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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_gaza_overwhelmed_hospital http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5454671.ece http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/9945 |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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"When we will grow up, we will bomb them back," http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/gaza.children/?iref=mpstoryview Israel: Always the Victim http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/58127 |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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"It's Hell in Here" "They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6ojm62qwA |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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"The Israelis insist that the latest violence began when Hamas “ended” a six month truce. I didn’t know there was a truce. During this six-month truce, the International Middle East Media Center (a collaboration of international and Palestinian journalists) reported that the Israeli army killed 23 Palestinians, wounded 62, and kidnapped 38 residents in the Gaza Strip. Truce? What truce? In terms of the daily life for Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has been blocking medical supplies, food, and fuel on a regular basis for the past two years. Prior to the latest attacks, many have died from treatable illnesses due to the blocking of medical supplies." http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/58127 |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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"Two Israeli tank shells struck the school in Jabaliya refugee camp, spraying shrapnel on people inside and outside the building, according to news agency reports. The medical director of the hospital in Jabaliya told the Guardian 41 bodies had been brought in so far and more could be on the way. Reuters journalists filmed bodies scattered on the ground amid pools of blood and torn shoes and clothes. In addition to the dead, several dozen people were wounded, hospital officials said. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports. "I saw a lot of women and children wheeled in," Fares Ghanem, a hospital official told the Associated Press. "A lot of the wounded were missing limbs and a lot of the dead were in pieces." .... "The UN, which said the school in Jabaliya was clearly marked, said it was "strongly protesting these killings to the Israeli authorities and is calling for an immediate and impartial investigation". "Where it is found that international humanitarian law has been violated, those responsible must be held to account. Under international law, installations such as schools, health centres and UN facilities should be protected from attack. Well before the current fighting, the UN had given to the Israeli authorities the GPS co-ordinates of all its installations in Gaza, including Asma elementary school." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-death-un |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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“ According to the Israeli papers, Barak was planning the attack already before the last ceasefire, and they were just waiting for a provocation from the Palestinians. On November 4th, the Israelis broke the ceasefire with Hamas, knowing full well -- and if you read the Israeli papers, they say so -- that if they killed six militants in Gaza, the Palestinians would retaliate, and then Israel would have the pretext to invade. So the first goal was to restore the fear of Israel in the Arab world by inflicting a bloodbath.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_171PImuOl4 |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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“I found myself completely taken aback by the way in which the reporter justified the convoy's entrance into Gaza. Explaining to those viewers who might be wondering why Israel allows humanitarian assistance to the other side during times of war, he declared that if a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe were to explode among the Palestinian civilian population, the international community would pressure Israel to stop the assault. There is something extremely cynical about how Israel explains its use of humanitarian assistance, and yet such unadulterated explanations actually help uncover an important facet of postmodern warfare. Not unlike raising animals for slaughter on a farm, the Israeli government maintains that it is providing Palestinians with assistance so that it can have a free hand in attacking them. And just as Israel provides basic foodstuff to Palestinians while it continues shooting them, it informs Palestinians--by phone, no less--that they must evacuate their homes before F-16 fighter jets begin bombing them.” http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090112/gordon?rel=hp_picks |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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"What really worries Israel is the prospect that Obama will "sit down with his enemies"--as he promised during the presidential campaign--and conduct talks with Hamas. That would put the ball in Israel's court and force them to make concessions. But Israel does not want to make concessions. They would rather start a war and change the facts on the ground so they can head-off any attempt by Obama to restart peace process. Just days ago, Obama advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said in a televised interview, that the last eight years proves that resolving the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is critical to US interests in the region. He added that the recent fighting shows that the two parties cannot achieve peace without US involvement. Brzezinski's comments suggest that, at the very least, the Obama camp is considering low-level (secret?) talks with Hamas representatives. Every day that Hamas abstains from violence; its legitimacy as a political party grows and the prospect of direct negotiations becomes more likely. This is Israel's worst nightmare, not because Hamas constitutes a real threat to Israeli security, but because Israel wants to install its own puppet regime and unilaterally impose its own terms for a final settlement." http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney01062009.html |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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The UN says there were no militants in or around the schools bombed by the Israelis, only civilians trying to find safe heaven from the relentless bloody nightmare of the invasion. They also stated that the UN had provided the Israelis with the GPS coordinates of all UN installations and that the schools were clearly marked as being such. 40 dead, many of them children. Collateral damage or direct targets? http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11432463&ch=4226714&src=ne ws |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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"The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has further escalated its attacks against the Gaza Strip; massacring civilians." http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/CJAL-7N2QBJ?OpenDocument |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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Israel's PR War “And so when the question the world is asking is not "who's right?" but "what works?" the consistent impression Israel leaves is that it kills people because, at best, it simply doesn't have any better ideas, and at worst, because some Israeli leader is trying to get the upper hand on one of his or her rivals. And no amount of hasbara can make that look good. “ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053605.html |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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Life in Gaza Before—and After—the 1967 War The Israeli people were told they were under “imminent danger,” with a pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Jordan and other Arab nations their only hope. In truth, the Israeli government deliberately lied to its own people; the invasion had been planned years earlier. Declassified American intelligence reports for May and June 1967 prove Israel’s sole threat was the realization of peace with Egypt—because peace kills the Zionist dream of a Jewish-only greater Israel, the driving ideology behind Zionism since 1897. By 1973 several Israeli officials had confirmed that Israel was under no threat. In 1982, as Israeli invaders laid siege to Beirut, Prime Minister and former terrorist Menachem Begin described the 1967 aggression as a war of “choice.” http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2007/0705022.html When asked about major differences between pre- and post-1967, he elaborated, “For me, the most important to mention is the destruction or usurpation of Gaza’s natural resources and thus our self-sufficiency and ability to trade. For example, our water. The [Mediterranean] sea provided the backbone for Gaza’s economy, so Israel instituted policies that removed our ability to live off our resources, such as preventing fishing and refusing to allow Palestinians to trade or sell goods to other countries.” (Palestinian goods must pass through Israel by Israeli law, and Palestinians must accept whatever Israel decides is “fair market value.”) |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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What It Was Like Being Forced to Leave Palestine 60 Years Ago “My family and I fled on April 27, 1948. My cousin, who lived a block away from me, was severely injured from a missile attack on our neighborhood, but survived. The next day, Jewish defense forces said we had to leave or die, so we packed whatever we could, as fast as we could, and left for Jordan, hoping for a more peaceful, stable life.” "In that violence, over 750,000 Palestinians were forced out. But today I see cruelty that cannot compare to 1948. This is worse than a slaughterhouse. I see fields of human bodies with arms and legs missing. I see dead bodies lying on top of each other in pools of blood, injured people, homes turned to rubble." http://www.alternet.org/audits/119369/what_it_was_like_being_forced_to_lea ve_palestine_60_years_ago/ |
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