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For Israelis and Palestinians, as well for their friends and family around the world, these past few weeks have been torture. Each day for Israel brings new rocket attacks, new cross-border terrorist raids, new funerals and shivas for IDF soldiers. Each day for Palestinians in Gaza brings new rounds of artillery shelling, fresh explosions and devastation. We spend all day desperately wanting to avert our eyes from the carnage, and go to bed every night hoping that by morning, the fighting will have stopped.

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„Netanyahu, quit, fascism is already passing“, „You don‘t build democracy by suppressing protesters“, „No, no, no, we won‘t let fascism pass“, „Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies“, „all of us together, without fear and hatred“, „democracy for all between the river and the sea“ and „there‘s no difference between blood and blood, we are all human“. All the chants rhyme in Hebrew.

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With the help of the Almighty.
In light of the current accusations that a member of Neturei Karta spied on the State of Israel, we want to reassure the world that Neturei Karta is a non-violent, non-militant movement that never engages in spying or political maneuvering. It is a movement that is an open book for the world to see. We go around the world with the goal of building bridges, removing hate, educating people and broadcasting to the world that the Zionist State of Israel has hijacked the identity of Judaism. Judaism means subservience to G-d and upholding the Torah.

Neturei Karta is not a political, national entity or movement like the State of Israel. We never call for violence or killing; Publicizing the facts about Judaism and Zionism is all we do. We have been an open book movement for over 80 years. The world knows it and the Zionist regime knows it. We don‘t think for a moment that the Zionists, with all their intelligence, have any misconceptions about what we do. We don‘t do anything subversive, or anything that is not open and public.

The Israel-Hamas conflict has been good for groups at the far-left edge of American Jewish Israel-related activism, propelling some people for whom J Street is now too moderate to more radical affiliations.

After the Forward published a story this morning charting how J Street has taken a far more moderate approach to the current Gaza war than it did to Operation Cast Lead in 2008, JVP put a link to it on their Facebook page, with the tagline: “Our door is always open”

The more moderate approach has won the group praise from some former critics, while threatening to alienate core activists. It has left American Zionists critical of the war without any established Jewish organizations on their side, as both Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu have also chosen not to criticize the invasion.

Former high-ranking J Street staff members were among the organizers of a July 28 protest in New York City against Israel’s invasion of Gaza. They acted under the name #ifnotnow and made no mention of their former J Street affiliations.

Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges and Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour deconstruct the narrative around Israel‘s right to defend itself and the media‘s depiction of the Gaza assault

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„Qatar (the Gulf state where Al Jazeera is based) has turned into a global problem. Al Jazeera is a central pillar of the propaganda apparatus of Hamas,“ he said.

He also urged Israelis to boycott Arab businesses who were striking against the invasion of Gaza and the deaths of Palestinian civilians.

In other remarks in the Knesset meeting, Lieberman said that he is opposed to any agreement – following the 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza – that would include Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman expressed his opposition to any arrangement that would hand over the keys of the Gaza Strip to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Warsi, a baroness who sits in Britain‘s upper house of parliament, became Britain‘s first Muslim to serve in Cabinet in 2010 but was later demoted to be a senior minister of state at the Foreign Office and a minister for faith and communities.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki will on Tuesday visit the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands as he pushes for a war crimes case against Israel after nearly a month of fighting in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported.

(4. August) So if a ceasefire was in place, what were Goldin and his comrades doing detonating tunnels, tunnels in which Israel says Hamas is hiding? Were Hamas fighters supposed to simply wait to be entombed in their bunkers during the pause in hostilities? Or was Israel the one violating the ceasefire?

And then there was the explosion of military fury as Israel realised its soldier was missing. Israeli correspondents have admitted that the notorious “Hannibal procedure” was invoked: the use of all means to stop a soldier being taken alive, including killing him. The rationale is to prevent the enemy gaining a psychological advantage in negotiations.