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Gaza News
(Rense) – Gaza – One Of Earth’s Most Desperate Places
After the news hit Israel that commandoes stormed the aid flotillas and seized control, Israeli civilians threw impromptu celebrations. They waved Israeli flags and honked their car horns. Later, official parades and demonstrations by grade school kids filled the streets, extolling the heroism of the commandoes who stopped relief aid from entering Gaza.
While the world rages in unprecedented criticism of the IDF brutality, the United States is different. Here, pro-Zionist politicians and evangelical leaders alike have celebrated as if they were on the streets of Tel Aviv. Read More Here
(TheJC) – New Zealand outlaws kosher butchering – Read More Here
(Gilad) – Morris Herman on the Flotilla
(Gilad) – Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara // Raw Footage – Video Link Here
(AlethoNews) – Norwegian Port Union Boycotts Israeli Ships
Responding to calls by the Palestinian Workers Union and other calls by different workers unions and organizations around the world, the Norwegian Ports Union decided to join its Swedish counterpart in boycotting all Israeli ships starting on June 15. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Schumer’s Sippenhaftung and the Children of Gaza – Read More Here
(SouthLebanon) – Disinformation about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
The Israeli propaganda effort has been really active in spreading disinformation about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Deflection, distraction and disinformation are used to obfuscate about something that should be straightforward. Read More Here
(AlethoNews) – Tel Aviv fountains dyed red in protest of flotilla raid – Read More Here
(AlJazeera) – Time to end, not ‘ease’ the siege
It took a war, the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, and nine Turks, killed during a lethal Israeli interception of an aid flotilla, for Arab states to finally move against the blockade.
There is no doubt that the visit will send an important message to the international community that the siege can no longer be tolerated. Read More Here
(ABNA) – Malaysia to send aid convoys to Gaza – Read More Here
(ExpressUK) – SEA BATTLE FEAR AS IRAN SENDS FLOTILLA TO GAZA – Read More Here
(AlJazeera) – Siege takes toll on Gaza children
International pressure has been mounting on Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza since the deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Palestinian territory.
The UN has said 80 per cent of people there depend on food hand-outs.
But Israeli officials insist that there is no humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
UN aid workers inside Gaza, however, see a different reality.
Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston reports from Gaza, where it has been reported that about 14 per cent of children suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition.
(PalestineThinkTank) – Map: Palestine 1948 – View Map Here
(AlArabiya) – Gaza siege must be “broken”: Arab League chief
“This blockade which we are all here to confront must be broken and the position of the Arab League is clear,” Moussa said after Palestinian officials from several factions welcomed him at the Rafah border with Egypt.
“Not only the Arabs, but the entire world should stand with the Palestinian people against the siege of Gaza and what is happening in the occupied territories, especially east Jerusalem,” he said. Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – INVOCATION OF THE HITLER ERA
A stunning article by someone who was, with a few others, at the very helm of the Israel lobby in the US for many years, as head of the American Jewish Congress. Read More Here
(LewRockWell) – The Gaza Flotilla and Israel’s Many, Many Rights – Read More Here
(MyCatBirdSeat) – Thank you Helen Thomas for telling the truth – Read More Here
(VLog) – Video: There’s Nothing Christian about Zionism – Video Link Here
(SalemNews) – The Next 9/11-Made in Israel?
If, as Benjamin Netanyahu admitted, 9/11 was “very good” for Israel, a nuclear 9/11 might be even better. Read More Here
(Turley) – Hoax: Video Showing Heavy Weapons Discovered on Mavi Marmara is a Fraud – Read More Here
(YNet) – Castro: Swastika has become Israel’s banner
Former Cuban president slams Israeli raid on Gaza-bound flotilla, says Israel ‘would not hesitate to send 1.5 million Palestinians to crematoriums’ Read More Here
Gordon Duff: Freedom Flotilla’s Real Victory, America’s Propaganda Machine Exposed
The second the faked videos were available, cheap edits and voice overs first, Sky News and Fox, both owned by Israeli Likudist Rupert Murdoch, began the disinformation campaign. The “Freedom Flotilla” of peace activists suddenly became an armed Al Qaeda invasion force replete with heavy artillery, dirty bombs and terrorist trainers. Read More Here
REPOST – (PressTV) – 50 ships may join Freedom Flotilla II
The next Freedom Flotilla will be much bigger than the first one, the head of a non-governmental organization says.
Yasser Qashlaq, the director of the Free Palestine Movement, said on Thursday that up to 50 ships could join the Freedom Flotilla II, the International Middle East Media Center reported. Read More Here
(Debka) – Iran’s Gaza-bound ships ready for clash with Israel – Ahmadinejad
An Iranian sea convoy will back up the Turkish campaign to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured Turkish leaders whom he met in Istanbul Tuesday, Jan. 8 that the vessels due to enter the disputed waters within days will not shrink from a head-on clash with Israel’s Navy and Air Force exclusion forces. Read More Here
Video: CONFIRMED Israeli soldiers used suppressed Uzi Sub-Machine Guns
Analysis on BBC’s Newsnight (2010/06/01) shows that the IDF boarded carrying suppressed (silenced) versions of Uzi submachine guns. Uzi machine gun here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi This clearly gives credence to the view that the Israelis attacked with lethal intent. Continue reading
Video: America Can Exist Just Fine Without Israel! But Israel CANNOT Exist Without America! – Jack Cafferty
(CNN) – April 16, 2010 Continue reading
Palestinians face more ethnic cleansing – (Updated)
(PressTV) – The Israeli military has issued a new ruling that would allow the mass deportation of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.
According to the Israeli media, the new order considers anyone caught in the West Bank who does not hold an Israeli permit to enter and reside in the area as an “infiltrator.” Continue reading
Video: Becoming Gods – Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians – Chris Hedges
The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel’s murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank. Continue reading
Turkish PM: We cannot ignore murder of Gaza’s children
(YNet) – “We cannot watch the murder of children in Gaza with indifference. This is not humane,” said Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose repeated criticism of Israel recently sparked a diplomatic row between the countries.
Speaking on Monday at the inauguration ceremony of “TRT al Turkiye”, the new channel of the state run TV station TRT, Erdogan said Turkey will always be on the side of Muslims wherever they are. Read More Here
IOF troops round up 1,400 Palestinians in 3 months
(Uruknet) – The higher national committee in support of prisoners on Sunday said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) had detained more than 1,400 Palestinians in the first quarter of 2010 including 90 from the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
The Lobby v. America
(CoutnerPunch) – As I listened to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address an animated crowed of supporters on March 22, I felt physically sick. The man has already displayed time and again a complete lack of moral sense or ethical framework in his words and actions. In his recent arguments, he once again twisted history, manipulated facts and fabricated his own selective, self-interested and highly questionable narrative. Netanyahu, a colonialist from a faraway land, also had the audacity to convince himself and a few others that he had legal, moral and historic rights over my land. While I am the son of a Palestinian family rooted in Palestine since time immemorial, Netanyahu is the son of an immigrant from Lithuania. While he giddily robs more Palestinian land in Jerusalem, I live in exile. Continue reading
US Wars On “Terrorism” Were The Essence Of “Violence”
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Attorney General William Ramsey Clark said Friday that the US policy has led to many tragedies including the Palestinian cause. “This tragedy is represented by the unjustified and wrong detention of the Palestinian people by Israel. This issue should be addressed and the prisoners shall be set free. Human Rights should be considered.” Continue reading
Israeli Historian: Israel Could Find Itself Forced To Wipe Out Europe
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Noted Israeli military historian Martin Karfeld stated that Israel could find itself one day forced to exterminate the European continent using all kinds of weapons including its nuclear arsenal if it felt its demise neared, stressing that Israel also considers Europe a hostile target. Continue reading
Turkey’s PM calls on world to rescue Palestinians from Israeli siege
(WorldBulletin) – Erdogan called on the developed world to rescue 1.5 mln-Gazans from Israeli aggressions and siege, ending human tragedy in the land. Continue reading
Prof. Francis Boyle: Israel Is Committing Genocide
(PoliticalTheatrics) – “What we’re seeing in Gaza now, is pretty much slow-motion genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza…. If you read the 1948 Genocide Convention, it clearly says that one instance of genocide is the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a people in whole or in part,” stated Francis A. Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois in Champaign. “And that’s exactly what has been done to Gaza, since the imposition of the blockade by Israel; then the massacre of 1,400 Palestinians, two-thirds of whom were civilians, in Operation Cast Lead. And that also raises the element in the Genocide Convention, of murder, torture, and things of that nature.”
Boyle spoke to {EIR} on Jan. 15, 2010, giving his assessment of Gaza, one year after the Israeli attacks. He stressed that he was speaking only for himself. Read More Here
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(GlobalResearch) – U.S Vows To Bury Goldstone Report At UN
Israeli sources reported Saturday that the United States vowed to Israeli leaders to bury the report of Judge Richard Goldstone on Israel’s war in Gaza last year. The sources added that the Israeli government vowed to respond to the report of Goldstone by forming an independent committee. Read More Here
Israel’s Crisis Deepens Over Gaza War Crimes Report
(GlobalResearch) – United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon threw a lifeline to Israel yesterday, stating that there was not yet enough evidence to say whether Israel or the Palestinians are complying with UN demands to investigate allegations of war crimes during the 22-day Israeli assault on Gaza. Continue reading
Video: Gaza – Did You Know?
On December 27, 2008, Israel launched an Assault on the Gaza Strip. The attack of Dec. 27 caused the deadliest one-day death toll in 60 years of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Over 3 weeks, 1,417 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed Continue reading
Video: This Time We Went Too Far – Norman Finkelstein
“Better than any other book, This Time We Went Too Far shows how the massive destruction visited on Gaza was not an accidental byproduct of the Israeli invasion but its barely concealed objective.” — Raja Shehadeh, author, Palestinian Walks Continue reading
Middle East News
(PressTV) – Dutch probe declares Iraq war ‘illegal’
An independent probe investigating the Netherlands’ support for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq says the US and Britain rushed to war without sufficient legal backing under international law. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Netanyahu: Israel will never share Jerusalem with Palestinians
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday that Israel would never cede control of united Jerusalem nor retreat to the 1967 borders, according to a bureau statement. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Iran: ‘Zionist’ murder of scientist won’t stop our nuclear process
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it had evidence that a bomb that killed Tehran University professor Mssoud Ali-Mohammadi was planted by “Zionist and American agents”. Read More Here
(AlJazeera) – US denies role in Iran murder
The US has dismissed an accusation by Iran that it was behind the murder of an Iranian nuclear physics professor, who was killed in a bomb blast. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Syria, Iran call for regional cooperation
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called for additional consultations among regional states to devise ways to counter the plots of foreign powers. Read More Here
(MSNBC) – Bomb-rigged motorcycle kills Iran nuke expert
State TV blames West for death of professor who backed opposition leader Read More Here
An Iranian Nuclear Physicist is Murdered
Back in February, 2007, a controversy erupted when University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds advocated that, in response to Iran’s nuclear activities, the U.S. should be “killing radical mullahs and iranian [sic] atomic scientists” — in other words, have the U.S. Government select religious leaders and scientists it dislikes in Iran and just murder them, despite long-standing domestic and international legal prohibitions on exactly such programs. Read More Here
(ISM) – Israeli forces demolish 17 buildings in northern West Bank
Israeli military forces have demolished 17 buildings in the Palestinian community of Khirbet Tana for the second time. This is the only the most recent chapter in a long struggle for the small agricultural community to keep their lands. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Israel’s countdown to another war on Gaza
As the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) highlights the human cost of Operation Cast Lead (War Diaries), Israel has during the last two weeks intensified its air strikes at civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, once again killing a number of Palestinians and causing extensive damage to properties. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – 125,000 Jerusalem residents “could lose residence rights”
The Jerusalem Centre for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) has claimed that over 125,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem could eventually have been stripped of the right to live in their city because of the separation wall and the Judaisation policies adopted by successive Israeli governments. JCSER warns that Jerusalem is being subjected to the most dangerous Judaisation process, which is demographic in nature and is designed to control, as much as possible, what remains of Palestinian citizens’ lands. Read More Here
(Ma’an) – Israel to build wall along Egyptian border
Israel approved on Sunday the construction of a barrier along its border with Egypt, Israeli media reported on Monday. Read More Here
Video: Zionist War Crimes Continue – Gaza economy suffocates under blockade
(RussiaToday) – January 5 2010 Continue reading
Israel stripped body organs off Palestinians: MP
(PressTV) – An Israeli Knesset member says there is evidence showing that deceased Palestinians were stripped bare of their vital organs while in police custody in Tel Aviv. Continue reading
For Palestinians, Every Day Is Kristallnacht – Paul Craig Roberts
“Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books” was a London Times headline on December 11, 2009.
These attacks, together with the demolition of Palestinian homes, the uprooting of Palestinians’ olive groves, the innumerable checkpoints that prevent Palestinians from accessing schools, work, and medical care, the Israeli Wall that denies Palestinians access to the land stolen from them, and the isolation and blockade of the Gaza Ghetto, are part of the Israeli government’s policy of genocide for the Palestinians. Continue reading
Israeli Occupation, Colonialism And Apartheid
(PoliticalTheatrics) – The Cape Town, South Africa-based Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) “conduct(s) large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific projects for public-sector users, non-governmental organisations and international development agencies,” and disseminates its findings widely. Continue reading
US Cutting Gaza Lifeline – Ann Wright
No doubt at the instigation of the Israeli government, the Obama administration has authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to design a vertical underground wall under the border between Egypt and Gaza. Continue reading
MSM: The US cash behind extremist settlers
(Guardian) – The Hebron Fund is raising vast sums for Israeli settlements that violate the Geneva convention, with little scrutiny Continue reading
The Concentration Camp That Is Gaza
An internment camp is a confined establishment meant on housing individuals for punishment, and as made clear in the above definition the centre is typically crowded, exploited and the civilians are under complete restraint. Continue reading
Israel Plans To Deport More Than 20,000 Palestinians From Jerusalem
(PoliticalTheatrics) – The Jerusalem center for social and economic rights (JCSER) warned of Israeli intentions to deport more than 20,000 Palestinians from the West Bank who married from Jerusalemite women at the pretext that their residence in the holy city is illegal. Continue reading
Let’s Call It What It Is – Quiet Genocide
What is happening in Palestine is nothing short of a planned “Quiet Genocide.” Yes, “Genocide” the taboo word, unable to be uttered by the American Government, the British Government or any of the world’s major Western Players or European heavyweights. Whilst the majority of the world’s governments choose to play word games and run interference for Israel’s crimes, I thought it was time to look at just exactly what a “genocide” is, how to create one, how to make it successful, how to win. Continue reading
The Right To Resist
“I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence” -Malcom X
The overwhelming and ceaseless atrocities of Israel’s government leave most Palestinians with little opportunity to reflect on the moral aspect of our resistance. Most often our reactions to events are immediate, instinctive and emotional. The few who still manage to consider the moral, political and strategic aspects of our struggle may find themselves all but stymied by the contradictions, the lack of choice, and the damage done by war to both reason and conscience. Continue reading
Video: What Israel Knocks Down, The Palestinians Raise Up Again
I had just left home this morning when I saw a series of police vehicles turning into my road. I have recently moved to Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem where Israel pursues a policy of evicting Palestinians from their homes. I’d been thinking that I was late for work – in fact I was bang on time for a story. Continue reading
Nuke Gaza: A World Gone Mad
Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans too. Yet Americans should worry even more. Israel’s “legitimacy” will not last. Continue reading
MSM: Israel ‘cuts Palestinian water’
(BBC) – Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. Continue reading
Self-defence Stories from Gaza
According to Amnesty International, some 1,400 Palestinians were killed in the 22-day Israeli offensive between 27 December 2008 and 17 January 2009, which agrees broadly with Palestinian figures. More than 900 of these were civilians, including 300 children and 115 women. Continue reading
The lying game: how we are prepared for another war of aggression – John Pilger
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake “nuclear threat”, with the manufacture of a sense of false crisis that led to invasion of Iraq and the deaths of 1.3 million people. Continue reading
Ahmadinejad warns of Weapons of Mass Media
(PressTV) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Western powers have used full-fledged psychological tactics as a lever to influence nations against their better judgment. Continue reading
War Criminals Are Becoming The Arbiters Of Law – Paul Craig Roberts
The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone except the brainwashed Americans. Even the very Israeli Jerusalem Post can see the double standard displayed by “all of Israel now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report”: Continue reading
MSM: Hamas says more babies born with birth defects since Cast Lead
(Haaretz) – The Hamas Health Ministry is claiming that since the Israel Defense Forces operation in Gaza last winter, a higher percentage of children have been born with birth defects, the Ma’an news agency has reported. Continue reading
Video: Tony Benn Speaks Some Truths To The BBC
Another British polotician that tells it how it really is. Continue reading
The Maps Tell The True Story
The truth is that far from being the poor victim it likes to portray itself as, Israel is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty much everyone it shares a border with.
The following maps show what Israel has actually done. Continue reading
How Israel bought off UN’s war crimes probe
Israel celebrated at the weekend its success at the United Nations in forcing the Palestinians to defer demands that the International Criminal Court investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Israel during its winter assault on the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
This report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) coincides with the 9th anniversary of the al-Aqsa Intifada, which erupted following the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque (the Holy Sanctuary) in occupied Jerusalem. Continue reading
Honduras Today – We Are All Palestinians!
Yesterday, my Associate and dear friend Carlos Latuff stated that this Blog is ‘mostly about the Middle East’. That is very true, for the simple fact that I live here. The Palestinian cause, in particular, is very close to my heart as they are my people. As Carlos himself stated, “WE ARE ALL PALESTINIANS”. His series of cartoons dealing with that can be seen HERE. Continue reading
Gaza’s water supply near collapse
The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza’s access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at any time. The World Health Organization (WHO) says outbreaks of disease could be triggered as a consequence. Continue reading
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