A shocking video from CNN shows a Palestinian in Gaza being interrupted by an Israeli air strike during a live interview.
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The segment entitled ‘Living in the Conflict Zone’
involved a debate between Gaza resident Mohammed Sulaiman and Israeli
Nissim Nahoom.
Nahoom argues that civilians in Gaza and Israeli cities
like his home town of Ashkelon, a target of Hamas missile attacks, are
experiencing the same fears but that the situation is worse because
Palestinian attacks are designed to “hurt as many civilians as
possible”.
The background noise of bombings can be heard throughout
the interview, but at the 2:53 mark a huge explosion is heard which
makes Sulaiman flinch, and in turn pretty much destroys Nahoom’s
argument that the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians is comparable
in any way.
“Sorry, carry on with you question,” remarks Sulaiman as further huge explosions are heard.
“You can hear everything,” he adds as the sound of the air strikes outside drowns out the sound of his voice.
When asked what the noise was, Sulaiman replies, “These
are Israeli war planes bombing the Gaza Strip,” adding, “I’m not going
to allow these bombs to interrupt me from having this debate with you
and your guest.”
However, before he is able to finish his point, Sulaiman
recoils as a mammoth explosion shakes his house and sounds of screaming
are heard in the background. The CNN anchor later confirms that
Sulaiman is OK.
Although the indiscriminate firing of rockets from Gaza
into Israeli cities has been rightly condemned, any debate about who is
living under the most terror is clearly a moot point just by looking at
the numbers.
During the last conflict between Gaza and Israel in
2008/2009, over 1400 Palestinians, many of them women and children, were
killed by Israeli air strikes. In comparison, 13 Israelis were killed,
four of which were due to friendly fire.
This month’s attacks have produced similar figures – three Israelis killed compared to at least 82 Palestinians and more than 680 injured since Wednesday last week.
Deaths on both sides are deplorable, but when
Palestinians are being killed at a ratio of 100 to one, only an idiot or
a liar could still believe the propaganda that Israel is merely
“defending itself against terrorists,” when the Zionist state is clearly
engaging in massacres by relentlessly bombing densely populated areas.
However, the ludicrous notion that Israel’s aggression
is proportionate has been upheld by none other than Barack Obama, who
today stated that the United States is, “Fully supportive of Israel’s
right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes.”
The video below illustrates the kind of firepower Israel
is raining down on citizens of Gaza, which the IDF claims is “pinpoint”
and “clinical”.