Ramblings by Bones: Gaza - The Closed Zone

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Gaza - The Closed Zone

Below is an Israeli short film detailing the plight of a Palestinian trapped in Gaza...

This is what Joe Klein of Time magazine has to say:

For a great many of us - Jews who support Israel, but not these policies - this government is an embarrassment. In fact, according to a recent poll conducted for the liberal group J Street, 60% of American Jews oppose the expansion of settlements [which are all illegal] and 69% oppose Lieberman's [an anti-Arab bigot who is the Foreign Minister] participation in the government. According to that same poll, 72% believed the US should exert pressure on both sides to move toward a deal--a policy one hopes Barack Obama will have the courage to pursue.

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Smitha 55p · 833 weeks ago

Bones - This film gives such a clear idea of what the people of Gaza have to go through everyday... It felt claustrophoic to just watch it... I really wonder if a peaceful solution will ever come by to this volatile piece of land...

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sraboney 53p · 833 weeks ago

I don't think a peaceful solution will be found because neither side will give in...Infact, things are going from bad to worse...There is a rise in religious fundamentalism on both sides...

When we think of terrorists, we usually think of Islamic terrorists especially in the Middle East...But there is a growing number of extremist Israeli settlers including rabbis who are busy establishing an army within an army so that if one day it is asked to disband and/or destroy Jewish setllements in Gaza, there will be enough soldiers to refuse to obey the order and protect the settlements by killing those who come to disband them...How is the brainwashing done? Fundamentalist rabbis (like all other fundamentalist religious leaders) find Torah verses that make it permissible to murder secular Jews and Arabs...
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sraboney 53p · 833 weeks ago

(...cont.)
Eg 1. Yitzhak Rabin's assassination by a Jewish law student Yigal Amir..Reason: to stop the Middle East process (which Rabin had started)...He felt that Rabin was giving away the country to the Arabs...He wanted Jews to be cold hearted - as cold hearted as him to protect their God given land...When asked where he got his ideas, Amir told the magistrate that he drew on the Halacha, which is the Jewish legal code... "According to the Halacha, you can kill the enemy," Amir said..."My whole life, I learned Halacha. When you kill in war, it is an act that is allowed." (source: CNN)
Eg. 2. Baruch Goldstein's (an American born Israeli doctor) rampage in a Hebron mosque in 1994...He killed 29 Arab Muslims and injured 150 others before he was beaten to death...Goldstein was an extremist who refused to treat non-jews because he recognised only one religion - Judaism...His grave has become a pilgrimage spot for extremist Jews...

Extremist interpretations of the Bible were earlier rare but now are becoming more mainstream...God only knows what will happen if the majority of Israelis start thinking like Amir and Goldstein...
Also, the government is not doing much to resolve the issues...America has to put pressure but it can't because of the strong Jewish lobby...

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Sabyasachi Ghose · 833 weeks ago

The Arabs too ought to accept the reality of Israel and therefore Hamas etc sholuld stop terrorism and sit down and start a dialogue with Israel who should reciprocate. Netanyahu has stated that his government will be "a partner of peace with the Palestenians" and "if we have a strong Palestenian economy, that's a strong foundation for peace." Just as US, so should the Arabs, Iran and Syria (just as Sadat did years back) should put pressure on their clients so that a lasting peace could be there for all to enjoy.
It takes two to tango.

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Vinod Sharma 104p · 833 weeks ago

Sometimes I wonder if that small stretch of land is cursed. It is easy to take positions defending one side and berating the other, but that is not going to help those people in Gaza get out of the hell they are in.

It seems that both Israelis and the Palestinians want some sort of settlement but only if each emerges "victorious" and the other "defeated". That is an impossibility. So no one wants to give what is needed to reach a settlement...

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anrosh · 832 weeks ago

i think too - the land is cursed. and where the arabs and the jews cross their paths there sure will be blood shed. after all they are step brothers!

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Ajit · 833 weeks ago

Yes Bones, always when people think of this conflict, israel is often portraited as the good guy but the ground realities are that both sides need to be blamed. and people are literallly living in hell in those settlements......Solution... I hope will be found but I cant see it coming..

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sraboney 53p · 833 weeks ago

Israel is potrayed as the good guy because the country was created by whites for whites...

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anrosh · 832 weeks ago

that is the media game. jews are in the US and that is the propoganda that they are spreading around !

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Indyeah · 833 weeks ago

I get confused about who is wrong and who is right here
but the short film is so brutal and yet that is the reality..

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manju · 833 weeks ago

I always think that when the State of Israel was founded after WWII, the western nations were playing God.

They never stopped to think what would happen afterwards. In hindsight, it can be said that they simply created a perpetual war zone.

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sraboney 53p · 833 weeks ago

I agree with you...Why would they have thought about non-White Muslim Arabs? For more than 200 years, Christians went on Crusades to 'protect' that land but came back empty handed...This was a way of correcting things by making it a perpetual war zone...I also think, one of the reasons for creating Israel was to get 'rid' of Jews from Europe to ensure there wouldn't be another Holocaust in their own backyards...
The British are good at playing devisive politics with others...They did the same thing by dividing India when they left...

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kanagu · 833 weeks ago

I can't watch the video here bones.. will watch it this weekend..
Both needs to blamed for their actions..

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Piper · 833 weeks ago

Middle East Politics is way beyond my powers of comprehension! I have tried. Trust me I have tried to understand. No Joy!

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Solilo · 833 weeks ago

After a while the line between right and wrong diminishes. Middle East politics is sad state of affairs. Actually everywhere the case is the same. Over a small piece of land, millions lose their peace of mind.

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indian homemaker 31p · 832 weeks ago

All I understand is that when we want victory more than we want peace we get nowhere.
Sad video ...

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