Cenk Uygur, deserves an award (maybe a Nobel Peace Prize :D) for cutting through the B.S that constitutes US media propaganda and filters down onto the dumbed down masses that constitute most of the US population.
Ever the naive nation, easily suckered into war by there higher ups, in the media and politic, America has once again become the brain-dead cheerleaders of War in the Middle East.
Luckily with the advent of several tubes running through computers it is now possible for Americans to rise above the pervasive propaganda and catch real news.
Per The Guardian (UK)
UN officials had reassured the father of five he and his family would be protected by the large blue and white flag flying above the UN-run school turned refugee shelter. But with the sound of large explosions on the edge of Jabaliya refugee camp, just north of Gaza City, and his children still terrified from the trauma of their escape, Khalil was taking no chances.
"They will kill us anywhere. If they can bomb the mosque, if they can kill small children, if they can blow up our parliament, why should they care if they bomb this school? They don't care what the United Nations thinks. They don't care what the whole world thinks," he said, when reached by telephone.
The threatened scared Israeli's watch Gaza die
Avi Pilchick took a long swig of Pepsi and propped a foot on the plastic patio chair he had carried up the hillside to watch the fighting. "They are doing good," Pilchick, 20, said of Israeli forces battling Palestinian militants in Gaza, "but they can do more."
Somewhere in Beit Hanoun, Ashraf El-Masri's family cowered in their concrete tenement home, their neighborhood surrounded by Israeli soldiers. El-Masri said five residents had been killed by Israeli shelling that morning, and the blasts had traumatized the youngest of his nine children into a terrified silence.
McClatchy Newspapers
(Avi Pilchick (20) Above as he watches the bombing in comfort.)
But this should not really surprise anyone who has looked at a psychological study of the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces)Shortened English Translation also Guardian (UK) Article on the report
Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, interviewed 21 Israeli soldiers and heard confessions of frequent brutal assaults against Palestinians, aggravated by poor training and discipline. In her recently published report, co-authored by Professor Yoel Elizur, Yishai-Karin details a series of violent incidents, including the beating of a four-year-old boy by an officer.
One described beating women. 'With women I have no problem. With women, one threw a clog at me and I kicked her here [pointing to the crotch], I broke everything there. She can't have children. Next time she won't throw clogs at me. When one of them [a woman] spat at me, I gave her the rifle butt in the face. She doesn't have what to spit with any more.'
As a member of the Irish/Palestine Solidarity Campaign IPSC I stand fully behind the Palestinian people.
Israel doesn't deserve a state. It has proven this countless times. Either they live peacefully and give Palestinians a proper state or the movements in the EU and other parts of the world will force them out.