pro-life?

[realthog]

There's a story by Mohammed Omer across at the excellent IPS News that deserves, I think, some wider consideration. It begins:

Siege Hits Palestinians Before They Are Born

Mohammed Omer 

GAZA CITY, May 14 (IPS) - The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water and medicine is now beginning to hit unborn children and newborn babies.

"Many babies are born suffering from anaemia that they have inherited from their mothers," Dr Salah al-Rantisi, head of the women's health department at the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza told IPS. And the mothers are becoming anaemic because they do not now get enough nutrition through pregnancy.

The full, infinitely sad story can be read at http://www.ipsnews.net:80/news.asp?idnews=42367.
 

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

What's this celebration of the anniversary of independence again?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Yeah. What amazes me is this:

The Israelis, absolutely understandably, dislike murderers hurling missiles across from Gaza and killing innocent Israeli civilians. I can absolutely and comprehensively agree with their misery about this, and their desire to stop it happening.

The intelligent response when things distress you is to try Plan A as a means of getting them to stop. If, after a while, Plan A doesn't work, you try Plan B, and so on.

Successive Israeli governments seem to have been pursuing Plan A as a means of "coping with the Palestinian problem" almost uninterruptedly for decades, and it has got them absolutely nowhere. Admittedly, Plan B hasn't got them very far either, but the intervals of Plan B have been brief and halfhearted before the brutalists have joyously gone back to Plan A again . . . and of course there's been no thought of a Plan C.

Why the brainless repetition of policies that, besides being completely inhumane, have emphatically been demonstrated not to work?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Cockburn's over-this-weekend article on Counterpunch?

It's here -- "View From The Crusader's Castle."

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the link to this interesting piece.

(Though I must say Cockburn has slumped in my estimation ever since he started his stupid Global Warming denial stuff.)