Will Any Line Be Drawn On Israeli War Crimes?
Will Any Line Be Drawn On Israeli War Crimes?
Does it count as a democracy when a clear majority of citizens hold one position on a subject while all 3 major political party leaders and almost every major media outlet are answering to highly funded lobbyists working aggressively to bully, marginalize and silence that position?
The size of the demonstrations is one sign. Notice, with most of the media and the mainstream party leaders on their side, trying desperately to create the false impression that most people support Israel, and all the money for organizing and advertising that powerful pro-Israeli lobby groups like the JDL and the Simon Weisenthal Centers, groups whose anti-racism work often draws immense public support and event turnout, can barely manage a trickle of supporters at their rallies while low funded and often inexperienced organizers, with help from mosques and small grassroots peace groups see their pro-palestine events surging in massive numbers responding en masse to the horror that Israel, and it's western allies, have tried very hard but failed to hide, and failing that, have attempted to justify.
The boys playing soccer on the beach before being murdered could not be hid, and the New York Times decision to change the headline regarding the incident, to make it more 'neutral', was visible.
Then the reports as Al-Aqsa hospital, in the central Gaza Strip, was shelled by tanks. The shells hit the third floor, which housed an intensive care unit and operating theaters, killing 4 and wounding more than 70.
United Nations Relief and Works Agency is the UN body responsible for the welfare of Palestine refugees. They serve around five million Palestine refugees, providing education, health care, food and a variety of social services, plus arranging microfinance for Palestinian trade efforts, as well as keeping camp infrastructure working.
A Palestinian man cleans up after a UN food distribution center was badly damaged in an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in 2012.
In the meantime, Israel has the support of our tax dollars and media, as well as companies that profit from the conflict, like Boeing, Elbitt Systems, Hewlett Packard, General Electric, General Dynamic,Lockhead Martin, Northrop Grumman, The Raytheon Company and United Technologies.
UNRWA Homepage: http://www.unrwa.org/
Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), NYT Re-Writes Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate? http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/17/nyt-rewrites-gaza-headline-was-it-too-accurate/
Electronic Antifada, UNRWA condemns Israeli “creation” of footage, tweets falsely claiming Gaza schools used to launch rockets. http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/unrwa-condemns-israeli-creation-footage-tweets-falsely-claiming-gaza-schools-used
American Friends Service Committee, US Corporations Complicit In Current Attacks On Gaza, http://afsc.org/resource/us-corporations-complicit-current-attacks-gaza