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Consider Gaza's hospital staff. In hospitals, the blockade is as
seemingly benign as doctors not having paper upon which to write
diagnostic results or prescriptions, and as sinister as those seconds –
between power cut and generator start – when a child on life support
doesn't have the oxygen of a mechanical ventilator. A nurse on a
neo-natal ward rushes between patients, battling the random schedule of
power cuts. A hospital worker tries to keep a few kidney dialysis
machines from breaking down, by farming spare parts from those that
already have. The surgeon operates without a bulb in the surgery lamp,
across from the anaesthetist who can no longer prevent patient pain.
The hospital administrator updates lists of essential drugs and medical
supplies that have run out, which vaccines from medical fridges are now
unusable because they can't be kept cold, and which procedures must be
cancelled altogether. The ambulance driver decides whether to respond
to an emergency call, based on dwindling petrol in the tank.
Now this is actual wilfull purpoeful targeting of peoples for anihilation, as opposed to crimes against humanity.
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"watching the tide roll away"
I don't want to say it, but it sounds an awful lot like ethnic cleansing or perhaps the big G which you are not allowed to say. Where the hell is the media on this one? The one thing that has alway bothered me is when jewish people say no one has suffered like them, then you mention the central american natives(first nations in general) And some still say what happened to their people over all time is much worse. I don't know how one can quantify losing 98% of your entire poulation as not worse but hey I guess it is fun to revisit those same horrors of starvation on another people. I don't even know what to say. I would liike to see an article from the Israel paper Haaretz on the gaza issue. At least it won't seem so biased.(I know that it shouldn't matter, but it still does)
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"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."
Noam Chomsky
Gazans resort to animal feed
Power plant shut