"Nowhere to Run": Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes in Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis

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46. Mr Chomsky ...

... is apparently ignorant or just deliberately misleading when he quotes from his Palestinian medical source ...

"Israeli occupation denied him a permit to go to Israeli hospitals for treatment. I had to suspend my study, work and life and go to set next to his bed. We all sat including my brother the physician and my sister the pharmacist, all powerless and hopeless watching his suffering. He died during the inhumane blockade of Gaza in summer 2006 with very little access to health service."

For one thing -- every year Israeli hospitals treat over 100,000 Palestinian patients, mostly women and children, for free. They perform everything from basic medical procedures to organ transplants on Palestinian patients. Over 100 Palestinian doctors intern in Israeli hospitals. I'm sorry the young woman's father died from cancer but if you're aware of a cure for advanced cancer (the PT died six months after the diagnosis) that could have saved this man that the Israelis are hiding from the world, please, let us know. Israeli doctors have saved more children than the IDF will ever harm in their crackdown on Hamas militants -- but you won't see any of acknowledgement of that here.

As for Mr Carter -- even the NY Times has pointed out his biased mendacity, pointing to his "narrow outlook" and falsification of facts in his "Apartheid" book (and when you've lost The Times, you're off the grid). The Carter Centre received a $200 million endowment from Saudi Arabia and subsequently ignores Saudi human rights abuses to focus it's total ire on Israel. Someone that far "in the tank" can't even remotely be thought to be an unbiased source.