08-01-2009, 08:17 AM
850 dead and counting.....amazing how the MSM and governments of US and Israel 'discount' the lives of Palastinians to be all but worthless. The recent shelling of a school where hundreds were huddled to avoid the shelling was real 'class' on the part of Israel.....My uncle Raphael is surely turning in his grave. After fleeing Warsaw when the Nazis came in, he spent the rest of his life fighiting against Genocide [he coined the term] and lobbying for the passage of the Genocide Convention [which he wrote]. The USA was the first to sign and the last to ratify it. Raphael died in 1958. He'd not believe what is going on in Israel now - nor all the genocide at the hands of his adopted home, America. By his definition of the word, what is going on in Gaza is genocide. Period. [Iraq as well]