<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: A different point of view regarding the Israeli occupation of Gaza </title> <atom:link href="https://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/14/a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/14/a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza</link> <description>Human Animals at the Crossroads of Science, Religion, Media and Culture</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:21:02 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title> By: Erich Vieth </title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/14/a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-38106</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:21:02 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=4268#comment-38106</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/6/headlines" rel="nofollow">DemocracyNow</a>: <blockquote>Amnesty International has revealed that the United States has sent a massive new shipment of arms to Israel despite evidence that US weapons were misused against civilians in the Gaza attacks. Amnesty said a German cargo ship carrying about 14,000 tons of arms docked in late March at the Israeli port of Ashdod, about twenty-five miles north of Gaza. The ship left for Israel on December 20, a week before the start of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.</blockquote> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/6/headlines" rel="nofollow">DemocracyNow</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Amnesty International has revealed that the United States has sent a massive new shipment of arms to Israel despite evidence that US weapons were misused against civilians in the Gaza attacks. Amnesty said a German cargo ship carrying about 14,000 tons of arms docked in late March at the Israeli port of Ashdod, about twenty-five miles north of Gaza. The ship left for Israel on December 20, a week before the start of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.</p></blockquote> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Rachel Pine </title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/14/a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-36099</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Pine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:06:31 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=4268#comment-36099</guid> <description><![CDATA[WAR CRIMES - OPEN LETTER TO AN IDF SOLDIER Sir I have no proof that 420 Arab children were killed in Gaza, but I have relied on the figures quoted by the world’s media. Whether they are authentic or not, I just don’t know. If the figure was not 420, maybe it was 320, or 220, or just 120. Perhaps even only twenty. And, I have no evidence of how old these children were. Some were undoubtedly babies or infants – as I have seen photographs of the bodies, but others could well have been eight, or ten – perhaps even teenagers. What I do know and what I am very clear about is that the killing of even twenty children – whether infants or not, was a crime as they could have posed no threat to your powerful tanks, planes and helicopter gunships. I also know that my religion – I am Jewish – expressly forbids such killings. So does international law. So does the United Nations. And so does Christianity. The Geneva Conventions on Human Rights prohibits such unlawful behaviour and anyone alleged guilty of such a war crime must, by international law, be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer such charges. That is the law and that is democracy and that is how our society, and your society, works. Otherwise, there is no democracy, no justice and no law and we could all just kill those we wanted out of the way or who were just inconvenient. If there were war crimes committed in Gaza, by either side, then those responsible, must be brought to justice. Can you help? ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WAR CRIMES – OPEN LETTER TO AN IDF SOLDIER</p> <p>Sir</p> <p>I have no proof that 420 Arab children were killed in Gaza, but I have relied on the figures quoted by the world’s media. Whether they are authentic or not, I just don’t know.</p> <p>If the figure was not 420, maybe it was 320, or 220, or just 120. Perhaps even only twenty. And, I have no evidence of how old these children were. Some were undoubtedly babies or infants – as I have seen photographs of the bodies, but others could well have been eight, or ten – perhaps even teenagers.</p> <p>What I do know and what I am very clear about is that the killing of even twenty children – whether infants or not, was a crime as they could have posed no threat to your powerful tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.</p> <p>I also know that my religion – I am Jewish – expressly forbids such killings. So does international law. So does the United Nations. And so does Christianity.</p> <p>The Geneva Conventions on Human Rights prohibits such unlawful behaviour and anyone alleged guilty of such a war crime must, by international law, be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer such charges.</p> <p>That is the law and that is democracy and that is how our society, and your society, works. Otherwise, there is no democracy, no justice and no law and we could all just kill those we wanted out of the way or who were just inconvenient.</p> <p>If there were war crimes committed in Gaza, by either side, then those responsible, must be brought to justice. Can you help? </p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Erich Vieth </title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/14/a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-35882</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:56:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=4268#comment-35882</guid> <description><![CDATA[However, one thing is not hyperbole and that is a dramatic increase in public hatred of Arabs. It used to be Jews were seemingly embarrassed to vocalize such sentiments and would usually do so only after 6 or 8 glasses of wine. Now at campaign rallies, at shul and just about everywhere you hear cries of death to the Arabs, move'em out etc. It's frankly very ugly. <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/jdledell/2009/02/my-israel.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/j...</a> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>However, one thing is not hyperbole and that is a dramatic increase in public hatred of Arabs. It used to be Jews were seemingly embarrassed to vocalize such sentiments and would usually do so only after 6 or 8 glasses of wine. Now at campaign rallies, at shul and just about everywhere you hear cries of death to the Arabs, move'em out etc. It's frankly very ugly. </p> <p> <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/jdledell/2009/02/my-israel.php" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/j" rel="nofollow ugc">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/j</a>… </p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Niklaus Pfirsig </title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/14/a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-35204</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Niklaus Pfirsig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:15:22 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=4268#comment-35204</guid> <description><![CDATA[Here is a pertinent point of view from a Palestinian Christian Journalist <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/selective-memory-is-a-pro_b_154722.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/select...</a> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a pertinent point of view from a Palestinian Christian Journalist<br /> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/selective-memory-is-a-pro_b_154722.html" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/select" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/select</a>… </p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Erich Vieth </title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/14/a-different-point-of-view-regarding-the-israeli-occupation-of-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-34195</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:39:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=4268#comment-34195</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Confusion about the origins of the conflict all too often has obscured Americans’ understanding of its true dimension. It began as a conflict resulting from immigrants struggling to displace the local majority population. All else is derivative from this basic reality.” – Donald Neff, former Senior Editor, Time Magazine, Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945 See the map at the bottom of this site, the source of the above quote. <a href="http://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-nakba.html" rel="nofollow">http://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-nakba.html</a> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Confusion about the origins of the conflict all too often has obscured Americans’ understanding of its true dimension. It began as a conflict resulting from immigrants struggling to displace the local majority population. All else is derivative from this basic reality.”</p> <p>– Donald Neff, former Senior Editor, Time Magazine, Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945</p> <p>See the map at the bottom of this site, the source of the above quote. <a href="http://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-nakba.html" rel="nofollow">http://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-nakba.html</a> </p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>