Comments on: Gaza Update: Livni Sees No Humanitarian Crisis

By: viejolex1

viejolex1 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:24:43 +0000

“You wouldn’t know from the western media that Israel’s foreign minister (and would-be prime minister), Tzipi Livni, made a disastrous appearance on al-Jazeera television last week, just as you wouldn’t have seen dreadful pictures of dead children and their screaming distraught mothers in Gaza unless you watch al-J TV, which is almost impossible in the US. Here in France we can receive al-Jazeera, and the images are truly horrific. But Ms Livni doesn’t want us to see them. Nor do most western governments. She declared that “when you show one-sided images from Gaza you’re not helping peace. I understand that pictures which create provocation lead to anger and hostility among the citizens, but we want a better future for this region.” In other words – don’t look at pictures that tell the truth because they will make you angry about people who blast children into ragged fragments. What we don’t see, says Livni, won’t harm us, which is the theme of authoritarian censors through the ages.

This woman, with all the compassion of a raging shark that has smelled blood in flesh-strewn water, is furious that pictures have appeared in public of the mangled bloody bodies of children her country has slaughtered in its frenzy of vicious bombing and rocketing. But they’ll never be seen by the great majority of people in the west, simply because media outlets don’t want to upset readers and viewers. Nor, of course, do they want to upset Israel, that bastion of kindly morality which wields so much influence over US politicians that they dare not speak out against airstrikes that kill children.

Livni claimed that prior to the air assault Israel informed all the residents living in the area of the planned strikes and urged them to leave. She was asked “leave for where?” (Where could they go in tiny Gaza, mainly desert, with its 1.5 million people?) and of course had no answer – because the blitz had been kept secret. She is a blatant liar.”

Brian Cloughley, writing over at Counterpunch.

I wish someone skilled in Photoshop would do a “three wise monkeys” featuring C. Rice, Cheney and Livni.

By: mls78

mls78 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:32:55 +0000

By way of buzzflash.com is Starhawk’s take on Gaza.

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:25:20 +0000

It won’t tell the truth, but here is the Israeli propaganda machine. How to spin the propaganda in the media;has been active for at least 10 months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....ne-pr-spin

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:17:09 +0000

And $77 million worth of these will be used where? Probably on Israel’s nuclear facility so they can blame Palestinian rockets. Then on to Iran and their underground facilities. They bought a 1,000 of these ‘bunker busters’. Why did the US reverse its original decision not to sell these to Israel? Kind of makes one think that this ‘war’ was a common secret between the US and Israel.

http://www.darkgovernment.com/.....to-israel/

By: Synoia

Synoia — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:13:27 +0000

All heavy metals are poisonous. Poisons tend to lead to cancer.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:16:29 +0000

And, a most happy and productive New Year to you, Laura.

Well enough, thank you … and hoping things are equally so with you and yours.

I shall, with pleasure.

David

By: Laura Doty

Laura Doty — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:08:42 +0000

Ooph. I hadn’t caught her connection to Clinton. Thanks for that, David.

Happy New Year to you. Hope all is well. (Come visit my blog some time!)

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:05:16 +0000

Thank you, Laura, for this link.

From the essay:

“The role of the President of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel.”

Ann Lewis …(Identified by Wikipedia as a “senior adviser to Hillary Clinton” …)

By: Laura Doty

Laura Doty — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:50:01 +0000

An excellent essay from David Bromwich.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:35:31 +0000

The Israeli govt has done its best to turn Gaza into a ghetto. While not a perfect analogy, Warsaw comes to mind.

Of course they have. What did you expect?

Did you think they’d turn their enemy into a mountain that MUST be climbed?
A desert that MUST be crossed? A winter storm that MUST be endured?

C’mon, they’re doing what they know and destroying the way they can.

What they, and their neighbors, are lacking is some knowledge of how to live in peace as neighbors.

Perhaps war will tire the crazies on both sides, but even at the end of that they need some ideas (and none seem to be just lying around in wait of use).

Maybe they can look to the British-N.Ireland conflict or to Serbia-Bosnia or some other conflict area which has calmed down. But, it’s not easy.