http://scgnews.com/the-gaza-bombardment-what-youre-not-being-told
The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told
拙译：
迦萨轰炸 - 你不知道的事实
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?
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自2014-7-7日起，以色列开始大规模轰炸巴勒斯坦的土地加萨走廊。首周，以色列投下超过400吨的炸弹，杀死超过130人。受害者多数是平民，大约半数是妇女和儿童。更新：现在受难人数已超过1400人。那些指责巴勒斯坦“把自己人作为人肉盾牌”的人，请你针对以色列轰炸学校的行为出来说两句！
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.
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所以，为何以色列要攻击加萨？显然并非自卫，也不是为那几个以色列年轻人报复。这只是对天真的人讲故事！真正企图是天然气。
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.
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结果是：加萨沿岸蕴藏大量天然气，而且是该区最大的蕴藏量。英国天然气公司在该区合作开采，估计有1兆立方英呎之多。
http://www.bg-group.com/260/where-we-work/areas-of-palestinian-authority-/
这些天然气属于巴勒斯坦人民所有、独享，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.)
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题外话：俄罗斯曾经竞标开采加萨天然气：
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.
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自阿拉法特离奇死亡后，以色列就控制该气田，而英国天然气公司直接和以色列谈合作。
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.
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巴解和哈马斯分裂后，巴勒斯坦再也无法整合出足够的力量抵抗以色列，而以色列就希望巴勒斯坦这样继续分裂下去。一旦巴勒斯坦统一，则威胁以色列对该气田的控制，所以，必须毁灭之。
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.
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真的很简单。真正的战争动机是：资源、领土、权力。发动这些战争，都会有借口。如果你不做功课，就会陷入其中。不过，有一个原则可避免自己被愚弄，那就是：永远站在反侵略的一方。句点。以此为原则，则真相和道德就会和你同国。
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.
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说到道德，即使那几个以色列年轻人真是被哈马斯所杀，是何种心态令一个人去认同以色列有权据以杀死数百无辜？这里讲的是儿童。
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.
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我不打算在这里给你看那些已死或将死的儿童影片，但是，我自己看过。身为父亲，我觉得那些影片令人难以承受。如果听闻那些落下来的炸弹声不足以勾起你的情绪、如果这只是政治辩论的话，那么，请自己去看：
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=children+killed+gaza
如果你没有观看那些影片的话，那么，你无权帮以色列辩护。
And anyone who would justify these crimes after seeing the civilian casualties should be ashamed of
themselves.
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而且，如果有人观看那些影片之后，仍依然帮以色列辩护，那么，那些人应该自己引以为耻。
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.
拙译：轰炸在人口密集的地区就是战犯。而米国就是拿你的美元在金援这战犯。对！以色列每年自米国收受每年30亿美元的海外援助。
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.
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年复一年，以色列人强取巴勒斯坦人的土地、铲倒其房屋、设屯垦区，并系统化地驱逐巴勒斯坦住民。你可以按自己所愿，否认这些，或把这些合理化，但是地图不会说谎。这不是防卫，是种族清洗。
（文章太长，拙译到此为止。套一句阿扁的话：美帝、以色列恐怖团伙在地球村犯下的罪行“罄竹难书”，也借用George Bush的名言：美、以是邪恶的轴心“The axis of evil”、地球村的乱源。）