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| Northern Elephant Seals Jostling |
There is one thing we can say about the obscenity going on
in the Middle East and that is war crimes are being committed on both sides, the
Palestinians launching rockets into Israel and Israel targeting civilians. Who
is responsible and culpable, that’s easy, the leaders of Israel and Palestine,
and these crimes have been going on for years with the blessing of these so
called leaders! If we lived in a sane and just world, these people would be
rounded up and charged with Crimes Against Humanity! Since the world we created
does not work that way, empathetic people are relegated to sitting on the
sidelines and weeping!
We can expect no help from our elected leaders and the
corporate news mouth pieces that obsequiously report the propaganda without
question. The good news recently is that
social media reporting is countering the government propaganda that these news
channels constantly mouth! I've seen a slight shift in the Gaza reporting
because eye witness reporting and smart phone videos are making cable channels
seem silly, biased, and unbelievable; They should be embarrassed.
Benjamin Netanyahu constantly reminds people that Israel
does not target civilians. When you launch massive bombs into a densely
populated city, civilians are going to die, that’s a given. So Israel is most definitely
targeting civilians, actions not words prove this true! It’s ironic that over
1000 civilians not targeted have been killed. Further evidence demonstrating Israel’s
disdain for civilians occurred at the end of the 2006 Israeli Lebanon conflict.
After the UN Security Council called for an immediate halt to hostilities,
Israel dropped 4 million cluster bombs during the last days of the conflict. These are the most indiscriminate weapons of
modern warfare; 95 percent of all victims of cluster munitions are civilians,
according to the organization Handicap International. So much for Israel not
targeting civilians!
