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Sunday, October 08, 2023 9:14:23 PM
Relate muchly. Settlers poisoned Palestinian water too. Israelis gather on hillsides to watch and cheer as military drops bombs on Gaza
"I'm old enough to remember that when Israeli warplanes were raining death on Gaza... when Israeli snipers were competing to see who could kneecap the greatest number of Palestinian children during the great march of return... and murdering journalists for covering their atrocities.. the good citizens of Sderot brought out lawn chairs to cheer them on.
That's a true story.
Now I feel sorry for those same good citizens of Sderot, but I wish the fuck I didn't."
I'm sure there were some in Sderot nine years ago who were repulsed as we are at the Israeli betrayal and brutality since Balfour:
Chronological Table of Middle East History .. excerpt ..
[...]Mar 11,1917 Gen. Stanley Maude captured Baghdad after defeating the Ottomans; Basra was captured
on Nov 22, 1914, initially to secure British position in the Persian Gulf and protect oil supplies from Persia
P - Nov 2, 1917 Balfour Declaration: The British government views "with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people...it being understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine
2009 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=34694146
for those i feel sympathy. It will be interesting to see if any residents of Sderot sit cheering on hills when Israel invades Gaza again in ... later this week?
Related: A decisive loss for Israel
[...]Israel's objectives from the war on Gaza were set long before its launch: to remove the Hamas movement and government, achieve the reinstallation of the Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, in Gaza, and end the armed resistance. Two other objectives were not announced. First, restore the Israeli public's wavering confidence in its armed forces after its defeat by Hezbollah in 2006. Second, boost the coalition government in the coming elections.
P - Accordingly, we declare that Israel lost, and lost decisively. What did it achieve? The killing of large numbers of civilians, children and women, and the destruction of homes, ministry buildings and other infrastructure with the most advanced US weapons and other internationally banned chemical and phosphorous elements. Almost 2,000 children were killed and injured in desperate pursuit of political goals. Many international organisations called these attacks war crimes, yet barely a word of denunciation was uttered by any western leader. What message does the EU mean to send Palestinians by its shameful silence on these crimes, when it speaks incessantly on human rights?
P - The aggression failed to undermine or weaken the Hamas-led government, or turn Palestinians against Hamas. If anything, public support is stronger than ever in Palestine and worldwide. Hamas's military capabilities have not been hurt, either. This explains Israel scurrying to sign such a strange agreement with the US to stop arms reaching Hamas. It is doomed to fail. As the former Israeli chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon and Binyamin Netanyahu agreed, Israeli forces failed to achieve their objectives.
2009 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35066188
People drink, snack and pose for selfies against a background of explosions as Palestinian death toll mounts in ongoing offensive
Harriet Sherwood in Sderot
@harrietsherwood
Sun 20 Jul 2014 23.38 AEST
Israelis sit on a hill to watch air strikes on Gaza, some bring
drinks and snacks as they cheer the explosions a few
miles away. Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media
As the sun begins to sink over the Mediterranean, groups of Israelis gather each evening on hilltops close to the Gaza border to cheer, whoop and whistle as bombs rain down on people in a hellish warzone a few miles away.
Old sofas, garden chairs, battered car seats and upturned crates provide seating for the spectators. On one hilltop, a swing has been attached to the branches of a pine tree, allowing its occupant to sway gently in the breeze. Some bring bottles of beer or soft drinks and snacks.
On Saturday, a group of men huddle around a shisha pipe. Nearly all hold up smartphones to record the explosions or to pose grinning, perhaps with thumbs up, for selfies against a backdrop of black smoke.
Despite reports that millions of Israelis are living in terror of Hamas .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas .. rockets, they don't deter these hilltop war watchers whose proximity to Gaza puts them within range of the most rudimentary missiles. Some bring their children.
In the border town of Sderot, which has been struck by countless missiles from the Gaza .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza .. Strip in recent years, one family gathers on a top-floor balcony, draped with an Israeli flag and banner of the army's legendary Golani Brigade. A house with a war view may even command a premium price these days.
Israeli man watches the bombardment as he sits on an old
sofa left on a hillside in Sderot. Photograph:
UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media
An atmosphere of anticipatory excitement grows as dusk falls, in the expectation that Hamas militants will increase rocket fire after breaking their Ramadan fast, and the Israeli military will respond with force.
The thud of shellfire, flash of an explosion and pall of smoke are greeted with exclamations of approval. "What a beauty," says one appreciative spectator.
Shimrit Peretz, 19, has come with her off-duty soldier boyfriend, Raz Sason, whose army-issue assault rifle is slung across his shoulders.
"We come to look at the bombing," Peretz says, adding that this is their fourth visit to the hilltop. They plan to stay several hours: "It's interesting." The pair have brought a backpack filled with bottles of water and bags of crisps.
Peretz says that she doesn't worry about the Palestinian civilians caught in the bombing; Sason disagrees. Despite his concern for the innocents caught in the assault, the young conscript soldier wishes he was with his comrades across the border in Gaza. "I'd like to be going in, to help my country and help the soldiers inside," he says.
Given the dramatic views, media crews are coming to the area to cover the fighting. On a nearby hilltop, an ugly scene develops as a group of Israeli men threaten a photographer, accusing him of being a "leftist". We are warned against asking for interviews, as another cheer goes up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing
Children around the world are generally getting bigger. Children of Gaza are actually getting smaller due to malnutrition. Courtesy of Israel.
There could have been two states living relatively peacefully beside each other. Screw the zealots on both sides.
"I'm old enough to remember that when Israeli warplanes were raining death on Gaza... when Israeli snipers were competing to see who could kneecap the greatest number of Palestinian children during the great march of return... and murdering journalists for covering their atrocities.. the good citizens of Sderot brought out lawn chairs to cheer them on.
That's a true story.
Now I feel sorry for those same good citizens of Sderot, but I wish the fuck I didn't."
I'm sure there were some in Sderot nine years ago who were repulsed as we are at the Israeli betrayal and brutality since Balfour:
Chronological Table of Middle East History .. excerpt ..
[...]Mar 11,1917 Gen. Stanley Maude captured Baghdad after defeating the Ottomans; Basra was captured
on Nov 22, 1914, initially to secure British position in the Persian Gulf and protect oil supplies from Persia
P - Nov 2, 1917 Balfour Declaration: The British government views "with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people...it being understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine
2009 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=34694146
for those i feel sympathy. It will be interesting to see if any residents of Sderot sit cheering on hills when Israel invades Gaza again in ... later this week?
Related: A decisive loss for Israel
[...]Israel's objectives from the war on Gaza were set long before its launch: to remove the Hamas movement and government, achieve the reinstallation of the Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, in Gaza, and end the armed resistance. Two other objectives were not announced. First, restore the Israeli public's wavering confidence in its armed forces after its defeat by Hezbollah in 2006. Second, boost the coalition government in the coming elections.
P - Accordingly, we declare that Israel lost, and lost decisively. What did it achieve? The killing of large numbers of civilians, children and women, and the destruction of homes, ministry buildings and other infrastructure with the most advanced US weapons and other internationally banned chemical and phosphorous elements. Almost 2,000 children were killed and injured in desperate pursuit of political goals. Many international organisations called these attacks war crimes, yet barely a word of denunciation was uttered by any western leader. What message does the EU mean to send Palestinians by its shameful silence on these crimes, when it speaks incessantly on human rights?
P - The aggression failed to undermine or weaken the Hamas-led government, or turn Palestinians against Hamas. If anything, public support is stronger than ever in Palestine and worldwide. Hamas's military capabilities have not been hurt, either. This explains Israel scurrying to sign such a strange agreement with the US to stop arms reaching Hamas. It is doomed to fail. As the former Israeli chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon and Binyamin Netanyahu agreed, Israeli forces failed to achieve their objectives.
2009 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35066188
People drink, snack and pose for selfies against a background of explosions as Palestinian death toll mounts in ongoing offensive
Harriet Sherwood in Sderot
@harrietsherwood
Sun 20 Jul 2014 23.38 AEST
Israelis sit on a hill to watch air strikes on Gaza, some bring
drinks and snacks as they cheer the explosions a few
miles away. Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media
As the sun begins to sink over the Mediterranean, groups of Israelis gather each evening on hilltops close to the Gaza border to cheer, whoop and whistle as bombs rain down on people in a hellish warzone a few miles away.
Old sofas, garden chairs, battered car seats and upturned crates provide seating for the spectators. On one hilltop, a swing has been attached to the branches of a pine tree, allowing its occupant to sway gently in the breeze. Some bring bottles of beer or soft drinks and snacks.
On Saturday, a group of men huddle around a shisha pipe. Nearly all hold up smartphones to record the explosions or to pose grinning, perhaps with thumbs up, for selfies against a backdrop of black smoke.
Despite reports that millions of Israelis are living in terror of Hamas .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas .. rockets, they don't deter these hilltop war watchers whose proximity to Gaza puts them within range of the most rudimentary missiles. Some bring their children.
In the border town of Sderot, which has been struck by countless missiles from the Gaza .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza .. Strip in recent years, one family gathers on a top-floor balcony, draped with an Israeli flag and banner of the army's legendary Golani Brigade. A house with a war view may even command a premium price these days.
Israeli man watches the bombardment as he sits on an old
sofa left on a hillside in Sderot. Photograph:
UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media
An atmosphere of anticipatory excitement grows as dusk falls, in the expectation that Hamas militants will increase rocket fire after breaking their Ramadan fast, and the Israeli military will respond with force.
The thud of shellfire, flash of an explosion and pall of smoke are greeted with exclamations of approval. "What a beauty," says one appreciative spectator.
Shimrit Peretz, 19, has come with her off-duty soldier boyfriend, Raz Sason, whose army-issue assault rifle is slung across his shoulders.
"We come to look at the bombing," Peretz says, adding that this is their fourth visit to the hilltop. They plan to stay several hours: "It's interesting." The pair have brought a backpack filled with bottles of water and bags of crisps.
Peretz says that she doesn't worry about the Palestinian civilians caught in the bombing; Sason disagrees. Despite his concern for the innocents caught in the assault, the young conscript soldier wishes he was with his comrades across the border in Gaza. "I'd like to be going in, to help my country and help the soldiers inside," he says.
Given the dramatic views, media crews are coming to the area to cover the fighting. On a nearby hilltop, an ugly scene develops as a group of Israeli men threaten a photographer, accusing him of being a "leftist". We are warned against asking for interviews, as another cheer goes up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing
Children around the world are generally getting bigger. Children of Gaza are actually getting smaller due to malnutrition. Courtesy of Israel.
There could have been two states living relatively peacefully beside each other. Screw the zealots on both sides.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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