The following is from a regular newsletter sent by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh. His website is: www.Popular-Resistance.blogspot.com
Bio: Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. He is director of the main clinical cytogenetics laboratory and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and Institute for Biodiversity Research. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke, and Yale Universities. He published over 130 scientific papers on topics ranging from biodiversity to cancer. He was chairman of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and currently serves on the board of Al-Rowwad Children’s Theater Center in Aida Refugee Camp. He published hundreds of refereed articles and several books including “Mammals of the Holy Land”, “Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle” (English, Spanish, and German) and “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment” (Arabic, English, French, forthcoming in Italian). He also has an activism book published electronically on his web site (http://qumsiyeh.org). His main interest is media activism and public education. He gave hundreds of talks around the world and published over 250 letters to the editor and 100 op-ed pieces and interviewed on TV and radio extensively (local, national and international).
My 82 year old mother can’t take it anymore. She comes upstairs to ask me what she can do. She asked me to watch TV with her because she is to depressed to see it alone. We flip through the few channels that are not bought and paid for by racists. We watch as victims form the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza piled into one hospital. Hundreds of people are around the hospital grounds in shock at the scene. I ask her not to watch TV too much and I reassure her that we are doing things. We donated, we had demonstrations here in Bethlehem, we speak out, we encourage boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. She said “but Israel continues its massacres and they have been doing it for decades”. (my mother’s friend in school in Jerusalem was murdered in Deir Yassin).
I do not know what to tell her so I ask you. What will we collectively do? This latest is a massacre of civilians in a United Nations school. Over 60,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes by Israeli shelling and the UN opened its schools to shelter them. Those not killed left their homes with nothing to seek safety. In this instance 16 civilians (so far) were murdered and over 200 were injured (many severely). This despite the fact the the UN gave all school shelter coordinates to the Israeli army days ago. Dozens of injured children laid on floors soaked with blood as their mothers and siblings wailed uncontrollably. After Israel shelled three hospitals and with over 6000 injured, there are no hospital space let alone beds. Doctors are collapsing as they have worked 24 hours a day and some for days without sleep and with limited available supplies that are now running out as Egyptian government still collaborates with Israel in this genocide.
And yes I call it genocide because it fits under the International Convention dealing with genocide. Genocide is never measured by its success rate but by intention. Israel intended since 1948 and before) to destroy a whole group of people politically, culturally and physically. Every day 50, 60, or 70 Palestinian civilians are massacred while the leaders of countries like Canada support this!
Their citizens must stand-up and say enough is enough. Netanyahu and all his henchmen should be brought to the Hague immediately fr crimes against humanity. If you think I am too harsh in my judgment please read more below and watch tapes and interact via social media (e.g. you can find us on face book).
Norwegian doctor Max Gilbert in Gaza speaks of what he sees in treating injured
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Must watch video: Woman thought her son was dead and now sees him, the reaction touched my heart in an indescribable way. Unfortunately more than 150 woman were not that lucky and many other mothers died with their children.
https://www.facebook.com/
Dozens feared dead as Israel shells UN shelter in Beit Hanoun
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Diary of Haidar Eid from Gaza: A day in Gaza under Israeli attack.
http://www.aljazeera.com/
Tell US President and Congress to stop helping criminal violations of human rights
http://org.salsalabs.com/o/
Israel assassination of relief workers: A video that shows war crime
http://gawker.com/graphic-
932,000 signed this petition to end the so called “Israeli-Palestinian conflict”
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/
Stop arming Israel
http://www.bdsmovement.net/
Israeli citizens to the EU: Pressure Israel to accept Hamas’ terms of truce
http://www.eccpalestine.org/
A poignant letter from Ghassan Kanafani relevant today as it was 50 years ago
http://www.
The World We’ve Constructed Is Far Beyond George Orwell’s Worst Nightmare. Orwell’s chilling vision of the future in ‘1984’ is happening today in the form of media manipulation and unnecessary wars
http://www.alternet.org/
Hanan Ashrawi: war crimes in Gaza
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/
Bill Maher and Conservative Agree on Israel and Gaza, Or Why Maher is a Piece Of *hit
http://www.
Mazin Qumsiyeh
in Occupied Palestine
And here is a video report that came to us this morning by a reporter/student Trey Yingst who is currently in Gaza through News2Share.com:
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