http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
CO-CONSPIRATORS
Labor Party
As chairman of the Labor Party, [Ehud Barak] is running for prime minister in the February elections and polls show him to be a distant third to the Likud leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Kadima leader, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
world/middleeast/
White House
"The United States understands that Israel needs to take actions to defend itself. Hamas has once again shown its true colors as a terrorist organization that refuses to even acknowledge Israel exists."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Obama (By Axelrod)
"The president-elect was in Sderot last July, in southern Israel, a town that's taken the brunt of the Hamas attacks. And he said then that, when bombs are raining down on your citizens, there is an urge to respond and act and try and put an end to that. So, you know, that's what he said then, and I think that's what he believes."
http://www.cqpolitics.com
/
Congress
Israel received approval from Congress to purchase 1,000 units in September and defense officials said on Sunday that the first shipment had arrived earlier this month.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
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Pelosi
"When Israel is attacked, the United States must continue to stand strongly with its friend and democratic ally."
http://www.ynetnews.com/
P.A.
[I]f the operation fails or leaves Hamas in the position of scrappy survivor or even somehow perceived victor, it could then dominate Palestinian politics over the more conciliatory and pro-Western Fatah movement for years to come.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
world/middleeast/
ANATOMY OF A WAR CRIME
Cheering Israeli Settlers
"If I had opened an ice-cream stand here I would have made a lot money."
http://www.time.com/time/
0,8599,1868858,
Numbers
Palestinian medical sources say at least 345 Gazans have been killed and another 1,450 wounded in three consecutive days of Israeli bombardment in the heavily-populated territory. . . . Four young girls from the same family in the northern town of Jabaliya and two young boy from Rafah were among those killed in the latest raids.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
/middleeast/2008/12/
I am in the middle of Gaza City, in the heart of Gaza City, and the situation is indescribable. If this is not a holocaust, I don't know what holocaust is.
http://www.democracynow.org/
/12/29/israeli_attacks_
Premeditated
"People were walking through the streets just like a normal day, children coming home from school. Suddenly, without any warning, the bombing started. We didn't even see the jets in the sky. That's why so many people were killed."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Deliberate
When you drop bombs on populated areas knowing there will be some "collateral" civilian damage, but accepting it as worth it, then it is deliberate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
2008/dec/29/
Knowing (via Livni)
"[U]nfortunately in a war . . . sometimes also civilians pay the price."
http://www.nytimes.com/
12/29/world/
Purposeful
[Israel] worries that its enemies are less afraid of it than they once were, or should be. Israeli leaders are calculating that a display of power in Gaza could fix that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
Blitzkrieg
The first bombardment took three minutes and 40 seconds. Sixty Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombed 50 sites in Gaza, killing more than 200 Palestinians, and wounding close to 1,000 more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2008/dec/29/
In the course of a few short hours American-made, Israeli-flown fighter jets had successfully blotted out the lives of more than 230 people and by the end of the weekend over 300, the rough equivalence of two fully packed IMAX theaters. At least 70 of the victims were civilians, a number of them young children.
http://counterpunch.org/
More Civilians
Israeli airstrikes hit the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University late Sunday night, causing minor injuries. A second missile attack struck a mosque in the Jabaliya refugee camp, killing seven people.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
nationworld/world/la-fg-
The fatalities included 22 children younger than 16; more than 235 children were wounded.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Hospitals
One doctor said that given the dearth of facilities, not much could be done for the seriously wounded, and that it was "better to be brought in dead."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008
/
Terror
"After each airstrike, my sons ask me: 'Why are we targeted? Will they arrest us? Will they come after us?'"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Scale
[T]he scale of the bloodshed - rank[s] in Palestinian history alongside the 1948 Deir Yassin killings or the Sabra and Shatila massacres (by Israel's Christian Lebanese allies) in 1982.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
/2008/dec/29/israel-
MYTH-BUSTING: HAMAS ROCKETS
No Pretense
"The army doesn't even have the pretense of neutralizing Hamas' ability to launch rockets."
http://www.latimes.com/news/
ationworld/world/la-fg-
Makeshift
The makeshift projectiles are wildly inaccurate and rarely cause deaths or serious injuries.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
world/la-fg-
Few Casualties
Over the last seven years only 17 Israeli citizens have been killed by Palestinian rocket fire.
http://counterpunch.org/
Underdog's Weapon
The Palestinians would not have ever bombed cafes or used home-made missiles if they had tanks and airplanes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
There can be no moral equivalence between the fourth most powerful army in the world (whose armaments include nuclear weapons) and an occupied people fighting for their survival to prevent a complete genocide against them.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
MYTH-BUSTING: TRUCE
What Was It?
[W]hat is Israel's idea of a truce? It is very simple: Palestinians have the right to remain silent while Israel starves them, kills them and continues to violently colonise their land.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Who Broke It?
[T]here was relative quiet during the six-months truce with Hamas, a quiet that was broken most often as a reaction to Israeli violence: that is, following the extra-judicial execution of a militant or the imposition of a total blockade which prevented basic goods, like food stuff and medicine, from entering the Gaza Strip.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
ec/29/
WORLDWIDE PROTEST AND RESISTANCE
Palestine '48
In the presence of all national alliances, an urgent meeting for the Follow up Committee was held today declaring Sunday 28 December 2008 a general strike in protest of the Israeli massacres committed against Palestinians in Gaza.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Shopkeepers in the West Bank and in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem shut their doors in a near-total protest strike.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Jordan
5,000 lawyers marched toward parliament to demand the Israeli ambassador's expulsion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
world/2008/dec/29/israel-
South African Labor
"Cosatu reiterates its call for the government of South Africa to break diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and institute sanctions against it."
http://www.news24.com/News24
/
Paris
About 1,400 people marched in Paris, most of them in the northern Barbes neighborhood, which has a large Muslim population.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
British Universities
As long as the state of Israel continues to defy humanity and international law, we,
the citizens of the world, commit ourselves to boycotting Israel.
http://www.bricup.org.uk/
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