The Independent's correspondent Robert Fisk is infuriated with the assault on Gaza. Like Jimmy Carter, he doesn't see this in facile - Hamas rockets/Israeli air assault - terms.
At the risk of being slammed again as an anti-Semitic, you might find this take on the situation informative:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html
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C'mon when Isreal kills innocents it's okay - Jason Cherniak does not seem to give a fuck about dead Palestinians - now it were Israelis.... so what does that make him?
Oh look, the anti-Semitic group, Amnesty International is responding.
Amnesty Canada has drafted a letter to Lawrence Cannon, urging the Canadian government to act. You can sign here:
http://www.amnesty.ca/urgentappeal/2009/gaza/
And then of course there are the 10,000 self-hating Israelis that attended the following demonstration in Tel Aviv:
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1231029668
[snip]...“One does not build an election campaign over the dead bodies of children!” shouted the protesters in Hebrew rhymes. “Orphans and widows are not election propaganda!”, “Olmert, Livni and Barak – war is no game!”’ “All cabinet ministers are war criminals!!” Barak, Barak, don’t worry – we shall meet you in The Hague!”, “Enough, enough – speak with Hamas!”
The written posters were similar. Some of them paraphrased Barak’s election slogans: “Barak is not friendly, he is a murderer!” (The original Barak slogan says: “Barak is not friendly, he is a leader!”) Also: “No to the Election War, 2009!” and “The six-Knesset-seat war!” – an allusion to the polls which showed that in the first days of the war Barak’s Labor Party has gained six prospective seats.
The demonstration took place after a fight with the police, which tried to prevent or at least limit it, arguing that they would not be able to stop right-wing rioters from attacking it. Among other things, the police demanded that the organizers undertake to prevent the hoisting of Palestinian flags. The organizers petitioned the High Court of Justice, which decided that the Palestinian flag is legal and ordered the police to protect the demonstration from rioters,
The demonstration was decided upon by Gush Shalom and 20 other peace organizations, including the Women’s Coalition for Peace, Anarchists Against the Wall, Hadash, the Alternative Information Center and New Profile. Meretz and Peace Now did not participate officially, but many of their members showed up. Some thousand Arab citizens from the north arrived in 20 buses straight from the big demonstration of the Arab public which had taken place in Sakhnin.
The organizers themselves were surprised by the large number of protesters. “A week after the start of Lebanon War II, we succeeded in mobilizing only 1000 demonstrators against it. The fact that today there came 10,000 proves that the opposition to the war is much stronger this time...[/snip]
Very interesting, BY, thanks
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