<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="gt-src-c" class="g-unit"><div id="gt-src-p"><div class="" id="gt-src-wrap"><div style="width: 100%;"></div><div id="gt-src-tools"><div id="gt-src-tools-l"><div style="display: inline-block;" id="gt-input-tool"></div></div><div id="gt-src-tools-r"></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="gt-res-c" class="g-unit"><div id="gt-res-p"><div id="gt-res-data"><div id="gt-res-wrap"><div id="gt-res-content" class="almost_half_cell"><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><div id="tts_button"><span class="">我完全同意</span><span class="">。</span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><span class="short_text" lang="zh-CN"><span class=""><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><span class="short_text" lang="zh-CN"><span class="">--CGE</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><span class="short_text" lang="zh-CN"><span class=""><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><span class="short_text" lang="zh-CN"><span class=""><br></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div>On Jul 27, 2014, at 11:03 AM, ewjohnson via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/27/2014 10:08 PM, David Green via
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<div>Thanks to Niloofar for her invaluable contribution to this
morning's paper, and to Mort Brussel for his timely letter. I
link to the letter, and paste Niloo's article below.</div>
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<div>Since the mainstream media won't do it, it's up to us to
inform our fellow citizens</div>
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<div>DG</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2014-07-27/gazas-misery-not-being-reported.html">http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2014-07-27/gazas-misery-not-being-reported.html</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">During Israel's
recent assault on Gaza, President Barack Obama, Congress
and the American media
have been sounding off the mantra of "Israel's right to
defend
itself" against rockets from Gaza — a self-evident right,
if Israel were
indeed the innocent victim of a military aggression, and
not its perpetrator.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">The right to
self-defense actually belongs to the Palestinians, who, as
the indigenous
population of Palestine, have been subjected to ethnic
cleansing since 1947-8.
This project will continue unless the U.S. stops vetoing
U.N. Security Council
resolutions against Israel's illegal actions — so far, 42
such vetoes.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">As of July 25,
Israel's bombing campaign and the more recent addition of
a ground offensive
have killed 800 and seriously wounded 5,500 Palestinians —
80 percent being
unarmed civilians, including 200 children. The Israeli
government and the Obama
administration have been explaining away the high civilian
casualty by accusing
Hamas of using civilians as human shields, and placing
their military
installations among civilians.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">They know well,
though, that having the world's highest population
density, Gaza cannot afford
its refugee and local populations residential
neighborhoods. Moreover, as
Israeli journalist Amira Hass writes, Israel itself has
its military
headquarters in civilian areas.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">There is ample
evidence to confirm that Israel's political and military
strategists are not
just after militant Islamists and their military
installations, but use their
war machine to instill terror in the hearts and minds of
children and adults
trapped in these killing fields.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Norwegian
physician Dr. Mads Gilbert, who has been treating the
injured in Gaza,
describes the extreme damage that Israel's U.S.-made dense
inert metal
explosives — DIME — inflict on their victims:</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">"People are
torn apart. I mean, they're split at their mid-level. They
lose their arms and
legs, and they're killed. They're charcoaled by the burns,
if they are hit by
these DIME explosives," he said.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">In addition, the
Israeli army, which boasts of the precision of its
targeting, has killed many
civilians who could not have been mistaken as militants:
Nine young men were
torn into pieces and 15 more wounded as they were watching
a World Cup game in
a beachfront cafe on July 9. On July 16, four small
children who were playing
on the beach were killed by two rounds of bombing. The
civilians, who had taken
refuge in a U.N. school, were denied time to leave before
the school was
bombed, killing tens.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">All this is
nothing but terrorism, and America is its financier and
sponsor.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Besides loss of
life and severe injuries, the destruction of the remaining
infrastructure from
Israel's bombings during the winter of 2008-09 and the
one-week assault in 2012
will further harm the health and the ability of Gazans to
make a living. People
have irrevocably lost the use of 60 percent of their
agricultural land. The
vast majority of their chicken coops, their only flour
mill, water tanks and
sewage-treatment facilities are targeted and destroyed; so
is most of their
electricity-generating capacity.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">The harsh
maritime, aerial and ground blockade that Israeli leaders
have maintained over
Gaza since 2007 has made it next to impossible for the
people to acquire the
needed material to fix damages to the infrastructure.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">In addition, the
blockade has been depriving the Gazans of the nutrition
they need to sustain
themselves. Gisha, an Israeli human-rights organization,
has documented that in
2008, Israeli health experts had calculated that in order
to prevent
malnutrition, 170 truckloads of food should be allowed
into Gaza — less than
half the number of trucks entering Gaza with foodstuff
before the siege. The
Israeli officials have lowered this minimum to 67, doubled
the number of trucks
filled with empty-nutrient foods, and have drastically
reduced the amount of
milk, fruits and vegetables allowed into Gaza.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">A Red Cross
report leaked in 2008 concluded that "chronic malnutrition
is on a
steadily rising trend and micro-nutrient deficiencies are
of great
concern."</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Before the start
of the current military campaign, 80 percent of Gazans
were dependent on
humanitarian aid to survive. Given this dire situation, it
shouldn't be hard to
understand the level of anger and hatred toward Israeli
policymakers.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Now Hamas is
being blamed for rejecting the cease-fire "plan," drafted
by Egypt's
military rulers without input from Hamas. Hamas correctly
maintains that a
brief cease-fire and return to the status quo is
meaningless. They point to the
cease-fire of November 2012, which was to lead to the
easing of the Gaza siege
but was ignored by Israel with the usual impunity.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">This time, Hamas
says, they will only accept a cease-fire based on the
recognition of the
short-term demands of Palestinians. Among those are the
permanent lifting of
the Israeli blockade, the extension of the small zone
imposed on Gaza
fishermen, placing international forces at Gaza's borders
with Israel and
Egypt, and non-interference of Israel in the formation and
workings of the
Palestinian unity government, which has the blessing of
the Quartet (representatives
of the U.N., U.S., EU and Russia).</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Without due
pressure, Israeli policy-makers will not accept these
conditions, which are
within the framework of international law and past
consensus. The key to the
success of this first step toward a just peace between
Palestinians and
Israelis is the U.S., which is still unwilling to be an
honest broker.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">This situation
leaves Americans with only one ethical option: To persist
in our demand that
our government end its unconditional and destructive
support of Israel, and/or
to join the boycott, divestment and sanction campaign
until Israeli Jews decide
to join the international community and live in peace with
their Palestinian
cousins.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><font size="3" face="Calibri">In the meantime,
we have no right to deny the right of Palestinians to
resist the siege and the
occupation through whatever means that are still at their
disposal.</font></span></div>
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