By MAHMOUD EL-YOUSSEPH
Dear editor,
The use of a live fire by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to disperse peaceful Palestinian demonstrators is a heinous crime. Over the last 9 days, the IDF have murdered 31 and injured another 2,850 in Gaza according to Palestinian Health Ministry.
This took place on the 30th of March when around 30,000 men, women, children, and unarmed Palestinian protesters marched near the Israeli border as part of the “March of Return,” demanding justice and the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants to their homes. Protesters were faced with life ammunition, rubber bullets, and tear gas canisters dropped from drone aircraft and tanks.
Referring to this blood bath by western mainstream media as “clashes,” “riots,” or confrontation is wrong and unfair. The Palestinians were behind a perimeter fence separated by 700 meters of buffer zone and then another perimeter fence. The IDF soldiers were not directly in confrontation with anyone!! Those civilians were being shot by snipers over 700 meters away and even a stone thrown would not reach the IDF. The Israelis were not in direct danger, they were NOT DEFENDING THEMSELVES. Protester were armed only with the Palestinian flag and they were met with murderous force. The Israeli plan was to ensure next generation of Palestinians are grown up to be scared cowards who would just live in concentration camp of Gaza and never cause any problem for Israel.
Israeli Defense Minister Lieberman rejected international calls to investigate the massacre in Gaza and said Israeli soldiers deserve medals. According to Lieberman, there are no innocent people in Gaza. In other words, the women, children, medical workers, teachers, firefighters, and journalists are not innocent people. He is therefore claiming that all of them are legitimate targets, which is illegal under international law.
According to Gaza health Ministry reports, 770 of the Good Friday victims of the Israeli Snipers using limb-shattering high-velocity ammunition are now amputees. As a result, B’Tselem, the respected Human rights NGO, began a media campaign urging IDF soldiers posted on the Gaza border to disobey “potentially illegal” shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed protesters.
Deadly force was used in the past against peaceful and unarmed protesters in places like:
1. Amritsar, 1919
2. Sharpeville, 1960
3. Northern Ireland, 1972
4. Tiananmen, 1989
5. It is happening now in Gaza
The world must speak out and act! Yesterday, President Trump tweeted an hour after two women were killed in Muenster, Germany when a man drove his minivan into a crowded open-air restaurant terrace, but he remained so far lip-tied about the massacre in Gaza.
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
Freelance Palestinian writer
Westerville, Ohio
Feedback: elyous[email protected]
Well done, Mahmoud! As a Palestinian yourself, you are the voice of conscience for the beleaguered Palestinian people. One day the US will pay a heavy price for its immoral support of the Israeli occupiers and land grabbers.
For Donald Trump’s subservience to his Zionist masters, see the most recent article by the Saker.
https://www.darkmoon.me/2018/his-masters-voice-or-how-an-obedient-dog-goes-to-war/
Not content with slavishly following the dictates of his Jewish minders among the neocons, puppet president Trump is now trying to find a pretext for starting WWIII in Syria at the behest of his Jewish masters in Israel and the US. Expect the worst from this Zionist controlled puppet.
Thank you Emma! I appreciate your kind words and moral support. I am also grateful for Darkmoon for giving me a platform.
There is no excuse for the Israeli soldiers to shoot with life ammunition at the Palestinian protesters. It must be said though that not all protesters were “peaceful”, some threw stones or Molotov cocktails or rolled burning tires forward. However, none of this was really life threatening to the Israeli soldiers.
The word “restraint” does not occur in the Israeli vocabulary, but does the word “realism” occur in the Palestinian vocabulary ? What other than a massacre do they expect from this action ?
See also video of a Zionist occupational forces sniper murdering an unarmed Palestinian youth while another ZOF animal video’s the murder, all the while other ZOF animals are whooping and cheering.
Here’s the above mentioned video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=63&v=EjTkJIPKj80
If above link is defective, try this embedded one: Motionless Palestinian Shot by Israeli Sniper to Sound of Soldiers’ Cheers
And how the Zionist defence minister wants the sniper, sorry , Murderer, in the above video, to be given a medal.
There’s a fitting photo of Lieberman on the Al Manar news site , pure evil.
The usual deafening silence from the media. If there had been 31 Israeli deaths we would have had saturation coverage and retaliation bombing. Sickening double standards.
What is it? “He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored” If there is one nation on earth that is due for a dose of its own medicine it is Israel, and I am sure the Palestinians are working on it.
John, you mad a very good obervation. Had this been the other way around, you can bet the sky would fall down and America would raise holy hell.
First, President Trump would put our armed forces on worldwide alert, dispatch aircraft carriers to the region, and call for the arrest and persecution of those responsible. U.S. lawmakers would be tripping over each other to the microphone to condemn the act as war crime against humanity. It would headline front pages in all mainstream media, with editorials denouncing the Arabs as bloodthirsty savages who do not value human life and appeal to save Israel before it is too late. TV stations would preempt regularly scheduled programs for constant updates and analyses. The topic would be on every radio talk show with calls to “Send the Marines.” The media coverage would be 24/7 and US officials would try to outdo each other as to who cares more about Israel. And yes, Arab/Muslim communities would be asked if they condone or condemn the siege.
“Six million dead stinking Palestinians aren’t worth one glorious Jewish fingernail.” — Menachem Begin, sixth Prime Minister of Israel from 21 June 1977 – 10 October 1983, and the “winner” of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.
I kid you not. I swear on a stack of Bibles the following is taken straight from the (((Nobel Peace Prize))) website:
The terrorist group Irgun Zwai Leumi was responsible for, among many other atrocities, the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946 in which 91 people were blown to smithereens.
How did that old Polish proverb about the Jew go again?….
The Jew gives himself the Nobel Peace Prize as he bombs your hotels and terrorizes you.
Friday again , time for Palestine and it’s people to hear the brunt of the battle against Satan’s representatives on earth, stay strong brave people, soon you will prevail.
Friday again, three Fridays into the RETURN protests , 26 days until Nakba day.
Resistance faction Islamic Jihad released an interesting video today, it was of footage they SHOT ( sic ) during recent Palestinian return protests, in the footage Resistance snipers have Top Zionist occupational forces
Commanders in their crosshairs, as the ZOF command visit their murderous henchmen, they ( The Resistance fighters ) on this occasion ,did not take the shot.
On Nakba day, no such restraint may be shown .
Video, may be viewed at Resistance websites or various Zionist entity media.