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La versione ufficiale IDF è che loro non hanno mai sparato (tranne un paio di colpi di avvertimento con i tank) e che i morti sono frutto di calca e dei camion in manovra.
Anche fosse vero (e dubito fortemente), la folla affamata che muore è colpa di Israele.
@samgam75 This can never occur in Western countries. There are negotiators and brigades to act in these situations and to save as many people as possible. France is continuously under terrorist alert. I live here. It’s the impunity Israel has that let them behave in this way.
@EllieRod01@faniaoz@majedbamya Like the Irgun, the existed until the establishment of the state of Israel, then dissolved as a terrorist group but their people went to occupy the highest ranks in IDF, Likud and govt. what if in response to the Irgun terrorist acts the Brits would have carpet bombed all?
I will retain hope that one day in the near future you will see how unjust this war is, how atrocious it is. Or there is no hope. And I will ask you a question from one human being to another, because you see us as equals, right? If I was writing to justify massacres against Israeli civilians for any reason, releasing our prisoners, ending the siege, removing the settlements, stopping settler attacks, freeing our country, (and there are always reasons and Palestinians have so many reasons), would you accept my invite to meet and talk regardless how many things we have in common? I doubt it. If you think your security allows what is happening to my people in Gaza, we fundamentally disagree on the path regardless how much we agree on the destination, and that is a fundamental problem as the price of that disagreement is thousands of Palestinians, and of Palestinian children killed. The worst is that this method will never bring security. Only peace can. I know saying that in Israel today would be very complicated. But why are we Palestinians expect to say these things even as our people are being slaughtered and should not expect the same from Israelis. In history it is usually the society of the colonizing power that has the large peace movement, not the society of the colonized. Only in Palestine and Israel the expectation is reversed. I wish you and your loved ones well. Wish me and my loved ones well, including my loved ones under the bombs in Gaza. And that necessarily means being against the bombs falling on their heads. Nothing justifies doing this to 2.3 million people, trust me on that. Live and let live.
The Israelis held captive were released in an exchange with the release of Palestinian prisoners . The thousands of Palestinians killed had nothing to do with that outcome. And now after tens of thousands of Palestinians killed and destruction and devastation beyond imagination in Gaza and tens of Israelis held captive killed by Israeli fire how can anyone still believe in the myth of “military pressure” (the code name for mass atrocities). I persist that the only reason we did not see a ceasefire and release of people held captive is that an end of this assault would be prejudicial to the political survival of Netanyahu.
Since you ask what I believe in, there is a sentence Arafat said decades ago: live and let live. That is what I believe in. Our freedom will lead to shared peace and security. Ending the occupation and achieving Palestinian independence and having peace between the State of Palestine and Israel. It may look increasingly delusional but the alternative is what we have now, so I feel it is worth a fight.
You wrote several times about your opposition to settlements and the need to dismantle them and your support to the two-State solution. That is why I am taking the time to write. Because if we believe in peace we have to oppose this assault and the mass killing of civilians (the 2.3 million people who are feeling this assault in their flesh are those you want to live in peace with!) and support release of people held captive on both sides, an end to the Israeli occupation, mutual recognition and shared peace and security.
1st you know this assault is not about releasing the Israelis held captive. So why pretend it is?
2nd, if you are making this analogy then you should say that the French police would bomb the building, the neighborhood and maybe even destroy Paris. It would not. But maybe that is because as an occupying Power, the Israeli government has no regard for Palestinian lives and rights and considers it okay to destroy entire cities and kill tens of thousands of Palestinians, half of them children, with some Israeli leaders openly advocating for annihilation and others advocating for ethnic cleansing. 3rd, if you can find justification for the killing of so many Palestinian civilians don’t you think somebody can do the same intellectual exercise you did and find an analogy to justify the killing of Israeli civilians. Shouldn’t we strive to end this cycle rather than sustain it? It would make more sense to plead and act for an end to the killing, for release of those held captive (how many thousands of Palestinians are held captive, how many thousands were abducted in recent weeks), for Palestinian and Israeli families to be reunited in life rather than death, for an end of the siege and the occupation, for peace. I believe in a future of freedom for the Palestinian people and shared peace and security and I try to write and act accordingly. And since you speak of peace I did not expect to see you write to justify mass killing of Palestinians.
Is anyone traveling from UK to Paris and can bring some ‘night nurse’? I just bought one when I came back last week but since I have been sick with cold and sore throat I am running out … urgently needed! Is there any equivalent of it in France? Thanks if anyone can help!