UN Headquarters in Gaza Hit By Phosphorus Bombs

From The Times online

QUOTE Chris Gunness, a UNRWA spokesman, said that the building had been used to shelter hundreds of people fleeing Israel’s 20-day offensive in Gaza. He said that pallets with supplies desperately needed by Palestinians in Gaza were on fire.
"What more stark symbolism do you need?" he said. "You can’t put out white phosphorus with traditional methods such as fire extinguishers. You need sand, we don’t have sand."
The Israeli military has denied using white phosphorus shells in the Gaza offensive, although an investigation by The Times has revealed that dozens of Palestinians in Gaza have sustained serious injuries from the substance, which burns at extremely high temperatures.
The Geneva Convention of 1980 proscribes the use of white phosphorus as a weapon of war in civilian areas, although it can be used to create a smokescreen. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said today that all weapons used in Gaza were "within the scope of international law". UNQUOTE

If these atrocities were carried out by any other middle eastern country there would be sanctions and possibly military intervention. Saddam stepped over the line in Kuwait and look what he got. The international inaction on this matter reveals something cloaked and sinister in western democracy. Racism, apartheid and a tolerance for genocide.

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From The Toronto Star
Good for the Canadian Jewish ladies who occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto last week, bringing some attention to the fact that many American and Canadian Jews disagree with Israel's policy vehemently.

QUOTE Eight Jewish Canadian women who were arrested while holding a protest inside the Israeli consulate have been released.

The RCMP arrested and handcuffed the women, who were staging a sit-in protest against the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza inside the consulate at 180 Bloor St. W. The women were held briefly inside a paddy wagon, but were not charged and were released.

Included in the group were Israeli peace activists, filmmakers, the president of Science for Peace and a variety of students.

"Israel purports to represent all Jews worldwide and these atrocities are not being committed in our name," said spokesperson and filmmaker Cathy Gulkin, standing outside of the consulate. UNQUOTE

100,000+ March in Spain to Protest Gaza Attacks

Why is the disturbing pattern of humans who have been abused and victimized to, when given power over others, replicate their abuser's habits,asserting itself here? Israel of all nations should be wary of turning a ghetto into a concentration camp and letting bloodlust against a racial group guide their war policy.

From the Associated Press

QUOTE MADRID, Spain: More than 100,000 people marched through Spain's capital and other cities Sunday calling for Israel to announce an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
The protest in Madrid was the largest of demonstrations across Europe expressing both support and opposition for the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Protesters filled downtown boulevards carrying banners saying "Peace," "SOS Gaza," placards with the word "Gaza" above a red-stained hand and mock blood-spattered bodies of children.
Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem's mother Pilar, also an actress, was among speakers who addressed the crowd.
"The Spanish government has to do something. The Gaza Strip is now practically a concentration camp," she said. UNQUOTE
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Vatican Calls Gaza a "Concentration Camp"

OK, that's quite unambiguous. To the point. And both sides are called to end all attacks. And I am amused that people are shocked at this stance. C'mon, people, the Vatican is for peace. Peace for all peoples. It's what they do.

You know, they represent a fellow who has been known for 2000+ years as the "Prince of Peace"...

From AntiWar.com

QUOTE Echoing Pope Benedict XVI’s repeated calls to end the ongoing bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, Vatican Justice and Peace Minister Cardinal Renato Martino urged both the Israeli government and Hamas to show more willingness toward peace talks and for the world to help them come an agreement that would end the ongoing Israeli invasion.
He also expressed concerns about the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, saying “let’s look at the conditions in Gaza: these increasingly resemble a big concentration camp.” UNQUOTE
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The Unvarnished Truth

Without further ado, please go read the golden Greek, Taki Theodoracopulos' sizing up of the situation in Gaza. The unvarnished truth.

QUOTE So where is Obama on this one? I’ll tell you where—trying to stay out of the way of AIPAC and the Israel lobby that dictates American foreign policy in the Middle East.
I’ve never been a friend of Islam; however, it’s always been perfectly clear to me that the Israelis are the ones sowing terror and the Palestinians are the ones besieged. The American people have been so brainwashed, they have it the other way round. UNQUOTE
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Too Many Saviours

The Irish actor and (bad) singer, Richard Harris, wrote and recited this poem on British and Irish radio during "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland around 1969.

He speaks in the voice of Jesus, indicting and condemning and cursing all of those on BOTH sides of Northern Ireland's civil war who pretended it was a "religious" war, with Christ on "their side".

It is equally applicable to all "religious" wars, and in fact to all wars, because all wars are really fratricidal, but especially putatively "religious" wars.The current events in Gaza reminded me of this: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=thlszLrDjOM
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