tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1421521749836655078..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Another stunning sunset: Ilan Pappe: Israel's righteous fury and its victims in GazaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20715431265656236812014-07-20T14:24:16.750-07:002014-07-20T14:24:16.750-07:00Thanks Duncan.
They can snoop on me over here.
A...Thanks Duncan.<br /><br />They can snoop on me over here.<br /><br />A few readers with a heart trump all the armies of the robo-monitors every time.<br /><br />Those Sderot viewing-couches are being kept warm every sunset, now ... it's not only the light show but that heady aroma of victory that seems to linger after the explosions, I guess... but evidently there's a bit of a litter problem... <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing" rel="nofollow">who wants to bother cleaning up the empty beer bottles when there's always another brilliant explosion to watch (bigger and better every night), or a helpless female reporter to harass...</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65187998820583733442014-07-20T12:24:39.608-07:002014-07-20T12:24:39.608-07:00Stick with it, Tom. We can hear you over here.Stick with it, Tom. We can hear you over here.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87576774480043333742014-07-19T14:34:18.533-07:002014-07-19T14:34:18.533-07:00Thank you, Nin, and there's nowhere I'd ra...Thank you, Nin, and there's nowhere I'd rather be at this moment than in Maine, disconnected from the world mostly. Here I remain perhaps equally disconnected, in the middle of the traffic, in a difficult spiritual time for many, hanging on amid the confusion as best I'm able to what seems right largely by virtue of inspiration from friends, like you.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22161893883868281132014-07-19T08:49:02.913-07:002014-07-19T08:49:02.913-07:00In Maine and disconnected from the world mostly, I...In Maine and disconnected from the world mostly, I come back here first to get caught up on the events. Thanks, Tom for your powerful postings. Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19677441213871591512014-07-18T18:41:34.540-07:002014-07-18T18:41:34.540-07:00Objective witnesses were not exactly thick on the ...Objective witnesses were not exactly thick on the ground to start with, and with every day, under pressure of the menace of isolation, the possibility of rational discourse, or even a conversation, dwindles.<br /><br />But here are a few pieces turning up here and there, on blogs of course, far from CBS and BBC and Fox and the sly fox Rupert Murdoch.<br /><br />Here is Juan Cole, writing yesterday (July 17): <br /><br />NBC.com caught the Israeli shelling of children on the beach on film. Apparently some of the children had been playing soccer with the journalists before the barrages began! There was no warning (contrary to what Euronews suggested) and there were no military targets on the beach. There were just little boys who tried to run away and who appear to have been deliberately targeted for a second strike by an Israeli gunboat.<br /><br />NBC journalists and editors appear to be angry about this incident, since, unusually for American television news, they dared be quite frank in their language about Israeli culpability. Veteran correspondent Richard Engels pointed out that despite Hamas’s largely ineffectual rockets, it is the Palestinians of Gaza who are bearing the brunt of Israeli bombardment, since they have no shelter and nowhere to go. <br /><br />“It was broad daylight. There was no warning. It wasn’t the precision war Israel says it is fighting… Israel claimed that it was firing at Hamas militants at the port. But the dead were four young boys.” That is, NBC just called the Israeli military bald-faced liars, because there were no Hamas militants on that beach, just children playing.<br /><br />What can we conclude from this sickening attack? <br /><br />1. Israel actually has quite bad intelligence about Gaza. The Israeli navy thought it was bombarding militants when it was actually just shelling a civilian beach with little children running around on it.<br /><br />2. Israel doesn’t know exactly what it is shelling. The Israelis clearly saw the four little boys running away, and deliberately fired another shell at them, killing them. The gunner surely thought he had Hamas in his sights. In fact, they were just little boys, deliberately targeted and killed as they were trying to get away.<br /><br />3. Israel’s so-called warnings to Palestinians to leave are absurd, because the civilians have no place to go in tiny Gaza.<br /><br />4. This is not a precision war on Israel’s part. The Israeli officers outside Gaza are just hitting any old target and then declaring it a Hamas depot.<br /><br />5. Israel’s response to the incident, that it will conduct an investigation, is pure propaganda. The Israeli government almost never finds against itself. The passive aggressive phraseology is a dead giveaway. <br /><br />The shelling of boys on a beach is symbolic of the aggressive paranoia of the Likud government.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52434367026770750482014-07-18T13:38:49.039-07:002014-07-18T13:38:49.039-07:00Creative comment is often the most telling.
Here ...Creative comment is often the most telling.<br /><br />Here is Tom Raworth's pertinent variation on the <a href="http://tomraworth.com/notes/?p=4827" rel="nofollow">"fish in a barrel"</a> theme...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33885481782136102242014-07-18T13:33:54.806-07:002014-07-18T13:33:54.806-07:00Also from Guardian: Peter Beaumont in Gaza, 7/18/1...Also from Guardian: Peter Beaumont in Gaza, 7/18/14:<br /><br />The house of the Antez family in Sha'af looks undamaged from the outside. But the men milling around it have the dazed faces of grief that tell a different story.<br /><br />Inside, the hole punched by the tank shell that hit the house, after clearing the retaining wall, is visible about 3m (10ft) off the ground.<br /><br />It seems a small thing – a hole the size of a toaster. But the shell travelled through four walls, scattering pieces of shrapnel that have been gathered and placed to one side.<br /><br />There were 60 people from three families sheltering inside, some under the stairs, some in a corridor leading to a half-finished room.<br /><br />Following the shell's path through the house, three pools of blood punctuate where three people died – two of them children.<br /><br />Salem Antez, 29, approached with a purple plastic bag and opened it, its contents terrible.<br /><br />"This is my son," he said and nothing else, tears tracking down his face. Mohammad, another family member explained, was two. The other dead were Abed Ali, 24, and Mohammad Ibrahim, 13. Salem bent back to his task – his bag becoming a little heavier. "They hit us at 8.45pm," an uncle said. "We had just finished our Iftar meal and were gathered here for safety."<br /><br />The morning after the night of the artillery barrage that launched Israel's ground offensive into Gaza drew back the veil on the consequences – a bleak procession of the dead and injured from the coastal enclave's south through its eastern border regions up to the north.<br /><br />The deaths in the Antez family came as Palestinian health officials said 27 Palestinians, including a baby, two children and a 70-year-old woman, had been killed since Israel poured ground forces into the densely-populated strip of 1.8 million Palestinians on Thursday night.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85250908929233321872014-07-18T13:32:25.041-07:002014-07-18T13:32:25.041-07:00Thanks for the company, Hazen and Carol.
Predicta...Thanks for the company, Hazen and Carol.<br /><br />Predictably, as the carnage expands, the coverage dwindles; mayfly news media are now fixated on the newest War of the Worlds, Hildebeest vs Putain, and Gaza is once again yesterday's news; in the US, private citizens may be outraged by the suffering systematically inflicted by Zionists in Gaza; but mainstream broadcast media continue to parrot the AIPAC party line -- defending the Zionists' "right to defend themselves". To attempt to maintain a career as a journalist, academic or "public" person of any kind one must check one's moral instincts at the gate -- on pain of being shipped off to Moscow. (See below.) <br /><br />from Guardian: live blog 7/18/14:<br /><br />CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering Israel's Gaza offensive, after she tweeted that Israelis who had threatened her before an on-air report and were heard cheering the bombing of Gaza in the background, were "scum", the Huffington Post reports.<br /><br />After her segment aired on CNN, Magnay tweeted: 'Israelis on hill above Sderot cheer as bombs land on #gaza; threaten to 'destroy our car if I saw a word wrong'. Scum." The tweet was later removed.<br /><br />"After being threatened and harassed before and during a liveshot, Diana reacted angrily on Twitter," a CNN spokeswoman told the Huffington Post. "She deeply regrets the language used ... She certainly meant no offense to anyone beyond that group, and she and CNN apologize for any offense that may have been taken." Magnay has been reassigned to Moscow.<br /><br />The incident comes as NBC News is facing growing criticism for removing veteran foreign correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin from Gaza, The Intercept reports. On Tuesday, Mohyeldin personally witnessed the killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys who had been playing football on a Gaza beach.<br /><br /> According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault ...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90559030477090344982014-07-18T09:00:06.919-07:002014-07-18T09:00:06.919-07:00Hansel
We my sister Gretel, oh Gretel left our fa...<b>Hansel</b><br /><br />We my sister Gretel, oh Gretel left our father’s house and scattered and lost did not stop at her old witch woman’s cottage candy hungry but kept on into the world, woods. We were set upon by rebels guerillas tribesmen revolutionaries who they raped cut off and stabbed left I my sister <i>Gretel, Gretel</i> for dead graves hands, for two days nearly to get we circled back; her cottage, burned ruin, hungry kept us alive. Then Gretel in the night died a creature something dragged her out and half-devoured her it. I filled my pockets I walked I Hansel out recognizing nothing birds circling above me I was a child who liked sweets this is my testimony what I broken know and don’t forget everything has to eat.<br /><br />[from Kim Addonizio's <i>Lucifer at the Starlite</i>]Carol Petershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939321886306936715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83686037357621165522014-07-18T05:16:36.381-07:002014-07-18T05:16:36.381-07:00Tom, Thanks for bringing the truth to light, again...Tom, Thanks for bringing the truth to light, again and again. Pappe's indictment points to the ideological and historical basis for Israel’s policy of genocide. Berelovich has crafted an excellent documentary . . . two voices that need to be heard above the murderous violence and the justifications for it.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-92174584504307701592014-07-18T01:05:20.519-07:002014-07-18T01:05:20.519-07:00Ilan Pappe's is a calm, historically informed ...Ilan Pappe's is a calm, historically informed and reasoned voice amid a swirl of calculated deception and casual misunderstanding.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIWvcBzbqVc" rel="nofollow">Israeli Myths and Propaganda: An interview with Prof. Ilan Pappe, Haifa, 2010</a><br /><br /><br />Also highly recommended for those who value awareness of history as real life:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufLAitMq3zI" rel="nofollow">The Zionist Story (2011)</a><br /><br />This self-financed independent film by Ronen Berelovich, veteran of the IDF occupying forces, uses archival footage to document the development and evolution of techniques of ethnic cleansing, colonization and apartheid employed to produce a demographically "purified" Jewish State.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com