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Meet Tarek Loubani, the Canadian Doctor Shot by Israeli Forces Monday While Treating Gaza's Wounded (Transcript)
As Palestinians vow to continue protesting against the Israeli occupation of Gaza, we speak to a Canadian doctor who was shot by Israeli forces in both legs Monday [May 14] while he was helping injured Palestinians. Israeli forces shot dead at least 61 unarmed Palestinian protesters taking part in the Great March of Return Monday, including one doctor. Canada, Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Belgium have called for an investigation into the killings. The United Nations Human Rights Council has announced that it will hold a special session Friday to discuss escalating violence in Gaza. We speak with Dr. Tarek Loubani, an emergency room medical doctor, one of 19 medical personnel shot in Gaza on Monday.
Audio and video links at the top of the page.
Pacifica Radio KPFK has a partial audio file, available till mid-July, ~7MB for the story. (KPFK is in fund drive mode.)
Gaza coverage begins at 13:25. The doctor's story is from 15:15 - 31:30.
He notes that the doctor who treated him was subsequently shot, resulting in his death--this, while he was wearing high-visibility clothing to denote his first-responder status.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 18 2018, @03:24PM (16 children)
Complaining about the people in charge is going to be described as anti-semitic.
Why, is Donald Trump Jewish?
(kind of weird the article doesn't mention they're protesting the embassy move)
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 18 2018, @03:35PM
Beautiful @FoxNews [twitter.com] story in the Submarine Queue, "US embassy jubilantly opens in Jerusalem as Gaza rages". And Judge Jeanine says I fulfilled the prophecy of the gods!!
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday May 18 2018, @03:43PM (9 children)
> Why, is Donald Trump Jewish?
(1) Assuming he is in fact in charge. Governmental figureheads are rarely totally "in charge", even dictators must compromise with powerbrokers in their states. A "government" by its nature involves multiple stakeholders, power brokers, and sources of power.
(2) From what I've read, Trump himself isn't Jewish, but his kids married Jews, so they are "part of the family" so to speak.
Despite this, USA unconditional support for Israel predates trump by a wide margin, so you can't blame him for that.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 18 2018, @04:28PM (8 children)
(1) Assuming he is in fact in charge.
He's definitely in charge of this. Moving the embassy was at the sole discretion of the president.
Despite this, USA unconditional support for Israel predates trump by a wide margin, so you can't blame him for that.
I can blame him for moving the embassy despite the fact that anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge of the region warned him that it would result in violence. He owns that violence fully.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 18 2018, @05:00PM (5 children)
You say that like it's a "bad thing". A lot of Americans like violence. School shooters, Black Lives Matter, KKK, socialist protestors, black-on-black violence - on and on it goes. Americans who can't get enough violence in their lives spend huge amounts of money going to theaters where gratuitous violence reigns.
'Murica! Fuck yeah! We're violent people!
But, even so, Trump doesn't own the violence in Gaza. Each and every halfwit protesting at the border, without weapons, without hope, challenging a well-equipped army, deserves his Darwin Award. Each and every one of them CHOSE to challenge an armed opponent.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @07:57PM (4 children)
Here we see the native troglodyte wallowing in his violent nature ready to condemn the victims of fellow troglodytes. Hypocrisy is second nature to these creatures so it is safest to presume that everything they say is a lie.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 19 2018, @01:20AM (3 children)
You went to the movies, and sat enraptured by the gunfire, explosions, and bodies hitting the ground - and you post this clap-trap? Who is the hypocrit here? I admit that I am a member of a violent society, and that I may have performed violent acts in the past? THAT is hypocrisy?
You should invest in a better dictionary. Maybe you should consider going back to school.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @01:37AM (2 children)
For someone condemning the violent nature of the US you shouldn't then turn around and say the victims of a war crime deserved it. I guess that bit of irony escapes you and you don't understand how your own statement encourages the culture of violence.
Perhaps college would have been a better choice than the Navy?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 19 2018, @01:52AM (1 child)
The dodo bird didn't "deserve" to go extinct, did it? It did, though. Darwin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @05:01PM
Drink the trough water you goddamn horse!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:05PM (1 child)
Everyone knows that violence is the life blood of the sand people. They commit violence over newspaper cartoons. They commit violence over crappy YouTube videos. They commit violence over everything. They live for that kind of shit. Blaming Trump for sand people getting violent is like blaming Trump over dogs barking at the mailman.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:24PM
Yeah! They should be more civilized and commit violence over oil and political ideologies!!! They should know to hide the vast majority of the violence by instigating others to do it for them!
Blaming Trump for going against the recommendations of people who actually know shit, yeah that is totally fine. Trump fucked up, get over it.
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday May 18 2018, @05:39PM
[1] Mathematically, this is not a very good requirement to have as it means that without an Islamic-style prohibition on apostacy or a Catholic style prohibition on contraception you are eventually going to run out of Jews through falling numbers of offspring, people ceasing to practice the faith, and the slight bias human kind has towards male offspring. Timescales for this are not going to being peace to the resulting Palestinian/Arab dominated state that was formerly known as Israel any time soon though - assuming there's even anyone still standing in the entire area by then, of course.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Friday May 18 2018, @05:44PM (3 children)
I read a few years ago, that Benjamin Netanyahu came to the USA, got the great honour to address the US Congress and president Obama, ...
... and lectured them sternly about that they should always support his country, Israel.
Does that kind of thing happen often? That a foreign leader from an ally is invited to talk, and when he is basically commanding you how to behave, your congresspeople just smile politely and nod? Never knew US politicians were so humble..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:00PM
The entire US/Israel thing is just about maintaining power in the middle east because of oil. Israel has parlayed that to their own massive advantage and of course US politicians don't want to rock the boat. Ridiculous, but thems the breaks with stupid power politics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:07PM
They know who owns the Federal Reserve.
Give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes it’s laws.
-Amschel Rothschild
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday May 19 2018, @02:25AM
Actually, I gather that it happens a lot. A lot of politics is about pretending to care when others talk, and then turning around and nakedly pushing your own agenda as much as you can get away with.