Voices for Palestine 2

"He said: 'Here is a she-camel: she has a right of watering, and ye have a right of watering, (severally) on a day appointed.'" (Qur'an 26:155)

People assume that the absence of violence is a state of peace. I disagree. You can have very dangerous forms of oppression from spiritual, mental and emotional abuse with the absence of violence. It takes a skilled wounded or enlightened healer to hear the voice of the oppressed in the midst of a dominating abuser who has mastered the art of deception and projecting their sickness unto the victim.

In reality, peace is defined by the presence of healthy boundaries that allow everyone a path to the watering place, a path to growth, and a path to life. When these healthy boundaries do not exist – the foolish condemn the violence, the wise condemn those who transgressed the boundaries and demand the boundaries be returned to a healthy state that allows everyone a path to the watering place.

Since the creation of the state of Israel – the plan was to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land as I had explained in this blog: Fighting for survival, not destruction of Israel. Then and Now, peace was used a means to transgress the boundaries of the native Arabs from every aspect to allow Israel to dominate and overpower the native population and gradually expel them. The Peace Process did not change any of this.

Before Hamas

In this blog, I will introduce you to the first Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion. Since the media has focused on Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, and Tunnels – I felt if we listen to the plans and aims of Israeli leaders before Hamas, we might see beyond the fear mongering and prejudice logic and hear the voice of the oppressed. In his own words from the site Palestine Remembered:

Ben-Gurion clearly never believed in static borders, but dynamic ones as described in the Bible. He stated during a discussion with his aides:

Ben-Gurion was correct about many things: Thieves do not sleep well; usually they're afraid of retribution. This is exactly how the average Israeli feels.

With Hamas

Throughout the decades of negotiations for peace, Israel has not defined its borders. As before Hamas, those borders continue to be dynamic and not static. As I explained before, Hamas is a resistance group that does use crude rocket fire and does not discriminate between civilians and soldiers lives, in the face of very sophisticated military weapons that Israel has deliberately used to target civilians. Read the findings of Goldstone Report.

Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza has killed more than 1000 Palestinian civilians - including 250 children - and injured 7000 civilians. It has devastated the civilian infrastructure, including the health sector, which is facing severe shortages. Israel is using the full force of its military against the captive Palestinian population, particularly in the besieged Gaza Strip. UN reports indicate that 80 percent of the people killed in Gaza have been civilians, raising serious concerns about Israel's disregard for international and humanitarian law.

In Israel, two civilians have been killed by Hamas rocket attacks, some property has been damaged and more than 50 soldiers have died since the Israeli military invaded Gaza. The loss of life or infrastructure on either side is unacceptable.

64 public figures, 7 Nobel laureates, call for arms embargo on Israel

Besides the sophisticated heavy military artillery, Israel has responded by saturating the media and pubic square with psychological warfare - by attacking calls for investigations, silencing voices and hurling a hurricane of false accusations. In an article in the Nation, Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked, Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney and activist responded to the following points:

(1) Israel is exercising its right to self-defense.
(2) Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
(3) This Israeli operation, among others, was caused by rocket fire from Gaza.
(4) Israel avoids civilian casualties, but Hamas aims to kill civilians.
(5) Hamas hides its weapons in homes, mosques and schools and uses human shields.

Read her article above to hear her arguments.

Freedom for Palestine: #GazaNames Project

Worldwide protests

Protests broke out all over the world in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

On 7/26/2014 - at a rally in San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza, Max Blumenthal, an award-winning journalist and author of the bestselling book Republican Gomorrah, and Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel spoke against the Gaza slaughter.