A CHRONICLE OF WAR IN GAZA »
Posted By jovial 10 months ago in NewsWith the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, the scope of the destruction and human tragedy has become clear. Both sides are trying to come to terms with a war that has ended without any real hope for lasting peace. SPIEGEL reporters in Gaza and Israel have reconstructed the tragic events of the war.
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hyperbola10 months ago
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Here is one of the major ironies that our media don't tell us about.
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Sderot - A town built on the ashes of an ethnically cleansed and defaced Palestinian village
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about Sderot, a town that has become the centrepiece of Israeli propaganda. Israeli spokesmen, and Israel’s stooges in the media and among politicians in Britain, the European Union and the United States, repeat ad nauseum the mantra about Palestinian home-made rockets "raining down" on Sderot, although only 1 in 500 causes a fatality. It is a mantra that has been used to justify the countless thousands of Israeli bombs, missiles, grenades and tank shells that are blasted into Gaza's tight-packed humanity. Bu what do we know about Sderot? Below is an insight into the town's history.
Israeli land thieves built Sderot on the ashes of an ethnically cleansed and defaced Palestinian village called Najd.
Sderot was settled by Jews in 1951. In All That Remains, Walid Khalidi says that Sderot, along with the settlement of Or ha-Ner, founded in 1957, were established on the village lands of Najd, which means "elevated plain" in Arabic.
According to Umkhalil, Najd's Palestinian villagers, approximately 620 in 1945, were expelled on 13 May 1948, before Israel was declared a state and before any Arab armies entered Palestine. UN Resolution 194 and also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13, Section 2, stipulate that the villagers of Najd have a right to return home to their personal property and to their native village.
Najd is 14 kilometres from Gaza. Palestinian Arabs own 12,669 dunums in Najd, although Israel refuses to honour their rights to their personal property, and refuses them their inalienable right to return home. In 1945 Jews owned 495 dunums of land in Najd and public lands consisted of 412 dunums.
In short, Sderot is an illegally occupied territory stolen from Palestinians.
Israeli Goebbels: Stop lying to the world about needing to defend what is not rightfully yours. You're worse than bank robbers saying they have a right to defend their loot!
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dissent10 months ago
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"Sderot is an illegally occupied territory stolen from Palestinians."
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"Sderot is an illegally occupied territory stolen from Palestinians."
"Sderot is an illegally occupied territory stolen from Palestinians."
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SFCGuyW10 months ago
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You say the Israeli's refuse to honor the Palestinian's inalienable right to return home, yet this is exactly what the Palestinian's did to the Jews when they tried to return to their ancestral home. Israeli's and Palestinians come from the same group of tribes which lived on these lands. It was only after decades of warfare over 2000 years ago that the Jews were driven off their lands. Do they no also have an inalienable right to return home? Both groups have rights to these lands and it will only be when both recognize that fact that there will be peace.
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As for the Palestinians, I have very little sympathy. They have lived in numerous Muslim nations as guests, but decided to use force of arms and terroristic style attacks to try to seize control of those nations. Each time the host nation had to use it's armed forces to stop the Palestinian attacks and then they expelled the Palestinians from their nation. Now, when they have a chance for their own nation, controlled by Palestinians and recognized as a nation, they have refused to form a single Palestinian government and work with the Israeli's, the other Muslim nations and the UN to form a Palestinian nation. Instead, they continue to attack Israeli civilians and then cry foul when some of their own civilians are killed when Israel acts in self defense to destroy the rockets and morters that Hamas has hidden amoung civilians - especially amoung hospitals and children. Until such organizations as Hamas are destroyed, either by the Israelis or by the Palestinian populance rising against them, their is no chance of peace.
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berkeley10 months ago
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jovial10 months ago
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For an area of the world that only has a population of about 11 million people, how do they command so much attention from the world community? How do they cause so much trouble, including terrorist attacks across the globe, peace negotiations spanning multiple presidencies, and 911! I'm beginning to think that this small strip of land is more trouble than it's worth. That 1948 UN resolution was the greatest disaster ever inflicted on modern mankind.
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globalwarmer10 months ago
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When Abu al-Aish leaves Gaza with his children, his son asks: "Papa, are the Israelis bad people?" The father tries to explain that it isn't that simple, and that there are bad Israelis and good Israelis. "I don't want my children to sink into hatred," he says.
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