Palestinians storm U.N. compound in Gaza City

[ECH1969]

Palestinian gunmen stormed the main United Nations compound in Gaza City on Sunday, witnesses said, part of a protest against Israel's bombing of building in southern Lebanon that killed around 60 people.

The assault followed a demonstration by members of the Islamic Jihad militant group in the streets of Gaza. The U.N. confirmed its compound had been broken into.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14107035/

[PCIntern]

1. As I said in the GD forum...

There go those peace-loving Palestinians again, petitioning the UN for consideration.

:sarcasm:

[Warren Stupidity]

5. I think they are beyond begging to be treated with dignity.

Oh by the way:

"The assault followed a demonstration by members of the Islamic Jihad militant group in the streets of Gaza. The U.N. confirmed its compound had been broken into. Witnesses said there was damage but there were no immediate reports of injuries."

If your intention was to downplay the Qana Atrocity by playing up the outrage throughout the muslim world, you will have to wait for something a bit more vile before it can take the focus off of what Israel has done.

[PCIntern]

6. Actually, I'm pretty bright and

can do two things at once. I didn't mention Qana did I? Just another day in the Gaza Strip...just think...if Arafat hadn't expropriated (read: stolen) all that money for himself, maybe they'd have industry and an infrastructure.

But no...it's just too easy to blame Israel for everything, including the blue dress....

[EFerrari]

30. It's MONICA! She's to blame for Israel's rampant militarism

just as she is to blame for ours!

Goddamn her! :sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

29. Yes, you've said this ad nauseum.

Do you think your audience is deaf or stupid?

[PCIntern]

34. Depends...

which do you prefer?\

Since you asked..

[liberalhistorian]

35. Yes, and as if the Israelis

are anywhere near "peace-loving" as well. And since begging and protests haven't done shit-squat for Palestinians and Lebanese, no one should be surprised at this kind of desperation.

[Mojorabbit]

36. Have you seen this

http://brasscheck.com/videos/middleeast/me1.html
This was a big adjustment in my perception of reality on the subject.

[adriennui]

2. palestinians are feeling neglected

gotta get back into those headlines.

[Mandate My Ass]

3. They are neglected

Nobody will save them from Israeli aggression and oppression. It's a tragedy.

[adriennui]

12. like the palestinian family killed on a gaza beach.?

overlooked was the fact it was a palestinian land mine.

[Scurrilous]

25. Wrong.

Get thee to I/P, read a few threads on this matter, and educate yourself. The IDF abandoned the Single-Mine theory.

[adriennui]

33. are you actually agreeing with the IDF?

eom

[PCIntern]

4. Neglected is right...Truer words never spoken...

they can disrupt and burn with the best of them. Would that they had sent a delegation to discuss...but No, they had to go crazy on those who ostensibly have the weight to assist them.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. Ostensibly?

The UN is watching Israel level a country that didn't declare any hostility towards it. Gaza is similarly being pounded from the air by weapons it can't possibly defend itself from, ostensiby because of a soldier being kidnapped there. Disrupting and burning pales in comparison with shooting people like fish in a barrel.

[Scurrilous]

9. "palestinians are feeling neglected"

Not by the IDF. They're still showing the Palestinians how much they love them.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x140245

"The Israel Defense Forces has killed 97 people in the Gaza Strip since the fighting began in Lebanon. Most of them were armed, and the rest were civilians - children, women, men, the elderly. The large number of fatalities suggests the IDF is engaged in indiscriminate killing under the cover of the war in the north."

[PCIntern]

10. you are quoting a Fatah activist

I'm sure you wanted to make that clear to the rest of us but just plain forgot...

[Scurrilous]

11. No I'm not...

...I'm quoting Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent.

[PCIntern]

13. Yes you are...

read your link. The reporter is quoting the Fatah activist.

[Scurrilous]

27. Nope...

..reread the original thread I posted in I/P and which I excerpted here. You'll see that the snippet I posted is not a quote from a Fatah Activist. If it was a quote it would be in quotation marks in the body of the original article.

The quotation marks you see in my snippet were put there by me because DU rules require that you make your snippet distinct and seperate from any comments you place in the post. Most posters here seperate the snippet from the comment by using quotation marks.

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. OK, we'll quote the BBC from today

More than 100.

[EFerrari]

28. Omigod, we're quoting Fatah ACTIVISTS!

This must stop, immediately! What? We're reading broadly and processing information?

Traitors!

And, who forgot to cut those people's tongues out? :sarcasm:

[PCIntern]

7. WOW! Some video...

'begging for dignity' indeed...

[Roon]

14. Palestinians storm U.N. compound in Gaza City

GAZA - Palestinian gunmen stormed the main United Nations compound in Gaza City on Sunday, witnesses said, part of a protest against Israel's bombing of building in southern Lebanon that killed around 60 people.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14107035/

[Ian David]

15. If Palestinians, Israelis & Lebanese unite in common hatred of The U.N...

maybe there's hope for peace after all?

The United Nations has fucked all of them in so many different ways, so many different times.

[EFerrari]

17. Not as many times as the United States has fucked the UN.

We tend to think of the UN as if it was ever really independent when in fact, we pretty much were the UN back in the day. If the UN survives this transitional period, it will be a miracle.

[Tom Joad]

18. I think most Gazans and Lebanese think the UN is run by the US and for

good reason. The US is on the securtiy council, so the US has veto power, therefore every Israeli action, no matter how extreme, is protected, and never sanctioned.

[EFerrari]

22. And where is the effen Security Council?

Maybe I've always had an unrealistic idea of why it was formed and what it had the power to do.

It's ugly to have your idealizations shredded this way.

[Ian David]

20. America is a herd of bulls that has been set loose in multiple china shops

I think a new U.N. type organization will need to be built around a framework created at The Hague.

There should be plenty of war crime trials to keep them busy for decades.

[EFerrari]

21. Yeah. I'd like to see the U.N. make it -- despite asshole criminals

like Bolton.

What an insult he is to the spirit of the thing.

[Ian David]

23. If you cut ten inches off Bolton's head, nobody would miss it. n/t

[EFerrari]

24. Maybe his barber.

Oh boy.

It must be scary to be some smaller nation and to watch this lumbering jackass, the US, smashing through your garden.

The only sort of good outcome may be the the NeoCons will lose whatever shred of credibility they've managed to keep. On the other hand, how would we know, they own the media.

Just have to keep getting the word out, any way we can.

[Igel]

16. Great, one-up-manship

between rival groups.

They'll be fistfights around the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon as to whose raid on the UN was first, bigger, badder, and more effective.

The usual JI paranoia and communal thinking.

[Warren Stupidity]

19. Or they are really really pissed about what is happening.

How would you feel right now if you were a palestinian or a resident of south Lebanon? What happened at Qana is going to have repercussions.

[Igel]

32. Sure, they're pissed.

But it doesn't mean it wasn't copycat ransacking. Esp. when it comes to Gaza where the UN's been a large employer of Palestinians and supported a large portion of the population for years.

The big complaint in Lebanon is that it hasn't taken sides and hasn't stopped the violence (which amounts to about the same thing, IMHO).

The attack in Gaza seems less well motivated than the one in Beirut, even if it was a bunch of JIhadniki.

[God Almighty]

31. Can anyone blame them? The U.S. is getting Israel to kill their children

I think the Palestinians are showing a lot of restraint.