Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Chicago Tomorrow Feb 2: Hear Dr. Mads Gilbert, surgeon & eyewitness to Gaza massacre @ DePaul U.


EYES IN GAZA
A North American Tour with Dr. Mads Gilbert, MD PhD

"The boy with the destroyed brain did not need anaesthetic; he could no longer feel anything. The other lay in an artificial coma with intravenous anaesthetic agents to soften the pain and allow the ventilator to work without resistance from the boy's own breathing. A large bandage covered both his eyes. He could not see anyway. He was already blind.

Where could I cry out the despair and rage I felt for all this terrible fate we saw at such close quarters? Would the heavens hear? Will the world hear? They know that this is happening, after all. The numbers tick into the West every single afternoon, to the news agencies, to the intelligence services and to the diplomatic missions of the world's most powerful nations, who do not even make an attempt to pull in the reins and control the wildness of the Israeli war machine."....

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