Comments on: US Activist in Critical Condition; Shot By IDF http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:29:12 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: rich2506 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856515 rich2506 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:19:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856515 <p>I’m very proud of some of the comments made <a href="http://www.phillyimc.org/en/isms-tristan-anderson-shot-head-idf" rel="nofollow">here</a>, but hoo boy! Have we got some bloodthirsty people out there!</p> I’m very proud of some of the comments made here, but hoo boy! Have we got some bloodthirsty people out there!

]]> By: shootthatarrow http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856431 shootthatarrow Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:54:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856431 <p>It must come down to the scale of human faces,human empathy and opening of hearts.</p> <p>Those who have been attacked,killed or had loved ones taken away to either not return or return broken and crushed again must be seen on scale of humanity.</p> <p>What has befallen Palestine must be understood as being more than about where the boundaries are,who is on what piece of land or who is able to build or able to tear down. Who can inflict suffering or impose humiliation. Israel cannot/will not succeed on these terms of inhumanity.</p> <p>This human scale is taken out repeatedly in this epoch of super weapons and brutally contrived means of suppression being used against unarmed and innocent civilians.</p> <p>One would have hoped President Obama would have demonstrated this scale of human empathy upon becoming the American President on Jan.20th,2009 and condemned Israel for this ongoing brutal occupation conduct and for what Israel unleashed on Gaza last December 2008.</p> <p>He has not. It is a basic failure of human empathy.</p> <p>Perhaps this incident of an innocent American being severely harmed by the IDF will prompt President Obama to find his human heart.</p> <p>Unless and until many human faces and hearts are put on this infamy that has fallen on Palestine at the hand of Israeli occupation and expansive militarism little more will be possible other than more of what has now befell Tristan Anderson. </p> <p>President Obama. SoS Clinton. Profiles in political courage are called for here and now. </p> <p>Not political cowardice. Not this numbing moral indifference.</p> <p>AIPAC must be curbed in WashingtonDC. </p> <p>TelAviv made to reset Israeli criminal conduct in West Bank and Gaza. American fairplay and even handedness being subverted by undue TelAviv influence and perverse policy formulation sway must end. </p> <p>TelAviv is entitled to reasonable American support. Not this rabid one sided pro TelAviv policy perversion WashingtonDC is empowering and has implemented for far too long. </p> <p>Israeli/Palestinian conflict today directly a result of American failure to curb TelAviv and give Palestinians reason to not distrust or despise American diplomacy.This going back thirty years. How many more Palestinians,Israelis and indeed Tristan Andersons must suffer for this?</p> It must come down to the scale of human faces,human empathy and opening of hearts.

Those who have been attacked,killed or had loved ones taken away to either not return or return broken and crushed again must be seen on scale of humanity.

What has befallen Palestine must be understood as being more than about where the boundaries are,who is on what piece of land or who is able to build or able to tear down. Who can inflict suffering or impose humiliation. Israel cannot/will not succeed on these terms of inhumanity.

This human scale is taken out repeatedly in this epoch of super weapons and brutally contrived means of suppression being used against unarmed and innocent civilians.

One would have hoped President Obama would have demonstrated this scale of human empathy upon becoming the American President on Jan.20th,2009 and condemned Israel for this ongoing brutal occupation conduct and for what Israel unleashed on Gaza last December 2008.

He has not. It is a basic failure of human empathy.

Perhaps this incident of an innocent American being severely harmed by the IDF will prompt President Obama to find his human heart.

Unless and until many human faces and hearts are put on this infamy that has fallen on Palestine at the hand of Israeli occupation and expansive militarism little more will be possible other than more of what has now befell Tristan Anderson.

President Obama. SoS Clinton. Profiles in political courage are called for here and now.

Not political cowardice. Not this numbing moral indifference.

AIPAC must be curbed in WashingtonDC.

TelAviv made to reset Israeli criminal conduct in West Bank and Gaza. American fairplay and even handedness being subverted by undue TelAviv influence and perverse policy formulation sway must end.

TelAviv is entitled to reasonable American support. Not this rabid one sided pro TelAviv policy perversion WashingtonDC is empowering and has implemented for far too long.

Israeli/Palestinian conflict today directly a result of American failure to curb TelAviv and give Palestinians reason to not distrust or despise American diplomacy.This going back thirty years. How many more Palestinians,Israelis and indeed Tristan Andersons must suffer for this?

]]> By: EdwardTeller http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856400 EdwardTeller Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:33:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856400 <p>There are still a few hours left to vote in the <a href="http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-einstein-and-poll-on-israeli.html" rel="nofollow">Progressive Alaska Poll</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Should Israel:</strong></p> <p>Be allowed to continue to expand</p> <p>Be forced back to the 1967 borders</p> <p>Be forced back to the 1947 borders</p> <p>Be frozen at current settlement levels</p> <p>Be allowed to expel all non-Jews (from inside Israel) and expand (to occupy ALL the West Bank)</p></blockquote> There are still a few hours left to vote in the Progressive Alaska Poll:

Should Israel:

Be allowed to continue to expand

Be forced back to the 1967 borders

Be forced back to the 1947 borders

Be frozen at current settlement levels

Be allowed to expel all non-Jews (from inside Israel) and expand (to occupy ALL the West Bank)

]]> By: ibfreenow http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856396 ibfreenow Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:31:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856396 <p>I’m not a religious man, but my prayers go out to this person.<br /> He was there doing something for a good cause.<br /> Enough of violence in this world!</p> I’m not a religious man, but my prayers go out to this person.
He was there doing something for a good cause.
Enough of violence in this world!

]]> By: EdwardTeller http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856394 EdwardTeller Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:30:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856394 <p>Thanks for covering this Siun. </p> <p>The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismpalestine/" rel="nofollow">ISM <em>flickr</em> photostream</a> has pictures of the kind of projectile that has destroyed Tristan’s frontal lobe (what wasn’t already removed in surgery this morning).</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismpalestine/3351368943/" rel="nofollow">Before firing</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismpalestine/3351368933/in/photostream/" rel="nofollow">After firing</a></p> Thanks for covering this Siun.

The ISM flickr photostream has pictures of the kind of projectile that has destroyed Tristan’s frontal lobe (what wasn’t already removed in surgery this morning).

Before firing

After firing

]]> By: Siun http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856343 Siun Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:55:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856343 <p>Thank you for the very proper reminder …</p> <p>I saw a mention that 412 Palestinians have died just this year during these nonviolent anti-Wall demonstrations … sadly, as Starhawk says in the wonderful letter Selise passed along, we only know them as names on a list.</p> Thank you for the very proper reminder …

I saw a mention that 412 Palestinians have died just this year during these nonviolent anti-Wall demonstrations … sadly, as Starhawk says in the wonderful letter Selise passed along, we only know them as names on a list.

]]> By: chetnolian http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856237 chetnolian Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:55:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856237 <p>And this is also a time to remember Tom Hurndall, the young British photojournalist killed in 2004 by an IDF sniper while wearing an orange waistcoat and helping Palestinian kids to escape gunfire in Rafah, Gaza</p> And this is also a time to remember Tom Hurndall, the young British photojournalist killed in 2004 by an IDF sniper while wearing an orange waistcoat and helping Palestinian kids to escape gunfire in Rafah, Gaza

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856224 earlofhuntingdon Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:43:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856224 <p>The film clip shows at least two gas canisters fired into a small clearing. The first, when Tristan and one other person were there. Hardly a useful target for crowd-dispersing gas. The second, after half a dozen or so medics gathered to treat him, a kind of entrapment that, again, was not designed to disperse a potentially dangerous crowd, but to prevent one from gathering to aid a wounded observer. The motivation for this use of gas was not control, but intimidation.</p> <p>World Jewry owes much to the state of Israel. Its government of the day? That depends on what is does, just as with Bush and Obama here.</p> The film clip shows at least two gas canisters fired into a small clearing. The first, when Tristan and one other person were there. Hardly a useful target for crowd-dispersing gas. The second, after half a dozen or so medics gathered to treat him, a kind of entrapment that, again, was not designed to disperse a potentially dangerous crowd, but to prevent one from gathering to aid a wounded observer. The motivation for this use of gas was not control, but intimidation.

World Jewry owes much to the state of Israel. Its government of the day? That depends on what is does, just as with Bush and Obama here.

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856214 libbyliberal Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:22:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856214 <p>Selise.. thank you for the moving letter and for the advice for action. I will spread your rich inspiring and action-specific comment among my network and save it to structure my own activism. </p> <p>Siun, thank you for the posting yet again.</p> Selise.. thank you for the moving letter and for the advice for action. I will spread your rich inspiring and action-specific comment among my network and save it to structure my own activism.

Siun, thank you for the posting yet again.

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856212 libbyliberal Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:19:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/14/us-activist-shot-by-idf-in-critical-condition/#comment-1856212 <blockquote><p>Another human tragedy from the IDF’s savagery. How many billions will America’s government send off to the IDF this year - and why are we paying for the aggressors in Israel’s brutal religious apartheid sttate?</p></blockquote> <p>Kirk, how tragic. And this is the question that needs to be asked and asked and asked. I am calling Congress about the mind-numbing denial and minimization of Israel’s behavior to the Palesintians. I am so angry at my own senator Schumer over the Chas Freeman swiftboating (bleeechhhh) and have communicated that.</p>

Another human tragedy from the IDF’s savagery. How many billions will America’s government send off to the IDF this year – and why are we paying for the aggressors in Israel’s brutal religious apartheid sttate?

Kirk, how tragic. And this is the question that needs to be asked and asked and asked. I am calling Congress about the mind-numbing denial and minimization of Israel’s behavior to the Palesintians. I am so angry at my own senator Schumer over the Chas Freeman swiftboating (bleeechhhh) and have communicated that.

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