_____ From: Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:13 PM Subject: Endless pain for Gaza burn victims / Mideast's One-State Solution
pictures of Zionist slaughter of Palestinians at http://www.elfarra.org/gallery/gaza.htm Endless pain for Gaza burn victims http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2463279/Article/index _html http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2463413/Article/index _html We Will Never Forget http://www.blackcommentator.com/308/308_images/308_cartoon_phosphor_bomb_lar ge.jpg FOR the victims of white phosphorus attacks, the horrific burns are just the beginning of their problems. If past experiences are to be taken into account, those hit by the deadly chemical can expect to develop cancer within a year of the attack. Al-Sifa Hospital Burn Unit surgeon Dr Aladdin Ali said white phosphorus burns are different and worse from those incurred in normal fires. "Victims feel not only the burning sensation, but an unbearable itch, too. "The burns cover a huge area of the body, eat up the flesh and sink down to the bone. "It also affects other organs like the kidneys, and interferes with many bodily functions." In normal burns, he said, bacterial infection usually sets in after more than a week. With white phosphorus, however, these kind of infections set in within a few days. "From the past experience of doctors in Afghanistan and Lebanon, we found that victims develop cancer on the burn areas within 10 months of the attack." Dr Ali said the 10 doctors in the burn unit had to work round-the-clock for 23 days in order to cope with the massive number of people with white phosphorus burns. "I've lost count of the number of victims we saw. At that time, we were experiencing a severe shortage of equipment and medicine. "Thank God with the ceasefire, we have had a chance to replenish our supplies." ............................................................................ ........................................ <http://api.ning.com/files/zSNb1M1VtKKLksZJdspF7xdptUlEqhoP245Z6tj9CZVu43t26 gd15YvtdsT*-wU2tHnnCt6MZyN42cAU03X3sUNb2EtawA4h/insidepix1.jpg> Three-year-old Sayed Mansour Abou Warda is one of the many children suffering from the white phosphorus attacks. (Inset) Sabah Abou Halimah, a burn victim who also lost her husband and children. Endless pain for Gaza burn victims MORE than a week after the ceasefire, the victims of white phosphorus attacks were still writhing in pain and agony. The Al-Sifa Hospital Burn Unit is filled with victims, mostly women, who have been scorched by the chemical. One of them is 16-year-old Samin El-Manayah. While most girls her age elsewhere in the world are worrying about boys, acne and exams, Samin has to deal with an excruciating pain after being doused in white phosphorus, as well as the knowledge that the long-term effects are going to be even worse. The first white phosphorus victim to be admitted into the hospital's burn unit, Samin is still too traumatised to talk about her experience. Even the presence of her mother and baby sister next to her bed fails to perk her up. Worse still is that Samin, whose lower body has been burnt, rejects attempts by doctors to give her medical treatment, due to her trauma. She just lies in bed, her face coated in a sheen of sweat as she tries to fight off the pain. Another victim is Sabah Abou Halimah from the village of Beit Lahiya outside Gaza. The 45-year-old mother of 10 lost three of her sons and her only daughter, aged between 14 and 3 months, to white phosphorus burns in an attack on Jan 4. Her husband was also killed in the incident. She sustained severe burns on the hands, legs, neck and back. More than three weeks after the incident, the wounds are still oozing with puss, bloody and raw. Next to Sabah lies 53-year-old Saadiah Azam, also wounded by the same chemical. A rocket, laced with white phosphorus had fired into her home and burnt both her hands. While the burns on the right hand only took off her skin, her left hand was burnt to the bone. Several skin grafts have alleviated the injuries on her right hand, but her left one is still swathed in bandages weeks after the wounds were sustained. Staff at the hospital are worried about her condition and that of others who were brought in with similar injuries. "We are giving them whatever medicine we can, but it's not enough. "Until today, there is no medicine available to treat white phosphorus wounds and the only thing we can do is give them treatment for normal burns," said staff nurse Sharif Akhtar. "This is the first time we are seeing anything like this." ============= The Mideast's One-State Solution http://www.truthout.org/012609K Tripoli, Libya - The shocking level of the last wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, which ended with this weekend's cease-fire, reminds us why a final resolution to the so-called Middle East crisis is so important. It is vital not just to break this cycle of destruction and injustice, but also to deny the religious extremists in the region who feed on the conflict an excuse to advance their own causes. But everywhere one looks, among the speeches and the desperate diplomacy, there is no real way forward. A just and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians is possible, but it lies in the history of the people of this conflicted land, and not in the tired rhetoric of partition and two-state solutions. Although it's hard to realize after the horrors we've just witnessed, the state of war between the Jews and Palestinians has not always existed. In fact, many of the divisions between Jews and Palestinians are recent ones. The very name "Palestine" was commonly used to describe the whole area, even by the Jews who lived there, until 1948, when the name "Israel" came into use. Jews and Muslims are cousins descended from Abraham. Throughout the centuries both faced cruel persecution and often found refuge with one another. Arabs sheltered Jews and protected them after maltreatment at the hands of the Romans and their expulsion from Spain in the Middle Ages. The history of Israel/Palestine is not remarkable by regional standards - a country inhabited by different peoples, with rule passing among many tribes, nations and ethnic groups; a country that has withstood many wars and waves of peoples from all directions. This is why it gets so complicated when members of either party claims the right to assert that it is their land. The basis for the modern State of Israel is the persecution of the Jewish people, which is undeniable. The Jews have been held captive, massacred, disadvantaged in every possible fashion by the Egyptians, the Romans, the English, the Russians, the Babylonians, the Canaanites and, most recently, the Germans under Hitler. The Jewish people want and deserve their homeland. But the Palestinians too have a history of persecution, and they view the coastal towns of Haifa, Acre, Jaffa and others as the land of their forefathers, passed from generation to generation, until only a short time ago. Thus the Palestinians believe that what is now called Israel forms part of their nation, even were they to secure the West Bank and Gaza. And the Jews believe that the West Bank is Samaria and Judea, part of their homeland, even if a Palestinian state were established there. Now, as Gaza still smolders, calls for a two-state solution or partition persist. But neither will work. A two-state solution will create an unacceptable security threat to Israel. An armed Arab state, presumably in the West Bank, would give Israel less than 10 miles of strategic depth at its narrowest point. Further, a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would do little to resolve the problem of refugees. Any situation that keeps the majority of Palestinians in refugee camps and does not offer a solution within the historical borders of Israel/Palestine is not a solution at all. For the same reasons, the older idea of partition of the West Bank into Jewish and Arab areas, with buffer zones between them, won't work. The Palestinian-held areas could not accommodate all of the refugees, and buffer zones symbolize exclusion and breed tension. Israelis and Palestinians have also become increasingly intertwined, economically and politically. In absolute terms, the two movements must remain in perpetual war or a compromise must be reached. The compromise is one state for all, an "Isratine" that would allow the people in each party to feel that they live in all of the disputed land and they are not deprived of any one part of it. A key prerequisite for peace is the right of return for Palestinian refugees to the homes their families left behind in 1948. It is an injustice that Jews who were not originally inhabitants of Palestine, nor were their ancestors, can move in from abroad while Palestinians who were displaced only a relatively short time ago should not be so permitted. It is a fact that Palestinians inhabited the land and owned farms and homes there until recently, fleeing in fear of violence at the hands of Jews after 1948 - violence that did not occur, but rumors of which led to a mass exodus. It is important to note that the Jews did not forcibly expel Palestinians. They were never "un-welcomed." Yet only the full territories of Isratine can accommodate all the refugees and bring about the justice that is key to'peace. Assimilation is already a fact of life in Israel. There are more than 1 million Muslim Arabs in Israel; they possess Israeli nationality and take part in political life with the Jews, forming political parties. On the other side, there are Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli factories depend on Palestinian labor, and goods and services are exchanged. This successful assimilation can be a model for Isratine. If the present interdependence and the historical fact of Jewish-Palestinian co-existence guide their leaders, and if they can see beyond the horizon of the recent violence and thirst for revenge toward a long-term solution, then these two peoples will come to realize, I hope sooner rather than later, that living under one roof is the only option for a lasting peace. -------- Muammar Qaddafi is the leader of Libya *** exposing the hidden truth for further educational research only *** CAVEAT LECTOR *** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. NOTE: Some links may require cut and paste into your Internet Browser. 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