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Year IV   - Bulletin  13 -   2  FEBRUARY  2009

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Uber zionist Netanyahu threatens false flag attack against Christ's burial site

Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in New York during 9/11, and London for the 7/7 event, is now threatening a false flag attack against Christianity's holiest site - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Never mind that Christ is a revered prophet in Islam. Bibi says that the nefarious al Quada will carry out this attack IF ziostan gives up control of Jerusalem..................(read all the articles)

 

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Mishaal: We'll build national authority for the Palestinians at home and abroad

palestine-info

DOHA, (PIC)-- Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, stated Wednesday in Qatar that his Movement would embark on building a national authority referred to by the Palestinian people at home and abroad and involving all national forces and trends.

During a ceremony held in Doha to celebrate the victory of Gaza, Mishaal said that there could be no reconciliation while the Palestinian people inside and outside are left without a national authority representing them, adding that the PLO, which Hamas is banned from joining or rebuilding, is impotent and an instrument of division.  

He underlined that Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions welcome dialog and reconciliation but on the basis of the national constants and not according to foreign agendas....................(read the full article)

 

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MORE ARTICLES ARE COMING SOON...

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Year IV   - Bulletin  11 -   27  JANUARY  2009

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ISRAEL CELEBRATES CHILD PORN/ABUSE & MASS MURDER OF CHILDREN IN AMERICA

(and in the rest of the world, specially in Palestine...)

Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw magazine, said (on lukeford.com), 'The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism".

Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture &, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged........................(read the full article)

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  10 -   19  JANUARY  2009

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Hamas offers conditional ceasefire

Hamas and several allied Palestinian factions have announced a conditional, one-week ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, giving Israel seven days to pull out of the territory.

"We in the Palestinian resistance movements announce a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand that enemy forces withdraw in a week and open all the border crossings to permit the entry of humanitarian aid and basic goods," Mousa Abu Marzuk, deputy leader of Hamas's political bureau, said in Damascus on Sunday....(read the full article)

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also :   We will win war in Gaza

an interview with Musa Abu Marzouq

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Israel accused of war crimes over

12-hour assault on Gaza village

White flags ignored and houses bulldozed with families inside, claim residents

"By 6am the tanks and bulldozers had reached our house," Iman recalled.

"We went on the roofs and tried to show we were civilians with white flags.

Everyone was carrying a white flag.

We told them we are civilians.

We don't have any weapons.

The soldiers started to destroy the houses even if the people were in them."......................(read the full article)

 

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Arab-Israelis lament war on Gaza

"This is murder and a crime," says the 82-year-old Palestinian standing on a Jaffa street corner.
"Killing children, destroying homes on top of the women and children still inside them - this is murder. Don't they see what they are doing?"
This man has been standing on this same street corner every evening since the Israeli assault on Gaza began in late December.
He is one in a crowd of varying sizes - sometimes less than 100, sometimes 1000-strong - forming a candle-lit protest vigil in Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish city just south of Tel Aviv..............(read the full article)

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Year IV   - Bulletin  9 -   18  JANUARY  2009

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Olmert announces Gaza ceasefire

Aljazeera.net

Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, has announced a unilateral truce in the Gaza Strip. "We have reached all the goals of the war, and beyond," Olmert said.

"If our enemies decide to strike and want to carry on then the Israeli army will regard itself as free to respond with force," he added.

Hamas, however, said it would continue fighting in Gaza as long as Israeli troops remained in the Hamas-ruled Strip.

"If the Israeli military continues its existence in the Gaza Strip, that is a wide door for the resistance against the occupation forces," Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official in Lebanon told Al Jazeera.

Fawzi Barhum, a Hamas spokesman, said: "The Zionist enemy must stop all its aggression, completely withdraw from the Gaza Strip, lift the blockade, and open the crossings. We will not accept the presence of a single soldier in Gaza.

"The enemy's declaration of a unilateral ceasefire confirms that this is a unilateral war launched in one direction, from the enemy upon our people," Barhum, who is in Gaza, said in a statement................(read the full article)

 

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Report direct from Gaza

By Sameh A. Habeeb: A Photojournalist, in Gaza Strip.

Two Palestinians killed after being injured in Khan yonis and their father was wounded. Here is an email I got from the friends of the family before they know what has happened to them!
Family Friend,
I am writing to make a request for a good friend from Gaza (Amer Shurrab, UWCAD '01--03, Middlebury College '08.5). He just found out his father and two brothers were attacked while returning home from their farm during the 3-hr ceasefire. One brother (Kassab Shurrab) died, but the father (Mohammed Shurrab -64) and the remaining brother (Ibrahim-17) are now wounded and stranded in an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) controlled area. It's been 16 hours and emergency services are unable to reach them. The ambulances cannot travel there..................(read the full article)

 

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Fatah leader denounces his movement's "silence" on Gaza

Jerusalem – Ma’an – A Fatah senior leader, Hatem Abdul Qader, criticized on Saturday what he described as the silence of the Fatah leadership on the Israeli attack on Gaza and the Palestinian national project as a whole. "The leadership of the was supposed movement to play a greater and influential role in dealing with the massacres and conspiracies against the Palestinians," he said, decrying attacks "aiming at ending Palestinians’ material and moral existence.........................(read the full article)

 

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Israel shells UN school in Gaza

Two Palestinian boys have been killed after Israeli tank shells hit a UN-run school in Gaza - hours before Israel's security cabinet is expected to vote on a proposal for a unilateral ceasefire.

The boys, aged five and seven, died and 25 other Gazans were wounded as they sought to shelter in the school run by the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza...............(read the full article)

 

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The Civilizing Power of Slaughter

Steven Salaita, dissidentvoice.org

The glorification of Israeli modernity in opposition to Palestinian pre-modernity has pervaded corporate media coverage. Two features of this media coverage stand out:

1) the Palestinians, no matter who is dying, whether it’s a bearded gunman or a baby, are always called militants, terrorists, or some other term that suggests they are never civilians; and

2) the Israeli invasion is almost uniformly deemed retaliatory, even among progressives like Robert Sheer and Akiva Eldar, who takes a moment to assert "her national right, as a Jew, to live in [Israel]." This national right, it should be mentioned, has no basis in any legal system anywhere in the world beyond Israel’s insidious Law of Return..................(read the full article)

 

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Resistance Rejects

International Gaza Force

Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani

"The resistance will not accept international forces (in the Gaza Strip)," Khaled Meshaal, head of Hamas's Damascus-based political bureau said recently on Syrian state television. "We know that such forces would only serve Israel and its occupation."....................(read the full article)

 

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Mishaal: Israel couldn’t achieve victory over resistance

 

"Today, Israel isn’t able to achieve victory over the resistance, imagine how would the situation be had the entire Ummah faced it united", underlined Mishaal, explaining that the US administration doesn’t have the dominance it had before, and thus, he added, it shouldn’t impose dictates anymore on the region.................(read the full article)

 

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Gazans count the cost of war

The rubble of the al-Quds hospital in Gaza City was still smouldering early on Friday as a relative lull in fighting gave Palestinians the opportunity to assess the devastation caused by the Israeli assault.

The hospital in the densely-populated Tal-Hawa neighbourhood was destroyed by Israeli tanks a day earlier after hundreds of frightened Gazans had taken shelter inside as Israeli ground forces pushed into the neighbourhood...........(read the full article)

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  8 -   17  JANUARY  2009

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Gaza hospitals and UN warehouse hit

The attack on the UN warehouse destroyed millions of dollars worth of food and medical aid...........

Two hospitals east of Gaza City were also hit by Israeli shells as Gazans fled tanks advancing into the city. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties following the raids. The Israelis also bombed a UN compound in Gaza City, setting fire to warehouses of badly-needed food and medical aid and prompting international outrage.

Around 700 Palestinians were sheltering in the UN complex at the time of the strikes which left two civilians and three staff members injured................(read the full article)

 

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Israel 'set to halt war on Gaza'

Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, told Israel's Channel 10 television: "The security cabinet will convene and that is where a decision will be made.

"I have said the end doesn't have to be in agreement with Hamas, but rather in arrangements against Hamas."

A unilateral ceasefire would allow Israel to avoid agreeing concessions with Hamas, such as easing the 18-month-old blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has prevented medical aid and basic supplies reaching the Palestinians.......................(read the full article)
 

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QATAR  SUMMIT :

Qatar and Mauritania cut Israel ties

Qatar and Mauritania have suspended economic and political ties with Israel in protest against the war in Gaza, Al Jazeera has learned.

The move announced on Friday followed calls by Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, and Khaled Meshaal, the exiled leader of Hamas, for all Arab nations to cut ties with Israel.

Erdogan's comments came hours ahead of Friday's official visit to Turkey by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

The Turkish leader also added his voice to widespread condemnation of Israel's bombing of a UN compound in Gaza on Thursday. "The UN building in Gaza was hit while the UN secretary-general was in Israel ... this is an open challenge to the world, teasing the world," he said....................(read the full article)

 

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US and Israel agree Gaza deal

Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister and her US counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, have signed an agreement aimed at preventing arms smuggling into Gaza for the Palestinian group Hamas.

Livni, who travelled to Washington DC, the US capital, on Friday for the signing, said both sides had agreed on a "series of actions" in the memorandum of understanding to halt weapons smuggling............(read the full article)

 

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IOF troops quell pro-Gaza rally

in Al-Khalil, kill one Palestinian

 

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- One Palestinian citizen was martyred and 20 other citizens were injured in Al-Khalil city Friday in fierce clashes between Palestinian citizens angry over the Israeli massacre in Gaza, and the fully-geared IOF troops.

The victim was identified as Motasem Da'ana, 15, of AL-Khalil city.........................(read the full article)

 

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Zio-regime hopes world

will forget Gaza genocide soon

Khalid Amayreh from Occupied Palestine

With the  holocaust-like Israeli onslaught in Gaza entering its fourth week, and with thousands of Palestinian civilians mercilessly  killed and maimed   by the Israeli war machine while hundreds others still buried under rubble, Israel is planning a public relations campaign aimed at “making the world forget the bad images” from Gaza very soon................(read the full article)

 

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Gaza diary: To die with hope

 

by Mohammed Ali, Gaza City

As the death toll from Israel's war on Gaza continues to climb, Mohammed Ali, an advocacy and media researcher for Oxfam who lives in Gaza City, will be keeping a diary of his feelings and experiences.........(read the full article)

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  7 -   15  JANUARY  2009

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Israel shells hospital, UN office

 

Israeli forces have shelled a hospital and a UN building as they continue to pound Gaza City while pushing deeper into densely-populated neighbourhoods.
Thousands of fear-stricken Gazans fled the advancing Israeli trooops on Thursday, but observers said there was nowhere safe for them to take refuge in the territory that is under relentless Israeli attack.
Officials said that a building of the UN relief agency in Gaza had been hit by Israeli shells and set ablaze.
"They are phosphorus fires so they are extremely difficult to put out because if you put water on it, it will just generate toxic fumes and do nothing to stop the burning," John Ging, the director of UN relief operations, said.
"This is going to burn down the entire warehouse ... thousands and thousands of tonnes of food, medical supplies and other emergency assistance are there."..................(read the full article)
 

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Gaza: The endless cycle of trauma

By Sandy Tolan, Middle East analyst

The Israeli bombs and rockets streaking through the skies of Gaza trace not only a path of death and terror for Palestinians in 2009, they also outline the smoke trails of traumas past, from the Nakba, or 'catastrophe,' in 1948 to the 1967 war; from the Lebanon invasions, to the 2002 assault on Jenin. All are echoes of today's calamity of US-made missiles and mortars raining down on Gazans.

Watching history repeat itself is, of course, most horrifying for the people through whose roofs the missiles are falling, whose children are dying. For the outsider, peering in from a safe perch, it is merely surreal.

We look on as Israel replays the tape-loop of its brutal and tragic follies. Israel has shown again and again that, rather than vanquishing its enemies, it makes new ones while strengthening old ones.

Many commentators have invoked 2006 and Israel's invasion of Lebanon, when, in trying to destroy Hezbollah, it made it stronger. But this is only a relatively recent example.....................(read the full article)

 

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Special: White Phosphorus and its use in Gaza

Dr. Mazen Qumssiya - for the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem

White Phosphorus (P4) is a waxy fat soluble colorless or slightly yellow solid with a garlic smell that is not naturally occurring but is produced in the laboratory. It is highly reactive with oxygen (ignites spontaneously upon drying and exposure to air) producing compounds like P4O6 (phosphorus pentoxide) and P4O10 which upon contact with water becomes oxophosphoric acids (aslternatively direct reaction with water can lead to phosphoric acid HPO4 through some intermediate compounds)

These properties have give it both civilian and military uses.  Its civilian uses include production of phosphoric acid and phosphate based fertilizers.  It is used by the military because it interacts with oxygen producing fire and smoke and can act both as a smokescreen, marking enemy areas and also to terrorize enemy combatants to leave fox holes and tunnels into more open areas where standard ammunition can be used on them. White phosphorous is a member of a class of incendiary weapons that includes such things as napalm and thermites but also functions in producing smoke to confuse and destroy the ability of enemy troops to function........(read the full article)

 

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Is Gaza a testing ground for experimental weapons?
"create as much mutilation as possible

to terrorise the civilian population"

Jonathan Cook, globalresearch

 

Concerns about Israel’s use of non-conventional and experimental weapons in the Gaza Strip are growing, with evasive comments from spokesmen and reluctance to allow independent journalists inside the tiny enclave only fuelling speculation.

 The most prominent controversy is over the use of shells containing white phosphorus, which causes horrific burns when it comes into contact with skin. Under international law, phosphorus is allowed as a smokescreen to protect soldiers but treated as a chemical weapon when used against civilians.

 The Israeli army maintains that it is using only weapons authorised in international law, though human rights groups have severely criticised Israel for firing phosphorus shells over densely populated areas of Gaza.

 But there might be other unconventional weapons Israel is using out of sight of the watching world.

 One such munition may be Dime, or dense inert metal explosive, a weapon recently developed by the US army to create a powerful and lethal blast over a small area.

 The munition is supposed to still be in the development stage and is not yet regulated. There are fears, however, that Israel may have received a green light from the US military to treat Gaza as a testing ground.

 "We have seen Gaza used as a laboratory for testing what I call weapons from hell," said David Halpin, a retired British surgeon and trauma specialist who has visited Gaza on several occasions to investigate unusual injuries suffered by Gazans.

 "I fear the thinking in Israel is that it is in its interests to create as much mutilation as possible to terrorise the civilian population in the hope they will turn against Hamas."..................(read the full article)

 

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VITTORIO FROM GAZA

Some Palestinian families have handed some leaflets over to us, which had fallen down from the sky in the last few days, courtesy of the Israeli Air Force instead of the customary bombs.

 

 Leaflet n. 1, translated from Arabic, said: " To all the people living in this area. Due to the terrorist acts that the terrorists in your area attacking Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces were forced to take immediate action in your area. We thus urge you, for your own safety, to immediately evacuate the area. Israeli Defense Forces".

In short, the Israeli are sticking "Work in progress signs door to door, before razing whole neighbourhoods to the ground, and forever dashing the hopes of a life for the present and future...............(read the full article)

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Year IV   - Bulletin  6 -   13  JANUARY  2009

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Israeli troops battle Gaza fighters

Aljazeera.net

Heavy fighting has been reported in the northern Gaza Strip and on the outskirts of Gaza City after Israel sent army reservists into the territory to support its ground forces.
The clashes on Monday raised fears that Israel was planning to move further into densely-populated urban centres as the offensive entered its 17th day.

Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting from Gaza City, said: "We have had fighting to the north, east and south of Gaza City ... certainly we are hearing an intensification of ground operations.
"There are gun battles between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters in the areas of east Jabaliya and Tuffah. We are also hearing eyewitness reports that several houses have been demolished in the north, in Beit Hanoun and in other areas."

More than 900 Palestinians have died, including 277 children and 95 woman, since the Israeli operation began on December 27 and there are fears that any push into urban areas could cause even greater casualties..........(read)

 

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UN watchdog condemns war on Gaza

Aljazeera.net

 

A resolution condemning Israel's military offensive in Gaza has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.

The non-binding resolution, approved in Geneva on Monday, said Israel's operation had "resulted in massive violations of human rights of the Palestinian people".

More than 900 Palestinians have died during the fighting, many of them women and children, and a further 4,100 have been wounded.

At least 25,000 have been displaced due to the ongoing bombardment, but are unable to flee the overcrowded territory as crossing points remain closed.

The resolution, drafted by Arab, Asian and African countries, called for an international mission to be sent immediately to the Gaza Strip to investigate Israel's actions.

It also called for an immediate end to the "launching of the crude rockets against Israeli civilians" by the Palestinian factions........(read the full article)

 

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Who will save Israel from itself?

 By Mark LeVine

 

One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling.

The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the truce, but by centre-right Israeli intelligence think tanks.
The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, whose December 31 report titled "Six Months of the Lull Arrangement Intelligence Report," confirmed that the June 19 truce was only "sporadically violated, and then not by Hamas but instead by ... "rogue terrorist organisations"....Instead, "the escalation and erosion of the lull arrangement" occurred after Israel killed six Hamas members on November 4 without provocation and then placed the entire Strip under an even more intensive siege the next day...............(read the full article)

 

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Watch NOW:

Slide show with photo-evidence

 

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=50670&s2=12

 

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ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA

Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice

 

In Khan Younis a family of 26 people including children age 2- 17 years of age,live in the basement of a house, since the Israelis incursion into the area three days ago. My friend, one of the sons in the house is expecting his first child to be born, in about three months. He got married last summer, it was a big wedding and mostly happy time, despite the Israeli siege and frequent assaults on Gaza, the new married and happy could not believe the future would be so terrible.
Bombs are blasting, hitting their targets and heavy machine gun fire can be heard not far away from the house. This winter is unusually cold in Gaza.The windows in the basement room is open the new married have searched shelter as a safety, if closed the force and the heat from the bombings will break them.My friend who called me today, for advise regarding what is believed to be labor- pain, very early contractions of cervix, they are both very worried they will lose their first child..................(read the full article)

 

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How Israel's Propaganda Machine Works

James Zogby, huffingtonpost.com

 

As in past Mideast conflicts, both the media story line and political commentary here in the U.S. has closely followed Israel's talking points on the war. This has been an essential component in Israel's early success and in its ability to prolong fighting without U.S. pushback. Because it recognizes the importance of the propaganda war, Israel fights on this front as vigorously and disproportionately as it engages on the battlefield.

Here's how they have done it:.....................(read the full article)

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  5 -   10  JANUARY  2009

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ZIONIST  HELL

 

video collection

of the Israeli crimes

BY  OUR  FRIEND  ENRICO  GALOPPINI

Eurasia http://www.cpeurasia.org/

 

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Gaza under fire despite truce call

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Diary: 'Gaza has been zeroed'

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War and Natural Gas:

The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields

 

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Palestinian journalists condemn IOF targeting of journalists

 

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  4 -   9  JANUARY  2009

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UN passes Gaza ceasefire resolution

The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza that Arab nations hope will put an end to Israel's 14-day assault on the territory.

The resolution, passed on Thursday with 14 votes in favour and only the US abstaining, "stresses the urgency of and calls for an immediate, durable and fully respected ceasefire, leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza".............(read the full article)

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  3 -   5  JANUARY  2009

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ISRAELIS GASSING PALESTINIANS IN GAZA
Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells

Times (London, UK) January 5, 2009
By Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem and Michael Evans, Defense Editor

Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to
screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The
weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns
but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen.......(read the full article)

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  2 -   3  JANUARY  2009

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Israel has intensified shelling in what appears to be the begining of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip

 

European, Australian and American

Human Rights Activists list and telephone numbers in Gaza.........links

 

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Year IV   - Bulletin  1 -   1  JANUARY  2009

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NEW  NAKBA  YEAR:

HAPPY NEW YEAR ?

Day 6 of Israeli War On Gaza
More suffocating bombings claim lives of children and women
By Sameh A. Habeeb, A Photojournalist, Humanitarian & Peace Activist

 

Gaza Strip,1, January, 2oo9- The scale of Israeli war escalated today by hitting more targets in various places across the occupied Gaza. The army opened the new year with more military fatal actions in Gaza leaving more people dead. Trauma cases raise up and more people are suffering from the air raids.

Many facets of harmed people can be found in Gaza. You either find a hit house with a dead one of the family or a hit house in which its residents traumatized and panics.

Casualties of Israeli heavy bombings reached 415 while wounded rise up to 2100 persons. Many wounded are in critical condition and there is no ability to respond to their deteriorated cases.

Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Tsivi Livini, declared that Israel is only targeting Hamas members indicating that Gaza doesn't suffer from any shortages of humanitarian needs. However, the incoming humanitarian needs are not enough for the populations amounted of 1.5 million.

United nation debunks the allegation of Mrs. Livini and says the incoming materials are not enough. Gaza needs 100 vans of flour. Karin Abu zaid the general commissioner of UNRWA said also that around 20 thousand people face troubles in getting the food supplies.
 

Main Israeli Military Actions in Gaza:.........(read the full article)

 

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Ashkelon Built on Ruins of Ethnically Cleansed and Destroyed Al-Jura

umkahlil.blogspot

January 1, 2009

Every US politician makes the obligatory trip to Sderot, an Israeli town built on the defaced and ethnically cleansed Palestinian Village, Najd.

 

I wrote previously about Najd, "Sderot Built on Ashes of Ethnically Cleansed and Defaced Najd."

 

Astute politicians, albeit unconcerned about getting re-elected, might find my article about the history of what is now called Sderot, and might also find interesting the history of what is now called Ashkelon, which is built on ethnically cleansed and destroyed Al-Jura.

 

Because the root of the problem between the Jewish immigrants who came to Palestine from all over the world and ethnically cleansed the Palestinians and then destroyed over five hundred of their villages and the Palestinians is that the initial injustice to the Palestinian people, is not addressed and most of the time not put into context for people not familiar with the history of Palestine.....(read the full article)

 

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The truth about those Hamas rockets

Dennis Rahkonen

Jan 1, 2009, 01:24
 

Five years ago, the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction to dupe us into supporting an illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq.

A few days ago, Israel trotted out only an infinitesimally more credible excuse -- the Hamas rockets case -- as justification for its own murderous shock and awe in Gaza, a long-planned campaign perniciously aimed at ousting a "regime" that came to power via popular, democratic vote.

Yes, such rockets exist, but they’re little more than slingshots against Israel’s incredible military might, and they’re used out of desperation by Palestinians who’ve never been accorded the democratic space within which to gain redress of their eminently just grievances.

 

"The [Palestinian] Kassam [rockets] have terrorized the 25,000 people in Sderot and its environs, but have caused very, very few deaths or serious wounds. By contrast, Israel has terrorized 1.5 million Gazans, locked them inside their awfully narrow borders, throttled their economy, and killed and seriously wounded thousands of them ..........(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  33 -   31  DECEMBER  2008

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Report direct from Gaza 30 December 2008: 390 death toll todate

Sameh A. Habeeb

Gaza Strip, 30 Dec, 2008- Israeli air force still launching the heaviest bombardments in Gaza ever. The fourth day of Israeli military operation started with heavy bombings took place west of Gaza City in addition to killing 2 children and around 10 in various places in Gaza to raise death toll to 390 while wounded people up to 1 thousand and 700 most of them civilians.

The Israeli announced decapitation strategy of targeting Hamas movement and avoiding civilians clearly unveiled. The F16s targeted a group of governmental building using tons of explosion resulting in killing at least 4 Palestinians. The bombings lasted for 30 minutes echoed across Gaza City causing great trauma and panic for civilians. Total damage stormed the buildings while partially destroyed some neighboring populated buildings.

Israeli warplanes, drones, artillery machines, and apache helicopters broadly took part in the nightly raids. Israeli air raids destroyed a sport club and a building inside the Islamic University of Gaza IUG. IUG was hit Monday night and 2 building were destroyed. One of the destroyed building was the laboratory funded by Islamic Development Bank estimated of millions of dollars.

The bombings continued for the whole night in separated areas in Gaza Strip. Many civic targets were bombs including mosques in Khanyonis City. Old man was killed in south of Gaza in Rafah City............(read the full article)

 

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Gaza: Civilians’ stories

Eva Bartlett reporting from Gaza

(read the report)

 

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Bulletin  32 -   30  DECEMBER  2008

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Army continues is offensive in Gaza; over 385 killed and 1750 wounded

Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Tuesday December 30, 2008

 

The Israeli army continued its offensive against the residents of the Gaza Strip for the fourth day and carried on Tuesday at least 70 strikes, including a recent strike targeting the Rafah-Egypt border, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

Death toll exceeded 385 residents, including children, women and elderly while at least 1750 residents were injured.......(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  31 -   29  DECEMBER  2008

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Five More Palestinians Killed, 303 Killed and Over 1000 Wounded Since Saturday

 

- by Saed Bannoura -

International Middle East Media Center

 

Palestinian sources reported on Sunday that the Israeli Air Force shelled several areas in different part of the Gaza Strip killing five Palestinians and wounding several residents. The death toll of the Israeli offensive which started on Saturday stands now at 303 while at least 1000 residents were wounded, 180 seriously. The Arabs48 news website reported that the Israeli Air Force shelled a blacksmith workshop and a house in al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, killing a man and a woman.....(read the full article)

 

SIMILAR  LINK :

Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill 300 Palestinians, wound 1000 others

http://www.terrasantalibera.org/300killed-PIC.htm

 

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Palestinians are at a loss to describe this latest catastrophe. International civil society must act now

By Ali Abunimah, The Guardian, 29 December 2008

 

"I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing." Those chilling words were spoken on al-Jazeera on Saturday by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defence official in the Sderot area adjacent to the Gaza Strip. For days Israeli planes have bombed Gaza. Almost 300 Palestinians have been killed and a thousand injured, the majority civilians, including women and children.
Israel claims most of the dead were Hamas "terrorists". In fact, the targets were police stations in dense residential areas, and the dead included many police officers and other civilians. Under international law, police officers are civilians, and targeting them is no less a war crime than aiming at other civilians.

Palestinians are at a loss to describe this new catastrophe. Is it our 9/11, or is it a taste of the "bigger shoah" Matan Vilnai, the deputy defence minister,
threatened in February, after the last round of mass killings?

Israel says it is acting in "retaliation" for rockets fired with increasing intensity ever since a six-month truce expired on 19 December. But the bombs dropped on Gaza are only a variation in Israel's method of killing Palestinians. In recent months they died mostly silent deaths, the elderly and sick especially, deprived of food, cancer treatments and other medicines by an Israeli
blockade that targeted 1.5 million people - mostly refugees and children - caged into the Gaza Strip. The orders of Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, to hold back medicine were just as lethal and illegal as those to send in the warplanes....................(read the full article)

 

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Israeli Occupation Army summons reservists

 

 

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

 

 

The Israeli occupation government on Sunday decided to summon 6,500 reservists in anticipation of launching a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip...........(read the full article)

 

 

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With brothers like these, who needs enemies?

By Khalid Amayreh, 28/12/2008

(Note: This piece was written before the latest Israeli massacres in Gaza)

There is more than just a  whiff of hypocrisy in the way Arab states such as Egypt and  Saudi Arabia as well as the American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) are dealing with the continuing nightmare in the Gaza Strip...............(read the full article)

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Bulletin  30 -   27  DECEMBER  2008

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Barhoum: The IOF air raids mass execution of Gaza inhabitant

 

palestine-info

GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas on Saturday charged that the Israeli occupation forces' carnage in the Gaza Strip was made with the green light of regional parties and constituted a mass execution of the Gaza people.

Barhoum, in a statement, pointed out that the raids came 24 hours after Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni's visit to Cairo where it met with the Egyptian president and senior officials then talked in a press conference about toppling Hamas's rule in Gaza.

He said that such a massacre was possible thanks to Arab silence, European collusion and American support for Israeli occupation.....(read the full article)

 

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MORE ARTICLES FROM Palestine-Info

 

• Official Arab silence toward aggression unjustified

• IOF troops violently quell Bil'in peaceful march

• Olmert orders the completion of the wall around Jerusalem

• Palestinians speak of widespread torture in PA jails

from Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem

 

 

 

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Gaza's Bakeries Shut Down

by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC

Tuesday December 23, 2008
Bakery owners in Gaza announced today that they have closed their doors to residents because of their inability to obtain cooking gas and wheat in order to make bread. Abdelnaser al-Ajrami, head of the bakeries society in Gaza, stated to media outlets that more than 27 bakeries out of a total of 47 in Gaza city, have been shut down completely due to a lack of cooking gas and wheat, as Israel has kept closed commercial border crossings for almost two months now..................(read the full article)

 

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WE  WISH  YOU  ALL

A  MERRY  CHRISTMAS

AND  A  HAPPY  NEW  YEAR

Et Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis

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Bulletin  29 -   23  DECEMBER  2008

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Nobel Laureate: There is a way toward peace for Palestine

Mairead Corrigan Maguire

 

The following is a speech delivered by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire at the seventh International Sabeel Conference in Jerusalem on 19 November 2008:

I am very happy to be here with you and to be invited to speak to you. I want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Naim Ateek, and all those who helped to organize this conference. I am deeply grateful to have the freedom to come here to East Jerusalem and the freedom to speak and meet with you.

In this the 2lst century many of us take freedom for granted, but not everyone has freedom here in Israel/Palestine. I realized this, yet again, when I told a Palestinian friend I was attending this conference and he told me that though he was born in Jerusalem he is not allowed to come into East Jerusalem.

This brought home to me that East Jerusalem is indeed an integral part of the occupied territory of Palestine and many Arab people born here are not allowed into East Jerusalem.

Many Arabs who do live in East Jerusalem live in fear of their homes being demolished or expulsion by the Israeli Government -- such as the al-Kurd family home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem where the Supreme court has ruled on the expulsion of this family from their home. Since l967 almost 20,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished in the West Bank.

The expulsions and demolitions continue almost daily, along with continuing development of illegal settlements for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, and the West Bank. A few days ago I visited the site in West Jerusalem where the Israelis are building a Museum of Tolerance upon an ancient Muslim cemetery, where the bones of the Muslims' ancestors are being exhumed..................................(read the full article)
 

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Bethlehem Christmas Defies Israel

Suleiman Besharat, December 20, 2008

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Despite chocking Israeli restrictions, preparations are in full swing in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, to celebrate Christmas.
"We want to bring joy to the hearts of our people," Bethlehem municipal chief Victor Batarsa told IslamOnline.net on Saturday, December 20.

But the Christmas joy is marred by the crippling Israeli restrictions in the occupied city.
"The Israeli occupation is determined to destroy our celebrations," Batarsa said.
"The city is suffering under siege with Israeli checkpoints installed at the city's entrances.
"There are also daily incursions, settlement expansion not to mention arrests and house demolitions."
The separation wall Israel is building is also adding to the suffering of Bethlehem residents.........................(read the full article)

 

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Israel should be expelled

 from the UN

By Snorre Lindquist and Lasse Wilhelmson – Stockholm

December 21, 2008
The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world. The situation grows steadily more insufferable for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there. Deliveries of food, medicine and fuel are made difficult or stopped altogether. Child malnutrition is increasing. Water supplies and drainage have ceased to function. Children die for lack of healthcare. Tunnels to Egypt, dug by hand, are the only breathing space. Journalists and diplomats are denied entry. Israel is planning more military efforts. The Palestinians in Gaza are now to be starved into surrender and become an Egyptian problem.
The UN should use the word apartheid in connection with Israel and consider sanctions with the former South Africa serving as a model. Miguel dÉscoto Brockman, president of the UN General Assembly, conveyed this message at a meeting on November 24th 2008 with the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon present.
The 1976 Nobel peace prize laureate, Mairead McGuire from Ireland, recently suggested a popular movement demanding that the UN revoke Israel’s membership. The international community now needs to put tangible pressure on Israel in order to stop its war crimes.........(read the full article)
 

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Strangling Gaza to near death while pretending to be the victim

By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem

December 21, 2008

No one is enthusiastic about the latest escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip, except perhaps the warmongers in Tel Aviv and the American-backed Arab and Palestinian traitors who would do anything and go to any extent to please their masters in Washington, D.C.

In Israel, the Gaza Strip is becoming the central election issue in a country deeply menaced by political and religious extremism.
Israeli political leaders from right and left are already promising the Jewish public that they will destroy Gaza and murder untold thousands of poor Gazans if only they are elected in the 10 February polls. Tzipi Livni, leader of the Kadima party, was quoted as saying on Sunday, 21 December, that if she becomes Israel’s next Prime Minister, she will destroy Hamas’s government in Gaza, using military, economic and diplomatic means.....(read the full article)

 

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Montather Al-Zaidi, Beaten & Tortured

Al-Baghdadia, December 21, 2008

Uday Al-Zeidi, the older brother of the Al-Baghdadia’s correspondent who was detained a week ago, met with Montather today. Montather told his brother that after the incident, he was beaten and kicked by the Iraqi security forces until he fainted..................(read the full article)

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Best Foot Forward:

Liberator of Babylon Hailed in Time-Honored Ritual

Written by Chris Floyd   

The outgoing imperial manager paid a quick visit to the scene of his greatest victory Sunday, where due to the insight, acumen and careful planning of his crack team, he was able to declare "mission accomplished" more than five years ago. So George W. Bush's visit to Baghdad this weekend was just a victory lap. To mark the epiphany of the Liberator in the ancient precincts of Mesopotamia, Bush was greeted with one of the Arab world's most hallowed rites of honor and appreciation:

...[His] appearance at a news conference here was interrupted by an Iraqi journalist who shouted in Arabic — “This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog” — and threw one of his shoes at the president, who ducked and narrowly avoided being struck...........(read the full article)

 

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REMEMBER

Malcom Lagauche

The streets at night in Baghdad were alive with people enjoying life. Street musicians and artists exhibited their talents while patrons ate delicious meals in the many restaurants.

Gasoline was readily available and cost about one or two cents to fill up a car. I’m not lying: Baghdad was once like this.

It is easy to understand that to today’s Iraqis a peaceful and beautiful Baghdad is so far removed from reality that they can’t comprehend that only five years ago Baghdad residents did not take their lives in their own hands just by opening a door to go to the street. The individuals in the photo kept Iraq free and sovereign..........(read the full article)

 

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The mega prison of Palestine
Ilan Pappe

In several articles published by The Electronic Intifada, I claimed that Israel is pursuing a genocidal policy against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, while continuing the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

I asserted that the genocidal policies are a result of a lack of strategy. The argument was that since the Israeli political and military elites do not know how to deal with the Gaza Strip, they opted for a knee-jerk reaction in the form of massive killing of citizens whenever the Palestinians in the Strip dared to protest by force their strangulation and imprisonment.............(read the full article)

 

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36 Jews who have shaped the 2008 U.S. election

By Bradley Burston and J.J. Goldberg

The John McCain-Barack Obama contest has been one in which the issues of Wall Street and fitness for the presidency have far overshadowed the subject of Israel. But the Jewish vote remains a key element in battleground states, and, playing a wide variety of roles, Jews have helped to shape the campaigns. Thirty-six of them are mentioned below. This list is by no means all-inclusive, and, for considerations of space, many Jews who have played active parts in the campaigns do not appear - among them Obama surrogate U.S. Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, and Obama advisor and ex-California congressman Mel Levine.

Also missing are a number of Jews who have played minor roles, but merit mention for the interest they have attracted - in particular, Sandra Froman, the first Jewish president of the National Rifle Association (2005-7), and a steering committee member of Sportsmen for McCain; and Linda Lingle, the first Jewish governor of Hawaii and an early defender of Sarah Palin.

It should be noted that perhaps the most significant name that appears on the list belongs to a man, Henry Lehman, who has been dead for 153 years, and has thus remained uncounted among the living.

Following is the list, in alphabetical order:.................(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  28 -   12  DECEMBER  2008

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An Israeli Negotiating with an Israeli

by Mostafa Zein - Dar Al-Hayat news

 

With Senator Joe Biden appointed as vice president of President Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel appointed as White House chief of staff, and Dennis Ross returning to take over the Palestinian file, the new US administration has laid out the features of its Middle East policy.

Biden is proud to be a Zionist, even though he is a Christian. He is also proud of being the author of the plan to partition Iraq............(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  27 -   8  DECEMBER  2008

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VIDEO: Blowing Away Palestinians with Remote Control Guns

Haitham Sabbah, December 5, 2008

Couple of weeks ago I mentioned the new style Israel is using to commit its war crimes. This video from Ha’aretz shows the Israeli terrorist females in action using latest Israeli weapons against Gazans - "The Seer Shoots:"

The Israel Defense Forces has found a way to target Gaza Strip terrorists from kilometers away, with just three pushes of a button.

It may look like a video game, but it’s actually a new system called "The Seer Shoots," which has entered operation in recent days on the Gaza Strip border.

Several of these domes were recently installed along the Israel-Gaza border. But you won’t find the shooter inside, but rather in a virtual battleground, operating a heavy machine gun from a kilometer away.

Three days ago, Israeli air strikes killed two teenage Palestinian boys, while Israel increases its criminal siege into the Gaza Strip.

 

Original link : sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2008/12/05/blowing-away-palestinians-with-remote-control-
   guns/#more-3792

 

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Bulletin  26 -   5  DECEMBER  2008

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No Bethlehem Wine for Christmas
by Stuart Littlewood, RadioFreePalestine

Christian hotels in the Holy Land as well as Catholic and Anglican churches in the UK face Christmas without Bethlehem wine as Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint at Hebron are refusing to allow lorries carrying the wine to enter Israel. The wine is made by a Roman Catholic religious order, the Salesians of Don Bosco, at the Cremisan winery in Beit Jala, a suburb of Bethlehem. The Salesians have been producing the wine for the past 125 years as a direct means of support for their pastoral and educational work among the poor of Bethlehem and to provide a livelihood for many local Palestinian families...........(read the full article)

 

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Israel prepares for demolishing whole neighborhood in Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The Islamic-Christian front for the defense of Jerusalem warned that a group of Zionist settlement enterprises especially the Israeli municipality had earmarked more than $300,000,000 for the demolition of a whole neighborhood in the Silwan town called Al-Bustan located southeastern of Jerusalem's old city. Dr. Hasan Khater, the secretary-general of the front, explained that the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem and other settlement enterprises, namely, the east Jerusalem development company, the authority of archeology, the authority of nature and the Elad foundation allocated the money to destroy all houses, buildings and Arab remains in the neighborhood in order to judaize it....(read the full article)

 

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100 Zionist settlers attack Palestinian homes in Al-Khalil

 

 

AL-KHALIL  - Tens of Zionist settlers from Kiryat Arba settlement and Al-Rajabi building, which has been occupied by settlers for 20 months now, wreaked havoc in Palestinian citizens' homes and property in Al-Khalil on Saturday.......(read the full article)
 

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Bulletin  25 -   30  NOVEMBER  2008

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Mossad implicated in the

 

Mumbai Terrorist attacks

 

Thirty-five years ago, in September 1968, when the Research and Analysis Wing was founded with Rameshwar Nath Kao at its helm, then prime minister Indira Gandhi asked him to cultivate Israel's Mossad. She believed relations between the two intelligence agencies was necessary to monitor developments that could threaten India and Israel.
The efficient spymaster he was, Kao established a clandestine relationship with Mossad. In the 1950s, New Delhi had permitted Tel Aviv to establish a consulate in Mumbai. But full-fledged diplomatic relations with Israel were discouraged because India supported the Palestinian cause; having an Israeli embassy in New Delhi, various governments believed, would rupture its relations with the Arab world.
This was where the RAW-Mossad liaison came in........(read the full article)

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Mumbai The Mossad Angle

by Amaresh Misra, top-secret-at.blogspot

GAUTAM ADHIKARI SPEAK UP… DO SOMETHING…SAY OPENLY THAT THE RSS-MOSSAD ARE RESPONSIBLE–OTHERWISE BE DAMNED AND CONSIDER THE NATION DOOMED. THEY KILLED KARKARE TO SEND A MESSAGE THAT YOU CANNOT INVESTIGATE THE MOSSAD-RSS ANGLE.

Mumbai and India Under Attack

 

Thursday, 27 November 2008

 

It is 4AM in India right now. I am in Mumbai reporting from the ground. I have not slept a wink. Mumbai is under attack.

 

People and forces who killed Mahatama Gandhi, who demolished the Babari Mosque have triumphed. More than 16 groups of terrorists have taken over Taj, Oberai and several hotels. Hundreds of people are dead.

For the first time no one is blaming Muslim organizations. The Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare and other officers of the ATS have been killed.

 

These were the same people who were investigating the Malegaon Blasts–in which Praggya Singh, an army officer and several other noted personalities of the BJP-RSS-Bajrang Dal-VHP were arrested. Karkare was the man to arrest them. Karkare was receiving threats from several quarters.

 

LK Advani, the BJP chief and several other prominent leaders of the so-called Hindu terrorism squad were gunning for his head. And the first casualty in the terrorist attack was Karkare!..............(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  24 -   25  NOVEMBER  2008

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Greta Berlin and Mary Hughes-Thompson interviewed by Joe Fallisi
 

Free Gaza Movement’s Story

(READ THE FULL INTERVIEW)

22 November 2008

Joe Fallisi : Dear Greta, dear Mary, you’re two of the founders and deeply involved organizers of Free Gaza. In my opinion, it is one of the few new world realities in the fight for human rights. It truly was and is able to make something concrete, new, positive and useful change - as well as a radical change. A change that otherwise very probably wouldn’t even happen. The initiative comes from civil society and has nothing to do with the old politics. How, where and when did it start, and what did you personally do and are continuing to do within this movement?

Greta Berlin (*) : The Free Gaza Movement was organized two years ago by five people on two continents. Paul, Mary and I were working from California, and Eliza and Bella were working in parallel in the UK. We found each other and thought sailing a boat to Gaza would be a great idea. The original idea came from Michael Shaik in Australia who thought we should sail a boat from the US to Gaza.

"Why not sail a boat to Gaza?" Why not, exactly? And that was the beginning of this long two-year process that ended up with 44 people taking two small boats to break Israel’s draconian blockade of Gaza. I have been responsible for much of the media work, especially in the last two trips.

Mary Hughes-Thompson (**) : During my years as a TV documentarian in Hollywood I researched and wrote about Israel’s creation and the many conflicts it provoked among its neighbors. Initially I supported Israel but came to realize it was not the victim it claimed to be, but was in fact the victimizer of people whose land and natural resources it coveted.

"After my retirement and the start of the "second intifada" I decided to go to Palestine in 2002 with a Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation. The horrors I witnessed then convinced me that in the name of Zionism, Israel was attempting to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from their ancestral land. For me the die was cast, and I became passionate about Palestine."

(READ THE FULL INTERVIEW)

 

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Palestine: "I was not prepared for all the horrors that I saw"

An Interview with Hedy Epstein

 by Silvia Cattori

 

Hedy Epstein, 82, was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1924(1) and lived in Kippenheim, a village located approximately 30 km north of Freiburg. She was the only child of parents who died in the Nazi extermination camps. She is a tireless worker for human rights and for the dignity of all people.

Hedy decided to visit Palestine in 2003. She returned terribly shocked with what she had seen there, women and children defenceless, Palestinians locked up into ghettos, an entire people brutalized.

She had learned to love the people that she met, and was determined to tell the world of the injustices she had seen. Palestinians were being dispossessed of their land, removed from the homes that they had lived in for centuries. Nothing that anyone has done, no protests that have been made, has made Israel stop its treatment of the Palestinians. In fact, it has become worse every time Hedy has returned.

So,she is joining other human rights advocates who are sailing to Gaza on the boat, FREE GAZA (2) to demand justice for the Palestinians, and a correction of 60 years of oppression by the Israelis......(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  23 -   20  NOVEMBER  2008

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Joe Fallisi : the "Voice" from Free Gaza

 

Italian Opera Tenor Joe Fallisi to Join Next Free Gaza Voyage

Anis Hamadeh, 13.09.2008, www.anis-online.de/1/ton/52.htm

to view more pictures of Joe and the Free Gaza click here

 

The Free Gaza story continues. On or about September 22 a boat with twenty-six internationals will start from Cyprus to reach Gaza. Among them are veterans from the historic first Free Gaza voyage of August 22-23 and some new passengers. One of them is Italian opera singer Joe Fallisi.

Joe Fallisi attended the Civica Scuola d'Arte Drammatica of Milan Piccolo Teatro and the local conservatory, obtaining a degree in vocal chamber music and studying artistic singing. He also has a degree in philosophy from Genoa University. His repertoire reaches from opera, chamber and sacred music, to musical and songs and he has been singing in many theatres, concert halls and festivals in Italy and abroad, winning several national and international music competitions.........

........"Verrò" is one of Joe Fallisi's songs for Palestine. He wrote new Italian lyrics to the traditional "Amazing Grace" and sings: "Freedom will come ... Palestine in our hearts ... Zionists, oppressors, tyrants will fall ... oh brothers Jews do live with us ... ours will be one country ... the new humanity will have justice, equality, together." The mp3 of this song is available on the page of the Free Gaza Song Contest, see links below..........(read the full article)

 

FreeGaza boat (photo by Fernando)

 

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LETTERS FROM LARNACA AND GAZA

 by Joe Fallisi

 (translation by Alexander Singer)

There'll be twenty of us, including two reporters from Al Jazeera and the Irish woman who was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1976, Mairead Maguire. It probably won't be that easy for the despots in Tel Aviv to sink us or even arrest us. The great Zeno said we have two ears but just one mouth, which means we should listen more and speak less.

I'll sign off my first letter at this point and return to the beach to listen to what the generous sea has to tell me....................(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  22 -   8  NOVEMBER  2008

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Just a few articles about the new

American President Barack Obama

1. Young Israel Movement Congratulates Obama

2. Obama’s first appointment: son of a Zionist terrorist

3. Obama picks pro-Israel hardliner for top post

4. So Obama, the booma, won.

5. Obama's Jewish roots run deep

6. Michelle Obama Has a Rabbi in Her Family

7. Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken(Michelle Obama cousin Congregation)

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Bulletin  21 -   25  October  2008

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Zionist Nationalist Myth Of Enforced Exile
Israel deliberately forgets its history

 

Shlomo Sand *Translated by Donald Hounam

da Le Monde Diplomatique

FROM : http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18721

 

22 October 2008

An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East......(read the full article)
 

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Bulletin  20 -   5 October 2008

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Access Denied:

Israeli measures to deny Palestinians access to land around settlements

September 2008, comprehensive report

www.btselem.org

 

 

For years, Israeli authorities have both barred Palestinian access to rings of land surrounding settlements, and have not acted to eliminate settlers’ piratical closing of lands adjacent to settlements and blocking of Palestinian access to them. Blocking access is one of the many ways used to expand settlements..........(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  19 -   31 August 2008

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Bethlehem

By Michael Finkel

The little town where Jesus was born is now one of the most contentious places on Earth.

This is not how Mary and Joseph came into Bethlehem, but this is how you enter now. You wait at the wall. It's a daunting concrete barricade, three stories high, thorned with razor wire. Standing beside it, you feel as if you're at the base of a dam. Israeli soldiers armed with assault rifles examine your papers. They search your vehicle. No Israeli civilian, by military order, is allowed in. And few Bethlehem residents are permitted out—the reason the wall exists here, according to the Israeli government, is to keep terrorists away from Jerusalem.

Bethlehem and Jerusalem are only six miles apart (ten kilometers), though in the compressed and fractious geography of the region, this places them in different realms. It can take a month for a postcard to go from one city to the other. Bethlehem is in the West Bank, on land taken by Israel during the Six Day War of 1967. It's a Palestinian city; the majority of its 35,000 residents are Muslim. In 1900, more than 90 percent of the city was Christian. Today Bethlehem is only about one-third Christian, and this proportion is steadily shrinking as Christians leave for Europe or the Americas. At least a dozen suicide bombers have come from the city and surrounding district. The truth is that Bethlehem, the "little town" venerated during Christmas, is one of the most contentious places on Earth..........(read the full article)

Photograph by www.HolyLandFree.org

 

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Bulletin  18 -   9 July 2008

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Beating the Drums of a Broader Middle East War

Israel, Syria, and Lebanon Prepare the "Home Fronts"

 www.globalresearch.ca

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

 

 

The Levant could be the starting point of a major international conflict with global ramifications and which could quickly spin out of control. Such a conflict could even involve the use of Israeli or American nuclear weapons against Iran and Syria. Syria has additionally declared that it is preparing for an inevitable war with Israel despite the fact that it believes that the chances of a war in 2008 are slim.

In the scenario of a war against Iran, the reaction of Syria will be pivotal. Damascus plays a central role and how it acts and reacts will have a definitive impact on Israeli military strategy in regards to Iran. It is in this context that Israel, the U.S. and the E.U., with the help of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, have been attempting to undermine and ultimately destroy the alliance between Syria and Iran. This is part of a geo-strategic stride to foreclose the possibility of a Mediterranean battle-front that might emerge in the Levant as a result of an attack on Iran.............(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  17 -   3 July 2008

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Two Israelis killed in bulldozer attack

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- A Palestinian riding a bulldozer ran over a number of cars and caused a bus to overturn in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday killing at least two Israelis and wounding 30 others in a preliminary report.

The Hebrew radio said that security men fired at and killed the driver.

The bulldozer driver hit an Egged bus, which turned over, attacking other vehicles along the way, the broadcast added.

"Police say the attack appears to have been politically motivated. A state of emergency was declared in Jerusalem," it said. www.palestine-info.co.uk

 

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Report: Israel killed 29 Palestinians in June including four children

GAZA, (PIC)-- Quds Press reported that the IOF troops killed last June 29 Palestinians including four children which means that the total number of the victims murdered during the first six months of 2008 rose to 449 Palestinians, mostly killed in the Gaza Strip.

According to the report, Israel during June killed 24 Palestinians in Gaza alone due to its military escalations while five were murdered in the West Bank. The report also pointed out that the IOF troops have killed since the beginning of this year a total of 66 children.

Most of the victims were killed before the calm took effect on 19 June and after that date the IOF killed four others in the West Bank taking advantage that the truce had not yet been activated in the West Bank.

In a new development, a 20-year-old Palestinian young man called Mazen Arrar was proclaimed dead due to the closures and the Israeli siege. His death raised the number of the siege victims to 200 patients.

The popular committee against the siege explained that the young man suffered a heart disease and waited for the Egyptian authorities to admit him into a hospital after the health ministry in Gaza afforded his medical expenses and coordinated with an Egyptian hospital to receive him, but the closure of the Rafah border crossing deprived him of the last hope to survive. 

In another context, Israeli press sources reported that Israeli war minister Ehud Barak decided to reopen the Gaza crossings on Wednesday in order to transport limited quantities of cement into the Strip in addition to other commodities, noting that the crossings intended to be opened are Sufa, Karni and Nahal Oz.

www.palestine-info.co.uk

 

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PETITION TO PROTEST ISRAELI ASSAULT

ON JOURNALIST MOHAMMED OMER

Washington Report, via Desertpeace

CONTACTS : communications@wrmea.com

Washington Report Correspondent Mohammed Omer Hospitalized Following Detention by Israeli Soldiers at Allenby Bridge Crossing

Please click on the button at right or visit the Washington Report website, www.wrmea.com, to sign a petition condemning Israel’s attacks on journalists, both Palestinian and international.......

...........(READ THE FULL ARTICLE and SIGN the PETITION)

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Bulletin  16 -   2 July 2008

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A Mideast nuclear war?

MARTIN WALKER

 

Anthony Cordesman may be the most influential man in Washington that most people have never heard of. A former director of intelligence assessment for the secretary of defense and director of policy and planning in the Department of Energy, he is now the top strategic guru at the Center for Strategic & International Studies...(...)...This would mean, Cordesman suggests, some 16 million to 28 million Iranians dead within 21 days, and between 200,000 and 800,000 Israelis dead within the same time frame. The total of deaths beyond 21 days could rise very much higher, depending on civil defense and public health facilities, where Israel has a major advantage..........(read the full article)

 

Bulletin  15 -   23 June 2008

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Msgr. Twal makes his Solemn Entry into the Holy Sepulcher as the new Patriarch of Jerusalem

 

"The Israeli military occupation brings about many difficulties to pastoral activity"

1. Mons. Fouad Twal : Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea :"Peace will be possible only with a strong Palestinian state"

2. “I want to sow the joy of living”

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Palestinian lawmaker says: “Israel is punishing us for refusing to die”

 

A Palestinian lawmaker recently released from Israeli captivity has accused Israel of “adopting Nazi tactics” and applying them to Palestinian prisoners.

Bassem al, Za’arir, 45, who lives  in the town of Sammou,  south west of Hebron,   won a seat in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections  in the January, 2006....(...)...The Palestinian MP castigated the “death ride” torture technique whereby prisoners are made to travel hundreds of kilometers throughout Israel while confined in an oven-like metal chamber fixed on a car.

“Imagine languishing in such a filthy chamber in high temperature and with very little oxygen for up to 24 hours. It is a real ordeal.”

Israel currently holds as many as 12000 Palestinian political and resistance prisoners, many of whom without charge or trial.....(read the full article)

 

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Hamas’s wise step

By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank

The Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is, ostensibly at least, a wise, dignified and expedient step for several reasons........(read the ful article)

 

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IOF troops breach truce in Gaza,

shoot at Palestinian fishermen

 

GAZA, (PIC)-- At least three Israeli violations of the fresh truce that was sponsored by Egypt in the Gaza Strip were recoded few hours after that truce started on Thursday as IOF troops opened their machinegun fire at Palestinian fishermen, and farmers. Local Palestinian sources said that Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian fishermen trying to earn a living, no casualties were recorded.......(read the full article)

Bulletin  13 -   11 June 2008

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VOTE  NO  TO  LISBON :

Thank you Ireland !!!

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Zionist Rabbi :

 Death For ALL Who Dislike Jews

Genocide Announced

7-June-2008

"All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts." This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank. In an article published by numerous religious Israeli newspapers two weeks ago and run by the liberal Haaretz on 26 March, Rosen asserted that there is evidence in the Torah to justify this stand. Rosen, an authority able to issue religious opinions for Jews, wrote that Palestinians are like the nation of Amalekites that attacked the Israelite tribes on their way to Jerusalem after they had fled from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. He wrote that the Lord sent down in the Torah a ruling that allowed the Jews to kill the Amalekites, and that this ruling is known in Jewish jurisprudence.

 

Rosen's article, which created a lot of noise in Israel, included the text of the ruling in the Torah: "Annihilate the Amalekites from the beginning to the end. Kill them and wrest them from their possessions. Show them no mercy. Kill continuously, one after the other. Leave no child, plant, or tree. Kill their beasts, from camels to donkeys."

 

 

http://weekly.ahram.org

http://www.rense.com/general82/geno.htm

 

 

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IOF shell blows off the head of Palestinian boy, another child killed in WB

20/05/2008

GAZA, (PIC)-- An Israeli occupation forces' shelling of a group of citizens north of the Gaza Strip at an early hour on Tuesday blew off the head of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy.

PIC reporter quoted medical sources as saying that the body of the child Majd Abu Okel was badly mutilated in the blast.

The sources pointed out that a number of other wounded citizens were rushed to hospital.

IOF troops at a late hour Monday fired and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian child at the Hawara roadblock south of Nablus city in the West Bank.

The soldiers blocked Palestinian paramedics from rescuing the child who was left to bleed from three fatal bullet wounds for half an hour until he died, witnesses reported.

They said that the soldiers asked the youth to expose his stomach and when he did they shot him dead.

The soldiers closed the Hawara and Beit Furik road barriers immediately after the incident and stormed the Beit Furik and Beit Dajan villages amidst firing of sonic and flare bombs.

The IOF command claimed that the child was carrying pipe bombs strapped to his stomach.

 

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Bulletin  12 -   29 May 2008

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UN facing increased delays at Israeli checkpoints

60 years after United Nations created Israel, UN workers still get hard time from Tel Aviv.

JERUSALEM - Increased Israeli restrictions on the checkpoints around East Jerusalem have caused more delays and more lost man hours for UN staff in March 2008 than in all of 2007, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.
In the Humanitarian Monitor for March, released on 24 April, OCHA said "operations were significantly affected" and almost daily UN vehicles were delayed and even turned back by Israeli soldiers at checkpoints south of Jerusalem.
Israeli soldiers have increasingly insisted on searching UN vehicles at the checkpoints as a condition for being allowed through, despite the fact that Israel signed the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the UN which normally prohibits such searches.
"Movement of UN staff between the West Bank and East Jerusalem has been increasingly restricted over the years, starting with the erection of checkpoints, the requirement that national staff carry permits, and the building of the Wall," Allegra Pacheco, the acting-head of UN OCHA in occupied Palestinian territory, told IRIN.
"Beyond challenging its own commitments under the convention, it is also challenging the neutrality of the UN by demanding a search," Pacheco said, adding that on 29 April she herself was delayed for over one hour after soldiers demanded a search of her UN vehicle.
Most of the delays take place as staff try to enter East Jerusalem, where nearly all UN agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have their headquarters or secondary offices.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and subsequently annexed it under Basic Law passed by the Knesset when Begin was premier, in violation of international law. The goal was to create one unified capital, no longer divided (as the city was from 1948 to 1967). Palestinians see East Jerusalem as their future capital, and the UN recognises it as part of occupied Palestinian territory.
"It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain large-scale, long-term humanitarian operations given the closures," Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, told IRIN, adding that "aid is becoming more expensive and work is becoming less effective."
In the Nablus and Hebron districts, as well, UN agencies and NGOs said they have suffered from delays and other problems at the checkpoints.
Gaza blockade affecting UN staff
The crossing points to the Gaza Strip remained problematic. National UN staff members in Gaza are generally unable to leave the enclave, even on official UN duty.
"Getting our [Palestinian] staff out of Gaza is next to impossible," a UN medical aid worker told IRIN.
Also, when permits are issued for these workers they tend to be valid for short periods of time or may be granted only as single entry passes.
International UN staff members have also been having a more difficult time obtaining documentation from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, resulting in their inability to access the Gaza Strip and carry out their duties.
"Everyone who deserves a card gets one, and we would be happy to look into any specific cases of people who did not get one," Aryeh Mekel, spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told IRIN.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/palestine/?id=25709
 

Israeli Arabs left out of economic boom   Report reveals economic regression among Israeli Arabs despite Israel’s economic growth in past four years.     JERUSALEM - The economic situation of Israel's Arab population has deteriorated since 2003 despite the Jewish state's economic boom in the past four years, an Israeli rights group said on Monday. Israel's sustained economic growth between 2003 and 2007 "did not benefit all of the Israeli population in the same way, even among Jews. But among the Arab population, we found an economic regression," said Shlomo Svirski, director of Adva, a non-partisan centre for equality and social justice. "The government and the business community have neglected the Arab population. We are looking for government to invest in developing the economic infrastructures of the Arab areas," Svirski said. The report published on Monday pointed to the 10.9 percent unemployment rate among Israeli Arabs in 2007, compared with a rate of 7.3 percent for the overall population, down from 10.7 percent in 2003. Poverty among Arab families in Israel rose 29 percent between 2001 and 2007. In comparison, among ultra-Orthodox Jewish families, also considered a disadvantaged group, poverty rose by nine percent in the same six-year period. By 2007 more than half of Israeli Arab families were living below the poverty line, the report by the Tel Aviv-based group said. According to statistics from the National Insurance Institute of Israel, the poverty line in 2007 for a family of four stood at 5,191 shekels (about 1,266 dollars) a month. While the economic situation for Israeli Arabs deteriorated, the Jewish state was undergoing its longest period of uninterrupted economic expansion, from 2003 to 2007. The report noted that Israel's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a five percent annual rate on average since the second quarter of 2003. The Arab population of Israel, mostly descendants of the 160,000 Palestinians who did not flee after the founding of the Israeli state in 1948, number around 1.2 million people out of a total population of 7.1 million.   http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/palestine/?id=25729

Pictures by Mohammed, Rafah

 

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Peres: return of Palestinian refugees is "demographic suicide"

Occupied Jerusalem, (PIC)--The Israeli army radio reported on Thursday that the Israeli President, Shimon Peres, said that the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes in the 1948 occupied areas will constitute "demographic suicide for Israel".

Peres objected to the return of refugees during a meeting with Ambassadors of the EU saying that their return will mean that Israel will no longer be a Jewish state.

He added that the Jewish majority is the guarantee for the existence of Israel and that allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes will mean an end to the "Israeli identity".

He declared his utter rejection of the return of even one Palestinian refugee to his home in 1948 occupied Palestine.

Peres suggested that if refugees were to be allowed to return they should only be allowed to return to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Alternatively, the international community should compensate them and settle them in Arab countries, he opined.

 

www.palestine-info.co.uk

 

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YOUTUBE VIDEO ON VIOLENCES AND AGGRESSIONS BY SETTLERS AND ZIONIST ARMY AGAINST PALESTINIAN PEOPLE     Hebron settlers assault internationals and Israeli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ZVYO0R4p8&feature=related     Israeli settlers block Palestinian path http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYu9eSOhf7M&feature=related   Jewish Settler Aggression at the Jabari Family farm Hebron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6va41PCY_U&feature=related   Settlers throw stones at woman and baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EUUrE8Lm14&feature=related   See what its like to live with Settlers as your Neighbors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0X1gycCGQ&NR=1   The video israel does not want you to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZj889BA4A&feature=related   Palestinian Children Beaten by Israeli Soldier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bdbA2Ka3Bo&feature=related   Israeli settlers fire on Palestinian shepherds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djBPRcpBOv0&feature=related   Illegal israeli settlers prevent olive harvest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZ48XzqJVo&feature=related   Hebron settlers and the olive harvest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMA3baJa6tg&feature=related   If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjYHP91gA&feature=related     THE WALL IN BETHLEHEM

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Finkelstein and me

By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk

Seeking to punish critics for communicating the truth about Israel to the world, Israel has barred an American scholar from entering the country and a Palestinian journalist from leaving the occupied territories for a brief trip to Germany. 
Israel’s chief domestic intelligence agency, or Shin Beth, as it is known by its Hebrew acronym, has detained and deported Professor Norman Finkelstein, a prominent American Jewish historian and intellectual. 
Finkelstein is a well-known critic of the apartheid Israeli state, especially its 41-year-old Nazi-like occupation of East Jerusalem, West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. 
He is also the author of a famous book titled “the Holocaust Industry,” in which he accused Israel and allied Zionist circles of using the memory of holocaust victims for political ends. 
Finkelstein arrived at the Ben Gurion Airport Friday, 23 May, for a visit to friends in the city of Hebron, where nearly 200,000 Palestinian citizens are effectively held hostage to the whims and moods of a few hundred fanatical Jewish settlers who believe that non-Jews in Israel/Palestine ought to be treated as water carriers and wood hewers, or expelled and/or exterminated.................(read the full article)

 

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Bulletin  11 -   20 May 2008

 

We are just back from our last  trip-pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Palestine. The Wall around Bethlehem Thanks the generous help of many of you, we are supporting the Caritas Baby Hospital in Bethlehem, where many kids... ...are in need of everything, and also the handcraft-work has to be supported. Life against death: the Palestinian people, the "living stones" of the Holy Land, will never die, in spite of 60 years of Zionist colonialism is trying to suffocate them physically and in the memory. All pictures  by www.HolyLandFree.org / May 2008

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Bulletin  10 -   1 May 2008

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“We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!” Mazel Tov from the Jewish Squatters in the West Bank 30/4/2008 A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron today. Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured by the settler-supporting extremists, who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents. Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The Israeli army, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene to stop the attacks. Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 Jewish extremists in small groups. They started chanting in Hebrew “We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!” — a refrain the settlers had been repeating to internationals in Tel Rumeida all day.  Watch the YouTube Video : http://www.youtube.com/v/7c-1nnTrrb0&hl=en After about thirty seconds of waiting, a small group of very aggressive male Jewish extremists surrounded the international volunteers and began spitting at them, so much so that the internationals described it as “like rain.” Then men from the back of the crowd began jumping up and spitting, while others from the back and side of the crowd kicked the volunteers. The soldiers, who were standing at the checkpoint just a few feet behind the HRWs, looked on as they were being attacked. One settler then hit Tove on the left side of her face with an empty bottle, breaking it on her face and leaving her with a broken cheekbone. She immediately fell to the ground and the group of Jewish extremists who were watching began to clap, cheer, and chant. The soldiers, who had only watched until this point, then came forward and motioned at the settlers, in a manner which the internationals described as “ok… that’s enough guys.” The extremists, however, were allowed to stay in the area and continued watching and clapping as the HRWs tried to stop the flow of blood from the young woman’s face. Some, who were coming down the hill even tried to take photos of themselves next to her bleeding face, giving the camera a “thumbs-up” sign. At this point, a HRW was taken into a police van and asked to identify who had attacked the group. The HRW did this, pointing out three Jewish extremists who the police took into their police vehicles. However, the extremists were all driven to different areas of the neighborhood and released nearly immediately. When one of the three was released on Shuhada Street, the crowd that was still celebrating the woman’s injuries applauded and cheered. A settler medic came to the scene about 15 minutes after the attack and immediately began interrogating the internationals who had been attacked about why they were in Hebron. He refused to help the bleeding woman lying on the street in any way. Five minutes after the settler medic arrived, the army medic arrived and began treating the injured woman. When she was later put on a stretcher, the crowd again clapped and cheered. Police officers at the scene then began threatening to arrest the remaining HRWs if they did not immediately leave the area, even though they had just been attacked. The injured woman was taken to Kiryat Arba settlement and then to Hadassah Ein Keren hospital in Jerusalem. HRWs were later told by the police that they had not even taken the names of those who were identified as having attacked the HRWs and that one of the main assailants had simply told the police that he was due at the airport in two hours to fly back to France. The incident was the latest attack by extremist Jews in Hebron. The small group of Khannist settlers in Tel Rumeida regularly attack and harass Palestinians in the area. The violence sometimes spills over to the international human rights workers who accompany Palestinians in an attempt to protect them from settler attack. The settlers in Tel Rumeida encourage Jewish tourists to come to support them, as a way of making up for their small numbers. Today, hundreds had come from tours in Israel for a special event — many from overseas: France, England and the United States. http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6588

 

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Bulletin  9 -   30 April 2008

 

1. Is Big Brother hacking into the internet?

2. Beit Hanoun massacre: the World must Step in

3. Israel Could Make Orphans Homeless Again

4. Have the Israelis No Shame?

5. Psychopaths always blame their victims

 

Bulletin  8 -   April 2008

 

1. Israeli Military Unveils Armed Patrol Robot

2. Sunni parliamentarian: "Sadr City attacks are killing mostly unarmed civilians"

3. Life in the sealed Gaza

4. Israeli Supreme Court, without jurisdiction, rules that Israeli army can destroy village homes

 

Bulletin  7 -   April 2008

 

1. Bahar: Israel committed a massacre against 400 factories in Gaza

2. IOF shelling knock out Beit Hanun electricity transformer

3. IOF troops kidnap wife of detained Jihad leader, 30 others in one village

4. Gaza streets to be flooded with wastewater if fuel crisis continues

5. IOF troops kill 7 Palestinians including a mother and her childreN

6. Qassam Brigades holds Israel responsible for failure of calm efforts

7. Islamic Jihad: IOF massacre aims to push Palestinians into accepting dictates

8. Hamas: Victory in W. Bank student elections strong signs of our firm popularity

9. Hamas deplores US congress decision to consider Palestine homeland for Jews

10. Arab League: Fuel crisis deprived a million Palestinian from relief aid

 

Bulletin  6 -   March 2008

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Israeli indictment list against Sheikh Salah for revealing Aqsa excavations OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- An Israeli court in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday tabled an indictment list against Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 lands, charging him with incitement. The charge said that Sheikh Salah incited against the Hebrew state in the speech that he delivered early last year in occupied Jerusalem, which coincided with the start of Israeli excavations at the Maghareba gate in the holy Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Salah's ardent defense of the holy site in face of incessant Israeli attempts to control it was the main reason for the Israeli step, observers believed. In another development in occupied Jerusalem, lawyer Hosni Abu Hussein told PIC correspondent in the holy city that a fanatic Jewish society planning to build 200 settlement units in Sheikh Jarah suburb did not own the lands on which it was planning to build those units. He said that any such project must be tabled with the Israeli-controlled municipality proving that they owned the land before embarking on the construction process. For his part, former Palestinian MP for Jerusalem Hatem Abdul Qader said that negotiations with the "Zionist enemy" should come to a halt in the light of its continued settlement activity in occupied Jerusalem. He said that the new housing project targets isolating Palestinian suburbs in eastern Jerusalem from each other. http://www.palestine-info.co.uk

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IOA blocks hundreds of international trucks from entering Gaza OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The office of the UN coordinator in occupied Jerusalem has revealed that the Israeli occupation authority was still retaining all crossings from 1948 lands to Gaza Strip closed. The office said in a statement that hundreds of trucks loaded with international assistance to the Gaza inhabitants were stranded at the borders with Gaza since last Wednesday. For its part, UNRWA said that 200 trucks are currently loaded with supplies and could not enter, and added that 40 other trucks loaded with foodstuffs supplied by the world food program were also stuck at those crossings. It said that contacts were underway with the IOA to allow entry of those food supplies into Gaza. The UN office said that the IOA allowed entry of 800,000 liters of fuel to Gaza generation station on Sunday and Monday, but underlined that the Strip was still suffering from repeated blackouts especially in Gaza city. In another development, IOF forces kidnapped three Palestinians in Ramallah city at dawn Tuesday including the representative of the Qatari Red Crescent, Sheikh Nimir Hasarma, 40. Eyewitnesses said that the two others were university students, and added that the soldiers thoroughly searched the house of Sheikh Hasarma before detaining him. Hasarma was arrested by PA security apparatuses loyal to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas for a few days last year at the pretext of being one of Hamas leaders in the West Bank but was released after senior Qatari intervention. http://www.palestine-info.co.uk

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Bulletin  5 -  February 2008

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Eight Israeli student-soldiers killed in revenge attack for Gaza massacres

 

From Khalid Amayreh in Occupied E. Jerusalem

 

In an apparent retaliation for the recent  Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip, (or the assassination in Damascus by Israeli agents last month of Imad Mughniya, a leading Hizbullah figure)  unidentified  guerillas on Thursday attacked the headquarters of the  religious messianic Zionist movement  in West Jerusalem, killing and injuring a number of settlers and soldiers.

According to Israeli media reports, at least seven settler-soldiers were killed and several others wounded.

At least one Palestinian guerilla was killed.......(read the full article)

 

Zionist rabbis says Torah permits killing Palestinian civilians

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--The association of rabbis for the people and land of Israel headed by extremist rabbi Dov Lior issued on Wednesday a religious ruling legitimizing the shelling of Palestinian civilian gatherings by IOF troops at the pretext of responding to the rocket attacks carried out by the Palestinians...........(read the full article)

 

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Israel’s Chief Rabbi calls for ethnic cleansing of non-Jews in Palestine

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 120 Palestinians, 40 kids, murdered by Israely Army in few days in Gaza Strip

 

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Jewish extremists assault Palestinian graveyard

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Palestinian security: IOF used vacuum bomb in Breij massacre

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Khatib: Israel's settlement activity in Jerusalem a blow to the PA negotiator

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Bulletin  4 -  24 January 2008

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The Gaza Quagmire

January 23, 2008
by Joharah Baker for MIFTAH

Apparently, the Gazans have had enough. This morning, after two days of demonstrating at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, armed Palestinians dynamited several holes in the barrier and scores of angry and beleaguered Gazan citizens surged into Egyptian territory to stock up on basic supplies.

Citizens brought back food, fuel, clothes and even cigarettes after months of a brutal Israeli-imposed siege and two days of total darkness. On January 17, Israel refused to allow fuel into the Strip, forcing Gaza’s main power plant to shut down. The majority of Gaza’s 1.5 million residents were plunged into darkness during two of the coldest days of the year..........(read the full article)

(to see the pictures of the event in the original large size click here)

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Bulletin  3 -  22 January 2008

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GAZA MASSACRE

The real face of the zionism,

the Palestinian holocaust

WARNING:

 VERY HORRIFY PICTURES, NOT TO BE VIEWED FROM SENSITIVE PEOPLE, KIDS AND PREGNANT WOMEN

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Bulletin  2 -  8 January 2008

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Highway 443: Israel's forbidden road

Donald Macintyre, Independent

It runs straight through the heart of the occupied West Bank, but Palestinians are not permitted even to set foot on the asphalt their ancestors laid. Donald Macintyre reports from Beit Sira

Published: 02 January 2008

It's just after dusk on Route 443, where the heavy northbound traffic from Jerusalem decelerates as it approaches the Maccabim checkpoint. The Israeli commuters, impatient to get home to Tel Aviv or the dormitory town of Modiin, have no idea that in the darkness to the left of the four-lane highway, everyday scenes are unfolding that tell their own story about this land and the conflict that has scarred it for 40 years.

We are in a side road, the one that drivers used to take if they were heading for Beit Sira and the other West Bank villages beyond it, until the Israeli military closed the entrance to cars with two rows of solid concrete blocks. Beyond them, you can just make.........(read the full article)

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Mosque near Bethlehem burned down

by Israeli settlers

Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

Wednesday January 02, 2008

A group of Israeli settlers torched an historic mosque in the town of Al-Khader, near Bethlehem, on Tuesday. The settlers used 20 beehives as fuel for the fire, after stealing the beehives from a Palestinian farm located near the mosque..........(read the full article)

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Press Release: Continuing Israeli Massacre in Gaza

One Democratic State Group

Press Release
3 January 2008

The latest round of Israeli massacres committed against the people of Gaza has resulted in the brutal killings of the Fayyad family in the town of Bani Suhaila, south of Khan Younus as they slept in their own house, and the injury of more than 30 civilians. Karima Fayyad, her sons, Ahmad and Sami, and her daughter Asma were killed when Israeli artillery fired missiles at the family's home This brings today's toll alone to 8 Palestinian martyrs, in addition to the 7 civilians killed yesterday. Since the end of the Annapolis International meeting, the Israeli Occupation Forces have killed more than 110 Palestinians, most of whom are civilians and children..........(read the full article)

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Bulletin  1 -   January 2008 (the first one for the year 2008)

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When you can't choose your neighbors

Fadi Abu Sada

December 31, 2007

Not long ago, and not much more than a 100 meters from the house in which I grew up and where I still live, lay the greenest hill around Bethlehem. Jebel Abu Gheneim is no longer green. Instead the view--and so much more--has been spoiled by Bethlehem-area settlement number 19, better known as Har Homa.

Har Homa was originally designed to house 60,000 settlers, a figure that does not include the 750 new "housing units" Israel is now planning to add to it. The number 19 signifies the number of settlements encircling Bethlehem................(Read the full article)