At around mid-day on the 29th December, in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament, led a delegation of fifty people to express solidarity with Um Kamel al-Kurd.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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Israeli court refuses appeal of deportation order for Diaspora Palestinian
Bethlehem – Ma'an – The Israeli Higher Court of Justice on Tuesday refused an appeal by the Palestinian Prisoners' Society over the impending deportation of Nasri Atwan from Al-Khadr, south of Bethlehem. Atwan is in Israeli custody for allegedly remaining in the West Bank illegally.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Ministry of Health publishes names of those killed, number reaches 410
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip issued its first list of name of those people killed by Israeli forces during the five days of major attacks, the number of which the Ministry reported on Wednesday afternoon has reached 391. Director of Al Shifa Hospital, Dr. Hussein, said this evening that the number had reached 410. Thousands of family members and friends are in mourning.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Fifteen percent of Israel's victims are children like Ismail Hamdan and his two sisters
Three children were torn to pieces by an Israeli missile Tuesday afternoon. Two young girls were killed on impact and their brother was found barely alive. The three were pulled out of a rubble pile by a passerby and transported to hospital via donkey-cart.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Ni'lin holds funeral for Arafat al Khawaja
29th December 2008 - Funeral for the 22 year old resident of Ni'lin village killed by Israeli army while protesting against Israeli massacres in Gaza.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
Cast Lead: Killing of 7-year-old and her sister-in-law
At around 7:00pm on Sunday, 28 December 2008, the Keshko family was sitting around a fire in farmland near their home in al-Zaitun, central Gaza.
http://www.dci-pal.org/
Gaza: Israel strikes Haniyeh's office, smuggling tunnels
Powerful airstrikes target government buildings, including office of Hamas PM; smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border also hit; Palestinian medic killed during missile strike east of Gaza City. Meanwhile, two Qassams land in Negev; no injuries
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Israel continues to attack Gaza City Port
The shelling of Gaza's Port continued on the evening of December 30th, as Israeli Apache helicopters began firing rockets on the area and Naval vessels continued their ongoing shelling. Eva Bartlett, a Canadian human rights worker with the International Solidarity Movement, heard and witnessed the attack from a building 150 meters away.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
Cynthia McKinney slams Israeli Navy
Israel once again bullying others utilizing vehicles and weaponry we provide them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Israeli army critically injures Palestinian as Hebron continues demonstrations for Gaza
On Sunday 28th December at mid-day, the people of Hebron continued their demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza. Around 300 participants gathered in Ain Sara and walked in the direction of the city centre and the old market.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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90 people arrested in E Jerusalem as Israeli police look to prevent protests of solidarity with Gaza through intimidation
At 6pm on the 29th December, another demonstration of solidarity with Gaza people took place in Jerusalem.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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One Palestinian arrested as Sheikh Jarrah demonstrates for Gaza
Update: On the 29th of December, Naser Jamjoum, (42), one of the participants in the non-violent demonstration 28th December was arrested after having participated in the last two demonstrations.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
-demonstrates-for-gaza/
Israeli police violently attacks protestors in Nazareth
The Arabs48 news website reported on Thursday at night that clashes took place between hundreds of protesters and Israeli policemen in Al Ein area and the main street in Nazareth city. Dozens of protesters were wounded after inhaling gas fired by the police while others were wounded by rubber-coated bullets; some of them are still hospitalized.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Protest Broken up in Jerusalem, Four Detained
A protest and vigil of approximately 35 people was swiftly broken up in Jerusalem and 4 Palestinians were detained according to sources.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli troops detain 22 Palestinians from the central West Bank
Israeli troops detained 22 Palestinians from the central regions of the West Bank on Tuesday night. Four were detained from the Al-Jalazun refugee camp north of Ramallah, 15 from Hussan village and three from Al-Khader village both in the Bethlehem governorate. The identities of those detained were not released.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israeli forces impose curfew on village near Salfit
Israeli forces imposed a curfew on the northern West Bank town of Kafr Haris, west of Salfit, on Tuesday, local sources told Ma'an. Israeli soldiers claimed that Palestinian youths from the town had hurled stones at Israeli vehicles on the main road near the town.
According to sources within the town, soldiers then deployed in the area and prevented the movement of residents.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Arab leaders: Police threatening us
Arab-Israeli leaders say police using scare tactics against them in attempt to curb anti-Israel riots
Armed groups fire more projectiles at Israeli towns
The militant wings of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Fatah movement claimed responsibility for launching three mortar shells at Israeli tanks stationed behind the Sufa gate, east of Rafah on Tuesday. The two wings, PFLP's Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades and Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades, claimed responsibility for the shelling in a statement, which said the attacks "came in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
School canceled in Beersheba due to rocket attack
Following consultation with defense officials, Home Front Command after first rocket fired from Gaza lands in southern city, municipality decides not to open education institutions. Kindergarten hit in attack; 34 people suffer shock. B-G University says will function as usual.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Israeli boy, 3, lightly wounded by Palestinian stone-throwers
An Israeli boy, 3, was lightly wounded on Tuesday when Palestinians hurled stones at vehicle he was riding in near Zif junction, in the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
More than 60 rockets hit Negev, including Ashkelon and Be'er Sheva
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday fired a barrage of more than 60 Katyusha and Qassam rockets at the western Negev, with a number exploding in the cities of Ashkelon and Be'er Sheva, previously thought to be beyond rocket reach.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Testimony: Israel prevents toddler in need of surgery from returning home from Gaza to West Bank, Nov. '08
I live in Dura and work as a clerk for the Palestinian Authority in Bethlehem. In 2003, I married my wife Sonia, 29, from Rafah. I entered the Gaza Strip with a visitor's permit. After marrying, I stayed with my wife in Gaza for about a year and a half. Then we received a permit to enter the West Bank and moved to Dura. We have two children, Ahmad, 4, and Dalal, 18 months. Dalal was born with brain damage and is completely paralyzed. We had a good life in Dura.
http://www.btselem.org/
_Gaza_witness_Rasras.asp
Israel rejects French proposal for 48-hour Gaza truce
Israel on Wednesday rejected a French proposal for a 48-hour cease-fire in the Gaza Strip in order to allow the flow of humanitarian aid into the bombarded coastal territory.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Olmert: War to continue, Peres: "This war is like no other war in Israel's history"
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, stated on Tuesday that the Israeli army would continue its offensive against the Gaza Strip until "achieving its goals against Hamas". Israeli President, Shimon Peres, said that "this war is like no other war the army carried out since Israel was established".
http://www.imemc.org/article/
ANALYSIS / Rivalry among Israel's leaders at root of row on Gaza cease-fire
Four days after the launch of "Operation Cast Lead" in the Gaza Strip, the first signs of a rift among the Israeli leadership over the campaign's management began to emerge. Even though the IDF operation has thus far been considered a relative success (and the ministers who approved it have benefited from an improvement in their political standing as a result), a dispute has erupted among the country's senior political echelon over the question of when to begin the process of winding down the operation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Israel: Hamas buildings destroyed, armed groups intact
The next two days present Israel with the difficult decision of whether to bow to international pressure and accept a ceasefire or to order a ground invasion. Security sources told Israel's Army Radio that decision makers in Israel will decide soon whether or not to accept the building calls for a ceasefire or to send military forces on a wide-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Electricity blackouts in Gaza endanger child's life
The life of Yasser Sweisi, 11, depends on a respirator. The frequent blackouts resulting from the siege on Gaza forced his parents to buy a generator. When the fuel needed to operate the generator runs out, they use a manual respirator.
http://www.btselem.org/
_endangered_by_power_cuts_
Long wait at Rafah crossing
At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, the Egyptian doctors are waiting for the wounded - there is a long string of ambulances lined up outside the arrival hall.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
ANALYSIS / Hamas is racking up its first diplomatic victory
President Hosni Mubarak could not keep silent any longer about the attack on Egypt in the press. His decision to explicitly state Egypt's position that the West Bank and Gaza are part of the same country, and that the Rafah crossing will open only under the conditions of the 2005 agreement (to which Egypt is not a signatory), is part of the public diplomacy Mubarak has been dragged into against his will.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Hamas' image gets a boost
After Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Shiite fighters emerged claiming victory and exalted across the Arab world.
Mayor of rocket-battered Netivot calls for talks with Hamas
One of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu's most important supporters in the Negev, longtime Netivot Mayor Yehiel Zohar, is calling on Israel to negotiate with Hamas. "The fact that we have so far not held talks with Hamas is a mistake," Zohar told Knesset members and cabinet ministers who visited Netivot on Monday, two days after city resident Bebert Vaknin was killed in a rocket attack there, the day the Israel Defense Forces assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip began.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Abbas risks becoming biggest political casualty
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority and a fierce rival of the Islamist group, might emerge as the biggest political casualty of the conflict.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/
A Letter to Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, Your Silence to the Massacres is Deafening
Sir, December 31, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" --- I am writing this letter to ask you to leave your barren position as President of the Palestinian Authority (PA). You have had ample time to pursue your "two-state" peace process that your predecessor Yasser Arafat kicked-off during the signing of the now-defunct Oslo agreements. Are your people liberated? Have the illegal settlements stopped encroaching on your lands? In short, did your negotiations help alleviate the pain and suffering of the occupied? The answer is a big colossal "no" to each of the posted questions.
http://www.
Hamas: Abbas plans to relay information on Hamas's leaders location to IOF
Hamas has charged that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas was forming an emergency cell with the purpose of finding out the location of Hamas leaders in Gaza and relaying the information to the IOF.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Arab Connivance in the Gaza Massacre
But the most wretched of all the Arab leaders is Mahmoud Abbas, who styles himself, "President of the Palestinian Authority" at the same time as he accuses Hamas of responsibility for the massacre for refusing to give in, as he himself has done, to Zionist and Western designs. Taking advantage of the bloodletting, he has already said he will take over the administration of Gaza if Hamas is defeated. We are faced with a Vichy-style West Bank regime, with Abbas as its Pétain, serving the 21st Century nazis, Israel.
http://www.
Nasrallah urges Egypt to stop helping siege of Gaza
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday for a Hizbullah-led rally against Israel's continuing military assault on the Gaza Strip. Senior Hizbullah officials attended the protest amid tight security, as supporters packed into Raya Square in Dahiyeh to hear a video address from the party's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Arab World Furious With Egypt Over Gaza
In the wake of Israel's ongoing air strikes against Gaza, the Arab World is not only protesting Israel's actions, but also Egypt's. Bloomberg tells of the massive demonstrations against Egypt throughout the Arab world, as many are accusing the country of collusion with Israel in the attacks. The accusations, Bloomberg reports, are fueled by Hamas because of Egypt's reluctance to open the border between it and Gaza.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Egypt's ruling party attacks Hamas and allies
Egypt's ruling party accused the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas on Wednesday of adventurism, irresponsibility and ignoring Egyptian advice on Gaza.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Saudi FM criticizes Palestinians
AP - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Wednesday blamed Palestinian divisions for Israel's onslaught on Gaza, a reflection of U.S.-allied Arab governments' anger at the Hamas militant group.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Bush thanks Mubarak for the "positive role" of Egypt during the war on Gaza
The white house announced on Wednesday that the US president George Bush called the Egyptian president Husni Mubarak and thanked him for Egypt's "positive role" during the war on the Gaza Strip.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
Gaza raids boost Hamas, undermine Abbas on Palestinian street
Hamas' star is rising among Palestinians as each new Israeli bomb falls on Gaza, while Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas is becoming increasingly isolated, analysts say. Abbas, who lost control of Gaza when the Islamists seized it last year from forces loyal to him after their victory in 2006 elections, has even been accused by Hamas.
Gaza raids boost Hamas, undermine Abbas on Palestinian street
Hamas' star is rising among Palestinians as each new Israeli bomb falls on Gaza, while Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas is becoming increasingly isolated, analysts say. Abbas, who lost control of Gaza when the Islamists seized it last year from forces loyal to him after their victory in 2006 elections, has even been accused by Hamas.
As the savage Israeli assault on Gaza becomes more sustained and intensive, Arab differences widen and become deeper, analysts said on Tuesday.
Abbas greets Gazans live on television, promises to exert all efforts to stop massacre
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas greeted the population of the Gaza Strip in a live speech on Palestine's official satellite network wishing them patience, tolerance and victory. Putting his hand on the holy Qur'an Abbas swore to faithfully and wisely protect the confidences vested in him. He promised to see the 40-year history of the Palestinian cause through. From the first martyr of Palestinian history to the last martyr in Gaza, Abbas said, he will follow up the Palestinian dream until freedom and an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital are realized.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Arab League makes Palestinian unity a prerequisite for help
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa called on Wednesday for an immediate meeting of rival Palestinian factions, at the opening of an emergency session on how to deal with Israel's Gaza onslaught. "We call on our Palestinian brothers to hold an immediate reconciliation meeting," Moussa told foreign ministers from the 22-member.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Gazan doctor: People dying due to lack of equipment
Shifa Hospital treating hundreds of patients since start of Operation Cast Lead. Physicians complain of shortage of medications, operating rooms and beds. 'This is a catastrophic situation. The corridors are filled with injured people, but we won't let anyone die without a battle,' hospital manager tells Ynet.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
'We don't know where will be targeted next'
Hatem Shurrab, 24, an aid worker with Islamic Relief: At Al Shifa hospital [in Gaza City] there is not enough space for the patients. The injured and the people who have been killed are lying outside. On the first day I saw horrific injuries to men and children who were being brought in; some were suffering terrible amputations.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Gazans unsure where to flee violence
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – In four days of Israeli airstrikes, Rasha Khaldeh has already fled twice. First she left her home, fearing Israeli warplanes would target her Hamas neighbors, only to be forced from her uncle's house when it began to sway during nearby shelling. Borders to the tiny territory are closed, and Gazans don't know where to turn for refuge.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Sharing a glimpse of the life of civilians in Gaza under Israeli fire
Long-time Grassroots International ally, the Democracy and Workers' Rights Center has been monitoring the Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip, which began on December 27, 2008. Based in Ramallah, DWRC has maintained daily contact with its Gazan colleagues and their families, hoping that they will all remain safe and unharmed. Below is their reflection and a call to action.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
So Much For The Makeover: Iraq Condemns Israeli Bombardment
Just as they did during Israel's 2006 war against Hezbollah, Iraq's leaders are now showing where their true sympathies lie. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Da'wa Party "issued a statement condemning the attacks and calling on Islamic countries to cut relations with Israel and end all 'secret and public talks' with it."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Statement by Prof. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.
http://www.zcommunications.
Green Party condemns Israel's massive air attack on Gaza, calls on US to rein in Israel and seek a ceasefire
2008-12-30 Washington, DC -- The Green Party of the United States calls for an immediate end to Israel's bombing attacks on Gaza, which in the past four days has already caused at least 364 deaths, including Palestinian women and children, with hundreds more wounded.
http://www.gp.org/index.php
Why the Israeli Military Response in Gaza is Bullshit
Sorry, but the Israeli military is acting like a bunch of pathetic thugs rather than conduct themselves with professionalism and skill. You do not just kill Palestinians because you can.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/
Children traumatized as Israeli bombs rain down on Gaza
"We are scared ... that we can die at any moment," said 11-year-old Mohammad Ayyad, still terrified hours after a massive Israeli bombardment of Hamas government buildings next to his house in the Gaza Strip. Like the rest of Gaza's children, he has been traumatized by the four-day assault on the coastal enclave.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Bloodied in Gaza as the world silently watches
"There is a complete blackout in Gaza now. The streets are as still as death." I am speaking to my father, Moussa el-Haddad, a retired physician who lives in Gaza City, on Skype, from Durham, North Carolina in the United States, where I have been since mid 2006 -- the month Gaza's borders were hermetically sealed by Israel, and the blockade of the occupied territory further enforced. Laila El-Haddad writes from the US.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Deserted streets and fear as Israel demolishes Gaza
I am in al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. This afternoon Israeli drones targeted a house in al-Maghazi with three missiles. Fortunately there were no casualties. But unfortunately there have been many casualties elsewhere in Gaza where they have targeted houses and mosques. I went out of the house to deal with some urgent matters today. But movement is really risky right now. The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami Almeghari reports from the besieged Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/
The Nightmare in Beit Hanoun
It happened at 9am this morning. We were speaking to Sabrine Naim at the time, standing and talking in the Naim family home which had been wrecked this morning. Chunks of debris – one a meter long and a foot wide - glass, and sharp slices of their own broken roof, had smashed onto beds, chairs, their kitchen and living room. Only two of their family of 12 had been home at the time. They were expecting an attack.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Where will Palestine's supporters be when the guns fall silent?
The international community's reaction to the crisis in Gaza betrays an ugly truth about the world's attitude toward the decades-long plight of a dispossessed people: No one cares about the Palestinians unless they are being murdered in their hundreds, and their unjustifiable suffering will in all likelihood be forgotten again whenever the guns fall silent.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Activists urge Obama to rethink US role in Mideast
AP - A handful of pro-Palestinian activists protested outside President-elect Barack Obama's vacation home on Tuesday and urged a new approach to the Middle East. Obama did not acknowledge them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
McKinney to Obama: "Say Something" About Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
2CynthiaGaza"As we are about to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, let us remember what he said. He said that the United States is the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet. And guess what: we experienced a little bit of that violence, because the weapons that are being used by Israel are weapons that were supplied by the United States government."
http://www.blackagendareport.
Obama's Gaza silence condemned
Is the US president-elect "complicit" in Israel's Gaza raids by remaining silent?
http://english.aljazeera.net/
'Little Baghdad' in Gaza - bombs, fear and rage, By Amira Hass
There are many corpses and wounded, every moment another casualty is added to the list of the dead, and there is no more room in the morgue. Relatives search among the bodies and the wounded in order to bring the dead quickly to burial. A mother whose three school-age children were killed, and are piled one on top of the other in the morgue, screams and then cries, screams again and then is silent.
http://www.zcommunications.
Foreign journalists demand Gaza access
The sole pedestrian crossing from Israel into Gaza, at Erez, has remained closed to journalists since Israel's bombing campaign began on Saturday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Courts inclined to allow handful of reporters into Gaza
Foreign Press Association in Israel petitions Supreme Court to order State to allows reporters into Strip; court asks State to consider creating media poll.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articl
YouTube, Twitter: Weapons in Israel's Info War
Idf_tank_610xDays after sending aircraft to strike Hamas militants in Gaza, the Israeli government is launching a campaign to dominate the blogosphere.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/
Israeli intensifies PR campaign to gain int'l sympathy for Gaza operation
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Saturday instructed the Foreign Ministry to take emergency measures to adapt Israel's international public relations to the ongoing escalation in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Israel's lie machine working flat out to dodge "killer" question
While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I notice there's a briefing document on the website of the Israeli Embassy in London which has a lie in every line. The West's mainstream media repeat them, and even the most senior TV and radio interviewers don't bother to challenge them. The document is a transcript of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's statement to the Israeli press dated 27 December 2008 – a day that will live in infamy. It is a perfect example of the falsehoods used to dupe not only us Westerners but Israel's own people. The statement shows how the regime's view of itself is constructed on a web of dishonesty and self-delusion.
http://www.redress.cc/
The Myth of Israeli Retaliation
With the Palestinian death toll from Israel's latest air and naval assault on Gaza passed 350 and steadily climbing (an estimated 1500 more have been wounded), diplomats, advocates and journalists the world over appear prepared to continue facilitating the massacre.
http://www.zcommunications.org
Gaza's One-Sided Images
You wouldn't know from the western media that Israel's foreign minister (and would-be prime minister), Tzipi Livni, made a disastrous appearance on al-Jazeera television last week, just as you wouldn't have seen dreadful pictures of dead children and their screaming distraught mothers in Gaza unless you watch al-J TV, which is almost impossible in the US. Here in France we can receive al-Jazeera, and the images are truly horrific. But Ms Livni doesn't want us to see them. Nor do most western governments. She declared that "when you show one-sided images from Gaza you're not helping peace. I understand that pictures which create provocation lead to anger and hostility among the citizens, but we want a better future for this region." In other words – don't look at pictures that tell the truth because they will make you angry about people who blast children into ragged fragments. What we don't see, says Livni, won't harm us, which is the theme of authoritarian censors through the ages.
http://www.counterpunch.com/
Quiet of the grave
It is day five of an aerial bombardment which has claimed more than 370 Palestinian lives, of which at least 60 are civilian. Four Israelis have died from Hamas's rockets. This death toll matches or exceeds some of the darkest episodes of the long history of conflict - Ariel Sharon's attack on the west bank village of Qibya which killed 69 civilians in 1953, or the shelling of the UN compound in the Lebanese village of Qana in 1996 in which 106 civilians died. If the tanks massed on Gaza's borders go in and engage in close-quarter urban warfare, the death toll could be on the same scale as the massacre of Palestinians by Christian phalangists at Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in 1982.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
An Israeli War Crimes Tribunal (ICTI) May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War
The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a "subsidiary organ" under U.N. Charter Article 22. The ICTI would be organized along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the Security Council. The purpose of the ICTI would be to investigate and prosecute Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine--just as the ICTY did for the victims of international crimes committed by Serbia and the Milosevic Regime throughout the Balkans.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
articleId=11541
Party to Murder, by Chris Hedges
Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza-the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows of mutilated corpses, the wailing mothers and wives, the crowds of terrified Palestinians not knowing where to flee, the hospitals so overburdened and out of supplies they cannot treat the wounded, and our studied, callous indifference to this widespread human suffering-wonder why we are hated?
http://www.commondreams.org/
Mark Steel: What have Palestinians got to complain about anyway?
When you read the statements from Israeli and US politicians, and try to match them with the pictures of devastation, there seems to be only one explanation. They must have one of those conditions, called something like "Visual-Carnage-
http://www.belfasttelegraph.
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As Israel will learn again, beating the Palestinians is not a solution
Is the Middle East on the verge of war as a result of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza? Thankfully, no. To be sure, the ferocity of Israel's bombing campaign has inflamed public discourse, brought widespread official condemnation and further radicalised large segments of the Arab world. Passions are high, and indignation at Israel's brutal behaviour is certainly not faked. Vociferous calls for arms are resonating throughout the region. But war between Israel and its Arab neighbours is highly unlikely at this stage. Barring some improbable change in Egypt or elsewhere, Arab states have simply no interest in any such escalation.
http://www.thenational.ae/
A new low for the NYT: Ethan Bronner on Gaza, As'ad Abukhalil
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Our Country is a Graveyard by Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Pictures
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
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Cartoons
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
http://palestinethinktank.com/
http://palestinianpundit.
International Solidarity with Gaza
Hebron solidarity demonstration with Gaza
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
"Silence is complicity": Across the world, citizens take to the streets in anger as the Gaza massacre continues
http://stopthewall.org/
New Year and Orthodox Christmas to be marked in solidarity with Gaza
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
San Franscisco protestors block streets
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/
Includes pictures: San Francisco Pro-Palestinian rally snarls downtown
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
Portland protests Israeli attack on Gaza
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Protesters worldwide keep up pressure over Gaza
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/
A Representative in the Kuwaiti Parliament is Saluting Mahmoud Abbas
http://palestinianpundit.
Picture of protest in Dubai on 12/30/08
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Lebanon: Solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza
http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Calm at latest Israeli embassy protest in London
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Hundreds in Mich., NYC protest strikes on Gaza
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Adalah-NY: New Yorkers march to demand
end of massacres in Gaza and boycott of Israel
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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Thousands of protesters in D.C. demand end to Israeli crimes in Gaza
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
More images of D.C. protest
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Iranians raid British diplomatic in Gaza protest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
"Rally for Gaza, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney, 29-30.12.08" (Videos)
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
Frjáls PalestÃna, Reykjavik, 30.12.08 Iceland
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
"Israel, Stop Bombing Gaza! Tokyo, 30.12.08" (Videos)
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
Thousands of Nigerians demonstrate against Gaza attacks
http://www.palestine-info.co.
"500 Protest Israeli Air Strikes, Kuala Lumpur, 30.12.08" (Video)
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
Fundraising drive in LA to aid Palestinian victims
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Syrians continue demonstrations to condemn Israeli raids on Gaza
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Graf for Gaza in NYC
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Protests against Gaza attacks planned across UK this weekend
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Bethlehem cancels Christmas in light of Gaza carnage
Bethlehem – Ma'an – All Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were cancelled in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the city's municipality announced on Tuesday. The city council made the decision in light of the tragic circumstances in the Gaza Strip, it said in a statement from the mayor. The central West Bank cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh cancelled upcoming Christmas celebrations, as well.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
New Year celebrations in most parts of Arab world cancelled
New Year celebrations in most parts of Arab world have been cancelled in a show of solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip following five days of a massive Israeli air offensive.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Gaza: US blocking power eroded; Quartet calls for ceasefire
Back in the 33-Day War of 2006, the Bush administration was able to block the Security Council and the rest of the UN from issuing a formal call for a ceasefire until the point when Israel, realizing its forces were getting into very hot water indeed, started actively pleading for one. This time, the Olmert government is still very resistant to a ceasefire. And earlier, the position of the Bush administration was, as in 2006, to give Israel carte blanche to do what it liked against its neighbors. But the international dynamics have changed since 2006.
http://justworldnews.org/
Funding Israel's Military
Millions of Americans face home foreclosures, health care, job and pension losses. However, none of these crises currently threatens to alter the flow of their tax dollars to Israel's government. It takes these greenbacks and buys F-16 jets made by Lockheed Martin to drop bombs on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. This aggression is an effect of the U.S. military-industrial complex. Take about a Goliath-like edifice. Consider what euphemistically goes by the term of the U.S. defense lobby. It contributed $10.5 billion to donkeys and elephants in the 2007-2008 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. "Lockheed Martin is the industry's top campaign contributor," the CRP adds.
http://www.zcommunications.
If Gaza falls . . .
Israel's siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel's siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt. That is why the Israelis tolerate the hundreds of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt around which an informal but increasingly regulated commercial sector has begun to form. The overwhelming majority of Gazans are impoverished and officially 49.1 per cent are unemployed. In fact the prospect of steady employment is rapidly disappearing for the majority of the population.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/
Rampage in Gaza for a Bump in the Polls
Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
the blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
in the streets.
Poem by Pablo Neruda, "I'm Explaining a Few Things"
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Israel's warped self-justification for murder
Israel brazenly lies, saying that Hamas broke the cease-fire when it was Israel that broke the cease-fire in November. In Haaretz, Zvi Barel writes: "Six months ago Israel asked and received a cease-fire from Hamas. It unilaterally violated it when it blew up a tunnel, while still asking Egypt to get the Islamic group to hold its fire."
http://www.redress.cc/
The Holocaust, By Dahlia Wasfi
Holocaust denial is anti-Semitic. But I'm not talking about World War II, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, or Ashkenazi Jews. What I'm referring to is the holocaust we are all witnessing and responsible for in Gaza today and in Palestine over the last 60 years. By definition, a holocaust is a mass slaughter of people or a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life, especially through fire. There isn't a more accurate description of the hell that US-armed and –funded Israeli Occupation Forces are unleashing on the people of Gaza at this moment. Since Arabs are Semites, US-Israeli policy doesn't get more anti-Semitic than this.
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Understanding Gaza
It's fear of another Holocaust that has driven Israel to bomb the crap out of the Palestinians in Gaza — at least, that's if you believe what you read on the New York Times op ed page. (Never a good idea, of course, because as I've previously noted, when it comes to Israel and related fear-mongering, there simply is no hysteria deemed unworthy of the Times op ed page.)
http://tonykaron.com/2008/12/
Gaza Becomes a Chessboard for Israeli Leaders
Excerpt: RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israel's devastating bombardment of Gaza, and the mounting death toll continue as Operation Cast Lead entered its fourth day Tuesday.
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/
Israel's Constant Crisis
Excerpt: As the Israelis continue to pound Gaza, killing Hamas cadre, traffic cops, and civilians alike, Americans shake their heads and wonder: why can't they all just get along?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/
Gideon Levy: The IAF, bullies of the clear blue skies
Our finest young men are attacking Gaza now. Good boys from good homes are doing bad things. Most of them are eloquent, impressive, self-confident, often even highly principled in their own eyes, and on Black Saturday dozens of them set out to bomb some of the targets in our "target bank" for the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Where peace is a problem
As the death toll in Gaza rises by the hour, and the few civic buildings still left are collapsing under the combined firepower of the Israeli air force, with its up-to-the-minute bombers and destructive armaments, we are again facing an incredible political phenomenon -- the foretold disaster which surprises all political leaders as if they, unlike the rest of us, never see a newspaper or watch the television news channels. Haim Bresheeth comments for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Israeli Lawmaker and Conscientious Objector Nephew of Ex-PM Benjamin Netanyahu Denounce Israeli Attack on Gaza Strip
Israel has rejected a French proposal for an immediate emergency forty-eight-hour ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. As Israeli air and sea attacks against the Strip continued into its fifth day, basic food supplies in Gaza are running low, and hospitals are struggling to cope with the rising casualties. We speak to two Israelis opposed to the assault: Dov Khenin, a Knesset member with the Jewish-Arab party Hadash; and Jonathan Benartzi, an Israeli conscientious objector who spent more than a year in prison for refusing to serve. He also happens to be the nephew of Benjamin Netanyahu, a leading proponent of attacking Gaza and a favorite to win the upcoming Israeli elections. [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/
Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?
Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and universities who prominently denounced an effort by British academics to boycott Israeli universities in September 2007 have raised their voice in opposition to Israel's bombardment of the Islamic University of Gaza earlier this week. Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, who organized the petition, has been silent, as have his co-signatories from Princeton, Northwestern, and Cornell Universities, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most others who signed similar petitions, like the 11,000 professors from nearly 1,000 universities around the world, have also refrained from expressing their outrage at Israel's attack on the leading university in Gaza. The artfully named Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, which organized the latter appeal, has said nothing about the assault.
http://www.counterpunch.com/
The Truth About Those Hamas Rockets
Five years ago, the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction to dupe us into supporting an illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq. A few days ago, Israel trotted out only an infinitesimally more credible excuse — the Hamas rockets case — as justification for its own murderous shock and awe in Gaza, a long-planned campaign perniciously aimed at ousting a "regime" that came to power via popular, democratic vote.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/
US man admits 'spying for Israel'
Former army engineer pleads guilty to passing on military information to Israel.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
How The Spartan Jew Was Born?
While living my childhood in occupied Palestine, I witnessed unexplainable negative emotions (often in the forms hatred and anger) from Israelis, many of whom were young soldiers humiliating Palestinians daily whenever they can. I always knew there is more to it than just the normal hatred or anger between enemies. However, I could not understand what's the source of this abnormal hatred and anger? Frankly, I thought that we Palestinians should be angrier, not the Israelis, after all Israelis are the ones who dispossessed and thrown us out of our homeland; not the other way around. Years passed, I immigrated to the United States, and I was in touch with more Zionists (Jews and non-Jews alike). Overtime, I developed a theory for this unprecedented negative emotions, which I like to share with you in this small article.
http://www.
Criminal probe opened against rabbis who signed anti-Arab labor ads
A criminal investigation for incitement to racism will be opened against 29 rabbis who signed two advertisements urging people not to hire Arabs, Deputy Attorney General Shai Nitzan decided Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Tuesday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 7 Wounded
Excerpt: Updated at 7:05 p.m. EST, Dec. 30, 2008 At least seven Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded in a day of light violence. No Coalition deaths were reported, but Iraq signed security pacts with the United Kingdom and Australia today. Meanwhile, the trial of the journalist shoe-thrower was postponed pending a decision as to whether the act amounted to assault in the first place. In other legal news, two Iraqis accused of murdering two British soldiers have lost their bid to stop their handover to Iraqi authorities. The pair fear they will receive the death penalty if found guilty in Iraqi courts.
http://www.antiwar.com/
www.TheHeadlines.org
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