You know they won't have to try very hard with
Neo-Conservative Governments.
Gaza needs our support now more than ever.
Back to the streets!
Please pressure your representatives, and remind them
that elections are looming ...
Laying groundwork for Gaza war
Berlin first stop in Israeli effort to obtain international
backing ahead of Gaza operation
Roni Sofer Published:
Olmert, Livni and Barak know that Israel’s public relations
apparatus is currently facing a problem. The Western world,
which maintained its support for Israel’s right to act against
the rocket attacks from Gaza employed by Hamas and its associates,
is inclined to criticize the Jewish State over the
Gaza siege and economic sanctions.
(Collective Punishment is a War Crime. The rockets that
Israel is trying to use to justify attacks it planned long before
Annapolis have been provoked by its imposition of Collective
Punishment, its War Crimes. Its own defence staff warned
that when these illegal measures were increased months ago,
that this policy would provoke such a response.)
Israel’s stock is dropping, reaching the point of a condemnation
by British foreign secretary David Miliband last weekend.
The concern is growing in light of the possibility that Israel
will need to embark on a wide-scale military operation
in Gaza early in spring.
(It doesn't 'need' to do this, and therein lies the rub.
Israel's ruling Extremists simply reject any notion of ending its
war to wipe Palestine off the map, especially if it involves
partaking in a 'peace process' it can't control, one which would
force Israel to give back much of what it has stolen, as demanded
by international Law and UN Security Council Resolutions.)
Olmert is reading the international map and he knows what
Israel has planned should the Qassam fire continue. Together
with Livni and Barak, they postpone the decision to embark
on major Gaza operation every week. Yet the three of them
know that it is impossible to go on with a situation whereby
civilians are subjected to Qassam barrages and a game
of Palestinian roulette.
(But the facts that Israel's attacks on Gaza have doubled since
Annapolis, as has the murder of Palestinian civilians during
these attacks, and the severity of Israel's War Crimes in Gaza
are apparently inconsequential. Israel is wholly responsible
for this 'crisis', one which could quickly be averted if they
truly wanted this to happen.)
In closed-door sessions, Olmert’s people make it clear that
should Israel decide on a wide-scale operation, it would need
international room for maneuver. It needs support that would
be similar to what Israel enjoyed in the last war in Lebanon. This
will enable Israel to complete an effective military operation and
also, if necessary, would facilitate the involvement of a
UN-mandated multinational force in order to prevent the
emergence of a new Gaza vacuum.
(The only UN force needed is one to seperate the Israelis from the
Palestinians, and to enforce the many Security Council
Resolutions Israel is currently in violation of.)
Grand diplomatic campaign
Berlin, which is undecided on the prospects of a major Israeli
operation, was a good place to start. On the one hand there is
Chancellor Merkel there, who was convinced of the need to
back Israel’s actions – ranging from continued civilian
sanctions to expanded military operations. On the other
hand, there is German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, Merkel’s coalition partner, who does not
automatically back everything Israel says.
(Appeasement doesn't work. Haven't we learned that by
now? If you allow Israel this murderous rampage,
where does it end?)
Olmert presented to the German administration the distress
faced by Sderot and Gaza-region residents, pointed to Hamas-Iran
ties, and warned that fundamentalist terrorism has no boundaries.
This public relations work was apparently useful.
(But that's all it is; empty PR. The attack which has been planned
for months would make the abject suffering
of Gazans immeasurably worse.)
Now, officials at the Prime Minister’s Office are
expecting the grand campaign to start.
Yesterday, Foreign Minister Livni took 70 foreign diplomats
to see a 15-second film, about the 15 seconds that Sderot
residents have in order to find a shelter from the exploding
Qassams. Now she traveled to Washington, where she will
meet her counterpart Condoleezza Rice, who is expected to
arrive here next month. In the meeting Livni will discuss
the intolerable situation in the south.
(Immorality breeds contradiction. Nothing the residents
of Sderot have to 'endure' because of their Government's
rejection of peace even approaches the suffering endured,
the terror felt, by the people of Gaza.)
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Barak traveled to Turkey, and
spoke about the need to safeguard southern residents even
before promoting negotiations on the establishment of a
Palestinian state. Other ministers will travel worldwide,
while our ambassadors will work hard.
(He means to say 'instead of', not 'even before' ...)
Berlin came first, as a harbinger of what the political leadership
in Jerusalem wishes to achieve internationally, ahead
of the hot summer in Gaza.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles
/0,7340,L-3506777,00.html
'IDF should wipe out parts of Gaza'
By YAAOV KATZ AND TOVAH LAZAROFF
Israel will escalate its ground and air operations in the Gaza Strip
this week and may begin targeting members of the Hamas political
leadership in the wake of intensified Kassam rocket attacks against
Sderot, senior defense officials said Sunday.
(This was planned before the Annapolis Conference. Israel was simply
awaiting a politically-expedient ‘crisis’ it could excuse its aggression
with. The rocket attacks are actually down.)
The officials said it was premature to launch a major ground operation
and that the army still had a number of steps to try
before reaching that point.
"The IDF has not exhausted all of its options," a defense official
said. The decision to escalate military operations was made
after two brothers, aged eight and 19, were seriously wounded by
a Kassam rocket in Sderot on Saturday night.
(Which provides the pretext for the premeditated attack.
The attack which injured these young men is on the heads of the
Extremists within the Israeli Government who reject the prospect
of negotiating and making compromises in the name of peace.)
Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit told The Jerusalem Post that during
Sunday's cabinet meeting, he had called on the IDF to "take off its
gloves," head into Gaza with armored tractors and raze an entire
neighborhood from which rockets have been launched, and then
withdraw. The residents of that neighborhood would be warned
in advance to flee, he said.
(How nice of him. Imagine if the roles were reversed,
and the Palestinians proposed the destruction of entire
illegal Israeli settlements on Occupied Territory.
What would the condemnation look like?)
Under international law, people
have the right to defend themselves, he said.
(Unless they’re Palestinian? …)
"This kind of action would be very well understood by
the Palestinians," Sheetrit said. "It is inconceivable to
leave the situation as it is."
Past restraint had been interpreted by the Palestinians as
weakness, and as a result the number of attacks had increased, he said.
(Israel’s attacks on Gaza since Annapolis has more than doubled,
and Ha’Aretz just published the findings of a report which showed
that over half of the Palestinians murdered in those attacks were civilians.)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke with reporters on Sunday
about the Palestinian rockets while en route to Berlin for a two-day
visit, his office said. Israel was doing everything that it could to
halt the attack, he said, but "there is no way to stop terrorism in
one fell swoop or with one bomb."
(There is a myriad of other measures Israel could use to halt the
rockets, but it doesn’t want to, because they provide a convenient
pretext for attacks which were planned long before Annapolis.)
Earlier at the cabinet meeting, as angry Sderot residents protested
outside, Olmert dismissed calls for a broad Gaza incursion by saying:
"There is no doubt that the pain [of Sderot] is felt by all; the outrage
is natural, but outrage is not an action plan. We must act in a
systematic and orderly fashion, over time. This is what we are doing.
This is what we will continue to do."
(What they are doing, systematically, over time, is murdering the
Palestinians, annexing their land, and trying to create the illusion
that the prospect of a just peace is impossible. They have rejected
peace, after all, because a ‘just peace’ will involve Israel giving back
much of what it has stolen. These Israelis should be directing their
anger at the Extremists within their own Government, who reject
peace in the name of the Zionist dream of wiping Palestine off the map.)
He noted that Defense Minister Ehud Barak had visited Sderot that
morning and that in recent months, 200 terrorists had been killed
and hundreds of others had been wounded in Gaza.
(And even more civilians had been killed and wounded. Wonder
why the Palestinians are so angry?)
"Naturally, we cannot be oblivious to the sense of distress in
Sderot and the communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip," Olmert said.
(Just to those WITHIN the Gaza Strip,
because those people are ‘just Arabs’ …)
Following security consultations held Sunday between Olmert, Barak and
senior security officials, the IDF was given the green light to slightly
escalate operations against a previously-approved bank of targets that
includes Hamas "military" installations and buildings affiliated with
the Hamas government in Gaza. The army will also continue its
raids into the Strip.
"We will continue with the targeted killings and the pinpointed
raids into Gaza," the official said. "We need to keep up the pressure
on the terrorist groups and not stop even for one moment."
As The Jerusalem Post reported exclusively on Friday, the defense
establishment is also studying the possible consequences of killing
senior Hamas political leaders - such as Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud
Zahar - and the effect such a move would have on the attacks from Gaza.
(Imagine now, for a moment, that it was learned that Hamas was
plotting to assassinate people within Israel’s Political Class.
What would Israel’s coverage look like …?
Immorality breeds contradiction.)
Before this happens, we need to review the consequences and whether
it will be effective," an official said.
Senior IDF officers said that while the military was prepared for a
large operation in Gaza, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi
did not believe that the time was ripe since Israel had yet to
formulate an "exit strategy" for such an incursion.
(And, due to Israel’s War Crimes against Gaza, the world is currently
against Israel, and understands who is truly ‘retaliating’ here.)
"We know how we get in but we do not know how we get out," a senior
officer said, adding that an operation would be pointless in
the absence of a multinational force that would deploy in
Gaza or Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
taking control from the IDF. "Neither of these options are
very realistic today," the officer said.
(But plans for a reoccupation has been drawn up.)
Sheetrit told the Post he too was concerned about the IDF's
ability to exist in Gaza and that therefore Israel had to be
careful not to reoccupy Gaza. At the same time, he said,
it should not agree to a cease-fire with Hamas.
(And right there is where the problem lies. Israel will not
make peace through any process it cannot control.)
Vice Premier Haim Ramon said Israel should focus on
measures such as cutting electricity
immediately after rocket attacks.
(Collective Punishment is a War Crime.)
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said past IDF actions
had only seemed to draw more rocket fire. In the first five
weeks of 2008, Gazans had fired 330 rockets at Negev
communities, one-third of what they fired at Israel
in all of 2007, he said.
(And how many missiles, rockets, tank shells, etc.
were fired INTO Gaza during this same period?
How many Palestinians were murdered?)
Last weekend alone 40 rockets were launched, of which
14 struck Sderot, Dichter said. He, too, hinted at the need
for large-scale ground activity.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told reporters after the
cabinet meeting, "There is no hope for the Palestinian
people with Hamas. There is no hope for any kind of peace
or the vision of a Palestinian state which includes the Gaza
Strip without a real change on the ground."
(Indeed. So long as Israel remains ruled by these Extremists,
there is no hope for peace.)
She added that the rocket attacks were not part of a
"vicious cycle" as described in the international media,
but rather an action that could be stopped by Hamas.
(But Israel’s rejection of Palestinian democracy, its attempted Coup,
and its illegal Collective Punishment, is what initiated this aptly-named
cycle, in which Israel is the initiator of hostilities.
It is the Palestinians who have no ‘partner for peace’.)
"The world cannot dismiss this by simply saying that there are
casualties on both sides. That is not a just comparison," she said.
(Right. The Palestinian body count is vastly larger,
and this is a Zionist war.)
She called on the international community to support
Israeli retaliatory actions and to take steps themselves
against Hamas.
Speaking on the plane to Berlin, Olmert said Hamas was not a partner
for peace as long as it refused to return Cpl. Gilad Schalit, who
it kidnapped in June 2006. It must also accept the principles
laid out by the Middle East Quartet, including renouncing violence
and recognizing Israel's right to exist, said Olmert.
(All of which could be achieved if Israel would agree to a
cease-fire and enter into negotiations. Israel makes these
preconditions for negotiations because it isn’t interested in
talks, only ‘might makes right’.)
Also on Sunday, IDF soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian
gunman who opened fire at them near the security fence in
the northern Gaza Strip. Overnight Saturday, the air force
bombed a number of Hamas targets throughout Gaza,
including a weapons-manufacturing plant in Rafah and a
weapons storehouse in Gaza City.
(But we’re only supposed to condemn the crude,
relatively harmless rockets. Right?) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=
1202657415850&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
It appears that Israel's provocations have had the desired effect
- both in Gaza and the media - and the massive assault and possible
reoccupation of Gaza that was predicted and planned long
before Annapolis is not far off.
Please pressure the media to tell us the
whole story if the attack occurs.
ANALYSIS:
Major IDF operation in Gaza back on the agenda
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
The rocket barrages against communities inside Israel and
the Israel Defense Forces operations in the Gaza Strip that
have left at least 16 Palestinians dead over the past three days all
point in one direction: Following many weeks of being kept on ice,
the likelihood of a major military operation in the Gaza Strip is once
more at the forefront.
(It's always 'been at the forefront'. This is what the consistent escalation
of this has been all about. Israel plotted a massive operation, and possible
reoccupation, long before the Annapolis conference. Now, they're
just awaiting an opportune time to attack, when they can dupe the
public and media with some sort of 'justification' which can adequately
taint the Framing of the attack.)
In recent months it seemed that the major IDF operation
(which had been discussed sporadically for about a year and a half)
had been dropped from the agenda.
There were a number of reasons for this.
Firstly, the political leadership found it difficult to accept that the
operational plans produced by the IDF were realistic. The concerns
that a major ground operation would have limited gains against
Hamas and would cost the IDF many casualties, in parallel with
an inability to plan for a scenario that would restore relative calm
in the Strip, raised many reservations in Jerusalem.
Playing a role in the background, meanwhile, was the paralysis that
took hold of the political leadership as the release of the final Winograd
Report loomed. So long as there was a question mark hanging over the
Olmert government, there was a reluctance to make any decisions
concerning an operation in the Strip.
However, the apparent change in recent weeks does not only stem
from the fact that the prime minister has managed to survive
the Winograd trial.
(Only because, as Amnesty International points out, the report
acknowledged Israeli war crimes,
but refused to suggest prosecutions.)
It is mainly linked to developments along the border between
the Strip and Egypt, which have added a new element of instability
to the already complex situation. Egypt may have announced this
week that it has resealed the Philadelphi Route at Rafah, but it is
doubtful whether this is a hermetic closure.
(This raises an interesting question; Who were the
"masked men" who initiated the border breach?)
The Hamas operation which brought down the wall greatly
impressed the IDF. An officer who held a senior post in the past
in Southern Command said Thursday that he had told his
Palestinian Authority counterparts at the time, security
officials loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, that the wall would stand
for many years after the disengagement. His assessment, he
admits, was mistaken. What Hamas managed to achieve is a
fundamental change in the situation in the area.
Why would the breach in the wall expedite an Israeli operation?
Because the absence of stability contributes to escalation and the
loss of control. The action has bolstered the confidence of Hamas'
military wing. This operational success may lead
them to take more risks.
(It has also partially weakened Israel's complete starvation
of Gaza, which was in great part designed to 'soften up'
Gaza for the coming invasion.)
On Wednesday, the Hamas representative in Tehran threatened
Israel with a wave of suicide bombings inside the country.
To this must be added the situation in Rafah. While smuggling
had previously been rampant, the absence of any border
controls in recent weeks appears to have enabled Hamas to
intensify its effort to bolster its arsenal. At the same time,
terrorist organizations have managed to send a number of
teams into Sinai, with the aim of carrying out attacks in Israel.
Without a wall, Egypt's ability to seal the border against
the terror cells is limited.
(The actual evidence doesn't support these Israeli accusations,
meant to bolster their justifications for the planned assault on Gaza.
Note that Hamas also said this action would come in response to
further aggression by Israel, which has doubled its
attacks on Gaza, and greatly increased its murder of Palestinians,
since Annapolis - as predicted. Israel could accept Hamas'
repeated cease-fire offers, but they won't. Israel's ruling Extemists,
intent on retaking Gaza, will not negotiate or
compromise in the name of peace.)
In light of these developments, it is once more possible to hear
Defense Minister Ehud Barak talk about his desire to avoid a
major operation, but at the same time that such a step may
be inevitable. The current steps being taken - continuing the
economic blockade (Collective Punishment, a War Crime),
which has been broken by Hamas; limiting the amount of
electricity being supplied; limited ground operations ¬
are all considered essential before a final decision on embarking
on a massive operation.
(Barak has never stopped talking about the planned and
predicted attack on Gaza, and both air & ground operations
have already taken place.)
What would a massive operation include? Israel faces three
main challenges in the Strip, each of which is concentrated
in a different geographic location: the Qassam attacks
against Ashkelon and Sderot (northern Strip); t
he strengthening of the terrorist groups in Rafah ¬
(where the smuggling takes place); and the
Hamas regime (Gaza City).
(Just as Israel's own defense staff warned that imposing
Collective Punishment on Gaza would provoke the rockets
Israel is now trying to blame for its War Crimes, an attack
will further intensify this retaliation, which the media will
allow Israel to use to justify its brutality. By refusing to talk
with Hamas, the democratically-elected representative of the
Palestinians, and opt instead for war, Israel's ruling Extremists
have once again proven themselves to be Israel's greatest threat.)
It is fair to assume that for the latter, the IDF will opt to deal
with the regime from a distance - relying on an air operation.
A ground operation would include a combination of sorts for
dealing with the first two problems. If it turns out that
Philadelphi Route remains entirely breached, this may be
an incentive for a ground operation toward Rafah. However
that introduces a separate dilemma: An operation close to
the border with Egypt may lead to friction with Cairo.
(Note that trying to fight a ground war from the air is known
to produce a horrific number of civilian casualties. Pursuing
this course out of political expediency is no different than
deliberately targeting civilians.)
In cabinet discussions, senior IDF officers have made
it clear that they need time in such an operation. They
stressed that there is no point in carrying out a major
initiative if they are not allowed to carry out the
necessary search and destroy missions and arrests in
the areas the army will bring under its control, following
the initial offensive. Another critical element will be the
weather, which is likely to delay a major operation
for at least a month.
(The cutting off of communications in the region last week
suggests that something is definitely in the worls. Something
they don't want the world to see.)
Meanwhile, the combative attitude adopted by Cairo recently in
its statements against Hamas is further exacerbating relations
between the two sides. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul
Gheit warned yesterday that Egypt would "break the legs" of
Palestinians who try to enter Sinai ¬ a statement that
sounded almost like a declaration of war.
(But Egypt knows that it can only Appease Israel and the
US for so long, before its people turns against it.) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952319.html
Israel to Intensify Strikes If Rocket Fire Continues
6 Gunmen, 1 Civilian Killed in Gaza Raid
Israeli ground forces backed by warplanes exchanged fire with
Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing
a teacher and six militants in escalating violence that is hobbling
peace efforts. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
(Tara Todras-whitehill - AP)
(Violence provoked and pursued by Israeli politicians who are
not willing to negotiate or compromise in the name of peace.
These Extremists can't accept the 'peace process' because they
know that any 'just peace' will involve them giving back a
portion of what they've stolen from the Palestinians - a
nd their violent Cult isn't prepared to do this.)
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, February 8, 2008; Page A14
JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak threatened
Thursday to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip if fighters
continue using the Palestinian territory for rocket attacks on southern
Israel. Earlier in the day, Israeli troops supported by tanks, artillery
and fighter jets raided Gaza, killing six Palestinian gunmen, according
to Palestinian and news service accounts.
(Of course, what the media doesn't say with this Framing of the
issue is that Israel's imposition of illegal measures of Collective
Punishment is what provoked the rockets in the first place.)
Also, a 42-year-old Palestinian high school chemistry teacher was
killed when a shell hit a school just before classes started in the
morning, said Jamil Suleiman, director of the hospital in the
Gaza village of Beit Hanoun. Three 16-year-old Palestinian
boys, all students, were wounded, Suleiman said.
("a 42-year-old Palestinian high school chemistry teacher was
killed when a shell hit a school", "when a shell hit a school",
"when a shell hit a school" ...)
Israel denied targeting the school, saying it was firing at rocket
teams that use the border village as a base for attacks on Israel.
On Thursday, fighters fired at least seven rockets at the southern
Israeli town of Sderot, wounding one person,
the Israeli military said.
(You'd think that Israel would develop better precision weapons since,
year after year, theirs never seem to go where they aim them ...)
Fighting between Israel and the armed Hamas movement that controls
Gaza has increased since mid-January, when militants responded
to a visit by President Bush to Israel with stepped-up launches
of their handmade Qassam rockets and Israel intensified airstrikes.
(The rockets were still a response to the Collective Punishment.
But notice how no Israeli excuse is ignored by the media ...)
Israeli authorities say they have held off on larger ground or
air offensives so as to minimize casualties. That could change,
Barak said Thursday. "If the Qassam fire continues, we will
intensify our activity, and the other side's losses, until we resolve
the Qassam rocket problem," he said during a visit to a military
base in Israel's north.
(The rockets will no doubt continue, since Israel is not about to
end its illegal Collective Punishment of Gaza - despite
international condemnation - which is what provoked the
rockets in the first place ...)
Israeli troops entered Gaza early Thursday, drawing out Palestinian
fighters in gun battles. Hamas said gunfire and Israeli missiles killed
five of its men. A fighter from the Islamic Jihad group was also killed,
news agencies said.
Fighting between Hamas and its political rival, Fatah, last summer
broke up a unity government that the two had formed and left
Hamas in charge of Gaza and Fatah in charge of the West Bank.
(Note that this 'fighting' was, in fact, a failed Coup attempt
sponsored by the US and Israel, which used corrupt elements
of Fatah as proxies. They no doubt view it as a success nonetheless,
because it achieved their plan for 'Divide & Rule'.)
The recent escalation of hostilities has overshadowed peace
talks that had resumed between Israel and
Fatah after Bush's visit.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev this week urged
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah
leader, to bring what Regev called "rogue elements" in the
West Bank under control. Hamas asserted responsibility for
a suicide bombing Monday that killed a 73-year-old Israeli
woman in southern Israel. Hamas said it had dispatched the
two attackers from the West Bank town of Hebron.
(However, this conflicted with three other versions of the
attack by Israel and other Palestinian groups.)
Until Monday's bombing, Hamas had not claimed to have
carried out a suicide attack in Israel since 2004.
Israel's Defense Ministry on Thursday directed the country's
Infrastructures Ministry to proceed with a small cut in
electricity to Gaza, the first of a possible series of power supply
reductions meant to pressure Hamas to stop its rocket attacks.
(Actually, these inexcusable War Crimes are what
provoked the rockets in the first place ...)
Since last month, Israel has sharply reduced shipments
of fuel and other goods to Gaza.
(Which is a War Crime ...)
"The combination of military action on the one hand and
sanctions on Gaza on the other . . . will eventually bring the
Qassam fire to a halt," Barak said at the military base.
On Jan. 23, (unidentified) 'fighters' (masked men) eased the pressure
of the sanctions (Collective Punishment) in Gaza by blowing
up miles of the territory's border fence with Egypt, allowing
hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents to cross over and
shop in that country. Egypt resealed the border Sunday.
On Thursday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit
warned Gazans not to breach the wall again. "Whoever breaks
the border line shall have his foot broken," Egypt's state news
service quoted him as saying.
Aboul Gheit also said Egypt was working diplomatically to ease
restrictions on Gazans entering and leaving the strip through
legal Gaza-Egypt border crossings. He urged Hamas to halt
attacks on Israel in the meantime, saying rockets "lost in the
sands of Israel" only give Israel an excuse for attacks on Gaza.
Special correspondent Samuel Sockol
contributed to this report. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2008/02/07/AR200802070
0656.html?hpid=sec-world
ALERT: Annapolis a Charade: Israeli Extremists
Plotting Massive AggressionAuthor https://israel.indymedia.org/
newswire/display/7906/index.php
In Germany, according to historian Richard Evans,
in 1931-1932, if enough Germans of conscience had
begun to say No -- history would have had an entirely
diferent outcome.
If we go any further down this road the tears will be those of
conservatives as well as progressives. They will be (Israeli) tears.
The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.
Adapted from "American Tears"
www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/american-tears_b_68141.html
Censoring Neo-Con Role in Gaza Crisis http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10619S
Warnings Pour in For Israel to Cease Collective Punishment http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10555S
Red Cross Condemns Gaza Collective Punishment (the First Round)
winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8994S
As Predicted: Gaza Reoccupation Planned
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/388658.html
As Predicted: Israel Attacks Gaza
alaanasnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/
as-predicted-israel-attacks-gaza.html
Gaza Food Supplies 'Getting Worse by the Day'
winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10015S
Israel Destroys Gaza Interior Ministry,
Blocks UN Aid
today.reuters.com/news/
articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-01-18T
Probe: At Least Half of Palestinians Killed by IDF Were Civilians
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944276.html
Israeli Attacks on Palestinians, Killings, Doubled Since Annapolis
www.uruknet.de/?p=m40008&hd=&size=1&l=e
UN Condemns Collective Punishment of Gaza
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389757.html?c=on#c187937
UN Condemns 'Cowardly Israeli War Crime'
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389828.html
It's All Right, I'm Only Bleeding http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10557S
Bush's Delusions Die in Gaza http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/postitem.php?randid=56676&parenttype=&parentitem=
An Experiment in Famine: Hamas is Not the Real Issue http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10872S
Jewish Groups Condemn Collective Punishment of Gaza http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10877S
The Strangulation of Gaza http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10998S
Starting Tomorrow: Escalation in Collective Punishment of Gaza http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10999S
EU envoy warns Gaza could become the next Somalia http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?11028S
Major IDF Operation into Gaza "Back on Agenda" http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?11029S
ALERT: Annapolis a Charade: Israeli Extremists Plotting Massive AggressionAuthor https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7906/index.php
In Germany, according to historian Richard Evans, in 1931-1932,
if enough Germans of conscience had begun to say
No -- history would have had an entirely diferent outcome.
If we go any further down this road the tears will be
those of conservatives as well as progressives. They will be (Israeli) tears.
The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.
Adapted from "American Tears"
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