Gaza: People Standing Up, Governments Lying Down – Le Quotidien d’Oran of Algeria

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Once again, America’s image in the Muslim world is dropping due to Israel’s use of U.S.-made weapons and Washington’s perceived bias against the Palestinians and Arabs in general.

So will Israel’s latest military onslaught – which has resulted in large numbers of civilian casualties lead to some kind of solution?

For Algeria’s Le Quotidien d’Oran, K. Selim suggests we are on the doorstep of a much wider war:

“To utilize battlefield weapons against a city under siege for almost two years constitutes a war crime in true and proper form. The American missiles launched from American planes fired against unarmed cities are the realized expression of Israeli cowardice and the indignity of its supporters in Europe and the United States. … The Israelis aren’t wrong in proclaiming that their attack has only just begun. This is in fact just the beginning. The real Battle of Gaza will take place sooner or later; it will pit the armed forces of one against the other; and it will not be a face-to-face confrontation between an over-armed Goliath and a starving David.”

Here are just a few more links to articles WORLDMEETS.US has posted on this subject in the past 48 hours:

Dar Al-Hayat, Lebanon – Iran Seeks Deal With U.S. ‘At Expense of All Arabs’

Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran – Ahmadinejad: ‘Real’ Holocaust is Taking Place Now in Gaza

The Jerusalem Post, Israel – The Case for Israeli Use of Force in Gaza

The Independent, U.K.- Rotten State of Egypt is Too Powerless and Corrupt to Act

Arab News, Saudi Arabia – Palestinians Punished for Taking Bush Seriously

By K. Selim

Translated By Sandrine Ageorges

December 30, 2008

Algeria – Le Quotidien d’Oran – Original Article (French)
In the brutal imaginations of the colonialists, the abuse of power and crimes committed by their troops against unarmed population are “consequences of war” and, as such, are “battles” that bear the names of the cities where they occur. One recalls the Battle of Algiers , in which the civilian population opposed the hordes of paratroopers from an army of torturers. The atrocities committed by another colonial army in Gaza, with the blessing of the “civilized West,” are now beginning to be called the “Battle of Gaza.” This appellation is the precise measure of a capacity to distort reality into propaganda based on lies and disinformation.

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