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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Israel Approves "Enlarging" Offensive on Gaza

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07/01/2009 Twelve days on the beginning of its deadliest offensive against the Palestinian people in the Gaza strip that claimed the lives of around 700 people and injured more than 3000 others, the Zionist entity is set to even "expand" the war furthermore.

Indeed, the Israeli security cabinet on Wednesday approved enlarging the offensive against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but left the final decision to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a senior defense official declared.

"They approved continuing the ground offensive, including a third stage that would broaden it by pushing deeper into populated areas," he said. "But it left it up to the defense establishment whether to implement the decision."

However, and in a move that seemed "contradictory Israeli daily Ynet reported that Israeli Defense Ministry official Major General Amos Gilad will leave for Egypt Thursday in order to discuss the Franco-Egyptian ceasefire initiative. Gilad is expected to meet with Egyptian intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman and other senior officials.

The daily quoted political sources in occupied Jerusalem as saying that Israel is opposed to indirect negotiations with Hamas and to including the crossings issue in the a ceasefire agreement.



Israel threatens to bomb Al-Shefa hospital

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A Palestinian baby wounded in Israeli shelling being treated at Shefa hospital

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation army that launches a monstrous military aggression on Gaza Strip has threatened to reduce Al-Shefa hospital to rubbles, alleging that Hamas leaders were hiding inside it.

The hospital is considered the biggest hospital in the tiny Strip where hundreds of patients are lying.

Dr. Muaweya Abu Hassanein, the director of the emergency department in the hospital categorically denied the Israeli allegations, affirming that no Hamas leaders is using the hospital as a hideout, warning at the same time that if Israel carried out its threat, thousands of Palestinians in and around the hospital could be killed.

The hospital, and other smaller hospitals and clinics were previously shelled by the Israeli warplanes and tanks, stressed Hassanein. He also denied Israeli claims that medicine and medical supplies had arrived to Gaza hospitals.

The Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted on Wednesday Israeli military officers as alleging that Hamas leaders were using tunnels under the hospital to hide and run the show, and that they were using sick Palestinians as "human shields".

At least nine Palestinian paramedics and doctors were killed in Israeli shelling of the tiny Strip, and addition to destroying 11 ambulances and a number of the civil defense vehicles.

NEW GAZATOONS FOR 2009

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January 7, 2009 at 1:15 pm (Associate Post, Cartoons, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Nations)

Peace in 2009 ???

All images by David Baldinger


Not if THIS madness continues……






REFLECTIONS ON BLITZKRIEGS ~~ PAST AND PRESENT

January 7, 2009 at 7:03 am

Amira Hass’ parents were both survivors of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. In the following article she reflects on what they might have thought of the present Israeli blitzkrieg on Gaza……

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Lucky my parents arn’t alive to see Israel bomb Gaza
By Amira Hass

What luck my parents are dead. Back in 1982 they could not stand the noise of the Israeli jet fighters flying over the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. The shriek of a plane horrified them in their house in Tel Aviv. We don’t have to see it to know, they said.

That’s how it was then. And what now, when from me they would have learned about 2-year-old Sham, who climbs nimbly onto the table to look at her sister drawing in her notebook; 5-year-old Tayyib with the space between his front teeth that shows when he smiles; or 6-year-old Carmel with the picture books she loves. The world is exploding around these children, again and again, just five or 10 meters away. For 10 days now, every minute is a minute of fear. Every minute of fear is a minute of death. Multiply that by a million and a half.

My parents despised all their everyday activities - stirring sugar into coffee, washing the dishes, standing at a crosswalk - when in their mind’s eye they saw, based on their personal experience, the terror in the eyes of children, the desperation of mothers who could not protect their young ones, the moment when a huge explosion dropped a house on top of its inhabitants and a smart bomb struck down entire families. Salmeh’s mother says: “When I wake up [from a restless sleep] I am surprised. I know it’s only by chance that I am alive.”

How would they have been able to stand their daily routine now, when they would hear from me about 70-year-old Umm Khaled. A bomb fell on the closed concrete room on the square in the Shabura refugee camp. Two civilians were killed. Dozens of houses made out of hollow concrete were severely damaged. An asbestos roof fell centimeters from Umm Khaled’s head. Only that persuaded her to “be evacuated” to her daughter’s house, half a kilometer away, under the illusion that a new house would be safer. “All I hope is that I die before I see something happen to you,” she repeatedly tells her children.

Even before the language laundromat developed to its current sophistication, my parents were nauseated by phrases like the “the war for peace in the Galilee” or “disturbances of public order” when the public order was the occupation and the disturbance was resistance to it. When order is preventing the Palestinians from having what the Jews have a right to and demand. What luck that they are not alive to hear Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni explaining that we have nothing against the Palestinian people, and the cabinet secretary explaining that there is no humanitarian crisis and this is just Hamas propaganda. To recognize lies, they did not need to know the names of the people who had not had running water for five days or more. Forget the bombardments, forget the electricity, food, even sleep. But no water? Because of the bombardments by sea, land and air, people cannot even go out to get drinking water from the city faucets. And when someone does have running water at home, it’s undrinkable.

Because of my parents’ history they knew what it meant to close people behind barbed-wire fences in a small area. A year, five years, 10 years. From 1991. How lucky it is that they are not alive to see how how these incarcerated people are bombarded with all the glorious military technology of Israel and the United States. “We urgently invite Mohamed ElBaradei to come here and prove we do not have nuclear weapons,” says Iyad - a well-known comic, even under bombardment. But Saturday night he only said “difficult, difficult,” and hung up the phone.

My parents’ personal history led them to despise the relaxed way the news anchors reported on a curfew. How lucky they are not here and cannot hear the crowd roaring in the Colosseum.

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Israeli Settlers Poised to Re-settle Gaza After Assault

Israeli Settlers Poised to Resettle In Gaza After Assault

As Israeli troops fight their way into Gaza, scores of determined settlers are prepared to enter in their wake. Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" is reported to have overwhelming support among the Israeli public, but few are as enthusiastic as the former residents of the Israeli settlements in Gaza. As tens of thousands of Israeli troops descend on Gaza in an apocalyptic frenzy, scores of determined settlers are prepared to enter in their wake. The Gaza settlements were dismantled in August 2005 as part of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan. In a single stroke, the Israeli army removed 8,000 people from the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the southwest corner of the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border and from four smaller settlements in northern and central Gaza. In spirit, many of the Gaza settlers never left the coveted Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean coast. Despite ample compensation from the Israeli government, many have chosen to live in nearby caravan camps in desert towns between Ashdod and Ashkelon, clustered with families from the same settlement of origin. Most of the settlers didn't pack before they were escorted out of their compounds, not believing that the Israeli government would permanently expel them. Some have posted the road signs identifying their old settlements in their camps.

The evacuees have reportedly suffered from high rates of divorce, drug abuse and other problem behavior. Imbued with messianic zeal, for the last three-and-a-half years, they have been mobilizing to resettle the land they believe is theirs by divine right. Settler activists are counting on their historically strong ties to the Israeli military, with some units composed entirely of settlers, to help in their fight. Indeed, some soldiers and reservists currently in Gaza were there three years ago living in cherished settlement communities. On Monday, an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz described the bittersweet reactions of soldiers who had lived in Gaza settlements and are now back in uniform, noting, "Some see it as a first step toward returning to their former homes."

Earlier this year, Haaretz reported on settlers' plans to follow the Israeli army into Gaza. Boaz Haetzni, a leader of the settler movement, explained, "In our estimation the 'big operation' is only a matter of time; we will follow them in. We will not ask for permission from anyone. The [settlement] groups will be ready ...

These core groups will do exactly what the group that re-established Kfar Etzion did after 1967.

They will return to the lands where they existed in the past and will rebuild them." Kfar Etzion was the first Israeli settlement established in the West Bank after the end of the Six Day War and is now part of a large bloc of settlements connecting Jerusalem to Hebron. In August, settlers and their supporters commemorated the third anniversary of the Gaza evacuation at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. The event featured music, prayers, testimonials and updates from volunteers assisting the Gush Katif "refugees." A flyer promoting the event highlighted a biblical passage: "And the threefold cord is not easily broken" (Kohelet 4:12), a reference to the strength of the bond tying the Gush Katif settlers to one another and to the support they receive from the broader community of supporters in Israel and abroad. The program was similar to "A Tribute To Hebron," an event held at the Great Synagogue in late December.
This event, organized by www.thelandofisrael.com, was a fundraiser for the Beit Hashalom settlers, who were evicted earlier in the month from their illegally occupied house in the heart of Hebron.

The night included live music, comedy sketches and a speech by former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon, a prominent leader of the settler movement. Both events reflect the pattern that has emerged over the last several decades. After Palestinian land is seized by the Israeli army, settlements are established, connected to Israel’s electricity, water and security system, and aggressively marketed to potential residents.

Today, Israeli settlements and the state security apparatus cover over 40 percent of the West Bank. Nearly half a million Israelis live in settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, all of which are considered illegal under international law.

http://www.alternet.org/audits/117812/

Bombing to make the Gaza prison even more secure for Israel

Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 7 January 2009



In its bombing campaign on Gaza, Israel is destroying houses and, it hopes, Hamas, politically. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)


There are two persistent myths about the aim of Israel's onslaught on Gaza: the first that it is an entirely defensive move, a way to end the rocket fire of Hamas; and the second that it is designed to restore the army's credibility after its failure to cow Hizballah in 2006.

No doubt the Israeli army has been itching to repair its battered image, and for sure the rocket attacks from Gaza create domestic pressures that are only too clear to an Israeli government about to face an election.

But it is a gross misunderstanding of what is unfolding in Gaza to believe Israel's motives are capricious. The politicians and generals have been preparing for this attack for many months, possibly years -- a fact alone that suggests they have bigger objectives than commonly assumed.

Israel seized this particular moment -- with western politicians dozing through the holidays and a changeover of administrations in Washington -- because it ensured the longest period to implement its plan without diplomatic interference.

The pressure on Israel to reach a political settlement will grow, however, as the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January approaches. That explains why, as the army brings ever greater force to bear on Hamas's urban heartlands, the outlines of an Israeli plan are starting to become visible.

Despite talk in Israel that a chance to topple Hamas is within reach, that option does not have to be pursued. Israel's aims can be achieved whether Hamas stays or falls -- as long as it is crushed politically.

Certainly, a permanent re-occupation of the enclave with its 1.5 million inhabitants is not desired by Israel, which withdrew its settlers and soldiers in 2005 precisely because the demographic, economic and military costs of directly policing Gaza's refugee camps were considered too high.

It therefore needs another ceasefire similar to the one that expired on 19 December. The questions are: who will "sign" it and what will be its terms?

Writing in The Jerusalem Post newspaper this week, Martin Kramer, a leading Washington neoconservative, suggested that Israel's goal was to forge an agreement with Mahmoud Abbas and restore his rule in Gaza. "Hamas would swallow the pill in the name of 'national unity,'" he argued.

The idea that Abbas and his Fatah party can ride into the Gaza Strip on the back of Israeli tanks may be a fantasy that makes sense to the neocons who brought us "regime change" in Iraq, but few in the Israeli government or army seem to believe it is feasible.

In any case, the distinction between Fatah's "rule" over the West Bank ghettoes Israel has created and Hamas's oversight of the prison that Gaza has become is one Israel appears keen to maintain. The Israeli vision for the West Bank, in which significant parts are annexed, depends on its political severance from Gaza.

Instead, Israel is again pursuing its favorite mode of diplomacy: unilateralism. According to officials quoted in the local media, it wants a deal that is approved by the United States and western governments but passes over the heads of Hamas and the Palestinians.

At a recent cabinet meeting, Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister, put it this way: "There is no intention here of creating a diplomatic agreement with Hamas. We need diplomatic agreements against Hamas."

According to the latest reports, the ceasefire would require, as before, that Hamas prevent all rocket fire out of the Strip, but it would also introduce what officials are vaguely terming a "mechanism" on the only border with Gaza not under Israel's control.

During its lengthy blockade, Israel has been able to prevent goods, including food, medicines and fuel, from entering the Gaza Strip through crossing points on its two land borders while its navy patrols the sea coast. But Gaza also shares a short southern land border, next to the town of Rafah, with Egypt.

Before the 2005 disengagement, Israel sought to control this fourth border too by bulldozing swathes of Palestinian homes to create a no-man's land between Rafah and Egypt. This area, overlooked by military watchtowers, was referred to as the Philadelphi corridor.

After the withdrawal, Israel hoped the steel wall along the Rafah border and its oversight of the crossing point into Egypt would ensure that nothing went in or out without its approval.

However, a small private industry of tunneling under the wall quickly burgeoned, becoming a lifeline for ordinary Gazans and a route for smuggling in weapons for Hamas.

Egypt had little choice but to turn a blind eye, despite being profoundly uncomfortable with an Islamic party ruling next door. It faces its own domestic pressures over the humanitarian catastrophe that has been visibly created in Gaza.

Israel believes the current invasion will have achieved nothing unless this time it regains absolute control of the Rafah border, undercutting Hamas's claims to be running the Strip. The "mechanism" therefore requires that technical responsibility is lifted from Egyptian shoulders.

According to the Israeli plan, it will pass to the Americans, whose expertise will be called on to stop the tunneling and prevent Hamas from rebuilding its arsenal after the invasion comes to an end.

Israel may additionally seek the involvement of international forces to diffuse the censure the Arab publics are likely to direct at Egypt as a result.

Once Hamas has no hope of rearming and cannot take any credit for the Gazans' welfare, Israel will presumably allow in sufficient supplies of humanitarian aid to pacify western governments concerned about the images of Gaza's cold and hungry children.

Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian analyst, believes that in this scenario Israel would probably insist that such supplies come only through the Egyptian crossing, thereby "fulfilling another strategic aim: that of making Gaza Egypt's responsibility."

And once the Gazan albatross is lifted from Israel's neck, Abbas and his West Bank regime will be more isolated than ever. Undoubtedly, the hope in Israel is that, with Gaza disposed of, the pressure will grow on the Palestinian Authority to concede in a "peace" deal yet more Palestinian land in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (Pluto Press) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books). His website is http://www.jkcook.net/.

This article originally appeared in The National published in Abu Dhabi and is republished with permission.



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BY TOPIC: Gaza massacres

From "AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID"

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Dear Friend,

Life in Gaza before Saturday, December 27, 2008 was a humanitarian crisis. Today it is a nightmare.

I just got off the phone this morning with Salah, our Director in Gaza. Within the three-hour window of a "humanitarian corridor" when bombings have stopped so people can run out for food and supplies, he and one other staff member were able to get to the ANERA office.

Salah's next step in the short time of safety, is to go to the homes of staff members who have not been in touch to confirm their safety. He was able to report that most staff continue to be unharmed, but we cannot say they are safe. Psychologically, they are feeling the toll. Some are now displaced from their homes. They don't have electricity and they are running out of water and food. This story is the same for every family living in Gaza.

As soon as it is safe we will start distributing food, medicine and medical supplies.

And in addition to repairing buildings, peoples' lives will need restoration as well. More than half the population of Gaza is under the age of 18. No one living there feels safe right now. Recovery from this trauma will take special care. Our psychologist in Gaza reports that 75% of families needed help coping with life in Gaza before the bombings. Today it is 100% because even schools are unsafe. We are preparing a major program focusing on the psychological health of children and their families who will need help recovering, so they may feel safe again.

We are beginning an ongoing needs assessment and the list of priorities for providing help in Gaza continues to grow.

I want to thank everyone who has written to us expressing concern for the well-being of our staff and all of the innocent families hurting in Gaza right now.

One way to help is to remind everyone of the devastation innocent families were living through before bombs started dropping.

We have added a page to our website -
anera.org/gaza_compare - to share far and wide with friends and family who want to better understand life in Gaza before the bombardment and how it is today.

Also, we are regularly posting updates on our website. Keep an eye on our homepage
www.anera.org for updates from staff, press releases and other ways to help.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

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The Jewish circle of death

The 'progressives' who coddle the Jews have a lot to answer for (perhaps explaining why so many are choosing to pretend that nothing is happening in Gaza).

By calling anybody who dared criticize Zionism an anti-Semite, they have allowed the Israeli national mental illness of extremist racist supremacism to progress untreated, leading directly to the unbelievable escalation we are seeing now. The irony is that a little truth earlier on might have knocked some sense into World Jewry. The real 'anti-Semites' are those 'progressives' who allowed their addiction to power and their wanting to appear to be holier-than-thou to cover up the fact of the real evil driving World Jewry, evil which has led directly to the current slaughter, and will lead eventually to the destruction of the State of Israel.What are Israel and its enablers responsible for?

Cluster bombs (of course). White phosphorus. Attacking a building identified to the Israelis as a press center. Shelling a UN school to which civilians had been sent for refuge, killing mostly children (the streets ran with blood, causing the Jews to dream of matzos), again identified to the Israelis (Israeli tank gunners used HEAT rounds for maximum civilian kill).

The use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. Intentionally targeting civilians using weapons which leave cancer-causing debris. Destroying entire apartment buildings containing civilians (of course, David Frum would claim that all these pictures of dead people are fake). We can't forget the 'diet' that the Palestinians have been on, nor the fact that Israel has an obligation under international law to look after these people. The Israelis can do all these things so easily as Jewish supremacists don't see gentiles as human beings.

All of this is being watched by Jews on lawn chairs, sipping Pepsi, as a sort of ghoulish spectator sport, from the area where the Palestinian (?) rockets are falling, the rockets that were the Israeli rationale for the slaughter in the first place. Now we'll see some sort of ceasefire, and will just have to wait until the Jewish supremacist bloodlust rears its head again, so we can witness the next holocaust. This will keep happening until the Jewish supremacist state is wiped off the face of the earth.

Israel – The Sociopathic State (A MUST READ!!)

By: Anonymous American Citizen (who refuses to be silent any longer)


The unconscionable attacks of Israel upon Gaza can be seen as the action of a sociopathic state upon a helpless victim. While the diagnosis of sociopathy is commonly reserved for the individual, it may be used to describe an entire society in a way that illuminates the behavior of that society towards another group of people. Sociopathy is a social concept by definition, and for this reason can be expanded to describe the nature of an entire society, namely Israel.
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The ruling quality of the sociopath is a complete lack of empathy towards the Other. The sociopath is incapable of feeling for other people. The Israelis have kept the Gaza Strip blockaded, hermetically sealed for a year and a half, causing untold suffering for the 1.5 million people of Gaza, 60% of which are under the age of 15 years old. The lack of empathy for so many helpless human beings is sociopathic. Israel has long held its status as a sociopathic state.
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At the core of the sociopath’s personality is a deep-seated rage which is repressed and cut off from the conscious mind but which directs the sociopath’s actions. It is this rage which makes the sociopath incapable of feeling empathy for the Other, and which fuels the mercilessness with which he treats others. This rage is the only valid emotion a sociopath has. It accounts for his short temper, his consistent overreaction to the smallest setbacks, and the ruthlessness with which he treats others when they do not bend to his will. ~

The prolonged Israeli blockade of Gaza provoked the firing of homemade rockets by Hamas into Israel as a last resort response. The Israeli reaction to the Hamas rockets was truly beyond the pale. In return for a few rockets, which are all Hamas has to defend its population, Israel pounded Gaza with a fierce “Shock and Awe”-style air force assault, and the remainder of the elite Israeli military stands by to assist. The overwhelming force unleashed on the defenseless little strip says everything one needs to know about the Israeli sociopathic state. The rage is here, the lack of empathy was here for a year and a half when the blockade was in place, the lack of remorse was always there when sick people were allowed to die at border crossings while waiting to reach medical facilities – waiting for no reason but cruelty. ~

Focused solely on himself and his needs, the sociopath has no regard for, and indeed no recognition of, the needs or rights of other people. The "Other" exists as no more than an obstacle to the sociopath’s achieving what he desires. He is ruthless in exploiting or removing others from his path, and kills mercilessly if it serves his purpose. ~

Israel’s current assault on Gaza, its most heinous in years, shows no mercy to the Palestinians. The blockade has already brought Gaza to its knees, and now they are bombing the pitiful land almost to oblivion. Children and women are being killed, along with so-called “legitimate targets.” I would maintain that every “target” is a human being, particularly when the battle is so unequal, so unfair. ~

The sociopath is unable to feel remorse. Emotionally shallow, he abuses others without hesitation. He cannot make friends, much less keep them. He is secretive, paranoid, and authoritarian. Is Israel paranoid? Does it suffer from the delusion that all its Arab neighbors are waiting to destroy it? Of course it does. It threatens attack for no reason – e.g. Iran – and has attacked without provocation in the past – e.g. Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. And even now, with the intolerable treatment it is giving Gaza, have there been any threats from other countries? Of course not. It sits in its sea of nuclear weapons and dares anyone to attack, while it destroys Gaza with impunity. ~

The sociopath lies pathologically and will make promises that he never keeps, yet he continually expects to be believed and will react with outrage if someone refuses to accept his promises as real. At the same time he demands that those around him make and keep promises even knowing that his will not be kept. How many times has Israel broken promises not to increase settlements in the West Bank? Building is going on there even as Gaza is being destroyed. `

Is Israel a sociopathic narcissist, with a sense of entitlement to Palestinian land based on religious “chosen-ness” rather than on the simple truth of theft? Israel is building swiftly over the West Bank. Is it plausible that Israel is going to eventually denude Gaza and take it over again? Why else would they be starving it, and bombing it in their “War to the end”? ~

Israel shows all the signs of the sociopath, most especially now as it makes war upon Gaza. No empathy, utter ruthlessness, paranoia, pathological liar, lack of remorse, narcissistic, and operating out of a deep sense of rage: all the defining characteristics of a sociopath. ~

Now is the time for the international community to stop paying lip service to international humanitarian law and immediately act to protect the occupied Palestinians from their out-of- control occupier. ~


LIVE FROM GAZA ~~ DAY 11 OF THE ISRAELI BLITZKRIEG

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


Sameh A. Habeeb

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Death toll 620, injured 3000 and most of them Civilians



*Numbers and Figures of Israeli War on Gaza:
*Total death toll: 620 while Wounded: 3000.
*Civilians: 220 children and 130 women killed since the start of this War. Many old men and young people were killed and the number is estimated of 80 and this is all according to the Medical sources.
*Thus, we could say so far: Around 430 civilians killed and 190 are policemen and militants.
* More than 1 thousand child among the wounded!
*11 Ambulances bombed and 4 vans for civil defense hit.
*30 paramedics wounded and 7 killed.

Deadly Outcomes of Israeli Ground Military Operation:

1-Bombings in Jabalia Refugee Camps, 5 killed and several wounded. Many houses were damaged in the camp while hundreds of people leave their houses into some schools and safer places.

2-Israeli F16s bombarded two adjacent houses for Al Shorafa family in Toffah area. The houses were hit without previous notification. Many people killed and several wounded.

3-A massare against house of Al Daya family southern east of Gaza City. The father was killed, the mother, his son Fayez, his daughter in law Rawans, infant 6-month-baby Muhammad, 5-year-old Sharf Al Din, Ala’ aged 8 years, Rania aged 12 and Doha 3 years. Other 5 people were killed in the same house while many still under the rubbles of the 4-floor-house.

4- Marzouq Family hit in Al Toffah area. Many wounded and no news if there are victims or not!

5-Israeli drone killed 3 young guys refugee to one of the schools in Al Shati’ Refugee Camp. They were hit by a rocket while they were drinking water inside the school.

6-Medical sources: 13 palestinian women and children arrived to Al Shifa’ hospital due to Israeli shelling in Al Toffah quarter.

7-Gaza Local Radios: Thousands of Palestinians shelter to UNRWA schools mid of Gaza as Israeli army threatened of a genocide against them. Some of theose at schools are wounded and unable to reach hospitals.

8-F16s rebombarded Al Saraya security compound last night. The place totally turned rubbles.

9-Bombings target Al Baurej centeral market. Many wounded and 2 killed.

10-Bombings targeted Abu Ghanima family in Al Zaytoun area. The house includes around 12 people. Some injured, some killed and some others under rubbles.

11-A horrendous massacare: 45 civilians! Killed due to heavy Israeli bombings targeted them at Al Fakhora school in Jabalia town. The families and victims took this school a shelter from Israeli strikes. Around 100 wounded and many in critical conditions now!

12-A house for shamalkh family bombed to rubbles due bombings targeted a mosque in the area. Two palestinains killed, 10 wounded and 5 in critical conditions.

13-A house destroyed due to air raid in Khan Yonis town of Abasan.

14-Bombings in Al Shati’ camp claimed the life of one civilian and many wounded in the place.

15-Israeli rockets hit Qlaibo area north of Gaza and no wounded to be reported in the raid.

16-A house for Isi family hit in Al Toffah area.

17-A house hit near Mus’ab Bin omair Mosque and many houses burnt due to the shelling north of Gaza.

18- One Palestinian killed and 6 wounded in the Israeli air raids in Absan town in Khan Yonis.

19-Al Samouni Family: around 20 members of our family killed and another 25 under the rubbles of the house.

20-Power Transistors destroyed in the northern area.

21-Artillary shell kills a child, Merwan Ubaid, in Abasan town east of Kgan yonis.

22-Around 25 houses damaged due to artillery shells in Rafah City.

23-A house for Al alool family destroyed at Bait Lahia twon.

24-Five wounded in a rocket hit Khoza’a family.

25-Heavy bombings in the agricultural and farms in the northern areas.

26-A woman from Ghomaida family killed and her husband wounded in the northern areas of Gaza.

27-Mass bombings in Al shijaya area and many wounded and arrived at Al Shifa’ hospital.

28-Rockets targeted a house in Al Sheikh Ridwan and 5 wounded, one in critical conditions.

29-Pycatcrics: thousands of children turned traumatized due to the ongoing bombings.

30-Palestinian militants fire 30 rockets into the Israeli settlements.

31-Rockets hit the main Market of Gaza with heavy F116s rockets.

Death toll of Israeli military aggression on Gaza rose to 680 Palestinians

The continued Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip raised the death toll of Palestinians to more than 680 victims so far, half of them were children and women.

Israel Is Killing Palestinians in Gaza with U.S. Weapons

While President, Mrs. Bush, Barbara, and Jenna Deeply Saddened by Passing of Their Cat India ("Willie")


PHOTO GALLERY OF GAZA’S MARTYRED CHILDREN


In Pictures: the slaughter of Gazan children
Victims of the Israeli occupation forces in the tenth day of their attacks on Gaza Strip - January 5, 2009


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Jan 5, 2009

On January 5, 2009 three families were massacred: Samuni, Abu Eisha, and Al-Hilou .

Seven members of the Abu Eisha family were torn to pieces by shelling, said medical officials at Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to the medics the parents and their five children were killed when Israeli warships shelled their home in the Al-Mashtal area in the north of Ash-Shati Refugee Camp, on the shore west of Gaza City.


Medical officials at Ash-Shifa hospital also confirmed on Monday morning the deaths of seven people, including four children all members of the Samuni family in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Family members who managed escape the shelling claimed more than seven people may have been killed. Jalal Samuni said told Ma’an’s reporters at Ash-Shifa Hospital that more than 20 people were left inside the house which was bombarded, and he fears that many of them were killed. He explained that the neighbors gathered in the house of Arafat Samuni who came to the area yesterday. He said that advancing Israeli troops told residents to stay in their homes. Then Israeli forces shelled the house, he said.


Earlier also in the Zaytoun area killed a five-year-old girl and her grandfather, members of the Al-Hilou family. The girl’s mother was critically injured. All the victims were evacuated to Ash-Shifa Hospital (Ma’an news)

The Massacre of Al-Samuni Family

Samuni family says: Israeli soldiers gather 30 persons from Al Samuni family in one house. Ten families were in the house from the same clan. Many civilians were killed as artillery shells bombed the house. The number of victims around 14, most of them are children and women. Some are in critical conditions! Sameh A. Habeeb


Photo by AFP :Palestinian boys kneel over the bodies of Issa, left, Ahmed, center, and Mohamed Samouni, right.


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Other pictures from Gaza - January 5, 2009
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A Palestinian man shouts next to the bodies of two of four Palestinian siblings at Gaza Citys al-Shifa hospital.



Palestinian medics carry a wounded boy into Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.AFP



A Palestinian father carries his wounded baby daughter into a hospital in Gaza City. AFP



Palestinian boys wounded by an Israeli tank shell wait for treatment at Shifa hospital in Gaza January 5, 2009. AFP



Wounded Palestinian children arrive for treatment at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, after an Israeli strike early Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.AFP



A wounded Palestinian boy is treated at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, after an Israeli missile strike early Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.AFP



A Palestinian baby wounded by an Israeli tank shell is treated by doctors at Shifa hospital in Gaza January 5, 2009. AFP



Palestinian children wounded by an Israeli tank shell rush into Shifa hospital in Gaza January 5, 2009.AFP



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Images of the Israeli assault against civilians in Gaza.

'The Scheme is to Give WBank to Jordan, Gaza to Egypt'

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Mohamad Shmaysani Readers Number : 766



07/01/2009

After taking part in the Ashura procession in Beirut’s southern suburb to mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussein peace be upon him, hundreds of thousands of participants gathered to listen to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s speech through a large screen.

Sayyed Nasrallah reminded at the beginning of his speech of the main phases of the Karabala battle and the position of Imam Hussein and his household, companions and his sister Sayyida Zeinab who preferred to die than to give legitimacy to Yazid, a “criminal who distanced himself from the teachings of Prophet Mohammed peace be upon him.”

Sayyed Nasrallah lashed out at some Arab leaders who are still having normal ties with Israel at a time more than 680 people killed in Gaza and advised them to follow the path of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who expelled the Israeli Ambassador in protest at the Israeli aggression on Gaza.

“In front of the Zionist entity that is based on spilling the blood of the innocent and committing massacres, the least thing to do is not to give legitimacy to this entity regardless of the sacrifices. The guardians of the Zionist entity want us to give Israel legitimacy, but the vast majority rejects this. What is taking place today in Gaza, should be a strong motive to reject giving legitimacy to this entity. Not acknowledging Israel, rejecting normalization with it is the least than can be done. Yesterday Chavez expelled the Israeli Ambassador and he set an example for all those who are still receiving Israeli Ambassadors. Some Arab leaders are requested to learn how to reject normalization with this entity. I assure you that the peoples of our nation will punish those leaders for their crimes. They ought to help the resistance instead of pressuring it.”

His eminence criticized the Egyptian regime for keeping the Rafah crossing closed in the face of the dying people of Gaza.
“Yesterday, an Egyptian official asked: does the UN need 600 martyrs and 1500 injured people to take action? Today I ask him, do you need that much victims to open the Rafah crossing?”

Sayyed Nasrallah also commented on the action taken by some Egyptian lawyers against him personally. “A group of Egyptian lawyers close to the governing regime filed a suit against me personally at the International Criminal Court because of my speech nine days ago, when I called for the opening of the Rafah crossing. They considered my call as a call for a coup d’état. I consider this suit, especially in front of those whose consciousness have not yet awaken to the gravity of the massacres, a medal of honor that I will be proud with even after I die. I openly say that we have never antagonized anyone and we will not antagonize those who colluded on us. However we will antagonize those who collude on Gaza.”

The Hezbollah chief addressed the “real US scheme” that was reflected by former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton. “What we heard yesterday from Bolton clearly indicates the real aim of the US and Israel is to end the Palestinian issue by concretizing the state of Israel, giving Gaza to Egypt and giving the rest to Jordan.”
His eminence added that “this necessitates a renewal to our call for all Palestinian factions to unite because the aim is to liquidate their cause, all of their cause, not just Hamas or Fatah.”

Sayyed Nasrallah stressed the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006 and what is currently happening in Gaza and the steadfastness there, “should put an end to any dispute on the question of a defensive strategy. This mighty army stands helpless and incapable of fulfilling its goals in front of a resistance with modest capabilities yet with a great will and this confirms that the choice of armed resistance based on faith and determination is the best and most effective way to confront the most tyrannical armies in this world. This makes thing crystal clear for us and further illustrates our viewpoint. Even the international community is incapable of condemning a massacre in a UN institution in Gaza just like it failed to condemn the Israeli massacre in a UN base in Qana in 1996. If this is the case, how will this international community be fair to any cause?”

His eminence told the angry participants that “the world is looking at you in Lebanon. We do not know how big is the scheme neither do we know the magnitude of collusion, therefore we have take all probabilities into consideration.”

The leader of the resistance warned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he will not succeed in crushing the resistance in Lebanon or in Palestine. “Olmert told Sarkozy: today Hamas and tomorrow Hezbollah. I tell the defeated and failing Olmert that you will not succeed in crushing Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon.
We have been hearing threats recently but they do not frighten us and we are prepared for any aggression. If they came to our towns and homes, the Zionist will discover that their war in July 2006 was a picnic compared to we have prepared for them.”

Sayyed Nasrallah vowed the resistance will not abandon its arms and will not leave the battlefield. “Our resistance will remain a title for our history and our sacrifices. I was hoping that the voices that emerged recently in Lebanon to reassure Israel about the border with Lebanon would have responded to Israel’s threats to the resistance and Hezbollah. What drives to rush and give free assurances to Israel at a time this entity is killing-massacre our people in Gaza?”

His eminence concluded his speech saying: “On the tenth day of Muharram, and looking at all these sacrifices, we are in dire need for the spirit, wisdom, love of martyrdom and patience of Imam Hussein peace be upon him. Throughout the past decades, we have been with Imam Hussein at every stage and ready to sacrifice ourselves for what we believe in. After all these years and experiences that proved that our sincerity, path and convictions are right, our people, generation after generation, will not be overcome and will not fear any threat as long as their slogan remains: At your service Imam Hussein. Israel is our enemy and the enemy of our nation. It will remain as such even if some make peace with it. The US administration fosters Israel and protects it, so this administration will remain our enemy and the enemy of our nation if some make peace with it.”

I Thank you for your sincere and kind participation. Let our enemy hear our voice to know that our nation will not change its position:
‘Disgrace...How Remote.”

Gaza-linked attacks on Jews sweep Europe

I'm having trouble at the moment finding anything to laugh about , that's why I was so pleased to come across this article in the Jerusalem Post. I wrote a comment on the thread below it basically asking if they were surprised, it didn't get printed of course. Believe me it's not just Muslims that extremely upset with the Khazar State's barbarity, just about everyone is.
The Jews have proved that with their standards, "collective punishment" and the deliberate targeting of civilians is acceptable. Did they really think that their self applied title of "chosen ones" would give them an exception?



Gaza-linked attacks on Jews sweep Europe


Someone also started a blaze outside the premises last week. And on Sunday slogans including "murderers ... You broke the cease-fire" and "don't subject Palestine to ethnic cleansing" were daubed on Israel's embassy in Stockholm.

France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities and a history of anti-Semitic violence flaring when tensions in the Middle East are high. In 2002, some 2,300 Jews left France for Israel because they felt unsafe.

President Nicolas Sarkozy warned in a statement Tuesday that France would not tolerate violence linked to the Gaza crisis.

A day earlier, his interior minister said she was concerned about the prospect of an escalation and met with the heads of the two main Muslim and Jewish groups and police officials to stress the need to "preserve national unity."

Damage to the synagogue in Toulouse was limited to a blackened gate, and there were no injuries, even though a rabbi was giving a course to adults inside, authorities said.

They said unlighted gasoline bombs were also found in a car nearby and in the synagogue's yard.

A local Jewish leader, Armand Partouche, said he believed the assailants had planned to torch the synagogue, but fled when the building's alarm went off.

"It could have been very, very serious," Partouche said in a telephone interview. "There were people inside; there could have been deaths."

He said Jewish leaders are asking Toulouse authorities for reinforced security for the city's synagogues.

"We really fear that anti-Semitism will spring up again and that the current conflict will be transposed to our beautiful French republic," he said.

Meanwhile, anti-Semitic incidents have risen sharply in the UK, according to a Jewish community organization.


The Community Security Trust (CST) - a charity charged with the security of the Jewish community and the only British group that collects, analyzes, and publishes anti-Semitism statistics - has reported 25 separate incidents relating to Gaza.

The trust reported several incidents of offensive graffiti across the country in the last week.

"Jihad 4 Israel" graffiti was found on six different locations across London and "Kill Jews" graffiti was scrawled on a bus stop in Jewish neighborhood of Temple Fortune.

"Jihad is the only solution for Palestine" was written on the door of a north London synagogue.

Last Wednesday evening, a gang of 15-20 youths, variously reported as "Middle Eastern" and "Asian," marched down Golders Green High Road, in a predominantly Jewish area of London, shouting "Free, Free Palestine."

They reportedly also attempted to enter some kosher restaurants.

Last Thursday, on the same street, a group of Asian males drove a car shouting "Death to the Jews," "Jews should be killed" and "Jewish bastards."

There was also an attempt to set fire to a synagogue in Brondesbury, northwest London, on Sunday night. The attackers tried to smash a window but were prevented from doing so by a security film. They then attempted to set the synagogue door on fire using gasoline.

Police, the fire brigade, and members of CST arrived at the scene but no arrests were made.

"The rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents can be attributed to the hysteria whipped up against Israel and this leads to the blurring of the line between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism," Mark Gardner, CST's head of communications said.

In Belgium, the government on Tuesday ordered police in Antwerp and Brussels to be on increased alert after recent pro-Palestinian protests ended in violence and dozens of arrests.

Police said burning rags were shoved through the mailbox of a Jewish home in Antwerp last weekend. Damage was limited and no arrests were made.

In Denmark, a 27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents is alleged to have wounded two young Israelis last week, opening fire with a handgun in a shooting that police suspect could be linked to the Gaza crisis.

One Israeli man was shot in the arm and another in the leg as they were selling hair-care products in a shopping mall.

Eli Ruvio, who owns the company that operated the stands, said his employees have been harassed by Muslim youths since they set up three kiosks in the shopping center in August.

"They kept cursing and shouting at us," Ruvio told The Associated Press.

He added that the Muslim youths also threw mud and firecrackers at the employees and spat at them.

Ruvio recalled an episode December 27 when some of the youths shouted "slaughter all the Jews."

"I told my employees not to speak in Hebrew and lie about where they come from, they should say they were from Spain or somewhere else. If people ask you where you are from, never say you're from Israel," he said.

Time To Tell The Truth About Israel ...Without Fear

Time To Tell The Truth About Israel ...Without Fear
Of The Mind Police
The Thought Censors Don't Like It? Tough

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The David Icke Newsletter
Copyright David Icke, 2009. All Rights Reserved.
1-6-9

So, yet again, the people of the virtual-concentration camp, known officially as 'Gaza', are being bombarded from the sky by the bully-boys of Tel Aviv.

State-of-the art Israeli jets, paid for by the United States, bomb civilian targets in this tragic, poverty-stricken wasteland which acts as a holding camp for the human beings the Israeli government would rather be dead. Waiting in the wings are Israeli tanks preparing for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, again paid for by the United States.

The world watches as a nation of people, the Palestinians, are systematically crushed and destroyed by the tyrants who call the shots in Israel on behalf of that country's real power structure ­ the House of Rothschild.

And, taxpayers of America (and elsewhere), you are paying for this calculated slaughter.

The Palestinian 'territories' of Gaza and the West Bank

American aid to Israel accounts for something like a third of all US overseas aid when Israel is home to just .001 per cent of the global population and has one of the highest incomes per head in the world. This is even without all the 'private' donations from US corporations and individuals which are tax-deductible even when given to the Israeli military, unlike any other foreign power.

According to 2007 figures, the United States government gave more than $6.8 million to wealthy Israel every day while to the desperate and devastated Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank they gave just $300,000.

US military 'aid' to Israel increased by more than a quarter to an average $3 billion a year in 2007 ­ a figure guaranteed for ten years. This and other support makes Israel the biggest recipient of United States foreign military funding since the Second World War.

The United States is also Israel's biggest supplier of fighter planes, weapons and other military technology. As a result, Israel has the world's largest F-16 fleet outside the "United States Air Force" US Air Force. In their book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt write:

'Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976 and the largest total recipient since World War ll. Total direct U.S. aid to Israel amounts to well over $140 billion in 2003 dollars.

Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year. This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain.'

Why do they do this? Because the House of Rothschild controls Israel and the House of Rothschild controls the political system of the United States. The network that links the two is called 'Zionism', a Rothschild creation ­ just like Israel itself.

The might of this Zionist cabal spanning Israel, the United States, Europe and beyond is yet again, like the playground bully that it is, attacking the little kid in the calipers ­ the people of Gaza.

At the time of writing the death toll is 430 Palestinian men, women and children with more than 2,000 injured. They are bombing the unarmed innocent knowing there will be no credible response ­ the way all bullies operate. Oh, brave men of Israel; oh how Yahweh would be so proud:

'When the LORD your God hands these nations over to you and you conquer them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy.'

Deuteronomy 7:1-4

What we are seeing in Gaza, and have seen so many times, both there and in the Lebanon, is merciless Old Testament slaughter: cold, calculated, heartless slaughter.

'So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin".'

Judges 21:10-24

'Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all ­ old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple".'

Ezekiel 9:5-7

'So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told.'

Ezekiel 9:5-7

The parallels are endless between the bloodthirsty 'God' of the Old Testament and the actions of the heartless, soulless, Artificial Intelligence that controls Israel, most notably the biological robots of the House of Rothschild who thus have no soul, no empathy, no more mercy for the consequences of their actions than a desktop computer.

Imagine if Iran or anyone else outside Israel and the United States (both Rothschild assets) was doing what the Israeli military is doing in Gaza. There would be global condemnation, not least from Israel and the United States, resolutions passed in the UN Security Council and talk of the need for sanctions or military intervention to 'save the innocent'.

But when Israel does it we have vacuous calls for a truce, an end to the violence while 'understanding Israel's position', and, in terms of soon-to-be President 'Change' Obama, silence. It's all a fraction of what others would face because Israel is a wholly-owned asset of the Rothschilds and so is not subject to the same rules as anyone else. As former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said:
'Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.'

And Prime Minister Golda Meir betrayed the same Zionist arrogance:

'This country exists as the fulfilment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.'

Ah, it's all in the Old Testament? Gotcha, right, well do as you like then.

The 'Jewish homeland' was from the start a Rothschild fiefdom orchestrated through the global secret society network of interbreeding families known as the Illuminati.

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

A child injured in the Israeli bombardment of a UN school yesterday is taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City

A child injured in the Israeli bombardment of a UN school yesterday is taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City

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O 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.

Sayyed Nasrallah Slams Gaza War Decision as 'Foolish'

Hussein Assi Readers Number : 234



06/01/2009

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called on Tuesday Lebanese to take part in the Ashoura march scheduled on Wednesday to renew commitment to the Resistance choice and the pledge of hostility to Israel and the Great Satan that orders Israel.

His eminence stressed that the decision to launch a war on Gaza was foolish, thanking God "for making our enemies so stupid and dumb," renewing support to the Palestinian Resistance in its battle against the Zionist enemy in the Gaza Strip and stressing that the resistance was never and shall never be anyone’s pawn.

Sayyed Nasrallah was speaking through a large screen as he marked the tenth night of Ashoura at the Sayyed Shouhadaa complex in Beirut's southern suburb (Dahiyeh).

His eminence started the political part of his speech by criticizing those who pretend to be the protectors of the human rights in the world for being biased. "Those human rights defenders occupy themselves in denouncing all Resistance movements and seek to give justifications for the criminals who possess the greatest killing machine, and then come to say that Israel is defending itself," Sayyed Nasrallah noted. "Yes, Israel is defending itself. But women, children, displaced and besieged people are, in this international community's eyes, aggressors and assailants," his eminence mocked, referring mainly to the stances of the American administration as well as some of the European Union states.

"It might be tolerable that such stances originate from the US administration or even the EU. However, what's completely unbearable is that such stances come from Arab regimes," Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out. His eminence noted that some Arab sides were seeking to hurt the Palestinian Resistance and its leaders. "The same thing happened in the Israeli July 2006 against Lebanon," Sayyed Nasrallah recalled, asserting, once again, that the Lebanese Resistance never took orders from any foreign party, "d so is the Palestinian Resistance."

The Resistance leader asserted that the resistance was never and shall never be anyone's pawn. "During the July 2006 war neither the Syrian nor the Iranian leaderships knew about the operation for capturing the Israeli soldiers," his eminence reiterated. Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that no one can impose on the Resistance its decisions, adding that "Hamas' leadership in Gaza is the decision maker and it alone accepts or rejects the decision for calm."

"When the brethren in Hamas decided to put an end to the truce, they had to choose between keeping Gaza under the cruel siege or fight to end the siege. So, they decided to press Israel to put an end to the siege," Sayyed Nasrallah said, slamming those who accuse Hamas of ending the truce upon the request of Iran or Syria. "I know that they took this decision on their own," Sayyed Nasrallah declared, renewing support for the Palestinian Resistance and belief that Hamas was the only party who takes the decision in the Gaza war. "The Resistance in Lebanon and Palestine does not take orders from any country in the world, and they are not mercenaries, because they are willing to pay the lives of their families for their cause," Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized. "Iranian officials come to me not to present decisions, but rather to consult, discuss and ask how to best offer help according to their capabilities," his eminence explained.

Sayyed Nasrallah, meanwhile, noted that there were some Arab regimes that are attempting to confiscate the independence movements. "The real aim of the war on Gaza is to strip the Resistance of its decision making power," his eminence revealed, adding that a political resolution is being prepared in the UN Security Council, but only the Palestinian Resistance has the power to take its decision.

The Resistance leader tackled the European active diplomacy and its efforts to resolve the conflict or, at least, to reach a 48-hour humanitarian truce. "Europe denounces the victim and protects the executioner, while the executioner does not listen. Europe is capable of protecting no one," his eminence said, adding that the European efforts have no value. "Israel will not commit to any European or Russian initiative," his eminence said, adding that Israel would only resort to an American initiative. "The US is now obstructing, through its veto power, any UNSC resolution," Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out, saying that this council was powerless to take a resolution in the favor of the Palestinian people. "The United States should first give the green light on any proposed solution, and Israel would abide by its decisions," Sayyed Nasrallah explained.

While noting that the decision to launch the war against the Palestinians in the Gaza strip was American executed by Israel and portraying Israeli officials as "small players" in the Americans' hands, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that those who waged war on Gaza were fools and idiots, noting that the decision to launch the war was foolish. "They tried to convince the Arabs that Iran is their enemy, but the Gaza war just reminded them that Israel is the only enemy," his eminence stressed. "Thanks God for providing us with such idiot and stupid enemies," his eminence went on to say.

Hezbollah Secretary General noted that calls have been made for holding an Arab Summit with whom ever attends, referring mainly to the call made by Syrian President Bachar al-Assad after his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "This is the least of what can be done," his eminence declaring, renewing calls for Arabs to act and to express solidarity with Palestinians in their battle with the Zionist enemy.

"Regardless of the weather on Wednesday, you are called upon to renew your pledge of hostility to Israel and the Great Satan that orders Israel," Sayyed Nasrallah declared. "Wednesday will be the day for pledge of allegiance, the day of renewing commitment to Resistance and pledge of hostility to Israel and the Great Satan that order Israel," his eminence announced at the end of his speech.

At the beginning of his speech, Sayyed Nasrallah criticized the suicide bombers who blow themselves up in the wrong place, hoping to be among the martyrs. "It's so deplorable, painful and saddening that, in the middle of the battle taking place against the Zionist enemy in Gaza, some people come to blow themselves up in the wrong place," his eminence noted. Sayyed Nasrallah cited the example of the suicide bomber who targeted in Iraq's northern city of Mosul a protest condemning the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. "What a crime! What atheism! What disgust!" Sayyed Nasrallah said, adding that this phenomenon was very dangerous and wondering about the aims of such crimes. "If those people blow themselves up in the right place against the Israeli enemy, the situation in the region would have been very different," Sayyed Nasrallah concluded.

Sayyed Nasrallah is set to address crowds during the commemoration of the tenth day of Ashoura on Wednesday noon at the southern suburb of Beirut (Dahiyeh).

The Road to Gaza

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with those two. who still needs ennemies ??

The road to Gaza passes by Cairo
and
The tunnels towards liberation
start in Gaza .


Beirut has its (our) Sayyed
ready like a lion
and
Damascus has its Lion
waiting to be called Sayyed .



Riyadh and Kuwait have
rich-Camels riding on selfish-Bedouins
and Rabat is not better,,,,,, ,,,,,

The roads to Gaza leads us to Jerusalem
but
Jerusalem is sold by Abbas


If Baghdad were still standing on its feet
Gaza would not be attacked, today.



The destruction of Gaza started
by the hanging of President Saddam
and the Pharaoh of Cairo knows that,
so he closed his eyes
and his doors.


Raja Chemayel
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How far is Cairo ????

Source by Ben Heine


How would you call anyone who knows that
a Military-solution is not a solution and yet,
he tries ,again, to win a military-solution ????
if he ever can .

In the meantime , and so far :
for each dead Israeli there are 106 dead Palestinians
and for each wounded Israeli there are 179 wounded Palestinians
for each Palestinian missilethere are 328 Israeli missiles fired
for each used and old Palestinian- Ambulance
there are 97 brand-new-Israeli ambulances.

I am sure that Cairo has more missiles
and more Ambulances than both Israel and Palestine
but it is using neither ......!!!

Raja Chemayel