songs & lyrics
Video from Gaza after a New Year's Day bomb
Words about what is happening in Gaza.
Final version of lyrics: Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Video from Gaza after a New Year's Day bomb
Maybe it was the children crying "Baba" ("Daddy") to the dead?
Maybe it was the pile of corpses and men women children limbless broken mangled in agony?
Maybe it was the Israeli minister who spoke on TV?
Maybe it was the US politician who did not?
I seem to recall that one or more of those people told me a secret:
Revenge is a dish best served never or never
And dead children never lie.
Minneapolis, MN, January 4th, 2009.
NOTE ON VIDEO SOURCE
The graphic video (since removed by Facebook) was found on LiveLeaks.com labeled as taking place on New Year's Day 2009, on one of the many sites where I've seen it. This was quickly disputed, with counter claims that it was a video of a Hamas accident during a parade in 2005.
There's almost no way of verifying *when* a suddenly viral and unmarked video like this took place but--while I did not know where this video was from--from what I can see/hear it is in Gaza, it looks like it's happening next to or in a police station or similar security compound, and there are men, women and children who are victims.
Don't miss the human point. Whether this video was from a year ago or even longer, whether it's a Hamas accident or an Israeli attack, the fact remains that THIS IS WHAT GAZA'S STREETS LOOK LIKE WHEN ISRAEL FIRES MISSILES AT IT.
These sights and sounds are being replayed in reality in Gaza right now.
And at least Palestinians know that very well, which is why this footage became so spectacularly viral.
And that place is where these words came from.
If you want to see uncensored footage of the devastation in Gaza, Al-Jazeera has both posted and released its news footage for people to reuse. See http://cc.aljazeera.net
Ironically, Israel was just busted releasing 2007 video of the UN school it bombed and claiming it was from the present day. See the article below.
Also by Nigel Parry on this site: Postcards of Hangings, Thoughts on Gaza
WHERE TO DONATE TO GAZA?
If you want to help Palestinians in Gaza with direct
aid, look no further than the website of the United
Palestinian Appeal at http://helpUPA.com.
Operating for over 30 years and a Charity Navigator
4-star charity, UPA is both trustworthy and effective.
"UN: IDF officers admitted there was no gunfire from Gaza school which was shelled"
By Barak Ravid and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz (9 January 2009)
The United Nations is claiming Israeli military officers have admitted there was no Palestinian gunfire emanating from inside an UNRWA school in Gaza which was shelled by an IDF tank.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed in the shelling.
In addition, UNRWA Thursday announced it will cease activities in the Strip due to the death of an UNRWA staffer in an IDF shelling during Thursday morning's humanitarian hiatus.
UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness told Haaretz yesterday that the army had conceded wrongdoing.
"In briefings senior [Israel Defense Forces] officers conducted for foreign diplomats, they admitted the shelling to which IDF forces in Jabalya were responding did not originate from the school," Gunness said. "The IDF admitted in that briefing that the attack on the UN site was unintentional."
He noted that all the footage released by the IDF of militants firing from inside the school was from 2007 and not from the incident itself.
"There are no up-to-date photos," Gunness said. "In 2007, we abandoned the site and only then did the militants take it over."
The UNRWA is now demanding an objective investigation into whether the school shelling constituted a violation of international humanitarian law, and if so, that those responsible stand trial.
The UN reported Thursday that a Palestinian working for the UNRWA was killed by an IDF tank shell while driving an aid truck at the Erez border crossing. The organization claims the UN truck was well-marked and the incident took place during the humanitarian hiatus slated to allow Gaza residents to acquire supplies.
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If you haven't already seen it, check out A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1994-1998) by Nigel Parry at http://nigelparry.com/diary/
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Open letter to Minnesotan Senator Amy Klobuchar about Gaza, Nigel Parry, Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
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