[Oe List ...] Article by Neve Gordon; AND Gaza - Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled

Ruth Landmann tddynewf at cruzio.com
Wed Jan 7 16:57:12 EST 2009 

This post came from one of the members of my church's Church and 
Society Committee.
Ruth
Neve Gordon, Israeli journalist, gives us an up-date on the so-called 
"Just War"  moral theory.


><http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090112/gordon?rel=hp_picks>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090112/gordon?rel=hp_picks
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>Israel's New War Ethic - Gordon


Also, some accurate reporting from the British Independent.

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>Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled
>
>Obama breaks silence to express deep concern over civilian casualties
>
>By Donald Macintyre and Kim Sengupta in Jerusalem
>The Independent - UK
>Wednesday, 7 January 2009
>
>Hundreds of Palestinians had fled their homes for the refuge of the
>al-Fakhoura school, hoping the blue and white flag of the UN flying over the
>impromptu shelter would protect them from the Israeli onslaught. The UN had
>even given the Israeli army the co-ordinates for the building to spare it
>from the shells and air strikes raining down on the Gaza strip. But
>yesterday afternoon tank shells exploded outside the school, sending
>shrapnel into the crowds, killing at least 40 and wounding another 55.
>
>It was the worst confirmed bloodshed of Israel's attack on Gaza and sparked
>outrage and condemnation around the globe, with the US President-elect
>Barack Obama breaking his 11-day silence, the UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon
>calling the incident "totally unacceptable" and Gordon Brown describing the
>conflict as "the darkest moment yet for the Middle East".
>
>Within hours of the strike on the school, with the Palestinian death toll
>topping 600 and pressure mounting on Israel to stop its crushing military
>campaign, Egypt proposed an immediate ceasefire and talks with Israel and
>Hamas on a long-term settlement, including an end to the Gaza blockade.
>
>French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was in Cairo on the latest stop of a
>two-day tour of the Middle East, said that his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni
>Mubarak, was inviting "notably the Israeli side to discuss the issue of
>border security without delay".
>
>Arriving in New York for an emergency UN Security Council meeting, David
>Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, welcomed the statement by Mr Mubarak saying
>it "underlined the fast-moving nature of events". The world, Mr Miliband
>told the Council, was witnessing in Gaza, "the horror of war piled upon
>months of deprivation".
>
>At the meeting, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced support for the
>Sarkozy-Mubarak ceasefire initiative. The killings at the school in Gaza
>confirmed the "heinous crime being committed against our people," he said.
>
>Israel had yet to respond to the initiative last night. However, a statement
>was issued late in the evening announcing Israel's willingness to set up a
>"humanitarian corridor" into Gaza for the safe delivery of emergency
>supplies "to prevent a humanitarian crisis" there.
>
>The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said Washington backed Mr
>Mubarak's ceasefire proposal. "We need urgently to conclude a ceasefire that
>can endure and that can bring real security," she told the Security Council.
>"In this regard we are pleased by and wish to commend the statement of the
>President of Egypt and to follow up on that initiative."
>
>With Israeli troops moving further south into the cities of one of the
>world's most crowded territories, the Palestinian death toll is beginning to
>rival that in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Yesterday, the UN demanded an
>immediate independent investigation into the latest school killings.
>
>The emergency room of northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital was packed to
>overflowing after the carnage. "We have become quite used to noises of
>explosions but then they started bringing in all those who had been caught
>in the attack and it was a very bad sight," Dr Bassam Abu Warda told The
>Independent.
>
>"It was terrible, really terrible. We are living at a very difficult time
>but even as doctors it is always hard to see children being hurt and we had
>a lot of them today and we are not really equipped to deal with this type of
>emergency here."
>
>Majed Hamdan, a photographer, said he rushed to the scene shortly after the
>attacks, which happened just as many of the refugees had ventured outside
>for fresh air. "I saw women and men - parents - slapping their faces in
>grief, screaming, some of them collapsed to the floor," he said. "They knew
>their children were dead."
>
>Gruesome footage on Hamas's al-Aqsa TV showed medics starting to unload the
>bodies of men who had been stacked up in the back of an ambulance, three
>high, and were dragged out without stretchers. The blood-caked stumps of one
>man's legs bumped along the ground as he was pulled from the ambulance.
>
>Responding to criticism of its hit on the school in the Jabalya refugee
>camp, the Israeli military accused Hamas of "using civilians as human
>shields". It said that the results of its "initial inquiry" was that mortar
>shells had been fired from the school at forces operating in the area and
>that, "in response to the incoming enemy fire, the forces returned mortar
>fire", and said that this was not the first time Hamas had fired mortars and
>rockets from UNRWA school premises in Gaza. Two Hamas militants, Imad Abu
>Askar and Hasan Abu Askar, were among the dead, the army said.
>
>John Ging, the operations director for the UN Relief and Works Agency, which
>runs the school, expressed his outrage. "Those in the school were all
>families seeking refuge," he said. "There's nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone
>here is terrorised and traumatised ... I am appealing to political leaders
>to get their act together and stop this."
>
>Ahead of the Security Council session, there were signs of tension between
>the White House and the US State Department. "We would like an immediate
>ceasefire, absolutely," a department spokesman, Sean McCormack, told
>reporters before Ms Rice's departure for New York. "An immediate ceasefire
>that is durable, sustainable and not time-limited." Minutes later, the White
>House said this did not represent a shift in the US position.
>
>Veering away from his mantra of "one president at a time", Mr Obama said
>"the loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel is a source of deep concern
>for me." Gordon Brown said: "This is a humanitarian crisis. This is the
>darkest moment yet for the Middle East and it affects the whole world."
>
>Al-Qai'da's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, made an internet appeal for
>Muslims to "hit the interests of Zionists and Crusaders wherever and
>whichever way you can".
>
>While the school killings represented the single biggest loss of life since
>the Israeli offensive began on 27 December, details are emerging of other
>incidents involving high numbers of civilian casualties. An Israeli human
>rights agency, B'Tselem, and the UN's Office for the Co-ordination for
>Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) independently released reports that more than 30
>members of the same extended family had been killed on Monday during the
>shelling of a building in the northern Zeitoun district of Gaza City.
>
>With foreign journalists currently prevented from entering Gaza and with
>mobile telephone use in Gaza intermittent, it is virtually impossible to
>verify details of all casualties.
>
>In Israel, the Hamas rockets have continued to land. At least five hit
>Israeli soil yesterday, including one in Gadera, 28km (17 miles) from Tel
>Aviv. A three-month-old baby was hurt.
>
>The Israel Defence Forces says seven Israeli soldiers have died during the
>offensive: one during the air strikes, three more since the ground invasion
>began and, late on Monday, three were killed and another 24 wounded by a
>tank shell in a friendly fire incident.
>
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