By Vanguard Staff
DAVIS, CA – About 50 people dressed in black marched silently through the Davis Farmers Market on Saturday, October 11, marking two years since the start of what organizers called a genocide in Gaza.
Carrying photos of children killed by Israeli airstrikes, participants drew attention to the ongoing devastation in Gaza, where more than 67,000 Palestinians—including over 20,000 children—have been killed.
The march ended with a public reading of victims’ names and stories of children whose lives were cut short by Israeli bombs.
“A ceasefire is desperately welcome, but it’s the bare minimum of what is needed to bring about lasting peace and justice in Palestine,” said Deema Tamimi, a Davis mom and Palestinian American.
“The ceasefire doesn’t bring these children back. It doesn’t heal the trauma, the heartbreak, the hunger, or the fear. Real peace will only come when those responsible are held accountable—when Gaza is free, when Palestinians are free, and when every child in Gaza can grow up without the threat of bombs, without the threat of starvation, without the threat of death.”
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“Real peace will only come when those responsible are held accountable”
Are they talking about the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered 1300 Jews that started the ball rolling?
KO say, “Are they talking about the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered 1300 Jews that started the ball rolling?”
“They” are not. “They” don’t seem to have much bad to say about Hamas. “Bless Our Martyrs” was a T-shirt I saw at the “ceasefire resolution” City Council meeting.
The ball “got rolling” either in 1947, 1967, you pick the date, but slowly picked up momentum in the last 50 years as attested to by the body count on both sides to the present day. And to shortcut the ‘anti-Zionist’ epithets, I am probably pro-zionist with a little ‘z’ as opposed to a capital Z which means Israel is incapable of doing anything wrong. By little ‘z’, I mean to say I can completely understand the desire for a safe place in which to live. Who could think it is not the ultimate dream for any group who have suffered attacks? It is an entirely reasonable goal. That is the basis of the reservations for American Indians with their own police forces and courts. However, I would ask anyone out there to imagine someone saying to any group in this day and age “we will set aside a country for you and to do so will move the inhabitants to the side peacefully, if it works, violently if we must?” It is now and really always was an unrealistic promise. The violence inherent in displacing anyone can not be forgotten, pushed aside, dismissed. Doing so just kicks the can down the road and insures there will be undying resentment, pain and loss. The injustices inherent in that live forever and will boil up and boil over one way or the other. Everyone loses. Could it have all been done differently with a better, even a good outcome?
Really DG? You’re going to post this without an author? The old “Vanguard Administrator” cop-out, on this topic? Clearly someone wrote the headline with the G word. Was that you? Simply choosing to use that word makes a strong political statement that one “side” claims as a given.
I thought it was pretty benign
You thought using the word ‘genocide’ in a headline was benign?
I thought the content in the article was
In a broad sense I’d agree, as it is a report on what happenned, and I have no issue with that. The headline implied genocide was the definition of what occurred. How about ‘alleged genocide’ :-|
What is meant by “lasting peace and justice in Palestine” by the person saying it isn’t clear. To some that means the end of the war, to some that means elimination of Israel, and various other ‘peace and justice’ concepts in between. Just like what various people mean by ‘from the river to the sea’ is all over the map. It would be helpful if in stating such comments a more specific and detailed definition were given. Otherwise it’s just a talking point, and people fill in whatever they think it means.
Can we agree the core issue is who is to “blame” here? Hamas? Palestinians themselves? Trump? Netenyahu? Iran? Far right parties in Israel? Iran? Two of the above?
Sorry ran out of time on the edit clock: Turkey? The West? The US? Canada? Britain? Colonialism? Syria? Imperialism? Houthis? Hezbollah? Russia? China? Ottomans? Jordan? Egypt? The Israeli people? The Jews? Only the Jews in Israel? Trump again? Iran again? Lebanon? The Jews again? Seven of the above? Five of the above? All but two of the above?
Nixon
DG say, “Nixon”
LOL
I wasn’t being facetious. The Yom Kippur War in 1973 happened at the height of Watergate and as the situation was dissolving, Kissinger and Haig were trying to keep things together while Nixon was drunk and passed out. IMO, 1973 was the critical turning point. It forced Golda Meier out. It marked the end of Labor hegemony in Israel. And it also convinced Israelis that they could be defeated. Granted there’s a long and tortuous path from 1973 to October 7, but it definitely exists.
I was wondering, because being factious isn’t your usual nature. I’ve taken in a massive amount of information on that area since October 7th, but that bit on Nixon has not crossed into my radar field. Thanks for the info.
“Can we agree the core issue is who is to “blame” here?”
That does seem to be the core issue, for some people. And that’s where the subsequent disagreement occurs.
Just saw David’s subsequent comment. Let’s just agree that it’s Nixon. Seems like a harmless-enough scapegoat at this point. (Though I might have selected Hitler – always the best choice, when in doubt.)
The best thing about this march is that it was silent.
Now if we could only get the “No Kings” protests to do the same.
I concur with Mr. Miller in pointing ou that using the word “genocide” in the headline, which is a patent, blatant and proven lie, betrays the lack of objectivity of whomever calls him/herself a journalist responsible for making this decision. He/she wants to be taken seriously? Failed right there.
Additionally, this little troupe of fake mourners could also have been taken more seriously if at least one them had acknowledged and apologized for the atrocity committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023. THAT was a bona fide genocide, meeting all the criteria found in the definition of this horrible deed found in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The same criteria, above all among them the declared intention to commit a genocide, were not found in the military operations of the Israel Defense Forces.
None of the Palestinians killed of maimed during this war would have met their terrible fate if Hamas had not:
1. attacked Israel and murdered 1200 people in cold blood;
2. kidnapped 250 more, 74 of which were murdered in the following two years;
3. violated international humanitarian law rules by using otherwise protected sctructures like hospitals, schools and mosques as staging areas for attacks against Israeli forces, thus intentionally drawing return fire on them;
4. extensively and repeatedly used its own population as human shields for the sole purpose of gaining public relations points against Israel.
As result, the logical conclusion by any objective observer is that this demonstration should have been directed entirely as a protest against Hamas. Instead, what we were given to witness was a demonstration allegedly protesting (exclusively) the Palestinian victims of this war, but refraining from naming the real culprit, i.e. Hamas, thus ending up supporting the terrorist organization that caused it all. It is sad to observe that the Vanguard agreed with them and thus supported their stand.