"The UN chief has said Israel's blockade of Gaza is causing "unacceptable suffering," during a Middle East visit to reinvigorate the peace process. Ban Ki-moon told Gazans that "we stand with you" as he visited an area damaged by Israel's offensive 14 months ago.His visit to the region comes amid tension over Israel's plans to build more settlements in East Jerusalem.
Rebuilding is difficult due to a lack of building materials during the three-year blockade. Israel imposed a tightened blockade after the Islamist Hamas movement seized power in June 2007.
Speaking in Gaza, Mr Ban said families were living under "unacceptable, unsustainable conditions".Mr Ban said it was "distressing" for him to see damage to housing remaining, with no reconstruction possible under the blockade.The blockade has prevented the UN from completing housing projects, but Mr Ban pledged to continue providing aid to Gazans.
"My message to people of Gaza is this: the United Nations will stand with you through this ordeal," he said."
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Ban Ki-Moon condemns Israel's inhuman blockade of Gaza
Started by Harold, Mar 23 2010 11:40 AM
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Posted 23 March 2010 - 01:07 PM
You can always tell when the American Israeli lobby is feeling the heat of backing the latest land grab by right wing extremists in the West Bank: Someone discovers a new chapter of Anne Frank's diary or a new version of Shindler's List appears in print.
It's a desperate attempt to replace the headlines of the living hell that Israel has created in Gaza, with reminders of the Holocaust, as if the only answer to defending Zionist crimes against Palestinians is to remind people of Germany's crimes against Jews. It's all so sick, because it makes a mockery of the long liberal and humanitarian traditions of the Jewish people.
The horrible reality of the Jewish state today is that the armed Jewish settlers running around the hills of Palestine, seizing Arab lands, are not much different than the Germans who ran to settle Poland seventy years ago after Hitler's invasion. Lebensraum may have been a Nazi concept invented by Hitler, but the Israelis are executing it to perfection every day in the occupied West Bank. The only difference is that the Muslim Anne Franks dispossessed of their homes in Gaza or the West bank end up in refugee camps that have no ovens - or hope. That any self-described Jewish State should be guilty of such crimes against humanity boggles the mind.
It's a desperate attempt to replace the headlines of the living hell that Israel has created in Gaza, with reminders of the Holocaust, as if the only answer to defending Zionist crimes against Palestinians is to remind people of Germany's crimes against Jews. It's all so sick, because it makes a mockery of the long liberal and humanitarian traditions of the Jewish people.
The horrible reality of the Jewish state today is that the armed Jewish settlers running around the hills of Palestine, seizing Arab lands, are not much different than the Germans who ran to settle Poland seventy years ago after Hitler's invasion. Lebensraum may have been a Nazi concept invented by Hitler, but the Israelis are executing it to perfection every day in the occupied West Bank. The only difference is that the Muslim Anne Franks dispossessed of their homes in Gaza or the West bank end up in refugee camps that have no ovens - or hope. That any self-described Jewish State should be guilty of such crimes against humanity boggles the mind.
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:47 AM
Two weeks ago, the gang of fundamentalists who were assigned homes in Sheikh Jarrah after the cleansing of the Palestinian owners held a commemoration ceremony for Baruch Goldstein, the butcher of Hebron , who massacred Palestinian worshippers in the mosque.
He was an American who introduced the suicide bombing campaign to Israel; the nephew of one of his victims became the first suicide bomber.
He was an American who introduced the suicide bombing campaign to Israel; the nephew of one of his victims became the first suicide bomber.
