#BeforeOct7
“Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered, but never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport.”
#Christopher_Hedges, American Journalist on assignment in #Gaza

#BeforeOct7

“…Israeli soldiers shoot with silencers. The bullets from M-16 rifles tumble end over end through the children’s slight bodies. Later, in the hospital, I will see the destruction: the stomachs ripped out, the gaping holes in limbs and torsos..”
#Christopher_Hedges

#BeforeOct7
“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.”
—#John_Sheehan, S.J. (a Jesuit priest).
#BeforeOct7
“Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.”
— Benyamin Netanyahu, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.
#BeforeOct7
“Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them.”
— Ariel Sharon, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.
#BeforeOct7
“Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the state of Israel on trial.“
— Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

Wednesday January / 2014.
Way before oct 7!

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