As I was taking the metro this morning, I see people read the news and since the metro is crammed, you get to read big titles of news. Today the majority of the news papers had one major news item "Israel withdraws from Gaza", "Israel Leaves Gaza" or some other title along the lines....That's fine, but the thing is none of those newspaper reported that Israel went into the Gaza Strip. The ct of leaving Gaza is a good news for Israel and thus it can be reported, but God forbids any news that might be negative to Israel is buried somewhere near the obituaries. also when Abbas got fed up with the Israelis, and came under lots of pressure to suspend the meetings with the Israelis, he did do just that. On the same day he suspended the meeting, more than 70 Palestinians were massacred, the news came out "Abbas suspends talks"". Just an observation...
Also, it seems to me that the only time Muslims casualties are reported and commented on if these causalities happened either protesting some invasion or protecting the prophet cartoons. Most people can tell you that 11 people died in Pakistan as a result of violence in protecting the cartoons of the prophet. But most will fail to give you a number of the victims of the wedding in Afghanistan the US military wrongfully bombed...another observation!
There were Israelis that were killed as a result of the Israeli attacks and the Palestinian homemade rockets. The numbers is one Israeli causality to at least 130 Palestinian causalities 1:130. But obviously the death of one Israel justify killing 130 Palestinians. Some Rational! And the shocking thing is there are people who still believe that the Arabs want to push Israel to the sea, so it is OK to punish people for what they say. But when it comes to pushing people for what they do (Israel actually pushing the Palestinians to see) they turn a blind eye! As my good friend Jehad said "If Israel was putting Palestinian children in meat grinders in Gaza, no one would give a damn" I find that to be equally true and disturbing.
It is sad how many Arab and Muslims nations are passive when it comes to helping the people of Gaza and Palestine. it takes the death of tens of Palestinians, the harming of hundreds, and destructions of countless homes to get the attention of the Arab and Muslim leaders to send their aid (mainly food and medication) and support. The Arab and Muslim people are always supportive, no matter what, but it takes a carnage to get their attention.
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