Thousands of people were maimed and 1300 killed during the most recent brutal Israeli assault on Gaza.
Last Friday, the 6th February, there was a concert in Vicar Street in Dublin to raise money for the children of Gaza – a concert I overlooked.
All artists gave their services free and it looks like a great [...]
We cannot wait until the world has its say, and perhaps takes legal steps of its own.
So says Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, calling for an immediate investigation into Israeli actions in Gaza.
The questions are plentiful and troubling: the mass killing of civilians, among them 300 children and 100 women; the shooting at medical [...]
The obscenity continues.
In this video, Katharina Ritz, head of the ICRC mission in Israel and Palestine, tells of Israeli soldiers preventing ambulances from reaching victims. Medics had to remove starving children and dead bodies on a donkey cart.
Other witnesses describe finding bodies that had been run over by Israeli tanks.
Also today we hear that the [...]
The UN compound in Gaza is in flames after Israeli forces shelled it with phosphorus. All the food and medical supplies have been burned. Thousands of tonnes of aid supplies including mattresses and shelters have been destroyed.
This is according to John Ging, the former Irish Army officer who heads the UN relief mission in Gaza [...]
In the New Years Day post, I focussed on the long-term underlying issues in Gaza, rather than joining the short term finger-pointing and blame game. The morality of the blame game is valuable to Israel and Hamas only in terms of affecting international opinion in their favour and to date they have each established [...]
Protocol 1
Additional to the
Geneva Conventions, 1977
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PART IV: CIVILIAN POPULATION
Section 1:
General Protection Against Effects of Hostilities
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Chapter I: Basic Rule and Field of Application
Article 48 â- Basic rule
Parties shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives.
Article 51 – Protection of the civilian [...]
… could you be more of a dumb nazi
cocksucker? You don’t give a shit about
Muslims, you just hate Jews …
That was part of a comment received this morning from an American-based Zionist group calling itself Muslims Against Sharia.
Apart from the dishonesty of their name, you can see from the comment what we’re dealing [...]
In these terrible times, as Israel forgets its soul and rises up to murder the weak and the poor, I offer you the kindest and most civilised of men, Leonard Cohen, with his interpretation of an ancient Jewish prayer.
Who By Fire
UNWRA has suspended all aid operations inside Gaza after Israel shelled one of its convoys and killed two drivers.
No doubt they thought it was a terrorist food convoy, carrying terrorist food and terrorist water to terrorist children. Perhaps terrorists were running along beside the trucks, hiding from the Israeli tanks and maybe even shouting [...]
