cpwm17
cpwm17's JournalIf Israel can claim self defense against a population that it is brutalizing and severely oppressing
then what are the Palestinians allowed to do to defend themselves?
Since the Israeli government and IDF are supported by the vast majority of Israeli voters, it appears that Israel has a target rich environment. There are lots of military institutions and government offices. Plus, since it seems that Israel has granted itself the right to obliterate entire neighborhoods, there are a lot of nice neighborhoods in Israel that could really be tempting to obliterate along with ambulances and future refugee centers, because the IDF are everywhere. When they are done, the Palestinians can then set up a brutal apartheid regime. That sounds about fair. All people are created equal, and all that stuff.
The Palestinians are a million times more justified in attacking Israel than the other way around, but strangely that is not how things work. The racist hypocrites wouldn't tolerate what they support against the Palestinians.
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Tunnels everywhere:
It's weird how out of the innumerable crimes Israel commits against the Palestinians
I don't hear any of the war mongers claim the Palestinians have a right to level Israeli cities and murder Israeli children. But the war mongers look so hard to find any action by the Palestinians, in the background of the numerous abuses by Israel that take place every day, that can justify mass murder against the very same Palestinians. I find it very sickening.
Israel Creates ‘No Man’s Land’ in Gaza, Shrinking Strip by 40 Percent
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What that means on the ground is scenes of extraordinary devastation in places like the Al Shajaya district approaching Gazas eastern frontier, and Beit Hanoun in the north. These were crowded neighborhoods less than three weeks ago. Now they have been literally depopulated, the residents joining more than 160,000 internally displaced people in refuges and makeshift shelters. Apartment blocks are fields of rubble, and as I move through this hostile landscape the phrase that keeps ringing in my head is scorched earth.
Its not like Israel didnt plan this. It told tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee so its air force, artillery and tanks could create this uninhabitable no-mans land of half-standing, burned-out buildings, broken concrete and twisted metal. During a brief humanitarian ceasefire some Gazans were able to come back to get their first glimpse of the destruction this war has brought to their communities, and to sift through their demolished homes to gather clothes or other scattered bits of their past lives. But many were not even able to do that.
When Rania Haels got within 60 feet of the debris that was once her family home in Al Shajaya on Saturday, a machine-gun on top of a nearby Israeli Merkava tank started firing. Probably these were warning shots pumped in her direction, but the 42-year-old mother of seven ran for her life. Now she stays with her family in an overcrowded parking garage in Gaza City and spends her days sitting in a public park full of refugees displaced by the Israeli push. Normally these would be festive times, the end of Ramadan is at hand and celebrations akin in spirit to Christmas festivities are beginning. But holidays have a way of intensifying tragedy. There is no place for Haels family to gather to give gifts and eat Palestinian sweets. There is, in fact, no place for them at all.
More ethnic cleansing against an already ethnically cleansed and imprisoned population.
I returned again today to get more pictures, including a back view
After waiting awhile, five birds flew low towards me while hunting, and then they soared very high in the sky:[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]
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Swallow-tailed Kites: Florida
A couple of months ago I talked to a local sheriff that said Swallowed-tailed Kites could be seen regularly in the summer over some remote fields at the River Lakes Conservation Area in Brevard County, Florida: https://www.google.com/maps/place/28%C2%B015'03.1%22N+80%C2%B049'13.7%22W/
I need to get more exercises so I've made a couple of hikes out to see the birds. I brought my camera today.
I saw at least three today and at least five a couple of days ago. They were soaring high and making dives to catch high flying insects.
I'll return again later to get more exercise and better pictures of one of our most photogenic birds.
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Eating on the wing
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Name: PaulGender: Male
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