A week after Gaza’s Land Day protests, tens of thousands of demonstrators showed up at the Gaza border for the “day of tires,” where protesters burned tires near the border fence. As with the previous week, Israeli forces positioned and the border opened fire on protesters, killing several.
As with last week’s attack, the death toll is still being sorted out as of the evening, but at least 10 were reported killed, including two teenagers, and around 1,000 Palestinians were wounded. The toll is less than the previous week, as the rally was smaller.
That’s still a lot of casualties, and Israeli forces even used a drone to attack and kill a protester, suggesting that Israel is continuing to raise the stakes, and risk more unrest along the Gaza border, where a protracted blockade and constant airstrikes have left the population angry and desperate.
Organizers say that they intend to hold protests weekly for six weeks at the Gaza border. The second week has come and gone, and there’s little sign it’s going to evaporate. Unfortunately, there’s also little sign the Israelis aren’t going to keep answering it with live ammunition.
Butchers and war criminals. Israel is a farce. They treat their Arab underlings worse then Hitler treated them until 1938 or the blacks were treated in this country under segregation. At least the blacks after the Civil War had their rights defined under the Constitution, even if they were not respected much until the 1950’s. I wish the Palestinians had some kind of real hope. Shame on the Zionists!
Palestinian Arabs sat in the state’s first parliamentary assembly; as of 2011, 13 of the 120 members of the Israeli Parliament are Arab citizens, most representing Arab political parties, and one of Israel’s Supreme Court judges is a Palestinian Arab. As of 2015, there are 17 Arab members of knesset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
True, but that is post Nakba. Hypothetically, what if there hadn’t been a Nakba, what would the present representation be, 50 – 50, or the Jews might even be in the minority?
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During Nakba the Paleatinian side would have done the same or worse.
That sort of changes things at least a little.
deflect/hasbara much!!!
Some dont believe in free speech
https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=mufti+hitler&client=ms-android-skt-kr&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYr6yQ4qraAhXIjLwKHRFZBWoQ_AUIESgB&biw=360&bih=518#imgrc=IWNnpYH76aovlM:
Were any of the unarmed protesters killed in the last two weeks non Arabs? Would the IDF open up on unarmed protesting Jews?
Anyway I dont agree with many of Israels actions. But calling them Nazis is over the top and borders on Holocaust denial.
Most of those who call Isreal Nazi would not use that for isreals enemies even though they have done far worse.
Israels enemies a far more racist than Isreal.
You didn’t answer my question. Would the IDF open up on unarmed protesting Jews? Of course not. But killing unarmed “cockroaches” doesn’t seem to be a problem.
if they were citizens of Israel they wouldn’t . the people of Gaza and the West Bank are not citizens of Israel
killing unarmed “cockroaches” is not a problem for Israels’ enemies
Oh, so the IDF only shoots unarmed non citizens. Good to know they’re just ruthless killers and hold no grudge towards the Palestinians.
Some were armed so were not
Wonder how isreals enemies act during war
And yet no Israelis were killed. I guess they were just bad shots.
Why do you keep on bringing up Israel’s enemies? They didn’t shoot fish in a barrel like the IDF just did.
Because Israels enemies are killers too. Agree or disagree?
What does that have to do with anything? Israel’s “friends” are killers too. Also not relevant.
Why not relabent Isreal s enemies are killers right
It’s not relevant because it has nothing to do with the IDF killing unarmed protesters.
How are armed ones?
And the US continues to veto an investigation at the UNSC:
http://stephenlendman.org/2018/04/israeli-high-crimes-without-punishment/
Kahaddfis Libya used tobe on the UN human right council
You assume the UN is an honrst broker. They are not
Reminds me of the ghetto in Lviv during WW2
Were you there?
Israel or Ukraine? What an odd question? Lviv is well documented, as is the Palestinian right of return protest.
Maye if they accept libera ldemocracy. Bathis Khomeni followers A Qadiss and all the similar types ate fascistic bigots and cant be trusted to govern or protect their minorities
Shame on them and their supporters in the west
Not a fan of the Geneva Conventions. The Palestinians are Semites just like you.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/
They sided with the Nazis War Crime
In 1948 the engaged in a war of anhilation another war crime
Israel s enemies persecuted arb jews another war crime.
Israels enemies ought to pay for their war crimes too
Until they are willing to do that and accept liberal demoracy they ought not demand much from Isreal
The expression Antisemitism was created by someone who didnt like Jews as something not to be ashamed of but as something to be proud of
When Israel stops outlawing opposition political parties and occupying the West Bank without giving residents of that area the vote and representation in the Knesset, then Israelis might have the moral stature to talk about “liberal democracy.”
There is being against occupation and being against Isreal.
The west bank and Gaza are not Isreal.
But Isreals enemies w/o accepting liberal democracy ought not demand right of return
“The west bank and Gaza are not Israel.”
Exactly. Which is why there should not be occupation of the former and blockade of the latter.
Agree
End of occupation for end of war
I sort of agree
Netanyahu = Putin
How do/ did Hamas Hizzbollah Syra Iran Saddams Iraq or Khsddafis Libya treat opposition or their minority group or deal with opposition? .
Anyone who sympathizes with them cant be trusted
what are you talking about? Lviv was a Jewish Ghetto in Ukraine during WW2. Gaza is a open prison run by Israel.
Gaza is a war zone run by Hamas who seeks to destroy Isreal.
So you you think Isreal is like Nazi gemany ?
I generally think that Israel is like South Africa: Fenced off “homelands,” separate roads, work permit requirements to leave the “homelands” and do menial work, etc. for people not of the super special number one superior ethnic group.
I don’t sympathize with ANY state. They’re all glorified criminal mobs. Some are not as bad as others, but none of them are good. You were the one who hit the “liberal democracy.” In terms of pre-vetoing election participation by political parties that don’t toe a regime line (including anti-Arab parties like Kach/Kahane Chai), Israel is about on par with Iran, and they’re both better than the formal monarchies and the Baathist and/or military dictatorships.
Israeli arabs have rights like everyone else
Gaza and the West Bank are not Isreal. They are under military occupation. But then again there is a war
If Israel wants to be at war, then it needs to abide by the laws of war it signed on to when it joined the UN.
Likud and its coalition partners want to have it both ways. They don’t want to define Israel’s borders, but want Israel to be considered a Westphalian nation-state, which by definition requires defined borders. They want to occupy territory they acknowledge as foreign on the excuse that “there’s a war,” then build squats (“settlements”) there in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention as if there isn’t a war and as if it’s not an occupation.
The Israeli regime’s entire line is “standards for everyone else but not for us.”
Israel does behave worse than it neighbors or most nations during war
For once you are right. Israel DOES behave worse than its neighbors or most nations during war. But this wasn’t a war, it was cold blooded murder. Which Israel also does better than its neighbors and most nations.
Israel DOES NOT behave worse than its neighbors or most nations during war.
9. Saddam Hussein
Iraq
Death toll: 2 million
Years in power: 34 (1969-2003)
Worst offense: Kurdish genocide
Type of regime: Authoritarian
Cause of death: Executed
https://www.thedailybeast.com/saddam-hussein-hitler-stalin-mao-and-more-13-deadliest-dictators-photos
So you are saying the Israel behaves worse than Saddam Hussein or Assad during war?
And you think that Israel treats it minority groups worse than Iran?
I was just agreeing with your statement.
The minority groups that are citizens or the ones that live in open air prisons? That probably answers your question.
Gaza people are not minority groups of Isreal it is a war zone
Gaza is not Isreal maybe it is Egypt
Israel is better than Iran
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/1321090/Khomeini-fatwa-led-to-killing-of-30000-in-Iran.html
In some ways. And in some ways not. Iran is more of a theocracy than Israel, and Israel is more of an ethno-state than Iran.
It might be interesting to do a per capita comparison on number of state murders, if good numbers were available on either state.
I think muslims in Israel are way better off than in Israel than Jews are in Iran .
Also around 50% of the Jews in Isreal are from the mid east thank to their warm hearted and tolerent neighbors
Wonder why you dont use the znazi comparison for Isreals enemies since they do worse. And are more racist
“Israel’s enemies” is a pretty broad category.
Are many of “Israel’s enemies” evil and racist? Yes.
Is everyone who opposes the policies of, or even the existence of, the state of Israel evil and racist? No.
Being critical of Isreal doesnt make one an enemy of Isreal .
That goes without saying
Let me guess, Justin… They were asking for it.