TUNNED IN GAZA Gaza, July 15. For three days, Im with my son Frederic in Gaza. We will have to spend in Gaza also tonight. The limits are. People here expect that night especially heavy attacks from Israel. We visited victims families, climbed through bombed-out houses, went through crowded hospitals. About us always the ominous buzz of Israeli fighter drones. In the evening we sit tight on the roof of our hotel and watch the spooky gun battle between Israel and Gaza. We see the short lighting up of the rockets of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and their long white tail of smoke. Shortly thereafter the detailed by Mark and leg hissing an Israeli rocket, followed by an explosion stunned ears. The Earth trembles. At three in the morning, our hotel is flown so low by an Israeli missile, that hotel in profoundly shaking. Its like an earthquake. We feel we blearily on the corridors. We need from the hotel out? The missile destroyed a house located 200 meters from us. We go back to our room. Including its antecedents, the current war is a disgrace. And it is absurd. Like most wars. The kidnapping and murder of the young Israeli settlers, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel is the first DISGRACE. Who cowardly killed it. A Hamas spokesman denied me angry any participation in this wretched murder. Hamas must always confess to their deeds. She have nothing to do with this insanity. Whos telling the truth? THE second shame is the burning of the young Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir alive. The Israeli perpetrators forced him to drink gasoline and set him on fire. THE third shame is indiscriminate and brutal house searches and mass arrests in the West Bank--in the completely unrestrained bombing of Gazas 1.8 million ghetto residents. By Israeli fighter jets, missiles, helicopters, ships and drones. Result: 193 dead Palestinians (stand: 18 Gaza time). Women, children. The bombardment is boundless for each recognizable. True reason of this massive Bombenterrors is not the largely ineffectual and amateurish shooting the Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Which I also expressly condemn. She began after the killing of 6 Hamas fighters in Gaza and six Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. We have seen firsthand the shelling of Israel from Gaza. The sirens of Jerusalem howled up three incoming projectiles were discovered. Jewish Israelis ran pale to their hotels. Two minutes later, we heard three explosions in the distance. The floors were wrecked as usually, without causing damage, in the surrounding area. Also in the Israeli Ashkelon, we experienced an attack from Gaza. An approximately a metre Kassam missile had missed its target once again. Bent, it was on a street crossing. Police protecting the site of his crash landing. Evening in Jerusalem, the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sat at the next table of a small garden restaurant. He is reportedly still peace officer of the so-called Middle East Quartet. He laughed and laughed. About the largely ineffective missiles of Hamas and Islamic Jihad? Or about Gaza in the world media is regarded as an attacker? He had a very enjoyable evening. The Gaza war is a battle of David against Goliath. Except that this David from the tiny Gaza rarely meets. And is completely no chance. So far, there were a handful of injured and fortunately still no dead on the Israeli side. I lament all this Israeli injured explicitly. As every Palestinian deaths and injuries. All people are equal for me. Their suffering, their pain. But the massive murderous rocket blows of the Israelis to compare with the senseless shooting of Hamas, is completely foreign to reality. Already the previous numbers of fatalities show that: 193:0 headlines such as Israel under heavy fire put the facts on the head. Gaza is under heavy fire! Netanyahu wants to bomb the Hamas to its knees. Especially after she has partnered with the moderate Fatah and this has strengthened the Palestinian camp. Netanyahu wants no strong, United Palestinian leadership. Hes weak, pliable, humiliated interlocutors such as Mahmoud Abbas, that he can bring to the nose ring through the ring. Without that they defend themselves. Where he must make never real concessions. Because a Netanyahu makes no concessions. The suffering of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation has never interested him and will never be interested in him. Netanyahu wants peace with the Palestinians. Every leading US politicians by Obama to Kerry would confirm resignation. Netanyahu wants above all a free and independent Palestine. But Hamas wants peace? You make seriously this issue. Especially when one thinks of the old Charter of Hamas. But the surprising alliance with Fatah was not just a signal that Hamas was ready to swing the Fatah at least partly on the diligent, conciliatory course. Why Netanyahu fought so uncompromisingly this Alliance? The policy of the Israeli Government against the Palestinians is not only boundless since the current bombardment of Gaza. This is not only my personal opinion. Are Israeli facts: according to the Israeli human rights organization BTselem, which we phoned on weekends, were killed since the beginning of the second intifada on 29 September 2000 to a 1,110 today Israelis. In the same period, the Israelis killed over 7,000 Palestinians. Including more than 1,500 children. 7,000: 1,110. Should this be self defense? Long I sat yesterday on bloodstained hospital bed of the one-year Ishmael. He was seriously injured by an Israeli rocket in the back of the head. Will he survive? Then I was at the bedside of the 6-year-old Jason. She was wounded in the abdomen, lower back and liver. Her mother and two of her brothers were killed. But that doesnt know it yet. And we were the 9jährigen Maria shaken before the hospital bed. An Israeli missile fragments still inside her head. She lost by what she experienced, the language. When I think about Gaza, the heart bleeds me. The world, however accept almost anything without contradiction. It admits that the truth about this war almost grotesquely on its head will be. This is a shame. Stunned from Gaza! Your JT PS: we have been to the football World Cup final along with Palestinian families in Gaza. For security reasons, we didnt go in one of the many beach cafés. There were just before the start of the game Argentina against Holland 9 young Palestinians by an Israeli rocket killed 15 were injured. If this is not excessive warfare!
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:58:36 +0000
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