ISRAELI ADMISSIONS:
“That’s what is so nice, supposedly, about Gaza: You see a person on a road, walking along a path. He doesn’t have to be with a weapon, you don’t have to identify him with anything and you can just shoot him. With us it was an old woman, on whom I didn’t see any weapon. The order was to take the person out, that woman, the moment you see her.”
Israeli troops detail Gaza atrocities as demand grows for war crimes probe
“When we entered a house, we were supposed to bust down the door and start shooting inside and just go up storey by storey… I call that murder. Each storey, if we identify a person, we shoot them. I asked myself – how is this reasonable?”
Israeli soldiers admit to deliberate killing of Gaza civilians
original Ha’aretz article: IDF in Gaza: Killing civilians, vandalism, and lax rules of engagement
Israel admits white phosphorus use
Israel’s Dirty Secrets in Gaza: It Was Pure Murder
Israeli Soldiers Say Army Rabbis Framed Gaza as Religious War
Gaza war crime claims gather pace as more troops speak out
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot at Gaza rescuers, note says
Israeli Soldiers Expose Atrocities in Gaza
Testimonies on IDF misconduct in Gaza keep rolling in
IDF ceased long ago being ‘most moral army in the world’
Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques – IDF fashion 2009
ON WAR ON GAZA:
NEW: “Operation Cast Lead”: A statistical analysis
FACTBOX-Israel’s war in Gaza in facts and figures
Gaza war crimes investigation [VIDEOS AND ARTICLES]
Cut to pieces: the Palestinian family drinking tea in their courtyard
Palestinian brothers: Israel used us as human shields in Gaza war
Under attack: how medics died trying to help Gaza’s casualties
Hermes 450 drone is workhorse for Israeli Defence Forces
PCHR: Confirmed figures reveal the true extent of the destruction inflicted upon the Gaza Strip
Gaza family tells of Israeli shooting – 19 Mar 09 [VIDEO]
OCHA/UNRWA Gaza Film January 2009 [VIDEO]
Gaza medic distraught after Israel’s war – 06 Apr 09 [VIDEO]
Focus on Gaza – Legacy of war – 3 Apr 09 – Part 1 [VIDEO]
Land of Ruins: A Special Report on Gaza’s Economy [VIDEO WITH TRANSCRIPT]
The newspeak of Israeli propagandists
What You Don’t Know About Gaza
B’Tselem: Beit Hanoun shelling kills 3 year old
BBC staff protest over decision not to show Gaza aid appeal
Tony Benn to BBC “If you wont broadcast the Gaza appeal then I will myself” [VIDEO]
Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques – IDF fashion 2009
ON CANADIAN COMPLICITY WITH ZIONISTS:
As a nation, Israel is a disgrace. I am constantly amazed at the general lack of compassion shown towards Palestinians. Israel treats Palestinians as the Nazis treated Jews. The worst is yet to come, I fear.
what are we – the rest of the world – going to do to stop this happening again? we have the luxury of reading about these atrocities and not suffering them directly; we must somehow find the means to change things before any further killings. Seriously: ideas, please/
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Greetings to the stricken People of Palestine, my heart is with you.
First off, a bit about myself: I have a marketing background, having worked in public relations for a long time. Working in this field, I know that to sell something you need to get your core message over to the person you want to move, with the slightest possible means.
The man who put down the ground work for public relations was called Edward Bernays. A puppet of the exact people who are killing and repressing you.
Let’s use their own mans work against them!
The trouble I see, is that you are not getting your core message out to the people of the world. The controlled media is successfully suppressing any news of the Israeli atrocities against you. Even the kidnapping of Cynthia McKinney was easily blocked out.
The work of everyone involved in helping Palestine is invaluable, but there should be an additional key.
And there is.
The letters SOS (save our souls) are the international signal for distress. If anyone was ever in distress, it must be the Palestinian people.
Three simple, but effective letters.
My advice: Use these letters!
Use them everywhere; On every field, wall, window, rooftop, road, shirt, dress, wherever there is a space. The bigger the better.
This way, whenever anything is filmed by the media, the message is omnipresent.
At some stage, people worldwide will see this message and they will ask what it is about.
Imagine the disgust of the world, when seeing Israeli pilots bombing a building with an SOS sign on it, or a soldier shooting a woman with SOS written on her clothing.
In the west we are brought up to think that you don’t harm people who are in distress.
It may, and I’m not saying it will, but it may even have a long term effect on the so called soldiers committing these crimes…..even when it is only in their darkest hours, when they are alone with their consciences.
Make them feel guilty, the way they make others feel guilty.
I’m not saying it’s the big solution everyone has been waiting for, and it’s not a bringer of miracles, but it could be an added opportunity of attention.
It would be the worldwide first of it’s kind.
Ask the world for help.
SOS.
Good luck
William Freeman
I find William Freeman’s SOS idea very interesting. And, yes, we *should* get the core message across.
(I’m a Pakistani journalist.)
William:
What a great idea! Is there anyway that we can all get together and work on a plan to help these people using this idea?
I’ve just learned of this site and Kudos to the blogger(s). Regarding the idea above, has anything been done about it? What’s the next step?
ATW
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Great site, thanks. I just linked here and bookmarked it. I too think the SOS idea is a good one. I’m going to pass the URL for this site on to others. Best wishes.
What we need is exactly this concerted and focussed effort. The Israeli propaganda machine is highly effective: the world press publish Israeli views – and if all else fails the cry of “Anti-Semitism” emerges, which stops everyone from criticising. SO successful, that the Israelis could condemn as “Biased” the UN report on war crimes committed in Gaza, even though it had been conducted by a highly-respected, High Court Judge in South Africa…who is a strict Zionist Jew.
The big supporters of Israel are the Americans, who greatly admire US Jews with their high-profile public roles as benefactors, etc, The US makes a big mistake in equating Jews with Israelis – the inhabitants of a country called Israel, which lays claim to the territory of Palestine.
So if there is to be any change in the world-view, it has to include this distinction between ‘good’ members of the Jewish faith, and Israelis who are not members of that faith.
hello dear:
I’m a Palestinian resident in gaza. A year passed and still black memories in the hearts, souls and dreams of palestinians.
I wish everyone could reach gaza and see the man-made earthquake during the war.
May Arafa’s soul stay in Peace. He had told me about you just 8 hours before his death. I was a close friend to him.
May Justice be brought forth for the people of Gaza and the people of Palestine. May the people in the west especially in United States and Canada finally wake up and stand together for whats right and stop the influence that these Zionist monsters have on our media and government.
in response 2 the question ‘what can we do?’ i think we should be promoting an end to US military & economic aid to israel!
The SOS idea sounds great! The problem getting to the message to the US is that very little video or news coverage of Palestine is ever shown in the MSM.
Has anyone followed up with the SOS strategy?
There have been very successful campaigns from different organisations using TWITTER. How about this? and if we head each message ‘SOS_Gaza’ then there will be a Highly-noticeable and powerful link.
Who is able to plan this?
and what about writing [letters/short articles] for local/national papers. Keep it factual, and we have enough facts on the blog: that even now Israelis are shooting etc, and have taken huge Army bulldozers onto Gaza fields to destroy the precious crops and worse, the irrigation pipes which must be like gold-dust to obtain, let alone to pay for.
One further thought. EVA! how about the people of Gaza using the rubble to spell out SOS in huge letters on the destroyed fields?
How about painting SOS on top of any vehicle? roof? so that in future any pix of Gaza show this: and can be posted on Twitter/Youtube etc to really good effect.
LFB:
That is such a fantastic idea! I’m not technically adept but, please, count me in to help in any way I can.
GREAT! now all we need is someone who can do the Twittering so we can begin tweeting/ Can anyone help? do you have friends who could help?
Dear all.
i`m so pleased to find people that want to help us.
i`m a taecher in the Gaza strip .
your idea is really fantastic.
how could i help you from my position here?
T.Rami Robeen Ashour, greetings! perhaps you have friends with knowledge of how to set up a group on http://www.twitter.com – if so can you post them here? there are small ways we can all help, for instance I include the website URLs for Gaza, and farming, as part of my signature on emails, so it goes to all the people I am in touch with. If we forward to other people the information from this site: or send it to people who are in power [UK or USA] this will have an effect – it needs your own request, so it does not look like ‘spam’.
What would happen in Gaza, if you found people who could sew [materials strips] SOS onto the back of outdoor clothing? It might appear in the photos that are on this site – another reminder of the risk to life in Gaza, and the need for us to support in all the ways we can. What do others think?
Rami:
Welcome & greetings! It is great to have you here and to have a direct link to folks “on Ground Zero” if there is anything we can do to help your efforts, considering how limited our avenues are, please let us know so can try to coordinate something.
LFB, I can’t promise anything but I have reached out to a friend who is a computer junkie to see if he can help coordinate this effort. He is a big suppporter of the Palestinian cause so I know he will be more than happy to jump in and help.
Regards to all and Salaam.
dear all,
so sorry thats i couldn`t replay long time . but thats becouse our problems with electricity.
anyway, about our risks here , words not enough . Gaza is like a big Gwantanamo. we are all captures here just because we are in Gaza. collective punishment from Israel and even from other Arab countries.
i`m working on the SOS idea and i will upload the photo of it
We on the outside world often refer to Gaza as ‘the other Warsaw Ghetto’ – I can’t imagine how you can bare such attrocities.
My heart is with you and your people.
All the best.
The media portrays what they want us to see. Her in the UK there is always news when an Isrealy is killed and yet nothing on the daily trauma of the palestinian. All we can do is pray of your courage for brothers and sisters.
May Allah have mercy on us all.
Abdul, the media is doing exactly what they are paid to do: misinform, disinform and right out lie. This shouldn’t surprise anyone considering who most of the owners of radio and tv stations and newspaper are: the Zionists. The portray things as they want the world to perceive them, a trick they learned from the Nazis in Germany. More and more, Israel resembles Nazi Germany, turns like it and imitates it. Hopefully one day soon, the world will deal with them in exactly the same way they dealt with the Nazis.
All we can do is hope. As for the praying and asking Allah and such, I intend no disrespect but, first, it isn’t doing much to allievate your suffering and, then, that is the root of all these problems. Absent a “god” who chose the jews to do as they please, when they please, where they please, this would have never happened or, at least, it would have happened under its true guise: greed, self-righteousness and self-entitlement.
To all our brothers and sisters in Gaza, please know you are not ignored or forgotten by everyone in the west. It has become very obvious that numerous governments have been purposely feeding disinformation and displaying outright and blatant bigotry and hypocrisy to the world. Part of the reason is to keep us confused, ignorant and not sure who to trust but the most important aspect of their games is to get us angry. People vibrating in that frequency of anger and rage can be easily controlled and manipulated…. and can even perform heinous crimes against family members and loved ones, if “persuaded” properly by professionals. What you, our family in Palestine, is doing with peaceful resistance is a tactic they do not understand and you are very much the pathfinders and wayshowers to the world. Thank you for being an example that we can follow.
Just my thought here… I also love the SOS idea. Perhaps begin with a hash tag on Twitter for this? “#SOSGaza” Sorry, but I haven’t used Twitter for awhile.
Much Love from Canada.
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