Take a look at where you live, what if it happened there?

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'You probably think that it’s too far to even have to care
well take a look at where you live what if it happened there?
you have to know the urge to make a change lies within
and we can be the reason that they see the flag rise again'
For all those of you'll who don't know about what's happening in Gaza, It's been facing a lot of pain since any years by Israel. I don't understand ..how can these people not have a HEART! What if the same was done to them? and plus O do know that many people in the world don't even know what's happening In Palestine , I stay here in Saudi Arabia, everyday the front page of the newspaper is with the news about Gaza and israel and the situation there. When is it gonna STOP? There has been no proper end to it. I remember in 2008-09 if I'm not wrong, major war was going on. There are no words to explain the sufferings of these poor Palestinians!! They wouldn't even know if they would survive the next day or not. Trust me, these people are innocent and have been suffering for more than too long. We all have to join hands and do something about it. I know we really can't do anything but HOPE and PRAY for Palestine. 
And, if some of you'll are not familiar with the latest, here is the perfect note on what happened...( I found it online..do read it)

In the predawn hours of May 31, I was aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part of a convoy of humanitarian vessels aiming to deliver aid to besieged civilians in Gaza, when we were attacked in international waters by a unit of Israeli commandos.
 Our ship had been inspected by customs agents in Turkey, a NATO member, who confirmed that there were no guns or any such weapons aboard. Indeed, the Israeli government has produced no such arms. What was aboard the ship were hundreds of civilian passengers, representatives of dozens of countries, who had planned to deliver the flotilla's much-needed humanitarian materials for the Gazan people. These Palestinians have suffered under an illegal siege - first imposed by Israel in 2005 and strictly enforced since early 2009 - which Amnesty International has called "a flagrant violation of international law."
 The passengers on our ship - including elected officials, diplomats, media professionals and human rights workers - joined the flotilla as an act of peaceful protest. Israel's powerful navy could have easily approached our boat and boarded it in broad daylight or pursued nonviolent options for disabling our vessel. Instead, the Israeli military launched a nighttime assault with heavily armed commandos. Under attack, some passengers skirmished with the boarding soldiers using broomsticks and other items at hand. The commandos and navy soldiers shot and killed at least nine civilians and seriously injured dozens more. Others are still missing. The final death toll has yet to be determined.
 I feared for the lives of my fellow passengers as I heard shots being fired on deck, and I later saw the bodies of several people killed being carried inside. I had expected soldiers to shoot in the air or aim at people's legs, but instead I saw the bodies of people who appeared to have been shot multiple times in the head or chest.
 When it was over, the Israeli soldiers commandeered our ships, illegally kidnapped us from international waters, towed us to the port of Ashdod, and arrested all of us on board.
 The Israeli government has confiscated all of our video equipment, hard drives with video footage, cell phones and notebooks. They detained the journalists aboard my ship, preventing them for days from speaking about what happened. Acting on Israel's behalf at the U.N. Security Council, the United States has attempted to block a full, impartial, international investigation of the incident.
 Nevertheless, even at this early stage the world has expressed outrage around a basic fact: There is no justification for launching a deadly commando attack in the dark of night on a humanitarian-aid convoy.
 The Israeli government denies that its punitive blockade of Gaza is the source of hardship for civilians there. While its spokespeople actively work to create confusion in the media, the truth is clear for all who would care to see it. The overwhelming conclusion of highly respected human rights authorities is that the Israeli government, because it does not accept the legitimacy of the elected Hamas government, is pursuing a policy of what Human Rights Watch calls "collective punishment against the civilian population," illegal under international law.
 With regard to the flotilla I was on, the Israeli government says it would have permitted our humanitarian aid to enter Gaza by land had we submitted it through "proper channels." But Israel's "proper channels" - restrictive checkpoints that have repeatedly turned away World Health Organization medical supplies and rejected or delayed the delivery of U.N. food aid - are the very source of the humanitarian crisis.
 Israeli spokespeople insist that the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was a provocation. It was, in the sense that civil rights protesters in the American south who sat at segregated lunch counters represented a provocation to segregationists, or in the sense that all nonviolent protests against the illegitimate acts of a government are by definition provocations. Under an illegal siege, the delivery of aid to civilians is a prohibited act; the intent of our humanitarian convoy was to violate this unjust prohibition.
 At least nine of my fellow passengers were killed by the Israeli military for attempting to defy the ban on delivering aid. Far more Palestinian civilians have died as a result of the siege itself. What happened to our flotilla is happening to the people of Gaza on a daily basis. It will not stop until international law is applied to all countries, Israel included.


Read more:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/04/EDC31DQ215.DTL#ixzz0qAbZG3pN
So please, there's nothing more I can say now, please remember GAZA in your prayers and do think about their situation there, its THE WORSE. And they need our support :)


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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a huge war against Israel back here in Malaysia. The ship that was attacked was boarded with some M'sians and it became a hot trending news here.

But I dont understand why Israel has to attack and shoot dead some of those on board. What more prevent goods from being sent to Gaza.

I guess now I really know why the only place in this world that my passport ban Malaysians from entering Israel.

I only hope and pray that God is with Gaza now and hopefully, those who died, justice will be brought internationally.

I just wish we all could do more than just supporting and praying.

Great great post :)

June 8, 2010 at 11:32 AM
wondering shadow said...

Those zionists really have no heart. Even some jews hate them. They follow no others rules. But they oblige people with weapons. Too much lies they had made. We won't buy their another stories.

June 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM
Unknown said...

QM,

Yeah, I heard about that as well. Its shit man, I dont get these people at alll, they seriously piss me off. And all the more i feel really sad for the Gaza people. There are many charities done here for them, so i try to donate as well and rest all we can only pray.

June 9, 2010 at 2:11 PM
Unknown said...

Wondering shadow,

Aren't the people doing this jews themselves? Israel people are Jews right? :S

June 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM
Disguise said...

I have nothing to say man, all this is just really depressing and everything.

June 12, 2010 at 3:47 AM

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