They didn't even give us two minutes to get out'

[Classical_Liberal]

Note to mods Title edited for not fitting on one line.

'They have no humanity. They didn't even give us two minutes to get out'

Last month, Israeli troops swept into the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, bulldozing hundreds of homes and leaving around 60 dead. Israel says it was looking for terrorists, but by the time the army withdrew, 1,600 people were homeless. What happens to the people whose houses are destroyed? Chris McGreal asked six families to show him what they salvaged from the rubble

Friday June 4, 2004
The Guardian

The Al-Akhras family


There is nothing left of the Akhras' family's home. Even the cloths blowing in the breeze above their heads, providing a pathetic, makeshift tent to the once nomadic Bedouin family, are borrowed from luckier neighbours. A large round metal bowl is all that they recovered from the rubble of their house after it was bulldozed by the Israeli army.............

It was 10pm when the bulldozers came. "All the people were fleeing their houses, but one of my brothers is handicapped and was trapped in the house. We had to carry him out as the bulldozer was hitting the building."............

Rula Abu Abid grips her doll as if it is all she has left in the world. It is called Larla and its head is buried in the rubble of her home. Rula asked her grandfather, Hassan Mikkawi, if they would ever find it. The 61-year-old motor mechanic - "the most famous mechanic in Rafah" - reassured the five-year-old that one day they would have the strength to sift through the rubble to look...........


http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1231162,00.html

[Classical_Liberal]

1. BTW, I don't excuse the generalizations many of these individuals

present about Israelies, what they call "Jews" but their side of the story needs to be told just like the side of those who get suicide bombed however politically incorrect the language might be. Lord knows how this political incorrectness is tolerated coming from the opposite direction.

[number6]

2. simply put, IDF crimes, period.

:(

[Gimel]

3. The doll's head

is missing. What a crime. Yes, they lost their home. They lost many things of material value and sentimental worth. They will have to start over from scratch. A crying shame.

[Name removed]

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[Gimel]

6. I am

totally speechless at your reply.

[Djinn]

8. and what a surprise

it was deleted.

I'll say it again with different words.

For anyone to suggest this isn't a crime or not a "big deal" is extremely knackered and demonstrates a lack of empathy.

If this statement is against the rules and needs to be deleted then it really has gone beyond a joke here in I/P

[number6]

5. you must be kidding !! ??

:shrug:

"Yes, they lost their home. They lost many things of material value and sentimental worth. They will have to start over from scratch. A crying shame."

no big deal huh ?

[newyorican]

12. That sentiment is on par with...

this classic thread: The scent of racism

[Djinn]

13. what I loved about that one

was that it was "unfortunate" that the discussion had detoured, not that some agreed with the racial smelling technique..sigh

[Forkboy]

7. WOW

WTF...that is just plain fucked up :wow:

[Djinn]

9. how long before this is deleted?

since when is saying "what X said is fucked" against the rules here?

[Forkboy]

10. It is fucked up

and thats the truth ruth!

[newyorican]

11. What's a crying shame...

is what this forum is turning into (LGF with no nads). Going to have to think long and hard about continuing to subsidize this crap.