Lawrence Wittner points out that the United States will soon be the only nation on earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Nach Angaben der palästinensischen Menschenrechtsorganisation PCHR beträgt die Anzahl der getöteten Personen 1417, davon 926 Zivilisten (unter ihnen 313 Kinder und Jugendliche im Alter unter 18 Jahren und 116 Frauen). Nach israelischen Angaben kamen 1166 Palästinenser ums Leben, davon 295 Zivilisten (unter ihnen 89 Opfer unter 16 Jahren).

(28.Dezember 2008) This is not the first time we have met in Sderot. I know that the world is sympathetic whenever Israel is being attacked. The Israeli government must supply answers to its citizens.

Israel left the Gaza Strip years ago. The idea was that Gaza would be the beginning of the Palestinian state. That didn‘t happen, because Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip. Hamas is a terrorist organization with a radical ideology and it‘s not willing to accept the demands of the international community. It is the enemy.

But Hamas is not our problem alone; it is also a problem for all the Palestinians in the region and for anyone who shares these values. The only way to achieve peace is by confronting terrorism and the opponents of the peace process. Hamas is the one placing obstacles in the path of peace, which should be everyone‘s goal. Hamas is illegitimate and its control of the Gaza Strip is illegitimate; it wants a zero sum game. The struggle is not between Israel and Hamas, but between moderates and extremists.

The role of the world leaders is to stand up and announce clearly: Hamas is responsible. Hamas is the ruler and Hamas put the population of Gaza in danger. Sometimes it‘s not easy. Hamas is manipulating the situation in order to spread more hatred.

Israel left the Gaza Strip, not in order to return, but because a state sometimes reaches a point where there is no other choice. Enough is enough. We demonstrated restraint. Six months of calm were violated on a daily basis – by them. Hamas thought that Israel wouldn‘t do anything and that the international community would put pressure only on Israel. I hope that they were wrong; someone has to show them that they were wrong. We have paid the price for our restraint in long-range missiles, and we have to answer to our citizens.

We proved that we want quiet. However, we need the support of the international community; that‘s the only way to change the reality on the ground. The equation has to be changed, and, in order to do that, we must use force.

The change was initiated by Reuven Adler, recently hired by the Zionist Union to serve as its chief strategist. The Zionist Union is publicly trying to downplay the change, but the message to campaign operatives has been clear — emphasize Herzog as the Zionist Union‘s prime ministerial candidate and don‘t mention the Herzog-Livni rotation agreement.

Zionist Union leader Tzipi Livni on Sunday slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s „cowardly“ response to a secret document of far-reaching concessions to the Palestinians, which was revealed over the weekend by Ynet and its sister print publication Yedioth Ahronoth.

(2.4.2008) Meshal was asked about the claims by Israel and the United States that Hamas is seeking to destroy Israel. He said Hamas has committed itself to a political plan, which it follows, and called on the Americans, the Europeans and other international entities to conduct themselves in accordance with this political truth, and to judge Hamas based on its political plan, not based on what people may imagine.

(2.4.2008) Am frühen Mittwoch Morgen liess Khaled Meshal die politische Bombe platzen. Er erklärte laut israelischen Zeitungsberichten, die Hamas werde die “gemeinsame palästinensische Position” einer 2-Staaten-Lösung innerhalb der Grenzen von 1967 anerkennen – und damit auch Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to significant concessions to the Palestinians, including a withdrawal to 1967 lines and a resolution to the refugee issue, according to an August 2013 document published over the weekend in Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, which confirms a previous Haaretz expose.

About 75 percent of Israel‘s population now is Jewish, down from nearly 90 percent in the 1960s.

In an interview to Italian daily Corriere della Sierra the Greek FinMin said that in case Brussels would not accept his reforms plan:

“There could be problems. But, my Prime Minister said, we are not glued to our seats. We can go back to elections. Call a referendum (on the euro, editor’s note).”

(24.Februar) Wollte irgendjemand in den Präsidenten- und Regierungspalästen zu Washington, Moskau, Paris, Peking, London, Teheran und Berlin bei diesen “Atomverhandlungen” ein Abkommen, was dem Iran den Betrieb von Atomkraftwerken gestattet ohne dass diesem wie seit einem Jahrzehnt mit einem Angriffskrieg gedroht wird, dann gäbe es dieses längst. Stattdessen folgen alle einem imperialistischen Konsens, der da lautet: Spannung hochhalten, sich selbst vor der Weltöffentlichkeit als dies und das präsentieren, Militärbudgets und Feindbilder hochfahren, weiter eigene geostrategische Pläne verfolgen und den Gegner dabei einbinden, als jeweils abschreckendes Beispiel für diejenigen die die ganze Farce bezahlen, das eigene Volk.

Die Öffentlichkeit sollte alle Beteiligten und ihre ausschließlich für Schwachsinnige herausgegebenen Erklärungen ignorieren.

(3.März) Russia and Egypt plan to sign a military cooperation agreement that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said will define the expanding bilateral defense relations between the two nations, the TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

The pair are charged with aiding a terrorist organization, a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Major-General Herzi Halevy, commander of Israeli military intelligence, is scheduled to meet U.S. defense officials and attend a pro-Israel fundraising event, the sources said.

Commander of Iran‘s General Staff of Armed Forces Brigadier General Hassan Firouzabadi has said that Iran supports its neighbors as a big brother.

Tens of thousands of Israelis attended a rally to demand a new government Saturday night in Rabin Square. Israel Police estimated that 40,000 people attended; the event’s organizers claimed more than 80,000 people showed up.

The rally was held under the banner, “Israel wants change,” and was being billed as an anti-Benjamin Netanyahu event.

Israel is suffering the “worst crisis since its creation” under Netanyahu’s leadership, a former Mossad director told a crowd of up to 50,000 in Tel Aviv. The anti-government rally was orchestrated and funded from abroad, said the ruling Likud party.

There are endless problems even without the ethnic demon. There are numerous successes with it. Let it go.

The last speech of prime minister and minister of defense Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by right-wing Israeli radical on November 4th 1995 in Tel Aviv.

Maj. Gen. (res.) Dagan tells massive crowd at Rabin Square ‚change‘ rally that ‚Israel is in the worst crisis since its creation‘ after six years of Netanyahu‘s leadership.

The rally, called „Israel Wants Change,“ was put on by One Million Hands, a grassroots movement that focuses its efforts on two major issues: a two-state solution and a reduction in the cost of living.

On both of these topics, founder Dror Ben-Ami says, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed.

„We think that the only way to go forward on that account is to change government and to get this current government out of office. To get Bibi out of office,“ says Ben-Ami.

The rally was organized by a leftwing political group called the “One Million Hands movement” founded by “three ordinary Israelis” – according to their website.

Only an estimated 35,000 leftwing protesters showed up.

Zehntausende Menschen gehen in Tel Aviv gegen Israels Regierungschef Netanjahu auf die Straße. Sie fordern eine Aussöhnung mit den Palästinensern auf Grundlage einer Zwei-Staaten-Lösung.

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Zehn Tage vor der Parlamentswahl in Israel haben Zehntausende Menschen in Tel Aviv gegen die Politik von Regierungschef Benjamin Netanjahu demonstriert. Unter dem Motto „Israel will Wandel“ waren die Menschen gestern Abend auf den zentralen Rabin-Platz gekommen: Die Nachrichtenseite „ynet“ sprach von bis zu 50.000 Teilnehmern.

New Israel Fund‘s Israel director, Rachel Liel negates the accusations leveled against the group by the right, and insists the group helps people across the political spectrum.

Hätten die Nazis nicht Europa überfallen, Auschwitz und der Holocaust wären nicht geschehen. Hätten die Vereinigten Staaten und ihre Satelliten 2003 nicht ihren Aggressionskrieg im Irak begonnen, dann wären annähernd eine Million Menschen heute noch am Leben; ein Islamischer Staat, oder ISIS hätten uns nicht in der Knechtschaft ihrer Barbarei. Sie sind die Abkömmlinge des modernen Faschismus, aufgewachsen durch die Bomben, die Blutbäder und die Lügen in dem surrealen Theater, bekannt als News.

Wie im Faschismus der 1930er und 1940er Jahre werden die großen Lügen mit der Präzision eines Metronoms geliefert: dank der allgegenwärtigen, sich ständig wiederholenden Medien und ihrer grassierenden Zensur durch Auslassung.