THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.-- Albert Camus

 

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Nov 20 21:55

'Israel tasked with spying on Americans'

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Bamford maintains that the bugging of the entire two networks, 'carrying billions of American communications every day', were handed to two companies founded in Israel.

Nov 20 16:46

Noise but no action from US over family’s eviction

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The middle-of-the-night eviction last week of an elderly Palestinian couple from their home in East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers is a demonstration of Israeli intent towards a future peace deal with the Palestinians.

Mohammed and Fawziya Khurd are now on the street, living in a tent, after Israeli police enforced a court order issued in July to expel them.

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Nov 20 13:41

Iranian 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan is arrested on charge of spying for Israel

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A prominent Iranian blogger, nicknamed the Blogfather for spawning Iran’s spectacular blogging revolution, has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel.

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Nov 20 11:45

Banks reduce maximum mortgage financing: Union Bank will lend only up to 60% of a home's value.

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Most of the Israeli banks that still work with EMI's parent company, American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG), which the US government nationalized after the insurer became financially troubled, have lowered the maximum mortgage financing.

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So ... US tax dollars are subsidizing home mortgages in Israel?

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Nov 20 10:01

Essential health facilities at the Al Shifa medical center stopped functioning

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Dr. Hussein Ashour, head of the Al Shifa medical center in Gaza, one of the biggest medical centers in the Gaza Strip, stated that main facilities at the center stopped functioning due to the lack of fundamental equipment and tools.

Ashour added that the Oxygen Department, the Heart Unit, Physical Therapy Unit and the main laboratory completely stopped functioning as they lack fundamental equipment and tools.

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The Siege: Israel's "final solution" for sick Palestinian Gazans, including the infants and children.

Nov 20 09:29

Who Will Stop the Settlers?

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The middle-of-the-night eviction last week of an elderly Palestinian couple from their home in East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers is a demonstration of Israeli intent towards a future peace deal with the Palestinians.

Mohammed and Fawziya Khurd are now on the street, living in a tent, after Israeli police enforced a court order issued in July to expel them.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

A memo to Hamas and Fatah; the longer you keep bickering (which Israel, by the way, just loves and gloats about), the worse these situations will become, and the less likely it will be that there will truly be a Palestinian state.

Nov 20 08:34

SHAMELESS IN LONDON, OBSCENE IN ISRAEL, STUPID IN RAMALLAH

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The decision by the Buckingham palace to bestow an honorary knighthood on Israeli President Shimon Peres should be viewed as a blatant disregard for propriety and moral conduct by Queen Elizabeth II and the British government. It is also a definitive sign of the decadence of our time.

Nov 20 08:14

Gazans despair over blockade

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"People in Gaza are waiting in lines for almost everything, and that's if they're lucky enough to find something to wait for," says Bassam Nasser, 39.

An aid worker in Gaza City, he, like so many others there, including the UN relief agency, says living conditions are the worst he has ever seen in the strip.

"People queue for two or three hours for bread, but sometimes there's no cooking gas or flour, so no bread.

"People wait in line for UN food handouts, but sometimes there aren't any. The suffering is reaching every aspect of life."

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Israel is acting just like the Nazis did. The images of suffering from Palestine could just as easily be images of the suffering in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Nov 20 07:39

Israeli leaders make secret journey to Jordan

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Israeli leaders made a secret journey to neighboring Jordan earlier this week, listening to pleas from King Abdullah II to avert a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Jordan officials confirmed Thursday.

The Israeli officials said the king told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak that military action would threaten regional stability, the Israeli officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of Tuesday's meeting.

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Nov 19 16:45

Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy

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Extra-judicial killings are indefensible, morally abhorrent, and illegal under international laws and norms. Article 23b of the 1907 Hague Regulations prohibits "assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enemy's head, as well as offering a reward for any enemy 'dead or alive.' "

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." UDHR also recognizes the "inherent dignity (and the) equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family."

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Nov 19 14:05

Israel Bans International Media from Gaza, Arrests Human Rights Activists

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Israel has banned foreign journalists from entering Gaza to cover the deteriorating humanitarian situation there as the country 's complete closure of the territory enters a third week.

Nov 19 13:07

Declassified Papers: DOJ Accepted AIPAC Parent's Demand for Secrecy

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Papers kept secret for 43 years show that the US Department of Justice attempted to register the parent organization of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, as the foreign agent of Israel.

Such a registration could have changed the course of Middle East history by giving the president, State Department and American public more insight and leverage over the Israel lobby during peace negotiations to compensate displaced Palestinians and avert Israel's covert development of nuclear weapons.

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Nov 19 12:57

NAZIS PAR EXCELLENCE

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Israeli propagandists routinely dismiss comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israel as “corrupt” and “far-fetched.” Some Zionists would even argue that only pathological anti-Semites would dare make such comparisons.

However, in light of what Israel has been and is doing to the Palestinians, including the present ruthless blockade of the Gaza Strip, and the slow, agonizing death meted out to innocent Gazans, any honest person shouldn’t fail to observe the striking similarity between the Nazi mentality and the collective Israeli mindset.

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Nov 19 10:47

Germany-Egypt sub sale worries Israel

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Israel is increasingly concerned that Germany might sell Dolphin-class submarines to Egypt, top defense and political officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

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But of course no problem when Germany gives Israel the same exact submarine, right?

Nov 19 10:46

Egypt court orders freeze on gas exports to Israel

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An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered a freeze on controversial gas exports to Israel, saying parliament must first be consulted on the 15-year deal with Egypt's former foe, a judicial source told AFP.

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Nov 19 10:45

Israeli Air Force chief: We are ready to deal with Iran

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"We will have the Americans go over and kill them!"

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Nov 19 10:44

ZOA, Israeli rabbis press for Pollard pardon

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The Zionist Organization of America and 200 Israeli chief rabbis asked President Bush to pardon Jonathan Pollard.

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Pollard gave Israel US nuclear secrets, which Israel in turn gave to Russia. This compromised the US nuclear deterrent, which YOU are still making payments on!

Nov 19 10:27

Israel Seals Off Gaza, Expresses Outrage Over UN Remarks

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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned the blockade for denying 1.5 million Palestinian civilians of “their most basic human rights” and said it was a “direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law.”

The statement has outraged Israel, and Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Aharon Leshno-Yaar condemned Pillay for being “utterly shortsighted,” and insisted that all the problems in the Gaza Strip were entirely the fault of Hamas.

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Nov 19 09:26

Caught in Bed with Evil

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On the face of it, at the time the Jewish state is exercising the most devastating forms of crimes against humanity, the British Government, the British Parliament, the royal family and a major British academic institute are all caught together in bed with no less than a nuclear enthusiast butcher.

Nov 19 09:26

Foreign Reporters’ Group Fights Israeli Prohibition on Entering Gaza

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An association representing international news organizations is campaigning for an end to an unusual Israeli policy barring foreign reporters from entering Gaza that has lasted for almost two weeks.

Nov 19 09:21

GAZA: On Top of Humanitarian Disaster, A News Blackout

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Israel has imposed a virtual news blackout on the Gaza Strip. For the last ten days no foreign journalists have been able to enter the besieged territory to report on the escalating humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's complete closure of Gaza's borders for the last two weeks.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

What is Israel so terrified reporters will see in Gaza?

Are things so horrendous in Gaza that they don't want any information getting out?

The problem for Israel is that the information about what's going on in Gaza will get out, one way or another.

Nov 19 09:20

UN envoy urges Gaza blockade end

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The UN's top human rights official has said Israel's blockade of Gaza deprives Palestinians of the "most basic human rights" and should end immediately.

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"What's a UN?" -- Israel

United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Israel (the vast majority of which have been ignored by Israel)

1. Resolution 42: The Palestine Question (5 March 1948) Requests recommendations for the Palestine Commission

2. Resolution 43: The Palestine Question (1 Apr 1948) Recognizes "increasing violence and disorder in Palestine" and requests that representatives of "the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Arab Higher Committee" arrange, with the Security Council, "a truce between the Arab and Jewish Communities of Palestine...Calls upon Arab and Jewish armed groups in Palestine to cease acts of violence immediately."

3. Resolution 44: The Palestine Question (1 Apr 1948) Requests convocation of special session of the General Assembly

4. Resolution 46: The Palestine Question (17 Apr 1948) As the United Kingdom is the Mandatory Power, "it is responsible for the maintenance of peace and order in Palestine." The Resolutions also "Calls upon all persons and organizations in Palestine" to stop importing "armed bands and fighting personnel...whatever their origin;...weapons and war materials;...Refrain, pending the future government of Palestine...from any political activity which might prejudice the rights, claims, or position of either community;...refrain from any action which will endager the safety of the Holy Places in Palestine."

5. Resolution 48: The Palestine Question (23 Apr 1948)

6. Resolution 49: The Palestine Question (22 May 1948)

7. Resolution 50: The Palestine Question (29 May 1948)

8. Resolution 53: The Palestine Question (7 Jul 1948)

9. Resolution 54: The Palestine Question (15 Jul 1948)

10. Resolution 56: The Palestine Question (19 Aug 1948)

11. Resolution 57: The Palestine Question (18 Sep 1948)

12. Resolution 59: The Palestine Question (19 Oct 1948)

13. Resolution 60: The Palestine Question (29 Oct 1948)

14. Resolution 61: The Palestine Question (4 Nov 1948)

15. Resolution 62: The Palestine Question (16 Nov 1948)

16. Resolution 66: The Palestine Question (29 Dec 1948)

17. Resolution 72: The Palestine Question (11 Aug 1949)

18. Resolution 73: The Palestine Question (11 Aug 1949)

19. Resolution 89 (17 November 1950): regarding Armistice in 1948 Arab-Israeli War and "transfer of persons".

20. Resolution 92: The Palestine Question (8 May 1951)

21. Resolution 93: The Palestine Question (18 May 1951)

22. Resolution 95: The Palestine Question (1 Sep 1951)

23. Resolution 100: The Palestine Question (27 Oct 1953)

24. Resolution 101: The Palestine Question (24 Nov 1953)

25. Resolution 106: The Palestine Question (29 Mar 1955) 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid.

26. Resolution 107: The Palestine Question (30 Mar)

27. Resolution 108: The Palestine Question (8 Sep)

28. Resolution 111: " ... 'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people".

29. Resolution 127: " ... 'recommends' Israel suspends its 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem".

30. Resolution 162: " ... 'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions".

31. Resolution 171: " ... determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria".

32. Resolution 228: " ... 'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control".

33. Resolution 237: " ... 'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees".

34. Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967): Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area. Calls on Israel's neighbors to end the state of belligerency and calls upon Israel to reciprocate by withdraw its forces from land claimed by other parties in 1967 war. Interpreted commonly today as calling for the Land for peace principle as a way to resolve Arab-Israeli conflict

35. Resolution 248: " ... 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan".

36. Resolution 250: " ... 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem".

37. Resolution 251: " ... 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250".

38. Resolution 252: " ... 'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital".

39. Resolution 256: " ... 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation".

40. Resolution 259: " ... 'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation".

41. Resolution 262: " ... 'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport".

42. Resolution 265: " ... 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan".

43. Resolution 267: " ... 'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem".

44. Resolution 270: " ... 'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon".

45. Resolution 271: " ... 'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem".

46. Resolution 279: " ... 'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon".

47. Resolution 280: " ... 'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon".

48. Resolution 285: " ... 'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon".

49. Resolution 298: " ... 'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem".

50. Resolution 313: " ... 'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon".

51. Resolution 316: " ... 'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon".

52. Resolution 317: " ... 'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon".

53. Resolution 332: " ... 'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon".

54. Resolution 337: " ... 'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty".

55. Resolution 338 (22 October 1973): cease fire in Yom Kippur War

56. Resolution 339 (23 October 1973): Confirms Res. 338, dispatch UN observers.

57. Resolution 347: " ... 'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon".

58. Resolution 3379: "...'establishes' Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination". Repealed by Resolution 46|86.

59. Resolution 425 (1978): " ... 'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon". Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon was completed as of 16 June 2000.

60. Resolution 350 (31 May 1974) established the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, to monitor the ceasefire
between Israel and Syria in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.

61. Resolution 427: " ... 'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon".

62. Resolution 444: " ... 'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces".

63. Resolution 446 (1979): 'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".

64. Resolution 450: " ... 'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon".

65. Resolution 452: " ... 'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories".

66. Resolution 465: " ... 'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel's settlements program".

67. Resolution 467: " ... 'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon".

68. Resolution 468: " ... 'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return".

69. Resolution 469: " ... 'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the council's order not to deport Palestinians".

70. Resolution 471: " ... 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".

71. Resolution 476: " ... 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".

72. Resolution 478 (20 August 1980): 'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'.

73. Resolution 484: " ... 'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors".

74. Resolution 487: " ... 'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's nuclear facility".

75. Resolution 497 (17 December 1981) decides that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescinds its decision forthwith.

76. Resolution 498: " ... 'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon".

77. Resolution 501: " ... 'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops".

78. Resolution 508:

79. Resolution 509: " ... 'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon".

80. Resolution 515: " ... 'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in".

81. Resolution 517: " ... 'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon".

82. Resolution 518: " ... 'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon".

83. Resolution 520: " ... 'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut".

84. Resolution 573: " ... 'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters.

85. Resolution 587 " ... 'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw".

86. Resolution 592: " ... 'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops".

87. Resolution 605: " ... 'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians.

88. Resolution 607: " ... 'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention.

89. Resolution 608: " ... 'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians".

90. Resolution 636: " ... 'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.

91. Resolution 641: " ... 'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians.

92. Resolution 672: " ... 'condemns' Israel for "violence against Palestinians" at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.

93. Resolution 673: " ... 'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United Nations.

94. Resolution 681: " ... 'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of Palestinians.

95. Resolution 694: " ... 'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return.

96. Resolution 726: " ... 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians.

97. Resolution 799: ". . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.

98. Resolution 1559 (2 September 2004) called upon Lebanon to establish its sovereignty over all of its land and called upon Syria to end their military presence in Lebanon by withdrawing its forces and to cease intervening in internal Lebanese politics. The resolution also called on all Lebanese militias to disband.

99. Resolution 1583 (28 January 2005) calls on Lebanon to assert full control over its border with Israel. It also states that "the Council has recognized the Blue Line as valid for the purpose of confirming Israel's withdrawal pursuant to resolution 425.

100. Resolution 1648 (21 December 2005) renewed the mandate of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force until 30 June 2006.

101. Resolution 1701 (11 August 2006) called for the full cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

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Nov 19 08:30

Israel Seals Off Gaza, Expresses Outrage Over UN

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The UN was able to resume food distribution with the small number of admitted trucks, it won’t be able to maintain them for long. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned the blockade for denying 1.5 million Palestinian civilians of “their most basic human rights” and said it was a “direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law.”

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Israel is so adept at blaming the victims.

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Nov 19 08:29

Settler rabbi: The State of Israel is an enemy of the people

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Nov 19 08:22

Ban expresses concern to Olmert over humanitarian situation in Gaza

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday he was deeply concerned over the humanitarian situation in Gaza and called on Israel to allow UN aid workers to access the territory.

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Memo to UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon: it's obvious you don't see what is going on in plain sight.

The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is precisely what Israel wants to have happen right now.

The outcome of the siege of Gaza is a literal "softening up for the kill", in terms of a major Israeli assault happening soon: Olmert has already ordered his military to prepare for this.

It's only a matter of time.

Nov 18 14:18

Study: Bank Leumi not obliged to return cash to Holocaust victims' heirs

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The company asked the bank in March for money in 1,299 accounts belonging to Holocaust victims, totaling some NIS 147 million. The company later asked for NIS 250 million more, from some 1,000 additional accounts in the bank. Most of the sum consists of revalued accounts, after adding accumulated interest and linkage until 1960, when the bank passed them on to the Custodian General.

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So, the bank got to use the money belonging to holocaust victims, loan it out at interest, but when they are finally forced to return that money to the heirs of the victims, the bank claims that since the original holocaust victims could not be paid the accumulated interest, then their heirs should not be allowed to collect the additional monies either!

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Nov 18 10:43

AIPAC's Man in the Obama Camp

By: the_big_wedding
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Barack Obama's first appointment, that of Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, is quite frankly unsettling and suggests that voters who had hoped for real change in Washington will be disappointed.

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Nov 18 09:59

Finding the words to say it

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"The BBC’s Tim Franks in Jerusalem says we have no clue as to when or where this video was shot and it is impossible to know just how frequently such incidents occur." — 'BBC: Israel army studies 'abuse video’

But right below this it says,

"But a leading Israeli human rights group says "many instances of abuse are not exposed because they have become the norm"".

But is this all this group said? Why isn’t the group named? Why is the source not identified? It seems the 'rules’ that allegedly govern reportage are as flexible as Mr Franks interpretation of events are.

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Nov 18 09:25

Urgent International Push for Pollard

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A massive and concerted effort is being made to bring about the release of Jonathan Pollard from prison after 23 years – directed both at PM Olmert and Pres. Bush.

In the knowledge that outgoing U.S. President George W. Bush is currently preparing a list of possibly hundreds of American prisoners to pardon, the goal of the international campaign is to have Jonathan Pollard included.

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If Bush pardons this traitor to his country, it will rank as one of the most despicable, vile acts he has ever done, and that is saying something.

As reported at:

http://jya.com/traitor.htm
This is what the American Journalist, Seymour Hersh, had to say:

"In the course of my own interviews for this account, the officials who knew the most about Jonathan Pollard made it clear that they were talking because they no longer had confidence that President Clinton would do what they believed was the right thing -- keep Pollard locked up. Pollard, these officials told me, had done far more damage to American national security than was ever made known to the public; for example, he betrayed elements of four major American intelligence systems. In their eyes, there is no distinction between betraying secrets to an enemy, such as the Soviet Union, and betraying secrets to an ally. Officials are loath to talk publicly about it, but spying on allies is a fact of life: the United States invests billions annually to monitor the communications of its friends. Many American embassies around the world contain a clandestine intercept facility that targets diplomatic communications. The goal is not only to know the military and diplomatic plans of our friends but also to learn what intelligence they may be receiving and with whom they share information. "If a friendly state has friends that we don't see as friends," one senior official explained, sensitive intelligence that it should not possess -- such as that supplied by Pollard -- "can spread to others." Many officials said they were convinced that information Pollard sold to the Israelis had ultimately wound up in the hands of the Soviet Union."

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Nov 18 09:03

A New Path For Israel?

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Hours after resigning as prime minister of Israel on September 21, 2008, Ehud Olmert gave an interview to the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth (excerpted in the New York Review of Books), in which he seems to have made a 180 degree turnaround from his former views. Olmert said,

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Nov 18 09:00

AIPAC's Man in the Obama Camp

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Barack Obama's first appointment, that of Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, is quite frankly unsettling and suggests that voters who had hoped for real change in Washington will be disappointed. There should also be some concern on the part of Americans who believe that a close and continuing relationship with a foreign government might disqualify one for high office in the United States.

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Nov 18 08:01

Gaza and the Psychopaths.

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It has got to be said and I am going to say it as simply and clearly as I can. I’m not going to put a lot of links up. If you want information then just go to the sidebar and click on one of the news sites. There’s plenty in our alternative news about it… most especially at www.whatreallyhappened.com in the last few days.

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Nov 18 07:50

URGENT: Kidnapped by the Israeli Navy

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Fifteen Palestinian fishermen along with three internationals have been kidnapped in Palestinian waters by the Israeli Navy. They were fishing seven miles off the coast of Deir Al Balah, clearly in Gaza fishing waters and well within the fishing limit detailed in the Oslo Accords of 1994.

The fishermen and the human right's observers were transferred from 3 separate boats to the Israeli warships. Other Palestinian fishermen reported that the 3 boats were seen being taken north by the Israeli Navy.

Nov 18 06:59

Israeli tanks move into Gaza, level farmland

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Israeli tanks forged into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, drawing mortar fire from Palestinian militants and intensifying violence that has chipped away at a tenuous cease-fire.

Israel and Hamas have been trading fire for two weeks after nearly five months of relative quiet. The June 19 truce is due to expire next month, and both sides might be trying to dictate more favorable terms in anticipation of the agreement's renewal.

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Nov 18 06:53

Israeli tanks rumble into Gaza

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Israeli tanks forged into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, drawing rocket and mortar fire from Palestinian militants, militant groups said, intensifying violence that has chipped away at a tenuous cease-fire.

Israel and Hamas have been trading fire for two weeks after nearly five months of relative quiet. The June 19 truce is due to expire next month, and both sides might be trying to dictate more favorable terms in anticipation of the agreement's renewal.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

The media is going to feed you a load about how this is all because of rockets fired into Southern Israel a few days ago, and never mention that the rockets were a RESPONSE to an Israeli attack on November 5th.

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Nov 17 13:12

Olmert The Liar

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Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused the Islamist Hamas movement on Sunday of "shattering" the Gaza truce after two rockets hit Israel, prompting an air strike which killed four Palestinian militants.
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"The responsibility for the shattering of the calm and the creation of a situation of prolonged and repeated violence in the south of the country is entirely on Hamas and the other terror groups in Gaza," Olmert told ministers.
Israel accuses Hamas of 'shattering' Gaza truce

The truce was broken by Israel twelve days ago.

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Nov 17 11:41

Olmert orders plans drawn up for massive offensive against Gaza

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Interim Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert accused Hamas on Sunday of "shattering" the Gaza truce after two rockets hit Israel, which the Jewish state followed with an air strike that killed four Palestinian resistance fighters. However, Olmert, who made the comments at a weekly Israeli Cabinet meeting, did not mention the initial Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip on November 5 that killed seven Hamas members. The incursion, which touched off days of fighting, was in violation of an Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas which had virtually halted violence between the two foes.

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This is the classic Israeli pattern. Kill Palestinians, and when there is a response, claim that the response is the initiating cause and "retaliate."

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Nov 17 11:40

Occupation 101 (better link)

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Nov 17 10:56

The Jonathon Pollard Pardon...The Final Stick In The Eye Of The American Intelligence Comunity

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Zionists everywhere have been working overtime in the past decade in an effort to free Jonathon Pollard , the most infamous traitor in all of our history.

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Nov 17 09:37

Support urged for Israeli stand on Gaza

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ISRAELI foreign minister Tzipi Livni has told her visiting British counterpart David Miliband she expects the international community to support the Jewish state's tough stand in Gaza.

"Israel cannot just watch its citizens being attacked... The international community cannot turn a blind-eye," Ms Livni said today during talks with Mr Miliband.

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Memo to FM Tzipi Livni: this time, the world will not be turning a blind eye to the devastation Israel is causing in Gaza.

It is apparent that you haven't taken a look at the Red Cross Report, issued last week, about the effects of malnutrition on children, and how medically fragile Gazans who could be saved by appropriate medical intervention are being denied treatment outside Gaza.

But of course, FM Livni, these are precisely the outcomes the Israeli government wants to see happen in Gaza. The world knows that Olmert has ordered plans for a massive military action against Gaza, and the Gazan people are literally being "softened up for the kill" by the siege.

This slaughter will include children, women, and the medically infirm.

And I can guarantee you; this time, there will be cameras rolling, real footage of the carnage smuggled out, and the world will know precisely what the Israeli government has done in the name of its "security". The Israeli government will not be able to stop some of it getting out, in all its gory details, no matter how hard it tries.

This potential assault against Gaza guarantees the destruction of the Israel's image as "the only true democracy in the region", consistently seeking better relations with its neighbors.

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Nov 17 09:35

Israel prevents 15 medicine-laden trucks into Gaza

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Israel on Sunday prevented 15 trucks loaded with different kinds of medicines from passing through one of Gaza Strip crossings, a Palestinian health ministry official said.

Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian health ministry, said in a statement that the Gaza Strip has been under a strict Israeli blockade for 13 days.

"The medical situation is worsening and we are living in a severe humanitarian crisis as Israel prevented the entrance of 15 trucks loaded with medicine from the West Bank into Gaza," said Hassanein.

Nov 17 09:34

(Video) Canadian politician helps JNF coverup Israeli war crimes.

By: StingRay
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The politician is Liberal MP and JNF (Jewish National Fund) member Bob Rae. He recently threw his hat into the ring as a candidate for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftlryv_dbEc

Nov 17 09:11

Olmert orders plans drawn up for massive offensive against Gaza

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At the weekly Cabinet meeting, Olmert said he had ordered security chiefs to draw up action plans against Hamas' 17-month-old rule in Gaza.

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So this is really what the siege of Gaza has been all about: literally "softening up" the Gazan people for the kill, to destroy a democratically elected government (through a process generally viewed as having been free and fair election.)

Nov 16 10:46

"When the Liaison Israeli Military & PA Security Sevices Accelerate - the Enemy Will Not Be Scrutinized"

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On Friday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the Israeli government, regarding its legal responsibility to deliver urgent and steady supply of sufficient fuel and humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip.The Israelis have blocked fuel delivery and turned away trucks with food distributed by UNRWA. Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that he is deeply concerned about the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the risk of a possible humanitarian disaster.

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Memo to UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon; forgive me, sir, but have your cognitive abilities wandered off in your sleep?

A "...humanitarian disaster..." is precisely the outcome Israel is looking for here.

And why?

As reported on Saturday, 15 November 2008:

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m48795&hd=&size=1&l=e

"Israeli Deputy Defense Minister, Matan Vilnai, stated on Friday that a large-scale invasion of Gaza is only a matter of time and added that the army was prepared to invade the Gaza Strip and fight Hamas."

Don't you get it, Secretary General Ki-Moon? The Israeli siege is literally "softening up" Gaza for the kill.

And you and your cronies in positions of international power will do absolutely nothing to stop the impending slaughter, other than possibly condemn it verbally.

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Nov 16 10:34

Barack Obama links Israel peace plan to 1967 borders deal

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Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to America’s president-elect.

Obama intends to throw his support behind a 2002 Saudi peace initiative endorsed by the Arab League and backed by Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister and leader of the ruling Kadima party.

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Nov 16 10:33

Occupation 101 (video; watch while available; over 18 only)

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Nov 16 10:32

Knesset MP calls for making lives of Gaza people insufferable

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Gideon Ezra, a member of the Knesset for Kadima and a former minister of internal security, called on the Israeli government to tighten the noose on the Gaza Strip's people and make their lives intolerable.

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Apparently, Kadima MP Ezra has not gotten the memo that the Red Cross report on Gaza has documented that the conditions of the lives of the Gazan people are already intolerable.

One could expect from this man, asked whether women and kids and the medically infirm should be killed along side those launching the rockets (and there are always questions about who is really doing that, to further escalate the situation), that his response would be an historic echo of the statement made by the Papal Legate during the siege of Montsegur.

When told that there were women and kids with the Cathar men, the Papal Legat's response was: "Kill them all: God will find his own."

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Nov 16 10:24

'Halt Israeli Nuclear program'

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A US research center on nuclear weapons has urged President-elect Barack Obama to press Israel to halt production of its nuclear weapons.

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Nov 16 10:19

Bush unexpectedly meets Livni, Peres at UN

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"They were not supposed to meet," Livni's spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. But as soon as Bush was done addressing the conference, the head of UN protocol approached Livni's staff and told them that the president wanted to speak with them. The president walked from the podium directly to them.

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Regardless of what Livni said for public/press consumption, you still have to wonder which side called for this impromptu meeting, and just what the real agenda was.

And that shot of Bush with his arm around Livni's neck: it's almost enough to make you lose your breakfast.

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Nov 16 10:01

Chronic malnutrition in Gaza blamed on Israel

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The Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to a steady rise in chronic malnutrition among the 1.5 million people living in the strip, according to a leaked report from the Red Cross.

It chronicles the "devastating" effect of the siege that Israel imposed after Hamas seized control in June 2007 and notes that the dramatic fall in living standards has triggered a shift in diet that will damage the long-term health of those living in Gaza and has led to alarming deficiencies in iron, vitamin A and vitamin D.

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Israeli political and military leadership is many things, but one of them is not stupid.

Therefore, it has to be understood that this was precisely one the outcomes Israeli leadership wanted to have happen to the people of Gaza.

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Nov 16 09:39

Aftershock

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"Whilst I was there, I lost all my faith in the Israeli army. They put it right in your face: 'Go be the oppressors for your people. Force yourselves upon them’. They told us…’take these bats wrapped up in plastic and…calm things down’…We had skulls on our helmets, dude. We walked around with machetes, all kinds of crazy stuff. Sheriff badges.

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Nov 16 09:09

Balfour to Blair

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Balfour to Blair is a special 30 minute film that investigates the role of British policy in the Middle East from the beginning of the 20th century to today.

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Note the admission that the Arabs were promised a nation of their own for helping the allies in WW1, but then were double-crossed.
Funny how this betrayal seldom gets mentioned in the schools.

Nov 15 19:18

Rahm Emanuel - Israeli Spy

By: poorrichard
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John O'Neill and another FBI agent who still works for the bureau discovered that Emanuel was heavily involved in the decision to place Lewinsky close to Clinton. O'Neill retired after being set up in a smear operation involving a temporarily stolen briefcase in 2001, accepted the top security position for Kroll Associates at the WTC, and was killed in the 9/11 attack. Clinton reportedly had knowledge of Israeli intelligence penetration of White House communications systems, and Lewinsky, in sworn testimony before the Office of Independent Counsel, stated:

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Nov 15 16:32

UN closes Gaza aid centers, citing lack of food

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Gazans seeking food aid walked away empty-handed from locked United Nations distribution centers Saturday after a strict Israeli border closure depleted U.N. food reserves.

Israel sealed Gaza's borders nearly two weeks ago as part of a new round of fighting with Gaza's Hamas rulers. Hamas rocket fire on Israeli border towns and Israeli air strikes on Gaza militants have eroded a truce that had largely held for five months.

Nov 15 12:19

Barack Obama; Friend to Israel

By: disinter
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And now we have a President Elect who not only claims himself to be a “friend to Israel” but, he is seriously considering Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State and he has already chosen dual citizen, Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff.

Nov 15 09:37

United Nations Food Aid Intended for 750,000 Palestinian Refugees in Gaza Blocked by Israel

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"We cannot describe the situation in Gaza Strip except as a terrible and terrifying one.There are 750,000 refugees who depend on what we offer them in food supplies, and the Israelis are preventing us from distributing these supplies," - John Ging concluded: "the Israeli closure, collectively punishing civilians, is a violation of international law. "

Nov 15 07:35

Settler violence continues in Hebron, 2-3 August 2008

By: malterwitty
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Settler violence in Hebron continued over the weekend. The following footage shows minors throwing stones at Palestinian homes and at a car driven by international TIPH observers, as well as soldiers barring B’Tselem worker, Issa ‘Amro, from filming settlers who were assaulting a group of wedding guests. When a settler attacked ‘Amro and broke his camera, the soldiers stood by and did nothing.

Nov 15 06:04

The United Nations of New Jerusalem and the Empire of Zog

By: earlybird
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A number of European countries followed the lead of the U.K. and publicly acknowledged that it was world destiny that Israel should rule the Unified Nations of the New Jerusalem. Still… a lot of countries held out and are continuing to, despite the daily terror attacks that are being blamed on anyone who is standing in the way of world unification.

Nov 14 19:18

Israel's "Ethnic cleansing by stealth."

By: StingRay
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With every cruel and unusual punishment meted out against West Bank villagers, Israel is fomenting more and more hate against its own people.

"When Israel was first created, I had a lot of admiration and respect for the Jews; now I want to throw them all into the sea." The choice of phraseology was no accident on the part of the speaker, who wanted to make crystal clear the effects that more than 40 years of Israeli occupation have had on him and his family.

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