Gaza siege death toll at 349

Re Pershafs post , and copied below:

"if hamas and the palestinians said that they'd recognize israel's right to exist, the war would be over in minutes.

but they can't so it won't.

it takes two to tango. so long as the ONLY one who MUST give in is israel, 1) it won't happen, and 2) you're living in a dream world."

My Response:

"Violence will only aggravate an already grave situation in the region." But violence will not be ended by empty condemnation of the victims and craven appeasement of the occupier. It will end when governments take action to make Israel, as the occupying colonial power, accountable

1. You make it sound so simple. There is no WAR....war is when two armies fight. You are calling mass killing of unarmed children and their parents WAR.
2. Israel has to go back to their 1969 borders as agreed......instead Israel is expanding and expanding and in breach of numerous United Nations articles and in breach of the Geneva Convention.

http://current.com/items/90363573_israels-true-face-israeli-settlers-using-viole...

Israels empty peace promises mirrors the violence Palestinians go thru to save their rightful property and to resist the illegal occupation of Israels illegal settlements. If Israel was serious about peace, these settlers would have been arrested long ago.

Israel continues to turn a blind eye on its atrocities against a defenseless people by destroying homes, burning olive groves and killing many innocent children, women and other innocent people.

When will this madness stop? My guess is only when Israel acquires all the land and natural resources for themselves at the cost of innocent lives.
(PIC courtesy of www.kawther.info and shows young armed jewish settlers)
Here's the story:
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The Minister of Jerusalem Affairs says that repeated attempts by settlers to break into Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are done with the cooperation and encouragement of the Israeli police.

The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has resisted attempts to overtake its land and homes for years. This is the neighborhood that hosted the solidarity tent that became the house for Umm Kamal Al Kurd after the Israeli administration forced her out.

Since that time Israeli settlers have regularly attempted to seize homes in the area making the program of the military and government even more difficult for Palestinians to combat.

Ongoing court cases disputing land ownership go hand in hand with attacks by settlers on body and property.

Several weeks ago the Fateh party began to stage its own form of nonviolent resistance by creating a human chain around a Palestinian home that Israeli settlers were attempting to overtake. Settlers ran off each time but the situation is not improving with round the clock guards necessary.

Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Hatem Abdel Qader said today, "We see the seriousness of the repeated attempts by settlers to break into Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and see that they are with the cooperation and encouragement of the Israeli police."

Fateh spokesperson in Jerusalem, Dimitri Dliani added that the home seizure was prevented this time, but that this was a severe provocation from the settlers. He placed the responsibility for the incident on the Israeli police.

A court case has been in progress for 37 years over the ownership of the land on which this house and others are built. Settlers claim ownership of this land from before 1948, but Palestinian residents have documents of ownership and say that settlers' evidence is forged. The case was proven in favor of the Palestinians with documentation even sent from Turkey however the Israeli prosecutors ignored it. The next hearing is due in September.
---------more at the link...originally posted by WorldpeaceTV

http://current.com/items/90363573_israels-true-face-israeli-settlers-using-viole...

When will the U.N. insist that Israel comply to the 65 or so resolutions which have been adopted by the U.N. General Assembly against Israel and its criminal behavior ?

When will countries around the world stop financing this institution which supports and covers up wars of aggression and genocide, as it has repeatedly done ? Some examples of the attitude of the U.N. before genocide and wars of aggression are Palestine, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and currently Somalia / Ethiopia. In all of these cases, what happened or is still going on could have been avoided, had the U.N. not studiously looked the other way.

What goal does the U.N. pursue by looking away and thus supporting and covering up genocide, in Palestine and elsewhere ?

Who does the U.N. serve when it supports and covers up genocide and wars of aggression ?

When will the U.N. put in place an International Court of Justice which will not allow criminal states like Israel to decide whether its officials will be prosecuted ?

Israel has complied with exactly NONE of the conditions which it accepted when it joined the U.N. - Why has Israel not been expulsed from the U.N. ?

When will countries around the world understand that crimes against humanity have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with crime, and act accordingly ?

picture: Yehuda Fuchs, the angry man at the right, is the new occupier of Hebron
thank you kawther for the pics!