Here inside Israel, there‘s been also a growing antiwar movement amongst Israeli Jews, but, I mean, these are–relatively, these are almost marginal numbers. The first protests, there was 500 people, the next protest 1,000 people. On Saturday there‘s going to be a big protest, with 2,500 people, at least, attending. And so, every Saturday night it‘s been growing a little bit.

SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Amy, I’m just coming from the south of Gaza, from Khan Younis, where people are talking of a very brutal assault on southeastern Khan Younis, particularly in the area of Khuzaa. They say this was worse than Shejaiya, the Gaza City eastern town that was attacked on Sunday in the bloodiest day of the conflict. People say the attacks began Tuesday night, the Israeli military moving in, firing very heavily with shelling—shelling, F-16s and drone attacks.

I spoke to multiple residents who said they tried to get out beginning yesterday morning. They walked out; they found Israeli tanks blocking the main streets. One group said that the Israeli tanks started firing on them. They fled back to their homes. They had to leave the wounded behind. They spent a harrowing 24 hours trying to go from house to house. They said each house they went to was shelled. And they finally ended up walking out, holding white flags and their hands above their heads, only Wednesday morning.

We are more than 50 Israelis who were once soldiers and now declare our refusal to be part of the reserves. We oppose the Israeli Army and the conscription law. Partly, that’s because we revile the current military operation. But most of the signers below are women and would not have fought in combat. For us, the army is flawed for reasons far broader than “Operation Protective Edge,” or even the occupation. We rue the militarization of Israel and the army’s discriminatory policies.

Die Offensive in Gaza sei ein Krieg gegen die Bevölkerung, argumentiert die Palästinenser-Regierung. Sie klagt gegen Israel vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof.

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Von der Waffenruhe ausgenommen wären israelische Einsätze zur Zerstörung der Tunnel der Hamas gewesen, die für Terrorzwecke gebaut worden sein sollen. Die Zerstörung dieses Tunnelsystems ist das erklärte Ziel von Israels Bodenoffensive, die vor gut einer Woche begonnen hat.

Now, in the continuation of a brutal war that began two weeks ago, the Israeli military is systematically finding and destroying those tunnels, and it is obligated to finish the job. Nothing short of this is likely to end, now and well into the future, a constant raining of Hamas missiles on Israel.

The roots and causes of the larger Israeli-Palestinian conflict are a moral tangle, one in which Israel is by no means blameless.

So in Israel the question was how to respond to aggression from Gaza, and in Gaza the question was how to respond to aggression from Israel. And each side considered its own use of force–what the other side called provocation–a response to provocation.

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Saturday, 12th July, a group called Jews Against Genocide (JAG) held a memorial service for Palestinian children killed by Israel in its current attack on Gaza. JAG set aflame to a pile of dolls covered in red paint at Yad Vashem, Israel’s holocaust memorial museum. Jews Against Genocide (JAG) is a movement of Jews from all over the world, including Israelis, who are protesting against Israel’s intent to commit genocide against the non-Jewish indigenous people of Palestine.

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[The following press release was originally posted on the website of the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network.]

From Tel Aviv to Toronto, Los Angeles to London, Chicago to San Francisco, Jews Say No to Israeli Genocide

We call on Jews all over the world to follow the call from Haider Eid, political activist and commentator, to “besiege Israeli consulates,” and to protest Zionist events attempting to justify Israel’s massacre of Palestinians. Below are reports of actions Jews against genocide are taking or participating in.

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Israeli ground troops had already entered Gaza when Meretz Party Chairwoman Zehava Gal-On was asked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what she would do in his place. She immediately answered that she would never have gotten into this situation in the first place, because she would have given the Palestinian unity government a chance. She believes that if that had happened, the current escalation could have been avoided.

Reacting to Israel‘s massacre in Gaza on CTV National News.

Turkish academic Arslantas points to the difference between Israel and Judaism, and comments: „It cannot be accepted that Turkish Jews pay for Israel‘s bad policies.

“Similarly, it would be wrong to describe the anti-Israel protests as ‚anti-Semitism‘; they are two different things.”

(22.7.2014) Members of the family of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have secretly left Ramallah for Jordan, according to the online newspaper Rai Al-Youm.

“For the first time and secretly, all the members of President Abbas’s family have left to their residence in Amman,” the Monday report said.

„Some Western countries turn a blind eye to Israel‘s actions,“ he added. „This testifies to the fact that they are also supporters of military aggression against the Palestinians.“

Jordan has repeatedly demanded that Israel stop its „brutal aggression“ and „targeting civilians“ in Gaza.

The kingdom, which has a 1994 peace treaty with Israel, is home to more than two million Palestinian refugees, as well as large numbers of Jordanians of Palestinian origin.

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The five deaths on Friday come after a Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces late Thursday in clashes at Qalandia, bringing the total death toll in the West Bank to nine as thousands have marched in protest against the Israeli assault on Gaza over the last two weeks.

The victims were identified as Khaled Azmi Khaled Yousef, 18, Hashem Abu Maria, 47, Tayeb Abu Shehada, 22, Sultan al-Zaaqiq, 30, and Abd al-Hamid Breigheth, 35.

Today‘s situation is different from 2012, the last conflict between Israel and Hamas. At the time, Morsi brokered a cease-fire that Hamas accepted.

Two years later, the Egyptian government, which has accused Hamas of helping militants attack soldiers and police in Egypt, is doing little to help the Palestinians.

Wir würden uns darüber lustig machen, was für megalomanische Schwachköpfe das sind, die sich für die ganze Welt für zuständig halten.

Genau das fordern jetzt EU-Datenschützer von Google.

Over 1,000 New Yorkers took to the streets on Thursday in a protest meant to call attention to U.S. complicity in Israel’s attack on Gaza. The march streamed past federal and local government buildings while demonstrators chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes.” Demonstrators held up signs calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel and voiced support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, chanting, “Israel bombs, we protest—boycott, sanction, and divest!”

Even odder, New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren seems to think that readers should pay less attention to what is happening in Gaza – which is her beat!

Fireworks burst at the separation wall, lighting the heads of Israeli soldiers who are poised ready with loaded guns. Overhead, flare guns also brighten the scene at Qalandia checkpoint, quickly followed by shots from Israeli snipers that race into the burgeoning crowd. In the middle of the haze and chaos Palestinian politician Dr. Mustafa Barghouti is clear in his definition of the events unfolding around him, “The Intifada has started. This is the Intifada! Peaceful and nonviolent but as you have seen, they encountered us with gunshots,” Barghouti told Mondoweiss. Amidst his words, molotov cocktails hit the military watchtowers, while young men scrambled by in a desperate attempt to get the wounded out of the line of fire.

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Der Terminus “Executive Order” nun ist in der Republik Deutschland weithin unbekannt. Nichtsdestotrotz sind es maßgeblich diese Befehle der jeweiligen US-Präsidenten, die die Welt, wie wir sie heute kennen, erschaffen haben.

“Why are you continuing to kill people?” Ban asked, adding “there are many other ways to resolve this issue without killing each other.” The Palestinian death toll is now at 828, with over 5,200 wounded.

The Israeli military said it hit 45 sites in Gaza, including what it said was a Hamas military command post, while Gaza militants continued to fire dozens of rockets at Israel, with one hitting an empty house.

Remember Tamarrod and Shahbag, Rabaa and Motijheel
I think protesting at Israel and the British who put them there is important. However as a Musalman, I think folks are wrong and dopey to background the complicity of despicable Egypt and the morons who supported the Tamarod enabled coup there last year that set back progress in so many ways. So many stupid, Tehrir-drunk Egyptians…. who were scared and unable to rise to the civilisational moment and duped. This Gaza genocide is possible because of Tamarod, make no mistake, the demons pulling apart Muslim societies are assisted by our own civilisational suicidal tendancies.

NYT reports Kerry offered seven-day Gaza ceasefire deal set to come into effect Sunday, however many in Netanyahu‘s government object to the deal, cabinet set to convene in afternoon.

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