Thousands of people marched today in Manhattan. Photos at: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/
ANATOMY OF A WAR CRIME
[E]ven after the dead are identified, doctors are having a hard time gathering the right body parts in order to hand them over to their families.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Desperate Hospitals Overwhelmed by Casualties
"What was the sin of my 4-year-old son?"
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Unprecedented Casualties
The high numbers of casualties made Saturday the single deadliest day in the Gaza Strip since Israel's occupation of the territory in 1967.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
Knowingly Indiscriminate Air War
Israel prefers to use its unchallenged aerial superiority -- clearly a blunt instrument that cannot distinguish between fighters and civilians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The situation in southern Israel "is liable to last longer than we are able to foresee at this time."
http://www.nytimes.com/
Only the Beginning?
[T]his isn't the beginning, this is an ongoing policy of collective punishment and killing with impunity practised by Israel for decades.
http://www.freegaza.org/index.
A History of Ethnic Cleansing
Massacres were part and parcel of the Zionist project in Palestine. They aimed at intimidating the Arabs and make them leave the country.
http://www.palestinechronicle.
U.S. COMPLICITY
Apache's are hovering above us, whilst F16s sear overhead.
http://www.freegaza.org/index.
White House Stands By Massacres
"These people are nothing but thugs. Israel is going to defend its people against terrorists like Hamas."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
Bush Winks at Israel's Slaughter in Gaza, While Obama and Clinton Are Silent
President-elect Barack Obama and Secretary of State-to-be Hillary Clinton were shamefully silent in the first hours after the attack.
http://www.progressive.org/
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," Obama said at the time. "And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing." Israelis have been further encouraged by Obama's key appointments, from his vice-presidential running mate Joe Biden, long a prominent supporter of Israel, to his choice of Rahm Emanuel, a leading Jewish congressman, as his White House chief of staff.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
MORE LIES AND PRETEXTS
Election Posturing
"The government and the defense minister are trying to gain political capital in an election period on account of the bloodletting of the Palestinian people."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Propaganda Offensive
An international media broadcast outlet will be opened in Sderot on Sunday, and the Foreign Ministry will organize a series of tours of Sderot and the Gaza envelope communities for foreign media and diplomatic figures.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
What Rockets?
Retaliatory Palestinian fire killed one woman in southern Israel -- underlining the unequal military balance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Any response to Israeli attacks -- whether peaceful protests against the apartheid wall in Bilin and Nilin in the West Bank is met with bullets and bombs.
http://electronicintifada.net/
WORLDWIDE PROTEST AND RESISTANCE
Throughout Middle East
"The reaction of the Arab street shows that the Palestinian issue is not just about Palestinians, but it is an Arab question and an Arab problem. It's still in the hearts and minds of the Arab people."
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Hamas Resolute
''We will survive, we will move forward, we will not surrender, we will not be shaken.''
http://www.nytimes.com/
One Democratic State Group
The Gaza-based One Democratic State Group reaffirmed this today as it "called upon all civil society organizations and freedom loving people to act immediately in any possible way to put pressure on their governments to end diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and institute sanctions against it."
http://electronicintifada.net/
"With our blood and souls we defend you, Gaza."
http://www.nytimes.com/
Palestine '48
"No one can tell us that slaughtering the citizens of Gaza is meant to protect the citizens of Sderot and Ashkelon."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/
"'The Israelis kill our people in Gaza and the West Bank. The Americans kill our people in Iraq. We're refugees, kicked out of our home in Tulkarem in 1967 and we're still displaced."
http://www.nytimes.com/
Jordanian Labor
Labor unions in Jordan organized a mass demonstration to protest the IAF strikes in Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
"We should treat Israel as we treated South Africa during apartheid. They should be shunned."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_
Protesters across Canada slam 'terrorist' Israel as Palestinian toll grows
"If there was no occupation, there would be no rockets."
http://www.google.com/
We can turn a spotlight onto Israel's crimes against humanity and the enduring injustice here in Palestine, through coming out onto the streets and pressurizing our governments; demanding an end to Israeli apartheid and occupation, broadening our call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
http://www.freegaza.org/index.
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