The following report was forwarded to me a few hours ago. It is distressing to think that so much is being written with such heartfeltpassion and yet so little is getting through to the public at large. Please do all you can to send this on to whomever you can and ask them to do the same. Let's make the internet work for us while we still can.
" It's nearly 4 a.m. here and I decided to go back to my computer tocommunicate to my friends around the world what every single mainstreammedia channel..., whether American, European or Arab, is FAILING tocommunicate in regards to what is happening right NOW in Gaza,Palestine. I have been in front of television for the past few hours monitoring the news and I was shocked to see NOTHING on Gaza except on 2local Arab channels and one Arab satellite channel which I shall notname for their own good..., lest the United States with its Israel lobbydecide to shut them down. Even Al Jazeera channel, to my utter shock, didn't so much as mention Gaza in its last 2 news broadcasts!! Let me tell you my friends what I have been watching for the past few hours andwhat I am still listening to on my head- phones. Southern Gaza is in TOTAL DARKNESS. Three quarters of the televisionframe is PITCH BLACK while northern Gaza has a few lights. About an hourago, Israel bombed with F-16's the only power station left in KhanYounes plunging it in TOTAL DARKNESS too. Do you know what it means tobe without electricity for 10 days in today's world??? No water, no sewage, no cooling, no storing of whatever food is left, nocommunications....etc. As though this were not sufficient for those poor Palestinians, tonight, like every night, Israel has been bombing and sending missiles into Gaza and flying over it all night with sonic boomsto scare the people and especially the children who are totally terrified.
Yesterday, a one and a half year old child died in an awful way of injuries sustained by Israeli bombing, and mainstream media instead of covering it, is allowing a terrorist like Ehud Olmert to take the microphone and tell the world that Israel never targets civilians. It has been 10 days now and all Israel has done is target civilians andkill dozens! One of the strongest armies in the world has declared waron a population that does not even have an army! Water is lacking, foodis scarce, medicine has run out, FUEL has run out...and Israel refuses to let trucks carrying supplies enter Gaza to save acivilian population which was already condemned to live in refugee campsbecause Israel kicked them out of their homes and stole them. Even Palestinian hospitals hardly know how to operate. When Israel firstbombed Gaza's power mains, hospitals resorted to using their generators. But generators can only keep going if there is fuel....and there no longer is fuel. The sick and elderly who live on machinesare slowly dying. Babies in incubators are dying. With the increasingrubbish that can no longer be picked up from the streets, diseases arestarting to spread.
A humanitarian disaster is taking place in Gaza NOW and Mr. Bush, his Israeli White House, his corrupt AIPAC stooge of aCongress, Mr. Bolton and Mr. Annan are laying the grounds for theirattack on Syria and Iran.... and who knows what else.And the world is silent. And mainstream media is behaving as though nothing were happening there. All it cares about is that damned Israelisoldier that means ZILCH amid 1.4 million innocent civilians who had nothing to do with his capture!
Last, but not least...., NONE of this would be happening were it not forthe American tax-payer who for decades financed and is still financingevery bullet and missile being shot from Israel. What does it take forthe American tax-payers to understand that they are ultimately payingfor their own destruction. The US has created a monster that nowcontrols it. US soldiers are fighting Israel's dirty war in the MiddleEast. US soldiers are dying so that Israel can prosper. US families are losing their loved ones so that Israel doesn't have to send their kids.... After all, what is an American guy compared to an Israeli life? American soldiers are kidnapped all the time in Iraq and they are not even mentioned in the news. Yet, when an Israeli soldier is taken prisoner, ONE soldier, the president of the United States himself comes out to speak on his behalf! Where are the American people? Where is that great nation that we were all told represented "freedom" and "liberty"??It is being held on a leash by Ehud Olmert and AIPAC. At least in the Arab world, we have the excuse of being the underdeveloped third world. What is America's excuse? If only Americans knew that Israel will use them and dump them in a split second!
While I am writing this, I am watching the rescue of bodies from abuilding that collapsed in Gaza about an hour ago after it was bombed byIsraeli F-16's. I see panicked and scared Palestinians lighting the collapsed building with their torches and digging with their hands inthe rubble to find survivors. I see a hand sticking out the rubble andit is still moving. A body is under a heavy concrete wall which no onecan move without a bulldozer..., but there is no fuel and no bulldozerto help. Palestinians don't have bulldozers.I am writing this to my internet friends because it is my duty to relay what I am seeing. I cannot just go to sleep as though nothing werehappening. Mainstream media world wide, are obviously complicit in the new world order and I am hoping that the internet community will standout and spread the news of Gaza, like we spread the news of Iraq. I have recorded the horrible events of this evening... and of those past few days..., and I shall find a way to get this footage out.The world must find out what a criminal country Israel is. Tomorrow also, unless my IP is blocked again, I shall be sending you interesting news on Israelis inside Iraq...., also something that mainstream media is conveniently forgetting to mention.
Regards to all,
Cherifa Sirry"
