The UN Inter-Agency Gender Task Force (IAGTF), a mechanism for integrating gender concerns into UN policies and programmes, on 23 April published the results of a household survey on the needs and perceptions of men and women in the aftermath of Israel’s recent 23-day military offensive in Gaza.
GAZA CITY, 26 April 2009 (IRIN):
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=84114
maandag 27 april 2009
donderdag 19 februari 2009
dinsdag 17 februari 2009
Kanonneerboten vuren op Gaza, Egypte pakt hulpgoederen, video huisbezettingen door Israel
Israeli gunboats hit northern Gaza
The Israeli military has launched fresh attacks on the northern Gaza Strip using gunboats and warplanes in pounding the coastal region. Witnesses said Israeli gunboats attacked Al-Sudaniah region in the northern strip early Saturday morning after military jets struck two targets near a refugee camp overnight.http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85679§ionid=351020202
Egypt seizes aid supplies for Gaza
Egypt has seized relief supplies for the Gaza Strip as it continues to keep closed the Rafah border crossing for aid flow to the region.
Egyptian police on Thursday seized 2,200 tons of food and medical aid destined for the region, AFP reported. There were also two members og the Muslim Brotherhood, Hossam al-Shurbagi and Kamel al-Shaarawi, arrested. They were accused of 'illegally' storing the food in three warehouses.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85573§ionid=351020202
Two sickening videos document Israeli house occupation in occupied territories on Friday
AC writes: For those wanting compelling, video evidence of Palestinian non-violent resistance and the sin inherent in subjugating humans to live under the boots of others, see the following two videos shot on Friday February 13, at the International Solidarity Movement site,.
[Be sure and check out this second video here. Brave great international volunteers!]
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/02/these-videos-from-friday-will-really-make-you-sick-if-youre-a-young-jew-and-even-if-youre-not-too.html
The Israeli military has launched fresh attacks on the northern Gaza Strip using gunboats and warplanes in pounding the coastal region. Witnesses said Israeli gunboats attacked Al-Sudaniah region in the northern strip early Saturday morning after military jets struck two targets near a refugee camp overnight.http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85679§ionid=351020202
Egypt seizes aid supplies for Gaza
Egypt has seized relief supplies for the Gaza Strip as it continues to keep closed the Rafah border crossing for aid flow to the region.
Egyptian police on Thursday seized 2,200 tons of food and medical aid destined for the region, AFP reported. There were also two members og the Muslim Brotherhood, Hossam al-Shurbagi and Kamel al-Shaarawi, arrested. They were accused of 'illegally' storing the food in three warehouses.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85573§ionid=351020202
Two sickening videos document Israeli house occupation in occupied territories on Friday
AC writes: For those wanting compelling, video evidence of Palestinian non-violent resistance and the sin inherent in subjugating humans to live under the boots of others, see the following two videos shot on Friday February 13, at the International Solidarity Movement site,.
[Be sure and check out this second video here. Brave great international volunteers!]
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/02/these-videos-from-friday-will-really-make-you-sick-if-youre-a-young-jew-and-even-if-youre-not-too.html
maandag 16 februari 2009
Oppositie tegen geweld Israel is geen antisemitisme
“Oppositie voeren tegen Israëlische geweld is geen antisemitisme”
Zweden die demonstreerden tegen de Israëlische aanvallen zijn geen antisemieten. Hun uitschelden is een poging om de kritiek op het Israëlische beleid tot zwijgen te brengen. Dit stelt de in Stockholm wonende Palestijn Alaa Kullab.
In een artikel deze week gepubliceerd in The Local, stelde de Israëlisch journalist David Stavrou dat veel Zweedse kritiek op de Israëlische acties in Gaza in antisemitisme veranderd waren. Bron / lees verder, The Local (Engels).
http://www.ditkannietwaarzijn.info/?p=9209
Zweden die demonstreerden tegen de Israëlische aanvallen zijn geen antisemieten. Hun uitschelden is een poging om de kritiek op het Israëlische beleid tot zwijgen te brengen. Dit stelt de in Stockholm wonende Palestijn Alaa Kullab.
In een artikel deze week gepubliceerd in The Local, stelde de Israëlisch journalist David Stavrou dat veel Zweedse kritiek op de Israëlische acties in Gaza in antisemitisme veranderd waren. Bron / lees verder, The Local (Engels).
http://www.ditkannietwaarzijn.info/?p=9209
zondag 15 februari 2009
Israel sluit bestand uit zolang Gilad Shalid wordt vastgehouden
Israel rules out Gaza truce unless soldier freed
Israel said on Saturday it would not agree to a ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip unless an Israeli soldier held by the Islamists was freed.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office declared "Olmert's position is that Israel will not reach understandings on a truce before the release of Gilad Shalit".
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE51D1GG20090214
Israel said on Saturday it would not agree to a ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip unless an Israeli soldier held by the Islamists was freed.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office declared "Olmert's position is that Israel will not reach understandings on a truce before the release of Gilad Shalit".
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE51D1GG20090214
zaterdag 14 februari 2009
Canada neemt diplomatie voor Israel over, althans in Venezuela
Canada becomes Israel
The government publicly supported Israel's brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel's actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.
In solidarity with Gaza, Venezuela expelled Israel's ambassador at the start of the bombardment and then broke off all diplomatic relations two weeks later. Israel need not worry since Ottawa plans to help out. This means Canada is officially Israel, at least in Venezuela.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10291.shtml
Israel behandelde Gaza als een eigen prive-laboratorium des doods
Israel Treated Gaza Like Its Own Private Death Laboratory
Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist, worked in Gaza hospitals during the recent war."It was as if they had stepped on a mine," he says of certain Palestinian patients he treated. "But there was no shrapnel in the wound. Some had lost their legs. It looked as though they had been sliced off. I have been to war zones for 30 years, but I have never seen such injuries before."
With: DIMEd to Death (The specific weapon is called a Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME); Gaza as Test; War Crimes?; Enter the Hague?
"Human-rights groups, including B'Tselem, Gisha, and Physicians for Human Rights, charge that the IDF intentionally targeted medical personal, killing over a dozen, including paramedics and ambulance drivers."
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/126724
If Israel's weapons came through a tunnel
Since I returned from Gaza people have asked me, how do the people of Gaza manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing and punished by a comprehensive state of siege? I wonder myself. I know that whether the loss of life is on the Gaza or the Israeli side of the border, bereaved survivors feel the same pain and misery. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10303.shtml
Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist, worked in Gaza hospitals during the recent war."It was as if they had stepped on a mine," he says of certain Palestinian patients he treated. "But there was no shrapnel in the wound. Some had lost their legs. It looked as though they had been sliced off. I have been to war zones for 30 years, but I have never seen such injuries before."
With: DIMEd to Death (The specific weapon is called a Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME); Gaza as Test; War Crimes?; Enter the Hague?
"Human-rights groups, including B'Tselem, Gisha, and Physicians for Human Rights, charge that the IDF intentionally targeted medical personal, killing over a dozen, including paramedics and ambulance drivers."
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/126724
If Israel's weapons came through a tunnel
Since I returned from Gaza people have asked me, how do the people of Gaza manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing and punished by a comprehensive state of siege? I wonder myself. I know that whether the loss of life is on the Gaza or the Israeli side of the border, bereaved survivors feel the same pain and misery. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10303.shtml
donderdag 12 februari 2009
President Obama invites Hamas terrorists to America
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/p_williams/2009/02072009.htm
The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/p_williams/2009/02072009.htm
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487412&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=487412
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487412&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=487412
Khirbet Tana on the West Bank will be demolished
High Court Approves Demolition of West Bank Village
Ruling will cause 200 residents to lose their homes, while nearby outposts continue to expand
The High Court of Justice rejected January, 26, a petition submitted by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Rabbis for Human Rights on behalf of the Palestinian residents of Khirbet Tana, effectively allowing the State to destroy all of the village's houses but one, despite the lack of viable planning alternatives for the area's Palestinian residents.
http://www.acri.org.il/eng/story.aspx?id=606
Ruling will cause 200 residents to lose their homes, while nearby outposts continue to expand
The High Court of Justice rejected January, 26, a petition submitted by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Rabbis for Human Rights on behalf of the Palestinian residents of Khirbet Tana, effectively allowing the State to destroy all of the village's houses but one, despite the lack of viable planning alternatives for the area's Palestinian residents.
http://www.acri.org.il/eng/story.aspx?id=606
UN moves to charge Israel with war crimes
The UN moves to set up a commission to look into Israeli war crimes and respond to its human rights violations in Gaza.
After the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) compound became the target of GPS-guided Israeli mortars on January 15, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned "in the strongest terms this outrageous attack" and called for an inquiry into suspected Israeli war crimes.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=85224§ionid=351020202 (10 Feb 2009)
Israel Just Committed A Massive Atrocity
Controversial American Jewish scholar and specialist on the Middle East, Norman Finkelstein, says Israel committed massive atrocities in Gaza during the three-week war against Hamas militants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIr4lEIqTkM&eurl=http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21939.htm&feature=player_embedded
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21939.htm
Israel gebruikte burgers als menselijk schild en feiten over Israel
Not so cool fact about Israel
Israeli army 'used human shields in Gaza war' (9 Feb 2009)
CBC: Racist JNF's "Canadian cover-up to a war crime"
Jewish National Fund's 'Canadian Cover up to War Crime'
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2500957394773313398&hl=en
Israeli army 'used human shields in Gaza war' (9 Feb 2009)
CBC: Racist JNF's "Canadian cover-up to a war crime"
Jewish National Fund's 'Canadian Cover up to War Crime'
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2500957394773313398&hl=en
zaterdag 7 februari 2009
"Israelische troepen gebruikten burgers Gaza als levend schild", bemanning hulpschip uitgewezen
Gazans say Israeli troops forced them into battle zones
The Israeli soldiers outside Majdi Abed Rabbo's home were after the three Hamas fighters holed up next door, and they wanted Abed Rabbo to be their point man. For the next 24 hours, Abed Rabbo said, the soldiers repeatedly forced him to walk through the battle zone to see whether the militants were dead or alive.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/61329.html
Israel expels Gaza aid ship crew
Israel has expelled 10 activists and journalists after detaining them for hours and seizing their cargo ship that was trying to deliver aid to Gaza. Al Jazeera's Salam Khoder, who was among the group, said she and some of the others on board were beaten by Israeli forces before being taken to a police station in Ashdod and interrogated.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/02/20092611429906394.html
IDF colonel leaves speaking tour of UK for fear of arrest
An Israeli colonel involved in Operation Cast Lead returned to Israel in haste on Friday, fearing arrest on charges of war crimes during a visit to the UK. Col. (res.) Geva Rapp had arrived in London three days before for appearances in which he was to explain Israel's position and refute media representations of the hostilities.
According to the Jerusalem Post, "on Thursday night, after news of his visit reached pro-Palestinian groups, some 80 protesters demonstrated outside the offices of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) in central London, where Rapp was scheduled to speak."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304666671&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull
International court investigating war crimes in Gaza
The International Criminal Court has taken under advisement requests to try Israeli leaders for the commission of war crimes during several attacks on Gaza. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo says that an official decision to prosecute will not come quickly.
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=51502&s2=05
Across West Bank, villages hit with confiscation orders
During the month of January, Palestinian villages across the West Bank were hit with a wave of confiscation orders. In the Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron districts, Occupation forces closed or confiscated land for the construction of new segments of the Wall or military infrastructure. Collectively, thousands of dunums have been confiscated, and thousands more will be isolated. http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1828.shtml
ISRAELI ‘HUMAN SHIELD’ STORIES PART OF MASSIVE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO COVER THE DELIBERATE KILLING OF GAZAN CIVILIANS
The stories now emerging out of the Gaza less than three weeks after the Israeli ground withdrawal suggest that rather than Palestinian fighters using civilians as human shields, it has been Israeli soldiers that have been deliberately, callously and indiscriminately shooting to death surrendered civilians, including very young children, in situations and circumstances where no Palestinian fighters have been in the vicinity.
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2009/02/israeli-human-shield-stories-part-of.html
Johann Hari: The nightmare of Netanyahu returns
This is the man calling for the re-occupation of Gaza to 'liquidate' its elected government
Israel is about to make a misjudgement as disastrous – and deadly – as the attack on Gaza. In a few days, it looks as if it could elect Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister once again. This is a man who says he will "never" negotiate over Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights, or control of the West Bank water supply.
Israeli army "subcontracted" by extremist settlers
Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth, according to critics. In a process one military historian has termed the rapid "theologization" of the Israeli army, there are now entire units of religious combat soldiers, many of them based in West Bank settlements.
http://uruknet.info/?p=m51507&hd=&size=1&l=e
dinsdag 3 februari 2009
Oorlogsmisdaden, en een wapenstilstand in Israelische stijl
Prosecutor looks at ways to put Israeli officers on trial for Gaza 'war crimes' (Catherine Philp in Davos and James Hider in Jerusalem; (From The Times February 2, 2009)
The International Criminal Court is exploring ways to prosecute Israeli commanders over alleged war crimes in Gaza. The alleged crimes include the use of deadly white phosphorus in densely populated civilian areas, as revealed in an investigation by The Times last month.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5636069.ece
Israel attacked, but by WHO?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kg8s0SH2k
U.S. partner, not Hamas, firing rockets into Israel; While terrorists promise cease-fire, American 'allies' provoke violence
With Hamas signaling it is willing to enter a cease-fire with Israel, it was the U.S.-backed Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas whose so-called military wing took responsibility for a barrage of rockets and mortars fired from the Gaza Strip today.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87743
Americans Are Welcome In Israel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VT4r787U8&eurl=http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
Illinois makes major Israel Bonds purchase (January 28, 2009)
The state of Illinois has purchased $10 million worth of Israel Bonds. The Israel Bonds will mature in three years with a 2.43 percent rate of return, compared to U.S. government bonds yielding a 1.51 percent return during the same period, according to Illinois state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/28/1002600/illinois-makes-big-israel-bonds-purchase
Israel Is Nobody's Friend
If civilization can survive the cynical path it's on, future historians will identify three great cons that were played out upon the world during this time; the fractional-reserve central-banking system, the war on terrorism and Israel.
http://rense.com/general84/isnob.htm
Ceasefires, Israeli-Style (by Stephen Lendman; Global Research, February 1, 2009)
Waging war while talking peace is customary Israeli practice. On January 19, Haaretz headlined: "Israel declares unilateral cease-fire. The security cabinet last night authorized a unilateral cease-fire (to take effect) at 2AM (Sunday morning), ending three weeks of intense fighting."
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12119
Israel vows another war on Gaza (Sun, 01 Feb 2009)
Israel has threatened another 'disproportionate' war against the Gaza Strip after failing to achieve its objectives during a 23-day onslaught.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84357§ionid=351020202
'Jewish money' controls U.S.: African diplomat (January 29, 2009; FROM AFP)
Johannesburg - South Africa’s deputy foreign minister has been taken before the national human rights body for allegedly saying that "Jewish money" controls the United States, officials said Thursday.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1404294%2Cw-jewish-anti-semitism-south-africa012909.article
Israeli Arabs protest banning of PFLP founder memorial service
Arab demonstrators rallied in Haifa on Saturday in protest of a police decision to ban an open-air memorial service for George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Mohammed Kanana, secretary general of Ibnaa el-Balad (Sons of the Country), which organized the rally, told Haaretz he had not been surprised by the police decision.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060347.html
Ahmadinejad slams ban on Holocaust probe (Tue, 27 Jan 2009)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Western countries have blocked research on the Holocaust to achieve their political objectives. "Western countries have prevented any kind of research on the Holocaust for almost 60 years to maintain their dominance over other nations.”
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=83891§ionid=351020101
Jews do wield immense power and influence
Mark Weber, a director of The Institute for Historical Review wrote an article about the powerful Jewish Lobby in the United States (US). What Weber articulates in his article is very relevant to the current brouhaha about the alleged comments made by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fatima Hajaig. http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sentletsediakanyo/2009/01/30/jews-do-wield-immense-power-and-influence/
President: Breaking Holocaust box means cutting Zionism vein
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that examining the issue of Holocaust is equal to cutting the vein of the Zionist regime. “Zionists are plundering nations' resources and their wealth by making use of politicians and political parties as well as dominating most of the world’s power, wealth and media sources,” said the president.
http://www5.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=323496&idLanguage=3
Gaza Coverage Echoed Govt Support of Israel
By Maria LitvinskyU.S. television coverage of the recent three-week conflict in the Gaza Strip failed to tell both sides of the story, according to a number of media analysts.
http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/1834.html
Mr. Netanyahu, het gaat over alle “Nukes” in het algemeen (Gepost op 2 februari 2009 door P.uncia)
Toen de koploper bij Israëlische verkiezingen, Benjamin Netanyahu, het World Economic Forum vertelde dat Iran verhinderen om nucleaire wapens te verkrijgen een plaats innam die ver uitging boven de wereldwijde economische recessie en andere uitdagingen voor leiders van de 21e eeuw, was hij totaal fout.
Bron / lees verder, Middle East Online (Engels).
http://www.ditkannietwaarzijn.info/?p=8567
The International Criminal Court is exploring ways to prosecute Israeli commanders over alleged war crimes in Gaza. The alleged crimes include the use of deadly white phosphorus in densely populated civilian areas, as revealed in an investigation by The Times last month.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5636069.ece
Israel attacked, but by WHO?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kg8s0SH2k
U.S. partner, not Hamas, firing rockets into Israel; While terrorists promise cease-fire, American 'allies' provoke violence
With Hamas signaling it is willing to enter a cease-fire with Israel, it was the U.S.-backed Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas whose so-called military wing took responsibility for a barrage of rockets and mortars fired from the Gaza Strip today.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87743
Americans Are Welcome In Israel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VT4r787U8&eurl=http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
Illinois makes major Israel Bonds purchase (January 28, 2009)
The state of Illinois has purchased $10 million worth of Israel Bonds. The Israel Bonds will mature in three years with a 2.43 percent rate of return, compared to U.S. government bonds yielding a 1.51 percent return during the same period, according to Illinois state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/28/1002600/illinois-makes-big-israel-bonds-purchase
Israel Is Nobody's Friend
If civilization can survive the cynical path it's on, future historians will identify three great cons that were played out upon the world during this time; the fractional-reserve central-banking system, the war on terrorism and Israel.
http://rense.com/general84/isnob.htm
Ceasefires, Israeli-Style (by Stephen Lendman; Global Research, February 1, 2009)
Waging war while talking peace is customary Israeli practice. On January 19, Haaretz headlined: "Israel declares unilateral cease-fire. The security cabinet last night authorized a unilateral cease-fire (to take effect) at 2AM (Sunday morning), ending three weeks of intense fighting."
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12119
Israel vows another war on Gaza (Sun, 01 Feb 2009)
Israel has threatened another 'disproportionate' war against the Gaza Strip after failing to achieve its objectives during a 23-day onslaught.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84357§ionid=351020202
'Jewish money' controls U.S.: African diplomat (January 29, 2009; FROM AFP)
Johannesburg - South Africa’s deputy foreign minister has been taken before the national human rights body for allegedly saying that "Jewish money" controls the United States, officials said Thursday.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1404294%2Cw-jewish-anti-semitism-south-africa012909.article
Israeli Arabs protest banning of PFLP founder memorial service
Arab demonstrators rallied in Haifa on Saturday in protest of a police decision to ban an open-air memorial service for George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Mohammed Kanana, secretary general of Ibnaa el-Balad (Sons of the Country), which organized the rally, told Haaretz he had not been surprised by the police decision.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060347.html
Ahmadinejad slams ban on Holocaust probe (Tue, 27 Jan 2009)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Western countries have blocked research on the Holocaust to achieve their political objectives. "Western countries have prevented any kind of research on the Holocaust for almost 60 years to maintain their dominance over other nations.”
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=83891§ionid=351020101
Jews do wield immense power and influence
Mark Weber, a director of The Institute for Historical Review wrote an article about the powerful Jewish Lobby in the United States (US). What Weber articulates in his article is very relevant to the current brouhaha about the alleged comments made by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fatima Hajaig. http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sentletsediakanyo/2009/01/30/jews-do-wield-immense-power-and-influence/
President: Breaking Holocaust box means cutting Zionism vein
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that examining the issue of Holocaust is equal to cutting the vein of the Zionist regime. “Zionists are plundering nations' resources and their wealth by making use of politicians and political parties as well as dominating most of the world’s power, wealth and media sources,” said the president.
http://www5.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=323496&idLanguage=3
Gaza Coverage Echoed Govt Support of Israel
By Maria LitvinskyU.S. television coverage of the recent three-week conflict in the Gaza Strip failed to tell both sides of the story, according to a number of media analysts.
http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/1834.html
Mr. Netanyahu, het gaat over alle “Nukes” in het algemeen (Gepost op 2 februari 2009 door P.uncia)
Toen de koploper bij Israëlische verkiezingen, Benjamin Netanyahu, het World Economic Forum vertelde dat Iran verhinderen om nucleaire wapens te verkrijgen een plaats innam die ver uitging boven de wereldwijde economische recessie en andere uitdagingen voor leiders van de 21e eeuw, was hij totaal fout.
Bron / lees verder, Middle East Online (Engels).
http://www.ditkannietwaarzijn.info/?p=8567
Boeren in Gaza zwaar getroffen door oorlog
Gaza farmers devastated by war - 29 Jan 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsKtD2cvouk&eurl=http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsKtD2cvouk&eurl=http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
maandag 2 februari 2009
People escaped to Egypt during the Gaza War
Few people have managed to escape Gaza during Israel's 22-day war on the territory. Many of those who did were nationals of other countries married to Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
Turkish PM Erdogan greeted by cheers after Israel debate clash
Recep Tayyip Erdogan argued with Israeli president over Gaza offensive, before storming out Turkish prime minister in angry clash with Israeli president Shimon Peres over 'very wrong' offensive against Palestinian territory Link to this video
According to The Guardian, "Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrived home to a tumultuous reception of cheering crowds early today after storming out of a debate in Davos over Israel's recent offensive in Gaza."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/turkish-prime-minister-cheered-davos-row-gaza
According to The Guardian, "Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrived home to a tumultuous reception of cheering crowds early today after storming out of a debate in Davos over Israel's recent offensive in Gaza."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/turkish-prime-minister-cheered-davos-row-gaza
Family of killed cameraman James Miller 'gets £1.5m'
The family of a British cameraman shot dead in Gaza in 2003 have accepted a reported £1.5m payout from Israel. James Miller, 34, from Devon, was filming a documentary when he was shot dead in the town of Rafah.
The BBC reports: “His family, who have said he was shot by a soldier, said it was "probably the closest (we) will get to an admission of guilt on the part of the Israelis".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7863828.stm
The BBC reports: “His family, who have said he was shot by a soldier, said it was "probably the closest (we) will get to an admission of guilt on the part of the Israelis".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7863828.stm
zondag 1 februari 2009
Militants fired rockets again, Israel strikes in Gaza
Israeli PM vows 'sharp response' if Gaza attacks continue (February 1, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday promised a "sharp Israeli response" if rocket attacks from Gaza continue. Palestinian militants fired four rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, police said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/01/israel.rockets/index.html
Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland
Officials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the three-week conflict leaves agriculture in the region in ruins. Gaza's 1.5 million people are facing a food crisis as a result of the destruction of great areas of farmland during the Israeli invasion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/01/gaza-food-crisis
Israel 'hits Hamas Gaza target' (1 February 2009)
Israeli aircraft have bombed a Hamas security target in the central Gaza Strip, the militant group and Palestinian witnesses say. There were no reports of casualties after the strike in central Gaza.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7863500.stm
Behind the Headlines (by Justin Raimondo: Antiwar.comm March 13, 2002)
The “urban myth gambit” Apologists 'spin' Israel's spy operation in the US
There is growing evidence that, prior to 9/11, a rather impressive Israeli spy network in the US went into overdrive and launched a concerted effort to penetrate US law enforcement and military facilities.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j031302.html
Netanyahu says Iran will not get hands on nukes (By Aron Heller)
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's leading candidate for prime minister, said Saturday that Iran "will not be armed with a nuclear weapon."In an interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV, Netanyahu said if elected prime minister his first mission will be to thwart the Iranian nuclear threat.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcX49mNGhMPjANq3C-wSH833a0swD962AVP00
Israel threatens 'disproportionate' response to rockets (By Isabel Kershner; February 1, 2009)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel warned Sunday of "sharp" and "disproportionate" retaliation for continuing rocket fire out of Gaza. "We will not warn the terrorist elements in advance as to how, where and when we will respond, but we will respond," Olmert said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/01/mideast/mideast.4-420683.php
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday promised a "sharp Israeli response" if rocket attacks from Gaza continue. Palestinian militants fired four rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, police said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/01/israel.rockets/index.html
Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland
Officials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the three-week conflict leaves agriculture in the region in ruins. Gaza's 1.5 million people are facing a food crisis as a result of the destruction of great areas of farmland during the Israeli invasion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/01/gaza-food-crisis
Israel 'hits Hamas Gaza target' (1 February 2009)
Israeli aircraft have bombed a Hamas security target in the central Gaza Strip, the militant group and Palestinian witnesses say. There were no reports of casualties after the strike in central Gaza.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7863500.stm
Behind the Headlines (by Justin Raimondo: Antiwar.comm March 13, 2002)
The “urban myth gambit” Apologists 'spin' Israel's spy operation in the US
There is growing evidence that, prior to 9/11, a rather impressive Israeli spy network in the US went into overdrive and launched a concerted effort to penetrate US law enforcement and military facilities.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j031302.html
Netanyahu says Iran will not get hands on nukes (By Aron Heller)
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's leading candidate for prime minister, said Saturday that Iran "will not be armed with a nuclear weapon."In an interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV, Netanyahu said if elected prime minister his first mission will be to thwart the Iranian nuclear threat.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcX49mNGhMPjANq3C-wSH833a0swD962AVP00
Israel threatens 'disproportionate' response to rockets (By Isabel Kershner; February 1, 2009)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel warned Sunday of "sharp" and "disproportionate" retaliation for continuing rocket fire out of Gaza. "We will not warn the terrorist elements in advance as to how, where and when we will respond, but we will respond," Olmert said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/01/mideast/mideast.4-420683.php
Palestinian and Israeli views on the war in Gaza
A Palestinian View
Dramatic consequences may be opportunity for US administration (by Ghassan Khatib)
As predicted, the three-week long Israeli war on Gaza ended with only one definite result: an eventual renewal of the previous six-month ceasefire for another year, give or take. Other military and political outcomes are less obvious and are still being shaped, with the indirect ceasefire negotiations in their infancy.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal1.php
Hamas emerges defiant (by Mustafa Abu Sway)
The latest phase in the history of the Zionist colonial project in Palestine is marked by the unprecedented brutality of Israel's military attacks on the Gaza Strip and by the nature of the war crimes that Israel is committing in an area that is still under its occupation and, therefore, under international law, an Israeli obligation to protect civilians.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal2.php
AN ISRAELI VIEW:
One entity or two (by Yossi Alpher)
The ramifications of the Gaza war for Israeli politics do not appear to be profound. In contrast, they could be very significant for Palestinian politics, and this in turn could redound heavily on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr1.php
AN ISRAELI VIEW: A unique opportunity (an interview with Gilead Sher)
bitterlemons: Can we speak in isolation of a specific political aftermath in Israel or Gaza following the war?
Sher: I think the IDF operation in Gaza enhanced the understanding that the problems of the Middle East are interconnected and that all the issues have a larger perspective. http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr2.php
Dramatic consequences may be opportunity for US administration (by Ghassan Khatib)
As predicted, the three-week long Israeli war on Gaza ended with only one definite result: an eventual renewal of the previous six-month ceasefire for another year, give or take. Other military and political outcomes are less obvious and are still being shaped, with the indirect ceasefire negotiations in their infancy.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal1.php
Hamas emerges defiant (by Mustafa Abu Sway)
The latest phase in the history of the Zionist colonial project in Palestine is marked by the unprecedented brutality of Israel's military attacks on the Gaza Strip and by the nature of the war crimes that Israel is committing in an area that is still under its occupation and, therefore, under international law, an Israeli obligation to protect civilians.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal2.php
AN ISRAELI VIEW:
One entity or two (by Yossi Alpher)
The ramifications of the Gaza war for Israeli politics do not appear to be profound. In contrast, they could be very significant for Palestinian politics, and this in turn could redound heavily on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr1.php
AN ISRAELI VIEW: A unique opportunity (an interview with Gilead Sher)
bitterlemons: Can we speak in isolation of a specific political aftermath in Israel or Gaza following the war?
Sher: I think the IDF operation in Gaza enhanced the understanding that the problems of the Middle East are interconnected and that all the issues have a larger perspective. http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr2.php
A party representing Israeli Holocaust survivors joined forces with the pro-marijuana Green Leaf party
"For us, the Holocaust survivors, our moral obligation is to legalize it." (by Jesse Walker January 31, 2009, The Associated Press has more.
On Tuesday, a party representing Israeli Holocaust survivors joined forces with the pro-marijuana Green Leaf party for a run at Israel's parliament.
The new party launched its campaign in a near-empty, underground, graffiti-filled nightclub in south Tel Aviv, pledging to pursue two primary goals: to financially assist elderly Holocaust survivors and to legalize the consumption of cannabis.
On Tuesday, a party representing Israeli Holocaust survivors joined forces with the pro-marijuana Green Leaf party for a run at Israel's parliament.
The new party launched its campaign in a near-empty, underground, graffiti-filled nightclub in south Tel Aviv, pledging to pursue two primary goals: to financially assist elderly Holocaust survivors and to legalize the consumption of cannabis.
zaterdag 31 januari 2009
Tony Blair: Hamas moet bij het vredesproces betrokken worden
Hamas must be brought into peace process, says Tony Blair (From: The Times January 31, 2009, by Philip Webster, Political Editor)
Hamas must somehow be brought into the Middle East peace process because the policy of isolating Gaza in the quest for a settlement will not work, Tony Blair has told The Times.
Blair implicitly criticises the strategy by the Bush Administration and Israel of focusing all peace and reconstruction efforts on the West Bank. “It was half of what we needed,” he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5621184.ece
The opinion of Korean Buddhist temples, according to a blogger:
Even Korean buddhist temples have an opinion on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
Hamas must somehow be brought into the Middle East peace process because the policy of isolating Gaza in the quest for a settlement will not work, Tony Blair has told The Times.
Blair implicitly criticises the strategy by the Bush Administration and Israel of focusing all peace and reconstruction efforts on the West Bank. “It was half of what we needed,” he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5621184.ece
The opinion of Korean Buddhist temples, according to a blogger:
Even Korean buddhist temples have an opinion on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
Studenten in Groot-Brittannië bezetten collegezalen en bibliotheken uit protest tegen aanval op Gaza
Britain: Student occupations protest Gaza war (by Robert Stevens; 30 January 2009)
During the last two weeks students at more than a dozen universities in the UK have staged occupations of lecture theatres and libraries in protest at the Israeli assault on Gaza.
The occupations began in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London on January 13 (See “Students at two London universities occupy campuses in protest at Gaza attacks”) and quickly spread to other universities nationwide.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/univ-j30.shtml
Netanyahu behoudt leiding in peiling na operatie in Gaza
Netanyahu retains poll lead after Gaza campaign
Binyamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Likud party, has maintained a lead in advance of the 10 February election that is several points clear of his main rivals, both of whom have been directly involved in the Gaza campaign.
The Guardian reports: “A poll published in the Maariv daily yesterday gave Netanyahu 28 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament, five more than his closest rival Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister and leader of the centrist Kadima party. Ehud Barak, the Labour defence minister, trails in third.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/31/netanyahu-israel-election-gaza
Binyamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Likud party, has maintained a lead in advance of the 10 February election that is several points clear of his main rivals, both of whom have been directly involved in the Gaza campaign.
The Guardian reports: “A poll published in the Maariv daily yesterday gave Netanyahu 28 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament, five more than his closest rival Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister and leader of the centrist Kadima party. Ehud Barak, the Labour defence minister, trails in third.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/31/netanyahu-israel-election-gaza
Raket uit Gaza treft zuiden van Israel
Gaza rocket 'hits south Israel'
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has hit southern Israel, exploding near the city of Ashkelon, the Israeli military has said.No casualties were reported from the rocket, which landed in a field. It is one of several rocket attacks from the territory since Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, declared ceasefires on 18 January.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7862353.stm
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has hit southern Israel, exploding near the city of Ashkelon, the Israeli military has said.No casualties were reported from the rocket, which landed in a field. It is one of several rocket attacks from the territory since Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, declared ceasefires on 18 January.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7862353.stm
vrijdag 30 januari 2009
Israel denies Gaza access to clean water, Obama and Aid to Gaza
(Fri, 30 Jan 2009) Israel has refused to allow a French-made water purification system into Gaza amid a drinking water crisis in the Palestinian strip. The French Foreign Ministry said Friday that Tel Aviv had blocked the entry of a much-needed water purification station into Gaza and had forced its repatriation.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84172§ionid=351020202
Obama Authorizes $20 Million in Aid to Gaza Palestinians (By VOA News; 30 January 2009)
A U.S. official says President Barack Obama has authorized more aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to help them recover from damage caused during a recent Israeli offensive. U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said Friday in Jerusalem that Mr. Obama has approved $20 million in emergency food and medical assistance for Gaza.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-30-voa17.cfm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84172§ionid=351020202
Obama Authorizes $20 Million in Aid to Gaza Palestinians (By VOA News; 30 January 2009)
A U.S. official says President Barack Obama has authorized more aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to help them recover from damage caused during a recent Israeli offensive. U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said Friday in Jerusalem that Mr. Obama has approved $20 million in emergency food and medical assistance for Gaza.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-30-voa17.cfm
Israel “houdt gegevens over nederzettingen achter”
Israel “hides settlements data”
The Israeli defence ministry has concealed information about the extent of illegal settlement-building in the West Bank, a leading newspaper reports. A classified database of construction compiled by the ministry was leaked to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7861076.stm
Settlement data 'implicates Israel'
A leaked report on Jewish settlements in the West Bank shows that the Israeli government was complicit in illegal construction on land owned by Palestinians, according ro an Israeli human rights group. Yesh Din said on Friday that the classsified information, compiled by the Israeli defence ministry, would allow it to help Palestinians sue the Israeli government for damages.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/2009130101043786259.html
The Israeli defence ministry has concealed information about the extent of illegal settlement-building in the West Bank, a leading newspaper reports. A classified database of construction compiled by the ministry was leaked to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7861076.stm
Settlement data 'implicates Israel'
A leaked report on Jewish settlements in the West Bank shows that the Israeli government was complicit in illegal construction on land owned by Palestinians, according ro an Israeli human rights group. Yesh Din said on Friday that the classsified information, compiled by the Israeli defence ministry, would allow it to help Palestinians sue the Israeli government for damages.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/2009130101043786259.html
Israel zette geheimzinnig wapen in Gaza in, VS voeren druk onderzoek oorlogsmisdaden op
De Noorse artsen Mads Gilbert en Erik Fosse maakten in het begin van de oorlog al bekend dat Israel gebruikmaakte van een onbekend type wapen dat ledematen amputeert.
Doctors Spooked by Israel's Mystery Weapon (January 28, 2009)
Critics continue to press the case that Israel committed "war crimes". Many of these wounds of casualties may have been caused by a weapon which is designed to reduce collateral damage. Not that the Israelis admit they have the thing.
Fosse says that the weapon "causes the tissue to be torn from the flesh. It looks very different [from a shrapnel injury]. I have seen and treated a lot of different injuries for the last 30 years in different war zones, and this looks completely different."
According to Fosse and Gilbert, the weapon typically amputates or tears apart lower limbs and patients often do not survive. "It's no more illegal than normal blast-and-shrapnel weapons, but it is a mystery," according to the doctors.
A version of the GBU-40 Small Diameter Bomb is the only known focused-lethality munition. Ares speculated that the IDF is using weapons supplied by the U.S. Air Force; a spokesman told the site that "we cannot release sensitive information on foreign military sales."
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/mystery-weapon.html
Ondertussen voert Amerika de druk op Israel op om een onderzoek in te stellen naar oorlogsmisdaden
US steps up pressure on Israel over war crimes (January 29, 2009)
America's new envoy to the UN has told Israel to investigate allegations that it violated international law during its recent assault on the Gaza Strip. A shift in tempo had been widely expected after the apparent favouritism of former president Bush, who was criticised for his unwillingness to restrain the Jewish state over the course of its bloody 23-day war.
http://riverscrap.typepad.com/home/2009/01/us-steps-up-pressure-on-israel-over-war-crimes.html
Blacklist of involved officers of the Israelian army
Israeli leftists have begun drawing up a "blacklist" of army officers involved in the recent operation in Gaza, in response to the military censor's decision to ban the publication of their names, pictures or other identifying details.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060131.html
Doctors Spooked by Israel's Mystery Weapon (January 28, 2009)
Critics continue to press the case that Israel committed "war crimes". Many of these wounds of casualties may have been caused by a weapon which is designed to reduce collateral damage. Not that the Israelis admit they have the thing.
Fosse says that the weapon "causes the tissue to be torn from the flesh. It looks very different [from a shrapnel injury]. I have seen and treated a lot of different injuries for the last 30 years in different war zones, and this looks completely different."
According to Fosse and Gilbert, the weapon typically amputates or tears apart lower limbs and patients often do not survive. "It's no more illegal than normal blast-and-shrapnel weapons, but it is a mystery," according to the doctors.
A version of the GBU-40 Small Diameter Bomb is the only known focused-lethality munition. Ares speculated that the IDF is using weapons supplied by the U.S. Air Force; a spokesman told the site that "we cannot release sensitive information on foreign military sales."
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/mystery-weapon.html
Ondertussen voert Amerika de druk op Israel op om een onderzoek in te stellen naar oorlogsmisdaden
US steps up pressure on Israel over war crimes (January 29, 2009)
America's new envoy to the UN has told Israel to investigate allegations that it violated international law during its recent assault on the Gaza Strip. A shift in tempo had been widely expected after the apparent favouritism of former president Bush, who was criticised for his unwillingness to restrain the Jewish state over the course of its bloody 23-day war.
http://riverscrap.typepad.com/home/2009/01/us-steps-up-pressure-on-israel-over-war-crimes.html
Blacklist of involved officers of the Israelian army
Israeli leftists have begun drawing up a "blacklist" of army officers involved in the recent operation in Gaza, in response to the military censor's decision to ban the publication of their names, pictures or other identifying details.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060131.html
Clinton en Obama, de Palestijnen en etnische zuivering: Oproep aan Obama
(Obama en Hillary Clinton over Israel en de Palestijnen in Gaza)
“Obama and Israel’s plan for ethnic cleansing”
The transfer and annihilation of Arabs in Palestine has been the continuing policy of Zionist Jews since the late 1800’s. And in very recent days with Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the Israeli policy of “ethnic cleansing” has been displayed to the entire world in all of its horrific manifestations.
Obama recentky reiterated in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV network on January 26, 2009: The commitment of the US to Israel as an ally and to its right to defend itself.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated in her first news conference on January 27, 2009, that “America supports Israel’s right to self-defense.” She added that “the rocket barrages which are getting closer and closer to populated areas in Israel cannot go unanswered.”
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=369
Meanwhile Nora Eisenberg argues: “Obama Could Issue an Executive Order to End the Wars Tomorrow (Yes, It's That Simple)”
In a wide-ranging interview, veteran Paul Sullivan discusses Bush, Obama and the legacies of the Gulf War.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/123015/obama_could_issue_an_executive_order_to_end_the_wars_tomorrow_(yes%2C_it%27s_that_simple)/
"19-year-old children hold guns pointed at the heads of 5-year-old children" (January 27, 2009)
This video, “which will be shown some day at the Holocaust Memorial” is the voice of an Israeli woman (affiliated with Machsom Watch) pleading with Obama to end the occupation, and there are countless images of Palestinians at checkpoints, humiliated, treated like cattle, standing on lines for hours, herded, crowded.
An old women, bent over with canes, is forced to walk thru the dust. Students in lines watching their dreams evaporate. Israeli soldiers with their guns pointed at the heads of little girls.
Grown women squirming with their shopping through gaps in the wall. Grown men undoing their clothes in public to be searched. All this happened in our time!
Obama, take away the pain in my stomach.
Bestand Gaza in gevaar nu Israel offensief voortzet
Gaza truce under fire as Israel continues offensive
Israeli warplane bombs Gaza-Egypt border as Abbas accuses Israel of not wanting peace. Spiralling violence near Gaza threatened on Thursday to shatter ceasefires that ended a war in the enclave as US envoy George Mitchell headed for talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=30072
Israeli warplane bombs Gaza-Egypt border as Abbas accuses Israel of not wanting peace. Spiralling violence near Gaza threatened on Thursday to shatter ceasefires that ended a war in the enclave as US envoy George Mitchell headed for talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=30072
donderdag 29 januari 2009
Israel and the Palestinians, abduction of civilians, strikes, wounded children, and settlements
Israel abducts more civilians in West Bank (Thu, 29 Jan 2009)
Israeli troops have abducted 8 Palestinian civilians during a raid on a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, witnesses say. The eight Palestinian civilians where kidnapped on Wednesday by Israeli troops in the village of Zboba near Jenin. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84039§ionid=351020202
Fresh Israeli strikes injure 18 Gazans (Thu, 29 Jan 2009)
Israel has renewed its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, injuring eighteen Gazans, including 11 school children and a Hamas policeman.
According to eyewitnesses and medics, the Hamas policeman, Mohammed al-Sumeiri, was injured while riding his motorcycle in the town of Khan Yunis on Thursday.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84038§ionid=351020202
Gazan children denied treatment abroad (Jonathan Cook; Jan 28, 2009)
For four days running, an ambulance has driven 15-year-old Amira Ghirim from Shifa Hospital in Gaza to the Rafah border in the hope that she will be allowed to cross into Egypt and then on to France, where she has been promised emergency surgery.
http://uruknet.info/?p=m51315&hd=&size=1&l=e
'Phosphorus wounds' alarm Gazans
Staring straight ahead and rocking steadily backwards and forwards in her hospital bed, Sabah Abu Halima lists the fate of each of her nine children.
"Abed, 14 years old, was decapitated," she says. "Shaheed, one year and three months, was in my arms when the fire took her…"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7848768.stm
Iran to help reconstruct Gaza Strip (Thu, 22 Jan 2009)
Iran has set up a public-funded committee to prompt reconstruction of the Gaza Strip which devastated by a 23-day Israeli offensive. Iranian Vice-President Ali Saeedlou said the committee plans to "Build 1,000 houses, ten schools and five mosques, and reconstruct 500 shops, a hospital and a university" in the war-torn strip.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=83369§ionid=351020101
Peace Recedes as Israeli Settlements Expand (By:Daniel Luban)
Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank increased sharply in 2008, despite Israel's pledge at the beginning of the year to freeze all construction, according to a new report by an Israeli non-governmental organization [.pdf].
A report by the group Peace Now, found that settlement construction in 2008 increased by almost 60 percent, including new construction both inside and outside of the security barrier and within illegal settlement outposts.
Gershom Gorenberg, author of The Accidental Empire, a 2007 history of the settlements, urged Mitchell to stand firm against Netanyahu in an open letter published Wednesday in The American Prospect.
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/luban.php?articleid=14158
Israeli troops have abducted 8 Palestinian civilians during a raid on a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, witnesses say. The eight Palestinian civilians where kidnapped on Wednesday by Israeli troops in the village of Zboba near Jenin. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84039§ionid=351020202
Fresh Israeli strikes injure 18 Gazans (Thu, 29 Jan 2009)
Israel has renewed its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, injuring eighteen Gazans, including 11 school children and a Hamas policeman.
According to eyewitnesses and medics, the Hamas policeman, Mohammed al-Sumeiri, was injured while riding his motorcycle in the town of Khan Yunis on Thursday.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84038§ionid=351020202
Gazan children denied treatment abroad (Jonathan Cook; Jan 28, 2009)
For four days running, an ambulance has driven 15-year-old Amira Ghirim from Shifa Hospital in Gaza to the Rafah border in the hope that she will be allowed to cross into Egypt and then on to France, where she has been promised emergency surgery.
http://uruknet.info/?p=m51315&hd=&size=1&l=e
'Phosphorus wounds' alarm Gazans
Staring straight ahead and rocking steadily backwards and forwards in her hospital bed, Sabah Abu Halima lists the fate of each of her nine children.
"Abed, 14 years old, was decapitated," she says. "Shaheed, one year and three months, was in my arms when the fire took her…"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7848768.stm
Iran to help reconstruct Gaza Strip (Thu, 22 Jan 2009)
Iran has set up a public-funded committee to prompt reconstruction of the Gaza Strip which devastated by a 23-day Israeli offensive. Iranian Vice-President Ali Saeedlou said the committee plans to "Build 1,000 houses, ten schools and five mosques, and reconstruct 500 shops, a hospital and a university" in the war-torn strip.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=83369§ionid=351020101
Peace Recedes as Israeli Settlements Expand (By:Daniel Luban)
Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank increased sharply in 2008, despite Israel's pledge at the beginning of the year to freeze all construction, according to a new report by an Israeli non-governmental organization [.pdf].
A report by the group Peace Now, found that settlement construction in 2008 increased by almost 60 percent, including new construction both inside and outside of the security barrier and within illegal settlement outposts.
Gershom Gorenberg, author of The Accidental Empire, a 2007 history of the settlements, urged Mitchell to stand firm against Netanyahu in an open letter published Wednesday in The American Prospect.
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/luban.php?articleid=14158
woensdag 28 januari 2009
Children and the war in Gaza
It’s a ceasefire… just not on the beach, not in your home (Jan 24, 2009)
On the 5th morning after Israel declared a 'ceasefire’, Israeli gunboats began shelling, as they had on several mornings since halting the 22 day air and land bombardment of Gaza. The shelling, which began just after 7:30 am off Gaza city’s coast, injured at least 6, including one boy with shrapnel in his head.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m51170&hd=&size=1&l=e
(Jan 25, 2009)
Already, Gaza has faded from the front pages of the Western press. Already it is yesterday's news, yesterday's massacre, just another in a long, long, endless line of human debauchery.
Uruknet is reporting: “The reality of the actual human beings in Palestine who have been inflicted with horrific suffering matter no more than the reality of the human beings in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Somalia, or Kurdistan, or Chechnya, or Colombia, or Sri Lanka, or Burma, or the Congo, or anywhere else on the far-flung earth where the machines of power wring the blood and terror that is their fuel from the flesh of men and women and children.”
http://uruknet.info/?p=m51207&hd=&size=1&l=e
On the 5th morning after Israel declared a 'ceasefire’, Israeli gunboats began shelling, as they had on several mornings since halting the 22 day air and land bombardment of Gaza. The shelling, which began just after 7:30 am off Gaza city’s coast, injured at least 6, including one boy with shrapnel in his head.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m51170&hd=&size=1&l=e
(Jan 25, 2009)
Already, Gaza has faded from the front pages of the Western press. Already it is yesterday's news, yesterday's massacre, just another in a long, long, endless line of human debauchery.
Uruknet is reporting: “The reality of the actual human beings in Palestine who have been inflicted with horrific suffering matter no more than the reality of the human beings in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Somalia, or Kurdistan, or Chechnya, or Colombia, or Sri Lanka, or Burma, or the Congo, or anywhere else on the far-flung earth where the machines of power wring the blood and terror that is their fuel from the flesh of men and women and children.”
http://uruknet.info/?p=m51207&hd=&size=1&l=e
The view of Jimmy Carter and the EU on the situation in Gaza
Carter: No peace in ME without Hamas (Mon, 26 Jan 2009)
In an interview on NBC's Today show on Monday, former US President Jimmy Carter said that 'Hamas can be trusted' adding that the movement never deviated from its commitments as per the recent ceasefire agreement with Israel.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83799§ionid=351020202
Carter Clarifies Conflict, Provides Context
“President Carter cuts through the fog of war time propaganda and gives us a look into the real issues surrounding the Israel-Gaza/Hamas conflict,” according to the blog of Nazim Uddin.
He reports: “It is very interesting to know that the only demand to end rocket fire into Israel from Gaza was to allow food, medicine and water to enter the territory. Gaza had been under a blockade for almost a year or more with calls of a humanitarian crisis going unheeded over the summer.”
http://nazimuddin.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/carter-clarifies-conflict-provides-context/
Zie ook
History of the Palestinian region and propaganda of Israel
The view of Jimmy Carter and the EU on the situation in Gaza
The European Union and the Gaza war (26 Jan 2009)
Yusuf Fernandez reports: “The recent war in Gaza has served to highlight the European Union's relations with Israel. Although the genocide in Gaza has embarrassed many EU officials, there are no signs that the European Union is going to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement signed in 2004.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83760§ionid=3510303
Zie ook vandaag:
Children and the war in Gaza
History of the Palestinian region and propaganda of Israel
In an interview on NBC's Today show on Monday, former US President Jimmy Carter said that 'Hamas can be trusted' adding that the movement never deviated from its commitments as per the recent ceasefire agreement with Israel.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83799§ionid=351020202
Carter Clarifies Conflict, Provides Context
“President Carter cuts through the fog of war time propaganda and gives us a look into the real issues surrounding the Israel-Gaza/Hamas conflict,” according to the blog of Nazim Uddin.
He reports: “It is very interesting to know that the only demand to end rocket fire into Israel from Gaza was to allow food, medicine and water to enter the territory. Gaza had been under a blockade for almost a year or more with calls of a humanitarian crisis going unheeded over the summer.”
http://nazimuddin.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/carter-clarifies-conflict-provides-context/
Zie ook
History of the Palestinian region and propaganda of Israel
The view of Jimmy Carter and the EU on the situation in Gaza
The European Union and the Gaza war (26 Jan 2009)
Yusuf Fernandez reports: “The recent war in Gaza has served to highlight the European Union's relations with Israel. Although the genocide in Gaza has embarrassed many EU officials, there are no signs that the European Union is going to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement signed in 2004.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83760§ionid=3510303
Zie ook vandaag:
Children and the war in Gaza
History of the Palestinian region and propaganda of Israel
History of the Palestinian region and propaganda of Israel
Zionist Jews-Godfathers Of Terrorism (01-18-2009)
Latheef Farook is reporting: “Palestine, the land of Palestinians, is located in the heart of the Middle East and Jerusalem where Masjid Al Aqsa, Islam's first Qibla is located, has been its capital since time immemorial. At the turn of last century Palestine was a province of Turkey's Ottoman Empire.”
He says: “It was a place where violence was unknown and one seldom heard people speak loud leave alone using a bad .”
http://www.rense.com/general84/ahas.htm
History: The newspeak of Israeli propagandists (Monday 26 January 2009)
What Uri Dromi says about Hamas is pure and poisonous Israeli propaganda (This Hamas hallucination, 23 January). In every respect his article is almost the exact opposite of the truth. Dromi claims that: "The Orwellian mindset of the organisation is as much a barrier to peace as the rockets it fires." But it is the newspeak of Israeli propagandists like Dromi that is truly Orwellian.
The Guardian reports:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/26/gaza-war-hamas-israel
See also today:
The view of Jimmy Carter and the EU on the situation in Gaza
Children and the war in Gaza
Latheef Farook is reporting: “Palestine, the land of Palestinians, is located in the heart of the Middle East and Jerusalem where Masjid Al Aqsa, Islam's first Qibla is located, has been its capital since time immemorial. At the turn of last century Palestine was a province of Turkey's Ottoman Empire.”
He says: “It was a place where violence was unknown and one seldom heard people speak loud leave alone using a bad .”
http://www.rense.com/general84/ahas.htm
History: The newspeak of Israeli propagandists (Monday 26 January 2009)
What Uri Dromi says about Hamas is pure and poisonous Israeli propaganda (This Hamas hallucination, 23 January). In every respect his article is almost the exact opposite of the truth. Dromi claims that: "The Orwellian mindset of the organisation is as much a barrier to peace as the rockets it fires." But it is the newspeak of Israeli propagandists like Dromi that is truly Orwellian.
The Guardian reports:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/26/gaza-war-hamas-israel
See also today:
The view of Jimmy Carter and the EU on the situation in Gaza
Children and the war in Gaza
dinsdag 27 januari 2009
Israel en oorlogsmisdaden in Gaza
Israel promises troops legal backing over Gaza war (Jan 25, 2009)
International calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday to promise military personnel state protection from foreign prosecution.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5...
Israel already warned senior officials and military officers that a threat of prosecution for alleged war crimes in Gaza could hinder them in the future to travel abroad. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4323980/Israel-warns-soldiers-of-prosecution-abroad-for-Gaza-war-crimes.html
International calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday to promise military personnel state protection from foreign prosecution.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5...
Israel already warned senior officials and military officers that a threat of prosecution for alleged war crimes in Gaza could hinder them in the future to travel abroad. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4323980/Israel-warns-soldiers-of-prosecution-abroad-for-Gaza-war-crimes.html
zondag 25 januari 2009
Op pad met medics uit Gaza, Israelische oorlogsmisdaden en Hamas geeft hulpbetalingen
Terugblik: Live verslag in Gaza d.d. 16 jan.'09 door Britse reporter
Embedded with Gaza medics
Radjaa Abou Dagga, van de zender France 24, followed a team of Palestinian medics during the Israeli assault.
Hamas was Democratically Elected, but Israel has a Right to Defend Herself - The Allegations of War Crimes Pose Difficult Questions for the International Community
Let us be absolutely clear, Hamas was democratically elected. I hear this all the time. What right have we to disagree with their views and policies when we do not live in Palestine? What right does Israel have to meddle in another countries leadership?
http://rogerdavies.com/blog/?p=1351
Hamas to pay victims of Gaza war
Hamas is set to hand out money to Gazans afflicted by Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip. The territory's government was due to start giving out the money, expected to total about $45m, on Sunday - a day after a Hamas committee was established to oversee relief efforts. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200912574445581696.html
Embedded with Gaza medics
Radjaa Abou Dagga, van de zender France 24, followed a team of Palestinian medics during the Israeli assault.
Hamas was Democratically Elected, but Israel has a Right to Defend Herself - The Allegations of War Crimes Pose Difficult Questions for the International Community
Let us be absolutely clear, Hamas was democratically elected. I hear this all the time. What right have we to disagree with their views and policies when we do not live in Palestine? What right does Israel have to meddle in another countries leadership?
http://rogerdavies.com/blog/?p=1351
Hamas to pay victims of Gaza war
Hamas is set to hand out money to Gazans afflicted by Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip. The territory's government was due to start giving out the money, expected to total about $45m, on Sunday - a day after a Hamas committee was established to oversee relief efforts. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200912574445581696.html
zaterdag 24 januari 2009
De situatie in Gaza en mogelijke oorlogsmisdaden van Israel
Israel warns soldiers of prosecution abroad for Gaza 'war crimes' (24 Jan 2009)
Israel has warned military officers and senior officials that a threat of prosecution for alleged war crimes in Gaza could hinder future travel abroad. At least four human rights groups are believed to be compiling suits alleging that Israelis perpetrated war crimes in planning or carrying out the three-week operation Cast Lead.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4323980/Israel-warns-soldiers-of-prosecution-abroad-for-Gaza-war-crimes.html
Hamas executes suspected Fatah traitors in Gaza (January 22, 2009)
As Israel's last troops left the Gaza Strip Wednesday, Hamas officials conceded that they are executing Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel during the three-week invasion. Mahmoud Habbash, Palestinian Authority minister of social welfare said in Ramallah. "Not only did Israel perpetrate war crimes, but Hamas also has been targeting innocent Palestinians."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/MNHV15EHUT.DTL
Israel admits using white phosphorous in attacks on Gaza (January 24, 2009)
After weeks of denying that it used white phosphorus in the heavily populated Gaza Strip, Israel finally admitted yesterday that the weapon was deployed in its offensive. The army’s use of white phosphorus – which makes a distinctive shellburst of dozens of smoke trails – was reported first by The Times on January 5, when it was strenuously denied by the army.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5575070.ece
In the wake of the Gaza war: Widespread anger in Egypt at Mubarak regime
Muhammad lights up a cigarette and quietly utters an oath directed at Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The 25-year-old expresses what many Egyptians think at present: "Mubarak is a swine who has worked together with Israel to turn Gaza into a prison and is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/egyp-j24.shtml
Question and Answer on Gaza
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle...
Israel has warned military officers and senior officials that a threat of prosecution for alleged war crimes in Gaza could hinder future travel abroad. At least four human rights groups are believed to be compiling suits alleging that Israelis perpetrated war crimes in planning or carrying out the three-week operation Cast Lead.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4323980/Israel-warns-soldiers-of-prosecution-abroad-for-Gaza-war-crimes.html
Hamas executes suspected Fatah traitors in Gaza (January 22, 2009)
As Israel's last troops left the Gaza Strip Wednesday, Hamas officials conceded that they are executing Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel during the three-week invasion. Mahmoud Habbash, Palestinian Authority minister of social welfare said in Ramallah. "Not only did Israel perpetrate war crimes, but Hamas also has been targeting innocent Palestinians."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/MNHV15EHUT.DTL
Israel admits using white phosphorous in attacks on Gaza (January 24, 2009)
After weeks of denying that it used white phosphorus in the heavily populated Gaza Strip, Israel finally admitted yesterday that the weapon was deployed in its offensive. The army’s use of white phosphorus – which makes a distinctive shellburst of dozens of smoke trails – was reported first by The Times on January 5, when it was strenuously denied by the army.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5575070.ece
In the wake of the Gaza war: Widespread anger in Egypt at Mubarak regime
Muhammad lights up a cigarette and quietly utters an oath directed at Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The 25-year-old expresses what many Egyptians think at present: "Mubarak is a swine who has worked together with Israel to turn Gaza into a prison and is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/egyp-j24.shtml
Question and Answer on Gaza
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle...
Veel kinderen Gaza zwaar gewond, gruwelijke wapens en wilde Israel dit?
Alarm spreads over use of lethal new weapons: (Erin Cunningham, The Electronic Intifada, 22 January 2009)
Eighteen-year-old Mona al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realized it was gone -- completely severed by the weapon that hit her.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10236.shtml
Israel rules out opening Gaza border if Hamas gains (Thu Jan 22, 2009)
Israel has all but ruled out fully reopening border crossings with the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas rules the enclave or stands to benefit from easing of the restrictions, a top adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLM266001
Falk likens Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto (Thu, 22 Jan 2009)
There is more than enough evidence that Israel committed war crimes in its three week-long offensive into Gaza, says a UN investigator. UN special rapporteur Richard Falk called for an independent inquiry into Israel's violation of international humanitarian law.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83359§ionid=351020202
Israel wanted a humanitarian crisis (January 22, 2009)
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverise Gaza into chaos. The scale of Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip, and the almost daily reports of war crimes over the last three weeks, has drawn criticism from even longstanding friends and sympathisers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/20/gaza-israelandthepalestinians
12-13 year-olds arrested for throwing stones at the Wall (RAMALLAH, 22 January 2009 )
Seven children from Toura al-Gharbeiah village (Jenin Governorate) were arrested on Tuesday by the Israeli authorities; they are currently detained in Salim detention and interrogation centre, in the north of the West Bank. Two of the children are only 12 years old; two are 13; another two are aged 15; and the seventh is 17.
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=1005&CategoryId=1
Blind and burnt: Mahmoud, 14, young victim of banned white phosphorus shelling (January 20, 2009)
Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip may be over but Mahmoud Mattar, 14, will not be able to sense the quiet that has descended on his home town of Jabalya. Blinded in both eyes, with third-degree burns over much of his torso, Mahmoud lies unconscious in the Sheikh Zayid Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5549100.ece?Submitted=true
Israel Has Fewer Friends Than Ever, Even In America (Jan 24, 2009)
Israel has never been more isolated. Its best friend, the United States, had vetoed 41 Security Council resolutions condemning Israel in the past three decades, but was about to vote for the Jan. 8 resolution denouncing the attack on Gaza when President Bush intervened, at the behest of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/181329
Proportionality and 'just' violence in Gaza?
The Israeli offensive into Gaza continues with devastating effects for Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. Say what you will, but the military strategy that has marked Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” clearly only hurts Gaza’s civilian population.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/8357
Eighteen-year-old Mona al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realized it was gone -- completely severed by the weapon that hit her.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10236.shtml
Israel rules out opening Gaza border if Hamas gains (Thu Jan 22, 2009)
Israel has all but ruled out fully reopening border crossings with the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas rules the enclave or stands to benefit from easing of the restrictions, a top adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLM266001
Falk likens Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto (Thu, 22 Jan 2009)
There is more than enough evidence that Israel committed war crimes in its three week-long offensive into Gaza, says a UN investigator. UN special rapporteur Richard Falk called for an independent inquiry into Israel's violation of international humanitarian law.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83359§ionid=351020202
Israel wanted a humanitarian crisis (January 22, 2009)
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverise Gaza into chaos. The scale of Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip, and the almost daily reports of war crimes over the last three weeks, has drawn criticism from even longstanding friends and sympathisers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/20/gaza-israelandthepalestinians
12-13 year-olds arrested for throwing stones at the Wall (RAMALLAH, 22 January 2009 )
Seven children from Toura al-Gharbeiah village (Jenin Governorate) were arrested on Tuesday by the Israeli authorities; they are currently detained in Salim detention and interrogation centre, in the north of the West Bank. Two of the children are only 12 years old; two are 13; another two are aged 15; and the seventh is 17.
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=1005&CategoryId=1
Blind and burnt: Mahmoud, 14, young victim of banned white phosphorus shelling (January 20, 2009)
Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip may be over but Mahmoud Mattar, 14, will not be able to sense the quiet that has descended on his home town of Jabalya. Blinded in both eyes, with third-degree burns over much of his torso, Mahmoud lies unconscious in the Sheikh Zayid Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5549100.ece?Submitted=true
Israel Has Fewer Friends Than Ever, Even In America (Jan 24, 2009)
Israel has never been more isolated. Its best friend, the United States, had vetoed 41 Security Council resolutions condemning Israel in the past three decades, but was about to vote for the Jan. 8 resolution denouncing the attack on Gaza when President Bush intervened, at the behest of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/181329
Proportionality and 'just' violence in Gaza?
The Israeli offensive into Gaza continues with devastating effects for Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. Say what you will, but the military strategy that has marked Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” clearly only hurts Gaza’s civilian population.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/8357
vrijdag 23 januari 2009
“Israëlische raketten dreiging voor de wereld”
'Israeli nukes threaten world'
An Iranian diplomat says the Israeli crimes committed against Gazans should alarm the world about the threat of Israel's nuclear arsenal.
Geneva-based Iranian diplomat Ali-Reza Moayyeri said Tuesday that Israel's extreme measures against Gazan civilians should bring world attention to the threat posed by Tel Aviv's stockpile of nuclear warheads.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83085&...
Afghanistan
Obama Team Rejects Afghan Peace Project, German Expert Reports
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...
An Iranian diplomat says the Israeli crimes committed against Gazans should alarm the world about the threat of Israel's nuclear arsenal.
Geneva-based Iranian diplomat Ali-Reza Moayyeri said Tuesday that Israel's extreme measures against Gazan civilians should bring world attention to the threat posed by Tel Aviv's stockpile of nuclear warheads.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83085&...
Afghanistan
Obama Team Rejects Afghan Peace Project, German Expert Reports
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...
woensdag 21 januari 2009
Israel: "No complete withdrawal from Gaza"
Israeli military says complete withdrawal from Gaza "out of the question", (WSWS: (21 January 2009):
Announcing an end to Operation Cast Lead early Sunday morning, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had said his government intended to remove its forces "at the greatest possible speed." The Israeli army has confirmed, however, that a "complete withdrawal is out of the question" at this time.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/gaza-j21.shtml
Announcing an end to Operation Cast Lead early Sunday morning, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had said his government intended to remove its forces "at the greatest possible speed." The Israeli army has confirmed, however, that a "complete withdrawal is out of the question" at this time.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/gaza-j21.shtml
TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL
So yet again the people of the virtual-concentration camp, known officially as 'Gaza', are being bombarded from the sky and from the ground by the bully-boys of Tel Aviv.
http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/19027
US assistance to Israel
dinsdag 20 januari 2009
VN eisen onderzoek naar aanvallen in Gaza
Secretaris-generaal Ban Ki-moon van de VN eist een onderzoek naar de aanval op de VN-school in Gaza.
De Israëlische krant Haaretz meldde op 13 januari dat officieren van het Israëlische leger verklaard hebben dat er niet werd geschoten vanuit de VN-school die door een Israëlische tank onder vuur werd genomen.
Bij de aanval werden 40 Palestijnen die hun toevlucht hadden gezocht in het schoolgebouw gedood.
Beelden die werden vrijgegeven waarop was te zien dat er uit het schoolgebouw werd geschoten kwamen uit 2007, toen de VN het gebouw verlaten had en het werd overgenomen door militanten.
“TheUnited Nations is claiming Israeli military officers have admitted there was no Palestinian gunfire emanating from inside an UNRWA school in Gaza which was shelled by an IDF tank.”
He noted that all the footage released by the IDF of militants firing from inside the school was from 2007 and not from the incident itself.
"There are no up-to-date photos," Gunness said. "In 2007, we abandoned the site and only then did the militants take it over."
Dozens of Palestinians were killed in the shelling if the school
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054009.html
maandag 19 januari 2009
van hevig geweld in Gaza naar bestand tussen Israel en Hamas
British academics: 'Israel must lose' war with Hamas
"We must do what we can to stop Israel from winning its war," the letter said. "Israel must accept that its security depends on justice and peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, and not upon the criminal use of force."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232100170557&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Gaza's Baffling Burnt Organs, Torn Tissues (Sat, 17 Jan 2009)
Doctors, Arabs and foreigners, who have been to the Gaza Strip in recent days are scratching their heads trying to figure out the cause of the abnormal injuries suffered by Palestinian civilians.
Doctors believe Israel is using DIME, an experimental type of explosive with increased lethal effects to people in its immediate vicinity.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173370-Gaza-s-Baffling-Burnt-Organs-Torn-Tissues
Gaza rockets hit southern Israel: Israeli TV (Sun Jan 18, 2009)
Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Sunday, the first such attack since a unilateral Israeli ceasefire went into effect, Channel 10 television reported.
Seconds after Israel Radio announced that a rocket alarm had sounded in Sderot, a Channel 10 reporter in the town said he heard two explosions. Channel Two television said six rockets had been fired at southern Israel.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLI21700220090118
Rocket fire tests Gaza ceasefire (Sunday, 18 January 2009)
A volley of rockets has been fired into southern Israel from Gaza, hours after a unilateral Israeli ceasefire began.
At least four out of five rockets landed near the town of Sderot, the Israeli military said. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7835981.stm
Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges (Saturday 17 January 2009)
Fresh evidence of the firing of white phosphorus weapons by Israeli forces in Gaza has emerged from witnesses heard by the Guardian and first hand accounts by human rights groups of their use against civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/17/israel-gaza-phosphorus-civilians
Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village (Sunday 18 January 2009)
White flags ignored and houses bulldozed with families inside, claim residents 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: • attempted to bulldoze houses with civilians inside; • killed civilians trying to escape under the protection of white flags; • opened fire on an ambulance attempting to reach the wounded; • used indiscriminate force in a civilian area and fired white phosphorus shells. If the allegations are upheld, all the incidents would constitute breaches of the Geneva conventions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/18/isr...
Israel Declares Cease-Fire; Hamas Says It Will Fight On (January 17, 2009)
Israel declared late Saturday that a unilateral cease-fire would begin in Gaza within hours, but said its troops would remain in place for now.
After 22 days of war against Hamas, and the deaths of more than 1,200 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted that “we have reached all the goals of the war, and beyond.” Speaking to the nation late Saturday night, he said that Hamas had “suffered a major blow” and that if it continued to fire rockets into Israel, “the Israeli Army will regard itself as free to respond with force.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?_r=2
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=238407
Israel's Gaza ceasefire may set stage for next conflict (Sat Jan 17, 2009)
Israel declared an end to its first war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, but few think it will be the last, according to the news agency Reuters.
Determined to deny the Islamist group any gains from the 22-day conflict, Israel opted for a unilateral ceasefire that leaves largely unsettled the issues at the heart of the conflict -- Israel's blockade and Hamas's future role.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE50H02320090118
Gaza residents: IDF troops posing as Hamas men (Jan 11, 2009)
The testimonies of Gaza Strip residents are revealing new details about the Israel Defense Forces' mode of operation there. In the past two days, Beit Lahia residents forced from their homes said soldiers were posing as members of Hamas' armed wing while advancing on the ground.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/world/middleeast/18doctor.html
Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges (Saturday 17 January 2009)
Fresh evidence of the firing of white phosphorus weapons by Israeli forces in Gaza has emerged from witnesses heard by the Guardian and first hand accounts by human rights groups of their use against civilians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/17/israel-gaza-phosphorus-civilians
Proof Positive: Israel Using White Phosphorus in Gaza (January 16, 2009)
"According to a story published by The Times UK, stockpiles of white phosphorus (M825A1 WP) shells have been identified from high-resolution images taken of Israeli artillery units on the Israeli-Gaza border this week.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/proof-positive-israel-using-white-phosphorus-gaza
Israeli Spokesman "Hamas killed Palestinian children to make us look bad" (17 januari 2009)
Rocket salvo tests Gaza ceasefire (18 January 2009)
A volley of rockets has been fired into southern Israel from Gaza, hours after a unilateral Israeli ceasefire began.
At least four out of six rockets landed near the town of Sderot, with no reports of injuries. Israel launched an air strike on Gaza in response. The exchange puts an immediate strain on the ceasefire, which followed three weeks of fighting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7835981.stm
Israel declares unilateral Gaza truce (01.17.2009)
After 21 days, Israel declares end to fighting: The National Security Cabinet voted Saturday evening to end the military operation in the Gaza Strip. Seven ministers supported the decision, two others objected, and one abstained.
In a statement following the vote, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel fully achieved the operation's objectives, adding that the IDF will end its military operations at 2 am Sunday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-36577...
Israel declares unilateral cease-fire in Gaza
Israel has declared a unilateral cease-fire in the fighting in Gaza beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday (7 p.m. ET Saturday), Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.
Hamas has been dealt a very serious blow," Olmert said. "We can say that the conditions have been brought about that enable us to say that the aims that we laid down for the operation have been completely achieved."
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/israel.gaza/index.html
"We must do what we can to stop Israel from winning its war," the letter said. "Israel must accept that its security depends on justice and peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, and not upon the criminal use of force."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232100170557&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Gaza's Baffling Burnt Organs, Torn Tissues (Sat, 17 Jan 2009)
Doctors, Arabs and foreigners, who have been to the Gaza Strip in recent days are scratching their heads trying to figure out the cause of the abnormal injuries suffered by Palestinian civilians.
Doctors believe Israel is using DIME, an experimental type of explosive with increased lethal effects to people in its immediate vicinity.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173370-Gaza-s-Baffling-Burnt-Organs-Torn-Tissues
Gaza rockets hit southern Israel: Israeli TV (Sun Jan 18, 2009)
Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Sunday, the first such attack since a unilateral Israeli ceasefire went into effect, Channel 10 television reported.
Seconds after Israel Radio announced that a rocket alarm had sounded in Sderot, a Channel 10 reporter in the town said he heard two explosions. Channel Two television said six rockets had been fired at southern Israel.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLI21700220090118
Rocket fire tests Gaza ceasefire (Sunday, 18 January 2009)
A volley of rockets has been fired into southern Israel from Gaza, hours after a unilateral Israeli ceasefire began.
At least four out of five rockets landed near the town of Sderot, the Israeli military said. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7835981.stm
Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges (Saturday 17 January 2009)
Fresh evidence of the firing of white phosphorus weapons by Israeli forces in Gaza has emerged from witnesses heard by the Guardian and first hand accounts by human rights groups of their use against civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/17/israel-gaza-phosphorus-civilians
Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village (Sunday 18 January 2009)
White flags ignored and houses bulldozed with families inside, claim residents 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: • attempted to bulldoze houses with civilians inside; • killed civilians trying to escape under the protection of white flags; • opened fire on an ambulance attempting to reach the wounded; • used indiscriminate force in a civilian area and fired white phosphorus shells. If the allegations are upheld, all the incidents would constitute breaches of the Geneva conventions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/18/isr...
Israel Declares Cease-Fire; Hamas Says It Will Fight On (January 17, 2009)
Israel declared late Saturday that a unilateral cease-fire would begin in Gaza within hours, but said its troops would remain in place for now.
After 22 days of war against Hamas, and the deaths of more than 1,200 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted that “we have reached all the goals of the war, and beyond.” Speaking to the nation late Saturday night, he said that Hamas had “suffered a major blow” and that if it continued to fire rockets into Israel, “the Israeli Army will regard itself as free to respond with force.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?_r=2
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=238407
Israel's Gaza ceasefire may set stage for next conflict (Sat Jan 17, 2009)
Israel declared an end to its first war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, but few think it will be the last, according to the news agency Reuters.
Determined to deny the Islamist group any gains from the 22-day conflict, Israel opted for a unilateral ceasefire that leaves largely unsettled the issues at the heart of the conflict -- Israel's blockade and Hamas's future role.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE50H02320090118
Gaza residents: IDF troops posing as Hamas men (Jan 11, 2009)
The testimonies of Gaza Strip residents are revealing new details about the Israel Defense Forces' mode of operation there. In the past two days, Beit Lahia residents forced from their homes said soldiers were posing as members of Hamas' armed wing while advancing on the ground.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/world/middleeast/18doctor.html
Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges (Saturday 17 January 2009)
Fresh evidence of the firing of white phosphorus weapons by Israeli forces in Gaza has emerged from witnesses heard by the Guardian and first hand accounts by human rights groups of their use against civilians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/17/israel-gaza-phosphorus-civilians
Proof Positive: Israel Using White Phosphorus in Gaza (January 16, 2009)
"According to a story published by The Times UK, stockpiles of white phosphorus (M825A1 WP) shells have been identified from high-resolution images taken of Israeli artillery units on the Israeli-Gaza border this week.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/proof-positive-israel-using-white-phosphorus-gaza
Israeli Spokesman "Hamas killed Palestinian children to make us look bad" (17 januari 2009)
Rocket salvo tests Gaza ceasefire (18 January 2009)
A volley of rockets has been fired into southern Israel from Gaza, hours after a unilateral Israeli ceasefire began.
At least four out of six rockets landed near the town of Sderot, with no reports of injuries. Israel launched an air strike on Gaza in response. The exchange puts an immediate strain on the ceasefire, which followed three weeks of fighting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7835981.stm
Israel declares unilateral Gaza truce (01.17.2009)
After 21 days, Israel declares end to fighting: The National Security Cabinet voted Saturday evening to end the military operation in the Gaza Strip. Seven ministers supported the decision, two others objected, and one abstained.
In a statement following the vote, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel fully achieved the operation's objectives, adding that the IDF will end its military operations at 2 am Sunday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-36577...
Israel declares unilateral cease-fire in Gaza
Israel has declared a unilateral cease-fire in the fighting in Gaza beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday (7 p.m. ET Saturday), Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.
Hamas has been dealt a very serious blow," Olmert said. "We can say that the conditions have been brought about that enable us to say that the aims that we laid down for the operation have been completely achieved."
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/israel.gaza/index.html
zaterdag 17 januari 2009
Israël beschiet opnieuw school van de VN in Gaza
Israel shells UN school in Gaza (Saturday, January 17, 2009)
About 1,600 civilians had sought refuge from the fighting inside the building, Gunness said.
“The Israeli army knew exactly our GPS co-ordinates and they would have known that hundreds of people had taken shelter there,” he said.
“When you have a direct hit into the third floor of a UN school, there has to be an investigation to see if a war crime has been committed.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/20...
About 1,600 civilians had sought refuge from the fighting inside the building, Gunness said.
“The Israeli army knew exactly our GPS co-ordinates and they would have known that hundreds of people had taken shelter there,” he said.
“When you have a direct hit into the third floor of a UN school, there has to be an investigation to see if a war crime has been committed.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/20...
Bolivia wil Israel voor Internationaal Gerechtshof dagen
Bolivia to take Israel to The Hague (Fri, 16 Jan 2009)
Bolivia is seeking to take Tel Aviv to International Criminal Court over the brutal atrocities the Israeli forces have committed in Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82554&...
Het artikel over infiltratie door Israëlische soldaten schijnt snel van het net gehaald te zijn. Deze blogger heeft er een printscreen van gemaakt; https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFuqQEw3TjQfS6jg01RvlmMFANs7rla5QgmCIYFEq6xUb8b92MYJjrwKtSbqllf1fs_xfTijIho2dl8Kq0oG3zImPSGBVSn29i39YPzAQEz9793N1GcTttFTWYddZ4IW2US3j04gxRgdn/s1600-h/haaretz+story+censored.jpg
Bolivia is seeking to take Tel Aviv to International Criminal Court over the brutal atrocities the Israeli forces have committed in Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82554&...
Het artikel over infiltratie door Israëlische soldaten schijnt snel van het net gehaald te zijn. Deze blogger heeft er een printscreen van gemaakt; https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFuqQEw3TjQfS6jg01RvlmMFANs7rla5QgmCIYFEq6xUb8b92MYJjrwKtSbqllf1fs_xfTijIho2dl8Kq0oG3zImPSGBVSn29i39YPzAQEz9793N1GcTttFTWYddZ4IW2US3j04gxRgdn/s1600-h/haaretz+story+censored.jpg
“Kind gebruikt als schietschijf door Israëlische militairen”
Israëlische militairen doen aan "targetpracticing" met een dood kind. Ze hebben daarvoor een jongetje gebruikt dat ze vlak daarvoor een kogel door het hoofd hebben geschoten.
"Dad, I'm Dying" (Jan 15, 2009)
Papa ik ga dood; 9 jarig jongetje gebruikt als schietschijf door Israëliërs. De familie wilde een rustig moment gebruiken om in de tuin te ontbijten. Ze hadden er geen erg in dat ze werden bespied. Een bom vernielt hun huis.
Ze rennen weg om te schuilen maar werden beschoten. De vader had zijn zoontje beet toen hij in zijn been werd geschoten. De soldaten kwamen bij hen; hij hield zich dood.
Ze schoten zijn zoontje een kogel door het hoofd en namen zijn lijkje mee. De ouders moesten toezien hoe hun zoontje als schietdoel werd gebruikt.
Over het 9 jarige jongetje
http://uruknet.info/?p=m50891&hd=&size=1&l=e
UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza (16 januari 2009)
(Engelse statement; Israelische hardcore Zionisten zijn de nieuwe nazi's)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8
Zonder Amerikaanse steun had Israel deze wantoestanden nooit kunnen veroorzaken. (Jan 14, 2009)
Paul Findley: America complicit in Israel’s military assault on Palestinians
In the U.N. Security Council, only the United States opposed a call for an immediate ceasefire. Without America’s unconditional military and political support, Israel could never carry out the destruction of Gaza or its humiliation of Palestinians in the West Bank and other war crimes.
America’s indifference to the plight of Gazans makes me wonder if our citizens have lost all capacity for moral outrage.
If you wish to find out who is really responsible for Israel’s scofflaw behavior and war crimes, look in the mirror. Citizens like you and me let lobbyists for a small, ruthless government make America its servant.
Oproep om deze waanzin te stoppen Enough!
Someone Must Stop Israel's Rampant Madness in Gaza, By: Gideon Levy; Haaretz Correspondent
This is how Israel now looks to the outside world - its tanks in the burning streets of Gaza; more and more people being killed for nothing; tens of thousands of new refugees; an appallingly haughty foreign minister, and a growing clamor of condemnation and disgust from all over the globe.
All those who supported this war and all those who objected to it should unite in the cry, Enough.
Terugblik: 1 januari 2009
Scene After IDF Attack in Gaza, RAW FOOTAGE not for the faint hearted
Deze video is uit Gaza gesmokkeld; waarschuwing bevat gruwelijke scenes
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8028511...
Patients flee as flames engulf Gaza hospital: medics (Fri Jan 16, 2009)
Desperate patients tried to flee a hospital in Gaza City this morning as it became engulfed in flames after being earlier set on fire by an Israeli tank shell, medics and witnesses said.
Phosphorus bombs in Gaza – the evidence (Friday 16 January 2009)
Warning: contains graphic footage of war injuries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/16/gaza-israel-khan-yunis-white-phosphorus
UN: Gaza Conflict Will Have Long-Lasting Psychological Impact on Children 16 January 2009 The U.N. Children's Fund says 840,000 children in Gaza are under extreme stress and are traumatized by the violent events of the past few weeks. UNICEF warns of long-lasting psychological consequences for thousands of children caught up in the Israeli- Hamas conflict in Gaza.
Israel Pounds Gaza With New Strikes (17 January 2009)
Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with new strikes Saturday, as Israeli leaders prepared to decide whether to end their three-week offensive against the Palestinian group Hamas.
Israeli tank fire kills 2 at Gaza U.N. school (Sat Jan 17)
Israeli tank fire killed two boys at a U.N.-run school in the northern Gaza Strip Saturday, not six people as previously reported, a U.N. official said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50...
Gaza conflict will have longlasting, aldus een verslag van The Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-16-voa63...
"Dad, I'm Dying" (Jan 15, 2009)
Papa ik ga dood; 9 jarig jongetje gebruikt als schietschijf door Israëliërs. De familie wilde een rustig moment gebruiken om in de tuin te ontbijten. Ze hadden er geen erg in dat ze werden bespied. Een bom vernielt hun huis.
Ze rennen weg om te schuilen maar werden beschoten. De vader had zijn zoontje beet toen hij in zijn been werd geschoten. De soldaten kwamen bij hen; hij hield zich dood.
Ze schoten zijn zoontje een kogel door het hoofd en namen zijn lijkje mee. De ouders moesten toezien hoe hun zoontje als schietdoel werd gebruikt.
Over het 9 jarige jongetje
http://uruknet.info/?p=m50891&hd=&size=1&l=e
UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza (16 januari 2009)
(Engelse statement; Israelische hardcore Zionisten zijn de nieuwe nazi's)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8
Zonder Amerikaanse steun had Israel deze wantoestanden nooit kunnen veroorzaken. (Jan 14, 2009)
Paul Findley: America complicit in Israel’s military assault on Palestinians
In the U.N. Security Council, only the United States opposed a call for an immediate ceasefire. Without America’s unconditional military and political support, Israel could never carry out the destruction of Gaza or its humiliation of Palestinians in the West Bank and other war crimes.
America’s indifference to the plight of Gazans makes me wonder if our citizens have lost all capacity for moral outrage.
If you wish to find out who is really responsible for Israel’s scofflaw behavior and war crimes, look in the mirror. Citizens like you and me let lobbyists for a small, ruthless government make America its servant.
Oproep om deze waanzin te stoppen Enough!
Someone Must Stop Israel's Rampant Madness in Gaza, By: Gideon Levy; Haaretz Correspondent
This is how Israel now looks to the outside world - its tanks in the burning streets of Gaza; more and more people being killed for nothing; tens of thousands of new refugees; an appallingly haughty foreign minister, and a growing clamor of condemnation and disgust from all over the globe.
All those who supported this war and all those who objected to it should unite in the cry, Enough.
Terugblik: 1 januari 2009
Scene After IDF Attack in Gaza, RAW FOOTAGE not for the faint hearted
Deze video is uit Gaza gesmokkeld; waarschuwing bevat gruwelijke scenes
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8028511...
Patients flee as flames engulf Gaza hospital: medics (Fri Jan 16, 2009)
Desperate patients tried to flee a hospital in Gaza City this morning as it became engulfed in flames after being earlier set on fire by an Israeli tank shell, medics and witnesses said.
Phosphorus bombs in Gaza – the evidence (Friday 16 January 2009)
Warning: contains graphic footage of war injuries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/16/gaza-israel-khan-yunis-white-phosphorus
UN: Gaza Conflict Will Have Long-Lasting Psychological Impact on Children 16 January 2009 The U.N. Children's Fund says 840,000 children in Gaza are under extreme stress and are traumatized by the violent events of the past few weeks. UNICEF warns of long-lasting psychological consequences for thousands of children caught up in the Israeli- Hamas conflict in Gaza.
Israel Pounds Gaza With New Strikes (17 January 2009)
Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with new strikes Saturday, as Israeli leaders prepared to decide whether to end their three-week offensive against the Palestinian group Hamas.
Israeli tank fire kills 2 at Gaza U.N. school (Sat Jan 17)
Israeli tank fire killed two boys at a U.N.-run school in the northern Gaza Strip Saturday, not six people as previously reported, a U.N. official said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50...
Gaza conflict will have longlasting, aldus een verslag van The Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-16-voa63...
Gruwelijke situatie door Israelische aanvallen op Gaza
Er is geen veilige plaats meer te vinden in Gaza city. De bombardementen zijn geïntensiveerd. Mensen verlaten hun huizen en worden in hun nieuwe schuilplaats gebombardeerd. Israel schiet nog steeds met fosfor.
No place is safe for Gazans - (15 Jan 2009)
Zie ook
www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
(Jan 15, 2009) Killed by Israel, Eaten by Dogs
"Een vierjarig meisje werd getroffen door mitrailleurvuur. Haar ouders konden door de rondvliegende kogels niet bij haar komen. 5 dagen lag het lijkje daar. In de tussentijd werd ze opgegeten door honden. Enkel een voetje bleef over," aldus een verslag van Uruknet.
Na 5 dagen deden de ouders een moedige poging om bij hun kindje te komen. Ze hebben het niet gehaald en zijn neergemaaid door een kogelregen. Getuigen zeggen dat de soldaten de ouders bij het lijkje weghielden om de honden een kans te geven zich ermee te voeden.
In Jabalya werd een familie beschoten toen ze 3 familieleden wilden begraven, waarna de Israeliers de honden er op loslieten. De familieleden werden door een kogelregen op afstand gehouden.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50888&hd=&s...
BBC argues with Israeli Spokesman over UN School Bombing
Een Israelisch vertegenwoordiger wordt aan de tand gevoeld over het feit dat zij bewust het VN gebouw hebben geschoten, een gebouw vol vluchtelingen.
Het weerwoord van de vertegenwoordiger is dat de Hamas het gebouw had overgenomen en dat zij de vluchtelingen als schild gebruikten. Hoe wisten ze dat zo zeker? Ze hebben bericht ontvangen dat dit zo was.
Hoe kan worden vastgesteld dat dit bericht van een onafhankelijke bron afkomstig was, aangezien niemand de waarheid van deze informatie kan achterhalen?
De vertegenwoordiger reageert hierop dat Hamas het gebouw niet had moeten bezetten. Dat de Israelische militairen belaagd werden door raketten van Hamas en dat het in een oorlogsituatie gebruikelijk is dat men terugschiet.
In het kort komt het er op neer dat de Hamas de schuld krijgt van het feit dat Israel gedwongen was het VN gebouw te bombarderen. 2 krijgers van Hamas zijn in het bombardement overleden zo stelde de Israelische inlichtingendienst, al waren de lichamen verdwenen.
Situatie op de West-Bank
Israel to 'lock down' West Bank
De West Bank wordt voor 48 uur afgesloten, vanaf middernacht donderdag 15 jan.09 Sinds het beging van de operatie op 27 december zijn 1.105 Palestijnen gedood, waarvan 355 kinderen; 5.130 gewonden. Israel heeft in die periode 10 soldaten en 3 burgers verloren. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Israel_to_lock_down_West_Bank/rssarticleshow/3987022.cms
No place is safe for Gazans - (15 Jan 2009)
Zie ook
www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
(Jan 15, 2009) Killed by Israel, Eaten by Dogs
"Een vierjarig meisje werd getroffen door mitrailleurvuur. Haar ouders konden door de rondvliegende kogels niet bij haar komen. 5 dagen lag het lijkje daar. In de tussentijd werd ze opgegeten door honden. Enkel een voetje bleef over," aldus een verslag van Uruknet.
Na 5 dagen deden de ouders een moedige poging om bij hun kindje te komen. Ze hebben het niet gehaald en zijn neergemaaid door een kogelregen. Getuigen zeggen dat de soldaten de ouders bij het lijkje weghielden om de honden een kans te geven zich ermee te voeden.
In Jabalya werd een familie beschoten toen ze 3 familieleden wilden begraven, waarna de Israeliers de honden er op loslieten. De familieleden werden door een kogelregen op afstand gehouden.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50888&hd=&s...
BBC argues with Israeli Spokesman over UN School Bombing
Een Israelisch vertegenwoordiger wordt aan de tand gevoeld over het feit dat zij bewust het VN gebouw hebben geschoten, een gebouw vol vluchtelingen.
Het weerwoord van de vertegenwoordiger is dat de Hamas het gebouw had overgenomen en dat zij de vluchtelingen als schild gebruikten. Hoe wisten ze dat zo zeker? Ze hebben bericht ontvangen dat dit zo was.
Hoe kan worden vastgesteld dat dit bericht van een onafhankelijke bron afkomstig was, aangezien niemand de waarheid van deze informatie kan achterhalen?
De vertegenwoordiger reageert hierop dat Hamas het gebouw niet had moeten bezetten. Dat de Israelische militairen belaagd werden door raketten van Hamas en dat het in een oorlogsituatie gebruikelijk is dat men terugschiet.
In het kort komt het er op neer dat de Hamas de schuld krijgt van het feit dat Israel gedwongen was het VN gebouw te bombarderen. 2 krijgers van Hamas zijn in het bombardement overleden zo stelde de Israelische inlichtingendienst, al waren de lichamen verdwenen.
Situatie op de West-Bank
Israel to 'lock down' West Bank
De West Bank wordt voor 48 uur afgesloten, vanaf middernacht donderdag 15 jan.09 Sinds het beging van de operatie op 27 december zijn 1.105 Palestijnen gedood, waarvan 355 kinderen; 5.130 gewonden. Israel heeft in die periode 10 soldaten en 3 burgers verloren. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Israel_to_lock_down_West_Bank/rssarticleshow/3987022.cms
vrijdag 16 januari 2009
Gaza en de voortdurende horror
Een overzicht met nieuwsontwikkelingen:
Witin this shell; Scrollen naar beneden voor meer koppelingen:
http://prometheusufo.livejournal.com/
David Icke; Scrollen naar beneden voor the latest headlines; http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/3...
Scott.net (er staat weer een gruwelijk bericht "we could hear their bodies burning" ahhhh!!) http://www.sott.net/signs/list_by_category/1-Mi...
rense.com
http://www.rense.com/
Reddit, met veel nieuws:
http://www.reddit.com/new/
Witin this shell; Scrollen naar beneden voor meer koppelingen:
http://prometheusufo.livejournal.com/
David Icke; Scrollen naar beneden voor the latest headlines; http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/3...
Scott.net (er staat weer een gruwelijk bericht "we could hear their bodies burning" ahhhh!!) http://www.sott.net/signs/list_by_category/1-Mi...
rense.com
http://www.rense.com/
Reddit, met veel nieuws:
http://www.reddit.com/new/
donderdag 15 januari 2009
De situatie in Gaza en achtergronden op het internet
Unprecedented Gaza Emergency Meeting, New York City, Jan. 14th 2009 http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173196-Unprec...
Israeli Navy stops Iran boat from docking in Strip
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173197-Israel...
Israel Threatens to Shoot Unarmed Civilians aboard Mercy Ship The Israeli navy today threatened to kill unarmed civilians aboard a mercy ship on its way to deliver medical supplies and doctors to besieged Gaza.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173195-Israel...
Who will save Israel from itself? One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173185-Who-wi...
Gaza the Second Holocaust
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/14/gaza-the...
Gaza faces bleak future even when bombs stop http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idU...
Pro-Israel Rally For Attacking Gaza, NYC, 1-11-09 (feestje :
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FABqq_jjRRo&...
Irish Foreign Minister Condemns Israeli Atrocities http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/14/irish-fo...
A message from within – signed by Israeli citizens Dear all, This is an important call by Israeli academics against the war, which I hope you can read and distribute widely. In support of the Palestinian human rights community call for international action. A call from within - signed by Israeli citizens
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/14/a-messag...
The Humiliation Of America
http://www.rense.com/general84/zins.htm
Israeli strikes hit Gaza hospitals and UN aid headquarters (voedsel gebombardeerd) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middl...
Syria's first lady on Gaza 60% van de inwoners is onder 26 jaar, veel info, een aanrader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYtq79yEzWY&...
www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
Kyrgyzstan threatens to shut key US airbase http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/...
B'Tselem: Gaza woman killed by IDF despite waving white flag Eyewitnesses tell human rights group 50-year-old shot dead as she was leaving relative's home near Khan Younis, say three more civilians killed in similar incident. Army denies report, says targeting gunmen who are using civilians as human shields
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3...
Israeli intel targets Israeli protesters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtYcKEbAgJQ&...
www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
ICC overlooks Israel's war crimes allegation The International Criminal Court prosecutor says it lacks jurisdiction to investigate possible Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82310&...
Israeli army masses along Lebanon border Israel deploys military units along the border with Lebanon amid growing concerns that the assault on Gaza was the onset of a multi-front war. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82287&...
Israel targets hospital in Gaza City
Israeli forces have targeted a hospital in the blockaded Gaza City, setting fire to a wing of the medical center, witnesses say.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=82414&...
Israeli intel targets Israeli protesters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtYcKEbAgJQ&...
www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82
Israeli Navy stops Iran boat from docking in Strip
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173197-Israel...
Israel Threatens to Shoot Unarmed Civilians aboard Mercy Ship The Israeli navy today threatened to kill unarmed civilians aboard a mercy ship on its way to deliver medical supplies and doctors to besieged Gaza.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173195-Israel...
Who will save Israel from itself? One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173185-Who-wi...
Gaza the Second Holocaust
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/14/gaza-the...
Gaza faces bleak future even when bombs stop http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idU...
Pro-Israel Rally For Attacking Gaza, NYC, 1-11-09 (feestje :
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FABqq_jjRRo&...
Irish Foreign Minister Condemns Israeli Atrocities http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/14/irish-fo...
A message from within – signed by Israeli citizens Dear all, This is an important call by Israeli academics against the war, which I hope you can read and distribute widely. In support of the Palestinian human rights community call for international action. A call from within - signed by Israeli citizens
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/14/a-messag...
The Humiliation Of America
http://www.rense.com/general84/zins.htm
Israeli strikes hit Gaza hospitals and UN aid headquarters (voedsel gebombardeerd) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middl...
Syria's first lady on Gaza 60% van de inwoners is onder 26 jaar, veel info, een aanrader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYtq79yEzWY&...
www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/&feature=player_embedded
Kyrgyzstan threatens to shut key US airbase http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/...
B'Tselem: Gaza woman killed by IDF despite waving white flag Eyewitnesses tell human rights group 50-year-old shot dead as she was leaving relative's home near Khan Younis, say three more civilians killed in similar incident. Army denies report, says targeting gunmen who are using civilians as human shields
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3...
Israeli intel targets Israeli protesters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtYcKEbAgJQ&...
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ICC overlooks Israel's war crimes allegation The International Criminal Court prosecutor says it lacks jurisdiction to investigate possible Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82310&...
Israeli army masses along Lebanon border Israel deploys military units along the border with Lebanon amid growing concerns that the assault on Gaza was the onset of a multi-front war. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82287&...
Israel targets hospital in Gaza City
Israeli forces have targeted a hospital in the blockaded Gaza City, setting fire to a wing of the medical center, witnesses say.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=82414&...
Israeli intel targets Israeli protesters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtYcKEbAgJQ&...
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zondag 11 januari 2009
Een achtergrond over het water en de West Bank
Israel's planned annexation of West Bank aquifers will perpetuate high Israeli water-consumption levels while denying basic Palestinian needs, and will dim any hope for a viable Palestinian state and for peace.
Blue Star Rampage: Israel's dress rehearsal for Lebanon http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...
Arms exports to Israel from EU worth €200m
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...
WHO: “21 medics killed, 31 wounded due to the ongoing Israeli offensive
http://uruknet.info/?p=m50561&hd=&size=...
Ik vond hier nog een link over; http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/mid...
Is het nu olie of is het nu water?
Discovery of gas field near shoreline of Gaza Strip http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/discover/dix02980.htm
A Thirst for West Bank Water
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060626/taamallah
Blue Star Rampage: Israel's dress rehearsal for Lebanon http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...
Arms exports to Israel from EU worth €200m
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...
WHO: “21 medics killed, 31 wounded due to the ongoing Israeli offensive
http://uruknet.info/?p=m50561&hd=&size=...
Ik vond hier nog een link over; http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/mid...
Is het nu olie of is het nu water?
Discovery of gas field near shoreline of Gaza Strip http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/discover/dix02980.htm
A Thirst for West Bank Water
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060626/taamallah
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