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posted by martyb on Friday May 18 2018, @02:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the war-crimes dept.

Democracy Now! reports
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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 18 2018, @04:28PM (8 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday May 18 2018, @04:28PM (#681235) Journal

    (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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 18 2018, @05:00PM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 18 2018, @05:00PM (#681260) Journal

    He owns that violence fully.

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @07:57PM (#681348)

      Each and every halfwit protesting at the border, without weapons, without hope, challenging a well-equipped army, deserves his Darwin Award.

      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)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 19 2018, @01:20AM (#681459) Journal

        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)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @01:37AM (#681474)

          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)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 19 2018, @01:52AM (#681483) Journal

            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

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @05:01PM (#681610)

              Drink the trough water you goddamn horse!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:05PM (#681265)

    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.

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:24PM (#681364)

      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.