The world has got to act and put a stop to this destruction by the
occupying butchers of the IDF! There will never be peace in the
Mid-East if the Israeli's continue to get away with this. The yanks
need to threaten them with sanctions and cutting the $billions in
handouts they receive from them each year. Seeing as Israeli survival
is dependant on the handouts they get from the yanks, they would have
to rethink their apartheid policies if they, (the yanks), threatened
to cut back on them. There's no other way for the yankies to
contribute to peace in the Middle-East. Filling Israel up with
military hardware and American dollars has not helped at all except to
exasperate the problem. If the Israeli's are threatened with the
closure of these freebies then they might think again. And the yanks
might be seen to actually be serious about helping to establish peace
and security in the Mid-East! And the hatred of them, as the only
country in the world contributing to Israeli aggression, might even
subside a bit.
WH
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Tension rises as bulldozers tear down zoo in Rafah
By Donald Macintyre in Rafah
22 May 2004
With a parrot that had escaped the Israelis perched on his shoulder,
and a kangaroo crouching in the corner of the room, Mohammed Juma
contemplated the little that was left of the zoo he had spent five
years creating. "This was my life," he declared. "I watched my dream
being destroyed."
The first bulldozer, he said, had come, escorted by a tank, at 2am on
Thursday morning. Between then and when Israeli soldiers left the zoo
at dawn yesterday, he had watched as the army killed birds and
animals, uprooted shrubs, trees and grass, destroyed pens and cages,
and then dumped much of the debris and wreckage into the zoo's
swimming pool.
The despoliation of the zoo at the Brazil refugee camp may seem
insignificant after 41 Palestinian deaths in Rafah this week and the
trail of destruction left by the Israelis elsewhere in the Al Salaam
and Brazil camps - the Israelis demolished an estimated 43 homes in
Brazil, reducing them to rubble still awaiting clearance yesterday -
but it is a potent symbol of the much wider havoc wrought in the two
camps and a third, Tel Sultan, since the Rafah incursion began on
Monday.
The zoo, the only one in the Gaza Strip, was perhaps the only
attraction for children in a town almost entirely without public
amenities. Admission cost just one shekel - about 12p. The destruction
betrayed a wantonness that went beyond anything that could be deemed
militarily necessary to hunt down militants or find tunnels used to
smuggle explosives. Although soldiers commandeered the top floor of
one of the three buildings for sniper positions, it was much more
difficult to explain the damage to the harmless recreation space below
their vantage point.
Mr Juma insisted that he had watched with his own eyes as the Israeli
bulldozer drivers broke into a cage containing 40-45 Macaw parrots and
put them into the cabin of one of the bulldozers before taking them
away. "It looked as though the drivers knew about animals," he said.
According to Mr Juma, 40, the Army also released some 80 animals,
including monkeys, a fox, a non-poisonous snake and - adding yet
another danger to those already faced by the residents of the Brazil
camp - seven jaguars. Mr Juma held a sickly looking raccoon in his
arms, betraying a deep gash under its hind legs, and pointed to a long
row of feathers on the ground indicating a dead ostrich buried beneath
the debris.
The Israeli Army claimed last night that it had been forced to pass
through the zoo because explosive devices had been planted in the
roads and that it had made "every effort not to harm any of the
animals". But Mr Juma said: "I believe they planned to do this. I
can't call the Israelis animals because animals are beautiful."
Despite the partial withdrawal from the Brazil camp yesterday, the
Israelis made it clear that the operation would continue. Some tanks
remained in the camp as a funeral procession followed the bodies of
four militants killed by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours,
including Khaled Abu Maza, head of Hamas's military wing in Rafah. Abu
Maza was killed by a missile targeted at him while he was in the Al
Salaam camp.
But in the absence of any new finds of tunnelling, Gideon Ezra, a
Likud government minister, said that the operation would rely
increasingly on intelligence, while a senior Army officer was quoted
by Israeli media as saying that Palestinians in Rafah would not yet be
able to "rest easy".
Residents in the Brazil camp talked angrily of homes destroyed by
bulldozers, despite earlier denials by the army that this was
happening.
The army destroyed a one-and-a-half acre olive grove in the centre of
the camp, uprooting its 300 trees and the home of the owner's father,
Suleman Qishta, 95. The owner, Mehidan Qishta, said that a bulldozer
had pushed through the wall as his father lay on his bed. Debris which
had crashed down on the bed was still visible yesterday, as were cuts
and bruises on the old man's arms and legs. "I heard my father
screaming after the bulldozer came," said Mr Qishta. "I thought he was
dying."
Shakria Khamis, 60, tried to stay in her house even after a bulldozer
pushed through a wall. Her daughter, Iktimal Awad, 35, said: "My
mother was shouting, 'I don't want to leave'." She was forced to flee
as masonry continued to fall.
Ms Awad's sister, Menal, who works at a health centre in Gaza, said
she had lost many souvenirs. She said: "A human being is worth more
than these items, but my memories of this house are unforgettable."
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(bollogs) wrote:
The world has got to act and put a stop to this destruction by the
The Jew will pay. I swear to this on my mother's grave. The JEW will
PAY! Every Jew, in every country, will pay, and pay, and pay. So
help me God.
Grantland
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22 May 2004 05:49:02 PM |
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(Grantland) wrote in message news:<40af73ff.485855663@ct-news.iafrica.com>...
The Jew will pay. I swear to this on my mother's grave. The JEW will
PAY! Every Jew, in every country, will pay, and pay, and pay. So
help me God.
Grantland
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Oh look, it's crazy Grantland again. I see you have a new homo
friend...Ms Ig in another thread.
Have you told him just what you do to yourself beneath the blanket on
your wheelchair?
Oh dear, maybe your...ailment...extends as far as your waist. What a
shame. Still, maybe it's as well. I expect old Ig there will want to
'turn you over' for his enjoyment.
Have a nice time together.
Werewolfy
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23 May 2004 08:14:41 AM |
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On 22 May 2004 05:58:50 -0700, (bollogs) wrote:
The world has got to act and put a stop to this destruction by the
occupying butchers of the IDF! There will never be peace in the
Mid-East if the Israeli's continue to get away with this. The yanks
need to threaten them with sanctions and cutting the $billions in
handouts they receive from them each year. Seeing as Israeli survival
is dependant on the handouts they get from the yanks, they would have
to rethink their apartheid policies if they, (the yanks), threatened
to cut back on them. There's no other way for the yankies to
contribute to peace in the Middle-East. Filling Israel up with
military hardware and American dollars has not helped at all except to
exasperate the problem. If the Israeli's are threatened with the
closure of these freebies then they might think again. And the yanks
might be seen to actually be serious about helping to establish peace
and security in the Mid-East! And the hatred of them, as the only
country in the world contributing to Israeli aggression, might even
subside a bit.
WH
The Americunts won't stop them, in fact they probably are supporting
it if not helping it.
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