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Two Years after the Massacre: A Letter from Gaza

By Various Authors - Gaza, Palestine

We the Palestinians of the besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on from Israel's genocidal attack on our families, our houses, our roads, our factories and our schools, are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the time is now to hold Israel to account for its ongoing crimes against us. On the 27th of December 2008, Israel began an indiscriminate bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The assault lasted 22 days, killing 1,417 Palestinians, 352 of them children, according to main-stream Human Rights Organizations. For a staggering 528 hours, Israeli Occupation Forces let loose their US-supplied F15s, F16s, Merkava Tanks, internationally prohibited White Phosphorous, and bombed and invaded the small Palestinian coastal enclave that is home to 1.5 million, of whom 800,000 are children and over 80 percent UN registered refugees. Around 5,300 remain permanently wounded.

This devastation exceeded in savagery all previous massacres suffered in Gaza, such as the 21 children killed in Jabalia in March 2008 or the 19 civilians killed sheltering in their house in the Beit Hanoun Massacre of 2006. The carnage even exceeded the attacks in November 1956 in which Israeli troops indiscriminately rounded up and killed 275 Palestinians in the Southern town of Khan Younis and 111 more in Rafah.

Since the Gaza massacre of 2009, world citizens have undertaken the responsibility to pressure Israel to comply with international law, through a proven strategy of boycott, divestment and sanctions. As in the global BDS movement that was so effective in ending the apartheid South African regime, we urge people of conscience to join the BDS call made by over 170 Palestinian organizations in 2005. As in South Africa the imbalance of power and representation in this struggle can be counterbalanced by a powerful international solidarity movement with BDS at the forefront, holding Israeli policy makers to account, something the international governing community has repeatedly failed to do. Similarly, creative civilian efforts such as the Free Gaza boats that broke the siege five times, the Gaza Freedom March, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and the many land convoys must never stop their siege-breaking, highlighting the inhumanity of keeping 1.5 million Gazans in an open-air prison.

Two years have now passed since Israel’s gravest of genocidal acts that should have left people in no doubt of the brutal extent of Israel’s plans for the Palestinians. The murderous navy assault on international activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea magnified to the world the cheapness Israel has assigned to Palestinian life for so long. The world knows now, yet two years on nothing has changed for Palestinians.

The Goldstone Report came and went: despite its listing count after count of international law contraventions, Israeli “war crimes” and “possible crimes against humanity,” the European Union, the United Nations, the Red Cross, and all major Human Rights Organizations have called for an end to the illegal, medieval siege, it carries on unabated. On 11th November 2010 UNRWA head John Ging said, “There's been no material change for the people on the ground here in terms of their status, the aid dependency, the absence of any recovery or reconstruction, no economy…The easing, as it was described, has been nothing more than a political easing of the pressure on Israel and Egypt.”

On the 2nd of December, 22 international organizations including Amnesty, Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, and Medical Aid for Palestinians produced the report ‘Dashed Hopes, Continuation of the Gaza Blockade’ calling for international action to force Israel to unconditionally lift the blockade, saying the Palestinians of Gaza under Israeli siege continue to live in the same devastating conditions. Only a week ago Human Rights Watch published a comprehensive report "Separate and Unequal" that denounced Israeli policies as Apartheid, echoing similar sentiments by South African anti-apartheid activists.

We Palestinians of Gaza want to live at liberty to meet Palestinian friends or family from Tulkarem, Jerusalem or Nazareth; we want to have the right to travel and move freely. We want to live without fear of another bombing campaign that leaves hundreds of our children dead and many more injured or with cancers from the contamination of Israel’s white phosphorous and chemical warfare. We want to live without the humiliations at Israeli checkpoints or the indignity of not providing for our families because of the unemployment brought about by the economic control and the illegal siege. We are calling for an end to the racism that underpins all this oppression.

We ask: when will the world’s countries act according to the basic premise that people should be treated equally, regardless of their origin, ethnicity or colour – is it so far-fetched that a Palestinian child deserves the same human rights as any other human being? Will you be able to look back and say you stood on the right side of history or will you have sided with the oppressor?

We, therefore, call on the international community to take up its responsibility to protect the Palestinian people from Israel’s heinous aggression, immediately ending the siege with full compensation for the destruction of life and infrastructure visited upon us by this explicit policy of collective punishment. Nothing whatsoever justifies the intentional policies of savagery, including the severing of access to the water and electricity supply to 1.5 million people. The international conspiracy of silence towards the genocidal war taking place against the more than 1.5 million civilians in Gaza indicates complicity in these war crimes.

We also call upon all Palestine solidarity groups and all international civil society organizations to demand:

- An end to the siege that has been imposed on the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of their exercise of democratic choice.

- The protection of civilian lives and property, as stipulated in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law such as The Fourth Geneva Convention.

- The immediate release of all political prisoners.

- That Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip be immediately provided with financial and material support to cope with the immense hardship that they are experiencing.

- An end to occupation, Apartheid and other war crimes.

- Immediate reparations and compensation for all destruction carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the Gaza Strip.

- Boycott Divest and Sanction, join the many International Trade Unions, Universities, Supermarkets and artists and writers who refuse to entertain Apartheid Israel. Speak out for Palestine, for Gaza, and crucially ACT. The time is now.

Signatories:

General Union for Public Services Workers
General Union for Health Services Workers
University Teachers' Association
Palestinian Congregation for Lawyers
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers
General Union for Agricultural Workers
Union of Women’s Work Committees
Union of Synergies—Women Unit
The One Democratic State Group
Arab Cultural Forum
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
Association of Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Info
Palestine Sailing Federation
Palestinian Association for Fishing and Maritime
Palestinian Network of Non-Governmental Organizations
Palestinian Women Committees
Progressive Students’ Union
Medical Relief Society
The General Society for Rehabilitation
General Union of Palestinian Women
Afaq Jadeeda Cultural Centre for Women and Children
Deir Al-Balah Cultural Centre for Women and Children
Maghazi Cultural Centre for Children
Al-Sahel Centre for Women and Youth
Ghassan Kanfani Kindergartens
Rachel Corrie Centre, Rafah
Rafah Olympia City Sisters
Al Awda Centre, Rafah
Al Awda Hospital, Jabaliya Camp
Ajyal Association, Gaza
General Union of Palestinian Syndicates
Al Karmel Centre, Nuseirat
Local Initiative, Beit Hanoun
Union of Health Work Committees
Red Crescent Society Gaza Strip
Beit Lahiya Cultural Centre
Al Awda Centre, Rafah

israel warlike on wartime anniversary
israeli military chief, speaking on the anniversary of Israel's deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip, says his forces are ready for a new war on the besieged enclave.
Israeli Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi said on Monday in Tel Aviv, "We see the Hamas as responsible for the situation in Gaza and we take him (Hamas) as accountable for that. We don't want to escalate the situation but we will be ready for any development," the Associated Press reported.

The comments came in apparent reference to home-made projectiles, reportedly flown from Gaza, which are seldom known to have caused any casualties or considerable damage to Israeli properties.

Under the pretext of responding to the rocket attacks, Israel's military launches regular disproportionate attacks on Gaza, not refraining from inflicting human or material losses.

On Sunday, Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the east of the southern city of Khan Younis in the strip, AFP reported. Earlier in the month, at least five people were killed by an Israeli aerial assault on the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza.

Ashkenazi said earlier in December that "the next round (of fighting) will be extensive," Israeli website Ynetnews had reported.

The December 2008-January 2009 operations killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, inflicting a damage of above $1.6 billion on the coastal sliver's economy.

The war either destroyed or badly damaged thousands of homes in Gaza, putting the enclave on a long road to recovery amid a strict siege, which has been in place since mid-June 2007.

The United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict has found Tel Aviv guilty of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the deadly operation.

The report by the UN mission blamed Israel for deliberate targeting of civilians and using white phosphorus bombs in residential areas, notably on the UN Relief and Works Agency compound in the Gaza City as well as two Gaza-based hospitals.

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Martin W. · Dec 30, 2010

Marcellus

You make it very clear who you identify with.

I extend my sympathies to you for now.

Full condolences will come after The Day of Judgment .

Never forget that The God of the Jews is the Judge.
He doesn't forget anything.

Larry Conlley · Jan 16, 2011

The truth will MAKE you free.

Make you into what?

Make you free from what?

To do what?

Do you know?

Robbie · Jan 19, 2011

I don't see Jews or Muslims as right or wrong because I know there's a house full of Muslim kids and a house full of Jewish kids that both want the same thing... to coexist and enjoy the gift of life God has given them while loving their neighbors...

So I just see two groups... crazy people who want to rule the earth through fear created by violence and the puppets who follow their lead... and the meek who want to co exist and love their neighbors despite differences... the meek shall inherit the earth!!!

rjp34652@yahoo.com · Jan 20, 2011

Robbie said:
I don't see Jews or Muslims as right or wrong because I know there's a house full of Muslim kids and a house full of Jewish kids that both want the same thing... to coexist and enjoy the gift of life God has given them while loving their neighbors...

So I just see two groups... crazy people who want to rule the earth through fear created by violence and the puppets who follow their lead... and the meek who want to co exist and love their neighbors despite differences... the meek shall inherit the earth!!!

"It's not the earth the meek inherit, it's the dirt."
King Arthur - CAMELOT

Coexistance and neighborly love are qualities of life only found in children's fantasy books and Star Trek. The idea is a utopian dream bound for diappointment because it fails to recognize human nature. It is not a real view of life, people or the spiritual world. It should also be noted that those who hold to such a philosophy do not generally accept or understand religion as a whole and regard religious attitudes as mentally and socially disruptive.

Historically, religion has been the glue which has held human civilization together. Lack of it has caused chaos and war. The irreligious purposfully deny these facts and twist history to suit their own ends, which typically result in tyrannical murderous governments devoid of religion or morality (ie: NAZI Germaney, Stalinist Russia and Imperial Japan). These people also pull a shade over the eyes of their own understanding as they adopt the arrogant pretentious attitude that they alone hold all the answers, thus falling into the same trap as the religious folk they mock.

Religious belief of any sort usually has adherents who use their faith to build their life. Some do so with great vigor and find that religion in turn invorates their lives. The irreligious, having a different focus, usually denigrate the religous as mentally or socially deficency. These people do not understand the deeper aspects of human and spiritual relationships and are, in fact, less mentally and spiritually adept than those who do.

The real differences between Islam and the Judeo-Christian religions is not religion or even socio-economic factors. The real differences are spiritual and to that end the friction between us grows. One can propose all sorts of anti-religious schemes to calm the storm, but in the end these very proposals add to the difficulty because they do not recognize their spiritual impact. It is rather like Disney's cartoon FANTASIA where the sorcer's apprentice created a spell upon water carrying broom sticks that took on a life of their own. The result in the cartoon was disaster and the result of meddling by one who does not understand spiritual principles is the same.

There is a real sort of spiritual magic going on. Like electricity, it can be very dangerous and those that don't understand it should leave it alone.

Don't believe me? Watch the world and see what happens when those who think religion is a silly philosophy try to adjust the behaviour of those who take it seriously.

Foreigner · Jan 20, 2011

Just think, if the Palestianians had not tried to wipe the Israelis off the face of the earth shortly after the UN partitioned the land, they would have their own country and government today and wouldn't be sitting inside of refugee camps within other Arab nations who won't let them even walk the streets freely.

Just think how many of them would not be dead today if they didn't fire rockets into civilian Isreali cities, do suicide bombings, cross-border kidnappings, etc. etc. etc.

The Palestinian condition is just one big self-inflicted wound.

aspen · Jan 20, 2011

Foreigner said:
Just think, if the Palestianians had not tried to wipe the Israelis off the face of the earth shortly after the UN partitioned the land, they would have their own country and government today and wouldn't be sitting inside of refugee camps within other Arab nations who won't let them even walk the streets freely.

Just think how many of them would not be dead today if they didn't fire rockets into civilian Isreali cities, do suicide bombings, cross-border kidnappings, etc. etc. etc.

The Palestinian condition is just one big self-inflicted wound.

So, does that mean you would sit by and watch the UN partition the United States up? And then after we were beaten and living without proper utilities, education, employment - virtual prisoners of the partition we were assigned to - claim that we deserved it?

Just wondering

Rach1370 · Jan 20, 2011

If ever we needed proof of a spiritual war that is ongoing, I think it is to be found in the nation's unreasonable hatred of Israel. I mean really, what have they done???

People throw their hands up in horror and say 'they attacked those lovely people in Gaza and killed their children...they're monsters!'

How often do people really look at the situation? That situation being: the Jews have been defending their very right to exist for longer than we've taken it for granted that we should have life, liberty and the right to a flat screen TV.
The Jews are completely surrounded by religious extremists who don't want to 'share' or to be 'fair'...they want the Jews dead. All of them, gone. That includes all the women and children. That is unreasonable hatred.
So the Jews defend themselves...its either that or to sit placidly and wait for all their women and children to be stoned to death...a favorite of the Muslims.
In defending themselves, it is regrettable that some children in Gaza were killed. But who is truly to blame? Are you aware that tactics employed by Hamas include firing their own rockets out of daycare centers?? If these people truly cared for anything but their 'holy war'...their extermination of the Jews; would they really hide behind their own children, effectively putting them in the line of fire.

War in never nice, it's always a tragedy, but the real crime here is Hamas, who are pathological liars and don't give a moments thought to life. The only thing they hold sacred, is their mission.

aspen · Jan 21, 2011

Rach said:
If ever we needed proof of a spiritual war that is ongoing, I think it is to be found in the nation's unreasonable hatred of Israel. I mean really, what have they done???

People throw their hands up in horror and say 'they attacked those lovely people in Gaza and killed their children...they're monsters!'

How often do people really look at the situation? That situation being: the Jews have been defending their very right to exist for longer than we've taken it for granted that we should have life, liberty and the right to a flat screen TV.
The Jews are completely surrounded by religious extremists who don't want to 'share' or to be 'fair'...they want the Jews dead. All of them, gone. That includes all the women and children. That is unreasonable hatred.
So the Jews defend themselves...its either that or to sit placidly and wait for all their women and children to be stoned to death...a favorite of the Muslims.
In defending themselves, it is regrettable that some children in Gaza were killed. But who is truly to blame? Are you aware that tactics employed by Hamas include firing their own rockets out of daycare centers?? If these people truly cared for anything but their 'holy war'...their extermination of the Jews; would they really hide behind their own children, effectively putting them in the line of fire.

War in never nice, it's always a tragedy, but the real crime here is Hamas, who are pathological liars and don't give a moments thought to life. The only thing they hold sacred, is their mission.

Rach,

Seriously - no offense, but if you study the living conditions of Gaza and the West Bank, I think you might see Israel's culpability. Also, US Christians have forgotten the minority Christian Palestinian population in our blind support of Israel.

I am not picking sides, but I am recognizing the pain and misery of the Palestinian people, which seems to be under-reported in the US.

Rach1370 · Jan 21, 2011

aspen said:
Rach,

Seriously - no offense, but if you study the living conditions of Gaza and the West Bank, I think you might see Israel's culpability. Also, US Christians have forgotten the minority Christian Palestinian population in our blind support of Israel.

I am not picking sides, but I am recognizing the pain and misery of the Palestinian people, which seems to be under-reported in the US.

I recognize the pain of innocent Palestinian people too...but I recognize just where that pain comes from....within.
As a Christian, surely you can see just how demonic their religion is....how violence seethes beneath it. Oh, they've done well pushing the 'we're a religion of peace, we're just terribly misunderstood'. But have you ever seriously read their beliefs? They are an intolerant, violent, angry bully of a religion. One that bastardized the true Word of God. They would have us believe that Allah is the same as YHWH, but again, lies.

Do you really think that a religion that happily beats women for the smallest offense, that condones the killing of people who choose differently, that rules through fear and intimidation, do you really think that they are capable of helping their own 'innocents'. Those truly decent people who live in the poverty of Gaza, do so because Hamas and the like cannot put down their ever bloody sword.

Do you believe the hard life of the North Koreans is due to the South? Or the horrible hardship in Africa due to their neighbors? No, the corruption comes from within. The ruling persons of these 'nations' are as evil as it gets, and they poison the life of everyone. It gets so bad that the world sits back and cries 'it needs to stop', but when it doesn't, they find someone to blame...someone to get angry at. I find it amazing how many times that finger is pointed as Israel.

Truly, the Bible tells us that Israel will be hated by all nations, just because they are God's people, and just looking at their sorry history (which they did not deserve) I can see the truth in it.

bud02 · Jan 21, 2011

Rach said:
I recognize the pain of innocent Palestinian people too...but I recognize just where that pain comes from....within.
As a Christian, surely you can see just how demonic their religion is....how violence seethes beneath it. Oh, they've done well pushing the 'we're a religion of peace, we're just terribly misunderstood'. But have you ever seriously read their beliefs? They are an intolerant, violent, angry bully of a religion. One that bastardized the true Word of God. They would have us believe that Allah is the same as YHWH, but again, lies.

Do you really think that a religion that happily beats women for the smallest offense, that condones the killing of people who choose differently, that rules through fear and intimidation, do you really think that they are capable of helping their own 'innocents'. Those truly decent people who live in the poverty of Gaza, do so because Hamas and the like cannot put down their ever bloody sword.

Do you believe the hard life of the North Koreans is due to the South? Or the horrible hardship in Africa due to their neighbors? No, the corruption comes from within. The ruling persons of these 'nations' are as evil as it gets, and they poison the life of everyone. It gets so bad that the world sits back and cries 'it needs to stop', but when it doesn't, they find someone to blame...someone to get angry at. I find it amazing how many times that finger is pointed as Israel.

Truly, the Bible tells us that Israel will be hated by all nations, just because they are God's people, and just looking at their sorry history (which they did not deserve) I can see the truth in it.

For my friend Rachel, the words of the LORD of Prophesy.

Gen 16:10-12
[sup]10[/sup] Then the Angel of the LORD said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.” [sup]11[/sup] And the Angel of the LORD said to her:

“ Behold, you are with child,
And you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the LORD has heard your affliction. [sup]12[/sup] He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man’s hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”

rjp34652@yahoo.com · Jan 21, 2011

Foreigner said:
Just think, if the Palestianians had not tried to wipe the Israelis off the face of the earth shortly after the UN partitioned the land, they would have their own country and government today and wouldn't be sitting inside of refugee camps within other Arab nations who won't let them even walk the streets freely.

Just think how many of them would not be dead today if they didn't fire rockets into civilian Isreali cities, do suicide bombings, cross-border kidnappings, etc. etc. etc.

The Palestinian condition is just one big self-inflicted wound.

Some say, and I stand with them, that the Palestinian problem has been inflamed by external forces which have insinuated themselves into the area.
Britain and the United States are the biggest offenders, but not the only ones. Our sort of meddling is unwarranted, unwanted and non-productive to any sort of lasting settlement. We ought to let the Israelis and the Palestinians sort out their own problems.

If you had a problem with your next door neighbor, would you want the US government getting involved in it? I dare say neither you nor your neighbor would welcome that sort of complication.

Neither does anybody else in the world.

rjp34652@yahoo.com · Jan 21, 2011

aspen said:
Rach,

Seriously - no offense, but if you study the living conditions of Gaza and the West Bank, I think you might see Israel's culpability. Also, US Christians have forgotten the minority Christian Palestinian population in our blind support of Israel.

I am not picking sides, but I am recognizing the pain and misery of the Palestinian people, which seems to be under-reported in the US.

I worked with a young college art student from Egypt a few years ago. She was Christian and had a completely different world view than American Christians.
Some of her personal art work depicted Christians in Palestine being killed by Israeli bombs. The piece was dark in nature and displayed sadness and tears, broken homes and lives.........and flags of different nations (where was the cross of Jesus I wondered).

The difficulty of Palestinian Christians is indeed a shadow story to the American media. It's right up there with a purpose to look the other way when American dead and injured come home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The press acts almost as though it were ashamed about Palestine & Iraq/Afghanistan suffering.

Americans talk about honoring our fallen heros, but in actual fact we deny it, don't want to see it.
American Christians have forgotten that the cross, not the flag, makes us brothers and sisters with those who suffer elsewhere.
Instead we have been blinded by our own miopic nationalism and millenialist ideology.

bud02 · Jan 21, 2011

Jeremiah 30

Restoration for Israel and Judah
[sup]1[/sup]The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: [sup]2[/sup]"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel:[sup](A)[/sup] Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. [sup]3[/sup][sup](B)[/sup] For behold, days are coming, declares the LORD,[sup](C)[/sup] when I will restore[sup](D)[/sup] the fortunes of my people,[sup](E)[/sup] Israel and Judah, says the LORD,[sup](F)[/sup] and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it." [sup]4[/sup]These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning[sup](G)[/sup] Israel and Judah:
[sup]5[/sup]"Thus says the LORD:We have heard a cry of panic,
of terror, and no peace.
[sup]6[/sup]Ask now, and see,
can a man bear a child?
[sup](H)[/sup] Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his stomach[sup](I)[/sup] like a woman in labor?
Why has every face turned pale?
[sup]7[/sup]Alas![sup](J)[/sup] That day is so great
[sup](K)[/sup] there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob;
yet he shall be saved out of it.

[sup]8[/sup]"And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will[sup](L)[/sup] break his[sup](M)[/sup] yoke from off your neck, and I will[sup](N)[/sup] burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.[sup][a][/sup] [sup]9[/sup]But they shall serve the LORD their God and[sup](O)[/sup] David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
[sup]10[/sup][sup](P)[/sup] "Then fear not,[sup](Q)[/sup] O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD,
nor be dismayed, O Israel;
for behold,[sup](R)[/sup] I will save you from far away,
and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease,
and none shall make him afraid.
[sup]11[/sup][sup](S)[/sup] For I am with you to save you,
declares the LORD;[sup](T)[/sup] I will make a full end of all the nations
among whom I scattered you,
but of you I will not make a full end.
I will discipline you in just measure,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

[sup]12[/sup]"For thus says the LORD:[sup](U)[/sup] Your hurt is incurable,
[sup](V)[/sup] and your wound is grievous.
[sup]13[/sup]There is none to uphold your cause,
no medicine for your wound,
[sup](W)[/sup] no healing for you.
[sup]14[/sup][sup](X)[/sup] All your lovers have forgotten you;
they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of[sup](Y)[/sup] an enemy,
the punishment[sup](Z)[/sup] of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
[sup](AA)[/sup] because your sins are flagrant.
[sup]15[/sup][sup](AB)[/sup] Why do you cry out over your hurt?
[sup](AC)[/sup] Your pain is incurable.
Because your guilt is great,
because your sins are flagrant,
I have done these things to you.
[sup]16[/sup][sup](AD)[/sup] Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured,
and[sup](AE)[/sup] all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
[sup](AF)[/sup] those who plunder you shall be plundered,
[sup](AG)[/sup] and all who prey on you I will make a prey.
[sup]17[/sup][sup](AH)[/sup] For I will restore[sup](AI)[/sup] health to you,
and[sup](AJ)[/sup] your wounds I will heal,

declares the LORD,because[sup](AK)[/sup] they have called you an outcast:
'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'

[sup]18[/sup]"Thus says the LORD:Behold,[sup](AL)[/sup] I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob
and have compassion on his dwellings;
the city shall be rebuilt on[sup](AM)[/sup] its mound,
and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
[sup]19[/sup][sup](AN)[/sup] Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,
and the voices of those who celebrate.
[sup](AO)[/sup] I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.
[sup]20[/sup][sup](AP)[/sup] Their children shall be as they were of old,
and their congregation shall be established before me,
and I will punish all who oppress them.
[sup]21[/sup][sup](AQ)[/sup] Their prince shall be one of themselves;
[sup](AR)[/sup] their ruler shall come out from their midst;
[sup](AS)[/sup] I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me,
for who would dare of himself to approach me?

declares the LORD. [sup]22[/sup][sup](AT)[/sup] And you shall be my people,
and I will be your God."

[sup]23[/sup][sup](AU)[/sup] Behold[sup](AV)[/sup] the storm of the LORD!
Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
[sup]24[/sup][sup](AW)[/sup] The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back
until he has executed and accomplished
the intentions of his mind.
[sup](AX)[/sup] In the latter days you will understand this.

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 30:8 Or serve him

Cross references:

Foreigner · Jan 21, 2011

aspen said:
So, does that mean you would sit by and watch the UN partition the United States up? And then after we were beaten and living without proper utilities, education, employment - virtual prisoners of the partition we were assigned to - claim that we deserved it?

Just wondering

-- As long as you are wondering...

...why not wonder why there are still refugee camps inside of Lebanon, Jordan and Syria where Palestinians are still being held behind wire enclosures, not allowed to walk freely among the populace of those nations with their Arab brothers and sisters. Camps whose conditions are condemned by the UN.

Foreigner · Jan 21, 2011

Interesting read:

http://www.seraphicp...ry_shopping.php

The photo's in the article are very telling:

Luxury Shopping Mall Opens... in Gaza

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza which we hear about in an endless terrorist/liberal loop is only getting worse.

Yup, last week, a luxury shopping mall opened in Gaza.

The horror!

That fine blogger, Elder of Ziyon, reports:

At opening ceremonies attended by ministers and government officials, the Gaza Mall is a multi-story shopping center that includes food, clothing, perfumes, shoes, household appliances, office supplies and more.

The mall has a website, where we can see that it has air conditioning and parking, as well as delivery and other amenities that one would expect in any major mall.

The mall web page advertises "Israeli men's trousers at an attractive price," men's shirts from the US, girl's dresses from France and boy's pants from Turkey.

Weird.

How many times have you heard that Gaza is a vast concentration camp?

I am close with several concentration camp survivors and never has one of them mentioned a mall in Auschwitz. Hmm, maybe it just, y'know, slipped their minds.

And what about those flotillas of Jew-haters that seek to break Israel's—but not Egypt's—blockade in order to bring in humanitarian supplies? Do they know about the mall? Do they know about the luxury restaurants, the bustling food markets, the olympic-sized swimming pool?

Here's a thought: maybe there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Maybe the Arab Muslim world and its leftist allies are—I know, this is hard to believe—lying through their teeth in order to cast a blood libel against The Jewish State.

Maybe, just maybe, the citizens of Gaza have a higher standard of living than most Arab Muslims. In fact, Gaza probably has a higher standard of living than Detroit, whose downward spiral was entirely predictible considering liberal democrats have been running that blighted city since forever.

A few pictures documenting the grinding poverty of Gaza AKA Hamastan:

Clearly the poor Gazans have to make do with luxury tiles.

Strange, the Gaza mall is stocked with Israeli food products—Zionist ketchup rocks!—but a U.S. grocery is boycotting all Israeli products, which, by the way, will directly hurt Arab/Israeli workers.

Obviously the flotilla of fools has to hurry to bring in clothing for the huddled masses.

Also:

http://www.tomgrossm...ves/001127.html

A nice new shopping mall opened today in Gaza: Will the media report on it?

July 17, 2010
Will the Western media show these images?
All notes below by Tom Gross

Please scroll down below for photos of the new shopping mall that opened today in Gaza. I have also attached new photos and film of Gaza’s hotels, beauty spas, swimming pools, beaches and street markets -- images the BBC, New York Times and others refuse to show you.

Meanwhile, Hamas are deliberately leaving some Gazans in plastic tents, in order to fool gullible Western journalists and politicians who are brought to Gaza to witness a staged “humanitarian crisis.”

As I note below, this doesn’t, of course, mean that there isn’t poverty in Gaza too, just as there is in most places in the world. But the misrepresentation by the media of the situation in Gaza is shocking. When Time magazine reports “Please spare a thought for the starving Palestinians of Gaza. There are 1.5 million of them, most of them living hand to mouth” - or when former U.S. President and Nobel peace prize laureate Jimmy Carter says “the people in Gaza are literally starving” - these are just blatant untruths.

(Photo of a new mall that opened today, July 17, 2010. If there “are no building materials allowed into Gaza” how did they build this shopping center, or the new Olympic-size swimming pool pictured below?)

Two days ago the EU pledged tens of millions of EU taxpayers’ euros to add to the hundreds of millions already donated to Gaza this year, much of which has been misused to procure arms.

UPDATE, Sunday July 18, 2010:

Some journalists who subscribe to this list have asked me for a quote. You are welcome to use the following.

Political and media commentator Tom Gross said:

“On a day when (because EU Foreign Policy Chief Baroness Ashton is in Gaza) the BBC and other media have featured extensive reports all day long on what they term the dire economic situation in Gaza, why are they not mentioning the new shopping mall that opened there yesterday?

“When leading news outlets mention the so-called humanitarian flotillas from Turkey, why do they omit the fact that life expectancy and literacy rates are higher, and infant mortality rates are lower in Gaza than corresponding rates in Turkey? Have they considered that perhaps the humanitarian flotillas ought to be going in the other direction, towards Turkey?”

WHAT HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE?

Last year, this website revealed to a Western audience pictures of the bustling, crowded food markets of Gaza that the Western media refuse to show you. Earlier this year, I reported the new Olympic-size swimming pool of Gaza (no shortage of building materials or water here) and the luxury restaurants, where you can “dine on steak au poivre and chicken cordon bleu”. (Over 300,000 people have viewed photos on that webpage since May, according to my website monitor.)

Now I want to draw attention to the fact that this morning, on the day that the EU again criticized Israel (but not Egypt) for supposedly oppressing Gazans, on a day when the BBC TV world news headlines again lead with a report about how “devastated the economy in Gaza is,” an impressive new shopping mall opened in Gaza (photos below, followed by a selection of other photos from Gaza).

Will those Western journalists who write stories about “starvation” in Gaza and compare it to a “concentration camp” report this?

Instead of reporting on the mall opening, the British-based international satellite broadcaster Sky News reported today “The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire.”

NEW GAZA SHOPPING MALL

Photos from Saturday, July 17, 2010:

Just think how much MORE these people would have if they would just quit firing rockets into civilian centers of Isreali towns...

Rach1370 · Jan 21, 2011

Truly epic post foreigner!!

Foreigner · Jan 22, 2011

Thank's Rach.

Judging from the muted response of those condemning the situation in the Gaza, it would seen that the truth had the desired effect.

john.labandera · Feb 22, 2011

Foreigner said:
Just think how much MORE these people would have if they would just quit firing rockets into civilian centers of Isreali towns...

Exactly! Totally agree. Israel does not want war. They just want to be left alone.

I recommend EVERYONE here read the book "Son of HAMAS"

Its' an amazing story about a boy who's father helped found HAMAS (terrorist organization in the Palestinian territories seeking to destroy Israel)

The boy named Yousef saw how his Father's terrorist group was the real problem in Gaza. He saw how evil HAMAS is, how they murder their own people, and started spying for the Shin Bet (Israeli version of CIA).

He then became a Christian and when he was discovered, he fled to America a couple years ago where he now tries to live a normal life.

Awesome book that will you give you insight into what life in Gaza is really like, HAMAS, the Israeli Shin Bet, and especially Islam.

rjp34652@yahoo.com · May 16, 2011

John Flag said:
Exactly! Totally agree. Israel does not want war. They just want to be left alone.

I recommend EVERYONE here read the book "Son of HAMAS"

Its' an amazing story about a boy who's father helped found HAMAS (terrorist organization in the Palestinian territories seeking to destroy Israel)

The boy named Yousef saw how his Father's terrorist group was the real problem in Gaza. He saw how evil HAMAS is, how they murder their own people, and started spying for the Shin Bet (Israeli version of CIA).

He then became a Christian and when he was discovered, he fled to America a couple years ago where he now tries to live a normal life.

Awesome book that will you give you insight into what life in Gaza is really like, HAMAS, the Israeli Shin Bet, and especially Islam.

The truth is not what folks want.

The Truth Will Set You Free.

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