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Why I’m more vocal about Israel’s actions than Hamas’s
Simply put, Israel has given much more suffering than it’s received.
Robert Fisk writes it in TruthDig (originally published in The Independent) like so:
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The death toll today since this conflict began? Israelis, 13. Gazans, 1,000.
“Murder is murder,” some will say. Yet the two are not the same.
The slaughter of hundreds of defenseless, malnourished people is a crime of a different order.
Tags: Palestinians,, Hamas,, Gaza,, war,, middle-east,, genocide,, civilian+casualities,, Palestinians, Monte Asbury
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UN Investigator: Israel commits “massive violations of international law”
Richard Falk, U. N. Special Investigator for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, spells it out (h/t PeoplesGeography):
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Since 2000, fewer than 20 Israelis have been killed by Hamas’ primitive rockets – and only one in the last 12 months. By contrast, 3,000 Palestinians have died, and 300 of them perished in the last few days.
Israel’s enabler is the USA, which provides American gunships, missiles, and bombs. Israel kills with impunity because the US vetoes near-unanimous UN rebukes.
Dispensationalism’s blind faith that Israel’s barbarous government is the Israel of prophecy demands re-evaluation. For the pogroms this outfit carries out make it more resemble the Third Reich than the children of Abraham.
And the USA—with the backing of the Christian conservative set—once again has blood on its hands.
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