Out of the Mouth of Babes

One of the most disgusting manifestations of the Zionist scourge is the constant prodding of the global public into the belief that Palestinian parents (assuming these victims are first of all actually alive and second of all, not imprisoned) raise their children to be terrorists as if that is the sole purpose of the Palestinian existence.
Children who are born and entrapped within occupation, growing up under siege as hostages, and watching their loved ones perish in defenseless war zones, suffer the emotional consequences(that should be obvious) and yes, they HATE ISRAEL! This does not make them inhuman. These children need to be healed, not of their justifiable hate (only true justice can do that) but of their heartaches and nightmares.

Loss of Innocence:An Exhibition of Art By the Children of Gaza




To see closeups of some of the artwork and read a little bit about this project, go here.
The exhibit has been booked on a tour of the U.K., but seems to be drawing to a close. To find out more, go here.
I feel its important to not allow this exhibit to fade into oblivion. If you can book this tour for a special event, please try.

HEY OBAMA, GAZA HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU

Gaza's Children

Here's some good news about the children of Gaza. Video link after this:

From the BBC: More than 6,000 children in the Gaza Strip have attempted to set a new world record by flying the largest number of kites together in one location.

The Guinness Book of World Records said it had received an application from Gaza but that it was unable to send a judge to the event due to travel restrictions imposed by the Israeli blockade.

A spokeswoman said there were other ways of verifying the feat and UNRWA says a final tally of the number of kites flown will be released on Saturday.

John Ging, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, described the colourful effort as "an expression of the demand for liberty from these children." video link

Shooting Children~A Way Of Life For Israel

Israel "Child Killing Unit" shot a Palestinian teenager in the foot, in order to then take him to a Hospital inside Israel to then "interrogate" him in the way that only "Israel" (And George Bush)is allowed to. Much like War Criminal Bush, torture is allowed in Israel. They also have a standard Army policy of shooting any children over the age of 12, inspite of this being illegal in the rest of the "normal" world. More after article below:

Israeli forces at the Gaza border shot a Palestinian teenager in his foot and proceeded to detain him, on Sunday evening.

Gaza's Health Ministry told local media that the 15-year-old boy was taken to a hospital inside Israel.

Israeli sources reported that a military patrol discovered the boy approaching the electronic fence that surrounds Gaza. The patrol shot the boy when he refused to stop.

Others sources claim that the boy was wearing a thick jacket, which made the boy look suspicious in the eyes of the soldiers. The boy was searched and no explosives or weapons where found on him.

The boy reportedly admitted that he intended to "infiltrate" into Israel during his interrogation. But he kept insisting that he had no plans to carry out any attacks against Israel.

It remains unknown how trustworthy this testimony is, since it is widely documented by human rights organizations that Israel employs dubious interrogation techniques that could be qualified as torture. Palestinian children have not been exempted from this treatment. link

Israel has a long standing policy of killing both Civilians and Children. For background and proof of this you should read these posts for the shocking truth about Israel's Child Killing Units:
Israeli Army Admits Policy Of Killing Children

Israeli Army Taught To Kill Civilians

Lebanon & Gaza Children Murdered

More HERE

Gaza~A Good Day

With all the terrible news continually coming out of Gaza, I thought I@d post excerpts of this excellent article from Electric Intifada:

It was a summer Wednesday evening and Muhammad al-Ghreiz, 22, was getting his eight-member team ready for a breakdance show at the al-Baydar restaurant on the beachfront just south of Gaza City. Six months ago, Gaza's beaches were under heavy Israeli bombardment from air and sea, but now this area, near the evacuated Israeli settlement of Netzarim, was about to hear an altogether different kind of sound.

Breakdance, the hip hop dance style that began on the streets of New York City more than 30 years ago has become popular with youth all over the world, even breaking through the tight Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.

Al-Ghreiz and the other b-boys leapt on to the stage wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Camp Breakerz" -- the name of their group. Their moves caused excitement among the audience -- many went right up to the stage, and others took pictures with their mobile phones of an exuberant scene.

At one point in the 10-minute set, the group formed a circle, as one of their members danced in the middle. Afterwards, al-Ghreiz explained that the circle symbolized the siege on Gaza.

Until January Camp Breakerz often trained at the al-Ahli sports club in the Nuseirat refugee camp. "Unfortunately, the entire club was completely destroyed during the last war and we are now on our own

The team members -- who range in age between 15 and 25 -- contribute some of their own money, according to Ismail. Appeals to local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and charities for support have proved fruitless even though the break-dancers perform at the invitation of many such groups.

Ahmad Ismail stresses that Gaza's b-boys are are developing their own original style: "The most important part of what we do is education ... Our main message is to reflect our own unique Palestinian situation. We educate our team members not to be blind imitators of western-style dancing."

Ahmad al-Hourani, 16, said that when he began break-dancing his cousins told him, "this is disco [a term generally used to describe western-style dancing], and that is against our Palestinian traditions." But they too came around, recognizing it as a skilled and worthwhile activity. "I dream of becoming a great breakdancer," al-Hourani said, "when I dance, I feel I have achieved something." read more here

Would be nice to find an NGO to fund them and give them a place to continue this where other young people could come and learn. The young people of Gaza need safe places and activities they can do to escape their open air prison.

UK Cancels "Some" Weapons to Israel

In a "pathetic" attempt to pacify the British public, David Milliband has decided to cancel "some" weapons deals to Israel. Shall I define the word "some?" Well, it means 5 out of 182 arms deals. A mere gesture, nothing more.

After Gaza war, UK cuts some arms sales to Israel

Britain has cancelled the planned sale of some military components to Israel following an export review prompted by the December-January war in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Monday.

London cancelled five out of 182 licensed British arms exports to Israel, the official said, all involving equipment for the Saar 4.5 class Corvette, a naval vessel that took part in the offensive which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians.

British Foreign Minister David Milliband announced the review in April after some legislators pressed for an arms embargo on both Israel and the Hamas Islamists ruling Gaza. source

Resistance "The Only Way"

On this, the anniversity of the Nakba, many in Palestine believe resistance is the only way to secure their right of return.

Palestinian refugees expelled from their lands have the right to demand their return, the Popular Resistance Committee’s military wing said on Nakba Day.

In realizing our rights, the An-Nasser Brigades said in a statement, “resistance is the only option.”

The statement, in honor of the anniversary of the day the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes began, said “We are one Palestinian nation and we will unite to face the Israeli occupation of our lands and we will do our best to protect Jerusalem and get back our lands.”

Echoing the An-Nasser Brigades, their Fatah-affiliated counterparts the Al-Mujahedin Brigades called on all Palestinians to unite and face Israeli harassment.

The brigades issued a statement on the occasion of Nakba Day that Palestinian land owners should “never abandon their right” to return to that land. source

Gaza Children "Want To Die"

Well I just have to say that I am absolutuly amazed that this report comes from ABC one of America's largest mainstream media organizations and television stations. Maybe there is hope after all! So MASSIVE KUDOS to ABC!!!

War-shocked Gaza children 'want to die'

Little has changed in Gaza since the war in January, with thousands of families still living in tents and homes and schools still just rubble and ruins.

But life for many children has never been the same since Israel launched its offensive three months ago.

In January, Israeli bombs flattened the main building of this school in northern Gaza, destroying eight of the school's 20 classrooms.

The students had already evacuated but the three-storey block was crushed; the top floor still dangles dangerously over the schoolground and giant slabs of jagged concrete hang precariously in mid-air.

And the 22-month blockade imposed on Gaza means few if any materials are getting in to rebuild shattered areas.

English teacher Ghada Abu Ward still sees the daily impact on her students.

"They are hesitant, frustrated, depressed, thinking and dreaming all the time - daydreams - then after that we lose concentration, and [have] the bad achievements," she said.

"At the bravest times they've thought, 'I want to die. My father was dead in the Israeli attack - I want to be with them. So I want to die. There's nothing good about this life. At least when I die, I will be with my parents, and it will be heaven and paradise'."

Brother 'executed'

Twelve-year-old Omsyat Awaja faces a tougher ordeal than many; days before the school was hit, her family home was bombed.

Through a translator, she says her nine-year-old brother was shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Her parents too were shot and injured and now they live in a tent in a nearby camp.

"When my brother was between the hands of my father, and they executed him on purpose; they meant to kill, to shoot him," she said.

"I remember also when my parents got wounded and they were bleeding for five days.

"I hope that in the future there will be opening of border crossings, so the construction material will come in so I will have my house again. But the future will never bring me back my brother."

Israel's military has repeatedly described its armed forces as the "most moral in the world", saying they take care not to kill civilians.

It has justified the bombing campaign as retaliation for ongoing rocket fire into Israel by Hamas militants.

But Omsyat Awaja's father, Kamal, questions why his son had to die.

"The Israelis claimed through the whole war that they are democratic, they are civilised society," he said through a translator.

"But why did they execute my son? So all those, all the people, all the army, who's doing that, is not [civilised]."

For the Palestinians, there can be no peace while Gaza remains cut off from the outside world - a two-year blockade has kept Palestinians effective prisoners, and stopped essential supplies from reaching them.

MUST READ~ What if YOU were a young Palestinian?

All I can say is this op-ed in the Daily Mail by Andrew Alexander is a MUST READ! Although I do not agree with his use of the phrase "terrorist" in the context that he uses it. I believe the state of Israel is a terrorist state, the sad fact that it is a "state" does not make it incapable of being considered as a "terrorist"

Anyhow, the op-ed piece is below:

The easiest thing to do with terrorists is to rage at them. Or to declare, mindlessly, that we must strengthen 'the war on terrorism'. Both are moral self-indulgence and mental idleness.

Suppose that you are a young man living in Gaza, dominated by refugees or their descendants whose original homeland was what is now Israel. You may well have been brought up on stories, sometimes exaggerated, of a home where your forebears lived in security.

With squalid conditions in the refugee camps and little hope of good education or employment, your frustration and rage is easily directed at Israel, the U.S. as its relentless backer and probably us, too, as Washington's poodlelike allies. Or maybe you live in the West Bank, once part of Palestine. Since the 1967 war, Israel has left the West Bank littered with 600 checkpoints which divide even families.

This side of the border you will see ever-growing Israeli settlements. The details of the sheer illegality and subterfuge involved are readily provided by the protesting Jewish organisation Peace Now (peacenow.org).
Our young Palestinian will also remember so painfully Israel's punitive expedition against Gaza supposedly to crush the governing party, Hamas, whose military wing launched sporadic, but not very effective, rockets on Israel. Yet this only begins to touch on the millions in the Middle East with deep grievances.

Significantly, Hamas and Hezbollah had electoral triumphs following Israeli attacks. In Afghanistan, refugees from the Taliban have had to face returning to a land where the seven-year war against the invader has reinvigorated that awful organisation. Throughout the Middle East, tales can be heard of relatives or friends who have fallen victim to the U.S. and its allies, including Israel, over recent decades, often accompanied by grim details about trigger-happy U.S. troops, ideal villains.

Our young man in Gaza or the West Bank grows up dangerously full of frustration and anger. His religion seems a stabilising force in an unstable world.

Those with deep grievances, actual or inherited, number many millions. Just think about the scale of this. There are about 300 million Muslim Arabs (plus Iran). Pakistan, now being drawn into the conflict, adds many more.

If only a tiny fraction takes the Jihadist path, we face a formidable and, alas, growing host. Can we be surprised that Islamic extremists find no difficulty in recruitment?

We are very stupid - as stupid as Chamberlain at Munich - to ignore the scale or nature of the menace.

There will be no curb to terrorism until we stop waging wars on Muslim countries and, even more, until the problem of the Arab-Israeli conflict is ended or at least ameliorated.

Washington holds all the levers. It is the source of huge economic and military aid to Israel. President Clinton nearly achieved a settlement, but was balked at the last moment by the then Palestinian leadership.

At least he tried. Other presidents have declined to pressure Israel into the necessary concessions and Britain's efforts has amounted to little more than pious pleading.

Of course, the Zionist lobby in the U.S. and elsewhere is powerful. In the American case, Jewish Zionism is augmented by various Evangelical Churches that excitedly grasp at the state of Israel as fulfiling Old Testament prophecies.

In the propaganda battle here as in the U.S., Zionists are adept at playing the anti-semitic card, so familiar to fair-minded journalists. The BBC in particular is easily scared.

Developments within Israel are grim. Its crazy system of proportional representation gives every loony some power in coalition governments. Hence we have the notorious extremist Avigdor Lieberman in the post of Foreign Minister.

Israeli organisations such as Peace Now, which once organised a 400,000-strong demonstration against the Lebanon intervention in 1982, face an uphill battle. Yet the chance for peace does not depend on Israeli political manoeuvring.

President Obama has the real, unquestionable power to impose a settlement. How hard he tries affects everybody, particularly us. SOURCE