“Even the cemetery was bombed”Abed Shokry: letter from Gaza

Dr. Abed Shokry (*1975) teaches Business Engineering at the Islamic University in Gaza. He settled in Gaza 2007 after 17 years in Germany. He writes frequently to friends and acquaintances in Germany about the situation in Palestine. Here is his latest letter, translated from German.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends,

Gaza today 14 May 2021 - (1948, 73 years of occupation).

- There is no electricity as the only electricity plant is almost shut down because there is no fuel. The fuels come from Israel and the PA or Qatar pay for it.

- There is no tap water. And if there is, it is only suitable for flushing the toilet, otherwise not. The water is very salty.

- There are hardly any medicines in the hospitals. Patients have to buy them themselves. In case they should be available in the pharmacies.

- There are no mineral resources. And the gas reserves offshore the Gaza Strip are NOT for us.

- There is hardly any work. About 300,000 people have at least bachelor's degrees and are looking for jobs. They are very very well educated.

- There is hardly any life in Gaza. And the little bit of life that there is, it passes by many and also us.

- BUT THERE are brave men and women in GAZA who are willing to do anything to protect their homeland. They don't care if they live or die. Because a life must either be lived properly or not lived at all.

Since the beginning of this latest military round, we (my wife, our children and I ) have hardly slept. It is also very bad for us at night. These nights have been the worst since we started living in Gaza again. Worse than the nights from 2014....

Pepe Escobar: Bombing Gaza- The mask of “Liberal Democracy” falls with a bang

 Pepe Escobar, 17/5/2021

Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe.

And if you revolt, we cancel you.

The Zionist entity, by Emad Hajjaj

 Gaza meets Paris. The bombing of the al-Jalaa tower – an eminently residential building which also housed the bureaus of al-Jazeera and AP, among others – by “the only democracy in the Middle East” is directly connected to the verboten order carried out by Macron’s Ministry of Interior.

For all practical purposes Paris endorsed the occupying power’s provocations in East Jerusalem; the invasion of al-Aqsa mosque – complete with tear gas and stun grenades; racist Zionist gangs harassing and crying “death to Arabs”; armed settlers aggressing Palestinian families threatened with expulsion from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan; a campaign of carpet bombing whose lethal victims – on average – are 30% children.

Paris crowds were not intimidated. From Barbes to Republique, they marched in the streets – their rallying cry being Israel assassin, Macron complice. They instinctively understodood that Le Petit Roi – a puny Rothschild employee – had just firebombed the historical legacy of the nation that coined the Déclaration Universelle des Droits de L’Homme.

The mask of “liberal democracy” kept falling again and again in a loop – with imperial Big Tech dutifully canceling the voices of Palestinians and defenders of Palestine en masse, in tandem with a diplomatic kabuki that could fool only the already brain-dead.

On May 16, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired a United States Security Council (UNSC) debate via video link that had been stalled by Washington, non-stop, throughout the week. China presides over the UNSC throughout May.

The UNSC could not even agree on a mere joint statement. Once again because the UNSC was blocked by the – cowardly – Empire of Chaos.

It was up to Hua Liming, former Chinese ambassador to Iran, to break it all down in a single sentence:

“The US doesn’t want to give the credit of mediating the Palestine-Israel conflict to China, especially when China is the president of the UNSC.”

The usual imperial procedure is to “talk”, “offer you can’t refuse” Mafia-style, to both sides under the table – as the combo behind Crash Test Dummy, an avowed Zionist, had already admitted on an appalling White House tweet “reaffirming” its “strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself”.