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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.
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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: 4, Informative) by tangomargarine on Friday May 18 2018, @04:03PM (4 children)
The British did. The Palestinians didn't want a two-state solution, didn't want a one-state solution; they just wanted it all, so here we are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine#History_of_Palestine_under_the_British_Mandate [wikipedia.org]
Does boycotting elections ever actually accomplish anything? Other than ensuring that if they go with the results you get fucked.
This is always my favorite part of the story. Dude leads a group that hunts down and murders people, and they get pissed when somebody brings him to justice.
And admittedly the Jewish underground movements were pretty huge assholes too, as they bombed and assassinated the Brits to try to get them to leave.
And when the Brits gradually pulled out obviously everything slid into chaos. At the end of the Mandate the Israelis declared the state of Israel, but they were more or less in the middle of a war already, then the other Arab states invaded and that was the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:50PM (2 children)
Why shouldn't the Palestinians have the entire area? They were, after all, the people who had been living there for centuries. Over time there have been countless situations where new groups moved into a given region, at a certain point, claiming some sort of historical right to an area becomes nonsensical.
The Israelis have absolutely no right to exist if their existing involves them engaging in genocide. They regularly murder innocent civilians and seem to have no problem pretending like the terrorist acts targeting them are completely unprovoked when they're using sniper rifles to murder civilians from hundreds of yards away.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 18 2018, @09:00PM
Yes, because the moral of this story is that while the Holocaust is happening and a few hundred thousand Jews are looking for a place to escape to, the Arabs didn't tell them forcefully enough to fuck off.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tfried on Saturday May 19 2018, @12:37PM
Because
Very obviously, in hindsight the partitioning was a terrible idea (but do realize that this kind of solution was "in fashion" at the time, with whole countries being moved in the aftermath of WWII). But you are not seriously suggesting that it would be a good idea to "just" undo it, three generations later, are you?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday May 21 2018, @04:30PM
Apparently quoting chunks of Wikipedia verbatim is now trolling? LOL
What an asshole, explaining history. Fuck that
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"