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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: 2) by fritsd on Friday May 18 2018, @05:37PM (2 children)
Years ago, I saw a documentary on TV about a the astonishing life of a certain mr. Mordechai Vanunu [wikipedia.org], who said that Israel had made lots of nuclear warheads in their Dimona reactor.
It's not recognized as anuclear power, because they never signed the NPT (unlike, say, Iran) and when asked whether they have nuclear weapons, they say: "well, we don't want to admit or deny it" and stick their tongue out.
That means that if any war with Israel escalates sufficiently, they might be tempted to nuke some countries.
Unless the Israelis elect right-wing and far-right-wing idiots (Benjamin Netanyahu from Likud and his scary defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman [wikipedia.org] from Yisrael Beitenu), in which they're probably itching with their finger on the red button right now.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 18 2018, @06:14PM (1 child)
Saddam Hussein did the same thing. Folks asked him, do you have a nuclear arsenal? He wouldn't say "yes," he wouldn't say "no." But George Bush & the CIA took that as a "yes." And it became VERY EXPENSIVE for us. $7 trillion!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Monday May 21 2018, @06:16PM
I've been told Hussein had to pretend to have nukes to deter Iran.
He tried but failed utterly to tell the US about this bluff because Bush wanted a war and wouldn't listen.