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Post by clone on Nov 29, 2011 10:48:20 GMT -8
Israel apologises to NYT journalist 2011-11-28 21:41 Jerusalem - Israel's defence ministry apologised on Monday for the treatment of a pregnant American news photographer who said she was strip searched and humiliated by Israeli soldiers during a security check. Lynsey Addario, who was on assignment for the New York Times, had requested that she not be forced to go through an X-ray machine as she entered Israel from the Gaza Strip because of concerns for her unborn baby. Instead, she wrote in a letter to the ministry, she was forced through the machine three times as soldiers "watched and laughed from above". She said she was then taken into a room where she was ordered by a female worker to strip down to her underwear. More: www.news24.com/World/News/Israel-apologises-to-NYT-journalist-20111128
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Post by clone on Nov 29, 2011 23:23:14 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Dec 17, 2011 13:05:50 GMT -8
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Post by WB on Jan 6, 2012 13:24:54 GMT -8
Shocking Clip: Israeli Checkpoint Cruelty www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorJMPtz1FwNablus, Jericho Road. "We let them suffer in the sun, in the rain. So they'll learn not to mess with the Border Police." Surda - Ramallah Northern Entrance. "Animals. Animals. Like the Discovery Channel. All of Ramallah is a jungle. There are monkeys, dogs, gorillas. The problem is that the animals are locked they can't come out. We're humans. They're animals. They aren't humans we are."
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Post by clone on Jan 6, 2012 13:48:51 GMT -8
Ethnic Cleansing of Invented People By Miko Peled January 04, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - - Mostafa Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, Bahjat Zaalan and his son Ramdan from Gaza died on my fiftieth birthday and just a few days after Newt Gingrich declared them an invented people. They were murdered by the Israeli terrorist organization, the IDF, an organization that is supported and funded by the US. One Israeli terrorist shot the invented Tamimi in the head with a tear gas canister, and another Israeli terrorist fired a rocket that murdered the invented Zaalan and his boy Ramadan. Both terrorists were educated and trained by Israel, and armed by the US. The Israeli terrorists are not invented but quite real, and they are safe, protected by the apartheid regime that trained and sent them on their missions, and the Israeli court system will make sure that they are never brought to justice. This is how Israel’s well-oiled ethnic cleansing machine operates. ... Since my father was a general and I served as a soldier in the IDF terrorist organization, people often ask me how is it that Israeli children who are raised in a Western style democracy become such monsters once they are in uniform? The detailed answer can be found in my book, The General’s Son due out in February 2012, but the short answer is this: Education – Racism requires a mindset that is fashioned by education. In order to rationalize and justify the ethnic cleansing the Israeli education system portrays Palestinians as culturally inferior, violent and bent on the annihilation of the Jews, and at the same time, void of a true national identity. Palestinian national identity is but a figment of some anti-Semitic imagination. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30156.htm* Per capita, Israelis receive 300 cubic meters of water per year. In comparison, per capita Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza receive 35-85 cubic meters per year, while the World Health Organization recommends a minimum of 100 cubic meter of water per person per year. * De-Arabizing the history of Palestine is another crucial element of the ethnic cleansing. 1500 years of Arab and Muslim rule and culture in Palestine are trivialized, evidence of its existence is being destroyed and all this is done to make the absurd connection between the ancient Hebrew civilization and today’s Israel. The most glaring example of this today is in Silwan, (Wadi Hilwe) a town adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem with some 50,000 residents. Israel is expelling families from Silwan and destroying their homes because it claims that king David built a city there some 3000 years ago. Thousands of families will be made homeless so that Israel can build a park to commemorate a king that may or may not have lived 3000 years ago. Not a shred of historical evidence exists that can prove King David ever lived yet Palestinian men, women, children and the elderly along with their schools and mosques, churches and ancient cemeteries and any evidence of their existence must be destroyed and then denied so that Zionist claims to exclusive rights to the land may be substantiated. Gaza Bled as the World Watched. By Miko Peled (December 27, 2011) mikopeled.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/gaza-bled-as-the-world-watched-by-miko-peled/
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Post by castlead2 P on Jan 21, 2012 9:05:35 GMT -8
Israeli Military Prepares for Massive Gaza Invasion ‘Within Months’ Military Eyes 'Similar Model' to 2008 Invasion January 16, 2012 The Jerusalem Post reports today that Israel’s military has ordered its Southern Command to prepare for a “large scale” invasion of the Gaza Strip, likely to begin within the next few months. The revelation is hardly a surprise, as Israeli Military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has repeatedly pressed for an invasion of the Gaza Strip over the past few months, while trumpeting the late 2008 invasion as a “great success.” news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/israeli-military-prepares-for-massive-gaza-invasion-within-months/
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Post by clone on Feb 26, 2012 23:31:56 GMT -8
French clothing firm Lacoste censors, expels Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour from prestigious contest Tue, 12/20/2011 - 14:22 A Palestinian who is “too pro-Palestinian” Sansour was among eight finalists shortlisted for the 2011 prize. According to a press release issued by Sansour, “Lacoste stated their refusal to support Sansour’s work, labelling it ‘too pro-Palestinian.’” This latest instance of apparent censorship of Palestinian artists by a cultural institution comes just months after the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California censored an exhibit of art by children in Gaza just before its planned opening under pressure from anti-Palestinian Zionist groups. Sansour refuses to sign statement that she withdrew voluntarily Sansour, who is based in London, is a native of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The press release explains: ____ Imagining a Palestinian state as science fiction Sansour’s multimedia project Nation Estate was “conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for UN membership. Nation Estate depicts a science fiction-style Palestinian state in the form of a single skyscraper housing the entire Palestinian population. Inside this new Nation Estate, the residents have recreated their lost cities on separate floors: Jerusalem on 3, Ramallah on 4, Sansour’s own hometown of Bethlehem on 5, etc.” Sansour was born in Jerusalem and her multimedia work has been exhibited all over the world. The photo above, from the exhibit, is published courtesy of Sansour. More can be seen at her website. www.larissasansour.com/nation_estate.htmlelectronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/french-clothing-firm-lacoste-censors-expels-palestinian-artist-larissa-sansour
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Post by apartheid plus on Mar 5, 2012 14:24:52 GMT -8
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Post by iron dome on Mar 13, 2012 22:10:30 GMT -8
Fragile ceasefire after cross-border violence leaves 25 dead in Gaza - Wednesday, March 14, 2012 A FRAGILE CEASEFIRE, brokered by Egypt, went into effect yesterday, ending four days of cross-border violence that left 25 Palestinians dead and confined more than a million residents of southern Israel to bomb shelters. www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0314/1224313270007.htmlTo the leftist who has no problem with rockets on Israel - Latest update 01:32 14.03.12 Moreover, it is unfair and plain wrong to expect Palestinians to refrain from responding to attacks, such as the assassination that set off the current spate of violence... Palestinian armed groups have directed their rockets at Israeli towns ... The 10 Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian rocket attacks since mid-2004 range from 2 to 57 in age and include four children. www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/to-the-leftist-who-has-no-problem-with-rockets-on-israel-1.418366
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Post by warren goldstein on Apr 7, 2012 5:49:52 GMT -8
Israel causes $66 million worth of damage to EU-funded aid projects April 4, 2012 The bulk of the damage was inflicted during the years of the second Intifadah (uprising, 2000-2005) as well as Israel’s attack on the besieged Gaza Strip in the winter of 2008-2009. The projects range in scale. In the winter of 2001, Gaza’s International Airport was devastated, costing contributing countries (Spain, Sweden and Germany) 9.5 million euros. Smaller-scale but significant destruction also incurred. For example, during the second Intifadah, Israeli attacks destroyed a fleet of Red Crescent ambulances financed by the European Commission. Israel’s attack on Gaza in the winter of 2008-2009 destroyed nearly two million euros worth of European- funded projects, including several waste management and water treatment plants. uruknet.info/?p=m87061&hd=&size=1&l=eUPDATE — Important Ruins in the City of David — PHOTOS and VIDEO February 15, 2012. Here is much more on the community facilities that were destroyed , a largely US-funded project of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA); the cafe and sports field had only very recently been completed. Amazingly, MECA has already (as of 16 FEB) announced plans to rebuild the facilities very soon, is soliciting funds for this purpose, and is encouraging supporters to send messages of protest to the Israeli officials responsible for this act, all via this media advisory page. MECA offers yet more information in this blog post and additional background on the history of the center and the mind-boggling legal maneuverings by which Israeli/settler interests have tried to get their hands on this land. There are more images (“before and after”) in the above-mentioned brief but excellent slideshow. israelpalestineguide.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/important-ruins-in-the-city-of-david-photo-and-video/
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Post by clone on Apr 15, 2012 9:43:17 GMT -8
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Post by diets on Apr 18, 2012 14:38:19 GMT -8
* Per capita, Israelis receive 300 cubic meters of water per year. In comparison, per capita Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza receive 35-85 cubic meters per year, while the World Health Organization recommends a minimum of 100 cubic meter of water per person per year. Israeli government documents show deliberate policy to keep Gazans at near-starvation levels IMEMC Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:50 CDT Documents whose existence were denied by the Israeli government for over a year have been released after a legal battle led by Israeli human rights group Gisha. The documents reveal a deliberate policy by the Israeli government in which the dietary needs for the population of Gaza are chillingly calculated, and the amounts of food let in by the Israeli government measured to remain just enough to keep the population alive at a near-starvation level. This documents the statement made by a number of Israeli officials that they are "putting the people of Gaza on a diet". In 2007, when Israel began its full siege on Gaza, Dov Weisglass, adviser to then Prime-Minister Ehud Olmert, stated clearly, "The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger." The documents now released contain equations used by the Israeli government to calculate the exact amounts of food, fuel and other necessities needed to do exactly that. more: www.sott.net/articles/show/217559-Israeli-government-documents-show-deliberate-policy-to-keep-Gazans-at-near-starvation-levels
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Post by clone on May 28, 2012 16:01:39 GMT -8
Israel offered $6 million to victims of Gaza flotilla raid, say Turkish lawyers One of several lawyers representing 465 victims and victims' relatives of the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid says Israel made proposal to him through an intermediary foreign ambassador a month ago.May.24, 2012 | 6:40 PM A Turkish lawyer said on Thursday that Israel had offered to pay $6 million to victims of Israel's storming of a Gaza-bound Turkish aid flotilla to settle lawsuits against the Israeli military. Ramazan Ariturk, one of several lawyers representing 465 victims and victims' relatives, told Reuters that the Israeli government had made a proposal to him through an intermediary foreign ambassador in Ankara just over one month ago. He said the money would have been paid to a Jewish foundation in Turkey for distribution, and been followed by a statement of "regret" for the raid by the Israeli government. "I told the ambassador I did not think the offer was appropriate or moral and also discussed the issue with the victims and their friends and they also stated that they could not accept this," Ariturk said. more: www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-offered-6-million-to-victims-of-gaza-flotilla-raid-say-turkish-lawyers-1.432473a senior Israeli official who declined to be named said that Israel indicated last year that it was prepared to indemnify victims without accepting blame
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Post by clone on May 28, 2012 16:06:43 GMT -8
Gaza: World’s Largest Prison ... its population has grown during this period from less than 360,000 in 1967 to 1.5 million today. Palestinian fishermen routinely sailed as far out to sea as necessary to secure a good day’s catch. International freighters continued to arrive at Gaza Port to unload their goods and take on Palestinian fruits, flowers, and other products. www.darkgovernment.com/news/gaza-worlds-largest-prison/
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Post by hamas on Jun 9, 2012 10:24:01 GMT -8
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