voice absurd assumptions about what other people feel (that's what a blog is for)& think, this is a place where people from all walks of life in every corner in on the globe can come and share their work/images/passions with the rest of the world. She should be free to come in here and comment on your picture that you are sharing with the world, and not be accused of doing something that she clearly didn't do, ALIGN HERSELF WITH EITHER SIDE OF THE CONFLICT/SITUATION. Maybe posting this picture is the most dexterous way of drawing in people that might look at this slightly different then you do (or hell, just might not care at all) out so you can attack them. See how narrowminded and imprudent that sounds?
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

shapeshift says:

hi Anomalous... great job as usual... i blogged this image to blogs.newamericamedia.org/photo-of-the-day/ new america media is an non-profit alternative news organization. please check it out and let me know if you would like to add or change anything.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

~ boxBOX says:

to the above comment by alicious....

....and because of this "free speach" a response to such a comment ( one uttered far too often ) is well worth uttering.
-yes it is a great photograph
-yes it is well processed
-yes it is provocative
-yes it is within rights to comment or not
-yes it is within rights to have an opinion or not
-yes it is fair to comment on such opinion or lack there of
- YES IT IS HIS GODDAMN PAGE

now if you would like to get into a discussion of "definitions"
Flickr is "place where people from all walks of life in every corner in on the globe can come and share their work/images/passions with the rest of the world" , as you actually stated very well, but it should not be limited to whether you or anyone else considerers it to be a worthy place for such discussions !

now i realize that you may be sympathetic to this cause, and admire this work (if only on a surface level) as great processing skills, but come one ..... are you truely going to use such flawed logic s to claim that this WORK is not about sharing a passion for others to see.
As far as an attack on anyone, in this case Zoubys, that too is ridiculous.. if anything what is pointed out by a response to not taking sides is that far far far to many people step aside and let others make decisious and build opinions for them as opposed to learning, researching and growing to have their own well form ( even if flawed opinions). That being one of the first comments certainly has set a tone for the ignorance that is todays world....
did you see reports of any of this in the western media, do you know what has been done in the name of god on either side of any coin, do you know the enormous environmental damage deliberately caused in Lebanon.....if so I applaud you but walk outside and ask your neighbor, co-worker, even best friend, i would hazzard a guess that they do not. So please consider that this vehicle may be the only one that people may see what actually occurs, and may allow them to at least go from here and listen to something other than CNN.

or maybe i just sound narrowminded and imprudent as well.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Zoubys says:

well... i consider not knowing enough the odds & evens of this event..Medias are telliing too many different views of a same conflit.
Not that i am insensible to the suffering...

Anomalous & Laurie.. Too easy to judge people without knowing them....
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

~ boxBOX says:

Zoubys

i don't dare to assume you are insenstive for those very reasons you state, but it has raised a good question about where to find the information that is true. Find out, make informed opinions, even if you come to regret them, you have come to them by your own hard work and heart. a strong opinion is better than none, no opinion allows others to take control away from you!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Zoubys & defender -

I don't judge you or assume anything at all about YOU. I am not attacking you.

I am judging the position you are explicitly taking. "Not taking a side" is always a political position which favors the status quo, the oppressor, the powerful in any conflict.

If zoubys, god forbid, were being raped in the street, "refusing to take a side" would be a way of siding with the rapist. Such a posture would grant a legitimacy to that horrible act which it does not deserve, and would grant it the courtesy of allowing it to continue without interference.

If we lived 200 years ago, and I refused to take a side in the struggle between abolitionists and slave-traders, I would be in effect siding with slavery, allowing it to continue, refusing to do anything to bring it to an end.

Zoubys, by refusing to take a side in this conflict, is siding in an identical way with Israel. Slavery and rape are quite apt metaphors in this case.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
- Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Pareidol7 says:

thank you for the photo, and for bringing light to the situation in lebanon and palestine
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

jsdart says:

your shot says it all. killers can use words as they like to try to make their actions seems like actions not murder- but reality is reality and words are words..
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

VeloManiac says:

I agree with zoubys about the image and with anomalous about taking sides.

It makes sense not to take sides if one is not well enough informed about an issue, but of course there are issues about which it's pretty essential to be informed.

What Israel is doing provided much of the impetus for the explosion of French suburban ghettos not so long ago, it recruits and motivates "terrorists" and provides a continuing source of instability and conflict - not to mention the direct victims that are overwhelmingly Palestinians ... Sounds like a pretty essential issue to be informed about. Perhaps the French and continental European media are confusing because some are less biased against the Arab side, than is the case in the USA. In any case, just reading the daily press on an issue of this importance is no way to form a sound opinion. It would pay to read a little history, and the French literature abounds in excellent works.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

It does indeed - Le Monde Diplomatique is a good place to start for excellent overviews of this issue...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

_miti_ says:

wow
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

photomorti says:

ur photo's are great but i hate the damn blur thing :S
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Israeli WARCRIMES [deleted] says:

I am also curious about this unwillingness that people have to "take sides". Anomalous, as much as I cringe upon hearing the word "rape" and as much as the mental image pains me, I think your analogy is suitable.

The sepia tones in your artwork really reflect the hopelessness and trauma of living under Israel's thumb. I really like your oversaturation of color, too.

about the name....I'm wondering if the names are randomly generated? Mohammed Omer makes mention of it here, in regard to "Operation Rainbow" a few years back:

Deadly rainbow:
One year after Israel’s incursion,
pain and questions persist

Special to the Vermont Guardian
May 2005

RAFAH, Gaza — The Israelis called it “Operation Rainbow” and insisted the name was generated at random by a computer. To the men, women, and children of Rafah who endured the slaughter, it was a bitter footnote to a week of horror.

In Greek mythology, the rainbow was a bridge between Earth and Olympus, between men and Gods. In the Old Testament, after sending a flood that destroyed the world, God set a rainbow in the sky as a sign of peace and renewal. But in May 2004, the shells and bombs in the night sky over Rafah brought only death. “Operation Rainbow” is an appropriate name in only one way: A year later, the images are still vivid, the evidence of Israeli violence directed at a civilian population undimmed.

continued...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

In this country at least people have been EDUCATED by the media - they are TAUGHT to not take sides. They have been taught that there are two sides to every story, and a steady diet of blatant propaganda has taught them that the truth is always somewhere else - that what hey are told is always only half of the story, and that to complete the picture they need the other half. They are obsessed with BALANCE - but in the most bizarre and unbalanced way.

It's also a reflection, perhaps, of the mock-adversarial nature of our supposed two party system.

I would not be surprised if these operations are randomly named. All the same, if they pulled "Operation Reviving Hitler" I have no doubt they would pull again. They decided to keep "Operation Locked Kindergarten." Satanic really is the word for the images that conveys...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

MacKey (the Mac) [deleted] says:

great photo, sad and scary in a way too, but i really like it.

i can understand those not wanting to take sides really. it's a difficult one. no one is better than the other. and i'm tempted to say that as long as there are fanatics and religion in the world, then there won't really be peace, but of course it's much more complicated than that. hatred is being taught and passed on to the next generation, and while is understandable in a way, then i myself can't make much sense of it. i don't live the conflict and the every day life of it, i can't begin to imagine what a hell they live (both sides). call me ignorant or even unconcerned, it's just so painful in a way and the more i think about it, then more upset i get, the more frustrated i get. i understand these people yet i don't. i just hope the generations to come won't be taught the same hatred and beliefs that seem to cause all this.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

I think the impulse is correct - to say that no one people's suffering is more IMPORTANT than anothers, and to acknowledge that everyone is suffering. But this hopefully obvious observation is only the groundwork of intelligence, not its fruit - we need to build from there and actually look at the suffering and draw some conclusions, moral and political. It is true that in this conflict it is preternaturally difficult to find out what is real and what is not, but to an intelligent mind, this constant, deliberately contrived fog of confusion and controversy should be the first sign that something terribly fishy is going on. Because there is in fact nothing confusing or controversial about what Israel is doing.

Our laziness and indifference are the fuel that keeps this conflict running.

As for the continuation of violence and hatred, these are things that don't need to be taught. Israelis learn violence and hatred from the fear that comes from their injust domination of non-Jews, and Palestinians learn it from being demonized and violently subjugated by Jews. The situation itself - the apartheid relationship - creates the violence and hatred all by itself.
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AnomalousNYC says:

"The settlers argue that from the very beginning, Zionism flew in the face of reality. It succeeded, they say, precisely because it ignored reality and never surrrendered to the rational concepts of reality that predicted failure for their cause. Therefor, the demographic and geographic arguments used against the settlers evaporated in the fervor of their vision. But now it turns out that others can alter relaity through the power of committment to a nationalist ideology; the attempt to claim a monoply on ideals, in the false belief that the other will not and cannot rebel, leads to irreparable disaster.

The so-called settlement enterprise, like the checkpoints set up to save it, will pass from this world because the wheel has turned: Now, the Palestinians are the ones rising up against reality, refusing to surrender to rational perceptions of the balance of power that predict their failure. And they have a good role model."

--Amira Hass, "The Hidden Weapons Factories"
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Maggiet96 says:

There is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. that I like to copy here: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Thank you for showing this picture to the world.
Peace now!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

digital_don says:

WOW! This is an amazing and heartbreaking image.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Irela [deleted] says:

@anomalous NYC

re: Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now`
By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent (UK)
September 8, 2006

Just last night I, I was thinking about copy/pasting, circulating, doing exactly what you did with the exact same article.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
- Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Lebanon claims Israel encroaching on its territory with barbed-wire barrier
Canadian Press
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

KFAR KILA, Lebanon (AP) - UN peacekeepers asked Israel's army on Wednesday to pull down a new barbed-wire barrier that Lebanon said encroached on its territory, but Israel denied it was on Lebanese soil - a test of the month-old ceasefire.

The handover of south Lebanon continued, with Lebanese troops taking control of a large border zone in the war-ravaged area for the first time in three decades.

Blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers inspected the disputed barrier - two coils of barbed wire that were unfurled some 15 metres inside Lebanon, just across from the Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora protested the barrier and a spokesman for the UN mission in Lebanon said the peacekeeping force had asked Israel's army to remove it.

"We expect them to do so as quickly as possible," Alexander Ivanko said.

But the Israeli military, which said it was repairing the fence along the route set down in a 2000 UN resolution, denied it was inside Lebanese territory.

Israeli troops continue to gradually withdraw from south Lebanon almost a month after the ceasefire ended 34 days of fighting with Hezbollah militants that began July 12. Hundreds of people died and thousands fled their homes.

At their peak, an estimated 30,000 Israeli troops were in Lebanon. Israel, whose forces in the country now number a few thousand, said Friday it expected to pull all its troops out within two weeks.

At the border, a new dirt track controlled by Israelis could be seen running between the tall border fence and the barbed-wire coils laid inside a Lebanese field.

"The Israeli soldiers moved in and began unfurling their wire in the middle of my land," said farmer Mahmoud Sheikh, who was harvesting hay nearby. He said the incident occurred three days ago and that the troops waved him off as he tried to intervene.

New barriers were put up in several places, including the Khiam plain and the town of Gadjar, covering an area about three kilometres long, Lebanese army and UN officials said.

About 10 kilometres away, Lebanese soldiers in a long column of old jeeps and armoured vehicles took control of a 324-square-kilometre zone for the first time in decades.

Children clapped, women threw rice and men waved yellow Hezbollah baseball caps to greet about 300 soldiers, their trucks piled with mattresses and kitchen utensils as they deployed in abandoned buildings and schools across the severely bombed area.

The UN said it had co-ordinated the Lebanese deployment in the zone around Houla with the Israeli army, which withdrew from the area a day earlier.

A Lebanese officer said Lebanon's army hadn't been in the zone - previously controlled by warring militias and then by Israel - for decades.

"We've been studying maps and aerial photographs to find our way," said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.

Under the UN resolution that ended the conflict, 15,000 UN peacekeepers are to secure a buffer zone with Israel in south Lebanon, supporting an equal number of Lebanese troops.

The resolution also calls for disarming Hezbollah, which Israel has made a key condition for peace. But it is unclear whether the UN troops or the Lebanese army will risk confrontation with the well-armed guerrilla group.

Many Lebanese soldiers are Shiite Muslims, like Hezbollah, and Lebanon's weak central government has been unwilling in the past to stand up to the militant group.

Most soldiers being deployed in the south are conscripts performing their military service and deemed no match for the highly trained guerrillas. Many also say they support Hezbollah.

"Hezbollah are our brothers," said Assem Shouri, a soldier deployed in the southern town of Tibnine. "If ever there's a problem with Israel and I'm asked to disarm them, I'd leave the army and join Hezbollah."

Some 175 French soldiers landed in Lebanon Wednesday, bringing the number of UN peacekeepers to nearly 3,750.

In Berlin, Germany's cabinet approved the deployment of warships to the eastern Mediterranean as part of the peacekeeping force. Parliament, which must also approve the deployment of up to 2,400 navy personnel, is to vote on it next week.

"This decision was made in view both of our particular responsibility for Israel's right to exist, and for a solid solution for peace in the region," Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

French, Italian and Greek ships began patrolling the Lebanese coast to prevent arms shipments from reaching Hezbollah last week, helping persuade Israel to lift its sea blockade of the country.

A naval task force led by Germany, and including ships from several other European countries, is expected to replace them within two months.

© The Canadian Press 2006
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AnomalousNYC says:

Israel on the Slide: Who's to Blame?
by Alexander Cockburn
The Nation
September 11, 2006

www.thenation.com/doc/20060911/cockburn

In the aftermath of the onslaught on Lebanon you can open up the Israeli press, particularly the Hebrew editions, and find fierce assaults on the country's elites from left, right and center.

The overall panorama is one of chickens of all ages coming home to roost. Small pustules highlight larger rot. Chief of staff Dan Halutz, a narcissistic bully, secretly took time off the morning he ordered the terror bombing of south Beirut to tell Bank Leumi to sell his stock portfolio before the market plunged, which it soon did by nearly 10 percent.

The capacity of the US armed forces to fight intelligently and effectively has been almost destroyed by a system of graft-ridden procurement that favors expensive weapons systems validated by bogus tests. Israel's supposed military requirements have been a particularly ripe sector of that racket, and the consequences are plain to see. Israel's receipt of Patriot missiles was no doubt hugely profitable for the parties involved in the transaction, but in defensive function entirely useless. The Patriot missile batteries stationed near Haifa and Safed, much trumpeted by the Israel Defense Forces, played no significant role in the recent conflict.

Israel's generals paraded on TV in resplendent uniforms even as people in northern Israel too poor to flee found either no shelters at all (particularly Israeli Arabs) or, in the words of Reuven Pedatzur in Ha'aretz, "sat for more than one month in stinking shelters, some of them without food or minimal conditions."

Disfigured by its "special relationship" with the US arms industry, of which the US Congress is an integral component, the IDF has been morally corrupted by years of risk-free brutalization of unarmed Palestinians, many of them children. It's one thing to level an apartment building with a missile from a plane or crush a protester with a bulldozer or lob shells at a Palestinian family having a picnic on a beach or kidnap middle-aged and democratically elected Palestinian politicians. It's another to confront a foe, with modest but effectively deployed weaponry, prepared to fight back.

Years of racism have taken their toll too. Think of Arabs as subhuman "terrorists" and you end up making a lot of misjudgments, tactical and strategic.

Amid the first days of the "cease-fire" the Israeli press has been carrying reports not only about Halutz's secret stock sales but also that prime minister Ehud Olmert may have accepted a $500,000 bribe as part of a conspiracy with a building contractor, that justice minister Haim Ramon has resigned to battle charges of indecent assault on a female employee at a Defense Ministry party and that Israel's president, Moshe Katsav, may face charges of rape of a female employee.

On that first pre-cease-fire weekend, USA Today carried a story datelined Nabatiyeh by Rick Jervis headlined "Hezbollah workers rush to help victims rebuild": "Hezbollah deployed its army of social workers and engineers throughout this southern Lebanese city.... '[They] were here even before the bombing stopped,' said Mustafa Badreddine, 50, the mayor. 'They have offices here. They have municipal resources. And the people trust them.'"

As corrupted as the Israeli military that shoves them around, Israeli politicians have grown accustomed to thinking that any outrage on morality and reason will get a lusty cheer from the US political establishment, press and entertainment industry mostly included. They're right. They did get material encouragement from the Bush Administration, and lusty cheers from Capitol Hill and Hollywood while the press echoed all the nonsense about the kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers being a legitimate casus belli.

Israel has been kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinians for years. There are now 10,000, mostly Palestinians, rotting in Israeli prisons. On June 25 Corp. Gilad Shalit was captured in Gaza, prompting an escalation in Israel's already barbaric assaults on the civilian population there. Since June 25, says the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Israel has kidnapped more than thirty-five Palestinian Parliament members and ten Cabinet ministers. On June 24 Israeli forces kidnapped two civilians in Gaza, a doctor and his brother, and sent them off to some dungeon.

You can read much commentary round the world, most particularly in Israel, saying this recent war was a benchmark event that could conceivably teach Israel its security is not won by unending land grabs and by terror-bombing of Lebanon and Gaza. But not in the United States. Open up the Washington Post and the strategic vision on display was an utterly mad piece co-written by one of the big boosters for war on Iraq, Kenneth Pollack. He's a hack thinker at the Brookings Institution, now an integral part of Israeli territory with its Saban Center for Middle East Policy, named for the fanatic Zionist news and entertainment billionaire Haim Saban, a man who handed the Democratic Party $12.3 million in 2002, a $7 million component of which was the single biggest contribution ever recorded up to that time. Silent about his role as war promoter (his forte was Saddam's imaginary nuclear arsenal), oblivious to the lessons of disaster in Iraq, reduplicated in the war in Lebanon, Pollack (with Georgetown University's Daniel Byman) called for a high, ongoing US troop presence in Iraq to help set up "refugee collection points"--i.e., concentration camps--on Iraq's borders and for tripwires--no doubt ultimately nuclear--to be established in expectation of war with Iran. You think Republican neocons are the only crazy ones?

Thirty years ago I used to be told that liberal American Jews were aghast at the rise of the ur-neocon fanatics like Norman Podhoretz, at Commentary, whose parent outfit was and is the American Jewish Committee. Soon, the liberals said to me off the record, there would be a counterattack by the forces of reason, as embodied in liberal American Jewry. There never was. The liberal Jewish intelligentsia here has, politically speaking, sat on its hands for decades, mouths zipped shut when it comes to criticizing Israel. Even more effectively than military contractors, they have contributed to, and indeed cheered on, Israel's corrupt rejectionism. Will this war make them change their minds? I doubt it.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

The Dream Philosophy of Paranoids : Kill Arabs, Cry Anti-Semitism
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
Counterpunch
12.9.06
www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein09122006.html

A central thesis of my book Beyond Chutzpah is that whenever Israel faces a public relations debacle its apologists sound the alarm that a `new anti-Semitism` is upon us. So, predictably, just after Israel faced another image problem due to its murderous destruction of Lebanon, a British all-party parliamentary group led by notorious Israel-firster Denis MacShane MP (Labor) released yet another report alleging a resurgence of anti-Semitism (Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry Into Antisemitism, September 2006). To judge by the witnesses (David Cesarani, Lord Janner, Oona King, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Melanie Phillips) and sources (MEMRI, Holocaust Education Trust) cited in the body of the report, much time and money could have been saved had it just been contracted out to the Israel Foreign Ministry. (The report`s statement that `we received no evidence of the accusation of anti-Semitism being misused by mainstream British Jewish community organizations and leaders` perhaps speaks more to the selection of the witnesses than the reality.)

The single novelty of the report, which mostly rehashes fatuous allegations already disposed of in Beyond Chutzpah, is the new thresholds in idiocy it breaks. Consider the methodology deployed for demonstrating a new anti-Semitism. The report defines an anti-Semitic incident as any occasion `perceived` to be anti-Semitic by the `Jewish community.` This is the school of thought according to which it`s raining even in the absence of any precipitation because I feel it`s raining. It is the dream philosophy of paranoids, especially rational paranoids, for whom alleged victimhood is politically serviceable. The report includes under the rubric of anti-Semitic incidents not just violent acts and incendiary speech but `conversations, discussions, or pronouncements made in public or private, which cross the line of acceptability,` as well as `the mood and tone when Jews are discussed.` The wonder is that it didn`t also tabulate repressed anti-Semitic libidinal fantasies. In the category of inherently anti-Semitic pronouncements the report includes `drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis` (only comparisons of contemporary Arab policy to that of the Nazis are permissible) and `theories about Jewish or Zionist influence on American foreign policy` (even if Jewish and Zionist organizations boast about this influence).

Much of the evidence of pervasive British anti-Semitism requires real strains in credulity. * The lone item listed under the ominous subheading `The Blood Libel` is a Syrian television series `that would be possible for viewers in the UK to seeif they had suitable satellite receiving equipment.` It also notes the unreferenced `case of a Jewish university lecturer who was subjected to an anti-Semitic tirade from a student in the middle of a lecture and subsequently asked to explain to the university authorities why he ha upset the student.` Is it anti-Semitic to wonder whether this is a crock? And then the report cites the warning of the London Assembly Conservative Group that `there is a risk that in some political quarters `views on international events can, almost subconsciously, lead to subtly different attitudes to, and levels of engagement with, different minority groups.`` The new anti-Semitism business must be going seriously awry when British conservatives start sounding like Lacan. Finally, it is anti-Semitic for student unions to advocate a boycott of Israeli goods because this `would restrict the availability of kosher food on campus.` Maybe Israel can organize a `Berlin airlift` of gefilte fish.

Although claiming that, in the struggle against anti-Semitism, `none of those who gave evidence wished to see the right free speech eroded,` and `only in extreme circumstances would we advocate legal intervention,` the report recommends that university authorities `take an active interest in combating acts, speeches, literature and events that cause anxiety or alarm among their Jewish students,` and it registers disquiet that `classic and modern anti-Semitic works are freely available for ordering on the Amazon.com website,` and that `the United States in particular has been slow to take action` in closing down `anti-Semitic internet sites.` It is at moments like this that even the least patriotic of souls can take pride in being an American.

* The police data on an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in itself proves little because, as the report concedes, the spike might be due to more incidents being reported and a coarsening of British life generally, as well as the `spillover` from the Israel-Palestine conflict. In addition, there is little evidence of `organized,` `politically motivated` anti-Semitic attacks; there is no evidence that perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks were disproportionately Muslim; and most of the suspects in the incidents were adolescents. For 2005 the report cites a couple incidents that were `potentially` life-threatening. It cites no comparative data for other minorities in Britain, although tacitly acknowledging that `the level of prejudice and discrimination by Jews in Britain remains lower,` a considerable understatement . On a related note, it deplores that `less than one in ten [anti-Semitic] incidents reported to the police resulted in a suspect becoming an accused` , but cites no comparative data indicating whether this ratio is aberrant.
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AnomalousNYC says:

IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
By Meron Rappaport
Haaretz
12 September 2006
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html

`What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire
towns in cluster bombs,` the head of an IDF rocket unit in
Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and
phosphorous shells during the war.

Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head
stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs,
containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets.

In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified
that the army used phosphorous shells during the war,
widely forbidden by international law. According to their
claims, the vast majority of said explosive ordinance was
fired in the final 10 days of the war.

The rocket unit commander stated that Multiple Launch
Rocket System (MLRS) platforms were heavily used in spite
of the fact that they were known to be highly inaccurate.

MLRS is a track or tire carried mobile rocket launching
platform, capable of firing a very high volume of mostly
unguided munitions. The basic rocket fired by the platform
is unguided and imprecise, with a range of about 32
kilometers. The rockets are designed to burst into
sub-munitions at a planned altitude in order to blanket
enemy army and personnel on the ground with smaller
explosive rounds.

The use of such weaponry is controversial mainly due to
its inaccuracy and ability to wreak great havoc against
indeterminate targets over large areas of territory, with
a margin of error of as much as 1,200 meters from the
intended target to the area hit.

The cluster rounds which don`t detonate on impact,
believed by the United Nations to be around 40% of those
fired by the IDF in Lebanon, remain on the ground as
unexploded munitions, effectively littering the landscape
with thousands of land mines which will continue to claim
victims long after the war has ended.

Because of their high level of failure to detonate, it is
believed that there are around 500,000 unexploded
munitions on the ground in Lebanon. To date 12 Lebanese
civilians have been killed by these mines since the end of
the war.

According to the commander, in order to compensate for the
inaccuracy of the rockets and the inability to strike
individual targets precisely, units would `flood` the
battlefield with munitions, accounting for the littered
and explosive landscape of post-war Lebanon.

When his reserve duty came to a close, the commander in
question sent a letter to Defense Minister Amir Peretz
outlining the use of cluster munitions, a letter which has
remained unanswered.

`Excessive injury and unnecessary suffering`

It has come to light that IDF soldiers fired phosphorous
rounds in order to cause fires in Lebanon. An artillery
commander has admitted to seeing trucks loaded with
phosphorous rounds on their way to artillery crews in the
north of Israel.

A direct hit from a phosphorous shell typically causes
severe burns and a slow, painful death.

International law forbids the use of weapons that cause
`excessive injury and unnecessary suffering`, and many
experts are of the opinion that phosphorous rounds fall
directly in that category.

The International Red Cross has determined that
international law forbids the use of phosphorous and other
types of flammable rounds against personnel, both civilian
and military.

IDF: No violation of international law In response, the
IDF Spokesman`s Office stated that `International law does
not include a sweeping prohibition of the use of cluster
bombs. The convention on conventional weaponry does not
declare a prohibition on [phosphorous weapons], rather, on
principles regulating the use of such weapons.

`For understandable operational reasons, the IDF does not
respond to [accounts of] details of weaponry in its
possession.

`The IDF makes use only of methods and weaponry which are
permissible under international law. Artillery fire in
general, including MLRS fire, were used in response solely
to firing on the state of Israel.`

The Defense Minister`s office said it had not received
messages regarding cluster bomb fire.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

annaclaricealmeida says:

strong!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

danerator [deleted] says:

Powerful image. It just breaks my heart.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

lawatha says:

Thank you for adding this powerful shot to the "Top Ten" Interestingness pool
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

sunburnsideup says:

You are a gifted and compassionate artist. Thank you for this.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

radiant guy says:

Great post processing. and description indeed!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Nicola Okin Frioli says:

I Agree with Radiant Guy.. Great Post
the pictures is powerful
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

“I don’t think Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.”

--Jimmy Carter
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

The translation is not mine but that used in most major Israeli media. I don't speak Hebrew, so you're welcome to take up the translation issue with the Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

I agree with everything you say here. Israelis are absolutely being used, in a most cynical way, by the US. It's a two way street of course, and the extent to which Israel impacts US foreign policy is obvious, but it is definately the US running the show here, and not to Israel's ultimate benefit in any meaningful sense. Superarming Israel, devastating all Israel's neighbors, and keeping the Israel-Palestine conflict alive and smoldering is NOT a recipe for anything good in the long term. It's profitable to short term economic and war-profiterring interests in both Israel and the US, but in the long-term, it is Israel which will pay the price, and it will potentially be quite catastrophic.

The marriage of christian evangelicals to zionism is quite like the alliance that once existed between zionism and naziism. In each case I think it is predicated in some ways on a shared anti-semitism and a shared totalitarian impusle among all 3 ideologies. In each case I think it will not end well and Zionists one day, if they survive it, will undoubtedly pretend their shameful alliance with christian evangelicals never existed.

I think the US currently sees Israel as a failed experiment, and is consequently moving on to other forms of domination of the region. I expect that one result of US mucking around with Israel will be the eventual transformation of Israel into a fundamentalist rabbinate. None of this is in the interest of Israelis or Jews in any sense. If Zionism was supposed ot be the guarantor of Jewish safety and the remedy to anti-semitism, it has proven itself a disastrous failure. It has been and will continue to be, increasingly I imagine, the main agent of Jewish insecurity worldwide, an engine of anti-semitism, and a guarantor of absolutely nothing - not even of American imperial interests in the region. When and if Israel tries to go shopping for its next imperial patron - China perhaps - the US will become intensely anti-Israeli, and given the unique intensity of the taboos surrounding Israel in America, my guess is that the anti-Israeli blacklash will be extremely violent and irrational, i.e. classic anti-semitism.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

crazymaq says:

Terrible but some wont call this Terrorism if not then what is it Humanity
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Dror -

Hezbollah was created not by Iran or Syria, but by Lebanese people in response to indiscriminate Israeli violence, invasion and occupation by Israel.

Hezbollah remains powerful in Lebanon not because of Iranian or Syrian support, but because Israel continues to invade and threaten Lebanon and subject it to indiscriminate attack. Hezbollah enjoys relative freedom in southern Lebanon not because of Syrian and Iran, but because they are enormously popular among a large majority of the Lebanese population. Their popularity is based not on Syrian or Iraninan support, but on their percieved efficiency, lack of corruption, and proven record in effectively challenging Israel's endless military violence against Lebanon.

If Israel wanted Hezbollah to disappear all they would have to do is neutralize the issues that continue to make Hezbollah a relevant entity: namely, return occupied Lebanese territory, return the huge number of Lebanese prisoners who are rotting away for years in Israel's torture chambers, stop doing daily military overflights of Lebanon, and publicly renounce any Israeli territorial interest in Southern Lebanon up to and including the Litani River - real estate zionist nutjobs have been claiming as a territorial goal since the 1890s.

Although you and I disagree profoundly, I think you would agree that Israel poses a serious, grave, ongoing threat to Lebanon. Perhaps you would even agree that Israel's threat to Lebanon is not merely a response to Hezbollah.

So Hezbollah could hardly be said to be "without a cause." Israel continues to threaten Lebanon on a daily basis.

....

You say: "not surprsingly, the focus is on israel's acts during the war and not on the side that started the war in the first place - lebanon."

Even if I were to grant that Hezbollah somehow "started the war" - which I do not - this is immaterial to Israel's decision to target all of Lebanon, Lebanon's civil infrastructure, using cluster bombs and chemical weapons against civilian areas, forcing nearly a million people from their homes, etc.

So yes, you are correct, I am not focussing on "who started it" but rather on what Israel CHOSE to do in response to this minor incident. I call it minor because Israeli soldiers murder Lebanese all the time along the border and have held many hundreds of Lebanese hostage for years, without Lebanon invading Israel, dropping millions of landmines throughout the country, etc.

....

In response to your claim about me applying changing definitions of zionism - could you give me an example. I acknowledge that I have a very broad definition of zionism. I use it more or less interchangably with ideas like Jewish Supremacism, Jewish Imperialism, Jewish racism. Ethnic supremacism, racism and imperialism always go hand in hand wherever they pop up - zionism is just one particular and particularly ugly flavor.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

It's amusing you would quote that, since I almost agree - except that I would say it is you and your fellow zionists obsession with anti-semitism that is itself anti-semitic. I think it is sort of a compensation mechanism by which you can conveniently ignore the fact that zionism is not the same thing as Judaism - that Zionism has in fact eclipsed and virtually replaced Judaism, and that as miliitant real-estate-worshipping ethnic supremacist racial fanatics you are no longer even Jews at all in any meaningful sense. In some sense this blind, quite obviously false insistence that ZIonism and Israel so completely represent Jews and Judaism is the ultimate anti-semitism.

Both you and this author cited in Ha'aretz partake of this racism.

And of course there is nothing more convenient than an ideological game of this sort, by which every legitimate criticism of your criminal conduct and criminal aspirations can be easily dismissed as an expression of hatred.

As exemplified above, it allows you to ignore a mountain of facts, and simply go off - as if everything else is irrelevant - on this stupid drivel about anti-semites.

Like all Zionists your racist response to criticism of massive Israeli crimes is to insist that your victims have done terrible crimes as well, always adding of course that it is "anti-semitic" to not spend as much time complainin about their crimes. In this case you squeal: "Im sure you are aware that since around may of this year more than 300 Lebanese and Palestinians have died in Lebanon as a result of battles between the Lebanese army and Fatah Islam. Im quite sure that events such as these do not trouble as much as Israel's actions."

I can tell you that while the Israeli-American efforts to encourage - if not legally mandate - the Lebanese slaughter in Nahr-el-Bahred are extremely troubling to me, as it always is when you fucks bend over backwards to create more misery for Palestinians wherever they are.

But I can certainly say that NO - the deaths of 300 people in this siege DO NOT "trouble me as much" as Israel's dropping of 3 million plus cluster bombs and landmines all across heavily populated civilian areas in Lebanon, the virtual expulsion of a million people from their homes, the use of chemical weapons against civilians and cities,the deliberate creation of one of the worst environmental catastrophes in the region in recorded history, the murder of 1000 civilians, the deliberate and complete destruction of all of Lebanon's most important civic infrastructure, etc. The fact that I am more troubled by what is obviously a massively greater human rights crime, with a massively greater impact makes me a sane and credible observer, just as the fact that your desperate attempt to point to evil arabs as some kind of justification of this inhuman conduct makes you a sick, sick racist.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

It is true, Dror, that many - if not all - states have deplorable policies, simmering racism, ethnic violence, and so on.

However, this persistent and arguably racist gesture of yours - repeatedly changing the subject to Arab states and rattling off how rotten and violent they are - is entirely irrelevent to the question of whether Israel is as I describe.

You say you do not support all of Israel's acions, and I would doubt that any sane person would. On the flip side of that equation, I do not condemn all of Israel's actions and I doubt that any sane person could.

I do not, as you and so many other tedious zionists insist on a daily abasis, believe that all evil and wrongdoing is on one side and all goodness and purity and righteousness on the other. Only a complete idiot - or a fundamentalist - could think such ridiculous things.

Unlike you, however, I think it is abundantly clear that the vast majority of the violence in this conflict is coming from the side of Zionism, both in the past and in the present; the racial animus which is actually relevent and capable of large-scale annihilation is that of Zionism, unlike the very disturbing but completely predictable resentment which zionism has created and continues to create, and that in short Zionism is overwhelmingly to blame for both creating the conflict, exacerbating the conflict, and today, perpetuating the conflict, all for its own criminal and immoral ends.

Unlike you, I believe that this conflict is entirely and amicably solvable, and that the many possible happy endings to this conflict will all be easily attainable when the vast majority of Jews in Israel no longer support the insupportable ideology of zionism and its illegal and indecent aims.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

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Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Yurra says:

This is a great photo. But a great photo is great outside of political context. You can't be a great journalist if you insert your personal opinion on an issue. Same way, if you want to present your opinion on something then the photographs will not help because you are either right or wrong. Photos will not add validity to your point.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

I am not a journalist nor do I pretend or want to be.

The photos in this case are merely a mcguffin - a trick, an entry point to something else. They are not - not ever - presented as "evidence" of anything. They are offered up as a starting point for a little journey I am encouraging people to make. The kind of imaginative travelling I propose falls within the realm of poetry, religion, art and photography: of artistic or spiritual truth. I am careful in the extreme to stick to "facts' where facts are needed, but the main course of this meal is not the spidery cobwebs with which politicians bind the world, and not even remotely related to journalism.

When you say "a great photo is great outside of political context," I think this is either very wise or very stupid, depending on what exactly you mean.

My first thought was of one of the most famous images of the century - a street shot in Saigon, 1968, a soldier shooting a man in the head. The photographer, Eddie Adams, afterwards said "The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths."

If you go to my profile page you will find further rumination on this subject.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

nyknights45 says:

This picture is a Photoshop phony. The Arab murderers are great at being professional victims. Spread your garbage somewhere else, we're all full here.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Hahahahah! Speaking of phonies I can't help but notice that you have no photos in your flickr, no icon, no profile, and that you are only a member of three groups:
* Big boobs in tight shirts
* BIG BLACK TITS
* ebony boobs

Rather says it all, I think. Rock on Schmuel!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

bceichman02 says:

well titled, effective and engaging...thank you for sharing!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Thanks for taking the time to look and think.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

DADDHA says:

Ofcourse, everyone with half a brain knows, Arabs are excellent at playing a political war, they dont stand a chance in a military conflict, instead they fake bombings and overestimate damage and let the rest of the world brow beat Israel into submission. They are just too smart for the Israelis, see the Israelis think that they can win a military engagement, sure thats great, kill more of these terrorist pricks, but that is just a tactical solution to a problem that needs a strategic one. If Jews were to fight the Arabs on even ground they would wine and cry and be giant drama queens on the world scene so everyone would feel sorry for them just like they do for arabs.

Next time you watch the "Israeli Arabs" cry and moan about genocide, destruction, slaughter, remember this, divide anything they say by a factor of maybe 1000 and that is closer to any truth.

Israel needs to wake up and really see the war they are fighting, its strictly political, with very little ideology.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

hahaha, right on about the drama queen part, lol

you're also right when you say this isn't about ideology - at least for the rest of the world. For the rest of the world it is a very normal conflict in which one group of people is systematcially oppressing and ethnically cleansing another.

But your statement is wrong when it comes to Israel, becasue for Israelis it is excrutiatingly, absolutely ideological. It's all about zionism - the nationalist ethnic supremacist mumbo-jumbo of Jews as a superior race and the ethnic other as a dangerous subhuman in need of radical elimination. This conflict has nothing to do with security, except of the sort that Hitler dreamed of; i.e. a world where dangerous ethnic others have been completely eliminated and nullified, where no demographic or political obstacles are allowed to stand in the way of the endless, boundless expansion and enrichment of the superior chosen race.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

This creep racist "DADDHA" used his fake flickr account to go off about how Palestinian resistance to zionism was organized by Hitler.

These Zionist nutcases seem to forget, while they cook up these bizarre historical fantasies to justify their lust for genocide, that the leaders of German Zionism in fact DID attempt to ally themselves - repeatedly and with some success - with Hitler. In Nazi Germany, Zionism was encouraged, the only flag permitted to fly besides the national Nazi flag was the blue and white Zionist flag, and after much opposition press had been eliinated, the Nazis even allowed the Zionists to publish and distribute their own newspaper. The Nazis even set up an economic incentive program by which Jews emigrating to Palestine could transfer a large portion of their assets there rather than have them confiscated upon leaving the country. Zionists petitioned Jews in Germany and German occupied territories to break the boycott against Nazi Germany. It was even proposed by such illustrious nazis as Yitzhak Shamir - who later became prime minister of Israel - that since Zionism and Nazism have "common goals" that a longterm alliance could be made, by which the Zionist invasion forces in Palestine would dedicate their military support to the larger Nazi cause.

Of course that's just the trivial tip of the Zionism-Hitler iceberg, to be honest. It's just interesting trivia. The real reason people talk about Zionism as Naziism is not because of the historical record - as demonstrated copiously in books like

51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis

but because of the utterly revolting popular genocidal racism which is percolating among the Israeli people, which is carefully orchestrated by its monstrous military leaders, and which is lethally expressed on a daily basis by bureaucratic ethnic cleansing, racial death squads who apparently feel entitled to assassinate any non-Jew anywhere on earth, and Israel's insanely belligerent messianic regional expansionism.

The country is completely out of control and you don't need to look back 80 years to find examples - Israel's Naziism is not a thing of the past. It's a rolling boulder of necrophilic mass destruction. Yeah, this is hyperbole. And yeah, if you read the Israeli press on a daily basis you would know exactly what I'm talking about.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

This psychotic fake flickr user "DADDHA" just bombarded me with wacko message after message about Palestinians (he uses the word in quotes because he believes the very concept of Palestine is just an Arab hoax invented to make Jews look bad). His tenth spam message or so on my page explained that Arafat's uncle was behind the Holocaust.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Yaellebel says:

The palestinians are also throwing bombs and rocks at Israel...
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Yes they are - in quite the same way and to the same extent that Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto threw little rocks and bombs at their jailors.

Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were right to resist their racial overlords, just as Palestinians, starving and terrorized in their ethnic prisons, are right to resist theirs.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

JoshN pro says:

Jews launched thousands of Qassam rockets indiscriminately at Germany's civilians in WWII?

I understand that you're concerned for the wellbeing of Palestinians, but the fact that you consider launching Qassam missiles into Israel a "right" of the Palestinians speaks volumes about your character.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

I have said, and the United Nations Charter has said, that Palestinians have a moral and legal right to resist occupation. Furthermore, all states have a moral and legal obligation to assist their legitimate resistance.

I have not said, nor does international law say, that any and all forms of resistance are rendered legitimate because of occupation.

Many Israelis, however, do affirm that any and all resistance is terrorism. Most Israelis fail to recognize that the vast maority of Paletsinians resistance is nonviolent. And it certainly appears to be Israeli policy to treat any forms of resistance, even the most innocuous symbolic acts and nonviolent demonstration, as acts of terror deserving of the most violent response.

As for the matter of Qassams, it could be argued that their lack of guidance systems makes them indiscriminate weapons and thus incapable of complying with international laws concerning required distinciton between combatants and civilians; a quick fix for this of course would be to provide Palestinians with weapons systems capable of more accurately destroying Israel's innumerable military installations.

But since proportionality is a central feature of laws of war, it should be noted that Israelis have very little right to squeal - these pathetic bottle rockets have killed a total of 14 Israelis over the course of seven years. 99% of them land with pathetic thuds in the middle of the desert. For every one home-made Qassam launched, Israel has launched tens of thousands of mortars and missiles at Gaza. And unlike Gazans, the Israelis DO have the means to carefully distinguish between civilians and combattants - but of course the results clearly demonstrate that they choose not to. Which is why about 85% of the Palestinians killed in the intifada have been civilians, and why Israelis have killed more than a thousand Palestinian children in the same period. (I would argue that Israelis deliberately target children, but I'll err on the side of caution and say that they simply refuse to be bothered by the distinctions required by international law.) Such a claim would be backed up by the experience in Lebanon, of course, where the vast majority of those killed by Israel were civilians, and where 3 out of every 5 victims were women and children.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

"What else can Israel do to stop the rockets, its supporters ask. The answer could not be more obvious: end the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories and negotiate a just settlement for the Palestinian refugees, ethnically cleansed 60 years ago -- who, with their families, make up the majority of Gaza's 1.5 million people. All the Palestinian factions, including Hamas, accept that as the basis for a permanent settlement or indefinite end of armed conflict. In the meantime, agree a truce, exchange prisoners and lift the blockade. Israelis increasingly seem to get it -- but the grim reality appears to be that a lot more blood is going to have to flow before it's accepted in Washington."
--Seumas Milne, "To blame the victims for this killing spree defies both morality and sense", The Guardian UK
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris and Kris says:

More like Hamas' gift to the world. Honestly, if the American Indians, whose lands my people took years ago, suddenly started firing QASSAM MISSLES and performing SUICIDE MISSIONS against us, we'd wipe them off the f-ing map! But just change the countries, not the situations, and suddenly it's Israel's fault? For defending themselves against people willing to perform suicide missions?! And I love how much the other Muslims love "their brothers" - they won't even open their borders to let them in!

That said, Israel makes some big whopping mistakes, don't get me wrong. But that doesn't excuse the Palestinian response - kill all Israelis, even those working towards peace. Israel certainly doesn't intentionally target civilians to kill, even through Hamas does. Notice the difference between the West Bank and the Gaza strip? One has Fatah, and one has Hamas..
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

People who say moronic fictions like "Israel certainly doesn't intentionally target civilians to kill, even through Hamas does" make me wonder if there is some congenital mental problem among you Israel-worshippers.

I mean that doesn't stand up to even the slightest analysis. Israel has killed THOUSANDS of civilians in the last few hundred days. The majority of them were NOT victims of indiscriminate fire but were targeted by snipers or by extremely accurate missile delivery systems using state of the art robotic drones and other very precise monitoring systems.

Palestinians have killed a few dozen civilians in the same period, at best, virtually all of them victims of homemade rockets blindly fired from behind the racial prison wall around the Gaza Ghetto.

Israelis dropped more than THREE MILLION CLUSTER BOMBS in densely populated civilian areas in Lebanon a few hundred days ago. If you can somehow convince yourself that Israel is not targeting civilians, then reality is obviously something of very little concern to you, and wierd ethnic fantasies about Jewish security are apparently far more compelling.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

jedelaterre says:

1st: Israel brought Hamas to power ( whatever it might claim and whatever Hamas might claim ). Fatah had some respectability in the world and this did not work in favor of Israel.

2nd: Palestinian should be more intelligent and stop beiing stubborn.
They should fight Israel in a more peaceful way just like Gandhi fighted the british. They should move towards all these colonies be shot at and not replicate and let the world press film that. Just move and reoccupy those territories the israeli extremist have stolen.

To Chris and Kris: the fact the the native indian have lost everything is not an arguement to say that the palestinian should accept their fate.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Levieran2 says:

its all hezbollah falt.. dont blame us..
like we want it!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Yeah right.

Of course no one wants to be bombed and hated and terrorized and demonized and threatened.

But of course you Isrealis like to forget this is a two-way street. You seem to think that you have a natural, god-given right to bomb, hate, terrorize, demonize and threaten your neighbors, and insist that doing so on a daily basis is somehow essential for your security.

As a result your protests about how you don't want this are just a bunch of air. If you don't want it, stop supporting the practices and policies which make it INEVITABLE.

It's like jumping off a building and saying "But I don't WANT to smash into the ground!" If you didn't want to smash into the ground you shouldn't be jumping off buildings. Same goes for Israel.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Jedalette, your point number 1 about Israel creating Hamas is correct. Israel created Hamas in the hopes that it would destabilize the secular Fatah. Decades later, here we are. Now they will go about trying to strengthen Fatah in the hope that this will destabilize Hamas. Anything to keep the Palestinians distracted as they steal their land. It is important however to look closely at all this. Because while Fatah was once a legitimate political party, in many ways it is not anymore. We could trace the decline of Fatah all the way back to Oslo, but suffice it to say that Hamas is the legitimately elected government, and Fatah accepted US weapons, roughly 80 million US dollars, and CIA training to foment an armed conflict with Hamas, which it could then use as a pretext for seizure of the government. Whatever you might think of Hamas, Fatah's deep collaboration with Israel and the US has led to massive loss of Palestinain lives and set back the Palestinian cause by quite a lot. As a collective, they are now as shameful and insupportable a bunch as the republicans here in the US.

As for point number 2, "Palestinian should be more intelligent and stop beiing stubborn."

Alternately you should stop being lazy and relying on dumb cliche's. There have been innumerable Palestinian Gandhis. They all just get promptly murdered and demonized as terorrist ringleaders. BY far the largest and most sustained ongoing non-violent organization in the WORLD is taking place in the Wet Bank in opposition to the wall. The fact that you havent heard about it just means that you, like the rest of the world, don't really care enough to look. Palestinains engage in heroic non-violent resistence every day of their LIVES.

------

The Palestinian Gandhi
by Ran HaCohen
May 2, 2005

"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" is a quite popular question, especially abroad. You won't often hear it asked (with the inevitable self-righteous shrug) here in Israel: after all, the Israeli culture itself worships violence, with the semantic field of "war" being the richest in the modern Hebrew language, with militarism as the state religion, and with popular wisdom expressed in rules of thumb such as "where force won't do, try more force."

But Americans love the Gandhi riddle. While their governments give Israel gigantic military aid, private Americans with the best intentions – and Britons such as actor Ben Kingsley – translate the film Gandhi into Arabic and screen it all over the occupied territories as an example for the Palestinians to follow.

The intentions of "the Gandhi Project" must be noble. And though international law and conventions unambiguously acknowledge the right of occupied peoples to use violence against their oppressors – just like guerrilla fighters did under Nazi occupation – the question whether violence or nonviolence serves their cause better is for the Palestinians to decide. There are, of course, several convincing arguments in favor of abandoning the violent resistance, most notably the huge benefits that Israel draws from portraying the Palestinians as "terrorists" to legitimate the use of its overwhelming military superiority against them.

If "the Gandhi Project" wants to be truly helpful, however, I have a better idea for it. Instead of screening Gandhi in the occupied territories, let it screen throughout America the footage of the recent demonstration in the Palestinian village of Bil'in (to be found on Gush Shalom's Web site). This footage can help inform Americans about the realities of the occupation largely equipped and financed by their taxes – a much more urgent task than teaching Palestinians about the late Indian leader. It also suggests an unusual solution to the puzzle of the "Palestinian Gandhi."

The Bil'in Demo

Bil'in is a small village in the occupied West Bank. The apartheid wall, advancing full speed ahead behind the effective smokescreen of the "disengagement plan," is now being built there, almost touching the houses of the village and separating it from most of its lands. These lands will be given to the illegal settlement of Kiryat Sefer, which is built on lands taken from the Palestinian villages all around it and inhabited by ultra-orthodox Jews (the Zionist state managed to mobilize even parts of this traditionally non-Zionist Jewish sector for its colonialist project).

On Thursday, April 28, about 1,000 Palestinians and some 200 Israeli guests, invited by the people of Bil'in, participated in a demonstration against the wall. All the participants undertook in advance to avoid all violence, no matter whether they had seen the Gandhi film or not. But even before the demo could reach the site of the fence, it was savagely attacked by the Israeli security forces, which bombarded it with tear-gas bombs without the slightest provocation. Among the demonstrators were the Palestinian minister Fares Kadduri, presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti, Uri Avnery, and Israeli Knesset member Muhammad Barakeh, who was wounded during the attack. The peaceful demonstration was a welcome occasion for Israeli special units to wound several demonstrators with the latest innovation, introduced here for the first time: especially painful plastic bullets covered with salt. Indeed, the so-called Jewish Genius is never exhausted.

Israeli Army Incriminates Itself

So far, you may say, there's nothing new. Gandhi never promised the British wouldn't use violence: he propagated nonviolent uprising in spite of British violence. Indeed, the army's provocation did not work and the demonstration remained nonviolent. So here is what happened next, as reported in Ha'aretz, April 29, 2005:

"During the clashes, undercover security forces mingled with the demonstrators and began to throw stones at the soldiers and police, demonstrators said. The undercover security forces had provoked the police and soldiers into opening fire with rubber bullets and tear gas. The demonstrators said they had not thrown stones at the soldiers and police."

The "undercover forces" mentioned are Israeli soldiers dressed as Palestinians who mingle in the crowd. Such forces – well-trained in Arabic language and customs – have been employed by Israel since the First Intifada in the late 1980s, often used also as death squads for the summary killing of "wanted" – i.e., unwanted – Palestinians. Now we hear that these undercover Israeli soldiers threw stones.

Well, you may argue, "demonstrators said." Demonstrators always say such things. Who said such undercover soldiers were present in Bil'in at all? After all, they were dressed as Arabs, so how can you tell? Even if the undercover soldiers were present, why should I trust the demonstrators' accusations?

Okay, good points. But listen to what the officer in charge had to say to Ha'aretz about the event:

"Military sources … added that the undercover forces had only started throwing stones after Palestinian youths had adopted such tactics. 'Stone-throwing by the undercover forces is part of the way in which they operate in such instances,' the sources said."

Oh, so undercover units definitely were present in Bil'in – the army itself admits that (in fact, it's very easy to spot undercover soldiers when they start making arrests). And not only did they throw stones on this occasion: stone-throwing is part of their job as a rule – again, the army itself says that! The only disputed point is whether they started throwing stones before or after demonstrators did so. Now think for yourself: why on earth should an undercover agent provocateur throw stones after some demonstrators do so? Give me one reason. Obviously, the Israeli officer (identified in Ha'aretz's Hebrew edition as "Lieutenant Colonel Tzahi") is lying on this point.

We've now got a clear confirmation of what Palestinian and Israeli peace activists have been saying all along: the Israeli army would not tolerate a Gandhi-style resistance. Someone up there in the occupation echelons must have studied Ben Kingsley's film long before "the Gandhi Project" got started and reached the conclusion that nonviolent resistance is not in Israel's interest. To thwart this threat, Israel employs soldiers whose task is to turn a peaceful demonstration into a violent one, by infiltrating it undercover and throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. During the demonstration, the army uses these stones as a pretext to break the demonstration by force, using tear gas, salt, or rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition. In the aftermath, this stone-throwing – pictured by army photographers who surely don't miss the stones thrown by their own comrades – enters the world media as propaganda, depicting the peaceful demonstrators as dangerous stone-throwers.

*

So the problem is the perpetrators, not the victims: it's Israel, not the Palestinians. The Palestinians don't have to watch the Gandhi film. They fought the First Intifada with stones (1987-1993) and were answered with Israeli bullets. They fought the Second Intifada (2000-2004) with weapons and were answered with Israeli tanks, Caterpillar bulldozers, and airplanes. And they now start a Third Intifada, a popular, unarmed, nonviolent struggle against the strangulating fence, which is answered with Israeli undercover soldiers who throw stones and want us to believe the Palestinians have done it.

There are thousands of Palestinian Gandhis out there, then: whole villages that demonstrate daily and peacefully against the robbery of their land and livelihood. Alas, their voices are unheard – because of the Israeli undercover soldiers who throw stones from within these peaceful demonstrations, and because of commentators and movie stars who then wonder, "Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?"
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

tZACHIpORTAL says:

hi there,me my self israeli citizen,
it's easy to take a side after your pic, and see it as you like, but remember: to keep in mind the whole world is watching.
it doesn't mean that we don't have any horrible pic to show you...

nice shot afterall.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Tzachi, when Lebanese troops invade Israel for the nth time in 3 decades, murder a thousand civilians, devastate your entire national infrastructure, carpet bomb your cities, drop 3 million landmines all across your country, and force a million civilians from their own homes, all with the assistance and dilpomatic cover of the world's only military superpower, I'll be happy to post your pictures. Of course none of that has happened and never will. There is only one country in the region which is routinely invading, occupying and devastating its neighboring countries. There is, after all, only one military superpower in the region and hence only one country with the ability to routinely ransack and devastate its neighbors with impunity. That is your country. And I take great comfort in the knowledge that the whole world is indeed watching, despite the relentless efforts of Zionists to control what it is that they see.

There is no doubt that Israelis suffer from the conflict caused by zionism, as do all human beings. I am not blind to the suffering of Israelis, nor am I blind to the injustices and wrongs sometimes perpetrated by Israel's neighbors. That awareness doesn't mean I am going to forget who is the principal perpetrator and who is the principal victim in this conflict. Zionism started this misery, and today zionism perpetuates and exacerbates the conflict for its own racist, criminal and morally indefensible ends.

All human beings are deserving of compassion and sympathy and of course deserve the full protections of international law and human rights, regardless of race or religion or nationality. But on a purely moral level, to the extent that the Israelis suffering from the conflict unleashed by Zionism continue to embrace Zionism, they are not, to my mind, worthy of the same amount of sympathy that should be afforded to their victims. Simultaneously, the fact that (a) Zionists so systematically distort and pervert the history of the conflict, both out of racist ignorance and out of deliberately mendaciousness, (b) zionist narratives are widely and constantly disseminated, giving a false impression that Israelis are the principal and innocent victims of unmotivated Arab violence, and (c) Zionists so fanatically attempt to dominate and control all discussion of the subject in the media and in any public space -- all of this makes presentation of the very real and profound suffering of Palestinians a matter of greater moral importance than any discussion of the comparatively trivial sufferings and anxieties of Israelis.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

EXCERPTS FROM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FINAL EXECUTIVE REPORT ON CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN LEBANON DURING THE 2006 WAR
source

The primary reason for the high Lebanese civilian death toll was Israel’s frequent failure to abide by a fundamental obligation of the laws of war: the duty to distinguish between military targets, which can be legitimately attacked, and civilians, who are not subject to attack.

Israel often attacked targets that, under the laws of war, could not be considered military objectives subject to attack.

In critical respects, Israel conducted the war with reckless indifference to the fate of Lebanese civilians and violated the laws of war.

Israeli officials contend that the reason for the high fatality rate was not indiscriminate targeting by Israeli forces, but the Hezbollah military’s allegedly routine practice of hiding among civilians and using them as “shields” in the fighting. The evidence Human Rights Watch uncovered in its on-the-ground investigations refutes this argument.

Hezbollah at times violated the laws of war in its deployment of forces in Lebanon. It also frequently violated the laws of war in its rocket attacks on Israel, which is the subject of a separate Human Rights Watch report, Civilians under Assault. On some occasions, our research shows, Hezbollah fired rockets from within populated areas, allowed its combatants to mix with the Lebanese civilian population, or stored weapons in populated civilian areas in ways that violated international humanitarian law. Such violations, however, were not widespread: we found strong evidence that Hezbollah stored most of its rockets in bunkers and weapon storage facilities located in uninhabited fields and valleys, that in the vast majority of cases Hezbollah fighters left populated civilian areas as soon as the fighting started, and that Hezbollah fired the vast majority of its rockets from pre-prepared positions outside villages. On the question of whether Hezbollah intentionally used civilians as “shields”—that is, whether Hezbollah forces not only endangered civilians in violation of the duty to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians the hazards of armed conflict but also deliberately deployed among civilians with the aim of protecting themselves from attack—a serious laws of war violation, we found a handful of instances but nothing to suggest a widespread practice.

Responsibility for the high civilian death toll of the war in Lebanon lies squarely with Israeli policies and targeting decisions in the conduct of its military operations.

In the vast majority of cases documented, Israeli air strikes hit near or on civilian objects, killing numerous civilians in their homes or vehicles. During the vast majority of the deadly air strikes we investigated, we found no evidence of Hezbollah military presence, weaponry or any other military objective that would have justified the strike.

Out of the 499 Lebanese civilian casualties of whom Human Rights Watch was able to confirm the age and gender, 302 were women or children.

This repeated failure to distinguish between civilians and combatants cannot be explained as mere mismanagement of the war or a collection of mistakes.

Israel labeled any visible person, or movement of persons or vehicles south of the Litani River or in the Beka` Valley as a Hezbollah military operation which could be targeted.

Individuals who commit serious violations of the laws of war with criminal intent are responsible for war crimes. Insofar as an attack is launched knowing that the target should be treated as a civilian under international humanitarian law, those responsible would have committed a war crime.

The manner in which the IDF used cluster munitions and its reliance on antiquated munitions (many from the Vietnam war era) resulted in estimated failure rates of between 30 and 40 percent for many submunitions. This left as many as one million hazardous unexploded submunitions that littered fields and orchards and dozens of towns and villages in south Lebanon, threatening the returning civilian population.

To the extent that senior IDF commanders or officials knew or should have known that war crimes were being committed, and were in a position of authority to stop the attacks or punish those responsible and did not do so, they would be responsible for war crimes as a matter of command responsibility under international humanitarian law.

The primary victims of Israel's bombardment of Lebanon were Lebanese civilians, and they died primarily because of the indiscriminate nature of Israeli attacks, not because of Hezbollah’s practices.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Hurricane Season says:

Blessings,
this photo collage is powerful!!! thanks for making it and posting it. my partner and we would love to incorporate it in a multi-media show we are creating called "Hurricane Season." it's a two-woman that explores "unnatural disasters" around the U.S. and the globe, followed by a "solutions-cipher" that aims to channel the energy generated during the performance into action manifested in the community. We would *love* to use this image with your permission. It's a real grassroots thing, so we don't have money to pay you, but will credit you exactly as you wish and get you into the show for free. ( We're traveling to almost 50 cities beginning in the summer in a bus converted to run on recycled grease... )The photo would be used in a collage style piece that talks about the land rights issues being faced by Palestinians since the occupation. The picture would only be seen for about 20 seconds on the screen. We would only use it for this, no reproduction or sale of your photo. You can find out more about Hurricane Season at www.climbingpoetree.com. Thank you for letting us know if this is possible, and thanks again for your work!
In solidarity,
Alixa
ps. please email us back at love@climbingpoetree.com
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

WAJAHAT ALI: Lebanon seems to be a forgotten story. In 2006, it had a struggle with Israel which devastated a large part of that society –

ROBERT FISK: Hezbollah did. I don’t know if Lebanon did at all, but Hezbollah did.

WAJAHAT ALI: Has the Lebanese society been able to recover in the past 2 years, or has it only strengthened Hezbollah?

ROBERT FISK: Well, it certainly strengthened Hezbollah, but their political performance since then has been so ambiguous in that whatever it gained militarily in terms of prestige it has substantially lost politically inside Lebanon itself. Look, the only good news in Lebanon is that civil war hasn’t restarted. Lot of people thought it would, and I thought it would, but it hasn’t. This could mean that they have realized the folly of war: that you don’t win. It’s all about death; it’s not about victory. It also means that an awful lot Lebanese who were sent away as children to be educated during the civil war – you know to Paris, London, Geneva, and Boston wherever – have returned to Lebanon and said, “I don’t want this sectarian nonsense, and I want to live in an ordinary country without any more war.” To that extent, Lebanon – the fact it has not disintegrated like Gaza or Afghanistan or Iraq despite the wish of the Americans and Iranians to use it as battleground - which was what 2006 was about – is quite a tribute to Lebanon and the Lebanese. Whether they appreciate their good fortune is quite a different matter.
-- Interview with Robert Fisk
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

mengsong_stabil says:

FUCK
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

i think it's a shame you're such a racist that you have to hunt down sites like this to invent fake controversy.

If I'm telling lies, maybe you could fly down from your holy cloud and point to ONE of them.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Fake flickr user "zuriel_x" writes:

"Bullshit.That is Lebanon during the war of '06.Get ur facts straight or is it intentional propaganda?"

...................
Dear zuriel:

Yeah - as it says above, the image is from "Beirut, August 13, 2006".

How amusing of you to make a fake profile just to accuse me of fakery, when you yourself - whoever you are hiding behind that fake account - can't even be bothered to read.

(She then came back with snooty allegation that I had edited it to hide my "error", at which point I just blocked him/her/whatever it is.)

..............

Looking up I notice this is not the first fraudulent flickr-account who has tried to invent some controversy about this image. One fake flickr wrote:

"everyone with half a brain knows, Arabs are excellent at playing a political war, ...they fake bombings."

Another fake flickr user wrote:

"This picture is a Photoshop phony. The Arab murderers are great at being professional victims."
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

erikandersson1990 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Best Picture of The Month Award, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

174M4R says:

I dont know about guys, but MY town is actually beeing bombed by
terrorists almost every week. sometimes its 5 times a day.
And its a mall in MY town that got a direct hit from a missile and wounded 15 people.
And MY friend was injured from a Grad missile.
do you think its easy hearing the missile whistle over my house?
do you think its easy wallking back from school and suddenly the missile alarm is on?
and the fact that the terroristes launching their missiles from a kindergartens roof and hospitals roof - doesnt it bothers you?

I dont know about you guys, but im actually here, in the middle of this unnecessary and fucked up war.

If you really wanna know whats going on; just search for "sderot" in youtube.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

You can squeal all you want about how "unnecessary" the Palestinian's struggle is, or about the bothersome practices of "the terrorists" but there are a few problems here. First of all I can't help but notice that you capitalized the "MY" in "MY town."

And I feel compelled to remind you that "your" town used to be "their" town just a few decades ago, before Israelis rounded up all the non-Jewish residents of Najd and drove them from their homes.

Sderot was formerly the Palestinian village of Najd, a small Palestinian city present at least since the 1500s. Najd was completely ethnically cleansed by zionist fanatics in a single day on May 13, 1948, two days before the declaration of the state of Israel and before the outbreak of the 1948 "War." After being looted by Jews, Najd's 82 buildings were bulldozed and dynamited and its surviving population forcibly relocated 14 kilometers west into the tiny, 2-mile-wide racial prison camp called the Gaza Strip. Zionist colonists, who had been living peacefully alongside the Palestinian residents of Najd and who had previously purchased 500 dunums of land in the city, promptly helped themselves to the remaining 13,000 dunums. This stolen and ethnically cleansed land sits underneath Sderot, founded in 1951, and the Or ha-Ner Kibbutz, established in 1958.

So you can look up "sderot": in youtube if you want to see a bunch of wailing Israelis who will make you think that hi-tech precision missiles are raining down every second, slaughtering innocents everyday, everywhere. That is happening, but it is only happening in Gaza. In Sderot, roughly ten people have been killed in the last seven or eight YEARS by these largely symbolic Palestinian missiles, the vast majority of which land in the desert with a big puff of smoke and do no damage at all.

The story of Sderot is in some ways a microcosm of the story of Israel itself. Steal the land, force the refugees into squalid refugee camps inside ethnic prisons, and then starve and terrorize them, depriving them of food, water, electricity, medicine, everything - and then when they throw rocks at you in while you bask in your jacuzzi in the backyard of what was once their own home, you squeal and moan to the skies about the injustice and the hate.

You can sob and pound your chest about how terrible it is to be you, but in fact Israelis stand a greater chance of being killed by a drunk driver, or of being struck by lightning, than of being killed by a palestinian "missile." Meanwhile, a few miles away inside the vast concentration camp called Gaza, people live in conditions you would be ashamed of imposing on a dog.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

174M4R says:

first-of-all: I dont know where you from. gaza? IL? America? and frankly, I really dont care.
But I do live in the south side of Israel. and like I said - my town is being bombed every once in a while. and I went to Sderot more than once - just to identify with them.

I will only coment to this sentence:
-"wailing Israelis who will *make you think* that hi-tech precision missiles are raining down every second"
-Unlike you (i guess) I actually know that this is the truth. I live like this every day. do you think its easy? well, its not.

I can only say that I cant wait untill I will join the IDF and help protecting my country (it is just a few month away. cant wait!).

I can keep going on and on about this situation of Israel and Pal' but its hard enough when it is with friends and in hebrew. so in english?
no thanks.
(as you can see - my english is not so good....)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

174M4R says:

Oh, and I will only say this:
"we" are trying to harm and hit does who responsible to the bombing. while the Pal's harms and hits ONLY innocent people.
Yes, innocent people from the Pal' side probably got hurt and killed - i wont deny it. but they are getting hurt not on purpose but because they were close to the "bad" guys. becaus the "bad" guys launch the missiles and give the instruction to do that - from a populated house and yes - from a kindergartens too.

One more thing:
when we gave up some of the "villages" and small towns (a "few" thousands of families) - they promised us that all of the bombing will stop. well? did it?
no. now they are shooting at us from the evacuated towns. and of course - they want more.

One more point if you may:
you talked about "brain wash". and how about now? what you are doing now? is it not a brain-wash for people who dont live in this area and dont really know whats going on.

to som-up: this situation is not easy for either of the sides (except terrorists - they dont really care about the innocent Pal's either).
and I can only hope that I wont see you in combat. :P

I just wanna repeat what I said before because it is really not easy
"I can keep going on and on about this situation of Israel and Pal' but its hard enough when it is with friends and in hebrew. so in english?
no thanks.
(as you can see - my english is not so good....) "

C YA
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Your english is quite adequate. When you say shit like "I cant wait until I will join the IDF and help protecting my country" and "I can only hope that I wont see you in combat" you communicate with perfect clarity precisely the kind of totally sick asshole you are.

Let's look at what else you've written (I'll slightly paraphrase to correct your grammar):

You say "WE are trying to harm and hit who is responsible for the bombing while the Pal's harms and hits ONLY innocent people."

Oh really? Tell that to the United Nations, who has condemned Israel almost a thousand times for indisciminate attacks on Palestinians. Tell that to EVERY human rights organization on the planet, including Amnesty International, B'Tselem, Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross/Red Crescent, and all the rest. Every one of them without exception has for decades routinely acccusd Israel of indiscriminately targeting Palestinians. And of course the casualty lists reflect it, since somewhere in the vicinity of 85% of all deaths during the intifada have been CIVILIANS, and almost 20% of them children.

Ther eis nothing even remotely comparable happening to Israelis. Let's compare, for example the deaths of children in this conflict since the beginnning of 2006:

If you're religious, perhaps you could consider saying a prayer for the children killed since, say, the beginning of 2006.

Let's start with the Israelis, since according to you they are the only real victims here.

ISRAELI CHILDREN KILLED BY PALESTINIANS IN 2006 AND 2007

In all of 2006 and 2007, two Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians, and only one of them was Jewish (a distinction that apparently means everything to you):

Shaked Lasker, 16, of Kedumim settlement, a settler, killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber near the settlement entrance (3/30/06).

Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud al-Krenawi, 11, of Rahat, near Beersheba, a Bedouin with Israeli citizenship living in the first recognized Bedoiun city in Israel, killed by IDF gunfire to his head and pelvis while picking figs at the home of his half brother during an incursion in Saida, near Tulkarem (8/24/07)

............................................ .............

Now let's look at the Palestinian children killed by Israelis in the same period.

PALESTINIAN CHILDREN KILLED BY ISRAELIS IN 2006 AND 2007

Muamen Majed Khalil Washah, 15, of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire while trying to cross into Israel (1/21/06)

Munadel Muhammad Saleh abu-Elia, 13, of al-Mughayer, near Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire to his back (1/23/06)

Aya Muhammad Suleiman al-Astal, 9, of Khan Younis, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire near the Kissufim crossing (1/26/06)

Nasr Ramadan Said Marshud, 16, of Gaza City, killed by IDF helicopter fire while driving a wounded man to the hospital after an airstrike at the al-Shams sports club (1/5/06)

Marwan Ahmad Salman Amar, 17, of Jabalya refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire during clashes at Erez checkpoint (2/9/06)

Mujahid al-Samadi, 15, of Qabatya, near Jenin, mentally disabled, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest while carrying a toy gun during an incursion (2/15/06)

Ibrahim Muhammad Ahmad al-Shiekh Ali, 16, of Balata refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his neck while standing on the roof of his home during an incursion (2/19/06)

Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad al-Natour, 16, of Balata refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his neck while standing on the roof of his friend’s home during an incursion (2/19/06)

Amr Hasan Hasan Basiouni, 16, of Ayn Beit al-Ma refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his face while on the roof of his home during an incursion (3/3/06)

Ahmad Nasr Muhammad al-Swaisi, 14, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile during a targeted assassination (3/6/06)

Mahmoud Ahmad Adel al-Batash, 16, of Gaza City, killed, with his brother, by an IDF missile during a targeted assassination (3/6/06)

Raed Ahmad Adel al-Batash, 11, of Gaza City, killed, with his brother, by an IDF missile during a targeted assassination (3/6/06)

Akaber Abdul-Rahman Izzat Zayd, 7, of Yamoun, near Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire to her head while riding in her uncle’s car during an incursion (3/17/06)

Hamad Hamdan Mahmoud Musleh, 16, of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire near the Gaza perimeter fence (3/25/06)

Khalid Salaam Ziadin, 16, a Palestinian citizen of Israel residing in the western Negev desert, killed by an unexploded IDF shell in a field near Nahal Oz used as a staging ground for Israeli artillery brigades to shell targets in the northern Gaza Strip (3/28/06)

Muhammad Farid Hasan Zayed, 15, of Kalandya refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his abdomen while running away from an army jeep (4/3/06)

Bilal Iyad Muhammad abul-Einein, 5, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile during the targeted assassination of his father (4/7/06)

Sameh Nizar Adel al-Shafi, 17, of Nablus, died of wounds sustained April 6 from IDF gunfire while throwing stones on his way to school during an incursion (4/9/06)

Hadeel Muhammad Rabih Abdullah Ghaben, 8, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling to her head while doing homework in her home (4/10/06)

Amir Maher Muhammad Shawahna, 15, of Silat al-Harthiya, near Jenin, died of head wounds sustained April 8 from an IDF rubber-coated bullet while throwing stones during an incursion (4/11/06)

Mamdouh Muhammad Khalil Obaid, 15, of Sheikh Zayed, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling while playing soccer near his home (4/17/06)

Muhanad Hamdi Farouq Aman, 6, of Gaza City, killed, with his mother and aunt, by an IDF missile during a targeted assassination (5/20/06)

Arafa Bashir Zindah, 17, of Fadous, near Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an unexploded IDF shell (5/26/07)

Haithem Ali Eisa Ghalya, 5 months, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with his mother, father and four sisters, by IDF shelling from an offshore warship while having a family picnic at Waha beach (6/9/06)

Hanadi Ali Eisa Ghalya, 18 months, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with her mother, father, brother and three sisters, by IDF shelling from an offshore warship while having a family picnic at Waha beach (6/9/06)

Sabrin Ali Eisa Ghalya, 4, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with her mother, father, brother and three sisters, by IDF shelling from an offshore warship while having a family picnic at Waha beach (6/9/06)

Ilham Ali Eisa Ghalya, 15, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with her mother, father, brother and three sisters, by IDF shelling from an offshore warship while having a family picnic at Waha beach (6/9/06)

Alia Ali Eisa Ghalya, 17, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with her mother, father, brother and three sisters, by IDF shelling from an offshore warship while having a family picnic at Waha beach (6/9/06)

Hisham Ashraf Farouq al-Mughrabi, 14, of Gaza City, killed, with his brother and father, by an IDF missile while gathered at the site of a targeted assassination (6/13/06)

Maher Ashraf Farouq al-Mughrabi, 8, of Gaza City, killed, with his brother and father, by an IDF missile while gathered at the site of a targeted assassination 6/13/06)

Rafiq Muhammad Faraj al-Mubayed, 17, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile while at the site of a targeted assassination 6/13/06)

Samia Mahmoud Ziad al-Sharif, 5, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile while going to her local grocery store during a targeted assassination attempt (6/20/06)

Muhammad Jamal Shukri Ruqa, 6, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile while going to his local grocery store during a targeted assassination attempt (6/20/06)

Bilal Jaser al-Hisi, 16, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile while at work during a targeted assassination attempt (6/20/06)

Majzarah Shaban Abdul-Qader Ahmad, 12 hours, of Khan Younis, Gaza, killed, with her mother and uncle, by an IDF missile during a targeted assassination attempt (6/21/06)

Fidah Nimer Muhammad abu-Kandil, 16, of Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire (7/4/06)

Ahmad Eid Ibrahim Naghnagheya, 16, of Jenin refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire after he was arrested during a funeral (7/6/06)

Anwar Ismael Abdul-Ghani Atallah, 12, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of head wounds sustained July 5 from IDF gunfire (7/7/06)

Amr Mustafa Abdul-Rahman Hanoun, 16, of Jenin refugee camp, died of wounds sustained July 6 from IDF gunfire while at a funeral (7/7/06)

Rawan Farid Shaban Hajaj, 6, of Gaza City, killed, with her older brother, while in their home when the IDF bombed their neighborhood gas station (7/8/06)

Mahfouz Farid Saber Nusir, 15, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile outside Hayel Abdul-Hamid secondary school (7/10/06)

Ahmad Ghalib Nimer abu-Amsha, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile outside Hayel Abdul-Hamid secondary school (7/10/06)

Ahmad Fathi Odeh Shabat, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile outside Hayel Abdul-Hamid secondary school (7/10/06)

Khaled Nidal Abdul-Karim Wahbah, 15 months, of Salah al-Din, near Khan Younis, Gaza, died of wounds sustained June 21 in an IDF missile strike during a targeted assassination attempt (7/10/06)

Walid Mahmoud Ahmad El-Zeinati, 12, of Gaza City, died of wounds sustained July 6 in an IDF missile strike (7/11/06)

Somaya Nabil Abdul-Latif abu-Salmeya, 17, of Gaza City, disabled, killed, with her parents, two brothers and four sisters, in IDF airstrikes on their family home (7/12/06)

Basma Nabil Abdul-Latif abu-Salmeya, 16, of Gaza City, killed, with her parents, two brothers and four sisters, in IDF airstrikes on their family home (7/12/06)

Huda Nabil Abdul-Latif abu-Salmeya, 13, of Gaza City, killed, with her parents, two brothers and four sisters, in IDF airstrikes on their family home (7/12/06)

Iman Nabil Abdul-Latif abu-Salmeya, 12, of Gaza City, killed, with her parents, two brothers and four sisters, in IDF airstrikes on their family home (7/12/06)

Yehya Nabil Abdel-Latif abu-Salmeya, 10, of Gaza City, killed, with his parents, brother and five sisters, in IDF airstrikes on their family home (7/12/06)

Aya Nabil Abdel-Latif abu-Salmeya, 9, of Gaza City, killed, with her parents, two brothers and four sisters, in IDF airstrikes on their family home (7/12/06)

Nasrallah Nabil Abdul-Latif abu-Salmeya, 7, of Gaza City, killed, with his parents, brother and five sisters, in IDF airstrikes on their family home (7/12/06)

Mahmoud Muhammad Khalil al-Asar, 15, of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire near the abu-Holi checkpoint (7/12/06)

Ibrahim Ali Mustafa Qatush, 15, of Deir al-Balah, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire near the abu-Holi checkpoint (7/12/06)

Ahmad Abdul-Menem Muhammad abu-Hajaj, 16, of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire near the abu-Holi checkpoint (7/12/06)

Ibrahim Ali Ibrahim al-Nabahin, 15, of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire near the abu-Holi checkpoint (7/12/06)

Salah Hassan Hammad abu-Maktomah, 17, of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire near the abu-Holi checkpoint (7/12/06)

Raji Omar Jaber Daifallah, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of wounds sustained July 10 in an IDF missile strike outside Hayel Abdul-Hamid secondary school (7/13/06)

Khalil Ibrahim Abed abu-Maghseeb, 17, of Wadi al-Salqa, near Deir al-Balah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire near the Kissufim checkpoint (7/15/06)

Muhanad Saad Ahmad Musleh, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire while in his bedroom (7/17/06)

Ali Kamal Muhammad al-Najar, 13, of Maghazi refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling (7/19/06)

Ahmad Rohi Hassan Abdu, 13, of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile fired from a drone (7/19/06)

Fadwa Faysal Suleiman al-Arrouqi, 13, of Maghazi refugee camp, Gaza, died of wounds sustained July 19 from IDF shelling which also killed her mother (7/20/06)

Muhammad Awad Muhammad Muhra, 14, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF sniper fire to his chest (7/20/06)

Muamen Jaber Hamdi Harara, 16, of Gaza City, killed, with his older brother and cousin, by IDF shelling while on his roof during an incursion (7/21/06)

Saleh Ibrahim Abdul-Rauf Nasr, 14, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling while at home in building 10 of the al-Nada towers (7/24/06)

Nadi Habib Abdullah al-Attar, 10, of Atatra, near Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with his grandmother, by IDF shelling while riding on an animal-drawn cart (7/24/06)

Khitam Muhammad Rebhi Tayeh, 11, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling while on her way to the grocery store (7/24/06)

Ashraf Abdullah Awad abu-Zaher, 14, of al-Qarara, near Khan Younis, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his back while tending his family’s agricultural land (7/25/06)

Bara Ahmad Hussein Habib, 2, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile fired from a drone to his head and abdomen during a targeted assassination (7/26/06)

Shahid Samir Ata Oukal, 8 months, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed, with her sister and mother, by IDF shelling (7/26/06)

Maria Samir Ata Oukal, 5, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed, with her sister and mother, by IDF shelling (7/26/06)

Malek Mahyoub Shaban al-Masharawi, 17, of Gaza City, killed by IDF gunfire while walking armed during an incursion (7/26/06)

Mahmoud Muhammad Hamdi Omar abu-Qadama, 16, of Askar refugee camp, died of abdominal wounds sustained July 19 from IDF gunfire (7/27/06)

Ahmad Ismael Saber abu-Amsha, 15, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling while at home (7/26/06)

Anas Khaled Abdul-Salam Zamlat, 11, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, died of wounds sustained July 26 from IDF tank fire (7/26/06)

Nahid Muhammad Fawzi al-Shanbari, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling near his home (7/31/06)

Aref Ahmad Eid abu-Qaida, 14, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling while in his grandfather’s house (8/1/06)

Somaya Samir Ata Oukal, 13, of Jabalya, Gaza, died of wounds sustained July 26 from IDF shelling which also killed her mother and two sisters (8/1/06)

Anis Salem Jadua abu-Awad, 11, of Rafah, Gaza, killed in an IDF airstrike (8/3/06)

Shahed Saleh Omar al-Sheikh Eid, 3 days, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling (8/4/06)

Ammar Raja al-Natour, 17, of Rafah, Gaza, killed, with his sister, by an IDF missile fired from a drone while fleeing shelling (8/5/06)

Kifah Raja al-Natour, 15, of Rafah, Gaza, killed, with her brother, by an IDF missile fired from a drone while fleeing shelling (8/5/06)

Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rumailat, 13, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile fired from a drone to his back and shoulder (8/5/06)

Raja Salam abu-Shaban, 3, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile (8/9/06)

Ahmad Hussein Muhammad al-Mishal, 16, of Shati refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire while working in an orchard (8/9/06)

Ahmad Yousef Abed Ashour, 13, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while in a crowd that gathered near the site of an abandoned Palestinian homemade rocket launcher (8/14/06)

Mustafa Hassan Ahmad Monsur, 17, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire during clashes at the Gaza perimeter fence (8/23/06)

Muntasser Suleiman Muhammad Akka, 15, of Askar refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his back while throwing stones at IDF bulldozers destroying a building in Nablus (8/26/06)

Muhammad Abdullah Suleiman al-Ziq, 14, of Gaza City, killed by an IDF missile fired from a drone (8/29/06)

Nidal Abdul Aziz al-Dahdouh, 14, of Gaza City, killed by IDF sniper fire (8/30/06)

Hussam Ahmad Muhammad al-Sarsawi, 12, of Gaza City, died of wounds sustained Aug. 27 from IDF tank fire (8/30/06)

Ismael Majed Hamdan abu-Ruk, 15, of Khuzah, near Khan Younis, Gaza, killed by IDF sniper fire to his chest while on his roof during an incursion 9/6/06)

Jihad Suleiman Selmi abu-Snaima, 14, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling while at home near the Gaza airport (9/10/06)

Muhammad Omar Awad Shoriya, 13, of Rakhma, near Bethlehem, killed by IDF gunfire to his back while throwing stones at soldiers demolishing a Bethlehem home (9/12/06)

Hanan Muhammad Ismael abu-Odeh, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of wounds sustained Sept. 2 from IDF gunfire while trying to help her father and older brother, who were also killed, in front of their home during an incursion (9/14/06)

Ala Saqer Dahrouj abu-Dahrouj, 15, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while herding sheep (9/21/06)

Zidan Rafiq Muhammad abu-Rashid, 16, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while herding sheep (9/21/06)

Muhammad Selmi Muhammad Masalha, 17, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while herding sheep (9/21/06)

Damaliz Ahmad Muhammad Hamad, 14, of Rafah refugee camp, Gaza, killed in an IDF airstrike on a neighbor’s house (9/27/06)

Anwar Abdul-Ghani Muhammad Hamdan, 16, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed, with his brother, by an IDF missile while riding their bicycles past an abandoned Palestinian rocket launching site (9/29/06)

Hamam Abdul-Ghani Muhammad Hamdan, 13, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed, with his brother, by an IDF missile while riding their bicycles past an abandoned Palestinian rocket launching site (9/29/06)

Naji Khaled Ismael al-Bardawil, 15, of Khan Younis, Gaza, killed in an IDF missile strike on a neighboring building (10/3/06)

Mahmoud Jamal Ahmad abu-Nasr, 14, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while salvaging an abandoned homemade rocket launcher (10/9/06)

Iman Usama Fadel al-Harazin, 2, of Gaza City, killed in an IDF airstrike while walking with her father (10/12/06)

Suhaib Adel Zerei Mahmoud Qudaih, 13, of Abasan al-Kabira, near Khan Younis, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while in his home (10/12/06)

Ibrahim Fuad Abdul-Latif al-Shanbari, 17, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire while involved in an inter-family dispute during an incursion (10/23/06)

Ahmad Kamal Muhammad al-Barim, 17, of Bani Suhaila, near Khan Younis, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire (10/26/06)

Mustafa Mustafa Jaber Jaber, 16, of Fara refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire during an incursion (10/27/06)

Muhammad Samir Husseini Mahmoud, 17, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while administering first aid to a victim at the scene of a targeted assassination (11/2/06)

Bara Riyad Muhammad Fayyad, 4, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of wounds sustained Nov. 1 from IDF shelling of his home (11/2/06)

Ahmad Ismael Sahweel, 15, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration (11/3/06)

Hamza Muhammad Ayub Karsua, 17, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration (11/3/06)

Hamdi Ramadan Muhammad Abdul-Dayem, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest near his home during a demonstration (11/3/06)

Raed Ali al-Majid Yasin, 15, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed in an IDF airstrike while at the scene of a targeted assassination (11/3/06)

Ibrahim Muhammad Ibrahim Sanakra, 15, of Balata refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire while trying to help his wounded brother, the target of an assassination attempt (11/3/06)

Abdul-Karim Khalil Ayyad Subih, 16, of al-Saf, near Bethlehem, killed by IDF gunfire to his head while throwing stones at bulldozers destroying a neighborhood home (11/3/06)

Ibrahim Jamal Hasan al-Bassiuni, 17, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of wounds sustained Nov. 3 from IDF helicopter fire during an incursion (11/4/06)

Muhammad Ibrahim Abed Balousha, 15, of Gaza City, killed by IDF gunfire to his head (11/4/06)

Walah Talal Abdul-Karim Nasr, 13, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to her head while trying to escape bulldozers destroying her home (11/4/06)

Ramzi Mowafaq al-Shrafi, 16, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while on his way to school (11/6/06)

Fatima Masoud Abdullah al-Athamna, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 16 family members, by IDF shelling while asleep at home (11/8/06)

Mahdi Said Abdullah al-Athamna, 13, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 16 family members, by IDF shelling while asleep at home (11/8/06)

Muhammad Said Abdullah al-Athamna, 14, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 16 family members, by IDF shelling while asleep at home (11/8/06)

Saad Majdi Said al-Athamna, 8, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 16 family members, by IDF shelling while asleep at home (11/8/06)

Mahmoud Amjad al-Athamna, 12, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 16 family members, by IDF shelling while asleep at home (11/8/06)

Maram Ramez Masoud al-Athamna, 2, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 16 family members, by IDF shelling while asleep at home (11/8/06)

Maisa Ramez Masoud al-Athamna, 6 months, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 16 family members, by IDF shelling while asleep at home (11/8/06)

Nimer Muhammad Ali abu-Nadia, 17, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest (11/8/06)

Musa Ahmad Musleh Zuhod, 14, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while standing near a homemade Palestinian rocket launcher (11/12/06)

Mahmoud Hussein Mustafa abu-Hamada, 17, of Jabalya, Gaza, died of wounds sustained Nov. 6 from an IDF missile strike at the Jabalya Youth Club (11/12/06)

Thaer Hasan Abed al-Masri, 17, of Bedouin village, near Beit Layha, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his neck and chest while farming near his home during an incursion (11/18/06)

Rakan Abed Kayed Nuseirat, 16, of al-Auja, near Jericho, killed by the IDF at the al-Dyouk checkpoint while holding a toy gun on his way home (11/20/06)

Adham Khaled al-Sahabani, 17, of Gaza City, killed by IDF gunfire to his head while riding in a car (11/22/06)

Abdul-Aziz Salman Muhammad Salman, 10, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF tank fire to his abdomen while playing by al-Zawia mosque (11/24/06)

Shadi Isam Nayef Bani-Shams, 17, of Beita, near Nablus, killed by IDF gunfire to his abdomen while throwing stones during an incursion (11/30/06)

Ayman Abdul Qader abu-Mahdi, 10, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, died of head wounds sustained Nov. 25 from IDF gunfire while playing near his home (12/2/06)

Jamil Abdul-Karim Jamil Jabji, 5, of Askar refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire from a jeep to his head while throwing stones (12/3/06)

Ala Ahmad Muhammad Makawi, 17, of Gaza City, killed by IDF gunfire while trying to cross the Gaza perimeter fence (12/13/06)

Doa Nasr Saleh Abdul-Qader, 13, of Faroun, near Tulkarm, killed by IDF gunfire from a jeep to her chest and hand while going to visit her friend’s grandmother near the annexation wall (12/19/06)

Ala Fawaz Muhammad Hamran, 16, of Araba, near Jenin, killed by undercover IDF gunfire during an incursion into Ramallah (1/4/07)

Abir Bassam Abed-Rabo al-Aramin, 10, of Anata, near Jerusalem, died of head wounds sustained on Jan. 17 from an IDF percussion grenade while in her schoolyard during a demonstration against the annexation wall (1/18/07)

Mahmoud Hussam abu-Salha, 15, of Nablus, killed by IDF gunfire to his head while throwing stones during an incursion (1/18/07)

Mahran Zakaria Salman abu-Nsir, 16, of Deir al-Balah, killed by IDF gunfire while trying to cross the Gaza perimeter fence for work in Israel (1/24/07)

Fadel Mutlaq Daji Balawna, 17, of Tulkarm, killed by undercover IDF gunfire to his back while attempting to escape arrest (1/27/07)

Taha Muhammad Subhi al-Qualjawi, 16, of Kafr Aqab, near Jerusalem, killed by IDF gunfire to his thigh while trying to cross Israel's annexation wall near the Kalandya refugee camp (2/1/07)

Nader Kamal Ahmad, 16, of Beit Lahya, died of head wounds sustained on Nov. 21 from the IDF during an incursion (2/3/07)

Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad al-Ghalban, 17, of Khan Younis, Gaza,killed by IDF gunfire while allegedly trying to attack Israeli soldiers near the Gaza perimeter fence (3/9/07)

Muhammad Ibrahim Ismael Jaber Barghouti, 17, of Aboud, near Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire, from a jeep, while throwing stones (3/21/07)

Muhammad Elias Mahmoud Aweideh, 15, of Um al-Sharayet, near Jerusalem, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration near Israel's annexation wall (3/28/07)

Said Saber Ahmad Abu-Warda, 16, of Jabalya, Gaza, died of wounds sustained on March 28 from an IDF missile during a targeted assassination (3/29/07)

Ahmad Ibrahim Suleiman Asous, 16, of Muthalath al-Shuhada, near Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest while throwing stones at an army jeep during an incursion (3/29/07)

Tahrir Hisham Abul-Jedian, 17, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, died of head wounds sustained on Oct. 4, 2004 from IDF gunfire while inside her home during an incursion (4/5/07)

Bushra Naji Wahesh Bargheesh, 17, of Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire to her head while in her bedroom during an incursion (4/21/07)

Abdul-Karim Karim Khaled Zahran, 15, of Deir abu-Mashal, near Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest while grazing animals (4/22/07)

Muhammad Suleiman Selmi al-Lulahi, 14, of Rafah, Gaza, killed, along with his older brother, by an IDF missile at a garbage treatment plant near the Sofa checkpoint (5/17/07)

Muhammad Abdul-Fattah Ahmad Abu-Moti, 16, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with his older brother, by an IDF missile while shepherding livestock in the al-Zaytoun area southwest of Beit Hanoun (5/19/07)

Maher Hamad Abed Abu-Hashish, 15, of of al-Qaraya al-Badwiya Maslakh, near Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while shepherding livestock in the al-Zaytoun area southwest of Beit Hanoun (5/19/07)

Hatem Mahdi Muhammad Hamid, 17, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while walking in the refugee camp cemetery (5/19/07)

Muhammad Khaled Ismael al-Haya, 16, of Gaza City, Gaza, killed, with his brother, cousin, and 4 older family members, by an IDF missile during a targeted assasination attempt (5/20/07)

Ismael Khaled Ismael al-Haya, 17, of Gaza City, Gaza, killed, with his brother, cousin, and 4 older family members, by an IDF missile during a targeted assasination attempt (5/20/07)

Jihad Abdul-Majid Ismael al-Haya, 17, of Gaza City, Gaza, killed, with his father, cousins, and 3 older family members, by an IDF missile while in their home during a targeted assasination attempt (5/20/07)

Hamada Mahmoud Jamal al-Fiyumi, 15, of Gaza City, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire while working as a cement factory guard (5/21/07)

Hamza Amin Fawzan al-Masri, 17, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, physically disabled, died of chest and abdominal wounds sustained May 20 from IDF shelling while in his home (6/1/07)

Zaher Jaber Muhammad al-Majdalawi, 14, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire while flying kites with his friends near the beach in Beit Lahya (6/1/07)

Ahmad Sabri Abu-Zbaida, 14, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire while flying kites with his friends near the beach in Beit Lahya (6/1/07)

Hijazi Muhammad Abdul-Aziz Rzaiqat, 17, of Taffouh, near Hebron, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest, abdomen, left shoulder and right thigh while hunting birds with a gun (6/8/07)

Salah Zaki Mansour, 10, of al-Shouka, near Rafah, Gaza, killed, with his brother, by an unexploded IDF ordinance while attempting to salvage it for scrap metal (6/14/07)

Muhammad Zaki Mansour, 12, of al-Shouka, near Rafah, Gaza, killed, with his brother, by an unexploded IDF ordinance while attempting to salvage it for scrap metal (6/14/07)

Muhammad Atallah al-Hessi, 14, of al-Shouka, near Rafah, Gaza, killed, with his brother, by an unexploded IDF ordinance while attempting to salvage it for scrap metal (6/14/07)

Bilal Atallah al-Hessi, 15, of al-Shouka, near Rafah, Gaza, killed, with his brother, by an unexploded IDF ordinance while attempting to salvage it for scrap metal (6/14/07)

Adel Khalil Barbakh, 11, of al-Shouka, near Rafah, Gaza, killed by an unexploded IDF ordinance while attempting to salvage it for scrap metal (6/14/07)

Saifadeen Said Khalil Jundiyah, 9, of al-Shejaya, near Gaza City, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling from a tank while sitting in front of his home during an incursion (6/27/07)

Ahmad Iyad Hiles, 16, of al-Shejaya, near Gaza City, Gaza, killed by an IDF shell during an incursion (6/27/07)

Ahmad Abdul-Muhsen Abdul-Rahim al-Skafi, 15, of Hebron, killed by IDF gunfire to his head while carrying a toy gun (7/3/07)

Ahmad Jamil Khamis abu-Naji, 17, of Nuseirat refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire in while ading wounded people during an incursion in Bureij refugee camp (7/5/07)

Obeidah Hijazi Adnan al-Qasas, 17, of Nuseirat refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire in while ading wounded people during an incursion in Bureij refugee camp (7/5/07)

Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud al-Krenawi, 11, of Rahat, near Beersheba, a Bedouin with Israeli citizenship living in the first recognized Bedoiun city in Israel, killed by IDF gunfire to his head and pelvis while picking figs at the home of his half brother during an incursion in Saida, near Tulkarem (8/24/07)

Muhammad Oraib Ahmad al-Maloukh, 17, of Qarawat Bani Zaid, near Ramallah, died of chest wounds sustained on 2 Aug. from IDF gunfire from an observation tower at the Attara Bridge checkpoint (8/3/07)

Nuraldeen Ibrahim Yousef Maraye, 14, of Kufor Dan, near Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire while throwing stones during an incursion (8/17/07)

Abdul-Qader Yousef Abed Ashour, 14, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while picking fruit on the land of the Agricultural Secondary School near an area from which Israelis said rockets had been launched (8/21/07)

Fadi Mansour Yousef al-Kafarneh, 10, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while picking fruit on the land of the Agricultural Secondary School near an area from which Israelis said rockets had been launched (8/21/07)

Hamam Ahmad Abdul-Qader Nasr, 15, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire during an armed clash near the Karni checkpoint (8/24/07)

Mustafa Adnan Said Nasr, 17, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire during an armed clash near the Karni checkpoint (8/24/07)

Khader Maher Ali Okal, 17, of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire during an armed clash near Netiv Ha'asara, Israel (8/25/07)

Yehya Ramadan Atiya abu-Ghazal, 12, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 2 cousins, by an IDF missile while hearding sheep near the Afana cow farm and the site of abandoned equiptment used to fire Palestinian homemade rockets (8/29/07)

Mahmoud Musa Hasan abu-Ghazal, 8, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 2 cousins, by an IDF missile while hearding sheep near the Afana cow farm and the site of abandoned equipment used to fire Palestinian homemade rockets (8/29/07)

Sara Suleiman Abdallah abu-Ghazal, 9, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 2 cousins, by an IDF missile while hearding sheep near the Afana cow farm and the site of abandoned equiptment used to fire Palestinian homemade rockets (8/29/07)

Wadia Khalil Samara al-Ghazawi, 13, of Izbat al-Tunaib, near Qalkilya, died of head wounds sustained from IDF gunfire on Sept. 6 while throwing stones during an incursion (9/10/07)

Muhammad Ali Mesbah Jabarin, 16, of Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire to his pelvis while throwing stones during an incursion (9/17/07)

Muhammad Nasim Salim abu-Yacoub, 14, of Kufr Hares, near Salfit, killed in a hit-and-run incident by an Israeli settler vehicle while crossing the street (9/17/07)

Muhammad Rida Mahmoud Khaled, 17, of Ayn Beit al-Ma refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his back while demonstrating during an incursion (9/18/07)

Yousef Talal Abdul-Qader al-Basiouni, 16, of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF by gunfire during an incursion (9/26/07)

Abdul-Fatah Fawzi Abdul-Fatah Askar, 14, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire while standing near Palestinian home made rocket launchers (10/24/07)

Muhammad Atiyah Hasan Kalub, 17, of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire while standing near Palestinian home made rocket launchers (10/24/07)

Ashraf Zaher Salman al-Er, 17, of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter gunfire while working as a factory guard (11/4/07)

Hashem Ayn Abdul-Aziz Abu-Khadurah, 17,of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire as he attempted to help shot factory gaurds (11/4/07)

Jihad Olian Muhammad a-Nabahin, 17, of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed, with his friend, by IDF gunfire to his abdomen and legs while attempting to cross the Gaza perimeter fence (11/9/07)

Bilal Ahmad olian al-Nabahin, 14, of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed, with his friend, by IDF gunfire to his head while attempting to cross the Gaza perimeter fence (11/9/07)

Amir Shaher Abdullah al-Yazji, 8, of Gaza City, Gaza, died at the Erez checkpoint after Israeli border officials prevented him from crossing to Ichilov Hospital in Israel for medical treatment despite having the necessary permits (11/19/07)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

Either the Israeli Occupation Forces that you are so very eager to join has the WORST marksmanship of any army on earth, or its a bunch of child-murdering, serial-killing racists.

If I were to list the children murdered by Israelis over the course of the whole intifada, the list would be about 8 times as long. And that's just children - if I were to add to the list other civilians regularly targeted by the out-of-control Israeli army - such as women, the elderly, the physically disabled, journalists, non-violent protestors, the sick and wounded, medical staff, United Nations workers, NGO employees, international observers, relief workers, even visiting diplomats - the list would be astronomically long.

Of course, all of that was a response to only one half of your claim - the ridiculous assertion that "WE are trying to harm and hit who is responsible for the bombing."

The other half of your claim - "the Pal's harms and hits ONLY innocent people" is equally nonsensical. The majority of Israeli deaths during the intifada have been soldiers and settlers, neither of whom can be described as innocent by any sane person. While it is true that the glorified bottle rockets Gazan's are tossing over their prison wall are by definition indiscriminate, they have only killed a handfull of people. To call them "bottle rockets" or fireworks is misleading because in fact fireworks are far more dangerous.

In 2006, according to Israel, over 1000 qassam rockets were fired from Gaza. These caused a total of 2 deaths. By, comparison, twice that number of people died from fireworks related injuries on July 4, 2006, in the US.

Over the entire history of this phenomenom which began in summer 2004, the total number of Israeli deaths from Qassam rockets is 12.

By comparison, hundreds of times that number of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli rockets in the same period.

I think in all of 2007 a total of FIVE Israeli civilians died from this conflict. FIVE.

Perhaps you didn't notice that in 2007, for every ONE Israeli civilian killed in Israel, there were EIGHTY Palestinians killed. One for EIGHTY.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

174M4R says:

Bottom line - we are here 60 years already, and we are not going anywhere.

*Im NOT one of does guys who think that every arab man - is a terrorist. I really dont.
But I do think that who ever bomb my home - gotta die.

Peace out.
Ita
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

You are a thug.

Bottom line, your thug zionism, your thug culture, your army of thugs, and your whole national Sparta-on-the-Jordan are failures. Abject, complete failures.

To paraphrase Israeli Knesset Minister Avraham Burg: "Israelis live in a thunderously failed reality....a state of settlements, run by an amoral clique of corrupt lawbreakers who are deaf both to their citizens and to their enemies. A state lacking justice cannot survive. A structure built on human callousness will inevitably collapse in on itself."

Israeli Knesset Minister Yossi Sarid recently made a similar argument, although one based more on racism and demographics than on morality, saying that since Jews are becoming a minority, Israel must abandon apartheid or face extinction: "The Zionist project will come to an end if we don’t choose to leave the slave house before being visited by a fatal demographic plague."

This is a terrible misery you are constructing for yourself, for everyone around you, and for the entire world.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

happysweetmama says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Cultures, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

A_LadyWhoPaints says:

Allah will make israel pay one day
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

AnomalousNYC says:

I don't think divine intervention is necessary before we can imagine justice.

Sadly, Israel is carefully constructing its own demise all by itself.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

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