Aloha Palestine

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Target practice on Palestinians by Israeli snipers
Data: 25 febbraio 2009 16:13:43 GMT+01:00
A:   FG-Discussions, FG-MediaList, gazafriends
 
Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in Khoza’a
Tuesday 24th February, 2009
ISM Media Office
 
 
Video by ISM Gaza Strip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09zKV7krhI
 
Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international Human Rights Workers (HRWs), were fired [...]

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] A new song about Gaza
Data: 24 febbraio 2009 20:40:07 GMT+01:00
A:   gazafriends
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKQqItZu4Is&feature=related
And don’t forget to view Michael Heart’s brilliant song as well.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfhoU66s4Y
More than 1.5 million have watched these two songs giving hope that people are there are watching and listening and that music can, indeed, [...]

Crime and accountability in Gaza 
Toufic Haddad, The Electronic Intifada

Now that the smoke has at least temporarily cleared from Gaza’s skies, credible human rights reports have filtered in describing the utter devastation that took place throughout the course of Israel’s 22 day assault “Operation Cast Lead.” The figures are truly shocking. According to statistics by the [...]

Worse Than My Darkest Nightmare
 
By Binyam Mohamed
 
As I gain my freedom, I am determined that neither those who remain in detention, nor their abusers, are forgotten. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22085.htm
 
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Hamas: Fatah Spied for Israel
 
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
 
The Islamist militant group has released an audio tape that it claims documents 10 Fatah security officials the coastal strip confessing [...]

The Death of The News 
Gary Kamiya — Salon
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/02/17/newspapers/index.html 
Journalism as we know it is in crisis. Daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, and the survivors are slashing their budgets. Thousands of reporters and editors have lost their jobs. No print publication is immune, including the mighty New York Times. As analyst [...]

Iraq’s War Disfigured Babies 
By Afif Sarhan, IOL Correspondent

In new Iraq, women like Leila Omar Wassin are heart-broken giving birth to babies born malformed because of the deadly substances years of war have sown in their bodies. “My first baby died after he was born without legs and the second one died few days ago because [...]

Video: Gazan child recounts horrors of Israeli war 
AlJazeera.net

Aid agencies say the psychological effects of the Israeli offensive on Gaza have been heavy, particularly on children. The scale of destruction is immense and for the most part reconstruction is impossible. There are countless stories of suffering and despair. Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull talks to one nine-year-old [...]

Caught On Tape
 
Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Unarmed Gaza Farmer
 
 2 Minute Video
 
Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22068.htm
 
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The Cleanser
 
By Norman Finkelstein
 
Lobby Whistles Up Cordesman to “Prove” Israel Waged a Clean War in Gaza 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22082.htm
 
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A Message to Israel:
 
Time to [...]

No ‘change’ on torture 
Protests mount as Obama’s promises to end human rights violations fall flat 
Anayat Durrani

When United States President Barack Obama came into office, the world breathed a sigh of relief. He was, after all, a man who promised to close an ugly chapter in American history, shutting down Guantanamo and with it the horrific [...]

Muslim-Christian group: Israel demolishing entire neighborhoods 
Ma’an news

A panel of prominent Muslim and Christian leaders accused Israeli authorities on Sunday of “escalating their war against Jerusalem.” The group, Jerusalem’s Islamic-Christian Panel, called for Arab and international actors to “stand firm” against Israel and “rescue the holy city.” Panel Secretary-General Hassan Khater said Israel is “expanding its [...]

In Case You Missed It

Joe Biden: I am a Zionist
US Senator Joe Biden, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks with Shalom TV CEO Mark S. Golub on Israel and Jewish-related issues in this exclusive interview.
Shalom TV is an American Jewish cable television network carried on Comcast and Blue Ridge cable systems. Complete programming information [...]

The Real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank

Israel’s targeting of civilian resistance to the separation wall proves the two-state solution is now just a meaningless slogan
By Ben White

February 21, 2009 “The Guardian” – – It is quite likely that you have not heard of the most important developments this week in the Israeli-Palestinianconflict. In the West [...]

Da:    iristulip
Oggetto:  [GazaFriends] Israeli Military Shoots to Kill Farmers
Data:  22 febbraio 2009 16:49:38 GMT+01:00
A:    gazafriends, FG-MediaList

Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer – 18th February 2009 – Jenny
On Tuesday 27th January 2009, in Al Faraheen, Israeli forces shot at several farmers, killing 27 year old farm worker, Anwar al-Breem, Mohammed’s cousin.
Video by ISM Gaza Strip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSECq3kxT4I

On [...]

Online Censorship by Israel 
What do BLOGGER, YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, and WIKIPEDIA have in common? 
Irish Palestine Solidarity

… So, to sway public opinion of Israel and it’s war crimes in Lebanon and Palestine, back in 2000 they decided to create an online group called JIDF or Jewish Internet Defence Force, to manipulate polls and message boards and blogs [...]

Parricide, Homicide and the Sanctimonious 
Sameh Brill

The 22-day sadistic Israeli Assault on Gaza which ended up with flowing rivers of innocent blood of 108 women and 437 children isn’t a deviation of the Zio-Nazi mainstream terrorism in the region, The Israel of Operation “Cast Lead” is still the Israel of 1948 Plan Dalet, under which 840,000 [...]

Israel is guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip 
Palestinian News Agency

The International Tribunal over the Childhood Affected by War and Poverty of the Mission Diplomatique Internationale Humanitaire RWANDA 1994, through its International President, Sergio Tapia and International Human Rights Prosecutor of the International Tribunal of Conscience, reported [...]

Investigating Gaza’s ‘war crimes’ 
AlJazeera.net

A photograph of her recent pilgrimage to Mecca is now all that remains of Rawhiyya al Najar. The mother was a Gaza native who had lived her entire life through conflict before it was to end on January 13, aged 37, by what was estimated to be a single shot to the [...]

US expands prison in Afghanistan

Obama has been urged to give Bagram detainees basic legal rights [AFP]

The US military is about to complete a $60m expansion to its prison at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where it holds more than 600 so-called enemy combatants.
The near doubling of the jail’s size comes as Robert Gates, the [...]

Zionist Logic 
Malcolm X on Zionism
By Malcolm X (Omowale Malcolm X Shabazz)

Taken from The Egyptian Gazette — Sept. 17, 1964
February 20, 2009 “Information Clearing House” – – The Zionist armies that now occupy Palestine claim their ancient Jewish prophets predicted that in the “last days of this world” their own God would raise them up a “messiah” who [...]

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22048.htm

January 26, 2009 Issue

Unanimous Consent     
When Israel acts, Congress applauds. No debate required.

By Glenn Greenwald
 

 
In most of the world, the Israeli attack on Gaza is viewed as an intensely controversial act and, more commonly, an excessive, unjustifiable, and brutal assault on a trapped civilian population. But not in the United States—at least not among [...]

Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile
Israel deliberately forgets its history
An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East

by Schlomo Sand

Every Israeli knows that he or she is the direct and exclusive descendant of a [...]

Lives buried under the rubble in Gaza 
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Three weeks after the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, 16-year-old Maysa al-Louh sits stoically on the pile of sand that consumes half her home in Beit Lahiya. Under the sand, churned up by Israeli bulldozers during incursions into the area on 4 [...]

Lobbyists Whistle Up Cordesman to “Prove” Israel Waged a Clean War in Gaza
The Cleanser 
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza massacre.( He reaches the remarkable conclusion that “Israel did not violate the laws of war.” The report is [...]

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Justivying Israeli War Crimes – from a member of the National Lawyer’s Guild who went to Gaza
Data: 19 febbraio 2009 20:11:16 GMT+01:00
A:   gazafriends, FG-MediaList, noreply
 
Justifying Israeli War Crimes
By: Reem Salahi
 
Having left Gaza now, I am trying to come to terms with what I [...]

Report: “Israeli Amy kidnapped 7600 children since 2000, 246 remain behind bars” 
Saed Bannoura – IMEM

Palestinian Researcher, specialized in detainees’ affairs, Awni Farawna, stated that the Israeli army kidnapped 7600 Palestinian children, males and females, since the year 2000; 246 children are still behind bars. At least 200 of the kidnapped children were detained under administrative [...]

Gaza Convoy – A Movement Of The Streets
“We Come In Peace. We Will Not Be Stopped”
By George Galloway and By Yvonne Ridley
A convoy of more than 110 vehicles has snaked its way out of London for Gaza to deliver more than £1m worth of aid, including ambulances and a fire engine. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22028.htm
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Change? What Change?
Obama Sends 17,000 [...]

In Britain, Students Angered by Gaza Revive Sit-Ins 
The Guardian (Britain)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/14/gaza-student-protests 

A new wave of student activism sparked by events in Gaza has seen dozens of university buildings occupied in Britain, with some of the UK’s top educational establishments agreeing to set up scholarships for Palestinians or disinvest in arms companies linked to Israel. Though the assault [...]

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] The level of shooting on fishermen is like an open war.
Data: 18 febbraio 2009 1:40:52 GMT+01:00
A:   FG-MediaList, noreply, gazafriends
 
Gazan coast becoming a ‘no-go’ zone

16th February, 2009
 On Saturday 14th February, 23 year-old Rafiq abu Reala was shot by Israeli naval forces whilst fishing [...]

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Fantastic video from Free Gaza supporter
Data: 16 febbraio 2009 0:03:12 GMT+01:00
A:   FG-Discussions, gazafriends
 
Watch this video from Paola, one of our wonderful supporters…. then watch for our announcements about upcoming trips to Gaza beginning in March.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0ANuw5u6M
– 
Greta Berlin
Media Team
Free Gaza Movement
www.freegaza.org
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/

Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State
 
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted January 28, 2009.
 
 
What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same “children of Israel” described in the Old Testament?

And what if most modern Israelis aren’t descended from the [...]

Israelis are living high on US expense account — Michael Backman
 

JAN 17 — There’s a memorable scene in the Stephen Spielberg film “Munich”. After the 1972 Munich Olympic Games killings of Israeli athletes, Prime Minister Golda Meir tells confidants she wants to show the plotters that killing Jews “is expensive”. She then organises for the [...]

No Ceasefire or Respite in Gaza 
A Psychological & Humanitarian Disaster 
By Yazeed Kamaldien

Although the “ceasefire” is technically announced, Gazans who were not killed, are not only coping with no food, water, and electricity- as before the Israeli onslaught, but are now also having to cope with denied access to healthcare, denied access to aid, and are [...]

Did Israel test new weapons in Gaza? 
Russia Today

The Palestinian Authority is calling for an international investigation of the weapons used by Israel during its three-week assault on Gaza. There are claims so-called DIME bombs were dropped from drone aircraft. This kind of bomb is designed to produce an intense explosion in a small space. Mona [...]

Out of Africa… 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

…Actually to be more precise, this new “film” did not start in Kenya, but in Egypt. They say Egypt is the gate between Africa and the Arab world…so I guess it makes sense that it all starts there… This “film” starts with Abu Omar, kidnapped from Milano by [...]

Former Gitmo Guard Tells All 
Scott Horton, Harper’s

Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. “The stuff I did and the [...]

“The Lancet” reveals horrendous Israeli war crimes 
Dr Gideon Polya

The horrendous mortality and morbidity statistics revealed by the paper “The Wounds of Gaza”, just published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet are truly shocking – 1,350 killed (60% children) and 5,450 severely wounded (40% children) in reprisals for zero (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets [...]

The Second Nakba 
Reem Salahi

History repeats itself. With the key to her demolished home around her neck, the middle-aged Palestinian woman standing before me had escaped the first Nakba (meaning ‘Day of Catastrophe’ marking the exodus of Palestinians from their homes with the creation of the State of Israel) of 1948 only to live through the [...]

Public meeting: Two doctors’ eyewitness account of war on Gaza, Mon 16 Feb @ 7pm 
Islington Friends of Yibna

Eye Witnesses and the authors of “The Wounds of Gaza”, published in the Lancet last week, Dr Ang Swee Chai and Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, will speak at our next IFY meeting at Islington Town Hall, on Monday, [...]

Israel’s Rationale for Murder: No One Is Innocent 
M. Junaid Levesque-Alam

…It is time to consider an obvious alternative to the official line: Israel did not “accidentally” kill hundreds of Palestinian civilians while “targeting” Hamas for launching aimless rockets.  Rather, Israel purposely targeted all Palestinians because it wanted to teach them a severe lesson for not being defeated after [...]

Resistance is not Terrorism!
Campaign to remove “terrorist” designations 
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

In the European Union, Canada and the United States, numerous organizations – including many national liberation movements and organizations – are listed as “designated terrorist organizations.” This status is used in an attempt to criminalize popular resistance and national liberation movements, equate [...]

American Democracy & the Art of Torture. 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

A program (on al-Jazeera, Arabic) I try not to miss at all, is Sami Al-Haj’s detailed ordeal in Guantanamo. It is on every Tuesday. I missed part I but did manage to watch part II and III and I strongly urge anyone who understands [...]

Gaza: Death’s Laboratory 
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy In Focus

Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist, worked in Gaza hospitals during the recent war.”It was as if they had stepped on a mine,” he says of certain Palestinian patients he treated. “But there was no shrapnel in the wound. Some had lost their legs. It looked as though they [...]

Time to hold Veolia to account 
Adri Nieuwhof and Daniel Machover, The Electronic Intifada

During the bidding process for an eight-year, $4.5 billion dollar contract to operate Stockholm county’s subway, the French company Veolia came under heavy pressure in the Swedish media for its involvement in Israel’s tramway project that links illegal Jewish settlements in the West [...]

15/02/2009
By Yvonne Ridley
From Dream to Reality
FIVE weeks ago Viva Palestina was a pipe dream and now it is a reality as more than 100 vehicles and 300 volunteers snake their way through France heading for Gaza.
Last night the show-stopping convoy rolled off a freight ferry in Ostend to embark on a historic mission of mercy [...]

Israel’s Crimes

By Grit TV

Retired US army colonel Ann Wright talks about her recent trip to Gaza. – Wright says that the damage is extensive and Israel’s disproportionate response “criminal.”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21968.htm

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Falk likens Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto:

There is more than enough evidence that Israel committed war crimes in its three week-long offensive [...]

Obama administration defends torturers 
Bill Van Auken

All of the Obama administration’s rhetoric about “change you can believe in,” government transparency and democratic ideals went up in smoke Monday morning in a San Francisco federal courtroom. A federal attorney representing President Barack Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, rose to announce that the new administration will [...]

A Short History of the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue 
Stephen Lendman

Its roots are from the late 19th century when Theodor Herzl founded modern Zionism at the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland in 1897. In his book “Overcoming Zionism,” Joel Kovel writes: Zionism seeks “the restoration of tribalism in the guise of a [...]

      Israel Just Committed A Massive Atrocity
 
Controversial American Jewish scholar and specialist on the Middle East, Norman Finkelstein, says Israel committed massive atrocities in Gaza during the three-week war against Hamas militants.
 
VIDEO: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21939.htm
 

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Da:    iristulip
Oggetto:  [GazaFriends] “Disappeared” Free Gaza Activist Theresa McDermott Found in Israel’s Ramleh Prison
Data:  09 febbraio 2009 5:14:56 GMT+01:00
A:    gazafriends

FOR   IMMEDIATE   RELEASE  Sunday, February 8, 2009
Contact in Jerusalem:  Lubna Masarwa (Hebrew, Arabic, English) 00 972
505 633 044 lubnaa@gmail.com
Contact in US:  Karin Pally (English) 310-399-1921 kpally@earthlink.net

Scottish activist Theresa McDermott  has been found [...]

Da:    iristulip
Oggetto:  [GazaFriends] “We are unarmed civilians! We are farmers and international Human Rights Workers! Stop Shooting!”
Data:  08 febbraio 2009 8:33:00 GMT+01:00
A:    gazafriends, fg-board

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in al-Faraheen
Thursday 5th February, 2009
From ISM: http://palsolidarity.org/2009/02/5065
 
 
Israeli soldiers again opened fire on Palestinian farmers and international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on [...]

Da:    iristulip
Oggetto:  [GazaFriends] I was fairly certain that one of us would be shot today.
Data:  05 febbraio 2009 9:22:48 GMT+01:00
A:    gazafriends, FG-MediaList

Shooting at farmers, what gives Israel the right?
Tuesday 3rd February, 2009
Eva Bartlett
 
This morning, farmers from Abassan Jadiida (New Abassan), to the east of Khan Younis , the southern region, returned to land [...]

Behind Walls of Silence… 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

… That profound cry, that deep injustice was and remains Iraq. I am sure you are expecting me to comment on the new democracy, the sham democracy, the fraudulent democracy… I have a lot to say, essential things to say, that your democracy will not uncover, because [...]

If not fascism, what is? 
Without censure, a growing current in Israeli politics is calling for the outright killing of Palestinians 
By Khaled Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem

His name is Avigdor Lieberman and he is widely expected to be the main surprise of the Israeli elections, slated to take place 10 February. Many Israeli intellectuals dub Lieberman [...]

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in Al Faraheen 
Palestinian Information Center

Israeli soldiers again opened fire on Palestinian farmers and international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Thursday 5th February, as they attempted to harvest parsley in agricultural land near the Green Line. Returning to farm-land of Al Faraheen village, in the Abassan Jedida [...]

World needs credible body to pursue Israeli war criminals 
Khalid Amayreh

On 27th December, Israel carried out a genocidal blitzkrieg against the estimated 1.5 million Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, using state-of-the-art of the American technology of death. This deadly weapons used against the imprisoned Gaza inhabitants include , inter alia, F-16 war planes, equipped with [...]

THE BBC, IMPARTIALITY, AND THE HIDDEN LOGIC OF MASSACRE 
Media Lens

Writing in the Independent last week, Robert Fisk commented on the BBC’s refusal to broadcast an appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC): “The BBC’s refusal to handle an advertisement for Palestinian aid was highly instructive. It was the BBC’s ‘impartiality’ that might be called [...]

“My mother, my wife, and my three daughters all held white flags…
Innocence Lost
The story of Khaled Abd Rabo 
By: Janet Zimmerman and Sameh A. Habeeb

…He explains how they invaded his home and investigated him and his family. “They found nothing. I am a police officer in the Ramallah government; I have nothing to do with Hamas. [...]

Next time it will hurt more 
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

I first heard of the “Attatra baby” when Red Crescent medics and volunteers brought the burned, mutilated corpse back, weeks after its death. Nameless, it was only known that the baby was from the northwestern region that had been completely inaccessible for the duration of the [...]

Gaza: people still struggling for clean water 
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

…according to the Gaza water authority some 300,000 people still have no tap water. Some people buy their water from water trucks that come to fill tanks on rooftops. Others buy smaller quantities from small businesses making the rounds of damaged neighbourhoods to [...]

All we’ve got left of him 
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

…”When we were in the house, the Israeli army starting bombing in the area,” said Umm Abed. “We were very frightened, we had thought the cease-fire meant we could return home safely. We quickly took whatever clothes and food we could and left the house. I [...]

Ceasefires, Israeli-Style 
Stephen Lendman

Waging war while talking peace is customary Israeli practice. On January 19, Haaretz headlined: “Israel declares unilateral cease-fire. The security cabinet last night authorized a unilateral cease-fire (to take effect) at 2AM (Sunday morning), ending three weeks of intense fighting.” Declaration notwithstanding, nothing changed. Gaza remains occupied, under siege, and totally isolated. Borders [...]

Living (and dying) in the age of barbarism 
William Bowles

…It surely cannot have escaped your attention that our much vaunted ‘democracies’ are in fact barbarian states masquerading as civilized. And if you haven’t noticed then it’s time you did not only because they do their ‘civilizing’ in your name but when they’ve done ‘civilizing’ the brown [...]

OPINION: CRISIS IN GAZA 

Gaza is no Warsaw Ghetto

 By Mark LeVine, Middle East historian 

Original Article

The Gaza-Warsaw comparison was inevitable, especially after the war started [GALLO/GETTY]

Within days of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, critics of the war, on blogs and in the mainstream media, began to compare the situation of Palestinians in Gaza to that of Jews in [...]

Da:    iristulip
Oggetto:  [GazaFriends] In Gaza, only the dead have seen the end of the war
Data:  27 gennaio 2009 14:05:55 GMT+01:00

A:    gazafriends

link:  http://www.ilmanifesto.it/il-manifesto/ricerca-nel-manifesto/vedi/nocache/1/numero/20090120/pagina/01/pezzo/239905/?tx_manigiornale_pi1%5BshowStringa%5D=solo%2Bmorti&cHash=afda453893 
permalink:  http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/archive.php?eid=1777
 
stay human, Vittorio Arrigoni
 
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In Gaza, only the dead have seen the end of war.
 
For the living, no truce can make up for the daily battle for survival. They have no running water, gas, electrical power, [...]

The gases of the Israeli bombs in Gaza have spared no one 
Vittorio Arrigoni, Guerrilla Radio Blog

…Ahmed told me on the phone about a new kids’ game – until a few days ago, they amused themselves by relighting the fires, simply by kicking the fragments of white phosphorous bombs found scattered all over the Strip. The [...]

Gaza Invasion: Powered By The U.S.

 
Taxpayers are spending over $1 billion to send refined fuel to the Israeli military — at a time when Israel doesn’t need it and America does.
By Robert Bryce
Editor’s note: Generous support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.
January 31, 2009 “Salon” Jan. 16, 2009— Israel’s [...]

Gaza War Pushes Arabs to the Brink
 
posted by ROBERT DREYFUSS on 01/25/2009 @ 1:35pm

Anger is boiling over in the Middle East over Gaza, and — exactly as I predicted — the result of the war has been to boost radicalism throughout the region, to strengthen the terrorist-inclined fanatics of Hamas, and to enhance the muscle of terrorist-inclined [...]

Israel’s Lies
 
Henry Siegman
 
Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas’s capacity to launch missiles into Israeli [...]

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] The gases of the Israeli bombs in Gaza have spared no one.
Data: 31 gennaio 2009 17:53:28 GMT+01:00
A:   gazafriends, FG-MediaList
 
here follows the link to the article published the day 24 to Il Manifesto:
link:  http://www.ilmanifesto.it/il-manifesto/ricerca-nel-manifesto/vedi/nocache/1/numero/20090123/pagina/11/pezzo/240267/?tx_manigiornale_pi1%5BshowStringa%5D=varcato%2Bsoglia&cHash=22912118b6
permalink:  http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/archive.php?eid=1778
 
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I crossed the threshold of my house in Almina, facing Gaza City port, after [...]

Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 03/2009 (15- 21 January 2009) 
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

In the early morning of Sunday, 18 January 2009, Israel declared a ceasefire, while decided to keep its military presence in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) redeployed outside Palestinian communities [...]

In Pictures: Gaza in ruins 
AlJazeera.net

As Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters hold fire in Gaza, civilians are trying to return home. But what many Palestinians find are rubble and devastation… About 100,000 Gazans lost their homes in the three-week war …
 
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=51115

Thus Sprach Barack: Pouring Acid on Gaza’s Wounds 
Chris [...]

Video: “I am Palestine” 

Palestinian, My name is Palestinian
I’ve carved my name in all of the arenas
The letters of my name follow me, live with me and nourish me
It bursts fire into my soul and is pumped into my veins
….Salahudin, from the deep depth of my soul calls me
And all of my ‘Urooba (Arabism) for revenge [...]

Depopulation, Destruction and Displacement of the Palestinian People 
Al Nakba Redux 
Stephen Lendman

For Palestinians, the Nakba “Catastrophe” is their “Holocaust” six-month slaughter and displacement before and after the May 1948 establishment of Israel. In December 1947, Jews in Palestine numbered 600,000 compared to 1.3 million Palestinians. David Ben-Gurion ordered them removed and for “Every attack….to end with [...]

Israel wanted a humanitarian crisis 
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverise Gaza into chaos 
Ben White

The scale of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip, and the almost daily reports of war crimes over the last three weeks, has drawn criticism from even longstanding friends and sympathisers. [...]

Bombs Meant to “Send Gaza Back Decades”
Israel’s Doctrine of Destruction 
JONATHAN COOK

In the last days before Israel imposed a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza to avoid embarrassing the incoming Obama administration, it upped its assault, driving troops deeper into Gaza City, intensifying its artillery bombardment and creating thousands more displaced people. Israel’s military strategy in Gaza, even [...]

Remember Gaza: One of History’s Terror Bombing Victims 
Stephen Lendman

History’s terror bombings. This article reviews some of the most infamous: — Guernica – 1937; — the London Blitz – 1940 – 41; — Dresden – 1945; — Tokyo – 1945; — Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945; — North Korea – 1950 – 53; — Southeast Asia [...]

Video
Message to Israel: here is your victims in Gaza 
EyeOnGaza

Message to Israel: here is your victims in Gaza
 
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=50709

Video: Scenes in Gaza after more Israeli raids – 11 Jan 09 
AlJazeeraEnglish

Many of the almost 900 Palestinians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza have been civilians, while thousands of others have [...]

Gaza assault enters third week – Dozens killed since midnight – Death toll nears 1,000 
Ma’an news

Five Palestinians were killed in separate strikes near Gaza City and in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp on Sunday evening. Despite a so-called lull in fighting for the delivery of humanitarian aid, Israeli shelling killed two Palestinians in the Ash-Shuja’eiyah neighborhood, [...]

Video: White phosphorus over Gaza 
AlJazeeraEnglish

Human rights groups have expressed concern that a highly flammable weapon used by Israel could be causing additional casualties among civilians in Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman examines the controversy surrounding white phosphorus munitions…
 
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=50658

Gaza: The massacre in Zeitoun 
Tom Eley

In the annals of war [...]

Google’s censors: The cat is out of the bag 
Uruknet

As our readers know, on April 24, 2008 Google stopped indexing Uruknet.info as a news source. It was the fourth time that Google discontinued indexing Uruknet. The previous times google had reinstated it following many complaints sent in by our readers. The last time there was nothing [...]

Moloch’s Altar: Child Sacrifice and the War on Terror 
Chris Floyd

…The international Terror Warriors, and their multitude of sycophants, worship war: it thrills them, it arouses them, it imbues them with a sense of power and purpose and righteousness and superiority. Whatever their professed faith — and almost all of them make a great show of [...]

Gaza Update 
Dr. Mona El-Farra.

…health workers are not allowed to evacute many of the injured ,in many occasions the medical teams face new sort of burns , thier is a possibility that israel uses white phosphorus against civilians ,INVESTIGATION IS NEEDED AT ONCE .
health teams in Gaza need to be assisted , as they are overwhelmed [...]

Children found under the rubble, 1000s of families torn apart 
PNN

The United Nations said Friday that the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip reached 799 after the bodies of 50 children were found buried under the rubble. Witnesses report that during last weekend the Israeli military bombed a house in Gaza where soldiers had [...]

Report direct from Gaza 
Day 13 of Israeli War On Gaza: Death toll 770, injured 3200 and most of them Civilians 
Sameh A. Habeeb

I have got three calls from anonymous persons stop blogging or I would be killed. Yet, I would keep on this track. Some of you dowonder how I send news in such conditions. I [...]

Don’t call it Gaza, It’s Palestine 
Hesham Tillawi, PhD, Rense.com

The ultimate Israeli objective in Southern Palestine is to create a neutralized “Gazan” regime that is geographically and politically separate from the regime in the West Bank. It has always been part of Israel’s strategy to split the Palestinian people into West Bankers and Gazans. Since the [...]

Report direct from Gaza 
Day 11 of Israeli War On Gaza: Palestinians flee their houses but Israeli rockets kill them in schools 
Sameh A. Habeeb

Deadly Outcomes of Israeli Ground Military Operation: 1-Bombings in Jabalia Refugee Camps, 5 killed and several wounded. Many houses were damaged in the camp while hundreds of people leave their houses into some [...]

195 children killed since operation began 
PNN

Reports indicate that 13 Palestinians from the same family were killed when Israeli forces targeted an eastern Gaza City house. Dr. Hassanein of the Ministry of Health said today that Israeli forces have killed 195 Palestinian children since the operation began and injured 2,730 people with the majority in serious [...]

Report direct from Gaza 
Day 10 of Israeli War On Gaza : Random shelling and Compulsory Migration For Thousands in Gaza Strip 
Sameh A. Habeeb

Israeli War on Gaza still rise up in various points through the occupied Gaza Strip. More civilians killed in opposition of Israeli announced aim of hitting the Hamas militants. Monday morning a massacre [...]

Fallujah by the Sea: Aping America, Israel Unleashes Chemical Weapons in Gaza 
Chris Floyd

The Israeli military is reportedly using napalm-like white phosphorus shells in its all-out attack on Gaza, according to the conservative Times of London. The phosphorus in the smoke-emitting shells causes agonizing, unquenchable burns, sometimes searing flesh right down to the bone. These savage [...]

Report direct from Gaza 
Day 9 of Israeli War On Gaza : News Report Ground Military Operation 
Sameh A. Habeeb

Israeli army started the ground military operation vowed of launching it years ago. Many Palestinian civilians killed and their number is dramatically rising. Meanwhile, a small number of Palestinian militants killed in the ongoing clashes through the Gaza [...]

Eleven Palestinians killed, Israel decides to bar humanitarian aid 
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday morning, that as the Israeli Army continued to advance into the Gaza Strip, and the resistance continued to clash with the invading forces; at least eleven Palestinians were killed on the eighth day of [...]

Israel – The Sociopathic State 
Mary Sojourner

The unconscionable attacks of Israel upon Gaza can be seen as the action of a sociopathic state upon a helpless victim. While the diagnosis of sociopathy is commonly reserved for the individual, it may be used to describe an entire society in a way that illuminates the behavior of that [...]

Al-Attatra Village in Gaza : Then Came the Foreshadowing Silence. 
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice

Twenty-eight letters of the Arabic language is no longer sufficient to create a few new words, or a new vocabulary worth describing the stories beyond all words horrible of the Israelis Cast Lead Operation – Massacre in Gaza,the great pain from her grief will [...]

Israel begins Gaza ground offensive 
AlJazeera.net

The Israeli army has confirmed its troops have entered the Gaza Strip as it escalates its offensive on the eighth day of operations. Speaking to Al Jazeera, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry said: “They [Israeli ground forces] will be completing the mission of the air force, going for Hamas [...]

How to Kill a Palestinian 
Dr. Elias Akleh, thepeoplesvoice.org

Commenting on the latest Israeli one-directional onslaught against the Palestinians of Gaza Strip, the Israeli 10th TV channel has disclosed that the Israeli genocidal forces had used half of its air force and had launched at least 2500 air raids against Gaza Strip. The television military correspondent stated [...]

The Great Fear of Israel’s Leaders 
John Spritzler

The great fear of Israel’s Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter [...]

Israel accused of using farmers as human shields 
Jason Koutoukis in Gaza City

METHODS used by the Israel Defence Forces in their assault on the Gaza Strip have raised questions about whether Israeli military commanders authorised the use of Palestinians as human shields – a charge Israel has repeatedly made against Hamas. Palestinian farmers from the neighbourhood [...]

Video: Gaza 2009: We Will Never Forget 
TheParadigmShift

Montage documenting the genocide commited by Isreal in “Operation Cast Lead”. 
 
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Video: Gaza Children 
Haitham Sabbah

Mark this, Israel! Millions of our children in Gaza, West Bank, all of occupied Palestine and all over the world, will NOT FORGET and will NOT FORGIVE. When [...]

Watch the Devastated Al- Attatra Village – Israeli Warcrime of Historical Dimentions – Gaza January 2009 
Hiyam Noir

In the vacuum between the US transition of government,the Israelis breached the Egyptian brokered ceasefire with Hamas government in Gaza.Then as planned, the Israeli military unleashed a relentless campaign of air strikes all across Gaza Strip and in January [...]

West Bank: New weapons used against demonstrators 
International Solidarity Movement

Since the start of the massacre on Gaza (27 December 2009), the Israeli army has been testing new types of weapons in several villages around West Bank. There are two new types of bullets and one new type of teargas canister. One small bullet, known by its [...]

Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist 
Stephen Lendman

” ‘Freedom or death’, is the popular Palestinian mantra,” wrote Palestine Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Ramzy Baroud in his January 22 article titled “Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy.” Three weeks of Israeli terror caused about 1400 deaths, over 5500 injured (many seriously), vast destruction throughout Gaza, and Physicians [...]

‘Myth of Exile’: Justifying Slaughter in Gaza

The ‘myth of an exile’ is ‘taught to members of the Israeli armed forces.’

By Janine Roberts
Many have been appalled by the seemingly mindless orgy of destruction of families, children, homes, streets, shops and orchards in Gaza carried out by the Israeli armed forces.  It left me wanting to know [...]