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UNRWA’S SPOKESPERSON BROKE down in tears while carrying out a TV interview on the continuing crisis in Gaza.
Chris Gunness of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the near East was speaking after today’s shelling of a UN school housing Palestinian refugees.
“The rights of Palestinians, even their children, are wholesale denied and it’s appalling,” he said before being overcome with emotion:
Gunness also tweeted his frustrations over the danger facing his staff and the scale of the tasks they face:
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The US issued some of their strongest comments on the violence yet in their criticism of the school attack, but did not assign blame for the incident.
“Obviously nothing justifies the killing of innocent civilians seeking shelter in a UN facility,” deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said today.
Harf stressed that ”Innocent Palestinians seeking refuge in these schools should not have shells dropped on them, should not come under attack,” and added, “we don’t know for certain who shelled this school, we need to get all the facts.”
This afternoon, at least 17 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a busy market in Gaza during a limited ‘humanitarian’ ceasefire announced earlier today by the Israeli military.
The IDF declared a “humanitarian window in Gaza from 15:00 to 19:00″ to allow the evacuation of the dead and wounded, though the military said the ceasefire would not be in effect in areas where its soldiers were operating.
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If 1000 Israeli civilians were killed you could be sure the UN would be stepping in. It seems the lives of Palestinian children bear no value to western countries.
No one can pretend at this stage that it is a conflict between 2 nations, a classic war. It is a conflict against a people, an nation with a powerful army trying to wipe out the natives, who have glorified pop guns and projectiles.
As the Seanad is being recalled to discuss the ongoing situation in the Palestine-Israel region this Thursday, we invite you attend a vigil outside Leinster House on Kildare Street, Dublin 2 between 1pm and 2pm…
The message of the vigil will be that only by sanctioning Israel will Ireland and the international community as a whole be able to help put a stop that states’ constant human rights and international law violations against the Palestinian people.
Such sanctions, we believe, should take the form of an arms embargo, EU and unilateral trade sanctions, and the expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland.
Please join us to make your voice heard, it’s time for Justice for Palestine!
Note: This is one of two events taking place on Thursday in Dublin, the second is at 6pm outside the Dept of Foreign Affairs, organised by Gaza Action Ireland – Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/794804117216620/
Organised by Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Irish Anti-War Movement!
Be there… and help resist Z.i.o.n.i.s.m and the Hasbara voices of hate!
Moshe Feiglin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party and the deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset:
“Israel must attack Gaza even more mercilessly, expel the population and resettle the territory with Jews!”
Israel could not care less about the UN.
There is only one opinion they care about – the USA. The only thing that will stop this, is for America to step up & condemn it.
The place for these protests is outside the American Embassy. They should have to look outside their windows and see the outrage we feel at their support for genocide.
Mark
This video shows the purposeful carrying out of war crimes by Israel. It is a war crime to fire upon the RedCross or Red Crescent.
I could not see a single weapon anywhere in the video. I’d be very surprised ig the Israeli Army didn’t have artillery observers who oiled be able to see ambulances etc arriving and yet stil continued to direct fire on the area.
Criminals
@PattyCulhane reports the #Pentagon confirms delivery of two types of munitions to #Israel in the last week: 120mm mortar rounds and 40mm grenades, while calling for a ceasefire in #Gaza
It’s exactly the same as Russia giving arms to the separatists and the US blaming Putin for enabling the shooting down of flight MH17. The US are enabling Israel in the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza, and they can’t or won’t see the hypocrisy of it.
@Reagan …not like you on that IDF naval vessel that fired the shells that killed the 4 boys on the beach hey..you were onboard to be able to come on here and say they werent targeted intentionally..remember!!!?!
Dermot, I’m in the US and I’m well aware of the suffering that Palestinians are going through and I’m getting that from US media.
Are you here? Are you watching the news over here?
The USA religious bigots reckon the Rapture will happen when the Jews control all of Palestine so they back Israel and American gobsite presidents will not tell them this is bullshit
Regain, if you have Sky or UPS all you have to do is watch the difference in reporting between the American news channels and the likes of BBC and Channel 4. Even Sky News are giving a reasonably accurate account of what’s going on in Gaza.
Tim Thewell interviewing an Israeli woman living near Gaza border – described as a ‘peace activist’ – woman approving Israeli action ‘…because of the tunnels…’, saying ‘…. how can I give my children a safe life?….’ (all spoken in posh English accent incidentally..)
w*t*f is wrong with these BBC journalists ??????? 341 Gazan children now blown to bits in less than 2 weeks, 1000s more maimed for life…. why doesn’t Tim Thewell ASK THIS EFFIN WOMAN TO SPECIFICALLY JUSTIFY THE MASS MURDER OF THESE CHILDREN !!!
How can this journalist describe this woman as a ‘peace activist’ & let her carry on to justify the MASS MURDER of childre, totally unchallenged & in the same tone of voice he might use to announce the effin weather ????? Totally effin ORWELLIAN s.h.1.t from BBC…
Really I am so F*ING ANGRY at the sheer lack of humanity from ALL THESE PEOPLE….
I reapeat 341 CHILDREN BLOWN TO BITS
WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD OR HUMANITY CAN JUSTIFY THIS ????????
We need a revolution NOW. All these people in media and politics spewing obscene mealy mouthed, matter-of-fact ‘justifications’, or as Chomsky, Pilger and others put it “…. this process of ‘normalisation’….. of pure depravity… Get these people out of office NOW.
(sorry for shouting…. there are really no words to describe how desipable is the behaviour, not justy of Israelis for this massacre, but the almost total sheer lack of media challenge…)
Well said Mike, couldn’t agree more. The emperor certainly ain’t wearing no clothes, people are finally seeing the people that run the west for what they are…parasites on this planet sucking the lifeblood from the rest of us….big decisions for people coming up over the next few years, what they are doing to Gaza today will be coming to a place near u tomorrow, that is as certain as night following day if we let them.
The BBC are totally biased against Israel , Hamas are thugs who do not care about the suffering of the civilians , deliberately put their rockets in among civilians , The UN in a moment of weakness admitted to finding rockets in their buildings , if Hamas fire from a building the Israelis fire back resulting in death for those unfortunate people and PR coup for Hamas , there is a lot of talk about the American involvement , but nothing about Irans support of Hamas , their involvement is not about improving the lives of the people , but improving the military capability of Hamas
Yes Mike they’re totally biased against Israel when they won’t even play an aid message for Gaza just to raise money for food, medicines and clothes! Look Again Please…
Actually Mike, remembering the BBC news on Gaza the other day, I think if anything the problem with the BBC is that they’re too busy being impartial. They seem pretty unbiased to me.
Please dont confuse Balanced reporting with Accurate reporting… there’s a world of difference between the two…
Palestinian dead: Over 1300 with nearly 10,000 wounded, many horribly. (80% civilians, well over 240 children dead with new born babies being c-Sectioned from the mothers dead bodies), not to mention the wantan destruction of every single aspect of life in the Gaza Concentration Camp!
Israeli dead: Approx 50, and all but 3 are soldiers. With many in the civilian population suffering deep psychological trauma as they run for their nearest Starbucks when the air raid siren goes off.
Well mary I watched sky news the other day and it showed 50 seconds of gaza (a hamas “rocket launch”) and then it showed 5 mins of a israeli family at a funeral of a solder that died.. it was showing how the israeli families life was turned upside down when their 23 year old military son was killed… sky, CNN, fox, all them are bias assh$#*les that report garbage and nothing more.
Yes I saw the picture of Israelis sitting out on deck chairs with cocktails, smiling, posing for selfies, threatening American journalists to behave or they would be attacked, and cheering as another Palestinian family was butchered by Flagellates, white phosphorous and high explosive bombs!
please can i ask ,why the hell aint the American people that sees what going on in Gaza since early july doing something to stop the killing of kids every day ,or have all Americans lost all sence of rite from wrong?
And it seems the Rockets are such a threat that they only bother shooting down the odd one as most fall harmlessly into open areas… I can really see just how terrified they are…
See my post below Denis for a clue… and check out John Stewarts Daily Show clips on YouTube… He’s one amazing dude, Jewish too.. and he cleverly exposes just how unfree the US media really is…
What about the 20000 children killed in Chechnya supposedly by the Russians?
Those poor children should be asking their parents why they voted militants whose aim is the destruction of Israel into power.
The Israelis have children’s blood on their hands god help them. I hope it can come to an end but we need intervention from the international community for this and Hamas out of power.
The BBC have taken the ‘appearance’ of supposed impartiality to a high art of Edward Bernays-ian ‘PR’ (as Bernays coined the term… because, in his own words.. ‘…the word propaganda has ‘connotations’…’ ).
Please read medialens.org for the most detailed and painstaking analysis of BBC output whenever ANY issue threatens to challenge the established power structures. They +always+ accede to power.
What most people never realise is that it is not what the BBC and others in MSM say, but what they choose to NOT say, and the questions they choose NOT to ASK.
Another major way impartiality or objectivity is subverted is the use of ‘think tank’ talking heads, with the implication that they are somehow honest academics. Many of these media savvy spokepersons have PhDs or credentials like Associate Professor. But the ‘think tanks’ they are paid/employed by are far from ‘neutral’. E.g. the American Enterprise Institute, a right wing corporate funded organisation that regularly supplies speakers to the BBC and others. The source of their funding is never mentioned.
Go read for yourself. This rabbit hole never stops giving.
Also, everyone should know who Edward Bernays was, what he did, who for, and how his methods of mass manipulation have continued to be refined…. but almost NEVER discussed in MSM anywhere, and never have been.
Watch a 4 part series called ‘Century of the Self’ available on download from archive.org (use their search to find the parts) for an excellent introduction. (Yes, it was made by Adam Curtis for the BBC, but IIRC screened only twice and at very inconvenient times, and on their minority channels only. IE it was buried.)
Adrian, you make fair points and then you head off suddenly into exaggerated bullshit. At the first sign of a phosphorous bomb this whole sorry saga would be brought to an end by the US. Stick with facts and you will do your cause some good. You are obviously articulate enough to explain your point but your exaggeration is loosing you subscribers.
Mr. Know , would the reason be that they are ‘sitting tight’ and monitoring the situation (whilst innocent lives are destroyed – as they are fearful, possibly other middle eastern countries will get involved ??Iran – ??threat of nuclear weapons Israel & Iran
The mass murder of children is ocurring before our eyes deliberately perpetrated by a supposedly ‘civilised’, ‘democratic’ and wealthy state.
The VAST MAJORITY of human beings KNOW that their CANNOT be ANY EXCUSE for this to have continued for more than two weeks.
YET….. near ALL those in political leadership & positions of authority, NOR those reporting and analysing in near ALL the MAINSTREAM MEDIA are even prepared to criticise the country responsible, LET ALONE TAKE ANY DIPLOMATIC OR ECONOMIC ACTION to stop it.
These TWO completely incompatible FACTS tell you near ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW about HOW MORALLY BANKRUPT and DYSFUNCTIONAL our societies’ SYSTEMS OF ORGANISATION have become.
We have let the PSYCHOPATHS take FULL CONTROL.
This is PRECISELY what happened in 1930s GERMANY.
Please….. PAY ATTENTION…. educate yourselves as to HOW this happened.
HUMAN BEINGS have PRECISELY the SAME SUSCEPTIBILITY to PROPAGANDA and the ELITE INTERESTS that PAY for it, EVERYWHERE.
When you steal my land, bomb my house killing my children, then you bomb a hospital killing patient’s, not satisfied with that you turn your guns on a UN school killing more little children. Don’t expect my hand in friendship.
I think you’re right Mike. I think though that US audiences are being shown even less of the carnage than we are. I was completely horrified when I heard David Cameron supporting Israel’s right to defend itself. If that’s defence I certainly wouldn’t like to see what they do to attack.
@ Mary I seem to remember that is was the US/UK axis that were the main countries involved in the murder of thousands of Iraqi people, so nothing new here
Dermot that has to be the most stupid and arrogant statement yet, not getting the truth because they don’t agree with you! Maybe they are aware of who Israel is fighting, fanatical Islamists who hide behind women and children, the sort of people who would crash aircraft into buildings and kill thousands of innocent people, we are not all as naive as you and the other Jihadi apologists.
The US never had a chance really… by 1945 the Z.i.o.n.i.s.t. Lobby had become so powerful, including Supreme Court Judges, that a committee of Z.i.o.n.i.s.t.s. visited Truman and one of their leaders Emanuel Celler pounded on Truman’s desk and said that if he didn’t support the Z.i.o.n.i.s.t project : “We’ll run you out of town!”
Seems the USA was conquered by an enemy that never needed to fire a shot… Stranger than Fiction!
US defence department confirms they gave the go ahead to a request from.the idf to use some weapons that the the US had in storage, last week.
Also congress in the US is currently authorising 600 million to be given to israel to improve their defences including the ‘iron dome’. Its time the world wised up to the arms trade and the administration in the us amd their agenda to fill the pockets of the arms based corporates
Just read that too nigel. They are supplying 40mm howzer projectiles etc. Im absolutely shocked at this. Well the US will end the UN just like they ended the league of nations.
This is how US is helping the ceasefire, do you lads think they give a toss about the mass murder of Palestinian kids , women, hospitals, or should i just say Gaza, nowhere is safe in Gaza, civilian are targeted at will, while their main stream media ie Fox news, BBC, sky are baby sitting Americans by showing them biased , false and totally filtered news. Even you can see it on journal.ie, they ll justify it for you just like that. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/25/372765/us-supplies-israel-weapons-used-on-gaza/
The American response to the attack on the UN school is pathetic. Could you imagine if Assad or someone else carried out an attack. The Americans would be calling it an atrocity carried out by a rogue state that demanded action and punishment from the international community. They have lost all credibility on the international stage!
Sure look at how they jumped all over MH17, sanctions against Russia within days when facts are very unclear. ?A month’s worth of videos of Israel shelling schools and Israel government admits to shelling schools, UN workers have died and US repeats the “right to defend themselves” line over and over.
@Pat exactly Pat… now you are talking about the real villains who are supposed to be the “Global moral guardians’. Have a look at this fab but chilling recent documentary by Jeremy Scahill where he goes undercover into many countries of conflict and highlights how the US is involved in them all and involved in a lot of attrocities including wiping out nomadic villages in southern yemen with rockets fired from US warships in the arabian gulf. Watch “DIRTY WARS – Documentary” on YouTube
DIRTY WARS – Documentary: http://youtu.be/Ixv27rGs-oI
Stephanie they are coming down big time on the Russians because they see them and the other Brics as a threat to their cherished petrodollar. That is what all these sanctions come down to. They are thinking in the long term to destroy the threat that a strong Russia in alliance with other growing non western economies could do to the US and European global hegemony.
Will watch that now Nigel, people need to realise the Americans are not the nice guy moral guardians of the world that they make themselves out to be but are crooks as bad as those they speak out against.
@Reagan…nobody is anti US or West..we live in the west you moron..people are against the foreign policies of the us administration and against the terror and murdering policies of the israeli authorities…not thr people in general for either
Boycotting Israel is plainly not enough. I don’t know how it could be achieved but a boycott of America is necessary at this point. They have to be solely held accountable for arming and vetoing their psychotic whipping boy. Its time to ramp up an initiative to put an end to this slaughter.
Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t that suggestion of an inquiry into all actions, including Hamas rejected as an amendment at the UN? If so, a lot of countries did object to it.
Four days ago a baby was born via c-section after her mother died. Today she died because the power for her incubator went after Israel targeted a power plant. We know that more than 1300 Palestinians have died in strikes so far. How many will die for lack of basic sanitation, power, healthcare, food and due to the rapid spread of disease now that there are so many people in such confined space?
Its sad in the extreme..if the idf and extreme israeli zi on ist right are the humans of the 21st century…well get me a ticket on d next virgin space flight off this hellhole planet
If Russia did this in Ukraine the US and UN would be on the verge of military action never mind the sanctions that they have put in place. Yet Isreal can get away with what is bordering on genocide with no consequences
The extreme zi on ist israeli right are even killing UN staff now.
For all the idf apologists and even genuine supporters of the israeli cause..ask yourselves 1 question:
Q: apart from taking the lives,hopes,dreams, shelter and amenities of thousands of innocent children and adults, WHAT is this IDF agression going to achieve in the end??
Good point Bon. Israel is fast loosing any remnants of respect / support it ever had. History will repeat itself regarding those people in spectacular form yet.
There is another holocaust already under way… so take a good look in he mirror when you go to bed tonight, whatever time it is in your place of the world you fake Hasbara Boy!
“My name is Reuven Moskovitz and I am a Holocaust survivor.
So why is a Jew trying to break the blockade of Gaza? It is a sacred duty for me as a Holocaust survivor, to protest against the persecution, the oppression and the imprisonment of so many people in Gaza, including more than 800,000 children.
I as a Holocaust survivor cannot live with the fact that the state of Israel is imprisoning an entire people behind fences. It is immoral!
What happened to me in the Holocaust wakes me up every night and I hope we don’t do the same thing to our neighbors, and what I went through during the Holocaust reminds me of what the besieged Palestinian children are going through!”
One country aggressively invades another, occupies and murders it’s citizens. It then builds a wall to ghettoise them all. No it’s not what you’re thinking, this is Israel in the 21st century. Chris Gunness is the only openly honest voice in the United Nations and he should be heard and fully supported.
It really is getting too much. Whole families are being killed and lives destroyed forever. Appalling. The Israelis should know the value of human life a lot better than most considering the history.
Marie Harff is a fu€king idiot, we don’t know who’s responsible for the bombing of the school yet. What kind of a moron is she to make a comment like that , I hope journalists crucifer her for it for the rest of her miserable life.
Put politics and religion aside for the sake of these people. This will be a black mark on humanity and will have far reaching repercussions in the future.
The pendant in me is alive: Chris Gunness’ name is spelled incorrectly in every instance of this article.
The human in me is also raging. We have to do something in protest, this is outrageous. Israel have a responsibility as the occupying power and should be held for war crimes.
All I can feel at the moment is fury.i just read that the little baby girl who was taken from her dead mothers body has died today because the IDF bombed the power source so her incubator would no longer work.
I’m sooo sick of hearing the israeli spokespeople say that hamas are using the palestinians as human shields and it’s their fault all these people are dying.nobody was using that little baby as a human shield.they’re bombing the f**k out of a country and they murder and maim thousands of innocent people and they try to pass the blame.i don’t for one second condone what hamas are doing but if we’re talking about killing innocent civilians hamas have killed 3 and israel have killed 1300 and that number rises dramatically everyday.i haven’t heard and palestinians say that they are being used as human shields either. This has gone way way too far.it’s literally making me sick:(
It’s all about money. Too many powerful, rich Jewish people in American politics and business. Any President or party that speaks out against them is commiting political suicide. Not saying it’s right, but that’s why the US are sitting on their hands.
They’re not Jewish, pretend to be so they can use the holocaust card while they commit genocide on the Palestinians and have young Jewish Israeli soldiers murdered. Z.ionists are not like the rest of us, they have no compassion, empathy or conscious. They spiritually and scientifically worship evil. And they control everything except us.
Can someone please stop that reagan eejit from posting pure bile on all these articles. I’m all for free speech and your own personal opinion but this has to classify as madness!
The israeli SS has now imprisoned the innocents in the Death Camp that is the Gaza Ghetto for nine years and with no means of escape the despised butcher SS israeli Kommandant netanyahu has decided to slaughter the innocent Palestinians in full view of the world because they were getting uppity in the Gaza ghetto and saying stuff like ‘this isn’t fair’ !!!!
So the SS israelis will do the slaughter right there in the Death Camp Gaza Ghetto in front of the cameras because war criminal hated SS israeli Kommandant netanyahu isn’t afraid of anybody because the Americans will give him guns.
At least the SS naziz took their prisoners away before slaughter but the SS israelis prefer to do it in public right there in the Gaza Ghetto Death Camp because the SS israeli terrorists can do what they like to the helpless Palestinians and the SS israelis already live on the illegally robbed and occupied Palestinian land. They robbed it earlier and then put the Palestinians into the Gaza Ghetto which is now their death camp.
Oh and Barak Obama thinks its just self defence on the part of the SS israeli’s because sometimes the prisoners in the Gaza Ghetto Death Camp try to get their freedom and that isn’t allowed in the Gaza Ghetto Death Camp and Barak says the SS terrorist isreali’s can have as many guns as it takes to slaughter every terrorist baby and child and old person and even the handicapped in the Gaza Ghetto Death Camp if the SS israelis think they know a Hamas government person living in the Gaza Ghetto…
Barak even doesn’t mind the United Nations compounds in the Gaza Ghetto Death Camp with babies and children and old people and handicapped people – all potential terrorists says SS israeli Kommandant netanyahu – getting blown to pieces if the terrorist SS israeli Kommandant netanyahu tells Barak that the UN compound was being used to fire missiles from, and Barak will definitely believe that and send more guns for slaughtering the innocents in the awful death camp that is the Gaza Ghetto …….
God Bless the poor innocent people of the Gaza Ghetto death camp tonight. How many of them will see tomorrow …..
Hasbara did strike again as usual ! I knew it would end up calling him antisemitic ..
To Reagan : you’ve got no respect for human lives…whoever you are …
Take a look at this public figure. He is educated, yet he is a devout Muslim. Look at the profiles of the people that comment on his page. Devout Muslims. How many times do you see the word Allah or God? These people are psychotic. Islam is a religion of pure delusion and psychopathy. I know what is happening in Gaza is horrible but Muslims don’t even acknowledge their extremist bretheren or their medieval laws. The Quaran is the only book worth reading in their eyes. Islam is their entire way or life. They are opposed to you and me, everybody in the West.
Seriously man wtf has this got to with Israelis massacring women and children in a UN compound. You and the other defenders of these massacres are sick individuals, why do you not condemn the IDF for these heinous crimes.
So that’s your justification for the unbridled and merciless savagery , shown by Israel, in killing without hesitation, innocent men, women , and children. If that’s your philosophy of life God help you.
breakingthesilence.org
Israeli soldiers website. Read their testimonies about the horrific human rights abuses they are ordered to commit against innocent Palestinian children, women & men. Then go crawl under that rock you came from. Hamas are terrorists, Israel calm to be a civilised nation that is why we judge them. Now we know Israel are a fundamentalist terrorist group also !!!
I am not supporting the IDF. The entire situation is a massive fuster cluck. I am just so dismayed by all the Palestine bias. People here are making out like Palestine are just victims. Both Israel and Palestine have perpetrated horrible acts of murder, but where is condemnation of Palestine? Pure populism. In fact, Palestine have committed worse acts of terror than Israel
Hamas are terrorist group they are not innocent Palestine people, just like the IRA where not 100% Irish population. As Irish people it is close to our hearts because if the UK bombed Ireland over the IRA actions, what would you think of them. Hamas spokes people clearly say they are fundamentalist group all their hatred exposed. Israel on otherhand calm to be civilised hence the hard judgement from Irish nation. As we have family members who spoke about the atrocities committed by the Black & Tans
Reagan, I think it’s the fact that Israel holds themselves out to be the most moral army in the world and It is becoming apparent that it’s clearly not the case, is where the pro-Gaza stance comes from. They are facing the full bring after all.
I suppose being realistic, in war you would unfortunately expect a number of civilian deaths but the majority though!?? How can it be anything other than a war crimes?
I’ll challange you Reagan. I’ll bring a list of Israeli massacres including the civillian causality’s, and you show me how the Palestinians have committed worse acts of “terror” What do you say, ready for a chalange or will you run & hide because you know you will lose, mr apologist !
Plenty of highly educated people in the West are very religious. And you need look no further than the Bible Belt in the US for people who are completely fixated on the Bible. Then in India there are fundamentalist religious Hindus who have formed a political party. Religious fanaticism isn’t the copyright of Muslims.
Former IDF soldier, whistle blower and peace activist Eran Efrati has been receiving leaked info from contacts in the IDF in Gaza and has been posting them on his facebook page. His account was taken down earlier today. His last post – http://goo.gl/TkyGis
@Pat, it’s just a typical hasbara troll deflection. This is how to spot these creeps on online media. They never ever address the story at hand but go for full on deflection. I’m guessing this Reagan smash is probably fognostical as his avator’s credibility has worn thin so he/she needed to re-invent themselves. They just sprout pure bile and hatred.
The one thing I do like about the journal however is that these creeps don’t dominate like the Sky news website which is full of them.
Netanyahu has become the modern day Hitler and I’m sure history will judge him so. Something has to be dome to stop this. If the governments of the free world are too spineless to act then the people must do something. Demonstrations are not working so why not collectively do a work stoppage for 1 hour even thirty minutes. at one of the busiest time for business. Why not try synchronise this across the EU. Make the governments take notice by bring economy to a stand still for 30 minutes across the EU. Show our spineless governments that the ordinary people want something stop this.
“Harf stressed that ”Innocent Palestinians seeking refuge in these schools should not have shells dropped on them, should not come under attack”
Yet at the same time the US is resupplying “Israel” with the very same shells ! When is our government gonna grow a pair and start searching US military planes at Shannon ?
Oh I forgot they are afraid we’ll lose “inward investment”
I’d much rather be poor than have the deaths of children on my conscience Enda Kenny, Charlie Flannagan !!!
Like Palestine, many other nations of the world are functionally, effectively and quietly controlled from beyond their borders by Israel and its Z!onist traitors to their own governments. Indeed this is a current symptom for these nations whose peoples have lost all control of their own democracies that only serve a Z!onist and Israeli agenda, while ignoring more real national interests. This week a shameful US House of Representatives and Senate both unanimously sent themselves to the gates of hell by passing separate Congressional Resolutions congratulating Israel on killing hundreds of children, infants, and innocent civilians. There was not one human left amongst the inhumanely indoctrinated US government. What type of man sells his morality, and his elected office, to justify and sanctify Israeli genocide? An inhuman.
Seeing as the Anti Israeli side are so fond of shouting about the deaths of children. Maybe you have short memories. Palestine use children suicide bombers. In some cases, the use disabled children because they are easier to manipulate. Israel may kill children because Gaza is so densely populated and the average age is so young, but at least they don’t strap c4 to children and send them to the enemy
@ reagan
Both Israel and hamas are equally bad, no one is suffering from short memory but Israel is a military powerhouse compared to hamas and because Gaza is so densely populated they should send in troops not airstrikes its a total disregard for civilian life .
Being an apologetic shill for a murderous occupying regime makes you a detestable human being, actually your rationalization of the murder of innocent children makes you sub human.
It’s not anti-Israel. This could be any country and I’d still oppose it. This is pro human rights. I am against the killing of children and civilians on whatever side and against whatever nation.
Hasbara waste of space…with the morals, ethics and empathy of the Waffen S.S.
Palestinian dead: Over 1300 with nearly 10,000 wounded, many horribly. (80% civilians, well over 240 children dead with new born babies being c-Sectioned from the mothers dead bodies)
Israeli dead: Approx 50, and all but 3 are soldiers. With many in the civilian population suffering deep psychological trauma as they run for their nearest Starbucks when the air raid siren goes off.
One person dead from any side is 2 much ,Ive tryed 2 understand from the 2sides past few years ,Why people do this to each other ,Its really horrible ,dont care who shot who ,Time all country stand togeather and try and stop it now ,,we only live once ,i dont want to try and tell my little girl anymore why people kill kids ,or hurt each other ,Igrew up in a country that every day people were hurt killed for over 30 years ,past few years things are good now ,life gan get better if people stand back and get the 2sides to talk ,drop the guns bombs and please stop ,enough now
@ Jonathan I wasn’t anti Israel but I sure as hell am now, because I am sickened by their justifications for their continued slaughter of innocents.
Their citizens elected a government that that continues to slaughter with impunity. There is very little protest in Israel against this so I am assuming the majority of its citizens are in favor
No Margaret, I’m guessing they’re one and the same person. These creeps have numerous accounts on facebook/twitter/Grinder etc and then just create new ones when the old ones expire.
Israel declared a 4 hour ceasefire. The people of Gaza thought it was safe to come out. Two and a half hours in they target and bomb a market killing many innocents.
These were not being used as shields but shows the Israeli intention of committing genocide
This is murder on a grand scale and the world just watches
Israel needs sanctions now and has to be tried for its murderous war crimes
AMERICA GOES TO WAR FOR OIL!!! but GENOCIDE UPON THE INNOCENT, America funds the genocide then sits back to observe!! (again for greed)While blaming the victims!! MAKES ME ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN.
I apologize on behalf of all the ignorant americans allowing these attrocities to go with no Protest, no empathy (hardly, with the exception of the concerned citizens commenting on here today, you all give me hope).. to all Palestenians now suffering so horribly. I’m so sorry.
Reagan get off our line, your lost, get back over to the fox blogs & leave us alone. We know better! People like you
Makes me ill!! The US makes me ill!!
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