MEP allowed to enter Gaza Strip

[DogPoundPup]

NORTH-west MEP Chris Davies has become the first politician from the UK to enter the Gaza Strip since the start of the latest military conflict in the region.

Mr Davies, whose constituency includes Bolton, was among nine European politicians to visit the battered Palestinian enclave, which is now out of bounds to foreign journalists.

He has called for action to be taken to stop Israel’s attack on the territory.

The Liberal Democrat MEP said: “If Israeli politicians believe that the bombing and terrorising of a civilian population is going to destroy Palestinian resolve and reduce the causes of conflict then they are profoundly mistaken.

“The earth shook each time and the explosions frightened me, but many of the children in the shelter seemed to regard them almost as part of everyday life because they were 600 metres away.

“The big powers must act to enforce the latest UN resolution. Words are not enough and action is now needed to end the slaughter of innocent civilians.

“Israeli civilians have the right not to live in fear of rocket attacks from Hamas, but their current offensive will not work and is killing unacceptable numbers of innocent people. Israel must stop the slaughter now and find another way to peace.”
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/4039619.MEP_allowed_to_enter_Gaza_Strip/

[aquart]

1. "the right not to live in fear of rocket attacks from Hamas"

Really? You don't say. And you would achieve that HOW?

[John Q. Citizen]

2. As he said specifically, the current way isn't the means of achieving it.

Obviously.

I mean they are still firing rockets, correct?

So bombing civilians isn't working.

Or is it?


Naw, it's not. It's just killing lots of civilians.

[subsuelo]

4. which is obviously the goal (to kill lots of civilians)

[John Q. Citizen]

5. I couldn't begin to know the goal. I only know that Israel is responsible for hundreds of civilian

deaths and thousands of civilian casualties.

Those people and even a couple of handful of Israelis would be alive right now if they hadn't attacked the people of Gaza.

[DogPoundPup]

6. new one same as old one

"We must expel Arabs and take their places."
-- David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985.
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"
-- Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."
-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them."
-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

[subsuelo]

3. To reduce terrorism, stop participating in it.

How's that for starters.