And yet you have hundreds of thousands of Palestinians killed and you never get to know their names. Hanan Ashwari
Gaza City, July 2014: More than five hundred children were killed last summer in a war between Israel and Gaza ... Their third war in six years. Lyse Doucet, Children of the Gaza War BBC 2015
His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will bring their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. Arthur James Balfour, letter to Lord Rothschild 2nd November 1917
Zion be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present need, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the seven hundred thousand Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land. Arthur James Balfour
Britain conquered Palestine from the Turks in 1917-1918. First Her Majesty’s Government promised Palestine to the Jews in the Balfour Declaration in 1917, and then again in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine of 1922 ... Then it repudiated that promise in a White Paper of 1939 which announced Her intention to allow only 75,000 Jewish immigrants into Palestine over the next five years (this was World War II and the Holocaust was just beginning) ... Having already promised Palestine to both the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs, Britain after World War II promised it again, this time to Syria! ... Britain encouraged the Arab states to form an Arab League as World War II came to an end ... In an unprecedented act in the history of colonialism, the British simply withdrew, leaving the country that they had misgoverned for thirty years in total chaos. American Thinker online article May 2008, ‘How Britain Created the Arab-Israel Conflict’
There was six of seven soldiers ... We offered to walk to the hospital but they wouldn’t let us through. Then I had my baby. My mother-in-law used a razor to cut the umbilical cord. The boy started crying. My husband wrapped him in his jacket. One of his relatives found a back route and drove us to the hospital. But the baby had died by the time we arrived. Fatima Abed-Rabo, televised interview
Gaza relief boat damaged in encounter with Israeli vessel. CNN online article
A splendid act of conquest. Menachem Begin, description of massacre
We have to remove this scourge from the Earth. Dori Gold, adviser to Israel Prime Minister
An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be wrong. Amir Hass, Israeli journalist
There is no such things as Palestinians; they never existed. Golda Meir, Israeli Premier
Jews In Solidarity With Gaza. Protest banner
65% unemployment; 75% live below the poverty line. Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land 2004
Amnesty International has regularly documented serious human rights violations by Israeli military forces in the occupied territories ... And has gone so far to label them war crimes. ibid.
All those freedom fighters used to be called terrorists in the beginning. Yasser Arafat, interview David Frost 1977
I am against any of these individual actions. ibid.
What is important is the future of the people, my people. ibid.
US policy as a neutral broker between Israel and the Palestinians is a cruel joke. Professor Karen Pfeifer
Our brothers in Palestine, you have suffered a lot. We are with you and we will not let you down. Our fate is tied to yours in fighting the Crusader-Zionist coalition, in fighting until victory or martyrdom. Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda video
New law to occupy the new land
Towards Syria, Judea and Palestine:
The great barbarian empire to decay,
Before the Moon completes it cycle. Nostradamus 3:97
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. II Kings 17:3-6
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. II Kings 18:9&11
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. Isaiah 14:29&31
Israel exists because Palestine no longer exists. George Galloway
The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Paul Craig Roberts
To resist is to exist. Palestine wall message
Rebuilding Gaza could take 100 years if Israel keeps blockage, says Oxfam: Aid agency urges Israel to allow more steel and concrete into the Palestinian territory – and for Hamas to use material to build homes and tunnels. Abby Martin, Breaking the Set: One Last Time, RT 28.02.15, The Telegraph online article
It’s a topic that’s always framed the same way. Abby Martin: The Empire Files: The Distortion & Death Behind Israel/Palestine Coverage, Youtube 2015
DC’s leading idealogues leapt to conflate Palestine with terrorism. ibid.
It’s hard to imagine more disingenuous coverage. ibid.
The constant and indiscriminate bloodshed in Gaza isn’t seen as criminal or deliberate. ibid.
What Israel is really saying is that it has the right to execute journalists anywhere in Gaza. ibid.
One of the biggest human rights disasters on the planet. A gruelling growing military occupation that thrives off US sponsorship. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: The Untold History of Palestine & Israel ***** Youtube 2016
The British made it much easier for well-funded settlement projects to take more Palestinian land. ibid.
A wildly disproportionate death was about to begin. ibid.
In each of these villages and in hundreds more the Arab population left in its entirety … Just enough were killed or roughly handled … Nearly 800,000 fled their homes in this barrage of violence. ibid.
By the end of 1948 Zionists had conquered 78% of Palestine. ibid.
40% of Palestinian men in the West Bank and Jerusalem have spent time in Israeli prisons. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Silencing Palestine: Prison & Repression, 2017
Most commonly people are arrested for sharing or liking images of their friends and loved ones who are killed by Israeli forces. ibid.
There is no right to protest in the West Bank. ibid.
Israel responded with unspeakable repression: it deployed around 80,000 combat soldiers to crush the uprising of more than half a million Palestinians across the territories … An iron-fist policy of breaking the bones of Palestinians at protests: this was implemented by the army on a massive scale. ibid.
Throwing rocks: the majority of those arrested for this offence are children. ibid.