"For something is happening in these villages nestling among the rocky hills and olive groves between Ramallah and Nablus. The Israeli military does not accept the classification of the protests as non-violent; most usually end in confrontations between stone-throwing Palestinian youths and armed police and troops. But for the six years of such protests none of the Palestinians, in contrast to the security forces, have carried weapons. If these are the first tentative stirrings of a new uprising, and it is doubtful they can be described as that yet, then they are closer to the beginnings in 1987 of the first intifada, the so-called "war of stones", than the second, with its bloody record of suicide bombings between 2000 and around 2005. Some commentators have dubbed the protests – and the apparent endorsement of them by the internationally respected Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad – as the "white" intifada."
The independent
Friday, March 12, 2010
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<span><span>Tgia, this is part of a response you gave to one of annan's comments or questions. A moment of clarification, if you would be so kind?
ReplyDelete<span><span>"It's an immoral state because they built it on the ruins of another country..800.000 indigenous Palestinians expelled. 10s of Thousands massacred, 500 villages were erased from the face of the earth."</span></span>
10s of thousands massacred? I've not heard that kind of figure before about this conflict. Please explain when you have the time.
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What happened to the links you just posted, Tgia?
ReplyDeleteA quick answer: The number most frequently used is 12,000. The bottom of the scale for my estimation, agreed, but still accurate somehow..I'll write more specifically later. Remember that 68 massacres were documented by Saleh Abdul Jawad..631 villages wiped out documented by Khalidi..Lter for the links..
ReplyDelete<span>Salha Massacre</span>
ReplyDelete<span><span>The Massacre at Qibya</span></span>
<span><span>KAFR QASEM MASSACRE</span></span>
<span><span>Khan Yunis Massacre</span></span>
<span><span>The Massacre in Gaza City</span></span>
<span><span>AL-SAMMOU' MASSACRE</span></span>
<span>Aitharoun Massacre</span>
<span>Kawnin Massacre</span>
<span>Hanin Massacre</span>
<span>Bint Jbeil Massacre</span>
<span>Abbasieh Massacre </span>
<span>Adloun Massacre</span>
<span>Saida Massacre</span>
<span>Fakhani Massacre</span>
<span>Beirut Massacre</span>
<span><span>Sabra And Shatila Massacre</span></span>
ReplyDelete<span>Jibsheet Massacre</span>
<span>Sohmor Massacre</span>
<span>Seer Al Garbiah</span>
<span>Maaraka Massacres</span>
<span>Zrariah Massacre</span>
<span>Homeen Al-Tahta Massacre</span>
<span>Jibaa Massacre</span>
<span>Yohmor Massacre</span>
<span>Tiri massacre</span>
<span>Al-Naher Al-Bared Massacre</span>
<span>Ain Al-Hillwee Massacre</span>
<span><span>OYON QARA MASSACRE</span></span>
<span>Siddiqine Massacre</span>
<span><span>AL-AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE</span></span>
<span><span>AL-AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE</span></span>
ReplyDelete<span><span>THE IBRAHIMI MOSQUE MASSACRE</span></span>
<span><span>THE JABALIA MASSACRE</span></span>
<span>Aramta Massacre</span>
<span><span>ERETZ CHECKPOINT MASSACRE</span></span>
<span>Deir Al-Zahrani Massacre</span>
<span>Nabatiyeh (school bus) Massacre</span>
<span><span>Mnsuriah Massacre</span></span>
<span>The Sohmor Second Massacre</span>
<span><span>Nabatyaih Massacre</span></span>
<span><span>Qana Massacre</span></span>
<span><span>Trqumia Massacr</span></span>
<span>Janta Massacre</span>
<span>24 Of June 1999 Massacres </span>
<span>Western Bekaa villages Massacre:</span>
<span>I must say, I would have been rather sceptical of the reliability of a site that referred to Sadaam Hussein as a martyr!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.soundofegypt.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2016</span>
I don't want to create work for you.... just confused about the 10s of thousands massacred. I don't doubt the number of villages cleared.
ReplyDeleteThe King David Massacre
ReplyDeleteThe Massacre at Baldat al-Shaikh
YEHIDA MASSACRE
KHISAS MASSACRE
QAZAZA MASSACRE
The Semiramis Hotel Massacre
The Massacre at Dair Yasin
NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE
THE TANTURA MASSACRE
BEIT DARAS MASSACRE
THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE
DAWAYMA MASSACRE
HOULA MASSACRE
SHARAFAT MASSACRE
This is not the original site. It's taken from Palestine remembered...
ReplyDeleteBtw, I was wrong when I said that the list contains Lebanese victims as well..Just the names were of Lebanese localities but the victims are all Palestinians..
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhat do the numbers or what you imply, a lack of number do vza? Justify a murderous colonial occupation with no end in sight, a slow genocide - is it now acceptable?
ReplyDeleteOK everybody, lets hope a few more thousand are killed so vza can oppose this genocide in good conscience.
ReplyDelete<p><span><span>O my king, the journey has lengthened, lengthened,</span>
ReplyDelete<span>and ages have passed,</span>
<span>and between locked worlds I have sailed, asking at doors.</span>
<span>I carried with me the wounds of fedayeen,</span>
<span>and the taste of death in September, and of mud.</span>
<span>I carried with me the sorrows of Jerusalem, O my king,</span>
<span>and the wound of Jenin,</span>
<span>and a night of high walls that cannot be scaled.</span>
<span>So where is the door? Where is the door?</span>
<span>My sacrifices are heaped at the altar,</span>
<span>my Quran is hidden in the mist,</span>
<span>and the agony of my Al-Aqsa mosque</span>
<span>cuts me like a knife….</span></span>
</p><p><span><span> </span></span>
</p><p><span><span>Iraqi poetess Nazik Al-Mala'ika</span></span><span></span></p>
In any case I don't find the number 12000 to be exagerated. The Israeli military historian Aryeh Itzahki , all battles ended with a massacre..
ReplyDelete<span>In any case, I don't find the number 12000 to be exagerated. The Israeli military historian Aryeh Ytzhaki often mentioned that all battles usually ended with a massacre..</span>
ReplyDeleteOh yes,v. You are so perceptive. That's it exactly! I have been truly found out! =-O Whatever shall I do?!
ReplyDelete