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The colour-coded markers correspond in the two images, pinpointing the tall building with a distinct roof, the road running adjacent to it, and the green space opposite the building that was eventually levelled.
In the aftermath of the strike, the Facebook page for the al-Mishal Cultural Centre in Gaza said its building had been destroyed. The same Facebook page had uploaded videos and photos in 2015 showing the same building that was seen being destroyed in Thursday's video of the airstrike.
However, the Israeli Defense Forces said on Twitter that it believed the building had been used as an office for Hamas, the militant group governing Gaza.
"The strike was carried out in response to the rockets Hamas fired at Israel, one of which was fired at the city of Be'er Sheva," the tweeted statement said.
Footage showing several different angles of the same strike shows crowds of people in close proximity to the attack, suggesting that it was carried out in a populated civilian area of the Gaza strip.
Gazans reacted in sadness on social media to the strike on the cultural centre. One Twitter user, Yousef al-Jamal, posted video he said he captured in 2016 showing a performance inside the cultural centre.
Qwaider also tweeted a quote from his sister, who still lives in Gaza.
"Bombs are pouring everywhere, shaking our house worse than an earthquake," she said. "I'm panicking paralysed unable to provide safety for my 2 yrs son whose night is torn by excessive sounds renewed rocket fire in Gaza."
International reaction
The United Nations said it was "deeply alarmed" by the recent flare up of violence between Gaza and Israel, warning that the situation could "rapidly deteriorate with devastating consequences for all," should a ceasefire deal not be reached soon. END OF ABSTRACT.
I would like to see independent source confirmation 1. that 80 rockets were fired into 'Israel'; 2. what the exact nature of those 'rockets' is; 3. how and from where Hamas resources them, given the total Israeli embargo on Gaza and control of Hamas itself; 4.confirmation (somehow) that these 'rockets' are not fired by the agents of Israel itself, to provide pretext for totally disproportionate response with bomb, bullet and sanctions; 5. why if so dangerous, the 80 rockets involved only "three IDF soldiers being injured"; 6. independent evidence as to where these 3 soldiers were and the precise nature of their injuries; 7. why if so dangerous and necessitating such extreme military response actually KILLING innocent civilians, the rockets could be so utterly ineffective? Israel is in flagrant breach of international law. Palestinians have the legal right to resist occupation and oppression. The policy of Israel is overtly supremisist, discriminatory and genocidal but controls the narrative. The international community, including predominently Muslim states, have failed abysmally to back words and sentiments with practical sollutions to protect an effectively defenseless civilian population from outrageous treatment, so we all stand accused of failure. I am reminded of the words of Thomas Hobbes, the 17th Century philosopher, "Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues." and we certainly see them exhibited in Palestine.
That's very thoughtful and kind of you Claude. I never could stand bullies and that, in my opinion is what Israel has become. And a very real and present danger not only to Palestinians but the rest of us also. Nor can I stand the way the public narrative is continually manipulated and biased by news sources including the distracting issue of 'anti-semitism' in the Labour Party. The most anti-semitic party is Likud and its acolytes, yet no one seems to say THAT! I hope you can get a break and enjoy the summer too. Regards, Tim.
ReplyDeleteJean Bellissard Tim Veater well, you might be right but I don’t buy it. I lived in France most of my life, until 2002. I taught at a university for 20 years in which about a third of my students were from North Africa, mainly from Algeria, but some from Morocco or Tunisia. France has been hurt by Israel in 1969, after Israel took five military boats they ordered in 1965, but were under an embargo. So the French policy has been as much anti-Israel since then.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, after 1989, a clear change became visible among my students. The first organized elections in Algeria gave the majority to the Islamist party. The Army and the National Liberation Front refused the results and made a political coup. This launched a nasty civil war that is quite unknown in the US, which was as bad if not worse, as what we have seen with the Caliphate in the Middle East recently. The new generation of kids immigrating in France were radicalized. Islamist terrorist attacks (Islamist Armed Group=GIA in French) took place in France as soon as the early 1990’s. I remember vividly the airplane kept hostage in December 24-26 1994, at the Marignane airport Marseille. I was nearby waiting for the road to be freed. Israel had nothing to do with that. In the 90’s the new Arab generation in France became less and less willing to integrate like the previous ones. The influence of political Islam was visible. The money of Saudi Arabia was flowing to finance the building of new mosques. The French government created structures to insure that the law of separation of state from religion, including buildings ownerships, was strictly applied and forbade foreign money to be used. At the time this islamist opposition was not as organized as in the Middle East today. My arabi students were not very good, not as bright as we see today at the head of various organizations. But everything I see today in the Middle East, I saw it, with my own eyes in my class.
I saw also Pakistanis students in my classes during my fifteen years in the US. I could see the difference, in that my students were among the best.
Political Islam is a network organized worldwide, with influence of countries like Pakistan, where serious scholars, both in sciences and in religion can be found. Pakistan trained most of the Al-Qaida leaders, with the help of the US money at the time of cold war to back up the Taliban fighting in Afghanistan against Russia. Israel has nothing to do with it.
This network is dangerous, its influence is everywhere within Muslim populations living in various countries. Even in Africa now. They have everywhere, people checking on individuals and forcing women to wear the veil wherever they can. So, as you see, I am wary by this much more than I am pro-Israel. My Arab friends on FB are as concerned even more than me.
The Turkish government is also islamist and I see the influence of a similar network in Germany every day now, since I live there. This network has found allied in Russia, even if Russia is tough on its muslim population in the Caucase mountains. Through the banks and the wealth of the Gulf countries, the network is well funded and influences the financial world. So the situation is exactly the opposite of what you describe.
I guess that this network keeps deliberately the Palestinian population in its poor state on purpose, to break the tie between the West and Israel, with the help of naive people on the left who still believe that the Hamas or Hezbollah are resistance organisations.
Israel is too small to resist on the long run, it might eventually dissolve and disappear. I even might see that before I die, within the next twenty years. And these naive left militants may have one day to embrace the submission to the religious rules offered by the revelations of the Koran...
Well, science fiction ? This happened in Spain between 750 and 1250AD, read this story, and the islamists at the time destroyed their thinkers the last important one being Averroes. Think about it!
Phil Toms But Israel just keeps on and on stealing other peoples land. "Israel wants peace". Sure, this piece, and that piece oh, and that piece . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tim Veater Jean Bellissard That's an interesting review Jean, and no doubt accurate in many respects. I am currently reading Creasy's the fifteen most decisive battles in history. It helps to give perspective to the age in which we find ourselves and the passing nature of people. Even important empires come and go as does the intelligence with its associated beliefs and attitudes resident in individual brains and bodies that are transient indeed. In geological terms, every epoch deposits its layer as foundation for future ones. Prevailing ideas sweep in waves this way and that and it is only comparatively recently that a scientific rationalism has challenged and moderated the ancient (some more ancient than others) religions. With more humans on the earth than ever before, where to some extent a European culture has dominated and produced unprecidented technological and social advance, large areas of the earth remain poverty stricken and chaotic. Is it any wonder that we are now subject to the pressures of mass migration, or of populations reverting to the consolation of old beliefs and aspirations? Every force has an equal and opposite one. To some extent we are seeing the results of European and American hegemony by those exploited and corrupted. It is being repeated in the Middle East by a largely European invader that has undoubtedly bred resentment and resistance but this has to be distinguished from the relatively recent reign of so called 'islamic fundamentalist terror' that from Afghanistan in the 80's onwards has been funded, encouraged and controlled by a Zionist transatlantic clique prepared to carry out violent acts, either directly or indirectly, blamed on an inchoate threat or on false culprits, of which 9/11 was one of the most egregious examples. I can agree that the traditional European culture is threatened by overpowering immigration by those with fundamentally different mindset and values but perhaps not as much as a pernicious corruption of our own institutions to support and advance the zionist agenda.
The "Judeo-Nazi": A history of Jewish nazism. Begin. Shamir. Sharon. et al.
ReplyDelete"At the same time, a second intriguing example of this very different Israeli perspective on the Nazis was also brought to my attention. In 1983, Amoz Oz, often described as the greatest novelist of Israel, had published In the Land of Israel , receiving rave reviews. This book was a collection of lengthy interviews with various personalities representative of Israeli society, both moderate and extreme, as well as reports on the Palestinians who also lived among them.
Among these ideological profiles, one of the briefest but most talked about was a particularly uncompromising, anonymous but almost universally recognized political personality like Ariel Sharon, a conclusion clearly supported by the personal details and physical description that were provided. At the very beginning, this figure mentioned that some of his ideological party members had recently been denounced as "Judeo-Nazis" by a prominent Israeli liberal academic, but rather than rejecting this label, he was very pleased with it. This man was therefore generally mentioned in public discussions as the "Judeo-Nazi".
That he described himself in these terms was hardly an exaggeration, since he cheerfully advocated the slaughter of millions of Israel's enemies and the vast expansion of Israeli territory by conquering neighboring territories and expelling their as well as the free use of nuclear weapons if they or anyone else is too strongly opposed to such efforts. According to his daring opinion, Israelis and Jews in general were simply too soft and humble and had to find their place in the world again becoming a conquering people, probably hated but certainly feared. For him, the recent massacre of Palestinian women and children in Sabra and Shatila was of absolutely no importance."
https://arretsurinfo.ch/american-pravda-juifs-et-nazis/