My thoughts go out to the suffering Palestinians.

I am going to cite the sources I used for this video. BTW, Happy New Year! Godspeed to the Palestinians.

Mustafa Barghouthi

Written by the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative

It is also misleading to claim self-defense in a conflict with such an overwhelming asymmetry of power. Israel is the largest military force in the region, and the fifth largest in the world.

Furthermore, they are the fourth largest exporter of arms and have a military industrial complex rivaling that of the United States.
Before the on-going massacre in the Gaza Strip, and throughout the entirety of the Annapolis Peace Process, Israel has continued and even intensified its occupation of the West Bank. In 2008, settlement expansion increased by a factor of 38, a further 4,950 Palestinians were arrested - mostly from the West Bank, and checkpoints rose from 521 to 699.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mustafa-barghouthi/palestines-guernica-and-t_b_...

Israel broke its four-month-old ceasefire with the Hamas-run Gaza government on November 4, entering the territory and killing six people and capturing six others.

UN spokesperson Chris Gunness told Al Jazeera on November 12 that the people in Gaza were not just being subject to a physical sense of punishment, but also a mental one.

We feed 750,000 people in Gaza and these are some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in the Middle East, Gunness said. Something very unusual is happening here. This is becoming a blockade against the UN itself.

The UN has also been banned from importing educational materials into Gaza for blind students. These blind children, as far as I am aware, are not firing rockets, Gunness stated.

And the material we are trying to get to them would make a pretty floppy rocket if they tried to make one from it.

Gunness criticised Israels hypocrisy on human rights, stating: They are telling children in Gaza that they have to respect rights universally. How can we tell those same children, Oh, by the way, you have to respect rights of people in Israel but they are actually stopping us giving you food?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7727177.stm
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/775/39991
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/15/israelandthepalestinians
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/20081229_party_to_murder/

* Since 2001, fewer than twenty Israelis have been killed by Qassam rockets. In three days, nearly 400 Gazans have been killed by Israeli state violence. This is a ratio of 20 Gazan lives for each Israeli life, with the death toll in Gaza certain to increase.

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[balterok]

I think it would be so great for all of us to get involved, msDarkSide. (sitra ahara) with our own problems. Jews with jewish problems. Palastinian ppl with their problems, without advice of brotherly help from the Great Muslim world. And asian people with asian problems. We could so much better if you keep in mind knowing exact problem should be great help in fixing it. Dont you think so?

I hope u do at least that much.

How about Tibet? Or human trafficking in Asia. Thatsanicehot'issue'4ya.

[darksideofthenation]

And for your information, i consider words like "botherhood" to be sexist , as it is not inclusive to women. The same reason i dislike words like "mankind", anyways, i wil make videos about "asian problem", but part of the problem is so many people like you see problems as "racial problem".

[balterok]

What is your business in this? Are you jewish, palestinian? What do you know about history of these people?

Feeling the heat of the issue, trying to drive traffic to your sites?

MASSACRE? this is war. and far cleaner than any country ever bothers to fight

U dont think Israel is acting in self defense?

U dont think.

Right to pals to exist? They were too many chances to exist. Too many more than they give jews.

[darksideofthenation]

I am human, which gives me a right to talk about human affairs.

[evilstrawberry106]

Just wanted to let you know im glad there are people like you out there, trying to tell the truth to everyone.

For all you haters, can't you see the truth when it is facing you straight in the eye?

[Sharma19801]

Balterok, only 2 dead from rocket attacks, that were provoked by Israel after killing 6 Palestinian guards at the tunnel. Now, the whole world (except USA) is against Israel. This process will not win Israel any war....I can assure you, this war will generate a whole bunch of Muslim super terrorists, who will avenge this massacre of innocent civilians. I am not a Muslim, so best of luck to Israel. They will need a lot of it.

[McGanhanSkjellyfetti]

Israel Zionism is the political Jew movement that supports the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine which, 1. does not belong to them and 2. they are stealing and 3. they are killing for it. Israel is a rogue state created by ethnic cleansing, specializing in terrorism and humanitarian crimes.

This savage state has no right to exist. It never had any legitimacy, was set up on a racist and ethnic basis.

[JOROSS2]

@darksideofthenation Dear dark side of the nation From your title I think you would be talking about the dark side of YOUR nation.

[Pseudologic]

@LionCome You can't steal land that is yours.

[Pseudologic]

I wish I could come from Asia to live on Native lands in Canada and then pass judgments on people "occupying" someone's lands. Oh wait, I DID. Except I have enough brains to not be a hypocrite.

[mightyoak11111]

It's unfortunate that the world is being misled and misguided by all the one-sided anti-Israel propoganda. How many Jewish deaths would the world need to witness in order for them to feel that Israel is justified in defending itself from attacks. Both PalestiniansandIsraelis deserve to live in peace. Shame on Hamas for targeting Israeli women, children, and the elderly and for using the Palestinians as human shileds. Hopefully, Hamas' capabilities will be reduced after the war.

[soisthetruth]

Holocaust survivor, Hedy Epstein: "The situation, especially in Gaza, is so awful, I feel I must continue to be a moral voice, must continue to have the courage to take a public stand against Israel's crimes against humanity and the misinterpretations provided by the media. Israel would not be able to carry out its crimes against humanity without the United States, world, permitting it to do so and the mass media..."

[531kd]

you may need more research, like reading Avi Shlaim( Oxford professor of international relations, who is a jewish man and served in the Israeli army),and another great expert on this issue is Noam Chomsky who is also jewish,listen to what they say , forget about the media. find out the truth.

[LionCome]

Does Israel not have responsibility for using their children as human shields when they settle them on stolen land in order to make it more difficult for the land to be reclaimed by the owners who are now in concentration camps?

[11KmPerSec]

I feel for the Palestinians too, but a sentence like this, " Since 2001, fewer than twenty Israelis have been killed by Qassam rockets, leaves me to question your ability to truly feel compassion for the people, any people, you claim to.

You are talking ratios, that is just creepy.