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Digging For The Dead

Israeli Attack on 4-storey Building in Gaza Kills 25

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Israeli F-16 planes hit a 4-storey apartment building belonging to civilians in Gaza on Tuesday. While the building was razed to the ground, 25 people were killed in the building.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21678.htm

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Holocaust Denied

The lying silence of those who know

By John Pilger

When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21680.htm

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The Courage To Resist

Woman Faces Down Armed Israeli Soldiers.

Please watch this 2 minute video

53 seconds into the video an unknown woman stands in front of Israeli soldiers and prevents them from firing on unarmed protesters.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21676.htm

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Why Do They Hate The West So Much, We Will Ask

By Robert Fisk

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?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21675.htm

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Collective Punishment of Gaza

By Don Hynes

No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted upon the population on account of the acts of individuals for which they cannot be regarded as jointly and severally responsible. No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited. Geneva Convention, Section 11, Article 33
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21668.htm

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US Troops 'Monitoring Rafah Crossing'

By Press TV

US troops are helping Egypt prevent "arms smuggling" from tunnels in the Rafah border-crossing, as Israel continues its attacks on Gaza.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21665.htm

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Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict?

Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel's Subversion of the 'Peace Process'

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

The current outbreak of violence cannot be understood without analysing the asymmetries in military violence between the two parties; the dynamic structure of the conflict in the context of the character of the Israeli occupation; the central role of recent discoveries of substantial natural gas reserves in Gaza; and joint Anglo-American and Israeli attempts to monopolise the lucrative (and strategic) energy resources through a political process tied to a corrupt Palestinian Authority run by Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21670.htm

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Bush Plan Beat Obstacle to Gaza Assault

By Gareth Porter

Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government. But the George W Bush administration helped Israel eliminate that obstacle, by deliberately provoking Hamas to seize power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21672.htm

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Picking Up The Pieces In Gaza

By Alice Gray

Israel's leaders would do well to remember that terrorism has not only a physical but also a psychological infrastructure, an infrastructure that they are building even as they destroy tunnels and rocket launching platforms; that desperate people will resort to desperate measures, that suffering breeds hatred and hatred breeds revenge.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21671.htm

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The Only Exit from Gaza is Death

By Dan Lieberman

In every year that passes, our mainstream media becomes more and more like "The Ministry of Truth" in 1984. - It is so easily observed in conversations with those that get their news from the mainstream media. The difference in opinion between those that know the full story and those that prefer to "trust" the commercial media is like the difference between night and day.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21669.htm

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Democrats Are Cowards in the Face of Israel's Brutality

By Stephen Zunes

Democrats have silenced dissent and offered unflinching support for Israeli actions, including gross violations of international law.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21679.htm

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Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy?

By Tony Karon

Give me war, give me pogrom, give me disaster, and I know what to do; give me peace and tranquility, and I'm lost. The Holocaust was a hellish horror, but we often use it as an excuse to avoid looking around seeing how, existentially, 60 years later, in a miraculous way, are living in a much better situation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21666.htm
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Why We Fight

How the Military-industrial Complex is Destroying the USA

9 Minute Video

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21677.htm

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The Bases of Empire

By The Editors

Empires throughout human history have relied on foreign military bases to enforce their rule, and in this respect at least, Pax Americana is no different than Pax Romana or Pax Britannica.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21664.htm

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A Military Dictatorship Coming To America?

By Pakistan Daily

THE WORSENING ECONOMIC CRISIS has prompted the US Army War College to issue a report urging the use of military troops to contain possible civil unrest throughout America. Entitled, Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development, issued on November 4, 2008, the report argues that the US military must prepare for a "violent domestic dislocation provoked by an economic collapse."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21674.htm

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Death toll in Gaza attack passes 700, including 220 children:

The attack unleashed on December 27 has killed 702 people and wounded more than 3100, the head of Gaza emergency services, Moawiya Hassanein, told Agence France-Presse.
http://tinyurl.com/a2qan9

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Israel strike kills up to 60 members of one family:

Some of the Samouni family died from shrapnel wounds and others from being crushed by falling masonry.
http://tinyurl.com/a6uwq8

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Israel Attacks Schools, Ambulances:

"There's nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorised and traumatised," said John Ging, the UN head in Gaza. He blamed the international community for allowing the violence to continue.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45313

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UN Says No Hamas Fighters Were in Bombed Gaza School:

United Nations investigators say they have uncovered no evidence to support a claim by the Israeli military that Hamas fighters were holed up in a Gaza school, prompting a deadly attack by Israeli forces that killed 40 civilians, many of them children.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1870087,00.html

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UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school: -

Israel told foreign diplomats Wednesday that Palestinian militants had not fired rockets from within a United Nations' school, a UN official said. Israeli military officials said on Tuesday that militants had fired rockets from within the school, and that attack provoked Israeli artillery fire which landed near the school and killed more than 40 Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp, many of whom were seeking refuge from fighting.
http://tinyurl.com/8lgn93

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Israel and international law: Bennis:

Calling a TV station pro-Hamas does not make it a military target
http://tinyurl.com/9whlcl

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Israel May Face Charges for War Crimes:

"The repeated bombing of clearly marked civilian buildings, where civilians were sheltering, crosses several red lines in regard to international law," Sourani told IPS.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45321

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Ecuador seeks probe into Israeli 'terrorism':

Ecuadorian lawmakers say Israeli policies in Gaza amount to "crimes against humanity" and must be stopped by an international probe.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=80922§ionid=351020706

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Al-Qaida's No. 2 blames Obama, Mubarak for Israeli offensive in Gaza:

In the statement, al-Zawahiri also called Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, a "traitor" for keeping his borders closed to Palestinians.
http://tinyurl.com/9qgycg

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Australian Jews protest against Israel's action:

MORE than 100 Australian Jews, including two award-winning novelists and a former federal cabinet minister, have signed a statement condemning Israel's siege of Gaza, heightening tensions within the local Jewish community over the violence.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/01/05/1231003936981.html
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Police arrest 8 protesters at Israeli consulate:

Toronto police have arrested eight Canadian Jewish women who occupied the Israeli consulate to show their opposition to Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip and its two-year economic blockade of the territory
http://tinyurl.com/8da9bt

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New US Congress expected to consider resolution backing Operation Cast Lead:

Several US House leaders are also expected to sponsor a nonbinding resolution backing Israel in its battle with Hamas as one of their first pieces of business.
http://tinyurl.com/a3p7s7