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Levi
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Profession
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Why do you bomb our houses in suicide bombings?
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You should know that we are living under the Israeli occupation. We did not start this war, but the occupation began this aggression by stealing lands, killing people, and destroying everything the Palestinians own. We should not stand still; we should do something, at least to defend ourselves.
Regarding martyrdom operations, the occupation began, planes bombed Palestine to kill civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. If you want to be logical, just calculate the number of the Palestinians killed in Palestine. More that 475 children and about 250 women were killed by the Israelis. This shows that almost all Palestinians killed are either women or children. Therefore, we have the right to defend ourselves. We also offered to avoid civilian deaths so many times, but it was Israel that refused truces.
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John
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Profession
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Is there a way we can stop Israel's house demolition policy? Or no matter how strongly we object Israel will still go ahead with its aggression?
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If there is pressure from the world on Israel, change will occur. The international community, the UN and the EU must do something to prevent Israeli aggression. They should consider Israel's aggression a war against humanity, rather that Israel's exercise of its "right to defend itself." This, I think, might make Israel reconsider what it is doing; but if the world and the United States support Israel, it will continue its house demolitions policy.
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Abdow
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We have witnessed the wanton destruction of the Palestine people and their properties by Isreali's, and continious violation of UN Security Council Declaration. Do you think recent US blatant support for Isreal is a suprise to the Palestinians?
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No, it is not a surprise. This is the American policy: to support Israel without hesitation. The United States supports Israel. This is what happened 50 years ago. They always adopt Israeli boldness, even if they know, and are sure, that Israel is mistaken. So again, to the Palestinians, it is nothing new.
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Adam
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Profession
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Ummmm... What has changed? We've been hearing of Israeli house demolitions the past several years... why does it seem like the uproar about this has increased recently?
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First, this uproar is not new: regarding Rafah there were so many protests in the past, but there was nothing serious to prevent Israel from what it is doing and against the human rights of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The same thing happened in Jenin when Israel destroyed everything, especially houses. There was an uproar when Israel destroyed houses in neighborhoods of Zaiton, Qarara etc. But I think what is happening in Rafah is different because, as yet, about 1700 houses were completely destroyed in 4 years, hundreds were partially destroyed, tens of families were obliged to leave there houses. The Israeli media said they will destroy hundreds of houses, which will leave thousands of Palestinians homeless. The aggressive attacks caused a huge number of martyrs, especially among children and unarmed civilians. All these things led to this new uproar. Unfortunately, the international community hasn't interfered untill now to prevent this massacre against humanity.
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Jim
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Where are these houses that are being demolished? If they're in areas that are already dominated by the Jews, wouldn't it be better to give them up and move to a safer area? I mean, the houses will be demolished anyway...
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First of all, those houses and areas are located according to the accords between the Palestinian authority and Israel in the area called “A”, which means that they are located in the area under the Palestinians' authority - the area that is not administered by the Israelis.
Secondly, Israel’s presence in the Palestinian land is illegitimate; this land is ours; we were born and brought up here. Israel occupied it long ago; it has no right to destroy these houses. The destruction now is an Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank. Thousands of houses were destroyed in the past few days. Palestinians can’t be asked to leave there houses simply because they are theirs.
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Abdullah
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Can you describe to us Israel's offensive in Rafah?
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Well, the situation in Rafah is very terrible and dangerous. It can be summarized it two words: “ethnic cleansing." There are deadly attacks on poor people. In one week, about 50 people were killed, more than 170 were injured, 130 houses were destroyed, only in Rafah; most of them are civilians -- women and children. Today we are not sure of the number of demolished houses in Rafah. The infrastructure in being destroyed; there is no water supply or power supply in Rafah now. The municipality in Rafah there said it is a terrible catastrophe and a new Nakba. This is the description in brief.
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Ziyaad
- South Africa
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Salaam Ghazi,
Our prayers are with you. I hope the violence stops soon.
According to Israel, the excuse for the violence in Rafah is "to stop terror", as usual. From a Palestinian point of view, why the incursions and why now ?
Ziyaad
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First, thanks for your noble feelings. Of course, the incursions are not new; they started almost 4 years ago in all our cities and camps. I think the goal is to get rid of the Palestinian resistance, to make them surrender to the Israelis, and to impose the political solution on the Palestinians regardless of there ambitions.
What is happening in Rafah is a collective punishment. After the Israeli Army was ashamed of Israel's losing of about 15 soldiers at the hands of the Palestinian resistance, they want to look stronger by killing as many Palestinians as possible, using planes, helicopters, snipers, tanks and banned weapons. So, I believe the main reason for the latest attack on Rafah is to take revenge and to prove to the Israeli people that their army is stronger than the Palestinians.
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Musbaudeen
- Nigeria
Profession
Student
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Salam,
When I looked at my screen I felt grief for the Palestinians. Is this allowed by any country to carry out destruction and massacres against women and children? I mean, we must put an end to this. The Arab League, Muslim Ummah and world-loving countries must come to these people's aid.
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Well, for more than 50 years nothing has happened. We are almost frustrated in the Arab nations and the Arab League; they did not stir a finger to fight the crimes against us, to prevent the massacres. We have had enough of the Arab false and empty words. We cannot wait more than this; so we do not depend on them; we depend on ourselves.
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tajudeen
- Nigeria
Profession
accountancy
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Asalamu Alaykum,
What are your colleagues doing about unfair and unbalanced media coverage the West especially the US are feeding the world? Peoples are render homeless and are being killed everyday in the middleeast especially in Palestine over years. Honestly I do not know what kind of news is UN team hear and read?
How are the displaced Palestines coping?
tajudeen
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First of all, the media coverage all over the world has developed. And true news is reaching everywhere in the world. Almost everyone knows what is happening in Palestine. Truth prevails. Look at what happened in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq! The problem is how to deal with this truth. I believe the UN and the US have double standers when dealing with facts; they deal with them in the way that benefits them and is in their own interest.
The second part of the question: We are used to such massacres. We did manage to be patient, to be brave in resisting the occupation; we did manage to react to these massacres and to resist them. The biggest success is that we will not concede and, Allah willing, we will be victorious in the end.
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Malek
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Hi.
Do not you think there is a link between what Zionists are doing today and the killing of Hamas leaders?
What are the real goals of Zionists in doing such operations? Are not they preparing the worst for the coming months for Gaza's population before the so called unilateral withdrawal?
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Yes, there is no doubt there is a link between what Zionists are doing today and the killing of Hamas leaders. Israel’s policy is to kill, to assassinate. I think the link is to make the Palestinians surrender to their solutions in order for them to oblige us to accept their political solutions.
The real goals are that they are trying to cover what happened to them in Rafah and Zaitoun. Therefore, they are now killing innocent people because they have failed to get rid of the Palestinian resistance.
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AHMED
- Nigeria
Profession
CIVIL SERVANT
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Why is the Arab world still looking up to the Jewish American government and their remaining allies to stop the terrorist, Jewish Isreali government from killing Muslim brothers and Islam. For how long would this unreasonable mentality continue?
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The Arab regimes like their alliance with the United States. They think there are lots of benefits from this alliance , be they political or economic. They even stand with the US against their peoples, and this is totally rejected by their peoples. Again, we do not rely on the US, for it is Israel's ally.
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Naima
- Pakistan
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I am deeply grieved by what the evil zionists are doing to our brethren in Palestine. May Allah Almighty ease their tension soon.
My question to you would be: Why is Palestine seeking the help of Americans in this crisis? We all know, that despite criticising Israel in it's deplorable policy of destructing homes, it's always besides Israel - no matter what. Don't you think it is totally silly to do so? Please put pressure on the dozed Islamic world to solve the problem. Let us solve our problems ourselves without involving the outsiders.
Thank you
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As Palestinians we never counted on America to help us, for America has always been with Israel. History proved that this has always been the case with America. Unfortunately, the Palestinian Authority still depends on America for it is the most powerful nation I think that same is happening with all the Arab regimes, I believe that the Palestrina Authority should not count on the American government. Let me remind you of what had happened after the World War II. The Arab countries supported the allies in order to take their freedom, but when the war finished they took nothing. The American government is an enemy for us. It supports Israel with money, weapons and everything
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Ziyaad
- South Africa
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In your response to my last question you mentioned Israel using banned weapons. What kind of banned weapons are they using?
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It has been proved that Israel uses banned weapons such as Uranium and other kinds of rockets and weapons against civilians. In addition, they use explosive bullets against unarmed people. However, Israelis consider nothing prohibited against our people; they use whatever they can use to kill as many Palestinians as possible.
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Suhaib
- United Kingdom
Profession
Student
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I think we in the West are trained to be more upset at the killing of a Jew than of a Muslim; also more at the death of a child in this country than 100 children in Palestine.
I don't think we really understand what it means for a house to be demolished. Could you please explain the implications of this action, i.e. how it affects individuals, families and communities?
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Destroying houses means destroying at least three families. They become homeless -- no food, no water. They destroy houses as well as buildings with tens of families. This kind of collective punishment against the innocent people of Palestine is an Israeli policy. They do it against everyone, even if they haven't taken part in the resistance against Israeli oppression.
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khursheed
- India
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house construction
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Aslamualekum,
I wonder why the Islamic states are silent spectators when there is cold-blooded murder of sheikh yaseen,demolition of houses in rafah, killing of innocent palestinians by Israel, dethroning of saddam hussain in iraq, waging unjustified war against talibaan, knee-breaking of iran. Whether this is well-hetched conspiracy against all islamic states and ultimately the whole islam. If this is true, whole islamic world should stand united and concerned for the cause of islamic brotherhood or Allah will not forgive them for their negligence.
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Palestinians are puzzled by this situation and question. We have asked it so many times: Why? It could be fear of the United States and Israel. The answer has been unknown. I think that we should ask the Arab and Islamic states, not the Palestinians who have nothing to do.
