CHECK THE  Talmud

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6657600254881054584&hl=en

CHECK THE WHOLE HOLOHOAXING BUNCH.

http://images.google.co.id/images?hl=id&um=1&sa=1&q=%2251+documents%2...

http://www.zundelsite.org/english/debate/009_jam.html

http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/IsraelsTortureBan.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_CRzdlA5To&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ST5m9pREQ&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=But9m3O4umI&feature=channel

yES THE GIRL WAS KILLED, BUT IT WAS ACCORDING TO THEIR LAW, NOT RANDOM
KILLING OF INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY UNDISCIPLINED THUGS THAT YOU CALL
AN ARMY.

AND TI TREN WE HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN STOP OUR MEDIA.
AND NEWS ABOUT YOU COMES FROM A COUNTRY RHAT HAS LEGAL TORTURE CHAMBERS
WHICH SAYA A LOT ABOUT THE BARBARITY OF THE LAW MAKERS THAT THEY WOULD EVEN
CONSIDER LEGAL TORTURE THAT HAS NOT BEEN AROUND IN A MODERN COUNTRY SINCE
NERA AND CALIGULA.

As far as I am concerned we are supporting an inhuman and unexessary bunch
of extremist idiots who can only boast of having the same values as us by
closing ranks and not allowing any information to get out of israel, closing
of complete areas and hust simply lying as that is part of what they
consider normal for them.
Ignoring or lying to non jews because this is the norm according to their
new religion talmud.

CHECK THE  Talmud

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6657600254881054584&hl=en

CHECK THE WHOLE HOLOHOAXING BUNCH.

http://images.google.co.id/images?hl=id&um=1&sa=1&q=%2251+documents%2...

What you need if going to youtube http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21878.htm
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/zionist-israel-60-yea...
Israeli warlord vows face-off with Iran:

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=84344§ionid=351020104

Keep in mind that the 'A Clean Break' (war for Israel) agenda was
written for Netanyahu (access the 'A Clean Break' link at the upper
right of http://NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nQYKzJF1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdnyAgR4bo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00NzIAQ7lvk&feature=fvw

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=TD9NauMmEpk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCJsfVBo-8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdvo3-A4d4

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2009/01/25/Israel_alleged_...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090126/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictga...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_CRzdlA5To&feature=channel

http://theconnexion.net/wp/?p=4566

AND THEY GIVE THEMSELVES MEDALS FOR THIS??

      The IDF has no mercy for the children in Gaza nursery schools

      By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Correspondent

The fighting in Gaza http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1055574.html

is "war deluxe." Compared with previous wars, it is child's play - pilots
bombing unimpeded as if on practice runs, tank and artillery soldiers
shelling houses and civilians from their armored vehicles, combat
engineering troops destroying entire streets in their ominous protected
vehicles without facing serious opposition.

http://www.inminds.co.uk/card/card27.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_dQz86Ve8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDmLrOUKnpE&eurl=http://vnnforum.com/s...

http://www.truthout.org/010809R
"This is a shocking incident," said Pierre Wettach, the Red Cross's  head of
delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories. "The  Israeli
military must have been aware of the situation but did not  assist the
wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the  Palestine Red
Crescent to assist the wounded."

What about this obama , going to wait for them to starve to death? These are
no christian soldiers handing out chocolate bars.

This is a shocking incident," said Pierre Wettach, the Red Cross's  head of
delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories. "The  Israeli
military must have been aware of the situation but did not  assist the
wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the  Palestine Red
Crescent to assist the wounded."
What about this obama , going to wait for them to starve to death? These are
no christian soldiers handing out chocolate bars.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y3uYXWtd684

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5215366.stm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/15/israel-shells-un-headquar_n_...

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  http://boards.history.com/topic/Current-Events/Proof-Israel-Lies/5200...

  Proof Israel lies
  Jan 24, 2009 8:28 AM Report Abuse
  In a thread I was taken to task because I claimed Israel routinely lies.
Now
  a few days later a major British newspaper proves my case:

  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article557507...

  Once again Israel has been shown to lie over its tactics in battle. Here's
  the timeline exposed by the Times newspaper:

  January 5 The Times reports that telltale smoke has appeared from areas of
  shelling. Israel denies using phosphorus

  January 8 The Times reports photographic evidence showing stockpiles of
  white phosphorus (WP) shells. Israel Defence Forces spokesman says: "This
is
  what we call a quiet shell - it has no explosives and no white phosphorus"

  January 12 The Times reports that more than 50 phosphorus burns victims
are
  taken into Nasser Hospital. An Israeli military spokesman "categorically"
  denies the use of white phosphorus

  January 15 Remnants of white phosphorus shells are found in western Gaza.
  The IDF refuses to comment on specific weaponry but insists ammunition is
  "within the scope of international law"

  January 16 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters are hit
  with phosphorus munitions. The Israeli military continues to deny its use

  January 21 Avital Leibovich, Israel's military spokeswoman, admits white
  phosphorus munitions were employed in a manner "according to international
  law"

  January 23 Israel says it is launching an investigation into white
  phosphorus munitions, which hit a UN school on January 17. "Some practices
  could be illegal but we are going into that. The IDF is holding an
  investigation concerning one specific unit and one incident" Source: Times
  database

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1        http://www.care2.com/news/member/198234727/1024108

  Friday January 23, 2009, 8:37 am
  Jan 22, 2009

  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 towns; that Hamas is a
  terrorist organisation, part of a global jihadi network; and that Israel
has
  acted not only in its own defence but on behalf of an international
struggle
  by Western democracies against this network.

  I am not aware of a single major American newspaper, radio station or TV
  channel whose coverage of the assault on Gaza questions this version of
  events. Criticism of Israel's actions, if any (and there has been none
from
  the Bush administration), has focused instead on whether the IDF's carnage
  is proportional to the threat it sought to counter, and whether it is
taking
  adequate measures to prevent civilian casualties.

  Middle East peacemaking has been smothered in deceptive euphemisms, so let
  me state bluntly that each of these claims is a lie. Israel, not Hamas,
  violated the truce: Hamas undertook to stop firing rockets into Israel; in
  return, Israel was to ease its throttlehold on Gaza. In fact, during the
  truce, it tightened it further. This was confirmed not only by every
neutral
  international observer and NGO on the scene but by Brigadier General
(Res.)
  Shmuel Zakai, a former commander of the IDF's Gaza Division. In an
interview
  in Ha'aretz on 22 December, he accused Israel's government of having made
a
  'central error' during the tahdiyeh, the six-month period of relative
truce,
  by failing 'to take advantage of the calm to improve, rather than markedly
  worsen, the economic plight of the Palestinians of the Strip . . . When
you
  create a tahdiyeh, and the economic pressure on the Strip continues,'
  General Zakai said, 'it is obvious that Hamas will try to reach an
improved
  tahdiyeh, and that their way to achieve this is resumed Qassam fire . . .
  You cannot just land blows, leave the Palestinians in Gaza in the economic
  distress they're in, and expect that Hamas will just sit around and do
  nothing.'

  The truce, which began in June last year and was due for renewal in
  December, required both parties to refrain from violent action against the
  other. Hamas had to cease its rocket assaults and prevent the firing of
  rockets by other groups such as Islamic Jihad (even Israel's intelligence
  agencies acknowledged this had been implemented with surprising
  effectiveness), and Israel had to put a stop to its targeted
assassinations
  and military incursions. This understanding was seriously violated on 4
  November, when the IDF entered Gaza and killed six members of Hamas. Hamas
  responded by launching Qassam rockets and Grad missiles. Even so, it
offered
  to extend the truce, but only on condition that Israel ended its blockade.
  Israel refused. It could have met its obligation to protect its citizens
by
  agreeing to ease the blockade, but it didn't even try. It cannot be said
  that Israel launched its assault to protect its citizens from rockets. It
  did so to protect its right to continue the strangulation of Gaza's
  population.

  Everyone seems to have forgotten that Hamas declared an end to suicide
  bombings and rocket fire when it decided to join the Palestinian political
  process, and largely stuck to it for more than a year. Bush publicly
  welcomed that decision, citing it as an example of the success of his
  campaign for democracy in the Middle East. (He had no other success to
point
  to.) When Hamas unexpectedly won the election, Israel and the US
immediately
  sought to delegitimise the result and embraced Mahmoud Abbas, the head of
  Fatah, who until then had been dismissed by Israel's leaders as a 'plucked
  chicken'. They armed and trained his security forces to overthrow Hamas;
and
  when Hamas - brutally, to be sure - pre-empted this violent attempt to
  reverse the result of the first honest democratic election in the modern
  Middle East, Israel and the Bush administration imposed the blockade.

  Israel seeks to counter these indisputable facts by maintaining that in
  withdrawing Israeli settlements from Gaza in 2005, Ariel Sharon gave Hamas
  the chance to set out on the path to statehood, a chance it refused to
take;
  instead, it transformed Gaza into a launching-pad for firing missiles at
  Israel's civilian population. The charge is a lie twice over. First, for
all
  its failings, Hamas brought to Gaza a level of law and order unknown in
  recent years, and did so without the large sums of money that donors
  showered on the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. It eliminated the violent
  gangs and warlords who terrorised Gaza under Fatah's rule. Non-observant
  Muslims, Christians and other minorities have more religious freedom under
  Hamas rule than they would have in Saudi Arabia, for example, or under
many
  other Arab regimes.

  The greater lie is that Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza was intended as a
  prelude to further withdrawals and a peace agreement. This is how Sharon's
  senior adviser Dov Weisglass, who was also his chief negotiator with the
  Americans, described the withdrawal from Gaza, in an interview with
Ha'aretz
  in August 2004:

  What I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the
  settlements [i.e. the major settlement blocks on the West Bank] would not
be
  dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the
  Palestinians turn into Finns . . . The significance [of the agreement with
  the US] is the freezing of the political process. And when you freeze that
  process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and you
  prevent a discussion about the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem.
  Effectively, this whole package that is called the Palestinian state, with
  all that it entails, has been removed from our agenda indefinitely. And
all
  this with [President Bush's] authority and permission . . . and the
  ratification of both houses of Congress.

  Do the Israelis and Americans think that Palestinians don't read the
Israeli
  papers, or that when they saw what was happening on the West Bank they
  couldn't figure out for themselves what Sharon was up to?

  Israel's government would like the world to believe that Hamas launched
its
  Qassam rockets because that is what terrorists do and Hamas is a generic
  terrorist group. In fact, Hamas is no more a 'terror organisation'
(Israel's
  preferred term) than the Zionist movement was during its struggle for a
  Jewish homeland. In the late 1930s and 1940s, parties within the Zionist
  movement resorted to terrorist activities for strategic reasons. According
  to Benny Morris, it was the Irgun that first targeted civilians. He writes
  in Righteous Victims that an upsurge of Arab terrorism in 1937 'triggered
a
  wave of Irgun bombings against Arab crowds and buses, introducing a new
  dimension to the conflict'. He also documents atrocities committed during
  the 1948-49 war by the IDF, admitting in a 2004 interview, published in
Ha'aretz,
  that material released by Israel's Ministry of Defence showed that 'there
  were far more Israeli acts of massacre than I had previously thought . . .
  In the months of April-May 1948, units of the Haganah were given
operational
  orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers,
expel
  them, and destroy the villages themselves.' In a number of Palestinian
  villages and towns the IDF carried out organised executions of civilians.
  Asked by Ha'aretz whether he condemned the ethnic cleansing, Morris
replied
  that he did not:

  A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of
  700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them. There was
  no choice but to expel that population. It was necessary to cleanse the
  hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads. It was
  necessary to cleanse the villages from which our convoys and our
settlements
  were fired on.

  In other words, when Jews target and kill innocent civilians to advance
  their national struggle, they are patriots. When their adversaries do so,
  they are terrorists.

  It is too easy to describe Hamas simply as a 'terror organisation'. It is
a
  religious nationalist movement that resorts to terrorism, as the Zionist
  movement did during its struggle for statehood, in the mistaken belief
that
  it is the only way to end an oppressive occupation and bring about a
  Palestinian state. While Hamas's ideology formally calls for that state to
  be established on the ruins of the state of Israel, this doesn't determine
  Hamas's actual policies today any more than the same declaration in the
PLO
  charter determined Fatah's actions.

  These are not the conclusions of an apologist for Hamas but the opinions
of
  the former head of Mossad and Sharon's national security adviser, Ephraim
  Halevy. The Hamas leadership has undergone a change 'right under our very
  noses', Halevy wrote recently in Yedioth Ahronoth, by recognising that
'its
  ideological goal is not attainable and will not be in the foreseeable
  future.' It is now ready and willing to see the establishment of a
  Palestinian state within the temporary borders of 1967. Halevy noted that
  while Hamas has not said how 'temporary' those borders would be, 'they
know
  that the moment a Palestinian state is established with their
co-operation,
  they will be obligated to change the rules of the game: they will have to
  adopt a path that could lead them far from their original ideological
goals.'
  In an earlier article, Halevy also pointed out the absurdity of linking
  Hamas to al-Qaida.

  In the eyes of al-Qaida, the members of Hamas are perceived as heretics
due
  to their stated desire to participate, even indirectly, in processes of
any
  understandings or agreements with Israel. [The Hamas political bureau
chief,
  Khaled] Mashal's declaration diametrically contradicts al-Qaida's
approach,
  and provides Israel with an opportunity, perhaps a historic one, to
leverage
  it for the better.

  Why then are Israel's leaders so determined to destroy Hamas? Because they
  believe that its leadership, unlike that of Fatah, cannot be intimidated
  into accepting a peace accord that establishes a Palestinian 'state' made
up
  of territorially disconnected entities over which Israel would be able to
  retain permanent control. Control of the West Bank has been the unwavering
  objective of Israel's military, intelligence and political elites since
the
  end of the Six-Day War.[*] They believe that Hamas would not permit such a
  cantonisation of Palestinian territory, no matter how long the occupation
  continues. They may be wrong about Abbas and his superannuated cohorts,
but
  they are entirely right about Hamas.

  Middle East observers wonder whether Israel's assault on Hamas will
succeed
  in destroying the organisation or expelling it from Gaza. This is an
  irrelevant question. If Israel plans to keep control over any future
  Palestinian entity, it will never find a Palestinian partner, and even if
it
  succeeds in dismantling Hamas, the movement will in time be replaced by a
  far more radical Palestinian opposition.

  If Barack Obama picks a seasoned Middle East envoy who clings to the idea
  that outsiders should not present their own proposals for a just and
  sustainable peace agreement, much less press the parties to accept it, but
  instead leave them to work out their differences, he will assure a future
  Palestinian resistance far more extreme than Hamas - one likely to be
allied
  with al-Qaida. For the US, Europe and most of the rest of the world, this
  would be the worst possible outcome. Perhaps some Israelis, including the
  settler leadership, believe it would serve their purposes, since it would
  provide the government with a compelling pretext to hold on to all of
  Palestine. But this is a delusion that would bring about the end of Israel
  as a Jewish and democratic state.

  Anthony Cordesman, one of the most reliable military analysts of the
Middle
  East, and a friend of Israel, argued in a 9 January report for the Center
  for Strategic and International Studies that the tactical advantages of
  continuing the operation in Gaza were outweighed by the strategic cost -
and
  were probably no greater than any gains Israel may have made early in the
  war in selective strikes on key Hamas facilities. 'Has Israel somehow
  blundered into a steadily escalating war without a clear strategic goal,
or
  at least one it can credibly achieve?' he asks. 'Will Israel end in
  empowering an enemy in political terms that it defeated in tactical terms?
  Will Israel's actions seriously damage the US position in the region, any
  hope of peace, as well as moderate Arab regimes and voices in the process?
  To be blunt, the answer so far seems to be yes.' Cordesman concludes that
  'any leader can take a tough stand and claim that tactical gains are a
  meaningful victory. If this is all that Olmert, Livni and Barak have for
an
  answer, then they have disgraced themselves and damaged their country and
  their friends.'

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2        Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask
  Wednesday, 7 January 2009

  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-wh...

  So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians.
  Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in
  another. Not bad for a night's work in Gaza by the army that believes in
  "purity of arms". But why should we be surprised?

  Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead - almost all civilians, most of them
  children and women - in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon; the 1,700
  Palestinian civilian dead in the Sabra-Chatila massacre; the 1996 Qana
  massacre of 106 Lebanese civilian refugees, more than half of them
children,
  at a UN base; the massacre of the Marwahin refugees who were ordered from
  their homes by the Israelis in 2006 then slaughtered by an Israeli
  helicopter crew; the 1,000 dead of that same 2006 bombardment and Lebanese
  invasion, almost all of them civilians?

  What is amazing is that so many Western leaders, so many presidents and
  prime ministers and, I fear, so many editors and journalists, bought the
old
  lie; that Israelis take such great care to avoid civilian casualties.
  "Israel makes every possible effort to avoid civilian casualties," yet
  another Israeli ambassador said only hours before the Gaza massacre. And
  every president and prime minister who repeated this mendacity as an
excuse
  to avoid a ceasefire has the blood of last night's butchery on their
hands.
  Had George Bush had the courage to demand an immediate ceasefire 48 hours
  earlier, those 40 civilians, the old and the women and children, would be
  alive.

  What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be
  too strong a description? For that is what we would call this atrocity if
it
  had been committed by Hamas. So a war crime, I'm afraid, it was. After
  covering so many mass murders by the armies of the Middle East - by Syrian
  troops, by Iraqi troops, by Iranian troops, by Israeli troops - I suppose
  cynicism should be my reaction. But Israel claims it is fighting our war
  against "international terror". The Israelis claim they are fighting in
Gaza
  for us, for our Western ideals, for our security, for our safety, by our
  standards. And so we are also complicit in the savagery now being visited
  upon Gaza.

  I've reported the excuses the Israeli army has served up in the past for
  these outrages. Since they may well be reheated in the coming hours, here
  are some of them: that the Palestinians killed their own refugees, that
the
  Palestinians dug up bodies from cemeteries and planted them in the ruins,
  that ultimately the Palestinians are to blame because they supported an
  armed faction, or because armed Palestinians deliberately used the
innocent
  refugees as cover.

  The Sabra and Chatila massacre was committed by Israel's right-wing
Lebanese
  Phalangist allies while Israeli troops, as Israel's own commission of
  inquiry revealed, watched for 48
  hours and did nothing. When Israel was blamed, Menachem Begin's government
  accused the world of a blood libel. After Israeli artillery had fired
shells
  into the UN base at Qana in 1996, the Israelis claimed that Hizbollah
gunmen
  were also sheltering in the base.

  It was a lie.

  The more than 1,000 dead of 2006 - a war started when Hizbollah captured
two
  Israeli soldiers on the border - were simply dismissed as the
responsibility
  of the Hizbollah. Israel claimed the bodies of children killed in a second
  Qana massacre may have been taken from a graveyard. It was another lie.
The
  Marwahin massacre was never excused. The people of the village were
ordered
  to flee, obeyed Israeli orders and were then attacked by an Israeli
gunship.
  The refugees took their children and stood them around the truck in which
  they were travelling so that Israeli pilots would see they were innocents.
  Then the Israeli helicopter mowed them down at close range. Only two
  survived, by playing dead. Israel didn't even apologise.

  Twelve years earlier, another Israeli helicopter attacked an ambulance
  carrying civilians from a neighbouring village - again after they were
  ordered to leave by Israel - and killed three children and two women. The
  Israelis claimed that a Hizbollah fighter was in the ambulance. It was
  untrue. I covered all these atrocities, I investigated them all, talked to
  the survivors. So did a number of my colleagues. Our fate, of course, was
  that most slanderous of libels: we were accused of being anti-Semitic.

  And I write the following without the slightest doubt: we'll hear all
these
  scandalous fabrications again. We'll have the Hamas-to-blame lie - heaven
  knows, there is enough to blame them for without adding this crime - and
we
  may well have the bodies-from-the-cemetery lie and we'll almost certainly
  have the Hamas-was-in-the-UN-school lie and we will very definitely have
the
  anti-Semitism lie. And our leaders will huff and puff and remind the world
  that Hamas originally broke the ceasefire. It didn't. Israel broke it,
first
  on 4 November when its bombardment killed six Palestinians in Gaza and
again
  on 17 November when another bombardment killed four more Palestinians.

  Yes, Israelis deserve security. Twenty Israelis dead in 10 years around
Gaza
  is a grim figure indeed. But 600 Palestinians dead in just over a week,
  thousands over the years since 1948 - when the Israeli massacre at Deir
  Yassin helped to kick-start the flight of Palestinians from that part of
  Palestine that was to become Israel - is on a quite different scale. This
  recalls not a normal Middle East bloodletting but an atrocity on the level
  of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. And of course, when an Arab bestirs
himself
  with unrestrained fury and takes out his incendiary, blind anger on the
  West, we will say it has nothing to do with us. Why do they hate us, we
will
  ask? But let us not say we do not know the answer.

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3        Israel's War of Deceit, Lies and Propaganda

  By Uri Avnery

  January 12 "Gulf Times" -- - -Nearly 70 years ago, in the course of the
  Second World War, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad.
  For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called "the Red Army"
  held the millions of the town's inhabitants hostage and provoked
retaliation
  from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centres.

  The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell the population and to
  impose a total blockade, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands.

  Some time before that, a similar crime was committed in England. The
  Churchill gang hid among the population of London, misusing the millions
of
  citizens as a human shield. The Germans were compelled to send their
  Luftwaffe and reluctantly reduce the city to ruins. They called it the
  Blitz.

  This is the description that would now appear in the history books - if
the
  Germans had won the war.

  Absurd? No more than the daily descriptions in Israeli media, which are
  being repeated ad nauseam: the Hamas "terrorists" use the inhabitants of
  Gaza as "hostages" and exploit the women and children as "human shields",
  they leave Israel no alternative but to carry out massive bombardments, in
  which, to Israel's deep sorrow, thousands of women, children and unarmed
men
  are killed and injured.

  In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. Almost
all
  the Western media initially repeated the official Israeli propaganda line.
  They almost entirely ignored the Palestinian side of the story, not to
  mention the daily demonstrations of the Israeli peace camp. The rationale
of
  the Israeli government ("The state must defend its citizens against the
  Qassam rockets") has been accepted as the whole truth. The view from the
  other side, that the Qassams are a retaliation for the siege that starves
  the one and a half million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, was not
mentioned
  at all.

  Only when the horrible scenes from Gaza started to appear on Western TV
  screens, did world public opinion gradually begin to change.

  War - every war - is the realm of lies. Whether called propaganda or
  psychological warfare, everybody accepts that it is right to lie for one's
  country. Anyone who speaks the truth runs the risk of being branded a
  traitor. The trouble is that propaganda is most convincing for the
  propagandist himself. And after you convince yourself that a lie is the
  truth and falsification reality, you can no longer make rational
decisions.

  Falsification

  An example of this process surrounds the most shocking atrocity of this
war
  so far: the shelling of the UN Fakhura school in Jabaliya refugee camp.

  Immediately after the incident became known throughout the world, the army
  "revealed" that Hamas fighters had been firing mortars from near the
school
  entrance. As proof they released an aerial photo which indeed showed the
  school and the mortar. But within a short time the official army liar had
to
  admit that the photo was more than a year old. In brief: a falsification.

  Later the official liar claimed that "our soldiers were shot at from
inside
  the school". Barely a day passed before the army had to admit to UN
  personnel that that was a lie, too. Nobody had shot from inside the
school,
  no Hamas fighters were inside the school, which was full of terrified
  refugees.

  But the admission made hardly any difference anymore. By that time, the
  Israeli public was completely convinced that "they shot from inside the
  school", and TV announcers stated this as a simple fact.

  So it went with the other atrocities. Every baby metamorphosed, in the act
  of dying, into a Hamas "terrorist". Every bombed mosque instantly became a
  Hamas base, every apartment building an arms cache, every school a terror
  command post, every civilian government building a "symbol of Hamas rule".
  Thus the Israeli army retained its purity as the "most moral army in the
  world".

  The truth is that the atrocities are a direct result of the war plan. This
  reflects the personality of Ehud Barak - a man whose way of thinking and
  actions are clear evidence of what is called "moral insanity", a
sociopathic
  disorder.

  The real aim (apart from gaining seats in the coming elections) is to
  terminate the rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In the imagination of the
  planners, Hamas is an invader which has gained control of a foreign
country.
  The reality is, of course, entirely different.

  A top priority for the planners was the need to minimise casualties among
  the soldiers, knowing that the mood of a large part of the pro-war public
  would change if reports of such casualties came in. That is what happened
in
  Lebanon Wars I and II.

  This consideration played an especially important role because the entire
  war is a part of the election campaign. The planners thought that they
could
  stop the world from seeing these images by forcibly preventing press
  coverage. But in a modern war, such a sterile manufactured view cannot
  completely exclude all others - the cameras are inside the strip, in the
  middle of the hell, and cannot be controlled. Al Jazeera broadcasts the
  pictures around the clock and reaches every home.

  Hundreds of millions of Arabs from Mauritania to Iraq, more than a billion
  Muslims from Nigeria to Indonesia see the pictures and are horrified. This
  has a strong impact on the war. Many of the viewers see the rulers of
Egypt,
  Jordan and the Palestinian National Authority as collaborators with Israel
  in carrying out these atrocities against their Palestinian brothers.

  If the war ends with Hamas still standing, bloodied but unvanquished, in
  face of the mighty Israeli military machine, it will look like a fantastic
  victory, a victory of mind over matter.

  What will be seared into the consciousness of the world will be the image
of
  Israel as a blood-stained monster, ready at any moment to commit war
crimes
  and not prepared to abide by any moral restraints. This will have severe
  consequences for our long-term future, our standing in the world, our
chance
  of achieving peace and quiet.

  In the end, this war is a crime against Israelis too, a crime against the
  State of Israel.

  Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. He is
a
  contributor to Counter Punch's book 'The Politics of Anti-Semitism'.

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4        Humanity watching Gaza tragedy like a movie.

  http://rickwrites.blogspot.com/2009/01/gaza-un-us-israel-lies-increas...

  The international community's silence in the face of Israel's defiance of
a
  UN resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza is unacceptable, Prime
  Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, stressing that the world has
  been watching the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza "as if it were watching a
  movie."

  Yesterday the Israeli offensive against Gaza, which was launched on Dec.
27,
  went into its third week, Erdogan noted, speaking at a meeting of his
ruling
  Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Ankara for introducing some of
  his party's candidates in the upcoming local elections in March.

  "Unfortunately, images of brutality that have been shown on televisions
  around the world in live broadcasts for two weeks and have reached almost
  every house in the world have not been sufficient for the international
  community to take a joint stance," Erdogan said, stressing the huge loss
of
  civilian lives that has resulted from Israel's attacks on Gaza.

  "The targeting of schools, hospitals, mosques, ambulances and
  infrastructure, and firing on facilities belonging to the United Nations
and
  humanitarian convoys have not been sufficient to move consciences. All of
  humanity is watching this merciless massacre as if it were watching a
  movie," Erdogan said.

  The UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate
  cease-fire in Israel's offensive against Gaza last week. The resolution
was
  approved Thursday night by a 14-0 vote, with the United States abstaining.

  (snip)

  "After the meeting, during which America abstained and 14 of the 15
members
  adopted the resolution, Israel said it wouldn't recognize this decision

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  Top 5 Lies About Israel's Assault on Gaza
  January 3, 2009
  by Jeremy R. Hammond
  http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/articles/2009/01/03/hammond_top-5...

  Lie #1) Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking
to
  protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.

  The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in
  the world. The presence of militants within a civilian population does
not,
  under international law, deprive that population of their protected
status,
  and hence any assault upon that population under the guise of targeting
  militants is, in fact, a war crime.

  Moreover, the people Israel claims are legitimate targets are members of
  Hamas, which Israel says is a terrorist organization. Hamas has been
  responsible for firing rockets into Israel. These rockets are extremely
  inaccurate and thus, even if Hamas intended to hit military targets within
  Israel, are indiscriminate by nature. When rockets from Gaza kill Israeli
  civilians, it is a war crime.

  Hamas has a military wing. However, it is not entirely a military
  organization, but a political one. Members of Hamas are the democratically
  elected representatives of the Palestinian people. Dozens of these elected
  leaders have been kidnapped and held in Israeli prisons without charge.
  Others have been targeted for assassination, such as Nizar Rayan, a top
  Hamas official. To kill Rayan, Israel targeted a residential apartment
  building. The strike not only killed Rayan but two of his wives and four
of
  his children, along with six others. There is no justification for such an
  attack under international law. This was a war crime.

  Other of Israel's bombardment with protected status under international
law
  have included a mosque, a prison, police stations, and a university, in
  addition to residential buildings.

  Moreover, Israel has long held Gaza under siege, allowing only the most
  minimal amounts of humanitarian supplies to enter. Israel is bombing and
  killing Palestinian civilians. Countless more have been wounded, and
cannot
  receive medical attention. Hospitals running on generators have little or
no
  fuel. Doctors have no proper equipment or medical supplies to treat the
  injured. These people, too, are the victims of Israeli policies targeted
not
  at Hamas or legitimate military targets, but directly designed to punish
the
  civilian population.

  Lie #2) Hamas violated the cease-fire. The Israeli bombardment is a
response
  to Palestinian rocket fire and is designed to end such rocket attacks.

  Israel never observed the cease-fire to begin with. From the beginning, it
  announced a "special security zone" within the Gaza Strip and announced
that
  Palestinians who enter this zone will be fired upon. In other words,
Israel
  announced its intention that Israeli soldiers would shoot at farmers and
  other individuals attempting to reach their own land in direct violation
of
  not only the cease-fire but international law.

  Despite shooting incidents, including ones resulting in Palestinians
getting
  injured, Hamas still held to the cease-fire from the time it went into
  effect on June 19 until Israel effectively ended the truce on November 4
by
  launching an airstrike into Gaza that killed five and injured several
  others.

  Israel's violation of the cease-fire predictably resulted in retaliation
  from militants in Gaza who fired rockets into Israel in response. The
  increased barrage of rocket fire at the end of December is being used as
  justification for the continued Israeli bombardment, but is a direct
  response by militants to the Israeli attacks.

  Israel's actions, including its violation of the cease-fire, predictably
  resulted in an escalation of rocket attacks against its own population.

  Lie #3) Hamas is using human shields, a war crime.

  There has been no evidence that Hamas has used human shields. The fact is,
  as previously noted, Gaza is a small piece of property that is densely
  populated. Israel engages in indiscriminate warfare such as the
  assassination of Nizar Rayan, in which members of his family were also
  murdered. It is victims like his dead children that Israel defines as
"human
  shields" in its propaganda. There is no legitimacy for this interpretation
  under international law. In circumstances such as these, Hamas is not
using
  human shields, Israel is committing war crimes in violation of the Geneva
  Conventions and other applicable international law.

  Lie #4) Arab nations have not condemned Israel's actions because they
  understand Israel's justification for its assault.

  The populations of those Arab countries are outraged at Israel's actions
and
  at their own governments for not condemning Israel's assault and acting to
  end the violence. Simply stated, the Arab governments do not represent
their
  respective Arab populations. The populations of the Arab nations have
staged
  mass protests in opposition to not only Israel's actions but also the
  inaction of their own governments and what they view as either complacency
  or complicity in Israel's crimes.

  Moreover, the refusal of Arab nations to take action to come to the aid of
  the Palestinians is not because they agree with Israel's actions, but
  because they are submissive to the will of the US, which fully supports
  Israel. Egypt, for instance, which refused to open the border to allow
  Palestinians wounded in the attacks to get medical treatment in Egyptian
  hospitals, is heavily dependent upon US aid, and is being widely
criticized
  within the population of the Arab countries for what is viewed as an
  absolute betrayal of the Gaza Palestinians.

  Even Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been regarded as a traitor to
  his own people for blaming Hamas for the suffering of the people of Gaza.
  Palestinians are also well aware of Abbas' past perceived betrayals in
  conniving with Israel and the US to sideline the democratically elected
  Hamas government, culminating in a counter-coup by Hamas in which it
  expelled Fatah (the military wing of Abbas' Palestine Authority) from the
  Gaza Strip. While his apparent goal was to weaken Hamas and strengthen his
  own position, the Palestinians and other Arabs in the Middle East are so
  outraged at Abbas that it is unlikely he will be able to govern
effectively.

  Lie #5) Israel is not responsible for civilian deaths because it warned
the
  Palestinians of Gaza to flee areas that might be targeted.

  Israel claims it sent radio and telephone text messages to residents of
Gaza
  warning them to flee from the coming bombardment. But the people of Gaza
  have nowhere to flee to. They are trapped within the Gaza Strip. It is by
  Israeli design that they cannot escape across the border. It is by Israeli
  design that they have no food, water, or fuel by which to survive. It is
by
  Israeli design that hospitals in Gaza have no electricity and few medical
  supplies with which to treat the injured and save lives. And Israel has
  bombed vast areas of Gaza, targeting civilian infrastructure and other
sites
  with protected status under international law. No place is safe within the
  Gaza Strip.

  Jeremy R. Hammond is the editor of Foreign Policy Journal, a website
  dedicated to providing news, critical analysis, and opinion commentary on
  U.S. foreign policy from outside of the standard framework offered by
  government officials and the mainstream corporate media, particularly with
  regard to the "war on terrorism" and events in the Middle East. He has
also
  written for numerous other online publications. You can contact him at
  jer...@foreignpolicyjournal.com.

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1        John J. Mearsheimer's "Another War, Another Defeat" wrote:

  many of us who were once wholly sympathetic to Israel now see that
  the Israelis are the victimizers and the Palestinians are the
  victims. What is happening in Gaza will accelerate that changing
  picture of the conflict and long be seen as a dark stain on Israel^Rs
  reputation.

  I think this is very true.

  Earlier, I read from Wikipedia that STRATFOR chief George Friedman has
  said that hates totalitarianism so much because of what USSR did to
  his native country Hungary.  I think when Israel goes so far as to use
  every draconian and lethal means to terrorize the Palestinian people
  into submission for its ``Greater Israel'' dream, it is giving many in
  the world who think independently for themselves an unmistakable
  impression that it has now turned itself into a totalitarian country
  which treats the weak and defenseless people of Palestine even worse
  than what the USSR did to the people of Hungary and Poland.

  Worse yet, some who used to support the creation of the Israel state
  in the Middle East because of the European persecution of Jews for
  centuries like myself are seeing a double standard: the victim of
  yesteryear, while ceaselessly repeats the refrain of the suffering of
  its forebears, is now playing the role of the forebears' oppressors on
  others, feeling no compunction about its immoral actions.  We're
  seeing the underdog which we have nursed back to health now
  ceaselessly beat up others, turning them into underdogs the world has
  now no choice but feel sympathetic for as it had once for the Jews in
  Europe.

  Read the BBC story about the Gaza doctor who has always been a man of
  peace and reconcilation with Israel and juxtapose that against his
  present suffering at the hand of Israel's indiscriminant and bloody
  assault on his people, which has now claimed the lives of three of his
  daughters and a niece, and several other also wounded.  Israel's
  propaganda machine immediately tried to repeat the refrain that itsn
  shells hit the doctor's home because Palestinians were firing from his
  building or somewhere near.  That kind of defensive talk is growing so
  old.  If this is Israel's macabre way to attain 100% peace for itself,
  then something has gone very wrong with Israel itself.  It alienates
  itself from those who try to be your friends and you say you don't
  care (by your very own action).  How can this be cool?  If the it is
  not cool in the eyes of the cool generation, how can it continue to
  swagger without the billions of US aid and political support that come
  your way each year for the next generation?

  Also look at the pictures of little children who were dressed up
  thickly but with most of their feet mostly bare, red and exposed,
  huddling near a thinly burning bonfire out in the open, amidst
  destruction, of those who stood close to the ignition of previouisly
  unburned white phosphorus left by the IDF, and of the total demolition
  of trees and buildings.  What an aftermath of abominable acts!

  President Obama and his supporters must be made aware of the massacre
  that has gone on in Gaza for the past three weeks.  They must see the
  picture of destruction in Gaza, hear the wanton destruction of large
  quantities of food and medical supplies stored at UN headquarters
  ther, and know the horror this Samaritan Palestinian doctor, Dr
  Izeldeen Abuelaish, has gone through under the bombs and bullets of
  the IDF and what he had done treating Israeli women with infertility.
  Talking about biting the hand which feeds you!

  The URL about the tragedy:
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7838465.stm

  lo yeeOn
  ========

  In article
<f6815944-b0c2-42aa-938a-fc403ea6e...@m15g2000vbl.googlegroups.com ,
  ltlee1  <ltl...@hotmail.com  wrote:
  Operationally speaking, Israeli military actions on Gaza are total
  successes. The timing is also impleccable in the sense that all
  political factions see something for themselves and the world as a
  whole is busy dealing with the financial crisis. However, ss excellent
  piece by John Mearsheimer is pointing out. The war would still lead to
  defeat in the long run.. The only question is whether the world will
  tolerate an apartheid and for how long.

  http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/jan/26/00006/

  ------------------------

  Another War, Another Defeat

  The Gaza offensive has succeeded in punishing the Palestinians but not
  in making Israel more secure.

  By John J. Mearsheimer

  Israelis and their American supporters claim that Israel learned its
  lessons well from the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war and has devised a
  winning strategy for the present war against Hamas. Of course, when a
  ceasefire comes, Israel will declare victory. Don't believe it. Israel
  has foolishly started another war it cannot win.

  The campaign in Gaza is said to have two objectives: 1) to put an end
  to the rockets and mortars that Palestinians have been firing into
  southern Israel since it withdrew from Gaza in August 2005; 2) to
  restore Israel's deterrent, which was said to be diminished by the
  Lebanon fiasco, by Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, and by its inability
  to halt Iran's nuclear program.

  But these are not the real goals of Operation Cast Lead. The actual
  purpose is connected to Israel's long-term vision of how it intends to
  live with millions of Palestinians in its midst. It is part of a
  broader strategic goal: the creation of a "Greater Israel."
  Specifically, Israel's leaders remain determined to control all of
  what used to be known as Mandate Palestine, which includes Gaza and
  the West Bank. The Palestinians would have limited autonomy in a
  handful of disconnected and economically crippled enclaves, one of
  which is Gaza. Israel would control the borders around them, movement
  between them, the air above and the water below them.

  The key to achieving this is to inflict massive pain on the
  Palestinians so that they come to accept the fact that they are a
  defeated people and that Israel will be largely responsible for
  controlling their future. This strategy, which was first articulated
  by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in the 1920s and has heavily influenced Israeli
  policy since 1948, is commonly referred to as the "Iron Wall."

  What has been happening in Gaza is fully consistent with this
  strategy.
  ...

  This brutal policy is clearly reflected in Israel's conduct of the
  Gaza War. Israel and its supporters claim that the IDF is going to
  great lengths to avoid civilian casualties, in some cases taking risks
  that put Israeli soldiers in jeopardy. Hardly. One reason to doubt
  these claims is that Israel refuses to allow reporters into the war
  zone: it does not want the world to see what its soldiers and bombs
  are doing inside Gaza. At the same time, Israel has launched a massive
  propaganda campaign to put a positive spin on the horror stories that
  do emerge.

  The best evidence, however, that Israel is deliberately seeking to
  punish the broader population in Gaza is the death and destruction the
  IDF has wrought on that small piece of real estate. Israel has killed
  over 1,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 4,000. Over half of the
  casualties are civilians, and many are children. The IDF's opening
  salvo on Dec. 27 took place as children were leaving school, and one
  of its primary targets that day was a large group of graduating police
  cadets, who hardly qualified as terrorists. In what Ehud Barak called
  "an all-out war against Hamas," Israel has targeted a university,
  schools, mosques, homes, apartment buildings, government offices, and
  even ambulances. A senior Israeli military official, speaking on the
  condition of anonymity, explained the logic behind Israel's expansive
  target set: "There are many aspects of Hamas, and we are trying to hit
  the whole spectrum, because everything is connected and everything
  supports terrorism against Israel." In other words, everyone is a
  terrorist and everything is a legitimate target.

  Israelis tend to be blunt, and they occasionally say what they are
  really doing. After the IDF killed 40 Palestinian civilians in a UN
  school on Jan. 6, Ha'aretz reported that "senior officers admit that
  the IDF has been using enormous firepower." One officer explained,
  "For us, being cautious means being aggressive. From the minute we
  entered, we've acted like we're at war. That creates enormous damage
  on the ground . I just hope those who have fled the area of Gaza City
  in which we are operating will describe the shock."

  One might accept that Israel is waging "a cruel, all-out war against
  1.5 million Palestinian civilians," as Ha'aretz put it in an
  editorial, but argue that it will eventually achieve its war aims and
  the rest of the world will quickly forget the horrors inflicted on the
  people of Gaza.

  This is wishful thinking. For starters, Israel is unlikely to stop the
  rocket fire for any appreciable period of time unless it agrees to
  open Gaza's borders and stop arresting and killing Palestinians.
  Israelis talk about cutting off the supply of rockets and mortars into
  Gaza, but weapons will continue to come in via secret tunnels and
  ships that sneak through Israel's naval blockade. It will also be
  impossible to police all of the goods sent into Gaza through
  legitimate channels.

  Israel could try to conquer all of Gaza and lock the place down. That
  would probably stop the rocket attacks if Israel deployed a large
  enough force. But then the IDF would be bogged down in a costly
  occupation against a deeply hostile population. They would eventually
  have to leave, and the rocket fire would resume. And if Israel fails
  to stop the rocket fire and keep it stopped, as seems likely, its
  deterrent will be diminished, not strengthened.

  More importantly, there is little reason to think that the Israelis
  can beat Hamas into submission and get the Palestinians to live
  quietly in a handful of Bantustans inside Greater Israel. Israel has
  been humiliating, torturing, and killing Palestinians in the Occupied
  Territories since 1967 and has not come close to cowing them. Indeed,
  Hamas's reaction to Israel's brutality seems to lend credence to
  Nietzsche's remark that what does not kill you makes you stronger.

  But even if the unexpected happens and the Palestinians cave, Israel
  would still lose because it will become an apartheid state. As Prime
  Minister Ehud Olmert recently said, Israel will "face a South African-
  style struggle" if the Palestinians do not get a viable state of their
  own. "As soon as that happens," he argued, "the state of Israel is
  finished." Yet Olmert has done nothing to stop settlement expansion
  and create a viable Palestinian state, relying instead on the Iron
  Wall strategy to deal with the Palestinians.

  There is also little chance that people around the world who follow
  the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will soon forget the appalling
  punishment that Israel is meting out in Gaza. The destruction is just
  too obvious to miss, and too many people-especially in the Arab and
  Islamic world-care about the Palestinians' fate. Moreover, discourse
  about this longstanding conflict has undergone a sea change in the
  West in recent years, and many of us who were once wholly sympathetic
  to Israel now see that the Israelis are the victimizers and the
  Palestinians are the victims. What is happening in Gaza will
  accelerate that changing picture of the conflict and long be seen as a
  dark stain on Israel's reputation.

  The bottom line is that no matter what happens on the battlefield,
  Israel cannot win its war in Gaza. In fact, it is pursuing a strategy-
  with lots of help from its so-called friends in the Diaspora-that is
  placing its long-term future at risk.
  __________________________________________

  John J. Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at the
  University of Chicago and coauthor of The Israel Lobby and U.S.
  Foreign Policy.

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1        On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:01:15 -0000, "Bishop George"
   <geo...@thesynod.com   wrote:

    "DoD" <danskisan...@gmail.com   wrote in message
    news:d9bef20a-9d43-4701-ac73-403d1db28608@l38g2000vba.googlegroups.com...
    Israel's fight for survival is not only against Hamas, Hezbollah, and
    their state sponsors Syria and Iran. Equally formidable, if more
    insidious, are those in the West whose virulent hatred of Israel
    imperils her existence<

    Typical hyperbole - 'virulent hatred'.....

    No, the majority of Westerners have no 'hatred' for Israel - but Israel,
    itself, seems to be working overtime to achieve just that.

    What decent people hate is not 'Israel' - but an horrific war aimed
squarely
    at civilians.  They hate the thought of little children burned to the
bone
    by Israeli phosphorous shells - and they hate the thought that they have
    provided the money that paid for these abominations.

    If ever there was a time for Jews of common sense and goodwill (of whom
    there are many) to speak out strongly against the horrors being
perpetrated
    in their name, then it is now.

    There is self-evidently a 'mad dog' element within Israel that is
heaping up  crimes of such magnitude that the tacit support enjoyed by that
country
among western nations will quickly evaporate - and if that cuts off the
billions paid to Israel in foreign aid, the nation will be alone and
defenceless, possessing only the means to bring about the pyrrhic victory of
total world destruction.

2           Israel has always been alone, for the very good reason that
Israel has been acting illegally and callously. Committing war crimes and
ignoring UN resolutions on it's inhumane and unreasonable policies foisted
on her helpless unarmed citizens.

3        http://alt-activism-death-penalty.info/dictionary.html
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   Palestinian Children found with bullets lodged in their head

   Cairo: Doctors operating the only brain-scanning machine at an
   Egyptian hospital near Gaza have been almost overwhelmed by the number
   of Palestinian children arriving with bullet wounds to the head.

   http://jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com/2009/01/palestinian-children-found-with...

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 I saw her on ch 9415.  A demonstrating woman being interviewed said:
 "Americans should support what Israel is doing right now because Jews
 gave Christians Jesus."  WOW!

 That's what I call: playing the "Jesus card."

 Because, forty million Americans don't believe in Jesus; plus, the
fable states: Jews KILLED Jesus, not GAVE Jesus to Christians; plus,
 Jesus preached love, not genocidal mass murder.

 That's why I'm calling it: playing the "Jesus card" to justify
 genocide of human beings.  I hope no Christians fall for it.

 Jews should commit genocide in the name of *their* god only.

                  God's Favorite Fascists

      T'is not the Nazis' station to claim
        They did not aggress in His name

   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Zionist crimes according to Israeli media
 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82696§ionid=351020202

 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:01:32 GMT

A leading Israeli newspaper has exposed just how lopsided the Israeli
 media coverage and world views of the Palestinian conflict are.

   An article titled History did not begin with the Qassams published by
   Ha'aretz provides an insight into the reality of Zionist oppression
   against the Palestinians.

   "The Israeli media prescribes a strict low-information, low-truth diet
   for its consumers, one rich in generals and their ilk. It is modest,
   and does not boast of our achievements: the slain children and the
   bodies rotting under the ruins, the wounded who bleed to death because
   our soldiers shoot at the ambulance crews," reads the article.

   "The little girls whose legs were amputated due to horrible wounds
   caused by various types of weaponry, the devastated fathers shedding
   bitter tears, the residential neighborhoods that have been
   obliterated, the terrible burns caused by white phosphorus, and the
   mini-transfer - the tens of thousands of people who have been expelled
   from their homes."

   The publication comes as Israel is increasingly being accused of lying
   and using the label 'anti-Semitism' to justify the humanitarian crisis
   it has provoked in Gaza.

   "The Israeli public relations machinery happily presented the
   disengagement as the end of the occupation, in brazen disregard of the
   facts. The isolation and closure were presented as military
   necessities. But we are big boys and girls, and we know that "military
   necessities" and consistent lies serve state goals," writes Amira
   Hass.

   Major news sources have also criticized Israel for its coverage of the
   Gaza attacks.

   "While international media have focused on Israel's assault on Gaza,
   including the deaths of more than 900 Palestinians, Israeli media are
   reporting the war through a different prism. With almost no access to
   Gaza, and an overwhelming sense the offensive is just, they have
   emphasized the Israeli side, which has suffered 13 deaths," AP
   reported on January 14.

   Israel has so far killed 1,200 Palestinians and wounded over 5,300
   others in an offensive that began on December 27.

   Tel Aviv says its attacks are directed at ending rocket attacks on
   southern Israel.

   Hamas, the democratically-elected ruler of the coastal sliver, demands
   a cessation of an 18-month Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip before
   its fighters suspend the rocket attacks.

   MJ/AA

   ...
   If death to Israel necessitates death to Amerika ..........very well.
   zzz

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   "Eric Gisse" <jowr...@gmail.com   wrote:
   Koobee Wublee <koobee.wub...@gmail.com   wrote:
   --[  http://tinyurl.com/9ggl28  ]--

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/in-pictures-gaza-massacre/

   ... long before that the Jewish Neocons, like Paul Wolfowitz, Perle,
   the Wurmsers, Feith et.al. (all of them  being JerUSAlem
   cockroaches whose first loyalty belongs to Israel  instead of the
   USA) have goaded GW Bush, the fool, into starting the war in Iraq,
   in March 2003 & getting our Goyim kids to do the bleeding and
   dying  to avenge the kikes!... .because Hussein had lobed a few
   missiles into Tel Aviv during the  first Gulf war in 1991... in his
   retaliation for the kikes' having bombed of Iraq's reactor in 1984...

   ... and now, with Gaza-2009  being in full swing in Jan 2009, the kikes
   in Israel and the JerUSAlem cockroaches here in the US are already
   making propaganda and are agitating for our Goyim kids do more
   bleeding & dying again for the kikes' agenda in these new, coming
   wars of the kikes against Iran and Syria...

   ...& let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas.
   According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of
   Jerusalem, "Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the
   Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)".
   --[  http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.html  ]---

   Cong. Dr. Ron Paul  (R-Texas): Israel Created Hamas!
   --[  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6vMAoFwf4  ]---

   Cong Dr. Ron Paul  (R-Texas): The world blames USA for Israel's wars.
   --[  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C756NOPyDA&feature=related  ]---

   .... and then there is this....  titled: *** "If Americans only knew" ***
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjYHP91gA&feature=related

   I don't mind what the kikes do as long as they finance their own agenda
   themselves! But the kikes involving the US-Goyim, who already gave/gives
   them, the kikes, for the last 60 years, $3-7 Billion dollars, each year,
   money that is extorted off the kitchen tables from poor American
families,
   THAT travesty must be stopped. Just ask yourself:

   ****  What have we, the US, ever gotten back from Israel? *****   [1=PS]

   All we ever got back from the kikes was mayhem and the hatred of
   the whole world onto us. .... The jerUSAlem cockroaches' explanation
   that "Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East" is self-serving,
   meaningless Jew shit excuse that is designed to be lapped up by the
   Evangelical nuts who are stupid enough to think that the Jews will
   make and turn the Second  Coming of Christ in a reality for them...

   As long as we, the US, helps and elects Jews into our government,
   we do deserve all the shit and hardship that's descending onto us...

   Here is the religious & spiritual character of the kikes...
   .....  the kikes who do take on also the Christians as expressed by
   the legendary Jewish intelligence of this Settler here, him saying:
   ::J:: "You and your fucking Jesus, kiss my ass!... Screw you, screw
   ::J:: your mothers!... Go away, you Nazi (to a British Film crew)... I'll
   ::J:: brake your camera... We killed Jesus and we are proud of it....
   ::J:: This is our land!.. Get the fuck out of here!.. This is my land,
you
   ::J:: Fuck!... You son of a bitch, we are gonna kill you (the Brits) and
   ::J:: the Palestinians, you Nazi!... You son of a shit!... This is my
land
   ::J:: God gave it to me!... Fuck you!.. Call everyone you want; I'm
   ::J:: gonna kill you, Bastards!.. This is my house!... This is my
land!...
   ::J:: God gave it to me!... and FUCK YOU!... " --- See the show here:
   ::J::  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-bVIcRTwYg --- ... or here
   ::J:: --- http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e1842edc4f ...

   and ....
   ## ----------- The Sephardic Holocaust made by Jews   -----------------
   ## On Aug 14, 04, at 9 PM, Israel's Channel Ten television screened
   ## a documentary film which exposes the ugliest secret of Israel's
   ## Labor party founders: the deliberate mass radiation poisoning
   ## of nearly all Sephardi youths of a generation.... a "show" about
   ## how Israel, in 1951, just 6 years after the Nazi-caused atrocity
   ## ended... the **Jews continued the holocaust** onto 100-thousands
   ## of their own Jews, and children at that .... Read the horrific details
   ## here in  -------  http://web.israelinsider.com/views/3998.htm --------
   of nearly all Sephardi youths of a generation.

   As long as we, the US, help and elects Jews into our government,
   we do deserve all the shit and hardship that's descending onto us...

   [PS=1]
   Eric, here is how you can do even more for the success of your heroes:

   It is utterly fascinating to see how the Goyim/Non-Jewish population
   of the USA got sold, snookered and conned into doing the bidding
   of the kikes' agenda with them being only 3% of the US population:

   == In the 1950 and ever since, the  DeBeers Diamond Cartel,
   owned by the Jewish Openheimer Family has convinced every little
   bride in the US that her suitor is only worth her love if he buys her a
   useless diamond, costing him, the poor sod, $2500... ahahaha...
   Unless (or even if) your are gay, Eric, you should look forward to
   this, to pay off first some Yid before you are allowed get married...
   **** "A diamond is forever!" ****, "Trust me!"... "Go figure!" ahaha....

   == Not surprisingly, also since the 1950's, with the kikes incessantly
   feeding WWII stories on TV about Jews in Concentration Camps, the
   kikes who run the holocaust industry in the USA, have managed and
   convinced  the *** US Goyim people to feel far more guilty*** then
   the Germans are about the plight of the Jews.. and once that was
   achieved the JerUSAlem cockroaches milked the brainwashed
   US-goyim with a vengence... to the tune of 3-7 Billion dollars each
   Year for the last 60 years... ahahahaha... ahahahaha...

   As long as we, the US, help and elects Jews into our government,
   we do deserve all the shit and hardship that's descending onto us...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfhoU66s4Y&e

 "This is a shocking incident," said Pierre Wettach, the Red Cross's
 head of delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories. "The
 Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not
 assist the wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the
 Palestine Red Crescent to assist the wounded."
Israels response was to cluster bomb the
 Christian enclave in Beirut. People that had nothing to do with the
 fighting. Jews are yellow dog, backstabbing cowards.

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1        The True Story Behind this War Is Not The One Israel Is Telling

    By Johann Hari

    January 03, 2009

    The world isn't just watching the Israeli government commit a crime in
    Gaza; we are watching it self-harm. This morning, and tomorrow morning,
    and every morning until this punishment beating ends, the young people
    of the Gaza Strip are going to be more filled with hate, and more
    determined to fight back, with stones or suicide vests or rockets.
    Israeli leaders have convinced themselves that the harder you beat the
    Palestinians, the softer they will become. But when this is over, the
    rage against Israelis will have hardened, and the same old compromises
    will still be waiting by the roadside of history, untended and unmade.

    To understand how frightening it is to be a Gazan this morning, you need
    to have stood in that small slab of concrete by the Mediterranean and
    smelled the claustrophobia. The Gaza Strip is smaller than the Isle of
    Wight but it is crammed with 1.5 million people who can never leave.
    They live out their lives on top of each other, jobless and hungry, in
    vast, sagging tower blocks. From the top floor, you can often see the
    borders of their world: the Mediterranean, and Israeli barbed wire. When
    bombs begin to fall - as they are doing now with more deadly force than
    at any time since 1967 - there is nowhere to hide.

    There will now be a war over the story of this war. The Israeli
    government says, "We withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and in return we got
    Hamas and Qassam rockets being rained on our cities. Sixteen civilians
    have been murdered. How many more are we supposed to sacrifice?" It is a
    plausible narrative, and there are shards of truth in it, but it is also
    filled with holes. If we want to understand the reality and really stop
    the rockets, we need to rewind a few years and view the run-up to this
    war dispassionately.

    The Israeli government did indeed withdraw from the Gaza Strip in 2005 -
    in order to be able to intensify control of the West Bank. Ariel
    Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weisglass, was unequivocal about this,
    explaining: "The disengagement [from Gaza] is actually formaldehyde. It
    supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so that there will
    not be a political process with the Palestinians... this whole package
    that is called the Palestinian state has been removed from our agenda
    indefinitely."

    Ordinary Palestinians were horrified by this, and by the fetid
    corruption of their own Fatah leaders, so they voted for Hamas. It
    certainly wouldn't have been my choice - an Islamist party is
    antithetical to all my convictions - but we have to be honest. It was a
    free and democratic election, and it was not a rejection of a two-state
    solution. The most detailed polling of Palestinians, by the University
    of Maryland, found that 72 per cent want a two-state solution on the
    1967 borders, while fewer than 20 per cent want to reclaim the whole of
    historic Palestine. So, partly in response to this pressure, Hamas
    offered Israel a long, long ceasefire and a de facto acceptance of two
    states, if only Israel would return to its legal borders.

    Rather than seize this opportunity and test Hamas's sincerity, the
    Israeli government reacted by punishing the entire civilian population.
    It announced that it was blockading the Gaza Strip in order to
    "pressure" its people to reverse the democratic process. The Israelis
    surrounded the Strip and refused to let anyone or anything out. They let
    in a small trickle of food, fuel and medicine - but not enough for
    survival. Weisglass quipped that the Gazans were being "put on a diet".
    According to Oxfam, only 137 trucks of food were allowed into Gaza last
    month to feed 1.5 million people. The United Nations says poverty has
    reached an "unprecedented level." When I was last in besieged Gaza, I
    saw hospitals turning away the sick because their machinery and medicine
    was running out. I met hungry children stumbling around the streets,
    scavenging for food.

    It was in this context - under a collective punishment designed to
    topple a democracy - that some forces within Gaza did something immoral:
    they fired Qassam rockets indiscriminately at Israeli cities. These
    rockets have killed 16 Israeli citizens. This is abhorrent: targeting
    civilians is always murder. But it is hypocritical for the Israeli
    government to claim now to speak out for the safety of civilians when it
    has been terrorising civilians as a matter of state policy.

    The American and European governments are responding with a
    lop-sidedness that ignores these realities. They say that Israel cannot
    be expected to negotiate while under rocket fire, but they demand that
    the Palestinians do so under siege in Gaza and violent military
    occupation in the West Bank.

    Before it falls down the memory hole, we should remember that last week,
    Hamas offered a ceasefire in return for basic and achievable
    compromises. Don't take my word for it. According to the Israeli press,
    Yuval Diskin, the current head of the Israeli security service Shin Bet,
    "told the Israeli cabinet [on 23 December] that Hamas is interested in
    continuing the truce, but wants to improve its terms." Diskin explained
    that Hamas was requesting two things: an end to the blockade, and an
    Israeli ceasefire on the West Bank. The cabinet - high with election
    fever and eager to appear tough - rejected these terms.

    The core of the situation has been starkly laid out by Ephraim Halevy,
    the former head of Mossad. He says that while Hamas militants - like
    much of the Israeli right-wing - dream of driving their opponents away,
    "they have recognised this ideological goal is not attainable and will
    not be in the foreseeable future." Instead, "they are ready and willing
    to see the establishment of a Palestinian state in the temporary borders
    of 1967." They are aware that this means they "will have to adopt a path
    that could lead them far from their original goals" - and towards a
    long-term peace based on compromise.

    The rejectionists on both sides - from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to
    Bibi Netanyahu of Israel - would then be marginalized. It is the only
    path that could yet end in peace but it is the Israeli government that
    refuses to choose it. Halevy explains: "Israel, for reasons of its own,
    did not want to turn the ceasefire into the start of a diplomatic
    process with Hamas."

    Why would Israel act this way? The Israeli government wants peace, but
    only one imposed on its own terms, based on the acceptance of defeat by
    the Palestinians. It means the Israelis can keep the slabs of the West
    Bank on "their" side of the wall. It means they keep the largest
    settlements and control the water supply. And it means a divided
    Palestine, with responsibility for Gaza hived off to Egypt, and the
    broken-up West Bank standing alone. Negotiations threaten this vision:
    they would require Israel to give up more than it wants to. But an
    imposed peace will be no peace at all: it will not stop the rockets or
    the rage. For real safety, Israel will have to talk to the people it is
    blockading and bombing today, and compromise with them.

    The sound of Gaza burning should be drowned out by the words of the
    Israeli writer Larry Derfner. He says: "Israel's war with Gaza has to be
    the most one-sided on earth... If the point is to end it, or at least
    begin to end it, the ball is not in Hamas's court - it is in ours."

    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/
    johann-hari-the-true-story-behind-this-war-is-not-the-one-israel-is-telling -1214981.html

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    Battles rage in Gaza as envoys appeal for truce

    By Nidal al-Mughrabi Nidal Al-mughrabi -

    GAZA (Reuters)

    The death toll in besieged Gaza rose on Monday to at least 530 people.
    Victims included three Palestinian children and their mother when a tank
    shell hit their home in Gaza City and seven members of another family
were
    killed in a refugee camp.

    Bombs on Monday hit a hospital morgue where a family were mourning a
    paramedic killed in an airstrike on Sunday. Three people were killed and
17
    wounded, medical workers said.

    "We were sitting in the mourning tent when suddenly they bombed us, we
ran
    to rush the casualties to hospitals but they bombed again," Abdel-Dayem
told
    Reuters.

    Gaza residents were in dire need of food, medical supplies and other aid
but
    the hostilities were hampering relief efforts, aid agencies said.

    At a house at the Beach refugee camp, Umm Ala Mrad sat on a mattress
    surrounded by her nine children. An Israeli warship intermittently fired
    shells, hitting buildings by the shore.

    "Every time a shell is fired from the sea I rush to carry my children
out of
    the house. But how and what should I do, who should I carry first and
who
    should I leave for a next go," she asked a reporter.

    --
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    http://johnnyasia.net

    "If you want to know what the future of
    music sounds like..listen to Johnny Asia,
    then you'll know!"   - Jazz Guitarist Dom Minasi

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Subject: Israeli rabbi backs Jewish suicide attacks  Organization: Copyright
1997 by Reuters  Lines: 43   Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 9:22:44 PDT

If you can wade through the jolly jolly Israelis bearing up so well on their
muderous you can find this jewell on time and dates given.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7805075.stm
 http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0&feature=related
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjYHP91gA&feature=related
http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh28/BenCramer1/?action=view&curre...

You could see the photos at:
http://islammyreligion.wordpress.com

These are the photos of Israel Barbarism on Palestine. The pictures
speak for themselves.

Photo of an Israeli soldier pointing gun at a terrified child in front
of his father and mother. Is the soldier still human or a heartless
monster?

Photo of a dead child killed by Israel.

Photo of a dead baby killed by Israel

Photo of an American and English women killed by Israel soldiers.

Israel is keep taking Palestinian land. That is why the Palestinians
which is called "Terrorists" by Israel and its cronies fight the
Israel back.

Israel can killed the Palestinians with illegal clustered missiles and
chemical weapons launched from jet fighters and helicopters that
supplied by US government. Israel can kill Palestine children and
babies as much as they want without any sanction with support of US
government.

US government give billions of dollar from US Taxpayers to Israel.

US government will veto every resolution that condemn Israel Barbarism
because no one could be US president without the support of US Jewish
millionaires' fund and mass media (such as CNN).

Israel bomb UN School that killed 34 children without invasion
sanction such as US do in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not even economic
sanction that Iran received from US Government.

Who will help the children and babies of Palestine from Israel
Barbarism?
Please spread these photos (in www.islammyreligion.wordpress.com) to
your friend an family. Don't let them die without people know or
remember.

Israel propagandists are very good. They slaughter Palestinians. Yet
they succeed convincing people that the victims are the terrorists.

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    TheZ wrote:
       We are moving into phase 3 now. Too bad there was no IDF when Herr
       Shickelgruber was trying to genocide the world.

    You have to be kidding. The Wehrmacht would have rolled the IDF into a
    ball of fertilizer and shoved up back up the collective Jewish ass. The
    IDF has never went up against an equally armed adversary. You do
    remember the fabled Elite Goliani divisions running back to Israel with
    tears in their eyes from a few ragtag poorly armed and underfed
    Hezzbolah fighters in Lebanon. Israels response was to cluster bomb the
    Christian enclave in Beirut. People that had nothing to do with the
    fighting. Jews are yellow dog, backstabbing cowards.

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                          Inbred Brood

                   Hideous, insidious Israel
                   Your genocidal ways
                   Are such a crime
                   You'll pass from time
                   I'm counting your last days

                     USA Freak Show

                   Freaks-of-Nature
                   Control our legislature
                   So we voters all lose
                   Except for the Jews

          American Democracy is Zionist Tyranny -- Senate Democrats are
Dirty
          Whores for Uncle Sam's mass-murdering evil little ally: Israel.

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Senate Democrats endorse Israeli war crimes
          http://www.palestinianmothers.com/profiles/blogs/senate-democrats-end...
          By Bill Van Auken
          9 January 2009

          As evidence of Israeli war crimes mounted and amid signs that the
          Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are launching a new and even bloodier
          phase of the two-week war against the embattled people of Gaza,
the
          Democratic leadership of the US Senate Thursday led the passage of
a
          bipartisan resolution endorsing Israel's actions. The resolution
          passed by a unanimous voice vote.

          The resolution begins by "recognizing the right of Israel to
defend
          itself against attacks from Gaza and reaffirming the United
States'
          strong support for Israel in its battle with Hamas."

          The preamble of the document contains 12 paragraphs vilifying
Hamas as
          a "terrorist" organization and blaming it entirely for the ongoing
war
          in Gaza. It includes one brief mention of the "humanitarian
situation
          in Gaza," but quickly adds that Israel has "facilitated
humanitarian
          aid."

          It goes on to declare "vigorous support and unwavering commitment
to
          the welfare, security and survival of the State of Israel as a
Jewish
          and democratic state with secure borders" and to recognize
Israel's
          "right to act in self-defense to protect its citizens against acts
of
          terrorism."

          It then demands that Hamas halt all rocket attacks, renounce
violence,
          recognize Israel and accept all previous Palestinian-Israeli
          agreements.

          That Israel should curtail its blitzkrieg against the people of
Gaza,
          which has claimed the lives of nearly 800 men, women and children
and
          left over 3,200 others wounded, is not even remotely suggested by
the
          Senate resolution.

          Speaking before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(Democrat
          from Nevada) declared, "When we pass this resolution, the United
          States Senate will strengthen our historic bond with the state of
          Israel, by reaffirming Israel's inalienable right to defend
against
          attacks from Gaza."

          Reid invited his Senate colleagues to "imagine that happening here
in
          the United States. Rockets and mortars coming from Toronto in
Canada
          into Buffalo, New York. How would we as a country react?"

          While the absurd analogy must have proved unsettling for
Canadians,
          one might just as well imagine how the population of New York
state
          would react if Canada invaded, seized their homes and land and
herded
          them all into Buffalo, subjecting them and their children to
military
          occupation, near starvation and continuous armed attacks.

          Chiming in his agreement, the resolution's co-sponsor, Republican
          Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, added, "The
          Israelis . are responding exactly the same way we would." Indeed,
it
          is no accident that the Israeli media have described the military
          onslaught against Gaza as "shock and awe."

          Under conditions in which masses of people all over the world are
          expressing shock and revulsion over the one-sided slaughter that
the
          Zionist military machine has unleashed against the virtually
          defenseless population of Gaza, this resolution is an obscenity.

          It is another telling piece of evidence that the Democratic Party
and
          its elected officials represent not the sentiments or wishes of
the
          American people, but rather those of a narrow ruling elite that is
          committed to advancing its aims through militarism and is utterly
          indifferent to the fate of the working class, the poor and the
          oppressed in Palestine, the US or any other country.

          While president-elect Barack Obama has maintained a discreet
silence
          on Washington's policy toward the bloodbath in Gaza since it began
          nearly two weeks ago, the resolution backed by his former
Democratic
          colleagues in the US Senate speaks eloquently for him.

          There is no question that an Obama administration will maintain US
          imperialism's backing for Israeli aggression and repression of the
          Palestinian people and will continue funneling the over $3 billion
in
          annual military aid that provides the Israeli Defense Forces with
the
          weaponry now being used to massacre innocent civilians.

          In another indication that in this crucial foreign policy arena
the
          former candidate of "change" will carry out a policy of essential
          continuity with that of his predecessor, it was announced Thursday
          that former US diplomat Dennis Ross has been tapped to serve as
the
          Obama administration's "ambassador at large" and chief adviser on
the
          Middle East.

          The announcement came first from Ross's present employer, the
          Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a pro-Israeli
think
          tank that he joined after leaving the State Department in 2001.
WINEP
          was founded by Martin Indyk, a research director for the American
          Israeli Political Action Committee who was later appointed US
          ambassador to Israel.

          Ross also became a foreign affairs analyst for Fox News and a
          supporter of the Project for the New American Century's campaign
for a
          US war against Iraq in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001
          attacks. He later joined the steering committee of the I. Lewis
Libby
          Defense Fund, organized to support the former chief of staff to
Vice
          President Dick Cheney who was convicted in connection with the
leaking
          of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name in retaliation for her husband's
          exposure of the Bush administration's phony case for the Iraq war.

          While Ross was a leading figure in US-brokered talks between
Israel
          and the Palestinians, all of the so-called peace initiatives that
he
          helped push through quickly failed. According to one Arab
negotiator
          quoted in a book on these negotiations, "The perception always was
          that Dennis started from the Israeli bottom line, that he listened
to
          what Israel wanted and then tried to sell it to the Arabs. He was
          never looked at . as a trusted world figure or as an honest
broker."

          Ross's role was essentially that of Israel's attorney, justifying
its
          every violation of previous agreements while demonizing
Palestinian
          leader Yassir Arafat as wholly responsible for the breakdown of
the
          Camp David negotiations.

          Speaking at a synagogue in Maryland earlier this week, Ross took
the
          same line as the Bush administration on the ongoing war against
Gaza,
          declaring that the US should support a cease-fire only if it
          guarantees that Hamas "can't rebuild." The Jewish Telegraphic
Agency,
          a New York-based news agency which reported the speech, wrote that
          Ross added that "Israel left Lebanon and Gaza, and in both
instances,
          'things got a whole lot worse'-which doesn't provide much
confidence
          about a withdrawal from the West Bank."

          Assured of continued backing from both the current and the
incoming US
          administrations, the Israeli government is intensifying its
criminal
          war against the people of Gaza.

          The United Nations agency responsible for providing food and other
          basic necessities to the vast bulk of Gaza's population announced
          Thursday that it is suspending operations in the Israeli-occupied
          territory because of what it described as the "deliberate
targeting"
          of its aid workers, which made it impossible to guarantee their
lives
          and safety.

          The action, which threatens to deepen what is already a
humanitarian
          catastrophe, came after Israeli tanks shelled a UN convoy, killing
two
          Palestinian forklift drivers and wounding two other aid workers.
They
          were in trucks headed to the Erez crossing with Israel to pick up
food
          and other humanitarian supplies during what the Israelis had
claimed
          was a three-hour suspension of firing meant to facilitate such
          distributions.

          "They were coordinating their movements with the Israelis, as they
          always do, only to find themselves being fired at from the ground
          troops," John Ging, the head of United Nations Relief and Works
Agency
          (UNRWA) in Gaza, told the news agency Al Jazeera.

          In another incident, a UNRWA driver was shot to death by Israeli
          troops near the Kerem Shalom border crossing at the northern end
of
          the Gaza Strip.

          Israeli forces also fired on a convoy of three UN vehicles during
a
          Thursday mission to recover the body of another aid worker killed
in a
          previous attack.

          UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said that the series of deaths made
it
          impossible to resume operations until "the Israeli army can
guarantee
          the safety and security of UN personnel. Gunness charged Israel
with
          "deliberately targeting" aid workers, stressing that all of the
          locations of UN facilities and movements by its personnel are
          communicated to the Israeli military.

          This development follows the IDF's shelling Tuesday of the UN's
school
          in the Jabalya refugee camp, which killed 45 people in one of the
          worst atrocities since the Israeli attacks began.

          UN officials have stressed that Israel's so-called "humanitarian
          corridor," opened three hours a day between relentless
bombardments
          and killings, is wholly inadequate to distribute food to any
          significant portion of Gaza's population.

          The attacks on UN personnel represent only one manifestation of a
          criminal policy of "total war" against Gaza's population.

          One unintentional byproduct of the three-hour suspensions of
Israeli
          bombardments is that they have served to further expose the
atrocities
          perpetrated in the two-week operation as bodies are dug from the
          rubble and wounded survivors are retrieved from their homes.

          In one of the most appalling incidents, the International Red
Cross in
          Geneva reported that on Wednesday its aid workers discovered four
          starving children lying next to their dead mothers in a house in
the
          Zaytuon neighborhood south of Gaza City. The Red Cross had been
trying
          since Saturday to send ambulances into the area, but only received
          permission from the Israeli military on Wednesday. The delay was a
          death sentence for many wounded civilians in the area.

          Medical crews from the Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent
          reported finding 12 corpses lying on mattresses in the house
together
          with the children and their murdered mothers. The children were so
          weak from hunger that they were unable to stand.

          The medical teams were compelled to evacuate surviving wounded on
          donkey carts because the Israeli military would not allow
ambulances
          into the area. The Israeli troops threatened to fire on the
ambulance
          teams if they did not leave, but the medical workers refused to
stop
          their work until they were actually shot at.

          The Red Cross issued a rare denunciation of Israeli actions,
calling
          them unacceptable and charging the Israeli government with having
          "failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian
law to
          care for and evacuate the wounded." In other words, it accused the
          Israeli regime of having carried out a war crime.

          "This is a shocking incident," said Pierre Wettach, the Red
Cross's
          head of delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories.
"The
          Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not
          assist the wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or
the
          Palestine Red Crescent to assist the wounded."

          The Geneva Conventions specify that warring parties must ensure
"all
          possible measures to search for and collect the wounded and sick"
and
          stipulates that the wounded "shall not willfully be left without
          medical assistance and care."

          Meanwhile, according to press reports, the Israeli cabinet has
already
          voted to move ahead with a "third phase" of the operation, sending
          Israeli troops into the densely populated streets and alleys of
Gaza
          City and other urban areas. "The next phase is inevitable," one
senior
          Israeli official told Time magazine.

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Ø                    The True Story Behind this War Is Not The One Israel Is
Telling

    By Johann Hari

    January 03, 2009

    The world isn't just watching the Israeli government commit a crime in
    Gaza; we are watching it self-harm. This morning, and tomorrow morning,
    and every morning until this punishment beating ends, the young people
    of the Gaza Strip are going to be more filled with hate, and more
    determined to fight back, with stones or suicide vests or rockets.
    Israeli leaders have convinced themselves that the harder you beat the
    Palestinians, the softer they will become. But when this is over, the
    rage against Israelis will have hardened, and the same old compromises
    will still be waiting by the roadside of history, untended and unmade.

    To understand how frightening it is to be a Gazan this morning, you need
    to have stood in that small slab of concrete by the Mediterranean and
    smelled the claustrophobia. The Gaza Strip is smaller than the Isle of
    Wight but it is crammed with 1.5 million people who can never leave.
    They live out their lives on top of each other, jobless and hungry, in
    vast, sagging tower blocks. From the top floor, you can often see the
    borders of their world: the Mediterranean, and Israeli barbed wire. When
    bombs begin to fall - as they are doing now with more deadly force than
    at any time since 1967 - there is nowhere to hide.

    There will now be a war over the story of this war. The Israeli
    government says, "We withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and in return we got
    Hamas and Qassam rockets being rained on our cities. Sixteen civilians
    have been murdered. How many more are we supposed to sacrifice?" It is a
    plausible narrative, and there are shards of truth in it, but it is also
    filled with holes. If we want to understand the reality and really stop
    the rockets, we need to rewind a few years and view the run-up to this
    war dispassionately.

    The Israeli government did indeed withdraw from the Gaza Strip in 2005 -
    in order to be able to intensify control of the West Bank. Ariel
    Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weisglass, was unequivocal about this,
    explaining: "The disengagement [from Gaza] is actually formaldehyde. It
    supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so that there will
    not be a political process with the Palestinians... this whole package
    that is called the Palestinian state has been removed from our agenda
    indefinitely."