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Gaza War Diary II - Who speaks for the Gazans?
By Bradley Burston
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Who speaks for the Gazans? Whose is the voice for a million and a half of the most victimized people on the face of our earth, serially colonized, exploited, deprived of work, deprived of food, deprived of basic freedoms, deprived, decade after degenerating decade, of any semblance of a future?

The warfare this week has demonstrated that, rather than coming to the Gazans' aid, the supposed allies of the people of the Strip have rendered Gazans more vulnerable than ever to military attack, to misrule, and to a world community less likely than ever to seek their rescue.
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Just when they need it most, who speaks for the people of Gaza?

  • Not Hamas.

    Democratically elected, certainly. A successful advocate for the rights and security of Gazans? You be the judge. Who, in Hamas, truly speaks for the Gazans?

  • Not the organization's leaders in their bombproof, video-ready bunkers. Ismail Haniyeh and his colleagues Mahmoud Zahar, Ahmed Jabri, Muhammad Def, and Said Siam can speak about the vulnerability of the Gaza citizenry to Israeli attack and revel in their personal desire for martyrdom, but the words ring less deeply from the relative comfort of meter-thick concrete.

  • Not Hamas policy czar Khaled Meshal, who further sapped sympathy for Gazans by announcing from his Damascus podium that "there is no alternative to suicide attacks, this is what will aid Gaza and protect the West Bank."

    "This," he said in remarks broadcast on Army Radio, "is what will remove the disgrace."

    If not Hamas, then who?

  • Certainly not Iran.

    As if to guarantee that the West would associate Gazans with jihadist extremism and view them as villains rather than victims, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded to the Israeli offensive by issuing a religious decree ordering all Muslims everywhere to come to the defense of Gazans.

    "All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world's pious people are obliged to defend the defenceless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible," Kamenei said on Sunday "Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr."

    Certainly not the suicide bomber

    Hamas' support for suicide bombings, and its repeated threats to resume them, cost Gazans world sympathy, particularly when radical Islamic bombings are a staple of daily news. In eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, for example, a bomber killed at least a dozen children.

    The same day, in a particularly perverse turn of events, a bomber on a bicycle blew himself up Sunday amid a crowd of demonstrators in northern Iraq who were protesting Israel's airstrikes on Gaza, killing one demonstrator and wounding 16 others

  • Not the Arab world.

    The pointedly muted response to the Israeli aerial onslaught has underscored the extent to which Hamas has become isolated within the Arab and wider Muslim world.
    In fact, many of the protests by Palestinians and their supporters worldwide have centered on the inaction of Arab governments and their apparent willingness to see Hamas take a serious hit.

    In an extraordinary appeal to Arab and Muslim media, a somewhat wooden and nervous spokesman for Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh Sunday took to the airwaves to explicitly beg Arabic-language and Islamic world news outlets to repeatedly broadcast scenes of horror in the Strip ? a request that has clearly never before been at all necessary.

  • Not necessarily the Western press.

    Before Al Qaida exported terrorism to New York, London, Madrid and resorts favored by Americans, Europeans and Australians, the bread and butter of the Western press was the easily saleable image of Israel as the villainous and questionably human Goliath, and Palestinians as the virtuous, innocent-as-children David.

    But just as news outlets in New York, London, and elsewhere adopted the word terrorist only when the terrorist visited their cities, years of suicide bombs and Qassams targeting Israeli civilians have utterly changed the image of the Palestinian and the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Initial Gaza-based accounts by the Associated Press, for example, were notably balanced, beginning "Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing more than 200 people and wounding nearly 400 in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years.

    Most of those killed were security men, but an unknown number of civilians were also among the dead. Hamas said all of its security installations were hit, threatened to resume suicide attacks, and sent at least 70 rockets and mortar shells crashing into Israeli border communities, according to the Israeli military. One Israeli was killed and at least six people were hurt.

  • Others who have spoken up for Gazans, have effectively left them worse off.

    First among these are legions of Western and in some cases Israeli leftists comparing the Gaza operation to the wartime Nazi Holocaust against the Jews.

    This group divides roughly into two. There is the Neo-Holocaust Denier, who is convinced that the Israeli operation is much worse than the Nazi extermination campaign.

    Then there is the Moral Equivalator, who believes both that the Holocaust did take place, and that there is no difference between Israel killing Hamas men in uniform and Nazis systematically annihilating millions and millions and millions of non-combatants.

  • Still others who have spoken for the Gazans undermine their own arguments by forgiving, justifying, dismissing as negligible, or simply turning a blind eye to thousands and thousands of rocket attacks against Israeli population centers.

    The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, has long prided itself, and with just cause, on condemning terrorism from all sources. But in a statement at the weekend denouncing the Israeli attacks, the rocket attacks were somehow forgotten:

    "Despite the public 'green light' given to the Israeli military by the Bush administration, American Muslims join our fellow citizens who respect international law and the sanctity of human life in repudiating this massacre carried out using U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons.

    "It must be clear by now that the only future offered to the Palestinian people by the outgoing administration was one of perpetual subjugation and humiliation at the hands of the Israeli occupiers. Unfortunately, our nation's timid response to this tragic episode will only serve to fuel anti-American sentiments in the Muslim world.

    "We therefore call on President-elect Obama to demonstrate his commitment to change our nation's current one-sided Mideast policy by speaking out now in favor of peace and justice for all parties to this decades-long conflict.

    "We also call on world leaders to take direct action to end Israel?s counterproductive and wildly disproportionate attacks and to end the humanitarian siege of Gaza, which led to the recent breakdown of the ceasefire."

    Who, in the end, truly speaks for the Gazans?

    Those who are willing, just once, to lay down the axes they are accustomed to grinding, and who accurately and with both passion and objectivity describe the suffering and the violence on both sides of the border.

    Those who truly speak for the Gazans are those who are willing to grant the humanity of Israeli Jews as well, and who are seeking, in a sincere effort to move past revenge and blind tribalism, a common future for peoples whom fate has somehow decreed, will continue to be neighbors.


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      1.   EGYPT! 10:39  |  observer 29/12/08
      2.   No one can speak for Gaza except 10:45  |  Lior 29/12/08
      3.   Bradley They Can`t Be Beaten Into Submission 10:48  |  Yosemite 29/12/08
      4.   what can anybody do? 10:49  |  lola 29/12/08
      5.   who decides who speaks for the Gazans? 10:53  |  chris 29/12/08
      6.   Fatwa and 21st century martyr - like visions 10:56  |  allang 29/12/08
      7.   "Who speaks for the Gazans?" Gaza`s government! 10:58  |  Jehudah Ben-Israel 29/12/08
      8.   BRADLEY IS WRONG. IT IS HAMAS, WHO ELSE? 11:11  |  indrajaya 29/12/08
      9.   Nobody speaks FOR the people in Gaza, but at least Israel..... 11:17  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/12/08
      10.   The irony is the futility of all this 11:20  |  Colin Wright 29/12/08
      11.   Answer: the Israeli journalist Amira Hass. 11:29  |  Israeli citizen 29/12/08
      12.   # 1, OBSERVER 11:29  |  indrajaya 29/12/08
      13.   So the question should be... 11:33  |  Colin Wright 29/12/08
      14.   Number 1 11:42  |  Dan 29/12/08
      15.   Question for Bradley 11:45  |  Clickfool 29/12/08
      16.   #10 blockade has been lifted many times before.. 11:49  |  Ofer 29/12/08
      17.   to swiss Dino 11:50  |  Tina 29/12/08
      18.   Just sublimation of words 11:52  |  B Saleem 29/12/08
      19.   Who speaks for the Gazans? 11:53  |  Ralph 29/12/08
      20.   Haaretz speaks for the Gazans 11:56  |  Ofer 29/12/08
      21.   It is Gazzans matter. Not anybody else`s 11:56  |  Daniel 29/12/08
      22.   Speak? 12:00  |  Anna 29/12/08
      23.   who speack for the Gazans? 12:12  |  c 29/12/08
      24.   Swiss (Dino) the ballot is democracy? No. Remember 1933? 12:12  |  Israeli citizen 29/12/08
      25.   # 10 Colin Wright 12:12  |  The Teacher/Instruct 29/12/08
      26.   Yosemite, where do you come up with Milosevitch?! 12:17  |  Zev Davis 29/12/08
      27.   To Iola - 4 12:20  |  B Saleem 29/12/08
      28.   To B Saleem #17 `Just sublimation of words` 12:22  |  Colin Wright 29/12/08
      29.   Perhaps it is time to consider the Egyptian Option for peace, a 12:26  |  Jehudah Ben-Israel 29/12/08
      30.   For Clickfool #14 12:33  |  Amiram Meshy 29/12/08
      31.   Not yet ready to speak 12:35  |  a wandering Jew 29/12/08
      32.   T Daniel -21 12:56  |  S Awaad 29/12/08
      33.   # 17 Tina 13:10  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/12/08
      34.   Hamas is the elected Government 13:15  |  Joe 29/12/08
      35.   How About Themselves? 13:28  |  Baruch Gold 29/12/08
      36.   very patronising 13:29  |  rm 29/12/08
      37.   GOD 13:41  |  bil 29/12/08
      38.   Here I agree 14:02  |  Edith 29/12/08
      39.   #3 yosemite did you hear of ww1 and ww2 14:06  |  victor hardman 29/12/08
      40.   quasams have spoken, now its time to act 14:17  |  Igor D. 29/12/08
      41.   Who speaks out? 14:20  |  christoph 29/12/08
      42.   # 36, RM 14:24  |  indrajaya 29/12/08
      43.   Are the Palestinians, the Gazans not responsible at all? 14:35  |  Shalom Freedman 29/12/08
      44.   Haaretz Does 14:52  |  B 29/12/08
      45.   I know: indrajaya is speaking foe Gazans and all muslims! 14:55  |  Vittorio 29/12/08
      46.   allang 15:00  |  deb 29/12/08
      47.   Swiss....others have spoken out for the people 15:06  |  Lynn 29/12/08
      48.   For Amiram Meshy # 30 15:06  |  Clickfool 29/12/08
      49.   #15 Clickfool 15:09  |  Joe W 29/12/08
      50.   #15 Clickfool 15:09  |  Joe W 29/12/08
      51.   @saleem, YOU are responsible for all this ... 15:09  |  J. 29/12/08
      52.   What suffering exactly? 15:13  |  DJ 29/12/08
      53.   Speaking for Gaza 15:13  |  Joe W 29/12/08
      54.   I`ll tell you speaks for the Gazans 15:16  |  no doubt 29/12/08
      55.   "Jews"??? 15:17  |  HH 29/12/08
      56.   Especially not the arab world ! 15:19  |  Benjamina 29/12/08
      57.   #15 Clicky....so, how is that working out so far? 15:20  |  Lynn 29/12/08
      58.   #3yosemite-maybe Israel should play Barry Manilow music really 15:23  |  Susanna/Shoshana 29/12/08
      59.   MAY BE GAZANS SHOULD FINALLY SPEACK OUT ... 15:24  |  ANDY 29/12/08
      60.   NOBODY 15:30  |  Aleph 29/12/08
      61.   CLICKFOOL 15:34  |  ANDY 29/12/08
      62.   Mr. Burston.....Have you noticed when rational 15:36  |  Lynn 29/12/08
      63.   The rocket speaks for gazan 15:36  |  Undermensch 29/12/08
      64.   "most victimized people on the face of the earth"? Oh, please! 15:36  |  Raymond in DC 29/12/08
      65.   Bradley is speaking and too many others 15:45  |  Daniel 29/12/08
      66.   swiss Dino 15:45  |  Tina 29/12/08
      67.   Collective Punishment Look It Up 15:45  |  Lee Kaplan 29/12/08
      68.   I speak for Gazans 15:55  |  Amira Hassssss 29/12/08
      69.   I speak for Gazans 15:55  |  Amira Hassssss 29/12/08
      70.   I speak for Gazans 15:55  |  Amira Hassssss 29/12/08
      71.   No other options 15:58  |  Deborah 29/12/08
      72.   Swiss Dino--Glad to see you finally see. 17:56  |  Gabriel 29/12/08
      73.   Why don`t *you* speak for Gazans? 17:58  |  D.S 29/12/08
      74.   Who speaks for the Gazans? 18:08  |  Lisa 29/12/08
      75.   ISRAEL SPEAKS FOR THE GAZANS 18:17  |  John Ish Ishmael 29/12/08
      76.   And Swiss (Dino) didn`t you say this: 18:18  |  David Israel 29/12/08
      77.   To: Shoshanna 18:18  |  leven5 29/12/08
      78.   Amiram Meshy - halfwit - Clickfool is a legend 18:19  |  Blackpool Rock 29/12/08
      79.   Clickfool (#15) Really 18:20  |  Gil 29/12/08
      80.   ANGRY Andy in Milan 18:21  |  Blackpool Rock 29/12/08
      81.   Clickfool # 15 18:21  |  GSW 29/12/08
      82.   Their Bombs speak for them 18:22  |  Oz 29/12/08
      83.   For Deborah # 71 18:39  |  Clickfool 29/12/08
      84.   Israeli Attacks on Gaza 18:39  |  neil robertson 29/12/08
      85.   Who Speaks for Gaza? 18:40  |  Jasper 29/12/08
      86.   Who speaks for Gazans? 18:46  |  I. Kardijan 29/12/08
      87.   That`s not Israel`s problem...Israel withdrew from Gaza years ago 18:59  |  Elie 29/12/08
      88.   Neill Robertson slave to your television set 19:12  |  x-ray 29/12/08
      89.   But I think I can understand the logorrhea 19:20  |  christoph 29/12/08
      90.   Lee Kaplan # 67 I Have Looked It Up 19:23  |  Jeff Northridge 29/12/08
      91.   #10 Colin, good post. No option but to struggle. 19:38  |  Ben Alofs 29/12/08
      92.   Who Speaks For The Gazans? 19:46  |  Jeff Northridge 29/12/08
      93.   Dino, you can`t have it both ways......... 19:54  |  r 29/12/08
      94.   Camp Gaza 20:13  |  Peter Dane 29/12/08
      95.   Clickfool (#15) Really 20:14  |  Gil 29/12/08
      96.   Clickfool (#15) Really 20:15  |  Gil 29/12/08
      97.   73Ben Alofs Where are the Hot houses left by Israelis in Gaza? 20:17  |  Rob 29/12/08
      98.   NEW LABOUR AND BBC SPEAK FOR GAZANS........ 20:51  |  Ian 29/12/08
      99.   # 46 Deb ..... Religion and Politics 21:02  |  allang 29/12/08
      100.   The Gazans speak for themselves 21:39  |  Andrew 29/12/08
      101.   Bradley and Amera every day in Haaretz!!! 21:39  |  you must be so proud 29/12/08
      102.   # 74 right on!!! 21:43  |  lily 29/12/08
      103.   # 72 21:56  |  Andrew 29/12/08
      104.   Brad´s agenda of peace as laid down in the last two 22:07  |  Jew- and Bookburner 29/12/08
      105.   Everyone should be happy 22:09  |  Mark Lincoln 29/12/08
      106.   gazans speak for gazans 22:15  |  peter 29/12/08
      107.   Swiss (Dino) Democracy 22:45  |  David Israel 29/12/08
      108.   # 75 r, sorry, but I`m afraid you missed a few days..... 22:56  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/12/08
      109.   # 46 Deb ..... Religion and Politics 22:56  |  allang 29/12/08
      110.   For Clickfool #48 23:03  |  Amiram Meshy 29/12/08
      111.   Read your own forum Mr. Burston 23:32  |  Mark Lincoln 29/12/08
      112.   Gazans must speak for themselves 23:37  |  judith 29/12/08
      113.   Saleem 23:38  |  lola 29/12/08
      114.   Dear Bradley, Israel is speaking for Gaza 23:39  |  Alicia 29/12/08
      115.   Northridge and spekers 23:51  |  Truth 29/12/08
      116.   #18 B. Saleem .... a spark of hope 23:52  |  allang 29/12/08
      117.   Clickfool: What ceasefire? 23:55  |  Southern England 29/12/08
      118.   Objectively speaking... 23:55  |  Victor 29/12/08
      119.   Swiss (Dino) - your own statement 23:55  |  David Israel 29/12/08
      120.   Swiss (Dino) #86 How missed a few days? 23:57  |  Gil 29/12/08
      121.   brilliant 23:58  |  dr. saadi 29/12/08
      122.   Swiss (Dino) #86 How missed a few days? 23:58  |  Gil 29/12/08
      123.   For Gil, peddling cynical lies for Israel # 77 00:28  |  Clickfool 30/12/08
      124.   86Dino You missed a lot of days of 100`s of Hamas Qssams 00:37  |  Rob 30/12/08
      125.   Swiss (Dino) #86 Who missed a few days? 00:47  |  Gil 30/12/08
      126.   Bradley..Who Speaks for the Gazans?I`ll Tell YOU! 01:07  |  Ross 30/12/08
      127.   Unfortunately, Hamas speaks for Gazans 02:51  |  Lee 30/12/08
      128.   Who speaks for the Gazans? 03:01  |  Solomon 30/12/08
      129.   I Suppose this Article Is Going to drag on until THE NEW YEAR? 03:04  |  Poster 30/12/08
      130.   # 46 Deb ..... Religion and Politics 03:37  |  allang 30/12/08
      131.   86Dino You missed a lot of days (3rd try) 03:42  |  Rob 30/12/08
      132.   But would you listen Lee? 04:10  |  Mark Lincoln 30/12/08
      133.   Any moderate of either Israel or Palestine has no voice 04:18  |  Mark Lincoln 30/12/08
      134.   #5 chris "who decides 04:34  |  Jim 30/12/08
      135.   #88 x-ray...talk about bias 05:50  |  Lynn 30/12/08
      136.   #6 allang 06:00  |  Jim 30/12/08
      137.   Who speaks? 06:13  |  Jasper 30/12/08
      138.   a lot of good posts here 06:13  |  sammy 30/12/08
      139.   We will never surrender 07:55  |  S Awaad 30/12/08
      140.   SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL 08:04  |  LEE 30/12/08
      141.   An alterntaive to airstrikes and IDF - Skunk Spray 08:44  |  Mark Leaman 30/12/08
      142.   68 Amira, I agree more is needed... 09:09  |  Dutch 30/12/08
      143.   to #128 09:21  |  Noam 30/12/08
      144.   Clickfool (#123) Am I to blame you get only HALF the News? 10:32  |  Gil 30/12/08
      145.   # 136 Jim ..... prehistoric news blurbs 11:54  |  allang 30/12/08
      146.   #121 dr. saadi brilliant..At Last a Voice of reason 14:12  |  Kathy 30/12/08
      147.   Lack of realism 17:41  |  Ben Azzai 30/12/08
      148.   Burston`s Continued Baffoonary! 22:35  |  DJG 30/12/08
      149.   #129 S Awaad You will never surrender? Sorry, No one is asking 22:37  |  Ross 30/12/08
      150.   Bradley! 2nd Try!!! 07:04  |  Yosemite 31/12/08
      151.   to 27 B saleem 13:15  |  Gazan 31/12/08
      152.   Well Bradley... 22:48  |  Yosemite 31/12/08
      153.   to Lior #2 03:03  |  zeev 02/01/09
      154.   Thank you Bradley 09:55  |  Steve 02/01/09
      155.   Get your facts straight Mr B 16:07  |  NPH 03/01/09
      156.   The Gazans Speak For Themselves 19:43  |  UsedToPostHere 03/01/09
      157.   re: zeev 19:48  |  UsedToPostHere 03/01/09
      158.   self-eating snake 14:07  |  Jan Pospisil 06/01/09
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