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Gaza massacre
Andy Battaglia:
I received this email after making a comment about this massacre on a message board.
--- Quote ---Isreal has been bombed by rockets for three years..since the truce was made with GAza, and never before fired back.
2) Hamas contiued to send rockets into Israel even when they were told they owuld be BOMBED if they didn't stop. They were give more than 24 hours to stop sending the rockets..THEY REFUSED TO STOP
3) tHEREFORE, SINCE THEY WOULDNT STOP....ISRAEL WAS 100% JUSTIFIED IN WIPING OUT THEIR ENEMIES... THE SLIMY HAMAS, WOULD SEND ROCKETS FROM APARTMENTBUILDINGS, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS WHERE THERE WERE LOTS OF CIVILIANS....SO THE RETALIATION WOULD KILL THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND THE WORLD WOULD TAKE THEIR SIDE, EVEN THOUGH, THEY ENCOURAGE A WAR. AND YOU ARE FALLING FOR THEIR CRAP
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This is typical of the ignorant uninformed Americans who never make any attempt to find news outside the corporate media. There is no truth in what is said here (ceasefire was 6 months, for example). The corporate media has the same agenda as the US government that the corporations have bought and paid for. What this person said is so completely ignorant and lacking in fact, but the vast majority of Americans think like this. It is very sad that we allow corporations to control what we think, whether it be about was or the latest new drug. Learning to think for one's self is so important but most people never learn to do it.
T @ r ! Q:
George Galloway answering to comments on the issue. It has five parts, this is the link to first one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03LG7uTFtLM
Andy Battaglia:
Tariq, thanks for the link. Westerners are so inundated with propaganda through our "free press" that they never consider what it must be like to be evicted from your own land and put into eternal refugee (concentration) camps, and persecuted even in these horrible conditions. Israel has been killing Palestinians for over 60 years. Why wouldn't the Palestinians react? Why wouldn't they fight their oppressors? Why would they sit and wait for their turn to die? Nowhere on earth are people supposed to happily accept oppression like the world expects of the Palestinians. It is sick.
Sharmin:
--- Quote ---That's plain ignorance,as true information is only clicks away now a days,i took Andy's thoughts to be American thoughts on general,i thought many of Americans might see the situation like Andy or Sharmin or Kathy.It's very sad and unfortunate that it's not the case.
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I think that it is no coincidence that those of us who are members of this site are the ones that are able to see what is going on in Gaza for what it is. We have a desire to find more information about an issue that we are passionate about - whether it is helping our loves ones their blood disorder, to communicate with and support others globally with this disease or to learn what injustices are being carried out in Gaza. Perhaps those that take the information that is spoon fed to them and believe it to be true - whether it be about Isreal or thalassemia - prefer to have someone else do the research and tell them what to do.
Some people don't care to research better treatment for thalassemia - they let the doctor worry about it - we are a group of people of people who need to find the absolute best care for our loved ones (or ourselves). Perhaps it is this same attribute that drives us to seek the truth about what is going on in Gaza.
I wish that more people were driven to learn for themselves, unfortunately it appears most people don't want to make the effort to learn beyond what they are being influenced to believe. What a cost to humanity this it is that people can sit back and blame the Hamas for what Isreal is doing. It is a shame.
Sharmin
Andy Battaglia:
Nice parallel, Sharmin. Honestly, it was when I realized how little so many thals understood about thal, that I realized how much help was needed. Knowledge is power and I have dedicated myself to spreading knowledge so people can make better and informed decisions about their treatment. And I agree. We have a good discourse about Gaza because people are not willing to just accept what the corporate media tells them. Kudos to our members for choosing to be informed on the issues. :thumbsup
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