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Eno responds- "In a world of horrors, why I single out the war crimes of Israel" (Original Post) reddread Aug 2014 OP
Excellent read, thank you. djean111 Aug 2014 #1
Excellent - read all the letters including the latest one malaise Aug 2014 #2

malaise

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2. Excellent - read all the letters including the latest one
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 07:31 AM
Aug 2014

in Lancet
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/open-letter-from-doctors-and-scientists-stop-the-gaza-massacre-now#.U-C_4GPdL1V
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WE ARE doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are also informed people; we teach the ethics of our professions, together with the knowledge and practice of it. We all have worked in and known the situation of Gaza for years.

On the basis of our ethics and practice, we are denouncing what we witness in the aggression of Gaza by Israel.

We ask our colleagues, old and young professionals, to denounce this Israeli aggression. We challenge the perversity of a propaganda that justifies the creation of an emergency to masquerade a massacre, a so-called “defensive aggression”. In reality it is a ruthless assault of unlimited duration, extent, and intensity. We wish to report the facts as we see them and their implications on the lives of the people.

We are appalled by the military onslaught on civilians in Gaza under the guise of punishing terrorists. This is the third large scale military assault on Gaza since 2008. Each time the death toll is borne mainly by innocent people in Gaza, especially women and children under the unacceptable pretext of Israel eradicating political parties and resistance to the occupation and siege they impose.

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