Arab Israeli newscaster: Aleppo onslaught is a holocaust

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Lucy Aharish blames US, EU countries for ‘doing nothing’ as civilians die, accuses UN of ‘hypocrisy’ for crying over dead children

As bombs continue to fall on Aleppo, Syria’s ravaged metropolis, Israeli newscaster Lucy Aharish switched from Hebrew to English during an evening broadcast of her show on Channel 2 television on Thursday, to direct a damning message at viewers around the world.

“Right now, in Halab, Syria, just an eight-hour drive from Tel Aviv, a genocide is taking place,” said Aharish, Israel’s first Arab news presenter, using the Arabic pronunciation of Aleppo.

“You know what? Let me be more accurate: It is a holocaust. Yes, a holocaust. Maybe we don’t want to hear about it, or deal with it, that in the 21st century, in the age of social media, in a world where information can fit into the palm of your hand, in a world where you can see and hear the victims and their horror stories in real time — in this world we are standing and doing nothing while children are being slaughtered every single hour.”

Aharish named several European countries and the United States, blaming them for “doing nothing” as civilians died. She accused the United Nations of “hypocrisy” for holding meetings and “wiping away a tear when they see the image of a father holding the body of his little daughter.”

“I am ashamed as a human being that we chose leaders who are incapable of being articulate in their condemnation and powerful in their action,” she said. “I am ashamed that the Arab world is being taken hostage by terrorists and murderers and that we are not doing anything. I am ashamed that the peaceful majority of humanity is irrelevant once again.”

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-israeli-newscaster-aleppo-attack-is-a-holocaust/

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1. When Israel tried to help treat the injured, they were accused of helping ISIS

By the usual suspects.

There is literally nothing Israel could do in situations like this that will not earn them condemnation for some quarters.

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2. Israel still treats Syrian women & children while accused of worst intentions....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-war-israel-charity-amaliah-fsa-idf-syrian-civilians-women-children-medical-treatment-a7469421.html

Israeli man starts 'Good Samaritan' charity to get injured Syrian women and chlldren to Israel for medical help.

An Israel-based charity providing health care for displaced Syrian women and children by taking them to Israeli hospitals is breaking down stereotypes and historical enmities, one case at a time.

Mordechai ‘Moti’ Kahana, an Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist, poured his own money into helping those displaced by the Syrian civil war in 2011. He sold his company and founded Amaliah, a New York-run charity focused on getting aid into the war-torn country., in 2013.

Mr Kahana told The Independent he was inspired to devote his time to helping the victims of Syria's complex war after a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem in 2010. "Never again - not to us and to no one else," he said.

"I cannot let these people suffer and die and walk away from it. I just cannot do it."

Mr Kahana had to convince the Israeli authorities to let Amaliah operate despite the safety concerns, coordinating with both the Israeli Defence Forces and the Free Syrian Army rebel alliance to reach people in need.

As of September, Amaliah has managed to start a healthcare programme which takes buses of women and children from southern Syria across the border to Israeli medical facilities for check-ups and treatment at day clinics.

“In just one day we can save a kid's life from suffering, infection. Some kids they come in with one eye, they can't see,” Mr Kahana said. "In Syria they cannot take care of it. In hospital [in Israel] one hour later, that's it, the kid can actually see again."

Demand for Amaliah’s services is overwhelming. It is the only aid organisation of its kind operating in south Syria, and thousands of people get in touch through social media every day, the charity says.

Many of the adults and children treated haven’t seen a doctor in years, and those children in need of serious care end up staying.

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3. Meanwhile, from the alt-Right Veterans Today...

Israeli mafia trafficking Syrian children’s body organs

Supporting Israel's illegal organ transplant/tourism industry: Syrian children abducted from Idlib trafficked south to that "special state"

The Arabic-language Al-Hadath news website quoted the sources as saying that some specific groups that have trained medics have kidnapped the children, mutilated their body organs and then left their corpses in remote areas or buried them.

There's no difference between this white supremacist trash & BDS regressive alt-Left garbage.

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4. Aleppo: House-to-house murder of civilians under way as Syrian city falls to Assad...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/aleppo-syria-civilians-massacre-assad-david-miliband-a7481241.html

And the world is silent.

Never again?

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5. Short of armed intervention what could we do to stop this?

First, playing devil's advocate for a sec. There is a tendency in Arab reporting of events of this kind to overstate them (except for the side committing the atrocity, which has an incentive to deny or understate them). The rebels certainly have reason to claim that the massacre is worse than it actually is. That being said, the claims are entirely believable, especially with Assad in power. His family and personal history is about as blood drenched as anyone's.

But what can the civilized world do to stop this? It's not like Obama is such a friend of Putin that he's shy about saying anything about this or about putting pressure on Russia to get the Syria Government to stop murdering its own people. The President is probably doing that already. But that kind of pressure hasn't worked, and isn't likely to work now. And it's not like publicly shaming Assad or Putin is going to stop the killing. Neither give a crap about that. What can the West do? Stop buying Russian gas? Or try the carrot route and offer to pull NATO out of the Baltics? Publicly accept Russia's taking of Crimea and interference in Ukraine? I don't think so.

Is there anyone on this board who think's bombing Syria is the answer? Because military intervention is what it would take.