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Gaza massacre
Dori:
--- Quote from: Zaini on January 01, 2009, 03:40:35 PM ---You are totally right Traiq,i wish people who call Pakistan a terrorist state would come to Pakistan and see the state of poverty here,economic conditions have been so hard recently that even the so-called middle class is going down the lane,bombs blow up,people die,and our presidant will do nothing but praise Sarah Palin's beauty ?You remember that couple whose 2 years old daughter died and they didn't even had money to bury her? They had to leave her dead body in the Edhi charity centre? I can never forget the face of the crying father,he was crying like he had lost his mind.It was all over the news, This is all so sick,and why would US do something for us,or any country,if we are not ready to do any thing by ourselves?
Economic conditions are hard all over the world now a days,so i don't think that people in any country would even think about war? But i wish we can say the same about govts.
You must have read about a report which came in news a few months back that an american think tank developed a new world map in which Pakistan was absent,i don't know if any of you has seen the movie "War Inc",it displayed the same idea,it showed years like 2015 or something (i don't exactly remember the year),in which Pakistan was under American troops.
I don't think this madness would end untill and unless our political leaders see the wrongness of their ways,my sympathies are with Palestinians,but i wish i could do more.
Zaini.
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Zaini, it's too late for me now to write all the things I want to say. So I will only say this.
Last monday I saw a program called 'Guests in Winter' (wintergasten) on the Dutch tv. This season we got a very good presentator who is a journalist in the Middle East and he's good. He interviewed Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University (New York) who is an economist. The concept of the program is to interview a guest for 90 minutes (without any breaks). I have heard of him since he was the head speaker of the conference of ALAS (which was created by Shakira Mebarak Ripoll and many other well-known people from South-America. I told my father to watch with me. First he was anti mister Sachs, but he was also touched by him. (Unfortunately, my mother had to work) I wished that everyone watched this program.
A summary of what he said:
All problems are caused by poverty. It's our job to get poverty out of the world. And he really accused governments of not doing that - even the American government. They all giving less than 1% of their income (right word?) to Third World*.
That's the thing what slepped of everybodies memory all the time!
Sachs wrote also a book about this issue. I haven't read it yet. I have so many - besides study - to read that the pile of books is like the mount Everest.
The next time when I post here, I want to talk about a book what discuss the Israel/USA issue. I remember me this book when Andy answered me. I gave it as a present to my father during Sinterklaas 2007 and it's still a lonely book.
* = there's a better word for that too
Zaini:
Dore,
You pointed the right thing,we have to abolish poverty,but we obviously can't do it by waging wars,so if the big and developed countries can't help third world countries,they should at least try not to create more mayhem in there.
Zaini.
T @ r ! Q:
Giving money will only provide a temporary relief. We need to build proper economical infrastructure in country which needs help. So that foreign investment can be brought, new businesses start which in turn will create more jobs. Also improving law & order situation helps in increasing consumer confidence and will stop people from investing their savings to some other country.
Lena:
Here is some info about thals in Gaza. I just heard it coming from a doctor in the Gaza Hospital of Beit Hanoun.He was on Greek news, journalists talked to him on the phone and he spoke Greek as he had studied medicine in Greece.He told that the thals of Gaza do not get blood transfusions at all,as no blood is available.
As expected that might be, at the same time it's terrible to be expressed in words. One cannot avoid put oneself in their places.
Greece has sent humanitarian aid with drugs and 150 blood units.
But are they enough?
Dori:
That's really, really terrible :(
Do they really attack hospitals?
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