Daddy, what did you do in Gaza?

OBAMA, BE A MAN!

Goodbye, Angels of Gaza

Palestinian gynecologist and peace advocate Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish speaks to Democracy Now!,  

with producer Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films in his home in Jabaliya, Gaza,

where Israeli shells killed three of his daughters and a niece two months ago.

Walking through his daughters’ room, he points out the remnants from the attack:

blood-stained walls, books, clothes, hand-drawn pictures, gaping holes that were once windows,

burned-out bits of computers, twisted pieces of metal, destroyed cupboards, shattered glass, and shrapnel.

Homeland or Death: Patria O Muerte

You are trapped in Gaza

You are trapped in Gaza
The reward Israel gives
Is Massacre and Genocide
Babies, dead, injured, bleeding…

That’s the life
You’re carrying on
In Holocaust Gaza
Once, beautiful Palestine…

O! Let me embrace
Those dear little kids
Who’re supposed
To laugh, play, go to school…

Don’t human beings
Feel ashamed of letting
Those innocent kids be trapped
In Holocaust Gaza?

What do you think will happen

if you pass your night
and merge it with dawn
for the sake of heart
what do you think will happen

if the entire world
is covered with the blossoms
you have labored to plant
what do you think will happen

if the elixir of life
that has been hidden in the dark
fills the desert and towns
what do you think will happen

if because of
your generosity and love
a few humans find their lives
what do you think will happen

if you pour an entire jar
filled with joyous wine
on the head of those already drunk
what do you think will happen

go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen

- Rumi

translated by Nader Khalili

Gaza is in flames, Gaza is burning
This is your chance, to get rid of all trash
Throw into the fire: your conscience and compass
Clean the whole area, leave no morals intact

Ignite the books: paper burns well
Don’t be soft hearted, just feed the inferno
Sanitize your house; leave aside all care
Shove a blazing rag into the screaming gob

There are doubts? Burn them too!
And throw into the flames
The mourns, moans and groans
The stench of scorched baby flesh
Shall cover up many smells

Gaza is in flames, Gaza is burning
Turn everything into ashes, once and for all
Throw into the fire: your conscience and compass
Tomorrow, they might, God forbid, flourish again

Guilty as Charged

Israel is guilty of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide
against the Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip:

The International Tribunal on Children Affected by War and Poverty, said that Palestinian children in Gaza have lived under the Genocide of bombs, guns, and used as human shields by the Israeli army, “where there are 700,000 children in Gaza who were subjected to massacres, murders, Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, humanitarian blockade, kidnapping, destruction of their schools, families and homes “; with a toll of 6,600 dead and wounded in Gaza during the 22 day Israeli assault.

1340 deaths of which 492 were children and 106 women, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

The wounded, amounting to 5320, among which there are 1855 children and 795 women, in addition to 55,000 other Palestinians who have been displaced from their homes, perpetrating the worst atrocities that children have lived in Palestine, Gaza Strip – a concentration camp – a field of carnage.
Acts carried out by Israeli armed forces are also a clear violation of Article 6 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (” the crime of genocide “) and Article 2 of the 1948 Convention for the prevention and prohibition of Genocide.

Indeed, the considerations that lead to declaring the Israeli occupation army guilty – not only of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, also, Crimes of Genocide, are as follows:
“The coding of such crime in the Statute of the Court International Criminal taken directly from the Geneva Convention of 1948 and therefore of the Nuremberg Tribunal, allows the issue to many, if not all conflicts of our time, marking a technological level of weapons of war so severe – that always end up hitting more civilians than armed forces.
In fact, Article 6 of the Regulations lists a series of events typical of the activity of war, acts such as killing members of a group or causing serious physical injury or mental state of people who belong to a group.
They become acts of Genocide if carried out “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”, definition of the latter in which the “intent” is easily demonstrated in the case of the destruction of a “part” of the “national group” and the extermination of a people until its demise.

The seriousness of the crimes are listed in Article 5 of
Rome Statute (typifying crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court:
Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes) determine which crimes are serious enough to justify action by the ICC.
The seriousness of the crimes should be established taking into account not only the scale of crimes and the number of victims, the nature and the way they were committed as well as the psychological and social conditions affecting the civilian population.
The statute of the International Criminal Court defines crimes as follows:
Article 6. Genocide
For the purposes of this Statute, “Genocide” means any
acts listed below, committed with intent to destroy -
whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group such as:
a) Killing group members;
b) Causing serious physical or mental integrity of members of the group;
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life which have a
result of its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 7. Crimes Against Humanity
1. For the purposes of this Statute, a “Crime Against
Humanity”, any of the following acts when committed as part
of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population, with
knowledge of the attack:
a) Murder;
b) Extermination;
c) Enslavement;
d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty
in violation of fundamental rules of International Law;
f) Torture;
g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy,
enforced sterilization or any other form of sexual violence seriously
comparable;
h) Persecution of a group or community with its own identity based on
based on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious and gender -
defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as
impermissible under International Law, in connection with any
act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the
jurisdiction of the Court;
i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
j) The crime of Apartheid;
k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing
great suffering, or serious injury to bodily health – mental or physical.

Article 8. War Crimes
1. The Court has jurisdiction over War Crimes, particularly, when committed as part of a plan,
policy or part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.
2. For the purposes of this Statute – the definition of “War Crimes”:
a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of August 12 1948,
namely, any of the following acts against persons or property
protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
i) Willful killing;
ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
iii) Willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to physical integrity or health;
iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by
military necessity, carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power;
vi) Willfully depriving a prisoner of war or other person their rights to a fair and impartial trial;
vii) To submit to deportation, transfer or unlawful confinement;
viii) Taking of hostages;
b) Other serious violations of laws and customs applicable in conflicts – armed within the framework of International Law, namely, any of the following acts:
i) Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as such or civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, ie: objects which are not military objectives;
iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a mission or peacekeeping humanitarian assistance in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, always entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under international law of armed conflict;
iv) Intentionally launching an attack – knowing it will cause loss of life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects and long-term, severe damage to the natural environment;
v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives.

Given the evidence presented, testimony and public statements by International agencies of the United Nations: Israel, is in violation of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide on Palestinian Children in Gaza, systematic International Conventions on International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Rights of the Child, the Rome Statute – by direct  systematic attacks against human life and dignity of a people subjected to blockade and isolation constantly, unable to escape – are refugees, crowded into a concentration camp, the largest in the world and under fire power for 22 days of shelling, snipers and bombs – banned by the Geneva Conventions and its Protocols; leaving 492 children and infants killed – more than 1800 injured and maimed.
After hearing the allegation of Prosecutors of International Human Rights and the Special Rapport, the International Tribunal over the Childhood Affected by War and Poverty, International Decision states (in the first of its type in the world, on the case of crimes against Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip) to the 12 day of February 2009:

Israel, guilty of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide against the Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2009/02/921145.shtml

Israel’s “Colonies”:

Lest We Forget – ONGOING HOLOCAUST of PALESTINIANS

The ONGOING HOLOCAUST of PALESTINIANS that is being COMMITTED by ZIONIST-JEWS in ISRAEL, is threatening the extremely lucrative Shoah השואה, Holo-Cash business, and there’s no business like the Shoah השואה business!
What happened to LEST WE FORGET?

THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPLOITATION OF JEWISH SUFFERING
- by Norman G. Finkelstein
ISBN: 978-1-85984-488-5

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=3

“I want the Germans to know where the money
they gave Israel went,” he said angrily.
“I want the Germans to know that Israel took
the money we should have received.
I want them to answer one question:
Where did our money go?”

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=98

 

Eye to Eye

Eye to Eye: A Palestinian talking to Americans

Look into my eyes

And tell me what you see

You don’t see a damn thing,

’cause you can’t, until you try to relate to me.

You’re blinded by our differences.

My life makes no sense to you.

I’m the persecuted Palestinian.

You are the American red, white and blue.

Each day you wake in tranquility.

No fears to cross your eyes.

Each day I wake in gratitude.

Thanking God he let me rise.

You worry about your education

And the bills you have to pay.

I worry about my vulnerable life

And if I’ll survive another day.

Your biggest fear is getting ticketed

As you cruise your Cadillac.

My fear is that the tank that just left

Will turn around and come back.

American, do you realize,

That the taxes that you pay

Feed the forces that traumatize

My every living day?

The bulldozers and the tanks,

The gases and the guns,

The bombs that fall outside my door,

All due to American funds.

Yet do you know the truth

Of where your money goes?

Do you let your media deceive your mind?

Is this a truth that no one knows?

You blame me for defending myself

Against the ways of Zionists

I’m terrorized in my own land

And I’m the terrorist?

You think that you know all about terrorism

But you don’t know it the way I do.

So let me define the term for you.

And teach you what you thought you knew.

I’ve known terrorism for quite some time,

Fifty- four years and more.

It’s the fruitless garden uprooted in my yard.

It’s the bulldozer in front of my door.

Terrorism breathes the air I breathe.

It’s the checkpoint on my way to school.

It’s the curfew that jails me in my own home,

And the penalties of breaking that curfew rule.

Terrorism is the robbery of my land.

And the torture of my mother.

The imprisonment of my innocent father.

The bullet in my baby brother.

So American, don’t tell me you know about

The things I feel and see.

I’m terrorized in my own land

And the blame is put on me.

But I will not rest, I shall never settle

For the injustice my people endure.

Palestine is OUR land and there we’ll remain

Until the day OUR homeland is secure.

And if that time shall never come,

Then we will never see a day of peace.

I will not be thrown from my own home,

Nor will fight for justice cease.

And if I am killed, it will be Falasteen. (Palestine)

It’s written on my breath.

So in your own patriotic words,

Give me liberty or give me death.

- Gihad Ali

In the desert

In The longest, bleakest stretch
Of pain’s infinite desert
I lost myself … the one who knew
Who was certain, strong, confident
Wandering, lost – frightened
I called out to God, not so sure
Of what I had assumed, existed

Lost, dazed, terrified – I went on
Praying the whole time … to a God
I was not sure was imaginary, suddenly.
Such a surprise! To question the existence
Of The Most High – I wanted to know
Without blind faith, dogma, assumptions
In pain’s infinite desert – the fire scorched

Burnt away all that was peripheral, shallow
My skin peeled, raw to the core, naked
Body, mind, emotions – screaming: No!
Made no difference, pain seared and cut
Observing with gouging agony, only pain
Nothing to lose, I lay on the boiling sand
Confused, nowhere to escape – panicked

I was looking for sanctuary, shelter,
Cried out: If you exist, I beg you,
Help me, so I will know You are real!
I ask not for the pain to leave, I ask
Only for Your sanctuary, this refugee
Has no place where there is relief
Even nature appeared predatory

No! I know this to be false! Yet,
I tremble, knowing, the lion eats the lamb
Children die, while others laugh at their deaths
They were the wrong color, wrong religion…
Outcasts, like myself, in a violent, hollow society
Writhing, moaning, speechless … too much pain
I pick up a wounded child, eyes – hollow, sunken

My heart moves, quickens – races wildly
Breathing deeply, my hands feel a heartbeat
The child is barely alive, I whisper … I am here
Caressing the tender elf, I hold onto her, as she
Gasps for breaths … such, is the madness of war
Looking into my eyes, briefly, intensely … she dies
In my arms, I kiss her and close her eyes

As I finish burying her in the sand, I faint
Unconscious, I fly to where she is … whole,
Happy, free of suffering, we dance, she laughs,
I laugh, we hug … songs, she looks at me
Suddenly, I am back, by her sand dune grave
Weeping, screaming – No! Not one more child!
I hear gunfire, fleeing – I hear her … singing to me…