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Post by lolly on Apr 21, 2008 23:07:09 GMT 12
As the State of Israel (sic) celebrates 60 years of statehood this Passover I thought it Would be interesting to take a look at some headlines from recent days www.uruknet.de/?p=m43179&hd=&size=1&l=eBody of 15 year old Palestinian boy found mutilated in Israeli settlement April 18th, 2008 At 3pm on Wednesday, 16th April, the mutilated body of 15 year old Hammad Nidar Khadatbh was found in lands of the illegal Israeli settlement of Al-Hamra by his father, who was out searching for his missing son. Hammad’s body was naked, bloated, and tortured. His neck was broken, and his face had been smashed in with rocks. One finger had been cut off and there were multiple holes in his torso, seemingly made by a sharp, round implement – desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/as-israel-celebrates-passover-gaza-buries-its-dead/AS ISRAEL CELEBRATES PASSOVER, GAZA BURIES ITS DEAD April 20, 2008 at 6:40 pm GAZA CITY,Fadel Shana’a just had to go to the scene of the Israeli bombing. As a Reuters cameraman, that was his job. He wasn’t the only one killed, but through his pursuit of attacks as they happen, he was always more at risk than most others. Fadel Shana’a was killed Wednesday because he was in the firing line, but also because, eyewitnesses said, he had begun to film the tanks that were firing. A barrage of metal shrapnel pierced his body as a tank missile landed close to him www.uruknet.de/?p=m43201&hd=&size=1&l=eAmbulance cars in Gaza no longer operational due to lack of fuel April 19, 2008 GAZA, (PIC)-- The department of ambulance and emergency in the Gaza Strip announced that all ambulance vehicles in the Strip would come to a complete standstill by 0600 pm local time Saturday due to the lack of fuel. Dr. Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of the department, said in a press release that all petrol stations in the Strip said that they were out of fuel and thus the ambulance vehicles would stop moving and would not be able to extend assistance to the wounded and patients. |
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Post by lolly on Apr 21, 2008 23:17:19 GMT 12
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3533441,00.html Testimonies from Hebron: Soldiers choke, beat Palestinians Soldiers serving in Hebron testify to violent acts unleashed by troops, settlers on Palestinian residents. Four testimonies below Hanan Greenberg Published: 04.18.08, 15:56 The pamphlet was published by an organization called Breaking the Silence, and includes horrifying descriptions about the behavior IDF soldiers have adopted towards the Palestinian residents of Hebron, and that of the settlers. www.uruknet.info/?p=m43191&hd=&size=1&l=eAmnesty calls for investigation into killing of cameraman and other civilians April 19, 2008 London, (PIC)-- Amnesty International has called on the Israeli government to immediately order a full and independent investigation into the killings of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. At least 18 Palestinians, including children and other unarmed civilians, were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. More than 30 others were injured in attacks by Israeli planes and by ground forces using tanks in the Gaza Strip. www.redress.cc/palestine/wadifuqeen20080419Beitar Illit settlers release sewage on Palestinian Wadi Fuqeen village farmlands At least twice a month, starting on Friday afternoons and continuing for a large part of the following day, the authorities in the illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, which is built on land stolen from the neighbouring Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, near Bethlehem, open their sewage tanks on to the farmlands of the vilage. As the video shows, the sewage, which runs through specially-built pipelines that open on to the slopes leading to Wadi Fuqeen, accumulates on the Palestinian farmlands, poisoning crops, contaminating the water table and posing a serious health threat to villagers
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Post by lolly on Apr 21, 2008 23:21:20 GMT 12
This is just a small sample of article that appear on any given day.You may not see these in any of the main stream media because this is the stuff that they do not want you to see.All I can say about the 60 year celebration is shame on you Israel, shameon you!!  |
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Post by lolly on Apr 21, 2008 23:25:32 GMT 12
If we sit bck and say nothing......dosnt it make us as guilty as those comminting the actions?
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Post by bingbong on Apr 22, 2008 0:35:29 GMT 12
[re reply 3 If we sit bck and say nothing......dosnt it make us as guilty as those comminting the actions?]
I agree I prefer not to sit back and say nothing I prefer more on the subject so have included a view below in addition whilst that view is considered.
How are Palestinians affirming the human rights advancement of their own by systematically slicing off the clitoris of woman as a norm, that doesn't happen as a norm or at a minimum in Israel?
Forced Female Suicide
By Phyllis Chesler |
Front Page Magazine | January 22, 2004
Are Palestinian female suicide bombers active members ofa Death Cult, or unwilling participants in it? Are they religious fanatics, Western-style revolutionaries, or clinically depressed human beings facingNo Exit lives? Have they been indoctrinated and brainwashed by master seducers or have they been brutally forced into it?
These are necessary questions to ask when contemplating the emergence of a new female form of suicide bomber. Certainly, some female Palestinian suicide bombers have "freely" chosen the murderous martyr's path: most likely, such women have hadclose male relatives who have died in the war that the Palestinians have declared against the Israelis.
But evidence also suggests that the Palestinians have created yet another form of Arab honor killing.For some time now, reports have reached my desk aboutPalestinian girls and women being recruited, seduced, and trapped, by older maleterrorists in very woman-specific ways.
For example, I have been told that in one instance, the chosen Palestinian girlwas unmarried and pregnant. She was offered the chance to "cleanse" her honor by blowing herself and Jews up. Her family spirited her out of the West Bank to safety in Europe. I have also been told thatsome Palestinian masters of mass murder have themselves had affairs with vulnerable young Palestinian girls in order to compromise their "honor" and to season them, pimp-style, for martyrdom.Hard facts are hard to come by, anecdotes abound.
Journalist Barbara Victor, the author of the recent book aboutPalestinian female suicide bombers, Army of Roses,andplaywright Glyn O'Malley, whose play, Paradise, is on the same subject, have bothdealtwithsome of the earliestPalestinian female suicide bombers whose lives were stunted by oppression.
Wafa Idris, the first Palestinian suicide bomber,was probably in a clinical depression. Her first and only child had been a stillborn and, as a result,she was now sterile. Her husband, who was also her first cousin,had divorced her over this andhad already taken a second wife. Shewas mocked byfamily and friends and she understood that she had no future in Palestinian society. As a divorced and infertile woman, she was doubly "tainted."Her bleak prospects--due to Islamic and Palestinian misogyny and not to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--were used to trap her intoredeeming her dishonor by becoming a murdering martyr.
We cannot say that these women (or, for that matter, their male counterparts) are making "free" choices. No one is offering them the presidency of their country, an all-paid scholarship to a prestigious university--or,as a third choice,the opportunity to kill and die at a tender age. Their choices are "forced." They are probably not political extremists orrevolutionaries in the Western sense. They have grown up in a tribal, Islamicsociety in which women are expected to sacrifice themselvesin terrible and medieval ways.
Most recently, the case of Reem al-Riyashi suggests a similar and horrifying scenario. Several Israeli sources have discovered that this young mother of two very young children "was forced to carry out the suicide attack as punishment for cheating on her husband." Allegedly, al-Riyashi's husband was a Hamas activist and her lover was a Hamas operative who had carried out the love affair with the express purpose of recruiting her. According to the British Sunday Times, al-Riyashi's husband himself drove her to the border crossing.
This is unbelievable--and tragic. Had these men threatened to kill her children if she refused this mission? I would not be surprised.
Whatever the tragic circumstances, it is important to understand that the coercion of women by men to become suicide bombers is not an aberration in the Middle East. Myth aside, Islam is the largest and most savage practitioner ofreligious and gender apartheid on the planet.If you attend a college in the Western world, you'd have no way of knowing this--perhaps this is becausemany Western multi-cultural ideologueshave muted their criticism of Islamic misogynyin order to propagandizefor the victory of the Palestiniansover theZionists.
Traditionally, gender apartheid under Islam includes female genital mutilation, compulsory veiling, arranged marriage, sequestration, polygamy, stonings for alleged adultery, approved wife-beating,and Arab honor killingsin which raped girls and women are killedby their father or brother for the crime of "dishonor" theyhave brought upon their family.
It is this context that compels us to stop romanticizing these homicide bombers--and presenting them as heroes.
Iunderstand what the Israeli ambassador to Sweden felt when he saw the exhibitthat glorified yet another Palestinian female suicide bomber: Hanadi Jaradat, who killed 22 innocent Israeli civilians, both Christian Arabs and Jews. Jaradat's smiling, serene face floated above a pool of civilian blood. Theartwork had been done by an expatriate Israeli artist and installed at the entrance to a building that is to house an upcoming conference against genocide. The Swedes had promised the Israelis that the Middle East conflict was not going to be part of the conference.
But this art exhibit found a way to bring the Middle East conflict into the conference--in a way that justified and glorified homicidal/genocidal suicide bombers who, upon closer inspection,may be committing a "forced" suicide as their only way out.
If you appreciate Phyllis Chesler's books and articles, please help by making a contribution to the Phyllis Chesler Organization. In these times, her courageous and independent voice depends upon your contribution. All donations are tax-deductible. Your generous contribution will help keep the fight against lies and propaganda alive.
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Post by kokonutwoman on Apr 22, 2008 11:42:55 GMT 12
If we sit bck and say nothing......dosnt it make us as guilty as those comminting the actions? No, we are not guilty because we have no control. International political intervention is needed. Perhaps the various UN Conventions need to be enforced. |
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Post by lolly on Apr 22, 2008 21:23:22 GMT 12
Increasingly i find it harder and harder to not speak out...sigh
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Post by kokonutwoman on Apr 22, 2008 21:29:57 GMT 12
Easy lolly go for it the louder the voices the more likely to be heard
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Post by lolly on Apr 24, 2008 22:13:35 GMT 12
:Dyes its the trouble i will get into for shouting out as long as i can....
mind you to shout theloudest first you should experience it i guess....
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Post by lolly on Apr 27, 2008 20:41:21 GMT 12
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