- A visit to the Palestine refugee camps in Lebanon Archived Message
- A visit to the Palestine refugee camps in Lebanon - Mary October 9, 2019, 9:08 am
- Correction - Mary October 9, 2019, 9:21 am
Posted by Mary
on October 9, 2019, 9:08 am
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Heather Stroud has just returned. This is her report. 'An outside view from the Palestinian Camps of Lebanon raises troubling questions: who and what is driving injustice and conflict. Every time I return from visiting Palestinian refugee camps dispersed throughout Lebanon, I’m haunted by the monumental suffering that has been systematically imposed on the twelve million Palestinians. There are between 5-6 million Palestinians in exile;, and 6 million under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. Whether they live in historic Palestine or among the exiled diaspora in Lebanon and beyond, the level of discrimination Palestinians experience on a daily basis is relentless. In this proxy ‘war on terror’ tearing apart several Middle Eastern countries; whether identified as an eschatological ‘last days’ scenario or viewed as a competitive agenda of dominance over land and resources, the Palestinian people are the primary victims. /.. https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/an-outside-view-from-the-palestinian-camps-of-lebanon When I was newly retired, I watched Sky News' live coverage of the Israeli attack on Lebanon in 2006. It was horrific. Margaret Beckett was the UK Foreign Secretary at the time and Brown the PM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War Not a word of condemnation came from Beckett or from Brown. Brown's father, a minister in the Church of Scotland, was one of Christian Zionists (referred to in the Counter Currents piece) who, it is said, took the young Gordon to Israhell. '“Many of you know my interest in Israel and in the Jewish community has been long-standing…My father was the chairman of the Church of Scotland’s Israel Committee. Not only as I’ve described to some of you before did he make visits on almost two occasions a year for 20 years to Israel — but because of that, although Fife, where I grew up, was a long way from Israel with no TV pictures to link us together — I had a very clear view from household slides and projectors about the history of Israel, about the trials and tribulations of the Jewish people, about the enormous suffering and loss during the Holocaust, as well as the extraordinary struggle that he described to me of people to create this magnificent homeland.” – Gordon Brown in a speech given to the Labour Friends of Israel in April 2007, as quoted in the Israeli paper The Jerusalem Post, “New British PM will likely be friend to Israel”, June 27, 2007.' |
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