Tamer Faraj Sammur, 22, was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers in western Tulkarem [IMEMC: Deir al-Ghasoon] … Hamas earlier in the day had called on Palestinians in the West Bank to participate in “Day of Anger” demonstrations in cities and villages across the West Bank in solidarity with Gaza. Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in the West Bank in a 24-hour period last week as tens of thousands took the streets in solidarity with Gaza in the largest demonstrations since the Second Intifada.

This is tragic and embarrassing. Israel is calling the tune for the Obama administration on Gaza. In the last 24 hours since the alleged capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants, the Obama administration is now laying all blame on Hamas for Israel’s slaughter of over 1300 Palestinians in Gaza. What other nations are calling a massacre and genocide– our government is calling the Palestinians’ own fault.

Acclaimed producer and musical artist Brian Eno has written a letter accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and asking why the United States would continue to support what he considers “a ragingly racist theocracy.”

Dear All of You:

I sense I‘m breaking an unspoken rule with this letter, but I can‘t keep quiet any more.

Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a plastic carrier bag of meat. It was his son. He‘d been shredded (the hospital‘s word) by an Israeli missile attack – apparently using their fab new weapon, flechette bombs. You probably know what those are – hundreds of small steel darts packed around explosive which tear the flesh off humans. The boy was Mohammed Khalaf al-Nawasra. He was 4 years old.

ince its violent colonial inception in 1948, known as the Nakba, يوم النكبة catastrophe – the historical event which thoroughly debunks the false perception of a peace-seeking Israeli state surrounded by “inhospitable Arabs” – the Zionist leadership has in fact had no intention of a “durable peace” with the Palestinians or their Arab neighbours. As over 66 years of ethnic cleansing, periodic mass murder, endless kidnappings and incarceration, land theft and wars of aggression have clearly shown — “peace”, let alone the possibility of genuine Palestinian autonomy within the Bantustans and ghettos the Israeli’s have created in historic Palestine, has never been on the Zionist or imperialist agenda.

Parliament should be recalled immediately to debate the Gaza crisis, George Galloway said today. The Bradford West MP has written to the Speaker of the House of Commons asking him for an urgent debate on the slaughter taking place in the most crowded place on earth.

„I‘ve been inundated with pleas and requests from constituents asking why parliament is not sitting whilst the catastrophe in Gaza unfolds,“ Galloway said. „MPs cannot sit on the beaches or on our hands as hundreds of Palestinians are murdered.

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(vor 15 Stunden) ..and I need to be silent and keep low.
But I‘m not going anywhere.
They may close my communication channels again,but that does not mean I‘m not here, I‘ll find a way to get the information out to you,and I trust you will echo it on, go down with it to the streets ,And demand your representatives, your government to stop funding the slaughter in your name,to boycott Israel and to stop the bloodshed in Gaza.The whole world is watching now, history is being made.

I‘m counting on you.

(8. März)

(28. Juli) I was told that the unofficial reason was to enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing their fellow soldiers (something that for years the IDF has not faced during its operations in Gaza and the West Bank), out on the Palestinian refugees in the neighborhood. Under the pretext of the so-called „security threat“ soldiers were directed to carry out a pre-planned attack of revenge on Palestinian civilians. These stories join many other similar ones that Amira Hass and I investigated in Operation Cast Lead.

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Haaretz added, “According to the victims, police officers that arrived at the scene did not call an ambulance, and they were instead evacuated by passersby to receive medical treatment at a Beit Khanina [sic] clinic. They were later rushed to Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem in serious condition.”

Though investigators believe the beating to be racially motivated, no one has been arrested.

He goes on, emphasis ours:

„News anchors such as those from CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera have not missed an opportunity to point out the majority of innocent civilians who have lost their lives as a result of this war. But anyone who lives with rocket launchers installed or terror tunnels burrowed in or around the vicinity of their home cannot be considered an innocent civilian.“

Als ihnen auffiel, dass das möglicherweise PR-technisch nicht so schlau war, war der ganz schnell wieder weg. Aber es gibt einen Screenshot. Der letzte Absatz ist wie aus American Psycho:

This is the sixth time UNRWA sites have been hit during Israel‘s current campaign. He broke down sobbing during an interview, footage of which was screened by Al Jazeera Arabic

About six years ago, as part of his Bar Mitzvah, my son Jed did a project on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, producing his own graphic novel about the underground fighters who used courage, creativity and the city’s sewer system to, in some small way, offer resistance to the murderous program of the Nazis to exterminate Poland’s Jews.

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(15. März 2012) Row erupts after comments by Israeli election hopeful Noam Shalit, whose son was held in captivity by Hamas for five years

Die Al-Qassam-Brigaden, die der militärische Flügel der Hamas sind, haben in der Nacht zum Samstag nach einer internen Untersuchung eine Presseerklärung herausgegeben, in der sie von Israel gestreute Gerüchte zurückweisen, sie hätten am Freitag Morgen, den 01.08.2014, einen IDF-Soldaten gefangengenommen. Nachfolgend findet sich eine Übersetzung der Presseerklärung ins Deutsche durch das Parteibuch.

Das strategische Ziel des Regimes in Jerusalem ist, unter dem von den Regierungen in Washington und Berlin gedeckten Propaganda-Terminus „Entmilitarisierung“ bzw „Demilitarisierung“ („demilitarization of Gaza“) die Entsendung einer internationalen Besatzungsstreitmacht, die die israelische Kolonie Gaza nun anstelle der eigentlichen Besatzungsmacht unterdrücken soll. Deutsche Soldaten, nach der Entsendung Spielmasse für Attentate und strategisches Mittel um die tödlich beneidete Berliner Republik in die eigenen Machenschaften verwickelt zu halten, stehen dabei für das Regime ganz oben auf der Prioritätenliste.

On Thursday, July 31, Maaleh Adumim police revoked the work permit of Hatem Abu Ziadeh, a Palestinian who served as chair of the Workers’ Committee at the Zarfati Garage. Because the Israeli Garage operates in the settlement industrial zone of Mishor Adumim, east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank (Area C), the revoking of the permit amounts to a job dismissal. The police decision was based on fabricated security claims made by the employer.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the South African activist who fought to end apartheid, has joined a worldwide campaign calling on corporations profiting from Israel‘s occupation of Palestinian Territories to pull out their funding Al Jazeera reported

(18. Juli) CAPE TOWN: Two South African winners of the Nobel Peace Prize urged Israel and the Palestinians Friday to negotiate peace, with former archbishop Desmond Tutu comparing the regional crisis to apartheid.

The image was quickly screen captured in case Ovadia came to his senses and realized that he could be prosecuted for his admission of war crimes. (…)

In the mean time, while more information is gathered on Ovadia, the “hacktivist” group “Anonymous” took control of his Instagram account, deleting it entirely. For “good measure” Anonymous sources said that they hacked the websites of the Mossad…

Some 20 mosques and more than five hospitals were completely destroyed during the hostilities.

The Israeli army lost some 131 servicemen during the hostilities in Gaza, Turkish Anadolu agency reported citing the military wing of Hamas movement. However, the Israeli authorities have not confirmed this information.

Last May, in President Obama‘s big speech at the National Defense University — where he tried to establish his legacy as being the president to „end“ the US‘s role in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — he did admit to the fact that the US „compromised our basic values — by using torture to interrogate our enemies.“ That admission got somewhat lost in the wider scope of what he was saying, and thus, to this day, many government officials still refuse to call the CIA‘s torture program „torture.“

We‘ve been following the case of Adel Daoud for a little while now. He‘s one of the many people arrested for „terrorism“ in one of the FBI‘s dozens of „home grown plots“ in which they create their very own terrorist plot, dupe someone into „joining“ and then arrest (and then relish in the headlines about stopping a terrorist „plot“ that was never a real plot in the first place). In Daoud‘s case, the made up „plot“ involved blowing up a Chicago bar. But the Daoud case got a lot more attention, because in the big „debate“ over the renewal of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in late 2012, Senator Dianne Feinstein directly described the Daoud „plot“ as an example of why the FAA and Section 702 were necessary. Here‘s what she said: