..."This is truly a sad day for the U.N. and for those of us who genuinely care about promoting respect for human rights and religious freedom."In short, Kennedy is saying that Isreal has the freedom and right to genocide. But does any country have the right to inflict the following on civilians...women and children? How does this bring peace or justice to Isreal or the Palestinians. As a Jew, I deplore the wanton death and targeting of resources that are needed by civilians. They are caught in the middle of this endless war. Neither Isreal or Palestine will see peace without recognizing their common humanity. There's a difference from self protection to what is really happening:
"But this time, the situation is worse than that. As food in the refrigerators spoils, the only remaining food is grains. Most people cook with gas, but with the borders sealed, soon there will be no gas. When family-kitchen propane tanks run out, there will be no cooking. No cooked lentils or beans, no humus, no bread the staples Palestinian foods, the only food for the poor. (And there is no firewood or coal in dry, overcrowded Gaza.)"And yet, even all this misery is overshadowed by a grimmer fact: no water. Gaza's public water supply is pumped by electricity. The taps, too, are dry. No sewage system. And again, word is that the electricity is out for at least six months."
"The Gaza aquifer is already contaminated with sea water and sewage, due to over pumping (partly by those now-abandoned Israeli settlements) and the grossly inadequate sewage system. To be drinkable, well water is purified through machinery run by electricity. Otherwise, the brackish water must at least be boiled before it can be consumed, but this requires electricity or gas. And people will soon have neither."Drinking unpurified water means sickness, even cholera. If cholera breaks out, it will spread like wildfire in a population so densely packed and lacking fuel or water for sanitation. And the hospitals and clinics aren't functioning, either, because there is no electricity."
"Finally, people can't leave. None of the neighboring countries have resources to absorb a million desperate and impoverished refugees: logistically and politically, the flood would entirely destabilize Egypt, for example. But Palestinians in Gaza can't seek sanctuary with their relatives in the West Bank, either, because they can't get out of Gaza to get there. They can't even go over the border into Egypt and around through Jordan, because Israel will no longer allow people with Gaza identification cards to enter the West Bank. In any case, a cordon of Palestinian police are blocking people from trying to scramble over the Egyptian border--and war refugees have tried, through a hole blown open by militants, clutching packages and children."
"In short, over a million civilians are now trapped, hunkered in their homes listening to Israeli shells, while facing the awful prospect, within days or weeks, of having to give toxic water to their children that may consign them to quick but agonizing deaths."
"The astonishing scale of this humanitarian situation is indeed matched only by the deafening drizzle of international reaction."
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Don't confuse your hatred of Mark Kennedy with the Jews in the Mid East.
I haven't...I've clearly stated why I dislike Kennedy's distortion of Isreal's position regarding what they are currently doing to the inhabitants of the west bank and gaza.
I can't think of one person I hate...but I do hate many of the things people do...like Mark Kennedy's current support of Isreal hurting and killing civilians.
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