{"id":132892,"date":"2014-07-23T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=132892"},"modified":"2014-07-23T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T22:47:13","slug":"international-anger-mounts-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/international-anger-mounts-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"International Anger Mounts Against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Felicity Arbuthnot<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The \u201cmost moral army in the world\u201d from \u201cthe only democracy in the Middle East\u201d has attacked hospitals, a home for the disabled, a geriatric hospice, demolished five mosques, razed entire neighbourhoods, erased entire families \u2014 the youngest \u2014 so far \u2014 just three days old if you do not count the unborn, as in the case of twenty nine year old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pht2012.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/21\/a-devastating-loss-to-the-tapestry\/\">Samar Al Hallaq<\/a>\u00a0killed with her two sons, aged four and five, other members of her family and carrying her third child. Her husband was critically injured.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">You take my water<br \/>\nBurn my olive trees<br \/>\nDestroy my house<br \/>\nTake my job<br \/>\nSteal my land<br \/>\nImprison my father<br \/>\nKill my mother<br \/>\nBomb my country<br \/>\nStarve us all<br \/>\nHumiliate us all<br \/>\nBut \u2026 I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">\u2013 Placard first seen in Gaza, 2012<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet again a war is declared against children and the young. Forty three percent of Gaza\u2019s population is aged 0-14 and just under 21 percent, 15-24. (Index Mundi, 2013.) Thus sixty-four percent, 0-24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">As Israel trades on eternal victim status whilst murdering neighbouring, fellow Semites with seeming legal impunity, stealing land, obliterating homes, nullifying history preceding even the coming of Christ in the land of his birth, the UN bleats weakly, as ever, of \u201cconcern\u201d and \u201cregret\u201d, some countries have had enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Ecuador has recalled its Ambassador from Israel, Chile has suspended its free trade agreement negotiations. Bolivia\u2019s President Evo Morales and Venezuela\u2019s President Nicolas Maduro\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/174144-south-america-gaza-genocide\/\">have called the assault on Gaza<\/a>\u00a0genocide and \u201cextermination\u201d, with Maduro demanding that the UN address the: \u201csystematic violation of the Human Rights of the Palestinian population in Gaza by the State of Israel and adopt the necessary measures to halt those violations.\u201d Venezuela severed all relations with Israel after its last massacre, \u201cCast Lead\u201d over Christmas and New Year 2008-2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">As Prime Minister David Cameron calls the onslaught on the 1.7 million people of Gaza in their 40-mile long ghetto \u201cnot disproportionate\u201d, President Maduro stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #444444;\"><p>It is clear you cannot morally compare occupied and massacred Palestine with the occupying state, Israel, which also possesses military superiority and acts on the margins of international law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile, amid massive protests in South Africa,\u00a0the African National Congress in Parliament (who suffered their own long years of apartheid) is calling for the Israeli Ambassador to leave with \u201cimmediate effect\u201d and for the South African Ambassador to Tel Aviv to be immediately recalled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2014\/07\/international-anger-mounts-against-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicity Arbuthnot The \u201cmost moral army in the world\u201d from \u201cthe only democracy in the Middle East\u201d has attacked hospitals, a home for the disabled, a geriatric hospice, demolished five mosques, razed entire neighbourhoods, erased entire families \u2014 the youngest \u2014 so far \u2014 just three days old if you do not count the unborn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[662],"class_list":{"0":"post-132892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism","9":"tag-israel-aggression"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}