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Israeli assault injures 15 million Gazans

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January 17, 2009 

Israeli Assault Injures 1.5 Million Gazans

by Jonathan Cook

This week the death toll in Gaza passed the 1,000 mark, after nearly three weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks. But surprisingly, no one has reported an even more appalling statistic: that there are some 1.5 million injured Palestinians in Gaza. How is is possible that such an astounding figure could have passed the world’s media by?

The reason apparently is that they have been relying on the highly unreliable statistics provided by official Palestinian sources. It appears that the Palestinian health ministry only records as wounded those Gazans who need to stay in hospital because of the severity of their injuries.

 

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The one state solution

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The One-State Solution

By MUAMMAR QADDAFI

January 22, 2009, New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor

Tripoli, Libya

THE shocking level of the last wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, which ended with this weekend’s cease-fire, reminds us why a final resolution to the so-called Middle East crisis is so important. It is vital not just to break this cycle of destruction and injustice, but also to deny the religious extremists in the region who feed on the conflict an excuse to advance their own causes.

But everywhere one looks, among the speeches and the desperate diplomacy, there is no real way forward. A just and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians is possible, but it lies in the history of the people of this conflicted land, and not in the tired rhetoric of partition and two-state solutions.

 

  
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Israels lies

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Israel’s Lies

Henry Siegman

Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a
number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that
Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed
and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to
destroy Hamas’s capacity to launch missiles into Israeli towns; that
Hamas is a terrorist organisation, part of a global jihadi network; and
that Israel has acted not only in its own defence but on behalf of an
international struggle by Western democracies against this network.
I am not aware of a single major American newspaper, radio station or
TV channel whose coverage of the assault on Gaza questions this version
of events. Criticism of Israel’s actions, if any (and there has been none
from the Bush administration), has focused instead on whether the IDF’s
carnage is proportional to the threat it sought to counter, and whether it
is taking adequate measures to prevent civilian casualties.

 

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History of jewish opposition to zionism

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7. The Long–and Largely Untold–History Of Jewish Opposition to Zionism

by Allan C. Brownfeld

  Tuesday, January 20, 2009   
 
"No one who reads Yakov Rabkin’s thoroughly researched book will ever again believe that Zionism and Judaism are the same, or that Zionism enjoys the level of support among Jews in the United States and elsewhere in the world which it claims."
 

While many in Israel and in Jewish communities here and in other countries now promote the idea that Zionism and Judaism are, in effect, the same, and that opposition to Zionism constitutes “anti-Semitism,” the historical–largely untold–fact is that, for most of its history, Zionism has been a decidedly minority movement among Jews throughout the world. 
 
 

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