Did
you know? *
By Gabriele Zamparini
Jul 25, 2006, 05:27
By Gabriele Zamparini
“I, Tsilli Goldenberg, Israeli citizen
'Accuse you - Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, Amir Peretz, Minister
of Defense, Dan Halutz Head of Staff Chief Commander of the Israeli Army,
of committing this bestial barbaric slaughter in Lebanon.
I accuse you of committing Crimes against
Humanity towards the Palestinian People. I accuse you of deserting our
soldiers, when their lives could be saved by negotiations, and I accuse
you of starting an unjustified war in my name.” -
Tsilli Goldenberg, Masarik 11, Jerusalem 93106
Israel
Did you know that “the daughter of
Israel’s newly elected prime minister added her voice to those of the
anti-Israel [sic] forces around the world when she actively participated in
a demonstration outside the home of IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, calling
him a ‘murderer’”?
Why not?
Did you know that “45% of those killed
in Lebanon are children and of the 500,000 people who have fled to safety,
some 200,000 are children”?
Did you know that a “big milk factory
in the Bekaa region called ‘Liban Lait’ was completely burned and destroyed
by direct attacks from the Israeli Air Force.”? And that a “food storehouse
called ‘TransMed’ in Choueifate, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, was totally
destroyed”?
Why not?
Did you know that “Lebanon's president
accused Israel on Monday of using phosphorous bombs in its 13-day offensive
and urged the United Nations to demand an immediate ceasefire”?
Why not?
Did you know that “the bodies of 13
Lebanese [fighters] were taken from Maroun al-Ras and buried in Israel
to use in future negotiations over the release of Israeli prisoners”?
Why not?
Did you know that “Israeli military has
said it will destroy 10 buildings in predominantly Shia south Beirut for
every rocket fired at the Israeli port of Haifa, army radio said Monday”?
Why not?
Did you know that “The delivery of at
least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium warheads
by the United States to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will
result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination with
consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the middle
east.”?
Why not?
Did you know thatwhat's going on is
“subject to review by Israel's chief military censor, who has - in her own
words – ‘extraordinary power’. She can silence a broadcaster, block
information and put journalists in jail”?
Why not?
Did you know that “[a]ccording to the
Lebanese police force, the two [Israeli] soldiers were captured in Lebanese
territory”?
From the beginning of this new chapter of the old madness, many people have
been following on the internet this shame. We are a peaceful army of world
citizens, working for free and moved by solidarity, compassion and an inner
drive for justice. Not anger!
But even among the
elites
of the anti-war movement and the so-called
“left”,
too many have never been listening to us. Let alone important journalists
working for the “pro-Israeli”
mainstream media who still believe that the
“internet is a new thing, and it's also unreliable.”
More than sixty years ago George Orwell
wrote in The Freedom of the Press,
a Preface to his
political novel, Animal
Farm:
“But at least let us have no more nonsense about defending liberty
against Fascism. If liberty means anything at all it means the right to
tell people what they do not want to hear. The common people still vaguely
subscribe to that doctrine and act on it… it is the liberals who fear
liberty and the intellectuals who want to do dirt on the intellect…”
This Preface was
censored when the book came out in
1945 and it was only published in The Times
Literary Supplement on 15 September 1972.
Twenty seven years after Animal Farm
was first published.
