NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called “the Red Army” held the millions of the town’s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell the population and to impose a total blockade, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1231625457/
How Many Divisions?
Access to Gaza's new cemetery near the Israeli border has been cut off, forcing Palestinians to bury the increasing number of dead in old graves near the city center, Palestinians told Haaretz Saturday.
Gaza's morgues are filled with bodies not yet identified by relatives, many of whom cannot travel to claim and bury their dead.
Life in the Gaza war zone
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1054273
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Ramallah residents were shocked on Friday when a protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza was forcibly dispersed by Palestinian Authority security forces using tear gas and clubs. Youth from the Fatah movement assisted security forces in breaking up a rally of solidarity with the Palestinian faction's rival Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1054273
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At 8:45 A.M. Sunday, Mustafa called to say they had left their house. At 8:10 they had called a courageous friend who had a car, and they drove with the kids two kilometers north, to the rented apartment of his brother-in-law in the Gaza City neighborhood of Rimal. The brother-in-law rented it a week ago, after he fled with his family from their home in the northern edge of the city, the site of bombing and shooting. Now there are 15 people in a two-room apartment - with no water, of course. The main thing is that the explosions sound a little less loud.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1054551
Amira Hass / Gazans doing their best to avoid becoming death statistics
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You can almost sense embarassment on the part of CBC radio journalists everytime they interview a Palestinian-Canadian (especially those who just escaped the carnage). Listening to their stories makes it painfully obvious that the horror and deprivation are far from an exaggeration.
A number of Palestinians - it is not clear how many - are trapped in small enclaves surrounded by Israel Defense Forces positions in the Gaza Strip's peripheral farming areas. The soldiers shoot at anyone who tries to leave the enclaves, they said.
Amira Hass / Gazans trapped in no man's land between fire, farmlands
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1054899
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A 28-year-old Palestinian doctor in the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya was killed by Israel Defense Forces fire this week while on his way to remove casualties from a building being targeted by Israeli missiles, according to the Mizan human rights group in Gaza.
Amira Hass / Palestinian doctor killed by IDF while treating Gaza wounded
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1055233
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History did not begin with the Qassam rockets. But for us, the Israelis, history always begins when the Palestinians hurt us, and then the pain is completely decontextualized. We think that if we cause the Palestinians much greater pain, they will finally learn their lesson. Some term this "achievement."
History did not begin with the Qassams
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1055241
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USA: Virtually the Entire Dem-Controlled Congress Supports Israel's War Crimes in Gaza
By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet
Posted on January 13, 2009
In a direct challenge to the credibility of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Red Cross and other reputable humanitarian organizations, an overwhelming bipartisan majority in both houses of Congress has gone on record supporting President George W. Bush's position that the Israeli armed forces bear no responsibility for the large and growing numbers of civilian casualties from their assault on the Gaza Strip.
As of this writing, at least 400 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces, primarily using U.S.-supplied weaponry.
Shattering hopes that an expanded Democratic congressional majority and a new Democratic administration might lead to a more moderate foreign policy, the resolutions put forward an extreme reinterpretation of international humanitarian law, apparently designed to exonerate nations with superior firepower from any liability for inflicting large-scale civilian casualties. (...)
The earth shaking under your feet, clouds of choking smoke, explosions like a fireworks display, bombs bursting into all-consuming flames that cannot be extinguished with water, mushroom clouds of pinkish-red smoke, suffocating gas, harsh burns on the skin, extraordinary maimed live and dead bodies.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1055927
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Marc Garlasco worked at the Pentagon for seven years: "I did the air targeting, target recommendations, telling people in central command where to drop the bombs during the war in Iraq" - and before that in Kosovo. He lost many colleagues in the Al-Qaida attack on the Defense Department on September 11, 2001. At the Pentagon they asked him to examine whether there was a connection between Al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. "I knew there wasn't," he says, "because my job was to track Saddam Hussein's moves."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1055926
169 YEARS before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title “To Edom”. The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translation):
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1232152100/
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Tens of thousands of people thronged through Gaza's streets yesterday morning. Many left their relatives' houses and the schools where they had been staying for the last two or three weeks, after having been forced to flee the bombing of their homes and neighborhoods and the Israel Defense Forces' advance. They came out to check whether their homes were still standing, or to try to save something from among the rubble of those houses that were destroyed.
As troops leave, 95 bodies discovered in rubble, thousands throng to streets
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1056637
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Some Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip were wounded by a new type of weapon that even doctors with previous experience in war zones do not recognize, according to Dr. Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist who worked at Gaza's Shifa Hospital for 11 days, during Operation Cast Lead.
However, he added in a telephone conversation from Oslo, most casualties were people hit by shrapnel from conventional explosives.
Norwegian doctor: Israel used new type of weapon in Gaza
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1056649
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This is very painful to watch but it provides a very human face to the horror:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUJ4fF2HN4&eurl=http://www.canadiandimens...
Neve Gordon is the chair of the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and is the author of Israel's Occupation, University of California Press, 2008. His website is http://www.israelsoccupation.info
Gaza residents are claiming that some Palestinians killed during the three weeks of fighting were waving white flags at the time they were shot. Four of them were members of the A-Najar family of the village of Khuza'a, east of Khan Yunis.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1056952
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The economic damage to the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel's three-week offensive is estimated at $1.9 billion, according to the Palestinian Statistical Authority in Ramallah. The estimate includes the value of destroyed structures, the anticipated cost of clearing away debris, and the damage caused to ongoing economic activity in the Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1056951
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[url=Press">http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83089§ionid=351020202][=me... TV[/][/url]
You can see and hear Noam Livne before his arrest in this video which I posted in the other thread:
[url=http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/socialtv130109b.html]Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in Gaza - Tel Aviv demonstration, January 8, 2009[/url]
The weapons and ammunition that killed the brothers Kassab and Ibrahim Shurab, aged 28 and 17, were legal. But apart from the weapons and ammunition, was there anything legal about killing them?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1057369
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OF ALL the beautiful phrases in Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, these are the words that stuck in my mind: “You are on the wrong side of history.”
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1232853498/
On The Wrong Side
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=y5NKSGo9oCc
Inside Story - Israeli elections - 22 Jan 09 - Part 1
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=l0OwrH5tCqg
Jeff Halper at a Winnipeg rally for Gaza Jan 24, 2009
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUWMBv5Wh8
Gaza Children Video (shared by Jeff Halper)
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Sorry, wrong thread.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=y_OD4Iz-2jc
Libertà di movimento e di incontro. Donne che si parlano da Israele / Palestina(this video is in english)
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Black Flag
A SPANISH JUDGE has instituted a judicial inquiry against seven Israeli political and military personalities on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The case: the 2002 dropping of a one ton bomb on the home of Hamas leader Salah Shehade. Apart from the intended victim, 14 people, most of them children, were killed.
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Life in Gaza is not 'back to normal'
GAZA - "Only aerial photographs of the Gaza Strip will make it possible to show and to comprehend the extent of the destruction," a number of Western civilians said this week. They added: "But there isn't a chance that Israel will allow anyone to come with a light plane and do aerial photography."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1060390
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http://antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=14155
Hassan, an 8-year-old Gazan boy, could consider himself lucky. Last year, thanks to his serious illness, Israel let him in to be treated in a Tel Aviv hospital. Israel boasts of its generosity: after four decades of occupation, which has left Gaza's hospitals on a Third World level, followed by years of siege, which has exhausted the little equipment and medicine arsenal those wretched hospitals had acquired, Israel grants treatment to a small number of mostly terminal Palestinian patients, provided the full cost is paid by the Palestinian National Authority. How very generous indeed.
What Happened to Hassan?
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GAZA - Palestinian doctors at a number of hospitals in the Gaza Strip informed foreign medical experts allowed into the area over the past two weeks that they were witnessing an unexpected deterioration in the condition of their burn victims.
Gaza burn victims exhibit possible signs of white phosphorous wounds
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1061720
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqh_BiV_6dg
Peace in the Middle East, Jeff Halper Speaks at UCI Part 1 of 8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXsBbwH_xjQ
Riz Khan - Israel's justification for war - 13 Jan 09 - Part 1
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Dirty Socks
“I have some good news and some bad news,” the sergeant in the joke tells his men. “The good news is that you are going to change your dirty socks. The bad news is that you are going to exchange...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnCs0ca1tk
Peace in the Middle East, Jeff Halper Speaks at UCI Q&A Part 1 of 5
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Sorry!
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I just finished listening to Anna Maria Tremonti talking to someone from the Israeli "resistance" group, Peace Now.
This person said he'd like to have peace, but the massacre in Gaza was justified because Isralis need to have security. In other words, murdering hundreds of Arabs is reasonable if it prevents Israeli anxiety about rocket attacks (this, of course, if one actually believes the Gaza massacre was provoked by Hamas rockets in the first place).
I've posted elsewhere that between 96 and 98% of Israelis are in favour of the attack on the Gaza Ghetto. Israelis are almost unanimous in their support for war against Arabs.
My question, in light of this, is how can anyone say "All Hail the Israeli Resistance" with a straight face?
There is no Israeli resistance.
What would you like this thread to be called?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Z6pkvKWUI
Jeff Halper-2009-Siege of Gaza Canada Tour-1of10
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Call it on account of darkness.
I will do no such thing. Please don't post in this thread again. It's not really supposed to be about conversation.
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What a weird thing to say in a discussion forum.
All hail nothing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG6lF-kvQZw
Jeff Halper speaks of Peace
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This thread is meant to contain articles and video clips about the Israeli peace movement, and the activists within it. If people keep treating it as a regular topic, it will become clogged with conversation and will not be able to serve its purpose.
If you want to post a topic that is critical of the Israeli peace camp (and there's quite a bit of criticism that can be leveled at it), then do that, just don't do it in this thread.
"All hail nothing!"
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At 1 P.M. on Monday, January 5, 2009, near Rajib Mughrabi's garage on Saladin Street, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, a man of about 60 was pushing an elderly woman in a wheelbarrow. A 15-year-old boy walked at their side, waving a white cloth. Behind them, some 80 people were walking northward, their hands in the air. The day before, during Israel Defense Forces advances under cover of heavy fire, Palestinian inhabitants began their great flight westward, inward, into the Strip's urban centers. If they thought they were in the soldiers' line of sight, they waved white flags and raised their hands aloft.
The man pushing the wheelbarrow was Mouin Joha, his mother was sitting inside and his son Ibrahim accompanied them bearing the flag.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1063768
Under a white flag, darkly
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Ms Tantalus
TANTALUS IS punished by the Gods for reasons that are not entirely clear. He is hungry and thirsty, but the water in which he stands recedes when he bends down to drink from it and the fruit above his head continually evades his hand.
Tzipi Livni is now undergoing a similar torture. After winning an impressive personal victory at the polls, the political fruit keeps slipping from her grasp when she stretches out her hand.
Why should she deserve that? What has she done, after all? Supported the war, called for a boycott of Hamas, played around with empty negotiations with the Palestinian Authority? OK, she has indeed.. But such a terrible punishment?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-YWhj7hWDw
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe - Part1
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GAZA CITY - A team trained to remove and destroy unexploded ordnance has been operating in the Gaza Strip for three weeks, but its work is being held up because Israel has not approved the entry of its equipment nor an area for storing and neutralizing ordnance. For now some of the latter, located by the Palestinian police, is being stored in locations that are dangerously close to population centers in Rafah, Khan Yunis and Gaza City.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1064873
Mine-clearing teams in Gaza waiting for Israeli OK
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If there were a Nobel Prize for Hypocrisy, Abraham Foxman would have been a great candidate. The director of the Anti-Defamation League, who once interpreted even International Holocaust Remembrance Day as an expression of the Gentiles' latent desire to see Jews dead, has published a new survey on anti-Semitism in Europe [.pdf]. One of the assertions respondents were asked to agree or disagree with was "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country"; an affirmative response was considered indicative of anti-Semitism.
http://antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=14256
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'
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GAZA - The question "Who is it?" was answered with: "The Israel Defense Forces." Majdi Abed Rabbo, 39, who is a Palestinian Authority (Ramallah) employee and a member of its intelligence apparatus, went down to open the door. Standing there was the son of his neighbors, Mahmoud Daher, and behind him a soldier whose rifle was jammed into Daher's back. The soldier pushed Daher aside and aimed the rifle at Abed Rabbo.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1065594
Gazans: IDF used us as 'human shields' during offensive
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Shachaf Polakow - Anarchists Against the Wall
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