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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: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 18 2018, @04:49PM (3 children)
That is a reasonable question. Who asked them? Well - nobody, really. But, we can also point out that much of the land that Jews held was bought and paid for, all perfectly legal, under the very noses of all those Muslims who hate Jews so much. There was something of a boom in land sales, in the years leading up to Israeli bad behaviour. When the Arabs began to understand that they were being pushed out of their old homesteads, THEN they attempted to run the Israeli's out. But that day-late-and-dollar-short plan backfired on them.
Later still, the Palestinians were told by their brother Muslims to evacuate their land, so that the Arab armies could jointly kick the Jew's asses into the sea. The Pals evacuated, and while they were gone, the vacant lands were occupied.
It's not like the Jews took all their land at sword point homestead by homestead, village by village, farm by farm. They bought a lot, then they occupied a lot more that was empty.
Say it with me: "There are no good guys in the conflict."
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday May 18 2018, @05:11PM
That was true earlier. A lot less so in recent decades.
OTOH, currently both sides are in an impossible situation. It's deadly to trust the other side, and it's a small piece of land for the population.
I find it hard to call either side either good or evil. This doesn't mean I can't call various actions evil, however, and shooting the doctors certainly counts.
To me Israel has lost all rights to any support. And the more the US involves itself, the less right *it* has to any moral grounds.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:54PM (1 child)
Buying land doesn't entitle you to create your own government and secede. Buying Alaska from the Russians worked because it was being bought via treaty from the Russian government.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @09:09PM
The British said as much about 13 American colonies that rebelled.