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Tuesday March 04,
2008
Links to important articles on Israel's
genocide in Gaza
Thanks to Carolle
for these informative links about Gaza - and also about US presidential
candidate Barack Obama
(see foot of page):
Video:
Israel vows
to continue Gaza attacks - 02 Mar 08
Video: Anger
explodes in West Bank over Israeli raids - 02 Mar 08
Palestinian
Health System in Gaza on brink of collapse; patients and injured denied
access to medical care.
Israel
keeping true to its racist words
Dehumanizing the Palestinians has been necessary for Israel to justify
its actions ever since, and even before, the state was declared on
destroyed historic Palestine in 1948 and then in 1967 when Israel
occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Taken together, they indicate the
historic effort to destroy Palestinian national aspirations and this is
what Israel is trying to do in Gaza, which Nobel prize winner and late
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin once wished would be swallowed by
the sea. EI correspondent Rami Almeghari comments from Gaza.
Gaza deaths
surpass 100; hundreds injured
During the last 24 hours, another 39 Palestinians were killed
throughout the Gaza Strip. Twenty-two of them were unarmed civilians,
including nine children. Six of the victims were from one family,
including three women and three men who were killed in an air strike in
Gaza City. The death toll since 27 February currently stands at 101
victims, including 49 unarmed civilians.
100
Palestinians are killed in Gaza
As clashes erupted in the West Bank where a 13 year-old boy was
kkilled, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert brushed aside a growing
world outcry and told his cabinet yesterday: "Let it be clear that
Israel has no intention to stop the fighting for a single moment."
Army
kills Palestinian teenager at protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza
A Palestinian teenager was killed on Monday and several others injured
when Israeli army troops attacked a protest organized by school
students in the village of Al Mazra'ah Al Sarqyiah, located near the
central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israeli attacks
on Gaza Kill another 10 Palestinian
Palestinian sources said a 21-month-old baby girl was also among
Sunday's dead.
Hebron teen
killed, 4 Israelis hurt as violence spreads to W. Bank
A 14-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israel Defense Forces in
Hebron as the violence spilled over into the West Bank on Sunday.
Palestinian
teen killed by Israeli settler in West Bank
A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by an Israeli settler in the
occupied West Bank on Monday, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.
Mohammed Saleh Shreiteh, 15, was shot in the head when an Israeli
settler opened fire on a group of youths throwing stones at cars
outside the settlement of Talmon near West Bank's political capital of
Ramallah, army radio reported quoting witnesses.
Israeli
warplanes hit Haneya's office in Gaza
Israeli aircrafts struck the office of deposed Palestinian Prime
Minister Ismail Haneya in western Gaza City before dawn on Sunday,
residents in the city said. Israeli aircrafts hovered over the western
area of Gaza City and fired two air-to-ground missiles at Haneya's
office, the witnesses said.
Bethlehem:
five injured and three kidnapped as Israeli army attack protest
Five Palestinian school boys were injured and three others kidnapped on
Monday as the Israeli troops attacked a protest organized in the
southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, to protest the Israeli attacks on
Gaza.
Israeli
army kidnaps 14 Palestinians in pre dawn invasion
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army kidnapped at least
14 Palestinians during a pre dawn invasion targeting several cities and
towns in the West Bank on Monday.
Israel
hits new Gaza targets after U.S. urges halt
Israeli aircraft struck new targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday,
killing two militants, after the government vowed to press home an
offensive despite appeals from Washington and elsewhere for an end to
violence. More than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians,
have been killed since Israel launched the offensive when an Israeli
civilian was killed by a rocket fired from Gaza on Wednesday.
Palestinian
detainee dies in Israeli prison
The Nafha Society for Defending Detainees Rights and Human Rights
reported that detainee Fadil Shaheen, 47, died of medical negligence at
the Al Ramla Israeli Prison Hospital which lacks the basic equipment
and tools.
Gazans
search for loved ones amid din of fighting
The explosions still reverberated through the narrow streets of
Jabaliya when Manal Obeid ventured out to search for her nine-year-old
son Osama amid an Israeli blitz. "I came here to search for my son... I
heard from a neighbour that he might have been killed or wounded," the
29-year-old said as she stood next to the blackened crater left by an
Israeli missile strike.
Adel
Samara - A Global Massacre Against Gaza
Note: I certainly need help in answering the following two questions:
What is going on in the mind of a Palestinian infant in the last
moments of his or her life when a US/Israeli rocket strikes him/her?
What do Israeli military leaders tell their pilot when he shows them
the picture of that infant?
Sisters'
horrible deaths push Gaza family into media circus
A day after the Asliyeh sisters, Samah, 13, and Salwa, 18, were killed
in an Israel Air Force bombing, their grandfather, Mohammed, was
hospitalized Sunday. His blood pressure rose and his sons were afraid
he would collapse.
The Gaza
genocide
We celebrated Yousuf's fourth birthday today. We ate cake. And we
counted the bodies. We sang happy birthday. And my mother sobbed. We
watched the fighter jets roar voraciously on our television screen,
pounding street after street, then heard a train screech outside, and
shuddered. Yousuf tore open his presents, and asked my mother to make a
paper zanana, a drone, for him with origami; we were torn open from the
inside, engulfed by a feeling of impotence and helplessness, fear and
anger and grief, despondence and confusion. Laila El-Haddad writes on
the "long-term" Gaza genocide.
A
single rifle bullet, another victim - but no hope of a doctor
First came an explosion in the street outside. Then the sound of a
single rifle bullet slicing through the sky in a sharp crack and into
the apartment directly above the home of Raed Abu Saif, the same
apartment into which his young daughter Safa had just gone. It was
Saturday afternoon, about 4pm. Abu Saif hurried upstairs and found,
lying on the floor of the front room, Safa, aged 12. There was a hole
in her chest where the bullet had entered and a hole in her back where
it had exited. It took her three hours to die.
Punishing
the people
Four months have passed since the peace meeting in Annapolis, and the
smouldering fire of the Israel-Palestine conflict has once again
combusted. Up to 70 Palestinians have died in two days of fighting,
after Israel launched an offensive - involving ground troops, air
strikes and shelling - to stop the firing of Qassam rockets. Half the
casualties of Israel's onslaught are civilian, including women,
children and a 21-month-old baby.
Palestinian
President Suspends Peace Talks
Tariq Dardona, 47, a resident of Gaza, said by telephone Saturday
afternoon that he was trapped in his house along with 21 family members
and the body of his brother. Dardona said his brother had been shot by
Israeli forces when he refused to open the door of the home and bled
for four hours before dying.
Israeli
communist party calls for ending massacres against the Palestinians
Author Mohammad Naffa', secretary-general of the Israeli Communist
Party stated on Sunday that what the Israeli army is doing against the
Palestinians is considered a war of extermination against and that the
Israeli claims that this offensive is to stop the firing of homemade
shells at Sderot are false are forgery of truth.
World
urges end to Gaza violence
The White House on Sunday led calls for an end to violence in Gaza
where a massive Israeli assault has killed scores of Palestinians,
provoking international outrage and accusations of war crimes. Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed to continue the ground and air
operation aimed at halting rocket fire that has killed 71 Palestinians
since Saturday, raising fears about the future of Mideast peace talks.
Turkey
condemns Israeli attacks in Gaza
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's prime minister has accused Israel of using
"disproportionate force" in its attacks in the Gaza Strip that have
killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days. Recep Tayyip Erdogan says
the attacks are killing "children and civilians" and that the attacks
can have "no humanitarian justification."
East
Jerusalem residents protest Gaza operation
Palestinian residents of capital take to streets to demonstrate against
IDF actions in Strip; business owners launch solidarity strike.
Thousands
of Jordanians hold anti-Israel march
Crying for revenge with suicide attacks, thousands of Jordanians
marched in the capital of the pro-U.S. kingdom on Sunday to protest
against Israel's Gaza offensive that had killed more than 100
Palestinians. About 10,000 protesters, mainly from Jordan's mainstream
Muslim Brotherhood and smaller opposition groups, took to the streets
in one of the country's most vocal and largest anti-Israeli
demonstrations in recent years.
Lebanon
children protest Israel Gaza assault
Several hundred school children took part in a Hezbollah-organized
demonstration outside UN headquarters in the Lebanese capital on Monday
to protest against Israel's deadly offensive in Gaza. Twenty schools
participated in the rally, organizers said. The children presented a
letter to a UN representative calling on the world body to take action.
Thousands
rally across Mideast to protest IDF attacks on Gaza
Tens of thousands of Syrians filled the central square of Damascus
Monday to protest ongoing Israel Defense Forces operations in the Gaza
Strip that have killed more than 100 Palestinians, while elsewhere in
the region thousands others also demonstrated.
Hebrew
University: Dozens protest IDF operation in Gaza
Arab students rally in Jerusalem with Palestinian flags, hurl stones at
car; some 100 Hadash activists demonstrate at Haifa University.
Earlier, three east Jerusalem residents arrested while rioting. Emek
Yezreel College lecturer allows moment of silence for Palestinians.
EU
presidency condemns attacks on Gaza
EU president Slovenia today condemned Israel's attacks on Palestinians
in the Gaza Strip as disproportionate and violating international law,
as a top EU foreign policy official left for the West Asia.
Olmert:
Don't preach morals to Israel
"No one has the right to preach morals to Israel"
Israeli
Protests: End Gaza war crimes
Hundreds of Israeli "leftist" activists join calls made by Arab states,
EU; Tel Aviv protestor says 'child-killing government has no moral
right to exist.
Gaza raids met
by loud silence from Arab leaders
As the death toll in Israel Defense Forces raids against militants
firing rockets from Gaza climbed to more than 50 yesterday, Palestinian
Information Minister Riyad al-Maliki responded by saying, "Hamas gave
Israel an excuse to start a war in Gaza." Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas also responded along these lines, saying that the "operation in
Gaza is not just a reaction to the rocket barrage." Both comments can
be interpreted as Palestinian backing for the Israel Defense Forces
ground incursion into the Strip.
UN
rights chief seeks probe into Gaza deaths
United Nations human rights chief Louise Arbour called on Israel on
Monday to conduct an "impartial" investigation into the deaths of
Palestinians during its offensive in Gaza.
Al-Khader
village protests the wall
For the last two months the residents of al-Khader have demonstrated
every week against the illegal construction of the Israeli wall on
their land. The demonstrations are organized by the al-Khader Popular
Committee against the Wall and Settlements, with the support of
al-Khader institutions, residents as well as Israeli and international
activists. Adri Nieuwhof and Samer Jaber report.
For
God's sake, Dissolve the Palestinian Authority now
As Zionist Jewish supremacists continue to emulate their Nazi mentors,
by carrying out pornographic mass killings of stateless and helpless
Palestinians, the so-called Palestinian 'national" Authority (PA) is
still basking in its impotence and morbid illusions about "peace talks"
with Israel. This is despite the present Israeli blitzkrieg in
the Gaza Strip and the equally murderous policy of narrowing
Palestinian horizons in the West Bank where we are told ad
nauseam by a scandalously mendacious western media that "Abbas is
in control."
Torture
coalition demands investigation into death of PA detainee
Majd al-Barghouti died on 22 February, while he was being illegally
detained by the General Intelligence Service (GIS) of the Palestinian
Authority in Ramallah. There is evidence "ncluding photographs"
indicating that prior to his death, al-Barghouti, 44 years old,
arrested on political grounds, was subjected to torture and
ill-treatment.
PM
to tell Rice: Israel reserves right to act freely in Gaza
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will stress to U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice at their scheduled meeting in Jerusalem Tuesday
evening that Israel reserves the right to act freely in the Gaza Strip
against Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups.
PM: Peace talks
to go on, but so will hits on Hamas
PM to Knesset: IDF will act again in Gaza; PM to tell Rice: Israel
reserves right to act freely in Gaza Strip.
Israeli
official threatens Hamas as Olmert defends use of force
JERUSALEM — Israel's defense minister threatened Sunday to move against
Hamas leaders in Gaza as the next step in a confrontation that on
Saturday reached its deadliest level in years.
Red
Cross sends aid convoy to Palestinian areas from Jordan
The International Committee of the Red Cross sent Monday an aid convoy
- the first of several expected this week - from the Jordanian capital
to the Palestinian territories following fighting in the
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Israelis show
declining zest for military service
TEL AVIV, Israel — Throughout Israel's short, turbulent history, the
nation has grown cynical about almost every sector of society but one:
its military.
Police halt
Israeli Arab rally against Gaza op, arrest 2 at T.A. protest
Police Sunday broke up a demonstration in the Israel Arab village of
Wadi Ara protesting the ongoing Israel Defense Forces offensive in
Gaza. The rally was organized by Israeli Arab party Ra'am-Ta'al and was
one of three such protests scheduled for Sunday. Later Sunday, Police
arrested two protesters who participated in a demonstration outside IDF
headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Lost In Translation
Translation is not the simple act of looking a word up in a dictionary.
Cultural connotation and context are often crucial to understanding a
translation which might have a very different meaning from the one that
was intended. Such is the case now with the furor that has erupted over
the words of Israeli Deputy Minister of Defense, Matan Vilnai. Here is
the accurate translation of what Vilnai said that has caused all the
furor: ""The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets
reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah
because we will use all our might to defend ourselves."
Palestinians
don't have the right to defend themselves, they've the right to die
silently!
Dear member, As the Palestinian people in Gaza are being murdered and
starved on daily basis, the Western people and their governments
continue to cover-up Israeli war crimes. In the West, the creation of
the "Jewish state" by usurping Palestinian rights is their way of
telling Jews around the world: We are sorry for practicing
anti-Semitism against you for centuries, and to compensate for the many
Holocausts we have committed against you, we shall unquestionably
support the creation of the "Jewish state". And if that happens on the
expense of the Palestinian people, let it be.
Hamas
vows to compensate Gazans hurt in IDF operation
IDF's Operation Warm Winter leaves 110 Palestinians dead, great damage,
but organization insists it defeated Israeli army. Thousands attend
victory marches in Gaza; Hamas' al-Zahar promises to rebuild houses
damaged in airstrikes, says kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit won't be
released before Israel frees Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas
vows to capture soldiers if Israel expands Gaza incursion
Hamas' military wing, Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, Monday vowed to
kidnap and kill Israeli soldiers if the Israeli army would expand its
incursion into the Gaza Strip.
Gazans angry
and unbowed
The black marks on the roads leading into Gaza City were an indication
of the earlier bloodshed. Palestinians had dragged tyres onto the road
and set them alight. They hoped that the smokescreen would stop Israeli
drones and Apache helicopters - both armed with rockets - from hitting
their targets. But it was a futile gesture.
Mourning
tents spread on Gaza Strip
MUSLIM tradition requires the dead to be buried before sunset on the
day of their death, so 12-year-old Safa Abu Seif was buried on Sunday
with only her father to mourn her. The rest of her family, including
her mother, were still pinned down by the Israeli tanks and snipers
occupying the north Gaza neighbourhood where the child's family had
watched her die over three hours from a bullet through the stomach.
'Restraint'
is deceitful, and 'forbearance' is vain
Even yesterday evening, after the IDF already had killed about 50
Palestinians, at least half of them unarmed, and including quite a
number of women and children, Jerusalem continued to claim, "At present
there will be no major ground operation." It's incredible: The IDF
penetrates the heart of a crowded refugee camp, kills in a terrifyingly
wholesale manner, with horrible bloodshed, and Israel continues to
disseminate the lie of restraint. Two days earlier Israel killed more
Palestinians than have been killed by all the Qassams over the past
seven years. Among the dead were four children and an infant. The next
day Israel killed another five boys. And who is the victim? Israel. And
who is cruel? The Palestinians.
Colonial
realities
Once again Israel defies an impotent international community which
offers nothing but timid calls for ceasefire on "both sides". And once
again Palestinian suffering and death tolls continue to break records
in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
Gaza
families mourn as fighting rages on
As sunset approached Sunday, a steady stream of men walked the
darkening streets toward Gaza City's Al Nafaq district to pay their
respects to the Atallah family. In an open-air enclosure up a side
street, dozens of mourners sat on plastic chairs. A loudspeaker blared
a sermon lamenting the misfortunes of a family that lost six members in
an Israeli airstrike.
Not
about rockets
I started to become convinced that the current Israeli army operation
in Gaza Strip is not aimed primarily at lessening the barrages of
homemade rockets that the armed Palestinian groups fire into southern
Israel and the Western Negev. Yet, the offensive seems to be part of
many previous incursions and airstrikes, which so far have failed to
repress Palestinian rocket squads.
Breaking the Silence,
Israeli Soldiers Talk About the Occupied Territories
'Obama
touched by land of Israel'
Longtime Obama supporter Lee Rosenberg says presidential hopeful has
always been strong supporter of Israel, recalls senator's meaningful
visit to Jewish State.
Obama
Tends Toward Mainstream on Foreign Policy
On a number of issues, such as the Middle East peace process, Obama
advocates a continuation of Bush administration policies but promises
more energetic and intense presidential involvement.
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