Remembering the Tragedy of Gaza

Looking back at the innocent victims of Israel's U.S. powered death machine and it's visit one year ago to Gaza.

Ambulance hit by missile from an Israeli tank shell on 4 January 2009 while picking up wounded men in Beit Lahya, Gaza. Photo courtesy: Amnesty International

(SALEM, Ore.) - The people of Gaza suffered horribly one year ago during Israel's operation called "Cast Lead" which involved the deaths of over 1,400 people in Gaza, among them several hundred children.

The war crimes committed by Israel during this attack are horrific and the damage they inflicted will last decades in terms of human loss and scars, and also environmental damage wrought by the radioactivity in Israel's U.S. supplied bombs.

The dangers that linger from this type of severe military attack do not end there and in some cases they never will.

Israel used white phosphorous to kill civilians which is strictly prohibited by international law. The Israeli government issued a warning for civilians in Gaza to go to the center of town, and then they bombed the town center.

Most of the hospitals in Gaza were specifically targeted and bombed by the IDF and ambulance drivers were picked off by snipers as they tried to reach the wounded. Israelis in the video below clearly state that all of the Palestinians should be killed. All the while, Zionists and their advocates cry about how various Islamic nations want to "wipe Israel off the map."

In all truth, the Palestinian people are the only ones facing such a fate, but lying is the strong point for any society that is fully based in a superior race concept, such as Israel.

During the attack one year ago, the United Nations compound in Gaza was targeted and bombed and schools were also specifically pinpointed and destroyed while they were occupied by children.

The people who defend these actions are beyond comprehension. Between the Hamas rocket attacks that supposedly prompted the IDF onslaught, and Israel's military losses during the attack, which included several friendly fire casualties, their total loss amounted to 14 people.

There is nothing to debate. Only racists have the capacity of trying to justify this type of inhumane brutality. Murdering children is unforgivable. It isn't like it was only a few, or even a few dozen. It was a few hundred. Israel stole almost all of the land it exists on and the Israelis are unhappy that the people they stole it from have not gone away quietly.

Israel's military killed over 1,400 Gazans in retribution for the Hamas rocket attacks that killed four Israelis. You do the math, and if anyone believes that is fair, considering the several hundred defenseless Palestinian children killed, then they are the exact same type of people who encouraged or at least went along with the killings of the Third Reich.

The South African Apartheid years can be compared, but I don't think I am going out on a limb when I say South Africa's actions were minor in comparison to Israel's.

This is a montage documenting the genocide committed by Israel in "Operation Cast Lead".

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Amazing that you call yourself a journalist or reporter. What you are is a blatantly racist, untruthful, anti-semitic charlatan. None of your writing holds a candle to the great reporter and journalists or our time. You are a pathetic apologist for the real murderers, Hamas, who are dragging the palestinians down into their own rat hole to gain sympathy from simple minded fools like yourself. Hamas and the Nazis are no different except that Hamas hasn't been given free rein to murder at will - other than their own people. The fact that you are an unapologetic champion of these murderers is obscene.
The Palestinians have been offered peace and prosperity so many times it is a joke that you can't see or accept it. History means nothing to you, nor fairness. You should be called Tim out-of-context King. You are worse than the scum you pretend the Israelis to be.

Tim King: Geez Howard, as long as you don't have to justify accusations or make sense, you're in business.  Sounds like an old line to me.  You know and I know as hard as it is to swallow, that the Israeli Zionist's are the Nazi's of today.  It is amazing that you think you can rob people's land and murder them and that those who survive aren't willing to bow down and kiss the feet of Israel.  Imagine that?  You live in a fantasy world and your leaders are killers of the worst kind because they and you I suppose, do it without remorse.  You certainly have blood on your hands if nothing else.   There is no sense to it, everything that happens is a response to the initial taking of land and the subsequent building of "settlements" on the little bit of land the Palestinians have, that you haven't yet fully taken control of.  I am working with Jewish, Christian and Muslim people and I have more connections in this world than you can count.  I have been reporting news for twenty years and I've covered combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.  You are a bully and a coward and a racist for not realizing that your zionist ambitions should never have claimed a life.  I promise you that I will never stop writing and publishing news about the tragedy of Gaza; 1400 killed because of Hamas rocket attacks that killed four Israeli's.  I do not believe those four lives are any less important by the way, and I am so sorry that things have escalated to the point that they have reached.  Israel needs to stop the settlements, give Palestinians rights as human beings, tear down the dirty Nazi like walls and borders, and for God's sake they should take the money that they use to kill and build a stable society for all people.  .     

Tim,
How can you call Israel baby killers when Hamas and Islamic Jihad convince their children to strap bombs on themselves and kill innocent civilians?

Tim King: Sal, I am just saying that it is a reaction, that's all, a response.  I'm not here to condone any bad behavior,  We recently ran a big piece about a horrific bombing in Israel that was launched by Hezbollah; huge spread with a bunch of photos.  Nobody should be taking anybody's life, nobody should have to keep dying over religious beliefs. 

This is an EXTREMELY one-sided article, backed up by a video montage of one sided opinions and clips. While there are questions about the situation, you fail to examine and hold responsible the members of Hamas that used civilians as human shields. You failed to cite the indiscriminate bombing of Israeli towns for years. You failed to cite the numerous incidents of terrorist activities in the areas bombed.  You also failed to note that Israel had PHONED, dropped leaflets, and WARNED that areas would be under attack.  Hold Israel accountable, but hold those who purposely put these civilians in harms way for PROPAGANDA and PITY.  BTW-The photo of an ambulance allegedly hit by a shell from an Israeli tank shell has been debunked as phony. You are nothing more than a spokesman and outlet for anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda. Using your methods of "investigative journalism", I fully expect to see condemnation of the U.S. attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan portrayed in the same manner.  Congratulations!

Tim King: To the contrary, you and your justification of the murder of children create the only "phony" circumstances present.  That photograph is 100% legit and there are many others taken by the same camera on the same day in the same place on the Internet, but that is the Zionist way apparently, call foul on truth, deny the obvious, terribly obvious treatment of these people.  All of the retaliation over all these years is from the theft of the Palestinian land, and it continues right now.  When we talk about Israel's military and government, you are talking about a group that includes a bunch of dirty thieves and baby killers, end of story.  

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