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Israel Bombs Gaza's Only Power Plant

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It's the only significant power plant IN Gaza, but it is not the only power plant supplying Gaza. Gaza also gets power from Israel and Egypt, although a chunk of the former was knocked out a few days ago when Hamas rockets took out an Israeli power line that fed power to Gaza.

Also, the plant was not bombed, according to a power company official in a press statement. He said the surrounding area was shelled by tanks, and the generators were damaged by this.

not ONE word mentioned of israeli civilian deaths. typical of world media these days. they do mention a random thai national, but zero israelis. racist.

"Speaking today at the U.N. Human Rights Council, Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said there is a "strong possibility" Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza. "

but she would never mention the daily war crimes against israeli citizens going back decades... not once. racist.

I'm sorry, I don't see anything racist about the article and I fail to see where you get that.

The complete onesidedness is distressing. But yeah I do agree it's not racist, at least not any more than say Russia's releases about MH17 and who's to blame.

But why does Hamas put rockets in everything they can reach ? Somehow that is never mentioned as the major human rights violation and war crime it is ... Including, incidentally, the airport : http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/07/23/faa-continues-ban-on-....

Why the double standard ? The article describes "the Jews" as waging an unprovoked war.

Other various things that happened in Europe, that most definitely are racist, a football team on a friendly match in Europe was attacked in Germany, remniscent of the 1972 Olympics: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/video-pr....

Oh and how do palestinians protest all this ? Well, by chanting "death to Jews", of course, and by attacking Jews all over Europe : http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/world/europe/israels-gaza-....

Of course, not a word about all this being unfair, or god forbid someone call it by it's real name : racist violence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-WvfWXn7U

If there is one people that does not have a right to complain about racism, war crimes and human rights, it's the "palestinians".

How many Israeli civilians have died since the start of this offensive?

Two, according to my local Finnish new source. (http://yle.fi/uutiset/israelin_yhdysvaltain-lahettilas_nobel...)

> but she would never mention the daily war crimes against israeli citizens going back decades... not once. racist.

Try again.

Pillay also criticised rocket attacks into Israel by Hamas.

"Once again, the principles of distinction and precaution are clearly not being observed during such indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas by Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups"

Euhm ... I just went to that site, pressed CTRL-F, and typed in this sentence. It's not there.

Can you point out what I missed ?

I find it shocking that someone who supports the Israeli state is complaining of biased reports, but then again, playing the victim card with one had, while creating genocide with another hand is pretty typical of the Zionists who are perpetuating this massacre.

Terrorists won.

That's what Counter Strike told me, about half the time.

Why not ? The rocket attacks are obviously human rights violations and war crimes. Indiscriminate attacks against civilians.

Is it truly so amazing to you that people complain about the obvious double standard here ? Moral absolutism, applied to ONE of the parties in the conflict.

Is there anyone who doubts in the slightest that the Palestinians (meaning their states, and a significant portion of them themselves) are evil, plain and simple ?

Of course the very laws the palestinians impose on themselves are human rights violations. But that's just another thing that'll never get mentioned.

If there is one people on this planet that has abolutely no right to complain about bias, human right violations, and outright deceit in the media, it's the palestinians. A few examples :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-hEbpow5WE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSOIAYy3cQ

Both of these are obvious war crimes, again, nobody will ever mention that.

And in case you're wondering, that second video was made and spread by palestinians (plenty of internetfora full of them). They are proud of doing this.

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