Jezebel 
Enter your username and password.
-
posts about #beitlahia more → 
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Message In A Bottle
New York, 6:24 AM
Fri Dec 4
68 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip your editors:
Editor-in-Chief:
Anna Holmes
| Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Dodai Stewart
| Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor:
Tracie Egan
| Twitter
Contributing Editors:
Anna North
| Twitter
Sadie Stein
| Twitter
Reporter:
Irin Carmon
| Twitter
Editorial Assistant:
Margaret Hartmann
| Twitter
Contributors:
Rich Juzwiak
Email | Twitter
Latoya Peterson
Email
Jenna Sauers
Lizzie Skurnick
Interns:
Katy Kelleher
Twitter
Weekends/Commenter Moderator:
Hortense
| Twitter
| posts about #beitlahia more → |
Rain, Rain, Go Away |
Message In A Bottle |
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
07/16/09
Thanks for the photo of a destroyed apartment building...your photo has to be commended because we have seen no such photos in the MSM.
07/15/09
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443821039&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
07/15/09
07/15/09
07/15/09
07/15/09
07/16/09
07/15/09
Oh, what am I thinking? Palestine isn't a country!
07/15/09
07/15/09
Children weren't just "throwing rocks at tanks". Hamas and Hezbollah were throwing missiles and bombs at cities.
07/15/09
however, their qassam rockets, which are homemade, and "missiles", which are soviet era, hardly seem a fair match against F16s, white phosphorous, tanks, and the largest per capita military force in the world though, does it?
07/15/09
we can certainly agree that it's offensive to believe that israel has no right to exist, but isn't also offensive to create a situation in which palestinians cannot exist, and refuse to recognize their right to their own state in turn?
07/15/09
Also, Palestinians were offered their own country many times over the last 60 years and turned it down just as many times (since you're bringing up Golda Meir I'm assuming it's ok to reference past palestinian political stances as well).
The palestinians have done a lot to create their own poor living situation. Isreal has has an influence but the situation cannot be blamed 100% on Israel. Using children and innocent civilians as shields puts those people directly in harms way. Using schools and apartment buildings to build rockets and hold militant meetings puts all of those people at risk. Please stop blaming Israel for all of the Palestinian problems. They may be to blame for some of them, but not all!
07/15/09
07/16/09
07/15/09
07/15/09
07/15/09
"We didn't see a single house that was not hit. The entire infrastructure, tracks, fields, roads -- was in total ruin," a soldier says. "Nothing much was left in our designated area … A totally destroyed city."
From American Prospect an article by Israeli author and settlement expert Gershom Gorenberg (not sure how to embed links in the new system, but I'll try this:
Two organizations in which former Israeli soldiers are working to make things right are Combatants for Peace, an Israeli-Palestinian organization of former combatants who work today toward co-existence, and Shovrim Shtika (Breaking the Silence), former soldiers who document the damage the Israeli military has done.
As an Israeli, I'll say it again: How Israel thinks that this level of destruction and collective punishment can in any way serve peace and/or security is beyond me.
07/15/09
07/15/09
By the way, the Gershom Gorenberg that I mention here has his own, fabulous blog (with Haim Watzman) called South Jerusalem. Very worth the visit.
07/15/09
07/16/09
And now, here's MY favorite blog:
http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2009/07/unanswered-questions.html
07/16/09
I'm guessing they chose to be anonymous because of the really nasty consequences of speaking out against the Israeli military. I don't blame them. As it stands, organization like Shovrim Shtika are quite subversive, and often targeted by the government. The ideal is that sources would always be credited, but in this situation its not always possible, mostly due to the actions of the Israeli government itself. When the day comes that it is possible to speak out in Israel against the military without worrying that your organization will get shut down, that you as an individual will not be ostracized from your community, then I will expect all sources to be credited. But we're never going to get to that point if people refuse to listen to these stories, and begin to accept what is being done by the Israeli government/military.
07/15/09