Another side of Gaza’s story

A.Z., I think that you had better search your heart and soul and maybe you'll see why the Palestinian people feel like second class citizens. When an entire ethnicity of people have been put down for so long, there are bound to be strong emotional feelings. In your letter you use the words, "It is a bit of a stretch that the people of Gaza, who were overjoyed and danced in the streets on 9/11, and who celebrated every suicide bombing on busses and in coffee places in Israel, the same people who denied their innocent victims the right to life, have the audacity to expect the right to freedom and the pursuit of happiness for themselves. Even hypocrisy should have a bit of decency."
Right there you have stated what is in your heart and soul that you feel that ALL Palestinians have the AUDACITY TO EXPECT THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS FOR THEMSELVES. What a terrible way to feel. I truly believe that you need to search your soul. You are referring to little Palestinian children, and actual human beings who have been living in an oppressed situation for many years and you feel that they DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Let us not forget how slavery, the Japanese concentration camps, genocide and the Jewish concentration camps have been a blight on our entire global soul and now the Palestinians. You said it in your own words that the Palestinian people do not have the right to happiness or freedom. SHAME ON YOU. I will pray for you.
I agree, there have been wrongs committed by both the Israelis and the Palestininians in this conflict but your statement makes my soul sad to hear such attrocious words coming from a human being in regard to other human souls. This conflict needs to be resolved for all humanity and your feelings do nothing in that regard- just the same as some horrible Palestinian groups feel that Israel doesn't have the right to exist, you too obviously feel the same way about the Palestinians. THere lies the problem, the Israeli's aren't perfect and blameless in this conflict and neither are the Palestinians. But hardline opinions such as yours do nothing to resolve this conflict.
I am not Palestinian nor am I an Israeli, I am an American of Irish ethnicity and I often think of how our entire country would react if we were told that we were stripped of our citizenship and were made refugees because the religion of the Native American Indians demanded that this land was deemed theirs based on their religion. THere would be quite an uproar and much protesting, fighting, etc. Just food for thought.

maybe you should check your facts: these so called oppressed people have tripled their population since being in so called captivity. you don't know what you are talking about kellie , cause if you had the correct historical facts you would realize these people carried Jordanian passports up until 1969, when they realized they could create a fake movement and rip off governments around the world for years taking money for their "cause" they created a fake name for suckers like you to help their cause. get a life and the so called palestinains need to go back home to jordan

backatyou,
I am going to have to disagree with you, in regards to my post, I do have my facts correct. I am greatly saddened to see two people so full of hate for others. Everyone in this world has the right to HOPE for freedom and happiness. I find it a sad state of affairs when people disagree over such a fundamental right. Both Israelis and Palestinians deserve a two state solution and the right to live without fear from each other. You can hold grudges forever but that doesn't solve the present state of affairs. Also you apparently didn't even consider my post as it really expressed emotion regarding A.Z.'s statement that a group of people shouldn't have the right to happiness or freedom. I'm not quite certain what "facts" you are referring to.

Raed Khatid and Werner Lange are ready, willing and able to address/debate this issue and share photos of their Gaza mission with anyone interested.

How do you begin to refute an article which is essentially a string of lies? I am a proud Palestinian-American whose parents were forced in fear for their lives by armed Zionist thugs from their homes near what is now the Ben Gurion Airport (Lid/Lod) into Gaza in 1948. I just returned from Gaza less than three weeks ago. I can tell you from first-hand experience and internationally documented facts, not Zionist propaganda, that the situation in Gaza is dire. The 100 trucks a day to which Mr. Rabinowitz refers represent far less than the bare minimum needed for the 1.6 million people living and dying in Gaza. If it wasn't for the tunnels from Egypt, many more people would die. The Palestinian Gazans do not need Israel or their Egyptian collaborators. All these people need is for the pirates of the Israeli Navy to stop interfering with Gaza's coastline and its access to international waters. If Gaza could control its own waters and (air space for that matter) it could freely import and export to the rest of the world and turn itself into another Hong Kong. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the powers that are now choking Gaza want to avoid.
The siege is illegal,unjustified and inhuman. It must end now.