http://scgnews.com/the-gaza-bombardment-what-youre-not-being-told
The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told
拙譯：
迦薩轟炸 - 你不知道的事實
On July 7, 2014 Israel began a massive assault on the Gaza strip of Palestine. In the first week alone Israel dropped over 400 tons of bombs, killing over 130 Palestinians. Most were civilians, about half of them were women and children. By the time you are watching the the number will be higher. Update: The Palestinian death toll as of July 30th, has now passed
1,400. To those of you claiming that this is the fault of the Palestinians, who the Israelis accuse of using human shields, how do you explain the bombing of schools?
拙譯：
自2014-7-7日起，以色列開始大規模轟炸巴勒斯坦的土地加薩走廊。首週，以色列投下超過400噸的炸彈，殺死超過130人。受害者多數是平民，大約半數是婦女和兒童。更新：現在受難人數已超過1400人。那些指責巴勒斯坦「把自己人作為人肉盾牌」的人，請你針對以色列轟炸學校的行為出來說兩句！
So why is Israel really attacking Gaza? It's not about self defense and it's obviously not about avenging those three teenagers. Those are just cover stories for the naive. What this is really about is natural gas.
拙譯：
所以，為何以色列要攻擊加薩？顯然並非自衛，也不是為那幾個以色列年輕人報復。這只是對天真的人講故事！真正企圖是天然氣。
It turns out that Gaza has quite a bit of natural gas on its coastline. One of the largest sources in the region. British Gas, which holds a joint exploration agreement for
the area estimates that the fields hold at least 1 trillion cubic feet of gas. That gas belongs to the Palestinian people and they should be the ones to benefit from it. Israel
disagrees.
拙譯：
結果是：加薩沿岸蘊藏大量天然氣，而且是該區最大的蘊藏量。英國天然氣公司在該區合作開採，估計有1兆立方英呎之多。
http://www.bg-group.com/260/where-we-work/areas-of-palestinian-authority-/
這些天然氣屬於巴勒斯坦人民所有、獨享，但是以色列不同意：
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/09/israel-war-gaza-palestine-natural-gas-energy-crisis
(An interesting side story on this issue: At one point Russia was bidding for a chance to develop Gaza's gas
fields.)
拙譯：
題外話：俄羅斯曾經競標開採加薩天然氣：
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/business/2014/01/russia-palestine-offshore-gas-field-gaza.html#
After the death of Yasser Arafat, under questionable circumstances, Israel has controlled those fields, and British Gas has negotiated with Tel Aviv.
拙譯：
自阿拉法特離奇死亡後，以色列就控制該氣田，而英國天然氣公司直接和以色列談合作。
With power divided between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the Palestinians have been too weak to put up any meaningful
,resistance and Israel would like to keep it that way. The Unity Government between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority threatens Israel's control of those fields, and as such it has to be destroyed.
拙譯：
巴解和哈馬斯分裂後，巴勒斯坦再也無法整合出足夠的力量抵抗以色列，而以色列就希望巴勒斯坦這樣繼續分裂下去。一旦巴勒斯坦統一，則威脅以色列對該氣田的控制，所以，必須毀滅之。
It's pretty basic really. These are the real motives of all wars: resources, territory and power. They'll always come up with an excuse,
and it's easy to fall for them if you don't do your research, but there's also a really easy way to avoid getting duped: always stand against wars of aggression. Period. Make it a matter of principle, and the facts and morality will always end up being on your side.
拙譯：
真的很簡單。真正的戰爭動機是：資源、領土、權力。發動這些戰爭，都會有藉口。如果你不做功課，就會陷入其中。不過，有一個原則可避免自己被愚弄，那就是：永遠站在反侵略的一方。句點。以此為原則，則真相和道德就會和你同國。
And speaking of morality, even if those teenagers had been killed by Hamas, what kind of psychopath thinks that this gives Israel the right to go and kill over a hundred people who had nothing to do with it? We're talking about little kids here.
拙譯：
說到道德，即使那幾個以色列年輕人真是被哈馬斯所殺，是何種心態令一個人去認同以色列有權據以殺死數百無辜？這裏講的是兒童。
I'm not going to show you the pictures of the dead or dying children here in this video, but I have looked at them, and as a father it's
almost unbearable to see. If hearing about those bombs falling doesn't phase you emotionally, if this is just a political debate for you, then go look at the pictures (these for example). You have no right to defend what Israel is doing, if you don't have the courage to even glance at the
consequences.
拙譯：
我不打算在這裏給你看那些已死或將死的兒童影片，但是，我自己看過。身為父親，我覺得那些影片令人難以承受。如果聽聞那些落下來的炸彈聲不足以勾起你的情緒、如果這只是政治辯論的話，那麼，請自己去看：
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=children+killed+gaza
如果你沒有觀看那些影片的話，那麼，你無權幫以色列辯護。
And anyone who would justify these crimes after seeing the civilian casualties should be ashamed of
themselves.
拙譯：
而且，如果有人觀看那些影片之後，仍依然幫以色列辯護，那麼，那些人應該自己引以為恥。
The bombing heavily populated residential areas is a war crime, and the U.S. government is funding it with your tax dollars. That's right. Israel receives over 3 billion dollars in foreign aid from the U.S. each year.
拙譯：轟炸在人口密集的地區就是戰犯。而米國就是拿你的美元在金援這戰犯。對！以色列每年自米國收受每年30億美元的海外援助。
Year after year the Israelis have taken more Palestinian land, bulldozed
more homes, set up new settlements, and systematically expelled the inhabitants. You can make up justifications or deny it all you want, but the maps don't lie. This isn't defense, this is ethnic cleansing.
拙譯：
年復一年，以色列人強取巴勒斯坦人的土地、鏟倒其房屋、設屯墾區，並系統化地驅逐巴勒斯坦住民。你可以按自己所願，否認這些，或把這些合理化，但是地圖不會說謊。這不是防衛，是種族清洗。
（文章太長，拙譯到此為止。套一句阿扁的話：美帝、以色列恐怖團夥在地球村犯下的罪行「罄竹難書」，也借用George Bush的名言：美、以是邪惡的軸心「The axis of evil」、地球村的亂源。）