The second paragraph is credited to Yasmin Ahmad as it is taken from her blog, its an SMS/message sent by her friend Dr.Jemilah from MERCY Malaysia who are currently in Palestein,
"As I write this, in the last 15 minutes more than 20 bombs have fallen on Gaza, within the distance I can hear them. We are about 2 km from Palestine, and it is a case of so near and yet so far. Our five trucks are loaded with USD100,000 worth of valuable medicine, surgical sets, and disposable items, including syringes, intravenous infusions and bandages. We will wait till the bombings stop, and once the gate opens, we will try to push the goods through. While the Egyptian border has thankfully allowed aid to go through, the challenge is to wait for trucks from the Palestine side to come and collect the goods. For the past day, they have not been able to collect even life saving goods as Israel continues with land and air assaults. We will try our best and stay till we can assure our aid goes through"
As you all know that now Israel has already begun their 10 day scale of attack to so called stop the bombers of the Hamas. Their on-foot soldiers have begun the reign of terror with their MERKAVA main battle tank fast behind them. As you can see from the message above, even the volunteer efforts are being foiled. Is this really just about stopping the rocket fires or is it about Gaza itself? If it is about stopping the rocket fires once and for all then this is quite a heavy counter and a "brilliant" way to do so. But as the war continues and the death toll rises, I myself personally think that it isn't so. Such rocket fires could have been stopped if highlighted n the world news and talks done between the two coutries with ofcourse the monitoring of the UN secretary-general Ban-Ki Moon. Why do the Israel go so far as to destroy innocent lives, bringing terror and raining misery of innocents in Gaza? If put into a mathematical equation, this is as i interprete it lah, what the Israel way of thinking is,
1 Israel = perhaps lets say 100 innocent Palestinians?
this is clearly a wrong interpretation of countering terrorism. In this case itself, Israel has now become terrorist themselves. Death is not accountable with death. To justify the death of our people isnt thru the genocide or killings of many other innocents of the opposing side, but thru talks and intellectual discussions. As much as anyone would hate if they were to lose their loved ones, but death can never be replaced by another death! it is just, unjustified. The International Criminal Court (ICC) should do whatever it is in its power to prosecute the goverment of Israel for its unjustified attacks towards the people of Gaza.
Thats all for now, have to go to Surau for prayers! Please everyone, i don't expect for you to be extremely vocal about this, but every second you laugh, try to imagine what the children in Gaza is doing. They are as we are humans, they don't deserve whats happening. Please support our movement in opposing the war mongrels Israel.
Please..