Arm Yourselves for GAZA --- WITH INFORMATION
Israel Is Committing War Crimes
Hamas's violations are no justification for Israel's actions.
By GEORGE E. BISHARAT Wall Street Journal / Jan. 10, 2009
Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090106_why_do_so_few_speak_up_for_gaza/
Posted on Jan 6, 2009
Israeli Assault Injures 1.5 Million Gazans
By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet
Posted on January 17, 2009, Printed on January 21, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/120508/
The plot against Gaza
By Jonathan Cook
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Global Research, January 17, 2009
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Israel has justified its assault on Gaza as entirely defensive, intended only to stop Hamas firing rockets on Israel's southern communities. Although that line has been repeated unwaveringly by officials since Israel launched its attack on 27 December, it bears no basis to reality. Rather, this is a war against the Palestinians of Gaza, and less directly those in the West Bank, designed primarily to crush their political rights and their hopes of statehood. |
Gaza, the killing field!
By Rev. Richard Skaff
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Global Research, January 18, 2009
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“Killing one Palestinian is pollution, but killing all Palestinians is the solution.” This was the motto of Ariel Sharon’s Israeli army and their Lebanese militia cohorts during the 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut. After these infamous massacres, the Israeli government established the Kahan commission to investigate, and subsequently found Israel indirectly responsible for the event, and also found Ariel Sharon to bear personal responsibility as the defense minister.
Ariel Sharon was a friend of the Bushes. As a matter of fact in 1998 Governor George W. Bush visited the Middle East , and took a helicopter tour of the region with Ariel Sharon. Before he left the US, Bush joked that the first thing he would do when he reached the Middle East was to tell his hosts that they were all “going to hell.” (He meant the Palestinians and all of the Arabs). [1]. |
Olmert’s Poodle
By Patrick J. Buchanan
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Global Research, January 18, 2009
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American Conservative - 2009-02-18
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As Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale.
He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to vote for a U.N. resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as told, said Olmert.
The crowd loved it. Here is the background.
After intense negotiations with Britain and France, Secretary of State Rice had persuaded the Security Council to agree on a resolution calling for a cease-fire. But Olmert wanted more time to kill Hamas. |
Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza
Amnesty warns Israel could be guilty of war crimes
US Military Analysts Chide Israel For ‘Restraint’ Shown in Gaza
Israeli Leadership "Too Sensitive About World Opinion," Former US General Insists
Posted January 20, 2009
IAEA to investigate Gaza uranium ammunition allegations
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Global Research, January 21, 2009
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AFP
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VIENNA - The UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday it would investigate allegations by Arab countries that Israel may have used ammunition containing depleted uranium during its 22-day military offensive in Gaza.
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AUDIO: Israel's "Operation Justified Vengeance" and The Invasion of Gaza
Pacifica Radio program
By Michel Chossudovsky
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Global Research, January 17, 2009
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Pacifica Radio
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GUNS AND BUTTER on Pacifica Radio
Bonnie Faulkner Interviews Michel Chossudovsky
The Invasion of Gaza" with Michel Chossudovsky discussing Israel's broader military-intelligence plan, "Operation Justified Vengeance" (Ariel Sharon 2001) of which "Operation Cast Lead" is part; the assassination of Yaser Arafat; the humanitarian crisis; strategic gas reserves offshore from Gaza; and Israel's energy transport corridor along the coast of the eastern Mediterranean.... |
Extensive Crimes against Humanity: IOF Redeploys inside Gaza. Entire Neighborhoods Destroyed
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Global Research, January 19, 2009
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Al Mezan Center
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IOF Unilaterally Ceases Fire; Redeploys inside Gaza Dozens of Decomposed Bodies Found under Houses Rubble and Enormous Destruction in Neighborhoods
Israel has announced to unilaterally cease fire in the Gaza Strip while leaving its troops in positions they had seized during the so-called Operation Cast Lead. Al Mezan Center's staff visited some of the areas the IOF left last night and today morning. It found out that a disaster had struck these areas, which had not been accessible for weeks. The findings provide evidence about the likelihood that the IOF had perpetrated war crimes in these areas. In particular, dozens of civilians' corpses have been found in a bad condition under the rubble of destroyed houses. Moreover, the scene of destruction of neighborhoods suggests that wide-scaled home demolitions were systematically conducted by the IOF. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11891
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By Nora Barrows-Friedman
JERUSALEM, Jan 19 (IPS) - The Israeli government is stepping up efforts to suppress dissent and crush resistance in the streets. Police have been videotaping the demonstrations and subsequently arresting protesters in large numbers.
According to Israeli police reports, at least 763 Israeli citizens, the majority of them Palestinian and 244 under 18 years old, have been arrested, imprisoned or detained for participating in such demonstrations. Most have been held and then released, but at least 30 of those arrested over the past three weeks are still being held in prison.
Ameer Makhoul, director of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community-Based Associations in Haifa, tells IPS that these demonstrations "are part of the uprising here inside the Green Line, to share responsibility and to share the challenge with the people in the Gaza strip." ...
Ban Ki-moon demands Israel be held 'accountable' for attack on UN
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, has demanded that Israeli troops are held 'accountable' for an attack on a UN compound in Gaza.
By Tim Butcher in Gaza City
Last Updated: 7:04PM GMT 20 Jan 2009
Guardian
Israel wanted a humanitarian crisis
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverise Gaza into chaos
Ben White / guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 January 2009 12.30 GMT
Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr: We must demand a just peace for Palestinians
January 18, 2009
THE GRANDCHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FROM WORLD WAR II ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM BY NAZI GERMANY...
01.16..2009
Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village
White flags ignored and houses bulldozed with families inside, claim residents
By Fida Qishta and Peter Beaumont
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Global Research, January 18, 2009
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The Observer,
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Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on a village in southern Gaza last week in which 14 people died. In testimony collected from residents of the village of Khuza'a by the Observer, it is claimed that Israeli soldiers entering the village:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11869
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VIDEO; What You Need To Know About Israel's "Colonies"
By Anna Baltzer
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Global Research, January 16, 2009
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Information Clearing House
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Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish American, went to the West Bank to discover the realities of daily life for Palestinians under the occupation. What she found would change her outlook on the conflict forever. She wrote this book to give voice to the stories of the people who welcomed her with open arms as their lives crumbled around them. For five months, Baltzer lived and worked with farmers, Palestinian and Israeli activists, and the families of political prisoners, traveling with them across endless checkpoints and roadblocks to reach hospitals, universities, and olive groves. International Herald Tribune
Shocked and grieving Gazans find bodies under the rubble of homes
Monday, January 19, 2009
GAZA: It was a day of digging and bitter discovery. Houses had lost walls, and the dead, after three weeks of war, had lost their faces. Families identified them by their clothes.
As the people of Gaza emerged from hiding on Sunday, they confronted, for the first time, the full, sometimes breathtaking extent of the destruction around them wrought by the Israeli military. Bombs had pulverized the Parliament and cabinet buildings, the Ministry of Justice, the main university and the police station, paralyzing Gaza's central nervous system and leaving residents in a state of shock.
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Tzipi Livni Not Interested In My Fascinating Observations
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Friday. While there she took questions from members, including Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Sam asked her a question that included my observation that Israel cited the 1967 blockage of the Straits of Tiran as a justification for the Six Day War.
As you can see in this segment by the Real News, Livni didn't care to address that in any way. However, the NPC did cut Sam's microphone. This section starts at about 6:00:
HUSSEINI: Why did you continue the blockade of Gaza, and you continue the blockade of Gaza. You've stopped several civilian boats from giving aid, the free Gaza boat for example, you cited a blockade as the cause for the 1967 war. When you had a truce with Hamas you continued the blockade of Gaza, a cause for a war by your own definition...On November 4th you killed six Gaza people…Why did you do that, why did you in effect kill the cease fire with a blockade, and on November 4th…LIVNI (interrupting): The crossings between Israel and Gaza are open for humanitarian needs, and were open for humanitarian needs during the truce before that and even now during the military operation, thank you.
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002810.html
—Jonathan Schwarz
Undermining Gaza
Chomsky lecture and interview by Sameer Dossani
by Noam Chomsky
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Global Research, January 19, 2009
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Foreign Policy In Focus, MIT
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Foiling Another Palestinian "Peace Offensive": Behind the bloodbath in Gaza
01.19.2009 | PalestinianPeaceOffensive.doc (original)
By Norman G. Finkelstein
Early speculation on the motive behind Israel's slaughter in Gaza that began on 27 December 2008 and continued till 18 January 2009 centered on the upcoming elections in Israel. The jockeying for votes was no doubt a factor in this Sparta-like society consumed by "revenge and the thirst for blood,"[1] where killing Arabs is a sure crowd-pleaser. (Polls during the war showed that 80-90 percent of Israeli Jews supported it.)[2] But as Israeli journalist Gideon Levy pointed out on Democracy Now!, "Israel went through a very similar war...two-and-a-half years ago [in Lebanon], when there were no elections."[3] When crucial state interests are at stake, Israeli ruling elites seldom launch major operations for narrowly electoral gains. It is true that Prime Minister Menachem Begin's decision to bomb the Iraqi OSIRAK reactor in 1981 was an electoral ploy, but the strategic stakes in the strike on Iraq were puny; contrary to widespread belief, Saddam Hussein had not embarked on a nuclear weapons program prior to the bombing.[4] The fundamental motives behind the latest Israeli attack on Gaza lie elsewhere: (1) in the need to restore Israel's "deterrence capacity," and (2) in the threat posed by a new Palestinian "peace offensive." ....
Gaza Is a Concentration Camp
By Ellen Cantarow, AlterNet
Posted on January 16, 2009, Printed on January 21, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/120197/
Israel’s military strategy in Gaza, even in what its officials were calling the “final act”, followed a blueprint laid down during the Lebanon war more than two years ago.
Then, Israel destroyed much of Lebanon’s infrastructure in a month of intensive air strikes. Even in the war’s last few hours, as a ceasefire was being finalised, Israel fired more than a million cluster bombs over south Lebanon, apparently in the hope that the area could be made as uninhabitable as possible.
Similarly, Israel’s destruction of Gaza continued with unrelenting vigour to the very last moment, even though according to reports in the Israeli media the air force exhausted what it called its “bank of Hamas targets” in the first few days of fighting.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11933
Israel began its Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2008, an almost three-week long bloodbath which killed or wounded thousands of civilians.
Taking into consideration the lessons the regime learned from its defeat in the summer 2006 war against the Lebanese Hezbollah, Tel Aviv avoided setting out any specific objectives for its military operation in a bid to enable it to claim victory after the conflict ended.
The Israeli military initially presumed that it could settle its old score with Hamas and crush the movement in a matter of days. Relying on the support of some Arab states which viewed Hamas's defeat as a blow to Iran, the regime, therefore, took the opportunity provided by the transitional period in the White House and escalated its bombing campaign into a full-blown ground offensive to kill Hamas leaders once and for all.
The plan, however, blew up in the face of its masterminds; everything spiraled out of control and the Israeli Army found itself stuck in a quagmire. Subsequently, the leaders of the Kadima Party who were on the brink of political bankruptcy and had resorted to the plan to save themselves ahead of the general elections, had to hastily find a way to clean up the mess. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11936
A Palestinian father has claimed that he saw two of his young daughters shot dead and another critically injured by an Israeli soldier who emerged from a stationary tank and opened fire as the family obeyed an order from the Israeli forces to leave their home.
Khaled Abed Rabbo said Amal, aged two and Suad, seven, were killed by fire from the soldier's semi-automatic rifle. His third daughter, Samer, four, has been evacuated to intensive care in a Belgian hospital after suffering critical spinal injuries which he said were inflicted in the attack early in Israel's ground offensive.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11930
The attack - described as "Outrageous" by the UN Secretary General - was filmed by a school worker on his mobile phone.
"There were no Hamas fighters here," said Zohair Al-Raay, a neighbour of the Al-Da'aa family. "Where are the weapons? Where are the missiles? The Al-Da'aa family had nothing to do with that."
Eyad Al-Da'aa, father of 32, was found clutching three small children in the stairwell.
As the ceasefire continues to hold, the sheer scale of the destruction in the Gaza Strip is finally emerging. The deadly, three-week assault by Israel has been devastating.
Generations of families are vanished, and entire villages now destroyed. Many of the dead are still buried beneath the rubble, their neighbours and relatives left with no way to retrieve them....
Israel readies post-war battle for public opinion
By Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) - The three-week-old war in Gaza - halted Saturday by an Israeli ceasefire - has had a polarising effect on the U.S. Jewish community, resulting in a deeper and at times acrimonious split between dovish groups that are sceptical of the Israeli military campaign, and centrist and hawkish groups that have been broadly supportive of it.
Perhaps the most important aspect of this split, however, has been the reaction of organisations commonly viewed as representative of "moderate" and "liberal" Jewish public opinion. These groups have overwhelmingly lined up in support of Israeli military action.
In the process, participants and observers say, they may have driven a firmer wedge between the so-called "peace lobby" and the remainder of the constellation of Jewish groups. ...
Gaza Demo Speech in Burlington VT by Holocaust survivor Nina Parris
01.17.2009 | YouTube.com
By Karmu2
Nina Parris, an 83 year-old Jewish Vermonter and Holocaust survivor, spoke at a rally and march in Burlington, Vermont on January 17, 2009, which was held to protest Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Israel's crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the attempted genocide of the Palestinian people. Dr. Parris came to the United States from Berlin, Germany, in 1937 as an immigrant to escape the Nazis. Her father was Dr. Martin Gumpert, a German-Jewish poet and physician; her mother was Dr. Charlotte Blashko, also a physician.
Holocaust Survivor Protests Israeli Massacre in Gaza - 2009
01.11.2009 | YouTube.com
By SUSMEOUT
Elderly Holocaust Survivor protests Israel's response to Hamas rocket attacks. She says it's not fair since Israel is so much stronger.
What would the international community do if Hamas launched massive airstrikes against Israel, marched deep into Tel Aviv or, shelled a UN-run school building, used as a refugee camp, leaving many Israeli children dead and many more injured? What if the Israeli people had been punished by seizure and blockade simply because they had chosen a far right party or a hard-line politician in a fair and free election? What would the so-called free nations be saying had Hamas leaders, in an effort to appeal to voters, decided to continue their large offensive against Israeli civilians despite the international calls for a cease-fire? What if the media all over the world had depicted a handful of Israeli children crying over the bodies of their dead mothers?...
Gulf NewsChildren found with bullets lodged in their head |
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By Topaz Amoore/The Telegraph Group Limited Published: January 18, 2009, 23:15 |
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Cairo: Doctors operating the only brain-scanning machine at an Egyptian hospital near Gaza have been almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children arriving with bullet wounds to the head.
On just one day last week, staff at the Al Arish hospital in Sinai were called to perform CAT scans on a nine year old, two 10 year olds and a 14 year old, each of whom had a bullet lodged in their brain after coming under fire during the Israeli ground assault on Gaza.
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Travel advisory issued for top IDF officers
State expresses concern over international human rights groups' intention to file war crimes charges against military personnel with The Hague, local European courts; says officers planning to travel must contact Judge Advocate General's Office first
Tova Tzimuki
IDF officers intending to travel to Europe, whether for business or pleasure, have been advised to contact the Judge Advocate General's Office prior to leaving Israel; and some may be instructed not to leave the country.
The advisory has been issued following Israel's concern that international arrest warrants may be issued against officers who were involved in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, on charges of war crimes....
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Eva Bartlett writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 21 January 2009
20 January 2009
Graffiti left by Israeli soldiers in a house they occupied in Ezbet Abed Rabu, eastern Jabaliya. |
On Saturday, 27 December 2008, Israel began its onslaught against the 1..5 million besieged and imprisoned Palestinians in the Gaza Strip -- one of the most densely populated areas in the world. One week later, on 3 January, Israel began its ground invasion. Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire on 17 January, 22 days after the attacks began. The attacks have been the deadliest since Israel's occupation of Gaza in 1967, with more than 1,300 Palestinians killed and thousands injured by intense bombardment from air, land and sea.
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 20 January 2009
In the last days before Israel imposed a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza to avoid embarrassing the incoming Obama administration, it upped its assault, driving troops deeper into Gaza City, intensifying its artillery bombardment and creating thousands more displaced people.
Israel's military strategy in Gaza, even in what its officials were calling the "final act," followed a blueprint laid down during the Lebanon war more than two years ago...
TEL AVIV (IRIN) - One of the chief concerns for displaced Palestinians in Gaza and aid agencies is to find adequate shelter in temperatures that can drop to less than 7-8 degrees Celsius at night.
Thousands are still holed up in United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) shelters or schools. Some are able to return to their homes; others are erecting tents where their destroyed homes used to stand, according to local news agencies.
According to a field update by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) -- based on reports from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza -- houses, infrastructure, roads, greenhouses, cemeteries, mosques and schools in the al-Zaitoun, Tufah, Shaaf, Jabaliya, Tel al-Hawa, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya areas of northern Gaza have been destroyed...
Philip Slater / Posted January 7, 2009 | 01:56 PM (EST)
EuroPalestine
The Grand Hotel Intercontinental cancels the Israeli Tourism Fair
Confronted with the indignation expressed by so many people in France and abroad who had heard about the scheduled Israeli Tourism Fair in this great Parisian hotel, the management of this establishment has made the decision to cancel this event, which was supposed to open on January 15.
The hotel’s management, as the Paris police prefecture has confirmed to us, has indicated that it has disinvited the 50 Israeli exhibitors who had planned to present their tourism products....
http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article3624&var_recherche=Hotel