via Daniels Counter - ( Not in the news! Tel Aviv: Anti War protest)
This was interesting - Daniel highlights the anti-war protests in Israel on Sunday 16th July - which the mainstream media hardly covered. Also on the 21st of July in Haifa.
“This featured in the Israeli papers Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot, but not on the BBC, Sky or even CNN.
Presumably the existence of a Zionist Peace and Anti War Movement movement in Israel is bad news as it does not fit not the image of ugly Zionism many have, or others who wish Israel to fight Islam for them (U.S.)?
Organizations mentioned :
Gush Shalom Israeli Peace Bloc
New Profile. Movement for the Civilization of Israel
Hadash (Wikipedia on Hadash)
Ta’ayush Israeli / Palestinian Partnership Group
Yesh Gvul (Organization for soldiers refusing to serve in Occupied territories)
The Women’s Coalition for Peace (Palestinian and Israeli)Mossawa, The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel.
On 21st of July BBC worldservice for the first time reported on an Israeli Peace demonstration in Haifa the same day”
View photos and write up on the Gush Shalom site here
“Hundreds of thousands of people were warned to flee from southern Lebanon today as Israeli military officers indicated that final preparations were being made for a ground invasion.” Guardian
Yeah like where to? Any bright ideas?
” The UN estimated that about a half a million people had been displaced in Lebanon, with 130,000 fleeing to Syria and about 45,000 believed to be in need of assistance”.
this is all so fucking ridiculous. bloody stupid hizbollah giving the Israelis an excuse. Someone on the Comment is Free was talking about ‘miscalculation’. Well was it? Sounds like both of those entities wanted trouble and now they’ve got it. If they want to kill each other what can I say? Still they jolly well ought to think about everybody else. So selfish otherwise, isn’t it! its incredible that so many people should have to be stuck and trapped in this awful situation. Time and time again I’ve said this and I’ll say it again - can the people who want war go somewhere else like Mars or something? Talk about the tyranny of living in a collective with some stupid people. Where is one to go???! The whole school being bombed for what a couple of kids have done. Or the whole country rather.
I don’t like tanks - i don’t like looking at them or being reminded of them but i’m putting up this image. Is this something you want to wake up to - a tank facing its artillery at you or your window? Nope probably not. I’m lucky right now i’m not looking at one but i haven’t always been so lucky. I’m lucky i’m alive now, but others AREN’T as lucky. I don’t want that to be ignored. Some of us are lucky and some of us aren’t - it’s terrible.
I do feel i wish i weren’t a member of the human race at times like this.
And in the meantime if you want to see what the government is thinking, read this article here
so it all comes down to the fact that if you’re a nation-state you can do what the hell you like - it doesn’t matter - violence is ‘justified’..nation-states have given themselves a monopoly on this after all. We either condemn violence all together or we’re going to be stuck with this hypocritical violent world we’re in and we may as well acknowledge there ain’t no fucking concept of human rights.
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