Re: Wilders: "we are all Israel" - Oh going to SET UP a legal torture chamber too?
mose
CHECK THE Talmud
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6657600254881054584&hl=en
CHECK THE WHOLE HOLOHOAXING BUNCH.
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/debate/009_jam.html
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/IsraelsTortureBan.html
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>>>>> Fanatical Muzzies are like Hitler they want to kill Jews.
>>>>> God Bless Israel and the final victory as predicted in Revelations.
>>>> You utter twat, "Adrian".
>>> WELL IF YOU ARE JEWISH YOU ARE A CLEVER LITTLE FELLA, IF NOT? IT'S
>>> CALLED CUTTING YOUR OWN THROAT.
>>>
>
> 16 year-old Iranian girl publically executed by Islamic Police for
> "crimes against chastity"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ES&hl=es&v=tW1-_JmXQt0&feature=related
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.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqQVqsOw4U&feature=related
>http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/IsraelsTortureBan.html
>
I'm not here to exchange notes on your bestial nazi genocidal regime and
any others in the MIDEAST.BUT FOR YOU - YOUR BESTIAL NAZI SOLDIERS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7805075.stm
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.
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-years-of-ethnic-cleansing-and-mass-murder/
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://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090126/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazareligion_20090126142333
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.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_158078.html
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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/article5575070.ece
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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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
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-increasing.html
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-lies-about-israels-assault-on-gaza.html
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...@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"
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"DoD" <danski...@gmail.com wrote in message
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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-bullets.html
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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
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If death to Israel necessitates death to Amerika ..........very well.
zzz
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"Eric Gisse" <jow...@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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Pucker your lips for the Apocalypse!
Johnny Asia, Guitarist from the Future
http://music.download.com/johnnyasia
"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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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_philosophy&Number=471285&t=-1
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¤t=YidKidsinHebron.jpg
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-endorse
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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� 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."
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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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You could see the photos at:
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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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Rights group: Israel uses white phosphorus in Gaza
JERUSALEM - Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has
fired
artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza
and a
doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn
victims
who had skin peeling off their faces and bodies.
Researchers in Israel from the rights group witnessed hours of artillery
bombardments that sent trails of burning smoke indicating white
phosphorus
over the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. But they could not
confirm
injuries on the ground because they have been barred from entering the
territory.
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1 Blueprint for Gaza attack was long planned
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
13 January 2009
Jonathan Cook argues that the blueprint for the Israeli invasion of was
drawn up probably 18 months ago, when the democratically-elected Hamas
foiled a US-backed coup plot by its chief rival, Fatah.
As Israel rejected the terms of the proposed United Nations ceasefire at
the weekend, Israeli military analysts were speculating on the nature of
the next stage of the attack on Gaza, or the "third phase" of the
fighting as it is being referred to.
Having struck thousands of targets from the air in the first phase,
followed by a ground invasion that saw troops push into much of Gaza, a
third phase would involve a significant expansion of these operations.
It would require the deployment of thousands of reserve soldiers, who
are completing their training on bases in the Negev, and the destruction
and seizure of built-up areas closer to the heart of Gaza City, Hamas's
key stronghold. The number of civilian casualties could be expected to
rise rapidly.
A fourth phase, the overthrow of Hamas and direct reoccupation of Gaza,
is apparently desired neither by the army nor Israel's political
leadership, which fears the economic and military costs.
An expansion of "Operation Cast Lead" is expected in the next few days
should Israel decide that negotiations at the UN and elsewhere are not
to its liking. Israeli warplanes have dropped leaflets warning Gaza
residents of an imminent escalation: "Stay safe by following our orders."
Last week Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, warned that the army had
still not exhausted its military options.
Those options have long been in preparation, as the defence minister,
Ehud Barak, admitted early on in the offensive. He said he and the army
had been planning the attack for at least six months. In fact,
indications are that the invasion's blueprint was drawn up much earlier,
probably 18 months ago.
It was then that Hamas foiled a coup plot by its chief rival, Fatah,
backed by the United States. The flight of many Gazan members of Fatah
to the West Bank convinced Mr Barak that Israel's lengthy blockade of
the tiny enclave alone would not bring Hamas to heel.
Mr Barak began expanding the blockade to include shortages of
electricity and fuel. It was widely assumed that this was designed to
pressure the civilian population of Gaza to rebel against Hamas.
However, it may also have been a central plank of Barak's military
strategy: any general knows that it is easier to fight an army - or in
this case a militia - that is tired, cold and hungry. More so if the
fighters' family and friends are starving too.
A few months later, Mr Barak's loyal deputy, Matan Vilnai, made his now
infamous comment that, should the rocket fire continue, Gazans would
face a "shoah" - the Hebrew word for holocaust.
The shoah remark was quickly disowned, but at the same time Mr Barak and
his team began proposing to the cabinet tactics that could be used in a
military assault.
These aggressive measures were designed to "send Gaza decades into the
past", as the head of the army command in Gaza, Yoav Galant, described
Israel's attack on its opening day.
The plan, as the local media noted in March, required directing
artillery fire and air strikes at civilian neighbourhoods from which
rockets were fired, despite being a violation of international law.
Legal advisers, Mr Barak noted, were seeking ways to avoid such
prohibitions, presumably in the hope the international community would
turn a blind eye.
One early success on this front were the air strikes against police
stations that opened the offensive and killed dozens. In international
law, policemen are regarded as non-combatants - a fact that was almost
universally overlooked.
But Israel has also struck a range of patently civilian targets,
including government buildings, universities, mosques and medical
clinics, as well as schools. It has tried to argue, with less success,
that the connection between these public institutions and Hamas, the
enclave's ruler, make them legitimate targets.
A second aspect of the military strategy was to declare areas of Gaza
"combat zones" in which the army would have free rein and from which
residents would be expected to flee. If they did not, they would lose
their civilian status and become legitimate targets.
That policy already appears to have been implemented in the form of
aerial leafleting campaigns warning residents to leave such areas as
Rafah and northern Gaza. In the past few days Israeli commanders have
been boasting about the extreme violence they are using in these
locations.
The goal in both Rafah and northern Gaza may be to ensure that they
remain largely unpopulated: in the case of Rafah, to make tunnelling to
Egypt harder; and in the northern Strip, from which rockets have been
fired at longer ranges, to ensure they do not reach Tel Aviv.
In a third phase such tactics would probably be significantly extended
as the army pushed onwards. Swathes of Gaza might be declared closed
military zones, with their residents effectively herded into the main
population centres.
As Mr Barak was unveiling his strategy a year ago, the interior
minister, Meir Sheetrit, suggested that the army "decide on a
neighbourhood in Gaza and level it". If a third phase begins, it remains
to be seen whether Israel will pursue such measures.
Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His
latest book is "Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human
Despair" (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net. A version of this
article originally appeared in The National, published in Abu Dhabi.
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THE US STATE DEPARTMENT IS CALLING OLMERT A LIAR AND TELLING HIM TO
CORRECT THE RECORD.
U.S.: Olmert never asked us to abstain from UN vote on Gaza truce
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press
Tags: Hamas, Israel News
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday flatly rejected an assertion by
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he had convinced the Bush
administration to abstain from last week's United Nations resolution
calling for an immediate truce in the Gaza Strip.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack also denied that the
abstention embarrassed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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McCormack said the comments attributed to Olmert "are wholly
inaccurate as to describing the situation, just 100-percent, totally,
completely not true" and suggested that the Israeli government might
want to clarify or correct the record.
Olmert said Monday that Rice had been embarrassed by orders from
President George W. Bush to abstain from voting on the cease-fire
resolution that she was negotiating. Olmert said he had called Bush -
and interrupted him at an event in Philadelphia - to ensure the United
States did not vote for it.
"I said: 'Get me President Bush on the phone,'" Olmert said in a
speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. "They said he was in
the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn't care:
'I need to talk to him now.' He got off the podium and spoke to me."
Olmert said he argued that the United States should not vote in favor
of the resolution, and the president then called Rice and told her not
to do so. "She was left pretty embarrassed," Olmert said.
McCormack, who pointed out that he was with Rice at the United Nations
during the negotiations and vote, denied Olmert's characterization.
"She was not at all embarrassed or ashamed of the actions that we
took," he told reporters. "Secretary Rice's recommendation and
inclination ? the entire time ? was to abstain.... This idea that
somehow she was turned around on this issue is 100-percent completely
untrue."
Israel had argued that the Security Council measure calling for a halt
to the Gaza fighting ? which passed Thursday in 14-0 vote with the
U.S. abstaining ? was unworkable because it did not guarantee Israel's
security.
The approved resolution called for "an immediate, durable and fully
respected cease-fire, leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces
from Gaza."
After the vote, Rice said that the United States fully supported the
resolution but abstained because it "thought it important to see the
outcomes of the Egyptian mediation," referring to an Egyptian-French
initiative aimed at achieving a cease-fire.
Still, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said he had been
surprised by the U.S. abstention.
"We were told that the Americans were going to vote in favor," he said
Friday, a day after the vote.
But when Rice came in to the Security Council chamber, she informed
the Saudi foreign minister with an apology that she would abstain and
would clarify later that the U.S. supported the resolution
nonetheless, according to Malki.
"What happened in the last 10 or 15 minutes, what kind of pressure she
received, from whom, this is really something that maybe we will know
about later," he said.
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"UN headquarters in Gaza hit by Israeli 'white phosphorus' shells"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5521925.ece
"The main UN compound in Gaza was left in flames today
after being struck by Israeli artillery fire, and a spokesman
said that the building had been hit by shells containing
the incendiary agent white phosphorus."
Initially The Zionazis denied use of Shake'n'Bake (the
name given by USSA soldiers who used it on the Iraq city of
Falluja), then they merely claimed the unmistakeable
'jellyfish with tentacles' images on CNN and world newspapers
was not an "Illegitimate use" of weapons that are banned
under international law from use against civilians.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/WORLD/meast/01/12/white.phosphorus/art.white.phosphorous.cnn.jpg
http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051116/051116_phosphorous_hmed_4a.hmedium.jpg
Now the use of these terrorist weapons again, this time
against a UN target which clearly was not harbouring
Hamas fighters firing in the IDF, has blown the last
Zionazi lie to Hell.
"The attack on the headquarters of the UN Relief and
Works Agency (UNRWA) came as Ban Ki Moon, the UN
Secretary-General, arrived in Israel on a peace mission
and plunged Israel's relations with the world body to
a new low.
Mr Ban expressed his "strong protest and outrage" at the
shelling and demanded an investigation, only to be told
by apologetic Israeli leaders that their forces had been
returning fire from within the UN compound.
* Gaza victims' burns increase concern over phosphorus
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5470047.ece
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"Photographic evidence has emerged that proves that
Israel has been using controversial white phosphorus
shells during its offensive in Gaza, despite official
denials by the Israel Defence Forces.
There is also evidence that the rounds have injured
Palestinian civilians, causing severe burns.
The use of white phosphorus against civilians is
prohibited under international law."
When has that ever bothered the Zionazi War Criminals?
They used Shake'n'bake in Lebanon as well!
"Israel admits using phosphorous bombs in Lebanon"
- ABC AM 24 October , 2006
"Israel has admitted for the first time that it did use
controversial phosphorous bombs during its war against
Hezbollah in Lebanon. White phosphorous causes highly
painful chemical burns, and until recently Israel had
maintained that it used phosphorous only to mark out
targets or territory.
...the admission has led one Israeli parliamentarian to say
Israel should be tried for war crimes."
Certainly.
* Spent shells prove use of white phosphorus
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5519433.ece
* Gaza's burn victims
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5497338.ece
* Soldiers and army at odds on phosphorus
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5512203.ece
"Israeli officials continued to deny that the army was using
illegal weapons in its Gaza offensive despite accounts by
soldiers that tanks with white phosphorus shells were deployed."
"UNWRA, which looks after around four million Palestinian refugees
in the region, suspended its operations in Gaza after the attack,
in which three of its employees were injured."
Like the Warsaw Ghetto, these people are completely helpless
and at the mercy of the military forces which have occupied
and held them captive for 60 years, slowly strangling the
economic life out of their tiny enclave.
Now millions are without food or water.
"Chris Gunness, a UNRWA spokesman, said that the building
had been used to shelter hundreds of people fleeing Israel's
20-day offensive in Gaza. He said that pallets with supplies
desperately needed by Palestinians in Gaza were on fire.
"What more stark symbolism do you need?" he said. "You can't
put out white phosphorus with traditional methods such as fire
extinguishers. You need sand, we don't have sand."
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A firefighter outside the burning UN headquarters in Gaza today.
As the death toll mounts from the military attacks on civilian
targets in the Gaza Ghetto, the farce that the IDF only
attacks sites from which Hamas fighters fire is exposed.
"The Israeli military has denied using white phosphorus shells in the
Gaza offensive, although an investigation by The Times has revealed that
dozens of Palestinians in Gaza have sustained serious injuries from the
substance, which burns at extremely high temperatures.
The Geneva Convention of 1980 proscribes the use of white phosphorus as
a weapon of war in civilian areas, although it can be used to create a
smokescreen. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said today that all weapons
used in Gaza were "within the scope of international law".
The vast majority of Palestinian victims are civilians,
many of them children.
As in the Warsaw Ghetto, reporters are not permitted to witness
the slaughter, but this is what phosphorous weapons cause:
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Nicaragua's Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann said Gaza had been
"turned into a burning hell" as he opened the session.
An Israeli delegate sought to block the session on procedural
grounds by arguing that under the UN Charter, the 192-member
assembly cannot inject itself on a matter already being tackled
by the powerful Security Council.
But the Israeli complaint was dismissed.
D'Escoto noted that the Security Council last week called for a Gaza
ceasefire leading to the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
But he pointedly added that the Israeli offensive, launched to stop
rocket firing by Palestinian militants and now in its 20th day, was
continuing, with 1073 Palestinians killed and at least another 5,000
wounded, according to Gaza medics.
"Gaza is ablaze. It has been turned into a burning hell," D'Escoto said.
"The violations of international law inherent in the Gaza assault have
been well documented: collective punishment, disproportionate military
force. Attacks on civilian targets, including homes, mosques,
universities, schools."
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2 First Published 2009-01-15
Chronicle of a Suicide Foretold: The Case of Israel
In the sixty years of its existence, Israel has depended for its
survival and expansion on an overall strategy that combined three
elements: macho militarism, geopolitical alliances, and public
relations. By its Gaza siege, Israel is causing all three to now
decompose, says Immanuel Wallerstein.
The state of Israel proclaimed its independence at midnight on May 15,
1948. The United Nations had voted to establish two states in what had
been Palestine under British rule. The city of Jerusalem was supposed to
be an international zone under U.N. jurisdiction. The U.N. resolution
had wide support, and specifically that of the United States and the
Soviet Union. The Arab states all voted against it.
In the sixty years of its existence, the state of Israel has depended
for its survival and expansion on an overall strategy that combined
three elements: macho militarism, geopolitical alliances, and public
relations. The macho militarism (what current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
calls the "iron fist") was made possible by the nationalist fervor of
Jewish Israelis, and eventually (although not initially) by the very
strong support of Jewish communities elsewhere in the world.
Geopolitically, Israel first forged an alliance with the Soviet Union
(which was brief but crucial), then with France (which lasted a longer
time and allowed Israel to become a nuclear power), and finally (and
most importantly) with the United States. These allies, who were also
patrons, offered most importantly military support through the provision
of weapons. But they also offered diplomatic/political support, and in
the case of the United States considerable economic support.
The public relations was aimed at obtaining sympathetic support from a
wide swath of world public opinion, based in the early years on a
portrait of Israel as a pioneering David against a retrograde Goliath,
and in the last forty years on guilt and compassion over the massive
Nazi extermination of European Jewry during the Second World War.
All these elements of Israeli strategy worked well from 1948 to the
1980s. Indeed, they were increasingly more effective. But somewhere in
the 1980s, the use of each of the three tactics began to be
counterproductive. Israel has now entered into a phase of the
precipitate decline of its strategy. It may be too late for Israel to
pursue any alternative strategy, in which case it will have committed
geopolitical suicide. Let us trace how the three elements in the
strategy interacted, first during the successful upward swing, then
during the slow decline of Israel's power.
For the first twenty-five years of its existence, Israel engaged in four
wars with Arab states. The first was the 1948-1949 war to establish the
Jewish state. The Israeli declaration of an independent state was not
matched by a Palestinian declaration to establish a state. Rather, a
number of Arab governments declared war on Israel. Israel was initially
in military difficulty. However, the Israeli military were far better
trained than those of the Arab countries, with the exception of
Transjordan. And, crucially, they obtained arms from Czechoslovakia,
acting as the agent of the Soviet Union.
By the time of the truce in 1949, the discipline of the Israeli forces
combined with the Czech arms enabled the Israelis to win considerable
territory not included in the partition proposals of the United Nations,
including west Jerusalem. The other areas were incorporated by the
surrounding Arab states. A large number of Palestinian Arabs left or
were forced to leave areas under the control of the Israelis and became
refugees in neighboring Arab countries, where their descendants still
largely live today. The land they had owned was taken by Jewish Israelis.
The Soviet Union soon dropped Israel. This was probably primarily
because its leaders quickly became afraid of the impact of the creation
of the state on the attitudes of Soviet Jewry, who seemed overly
enthusiastic and hence potentially subversive from Stalin's point of
view. Israel in turn dropped any sympathy for the socialist camp in the
Cold War, and made clear its fervent desire to be considered a
full-fledged member of the Western world, politically and culturally.
France at this time was faced with national liberation movements in its
three North African colonies, and saw in Israel a useful ally. This was
especially true after the Algerians launched their war of independence
in 1954. France began to help Israel arm itself. In particular, France,
which was developing its own nuclear weapons (against U.S. wishes),
helped Israel do the same. In 1956, Israel joined France and Great
Britain in a war against Egypt. Unfortunately for Israel, this war was
launched against U.S. opposition, and the United States forced all three
powers to end it.
After Algeria became independent in 1962, France lost interest in the
Israeli connection, which now interfered with its attempts to renew
closer relations with the three now independent North African states. It
was at this point that the United States and Israel turned to each other
to forge close links. In 1967, war broke out again between Egypt and
Israel, and other Arab states joined Egypt. In this so-called Six Day
War, the United States for the first time gave military weapons to
Israel.
The 1967 Israeli victory changed the basic situation in many respects.
Israel had won the war handily, occupying all those parts of the British
mandate of Palestine that it had occupied before, plus Egypt's Sinai
Peninsula and Syria's Golan Heights. Juridically, there was now a state
of Israel plus Israel's occupied territories. Israel began a policy of
establishing Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
The Israeli victory transformed the attitude of world Jewry, which now
overcame whatever reservations it had had about the creation of the
state of Israel. They took great pride in its accomplishments and began
to undertake major political campaigns in the United States and western
Europe to secure political support for Israel. The image of a pioneering
Israel with emphasis on the virtues of the kibbutz was abandoned in
favor of an emphasis on the Holocaust as the basic justification for
world support of Israel.
In 1973, the Arab states sought to redress the military situation in the
so-called Yom Kippur war. This time again, Israel won the war, with U.S.
arms support. The 1973 war marked the end of the central role of the
Arab states. Israel could continue to try to get recognition from Arab
states, and it did succeed eventually with both Egypt and Jordan, but it
was now too late for this to be a way to secure Israel's existence.
As of this point, there emerged a serious Palestinian Arab political
movement, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was now the
key opponent of Israel, the one with whom Israel needed to come to
terms. For a long time, Israel refused to deal with the PLO and its
leader Yasser Arafat, preferring the iron fist. And at first, it was
militarily successful.
The limits of the iron fist policy were made evident by the first
intifada, a spontaneous uprising of Palestinian Arabs inside the
occupied territories, which began in 1987 and lasted six years. The
basic achievement of the intifada was twofold. It forced the Israelis
and the United States to talk to the PLO, a long process that led to the
so-called Oslo Accords of 1993, which provided for the creation of the
Palestinian Authority in part of the occupied territories.
The Oslo Accords in the long run were geopolitically less important than
the impact of the intifada on world public opinion. For the first time,
the David-Goliath image began to be inverted. For the first time, there
began to be serious support in the Western world for the so-called
two-state solution. For the first time, there began to be serious
criticism of Israel's iron fist and its practices vis-�-vis the Arab
Palestinians. Had Israel been serious about a two-state solution based
on the so-called Green Line -- the line of division at the end of the
1948-1949 war -- it probably would have achieved a settlement.
Israel however was always one step behind. When it could have negotiated
with Nasser, it wouldn't. When it could have negotiated with Arafat, it
wouldn't. When Arafat died and was succeeded by the ineffectual Mahmoud
Abbas, the more militant Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary
elections in 2006. Israel refused to talk to Hamas.
Now, Israel has invaded Gaza, seeking to destroy Hamas. If it succeeds,
what organization will come next? If, as is more probable, it fails to
destroy Hamas, is a two-state solution now possible? Both Palestinian
and world public opinion is moving towards the one-state solution. And
this is of course the end of the Zionist project.
The three-element strategy of Israel is decomposing. The iron fist no
longer succeeds, much as it didn't for George Bush in Iraq. Will the
United States link remain firm? I doubt it. And will world public
opinion continue to look sympathetically on Israel? It seems not. Can
Israel now switch to an alternative strategy, of negotiating with the
militant representatives of the Arab Palestinians, as an integral
constituent of the Middle East, and not as an outpost of Europe? It
seems quite late for that, quite possibly too late. Hence, the chronicle
of a suicide foretold.
Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, is the
author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
(New Press).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_dQz86Ve8w
In the Zionist controlled police state once known as "America,
the land of the free" they have managed to insinuate laws that
make it illegal, on pain of a $4000 fine, for shoppers to boycott
Israeli goods !! Even Orwell would not have believed it !
1977
Jew Ribicoff Amendment makes it illegal to boycott Israel.
(http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/wolzek/1977_IllegalForUSFirmsToBoycottIsrael.htm
) Israel, NO! South Africa or anyone else, just fine. During the
mid-1970's the United States adopted two laws that seek to counteract the
participation of U.S. citizens in other nation's economic boycotts or
embargoes. These "antiboycott" laws are the 1977 amendments to the Export
Administration Act (EAA) and the Ribicoff Amendment to the 1976 Tax Reform
Act (TRA).
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Chomsky on Gaza
Chomsky: Undermining Gaza
01.16.2009 | Foreign Policy In Focus
By Sameer Dossani
Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert.
Sameer Dossani interviewed him about the conflict between Israel and
Gaza.
DOSSANI: The Israeli government and many Israeli and U.S. officials
claim that the current assault on Gaza is to put an end to the flow of
Qassam rockets from Gaza into Israel. But many observers claim that if
that were really the case, Israel would have made much more of an
effort to renew the ceasefire agreement that expired in December,
which had all but stopped the rocket fire. In your opinion, what are
the real motivations behind the current Israeli action?
CHOMSKY: There's a theme that goes way back to the origins of Zionism.
And it's a very rational theme: "Let's delay negotiations and
diplomacy as long as possible, and meanwhile we'll 'build facts on the
ground.'" So Israel will create the basis for what some eventual
agreement will ratify, but the more they create, the more they
construct, the better the agreement will be for their purposes. Those
purposes are essentially to take over everything of value in the
former Palestine and to undermine what's left of the indigenous
population.
I think one of the reasons for popular support for this in the United
States is that it resonates very well with American history. How did
the United States get established? The themes are similar.
There are many examples of this theme being played out throughout
Israel's history, and the current situation is another case. They have
a very clear program. Rational hawks like Ariel Sharon realized that
it's crazy to keep 8,000 settlers using one-third of the land and much
of the scarce supplies in Gaza, protected by a large part of the
Israeli army while the rest of the society around them is just
rotting. So it's best to take them out and send them to the West Bank.
That's the place that they really care about and want.
What was called a "disengagement" in September 2005 was actually a
transfer. They were perfectly frank and open about it. In fact, they
extended settlement building programs in the West Bank at the very
same time that they were withdrawing a few thousand people from Gaza.
So Gaza should be turned into a cage, a prison basically, with Israel
attacking it at will, and meanwhile in the West Bank we'll take what
we want. There was nothing secret about it.
Ehud Olmert was in the United States in May 2006 a couple of months
after the withdrawal. He simply announced to a joint session of
Congress and to rousing applause, that the historic right of Jews to
the entire land of Israel is beyond question. He announced what he
called his convergence program, which is just a version of the
traditional program; it goes back to the Allon plan of 1967. Israel
would essentially annex valuable land and resources near the green
line (the 1967 border). That land is now behind the wall that Israel
built in the West Bank, which is an annexation wall. That means the
arable land, the main water resources, the pleasant suburbs around
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and the hills and so on. They'll take over the
Jordan valley, which is about a third of the West Bank, where they've
been settling since the late 60s. Then they'll drive a couple of super
highways through the whole territory - there's one to the east of
Jerusalem to the town of Ma'aleh Adumim which was built mostly in the
1990s, during the Oslo years. It was built essentially to bisect the
West Bank and are two others up north that includes Ariel and Kedumim
and other towns which pretty much bisect what's left. They'll set up
check points and all sorts of means of harassment in the other areas
and the population that's left will be essentially cantonized and
unable to live a decent life and if they want to leave, great. Or else
they will be picturesque figures for tourists - you know somebody
leading a goat up a hill in the distance - and meanwhile Israelis,
including settlers, will drive around on "Israeli only" super
highways. Palestinians can make do with some little road somewhere
where you're falling into a ditch if it's raining. That's the goal.
And it's explicit. You can't accuse them of deception because it's
explicit. And it's cheered here.
DOSSANI: In terms of U.S. support, last week the UN Security Council
adopted a resolution calling for a cease fire. Is this a change,
particularly in light of the fact that the U.S. did not veto the
resolution, but rather abstained, allowing it to be passed?
CHOMSKY: Right after the 1967 war, the Security Council had strong
resolutions condemning Israel's move to expand and take over
Jerusalem. Israel just ignored them. Because the U.S. pats them on the
head and says "go ahead and violate them." There's a whole series of
resolutions from then up until today, condemning the settlements,
which as Israel knew and as everyone agreed were in violation of the
Geneva conventions. The United States either vetoes the resolutions or
sometimes votes for them, but with a wink saying, "go ahead anyway,
and we'll pay for it and give you the military support for it." It's a
consistent pattern. During the Oslo years, for example, settlement
construction increased steadily, in violation of what the Oslo
agreement was theoretically supposed to lead to. In fact the peak year
of settlement was Clinton's last year, 2000. And it continued again
afterward. It's open and explicit.
To get back to the question of motivation, they have sufficient
military control over the West Bank to terrorize the population into
passivity. Now that control is enhanced by the collaborationist forces
that the U.S., Jordan, and Egypt have trained in order to subdue the
population. In fact if you take a look at the press the last couple of
weeks, if there's a demonstration in the West Bank in support of Gaza,
the Fatah security forces crush it. That's what they're there for.
Fatah by now is more or less functioning as Israel's police force in
the West Bank. But the West Bank is only part of the occupied
Palestinian territories. The other part is Gaza, and no one doubts
that they form a unit. And there still is resistance in Gaza, those
rockets. So yes, they want to stamp that out too, then there will be
no resistance at all and they can continue to do what they want to do
without interference, meanwhile delaying diplomacy as much as possible
and "building the facts" the way they want to. Again this goes back to
the origins of Zionism. It varies of course depending on
circumstances, but the fundamental policy is the same and perfectly
understandable. If you want to take over a country where the
population doesn't want you, I mean, how else can you do it? How was
this country conquered?
DOSSANI: What you describe is a tragedy.
CHOMSKY: It's a tragedy which is made right here. The press won't talk
about it and even scholarship, for the most part, won't talk about it
but the fact of the matter is that there has been a political
settlement on the table, on the agenda for 30 years. Namely a two-
state settlement on the international borders with maybe some mutual
modification of the border. That's been there officially since 1976
when there was a Security Council resolution proposed by the major
Arab states and supported by the (Palestinan Liberation Organization)
PLO, pretty much in those terms. The United States vetoed it so it's
therefore out of history and it's continued almost without change
since then.
There was in fact one significant modification. In the last month of
Clinton's term, January 2001 there were negotiations, which the U.S.
authorized, but didn't participate in, between Israel and the
Palestinians and they came very close to agreement.
DOSSANI: The Taba negotiations?
Yes, the Taba negotiations. The two sides came very close to
agreement. They were called off by Israel. But that was the one week
in over 30 years when the United States and Israel abandoned their
rejectionist position. It's a real tribute to the media and other
commentators that they can keep this quiet. The U.S. and Israel are
alone in this. The international consensus includes virtually
everyone. It includes the Arab League which has gone beyond that
position and called for the normalization of relations, it includes
Hamas. Every time you see Hamas in the newspapers, it says "Iranian-
backed Hamas which wants to destroy Israel." Try to find a phrase that
says "democratically elected Hamas which is calling for a two-state
settlement" and has been for years. Well, yeah, that's a good
propaganda system. Even in the U.S. press they've occasionally allowed
op-eds by Hamas leaders, Ismail Haniya and others saying, yes we want
a two-state settlement on the international border like everyone else.
DOSSANI: When did Hamas adopt that position?
CHOMSKY That's their official position taken by Haniya, the elected
leader, and Khalid Mesh'al, their political leader who's in exile in
Syria, he's written the same thing. And it's over and over again.
There's no question about it but the West doesn't want to hear it. So
therefore it's Hamas which is committed to the destruction of Israel.
In a sense they are, but if you went to a Native American reservation
in the United States, I'm sure many would like to see the destruction
of the United States. If you went to Mexico and took a poll, I'm sure
they don't recognize the right of the United States to exist sitting
on half of Mexico, land conquered in war. And that's true all over the
world. But they're willing to accept a political settlement. Israel
isn't willing to accept it and the United States isn't willing to
accept it. And they're the lone hold-outs. Since it's the United
States that pretty much runs the world, it's blocked.
Here it's always presented as though the United States must become
more engaged; it's an honest broker; Bush's problem was that he
neglected the issue. That's not the problem. The problem is that the
United States has been very much engaged, and engaged in blocking a
political settlement and giving the material and ideological and
diplomatic support for the expansion programs, which are just criminal
programs. The world court unanimously, including the American justice,
agreed that any transfer of population into the Occupied Territories
is a violation of a fundamental international law, the Geneva
Conventions. And Israel agrees. In fact even their courts agree, they
just sort of sneak around it in various devious ways. So there's no
question about this. It's just sort of accepted in the United States
that we're an outlaw state. Law doesn't apply to us. That's why it's
never discussed.
Sameer Dossani, a Foreign Policy In Focus contributor, is the director
of 50 Years is Enough and blogs at shirinandsameer.blogspot.com.
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January 18, 2009
Summary execution in southern West Bank
Hebron / PNN - During the killing of over 1,000 Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip and the demonstrations against them the occupation remains in the West
Bank. This week a family lost their father in Hebron.
Yasser Saqr Ismail Tameizi had his six year old son with him. They were
working on their land in Ithna Village, west of the city.
It was Tuesday morning and the 35 year old farmer's death served as a
violent reminder, commented the Al Haq Human Rights Organization, "that even
as Israel engages in horrific and illegal attacks against the Gaza Strip,
its oppressive occupation policies continue to undermine the lives of
Palestinians in the West Bank."
Tameizi had an Israeli-issued permit to reach his lands that the Wall had
divided him from. Two eyewitnesses were in an adjacent field grazing their
cattle and Tameizi and his six year old were 500 meters east of the Wall
which is incomplete in this area of Hebron. Instead of a 10 meter concrete
wall, it consists of barbed wire fencing that cuts through the village.
On 13 January at 11:00 am four Israeli soldiers entered Tameizi's land
through a gate in the Wall. They told the little boy to leave, which he did,
and one of the soldiers kicked the father. Tameizi made a move to defend
himself and his son and two of the soldiers knocked him to the ground and
tied his hands behind his back. He was held down on his back by two soldiers
sitting on his stomach while the others watched.
At noon an Israeli military jeep with four soldiers entered Tameizi's land.
After 15 minutes the man was thrown, blindfolded and still handcuffed, into
the back of the jeep.
The eyewitnesses report, "The jeep then moved toward the gate, with four
soldiers inside and the other four walking behind it."
At 1:30 an Armored Personnel Carrier, arrived and still on the side of the
Wall facing the Israeli boundaries it left after 10 minutes with the jeep
driving quickly to Tarqumiya Checkpoint.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reports that its Hebron branch office
received a phone call at approximately 3:00 pm in which Israeli soldiers
told them to pick up Tameizi who was still in their custody.
He was dead before reaching the hospital.
The 35 year old man had been shot and died of the bullet wound to his
stomach which exited through his lower back. The Red Crescent said it
indicates he was shot at point blank range most likely while sitting down by
someone above him aiming down.
Ramallah's Al Haq referred today to the severe violation of international
law, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, in addition to tenets of the Geneva Conventions
and United Nations resolutions, as a "summary execution."
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15/01/2009
The IDF has no mercy for the children in Gaza nursery schools
By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Correspondent
The fighting in Gaza 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. A large,
broad
army is fighting against a helpless population and a weak, ragged
organization that has fled the conflict zones and is barely putting up a
fight. All this must be said openly, before we begin exulting in our
heroism
and victory.
This war is also child's play because of its victims. About a third of
those
killed in Gaza have been children - 311, according to the Palestinian
Health
Ministry, 270 according to the B'Tselem human rights group - out of the
1,000 total killed as of Wednesday. Around 1,550 of the 4,500 wounded
have
also been children according to figures from the UN, which says the
number
of children killed has tripled since the ground operation began.
This is too large a proportion by any humanitarian or ethical standard.
It is enough to look at the pictures coming from Shifa Hospital to see
how
many burned, bleeding and dying children now lie there. History has seen
innumerable brutal wars take countless lives.
But the horrifying proportion of this war, a third of the dead being
children, has not been seen in recent memory.
God does not show mercy on the children at Gaza's nursery schools, and
neither does the Israel Defense Forces. That's how it goes when war is
waged
in such a densely populated area with a population so blessed with
children.
About half of Gaza's residents are under 15.
No pilot or soldier went to war to kill children. Not one among them
intended to kill children, but it also seems neither did they intend not
to
kill them. They went to war after the IDF had already killed 952
Palestinian
children and adolescents since May 2000.
The public's shocking indifference to these figures is incomprehensible.
A
thousand propagandists and apologists cannot excuse this criminal
killing.
One can blame Hamas for the death of children, but no reasonable person
in
the world will buy these ludicrous, flawed propagandistic goods in light
of
the pictures and statistics coming from Gaza.
One can say Hamas hides among the civilian population, as if the Defense
Ministry in Tel Aviv is not located in the heart of a civilian
population,
as if there are places in Gaza that are not in the heart of a civilian
population. One can also claim that Hamas uses children as human shields,
as
if in the past our own organizations fighting to establish a country did
not
recruit children.
A significant majority of the children killed in Gaza did not die because
they were used as human shields or because they worked for Hamas. They
were
killed because the IDF bombed, shelled or fired at them, their families
or
their apartment buildings. That is why the blood of Gaza's children is on
our hands, not on Hamas' hands, and we will never be able to escape that
responsibility.
The children of Gaza who survive this war will remember it. It is enough
to
watch Nazareth-born Juliano Mer Khamis' wonderful movie "Arna's Children"
to
understand what thrives amid the blood and ruin we are leaving behind.
The
film shows the children of Jenin - who have seen less horror than those
of
Gaza - growing up to be fighters and suicide bombers.
A child who has seen his house destroyed, his brother killed and his
father
humiliated will not forgive.
The last time I was allowed to visit Gaza, in November 2006, I went to
the
Indira Gandhi nursery school in Beit Lahia. The schoolchildren drew what
they had seen the previous day: an IDF missile striking their school bus,
killing their teacher, Najwa Halif, in front of their eyes. They were in
shock. It is possible some of them have now been killed or wounded
themselves.
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An Unnecessary War
Thursday 08 January 2009
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by: Jimmy Carter, The Washington Post
A Palestinian confronts Israeli soldiers during a protest Thursday in
the West Bank. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Ramallah to
demand an immediate halt to Israeli attacks. (Photo: Eric Gaillard /
Reuters)
I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of
Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided.
After visiting Sderot last April and seeing the serious
psychological damage caused by the rockets that had fallen in that
area, my wife, Rosalynn, and I declared their launching from Gaza to
be inexcusable and an act of terrorism. Although casualties were rare
(three deaths in seven years), the town was traumatized by the
unpredictable explosions. About 3,000 residents had moved to other
communities, and the streets, playgrounds and shopping centers were
almost empty. Mayor Eli Moyal assembled a group of citizens in his
office to meet us and complained that the government of Israel was not
stopping the rockets, either through diplomacy or military action.
Knowing that we would soon be seeing Hamas leaders from Gaza and
also in Damascus, we promised to assess prospects for a cease-fire.
From Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who was negotiating
between the Israelis and Hamas, we learned that there was a
fundamental difference between the two sides. Hamas wanted a
comprehensive cease-fire in both the West Bank and Gaza, and the
Israelis refused to discuss anything other than Gaza.
We knew that the 1.5 million inhabitants of Gaza were being
starved, as the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food had found
that acute malnutrition in Gaza was on the same scale as in the
poorest nations in the southern Sahara, with more than half of all
Palestinian families eating only one meal a day.
Palestinian leaders from Gaza were noncommittal on all issues,
claiming that rockets were the only way to respond to their
imprisonment and to dramatize their humanitarian plight. The top Hamas
leaders in Damascus, however, agreed to consider a cease-fire in Gaza
only, provided Israel would not attack Gaza and would permit normal
humanitarian supplies to be delivered to Palestinian citizens.
After extended discussions with those from Gaza, these Hamas
leaders also agreed to accept any peace agreement that might be
negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas, who also heads the PLO, provided it was approved by a
majority vote of Palestinians in a referendum or by an elected unity
government.
Since we were only observers, and not negotiators, we relayed this
information to the Egyptians, and they pursued the cease-fire
proposal. After about a month, the Egyptians and Hamas informed us
that all military action by both sides and all rocket firing would
stop on June 19, for a period of six months, and that humanitarian
supplies would be restored to the normal level that had existed before
Israel's withdrawal in 2005 (about 700 trucks daily).
We were unable to confirm this in Jerusalem because of Israel's
unwillingness to admit to any negotiations with Hamas, but rocket
firing was soon stopped and there was an increase in supplies of food,
water, medicine and fuel. Yet the increase was to an average of about
20 percent of normal levels. And this fragile truce was partially
broken on Nov. 4, when Israel launched an attack in Gaza to destroy a
defensive tunnel being dug by Hamas inside the wall that encloses
Gaza.
On another visit to Syria in mid-December, I made an effort for
the impending six-month deadline to be extended. It was clear that the
preeminent issue was opening the crossings into Gaza. Representatives
from the Carter Center visited Jerusalem, met with Israeli officials
and asked if this was possible in exchange for a cessation of rocket
fire. The Israeli government informally proposed that 15 percent of
normal supplies might be possible if Hamas first stopped all rocket
fire for 48 hours. This was unacceptable to Hamas, and hostilities
erupted.
After 12 days of "combat," the Israeli Defense Forces reported
that more than 1,000 targets were shelled or bombed. During that time,
Israel rejected international efforts to obtain a cease-fire, with
full support from Washington. Seventeen mosques, the American
International School, many private homes and much of the basic
infrastructure of the small but heavily populated area have been
destroyed. This includes the systems that provide water, electricity
and sanitation. Heavy civilian casualties are being reported by
courageous medical volunteers from many nations, as the fortunate ones
operate on the wounded by light from diesel-powered generators.
The hope is that when further hostilities are no longer
productive, Israel, Hamas and the United States will accept another
cease-fire, at which time the rockets will again stop and an adequate
level of humanitarian supplies will be permitted to the surviving
Palestinians, with the publicized agreement monitored by the
international community. The next possible step: a permanent and
comprehensive peace.
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The writer was president from 1977 to 1981. He founded the Carter
Center, a nongovernmental organization advancing peace and health
worldwide, in 1982.
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Gazan Doctor and Peace Advocate Loses 3 Daughters to Israeli Fire and
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Published: January 17, 2009
TEL HASHOMER, Israel - Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Gazan and a doctor
who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between
Israelis and Palestinians.
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Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, right, in the hospital where he works in
Israel. He lost three daughters, and a fourth was being treated.
Related
Israel Declares Cease-Fire; Hamas Says It Will Fight On (January 18,
2009)
But on Saturday, the day after three of his daughters and a niece were
killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, Dr. Abuelaish, 53, struggled to hold
on to the humane philosophy that has guided his life and work.
As he sat in a waiting room of the Israeli hospital where he works
part time, he asked over and over, "Why did they do this?"
Elsewhere in the hospital another daughter and a niece were being
treated for their wounds.
"I dedicated my life really for peace, for medicine," said Dr.
Abuelaish, who does joint research projects with Israeli physicians
and for years has worked as something of a one-man force to bring
injured and ailing Gazans for treatment in Israel.
"This is the path I believed in and what I raised and educated my
children to believe," he said.
Dr. Abuelaish said he wanted the Israeli Army to tell him why his
home, which he said harbored no militants, had been fired upon. He
said if a mistake had been made and an errant tank shell had hit his
home, he expected an apology, not excuses.
The doctor, a recent widower, had not left Gaza since the Israeli
assault began last month and was at home in the Jabaliya refugee camp
with his eight children and other family members during the attack on
Friday.
An army spokesman said that a preliminary investigation had shown that
soldiers were returning fire toward the direction of areas from which
they had been fired upon.
"The Israeli Defense Forces does not target innocents or civilians,
and during the operation the army has been fighting an enemy that does
not hesitate to fire from within civilian targets," said the
spokesman, speaking anonymously on behalf of the army.
The Israeli public became witness to the Abuelaish family's tragedy on
Friday night when a conversation that a television journalist was
having with Dr. Abuelaish was broadcast live.
In a video now available on YouTube, the doctor implored the
journalist, whom he had called, to help send assistance, wailing, "My
daughters have been killed."
Journalists had come to know the doctor, who was already well known in
the country's medical establishment, because he has been providing
witness accounts of the Israeli operation for television stations.
After the broadcast, an ambulance was sent to a border crossing to
pick up the doctor and the two wounded girls. His four other children
remain in Gaza and are expected to join him in Israel soon.
At the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer on Saturday, Dr.
Abuelaish was surrounded by Israeli colleagues. Several were crying.
Tammie Ronen, a professor of social work at Tel Aviv University, knelt
beside the doctor. "You cannot let yourself collapse, you have your
living children to take care of," said Dr. Ronen. Dr. Ronen had worked
with him in researching the effects of conflict-related stress on
Palestinian children in Gaza and Israeli children in Sderot, a border
town that has been the main target of Gazan rocket fire in recent
years.
"Tell them who my children were," said Dr. Abuelaish, spotting Anael
Harpaz, an Israeli woman who runs a peace camp in New Mexico for
Israeli and Palestinian girls that three of his daughters attended,
including his eldest, Bisan, 20, who was killed Friday. The other two
daughters who were killed were Mayar, 15, and Aya, 13. The doctor's
niece who died, Nur Abuelaish, was 17.
Dr. Abuelaish recalled that it was Bisan who, after her mother died of
leukemia, urged him to continue his work in Israel, saying she would
look after the younger children.
In a hospital room, Ms. Harpaz held 17-year-old Shada Abuelaish's hand
as a nurse placed drops of medicine on her tongue. The girl's forehead
was covered in bandages as was her right eye, which had been operated
on in hopes of saving it. The niece who was wounded is in critical
condition, with shrapnel wounds.
Outside the room, Ms. Harpaz crumpled into a chair, sobbing.
"I hope this is a wake-up call," she said. "This is such a peace-
loving family."
Dr. Abuelaish is a rarity: a Gazan at home among Israelis. He
describes himself as a bridge between the two worlds, one of the few
Gazans with a permit to enter Israel because of his work.
"I wanted every Palestinian treated in Israel to go back and say how
well the Israelis treated them," he said. "That is the message I
wanted to spread all the time. And this is what I get in return?"
Later, sitting on a plastic chair near his daughter's hospital room,
Dr. Abuelaish spoke with the prayer of so many parents who have buried
their children as part of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "I hope that
my children will be the last price."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21776.htm
The invasion of Gaza was about stealing their off shore gas fields. It was
also a way of getting votes in the forthcoming elections. Dead
Palestinians..... well who cares?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680
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Ilan Pappe
In 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the
Negev desert. It's the size of a real city, with streets (all of them
given names), mosques, public buildings and cars. Built at a cost of
$45 million, this phantom city became a dummy Gaza in the winter of
2006, after Hizbullah fought Israel to a draw in the north, so that
the IDF could prepare to fight a 'better war' against Hamas in the
south.
When the Israeli Chief of General Staff Dan Halutz visited the site
after the Lebanon war, he told the press that soldiers 'were preparing
for the scenario that will unfold in the dense neighbourhood of Gaza
City'. A week into the bombardment of Gaza, Ehud Barak attended a
rehearsal for the ground war. Foreign television crews filmed him as
he watched ground troops conquer the dummy city, storming the empty
houses and no doubt killing the 'terrorists' hiding in them.
'Gaza is the problem,' Levy Eshkol, then prime minister of Israel,
said in June 1967. 'I was there in 1956 and saw venomous snakes
walking in the street. We should settle some of them in the Sinai, and
hopefully the others will immigrate.' Eshkol was discussing the fate
of the newly occupied territories: he and his cabinet wanted the Gaza
Strip, but not the people living in it.
Israelis often refer to Gaza as 'Me'arat Nachashim', a snake pit.
Before the first intifada, when the Strip provided Tel Aviv with
people to wash their dishes and clean their streets, Gazans were
depicted more humanely. The 'honeymoon' ended during their first
intifada, after a series of incidents in which a few of these
employees stabbed their employers. The religious fervour that was said
to have inspired these isolated attacks generated a wave of
Islamophobic feeling in Israel, which led to the first enclosure of
Gaza and the construction of an electric fence around it. Even after
the 1993 Oslo Accords, Gaza remained sealed off from Israel, and was
used merely as a pool of cheap labour; throughout the 1990s, 'peace'
for Gaza meant its gradual transformation into a ghetto.
In 2000, Doron Almog, then the chief of the southern command, began
policing the boundaries of Gaza: 'We established observation points
equipped with the best technology and our troops were allowed to fire
at anyone reaching the fence at a distance of six kilometres,' he
boasted, suggesting that a similar policy be adopted for the West
Bank. In the last two years alone, a hundred Palestinians have been
killed by soldiers merely for getting too close to the fences. From
2000 until the current war broke out, Israeli forces killed three
thousand Palestinians (634 children among them) in Gaza.
Between 1967 and 2005, Gaza's land and water were plundered by Jewish
settlers in Gush Katif at the expense of the local population. The
price of peace and security for the Palestinians there was to give
themselves up to imprisonment and colonisation. Since 2000, Gazans
have chosen instead to resist in greater numbers and with greater
force. It was not the kind of resistance the West approves of: it was
Islamic and military. Its hallmark was the use of primitive Qassam
rockets, which at first were fired mainly at the settlers in Katif.
The presence of the settlers, however, made it hard for the Israeli
army to retaliate with the brutality it uses against purely
Palestinian targets. So the settlers were removed, not as part of a
unilateral peace process as many argued at the time (to the point of
suggesting that Ariel Sharon be awarded the Nobel peace prize), but
rather to facilitate any subsequent military action against the Gaza
Strip and to consolidate control of the West Bank.
After the disengagement from Gaza, Hamas took over, first in
democratic elections, then in a pre-emptive coup staged to avert an
American-backed takeover by Fatah. Meanwhile, Israeli border guards
continued to kill anyone who came too close, and an economic blockade
was imposed on the Strip. Hamas retaliated by firing missiles at
Sderot, giving Israel a pretext to use its air force, artillery and
gunships. Israel claimed to be shooting at 'the launching areas of the
missiles', but in practice this meant anywhere and everywhere in Gaza.
The casualties were high: in 2007 alone three hundred people were
killed in Gaza, dozens of them children.
Israel justifies its conduct in Gaza as a part of the fight against
terrorism, although it has itself violated every international law of
war. Palestinians, it seems, can have no place inside historical
Palestine unless they are willing to live without basic civil and
human rights. They can be either second-class citizens inside the
state of Israel, or inmates in the mega-prisons of the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip. If they resist they are likely to be imprisoned
without trial, or killed. This is Israel's message.
Resistance in Palestine has always been based in villages and towns;
where else could it come from? That is why Palestinian cities, towns
and villages, dummy or real, have been depicted ever since the 1936
Arab revolt as 'enemy bases' in military plans and orders. Any
retaliation or punitive action is bound to target civilians, among
whom there may be a handful of people who are involved in active
resistance against Israel. Haifa was treated as an enemy base in 1948,
as was Jenin in 2002; now Beit Hanoun, Rafah and Gaza are regarded
that way. When you have the firepower, and no moral inhibitions
against massacring civilians, you get the situation we are now
witnessing in Gaza.
But it is not only in military discourse that Palestinians are
dehumanised. A similar process is at work in Jewish civil society in
Israel, and it explains the massive support there for the carnage in
Gaza. Palestinians have been so dehumanised by Israeli Jews - whether
politicians, soldiers or ordinary citizens - that killing them comes
naturally, as did expelling them in 1948, or imprisoning them in the
Occupied Territories. The current Western response indicates that its
political leaders fail to see the direct connection between the
Zionist dehumanisation of the Palestinians and Israel's barbarous
policies in Gaza. There is a grave danger that, at the conclusion of
'Operation Cast Lead', Gaza itself will resemble the ghost town in the
Negev.
Ilan Pappe is chair of the history department at the University of
Exeter and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political
Studies. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine came out in 2007.
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Ask any Palestinian mother whose child was murdered by the Jew Nazis
if there has ever been anything as evil and as monstrous as Nazi
Israel.
The Jew Nazis are trying to tell us that they were after Hamas and not
the helpless 1-1/2 million Palestinians fenced in the Jew Nazi
Concentration Camp of Gaza. How come they murdered 1300+ Palestinians,
over 400 children and demolished over 20000 Palestinian homes during
three weeks of brutal carnage?
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We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were
Jewish
Sever Plocke: STALIN'S JEWS - Opinion from Israel, Ynetnews
Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of "our hangmen,"
who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its
establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their
origin.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3342999%2C00.html
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We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were
Jewish
Sever Plocke: STALIN'S JEWS - Opinion from Israel, Ynetnews
Published: 12.21.06, 23:35 / Israel Opinion
Here's a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago,
between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the
Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for
the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for
Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka.
Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest
state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed
every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD,
and later to KGB.
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was
responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is
surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced
collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments,
executions, and mass death at Gulags.
Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic
minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers,
intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members"
who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the
Communist party itself.
In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, "Historian
Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind
devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the
Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv
University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique
in that it was directed internally.
Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their
deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined "terror
officials," cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards,
judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the
progressive Western Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of
horror and even provided it with a kosher certificate.
All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though
the former Soviet Union's archives have not yet been fully opened to
the public. But who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few
people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD's and
KGB's service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores
the question of "How could it have happened to us?" As opposed to
Eastern European nations, the Russians did not settle the score with
their Stalinist past.
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever
hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the
20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander
of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization
orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million
people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system.
After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and
executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the
"bloodthirsty dwarf."
Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In
his Book "Stalin: Court of the Red Star", Jewish historian Sebag
Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the
Communist killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded
by beautiful, young Jewish women.
Stalin's close associates and loyalists included member of the Central
Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him
as the "first Stalinist" and adds that those starving to death in
Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside
from the Nazi horrors and Mao's terror in China, did not move
Kaganovich.
Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and
have blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more:
Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the
organization's chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel
sadist.
In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those
holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were
of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in
the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University
convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror
as a "carnival of mass murder," "fantasy of purges", and "essianism of
evil." Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by
messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest
known by modern history.
The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the
Soviet Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this,
obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and "Soviet
people." Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and "play
dumb": What do we have to do with them? But let's not forget them. My
own view is different. I find it unacceptable that a person will be
considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things,
but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly
despicable things.
Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of "our hangmen,"
who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its
establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their
origin.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3342999%2C00.html
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Friday, February 06, 2009
ISRAELI 'HUMAN SHIELD' STORIES PART OF MASSIVE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO
COVER THE DELIBERATE KILLING OF GAZAN CIVILIANS.
The stories now emerging out of the Gaza les than three weeks after the
Israeli ground withdrawal suggest that rather than Palestinian fighters
using civilians as human shields, it has been Israeli soldiers that have
been deliberately, callously and indiscriminately shooting to death
surrendered civilians, including very young children, in situations and
circumstances where no Palestinian fighters have been in the vicinity.
Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children's Alliance writes:
Out of all the devastation I have seen so far, there is one story in
particular that I think the world needs to hear. I met a mother who was
at home with her ten children when Israeli soldiers entered the house.
The soldiers told her she had to choose five of her children to "give as
a gift to Israel." As she screamed in horror they repeated the demand
and told her she could choose or they would choose for her. Then these
soldiers murdered five of her children in front of her. The concept of
"Jewish morality" is truly dead. We can be fascists, terrorists, and
Nazis just like everybody else.
There were no Palestinian fighters in the vicinity.
Sameh Habeeb and Janet Zimmerman tell the story of how a Palestinian
who, with his family and others, had surrendered as Israeli tanks parked
near their home. He was then forced to witness his wife, mother and his
three daughters aged seven, three and two, all holding white flags, shot
and killed by an Israeli soldier in front of him.
There were no Palestinian fighters in the vicinity.
Then there is the case of the Palestinian doctor who lost three of his
daughters and a niece when an Israeli tank shelled his apartment for no
apparent reason.
There were no Palestinian fighters in the vicinity.
One also has to wonder why the mainstream media find it so important to
tell the world that the Israelis didn't actually hit a UN school. Oh.
the 43 civilians that were killed just outside of the school, however,
are still dead but the important thing, apparently, is that the school
wasn't actually hit.
The fact that there were no Palestinian fighters in the vicinity also
seemed to escape the notice of, in this case, the Murdoch press.
No doubt as time goes by there will be many more stories emerging of
Israeli atrocities committed against Palestinian citizens in the Gaza.
So far, however, despite all the accusations from the Israelis, not a
skerrick of evidence has been found to support their accusations that
Palestinian fighters used 'human shields'.
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2009/02/israeli-human-shield-stories-part-of.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw&eurl=http://whatreallyhappened.com/
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Article 51: Israel's false claim
Reza Nasri
17 - 02 - 2009
Both opponents and supporters of Israel's attacks on Gaza fail to see
how deep its breach of international law and norms really runs
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/article-51-israels-false-claim
Israel claims that its recent attacks on Gaza are justified under
international law. In doing so, it invokes Article 51 of the UN
charter
http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/chapter7.shtml
which clearly recognizes the right to self-defence as an "inherent"
right of States. In a statement made before the Security Council
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign+Relations/Israel+and+the+UN/Speeches+-+statements/Statement_Amb_Shalev_UN_Security_Council_31-Dec-2008
at the outset of the latest hostilities, Israel's Ambassador to the
United Nations, Gabriela Shalev, clearly invoked Article 51 by
claiming that:
"In its military operation, Israel exercised its inherent right to
self-defence, enshrined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.
Any other State would have acted in the same manner faced with similar
terrorist threats."
Later on, the Permanent mission of Israel reiterates this position in
a letter addressed to the Secretary General.
http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/59c118f065c4465b852572a500625fea/626086b0d0adccbb852575380059d4e7%21OpenDocument
Once again, Israel officially claims that:
"In response to Hamas' continuous terrorist attacks, Israel has been
acting in accordance with its inherent right to self-defence enshrined
in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations."
To counter Israel's assertion, opponents argue that the right to
self-defence - while being an inherent right of States - is subject to
the customary rules of proportionality and necessity. They note that
Israel's massive military operations in Gaza do not meet these two
conditions (the military operations are excessively violent compared
to the alleged attacks that provoked them) and conclude that they are
therefore illegal under international law.
In my opinion, both sides miss a crucial point.
Non-applicability of Article 51 in occupied territories
The right to self-defence - as recognized by Article 51 of the Charter
- is a right attributable to "States" only in their "international"
relations. A State is allowed to recourse to self-defence if it is
subject to another State's unlawful use of force. The situation must
involve:
a) An armed attack (of sufficient gravity);
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=66&case=70&code=nus&p3=90&PHPSESSID=770100a1728e2520992f556096d06e03
b) Conducted between States (or from one State territory) - as main
subjects of international law;
c) And be of an international character.
Article 51 does not apply to a situation that involves an Occupying
Power (the State of Israel) acting within occupied territories under
its own authority and responsibility. In legal terms, Israel cannot
invoke the right to self-defence under Article 51 to justify the use
of military force in territories on which Israel itself exercises
effective control, at least since 1967. (Although Israel withdrew its
troops from Gaza under the "disengagement plan" in 2005, Israel's
relocation of its troops from the occupied land does not end its
status as the "Occupying power". Israel continuously maintained
control over Gaza's borders, air and sea space, water, electricity,
sewage and telecommunication systems and because of that, Gaza remains
an occupied territory as defined in international law. In fact, UN
Security Council resolution 1860 issued on January 8, 2009 clearly
notes that: "the Gaza Strip constitutes an integral part of the
territory occupied in 1967".)
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/204/32/PDF/N0920432.pdf?OpenElement
Indeed, it would be inconceivable for most of us to imagine any other
country barricading a city or a district within a territory under its
own watch, then use F-16 fire jets, high-tech Cobra helicopters,
ground troops, cluster bombs, white phosphorus and depleted uranium
ammunition, killing thousands of its inhabitants under the pretext of
combating, for instance, street gang criminality. It would be even
more absurd if that country justified all that by invoking an
extraneous right under the UN Charter. Yet, this is exactly what
Israel has done in Gaza.
Palestine (Gaza strip and the West Bank) is not yet considered an
independent sovereign State - especially not by Israel. The swath of
land known as "Palestine" (which encompasses Gaza) is an inhabited
territory under Israeli mandate and occupation since 1967. For Israel
to become entitled to invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter (which is a
multilateral inter-state treaty) and benefit from its relevant rules
of self-defence, Israel needs at least to recognize that it is dealing
with another "State" (be it a State that directly commits armed
attacks against Israel or a State whose territory is being used by an
autonomous hostile group to mount attacks against Israel). But Israel
cannot persistently rebuff Palestine's Statehood on one hand, and, on
the other hand, treat Palestine as a State whenever it needs to
utilise the Charter to legitimise its use of force against.
In other words, Israel's self-defence argument entails the
precondition of recognising Palestinian Statehood; while not doing so
entails setting the Charter's legal subterfuges aside and solely
complying with the strictures of Humanitarian law (especially the
Geneva Conventions) regarding occupation.
The world court's position
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=4&code=mwp&case=131&k=5a
In its July 2004 advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences of the
Construction of a Wall, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) had
already established the non-applicability of "self-defence" under
Article 51 in the situation between Israel and the Occupied
Territories (a key point that most commentators seem to have
forgotten). Just as it claims today, Israel had argued in the Wall
case that the construction of a wall around the West Bank was an act
of self-defence consistent with Article 51 of the Charter. According
to Israel, Article 51 supported its right to build the wall to protect
itself against terrorist attacks emanating from the occupied
territories.
But the Court dismissed this argument as follows:
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1687.pdf
"Article 51 of the Charter thus recognizes the existence of an
inherent right of self-defence in the case of armed attack by one
State against another State. However, Israel does not claim that the
attacks against it are imputable to a foreign State. The Court also
notes that Israel exercises control in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory and that, as Israel itself states, the threat which it
regards as justifying the construction of the wall originates within,
and not outside, that territory. [...] Consequently, the Court
concludes that Article 51 of the Charter has no relevance in this
case" (emphasis added by author).
A fortiori, the Court's position is also valid regarding the recent
situation in Gaza.
In fact, there seems to be a growing consensus among prominent
international law experts regarding the issue. In a document entitled
"The Chatham House Principles of International Law on the Use of Force
in Self-Defence", the Royal Institute of International Affairs also
confirmed the non-applicability of Article 51 by stressing that
"unless an attack is directed from outside territory under the control
of the defending State, the question of self-defence in the sense of
Article 51 does not normally arise".
The impermissible confusion: Jus ad bellum vs Jus in bello
The law of the use of force is composed of two distinct branches:
a) the law governing the recourse to force (jus ad bellum) and;
b) the law governing the conduct of hostilities (jus in bello).
The first set of laws refers to the reasons States may invoke to
justify war, while the second set governs the means they may adopt in
executing war or the way they should act in a post-war situation, such
as occupation. The jus ad bellum rules are mostly enshrined in the UN
Charter (i.e. article 2(4) and article 51), while the jus in bello
rules are mostly to be found in the four Geneva Conventions, the Hague
regulations and relevant customary norms. Self-defence logically
belongs to the realm of jus ad bellum while "occupation" is naturally
governed by the jus in bello.
As Georges Abi-Saab - Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Institute of
International Studies in Geneva - explained in his oral pleading
before the ICJ in the wall case:
"[S]elf-defence does not belong to international humanitarian law or
the jus in bello, but to the jus ad bellum [the branch of law that
defines the legitimate reasons a State may engage in war]. Israel
makes here an impermissible confusion between the two branches of the
law of war that have to be kept radically apart".
As it did in the wall case, Israel still attempts to sustain that
confusion, for good reason.
Israel has already exhausted its right to self-defence when it
pre-emptively seized the West Bank and Gaza from neighbouring
belligerent States in an international conflict in 1967. Since then,
the only set of laws that govern the Israeli-Palestinian situation is
the customary and treaty-based norms of "Humanitarian law" that
regulate occupation (Jus in bello). According to the applicable law,
Israel is not only proscribed from harming the inhabitants of these
territories, but it is obliged to ensure their safety and security
(Article 43 of The Hague regulations). Israel is also under the
obligation to provide protection to their private properties (Arts. 46
and 47 of the Fourth Geneva convention), and to keep intact their
"public buildings, real estate, forests and agricultural estates"
(Art. 55 of the Fourth Geneva convention).
Israel's recent massive bombardments and use of heavy artillery
against Gaza cannot be reconciled with these obligations. In fact,
Israel's recent actions constitute, under Article 147 of the Fourth
Convention, as well as Article 85 of Protocol I and Article 8 of the
Rome Statute, grave breaches of international law which entail
individual criminal responsibility.
By constantly alluding to the notion of self-defence as per Article 51
and by framing the military operations in Gaza solely in terms of
necessity and proportionality, even the opponents of Israel
unconsciously affirm the "impermissible confusion" that Israel is
deliberately trying to disseminate.
=====================================
Reza Nasri is an international lawyer based at the Graduate Institute
of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
HOW ABOUT YOU BETRAYING THE USA AND IT'S ALLIES?????
http://www.ussliberty.com/challenge.htm - $10,000 challenge - The Liberty
Veterans Association offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can establish the
truth of A. Jay Cristol's claim: 1
http://www.alanhart.net/the-liberty-affair-and-the-problem-with-the-truth-of-history/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/margolis12.html
At 0800 hrs, 8 June, 1967, eight Israeli recon flights flew over 'Liberty,'
which was flying a large American flag. At 1400 hrs, waves of low-flying
Israeli Mystere and Mirage-III fighter-bombers repeatedly attacked the
American vessel with rockets, napalm, and cannon. The air attacks lasted 20
minutes, concentrating on the ship's electronic antennas and dishes. The
'Liberty' was left afire, listing sharply. Eight of her crew lay dead, a
hundred seriously wounded, including the captain, Commander William
McGonagle.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/agtr5.htm
On the afternoon of 8 June 1967, while in international waters off the Sinai
Peninsula, Liberty, though clearly marked as a U.S. Navy ship, was struck by
Israeli aircraft. After suffering damage and many personnel casualties from
gunfire, rockets and bombs, she was further attacked by three Israeli Navy
motor torpedo boats. One torpedo hit her on the starboard side, forward of
the superstructure, opening a large hole in her hull. In all, thirty-four
men were killed in the attacks and nearly 170 wounded. Israel subsequently
apologized for the incident, explaining that its air and naval forces had
mistaken the Liberty for a much smaller Egyptian Navy ship