http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
The first 187 names of those murdered in the ongoing Gaza massacre were released today
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Sixth day under attack: Death toll in Gaza reaches 412
Palestinian medical sources said that the Israeli Army continued its bombardment on the Gaza Strip today, calming the life of at least 15 Palestinians since this morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israel kills senior Hamas figure
Nizar Rayyan killed with wife and three children in Israeli air attack.
A new bloody year in Gaza, Israeli air raids kill four people
As the new year starts, Israeli warplanes continued overnight attacking several parts of the Gaza Strip, killing four people, wounding a number others and devastating more buildings or homes.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli Cabinet votes to resume heavy attacks on Gaza, fires at southern Strip
The Israeli Cabinet decided this afternoon to continue the major attacks on the Gaza Strip that has killed 391 Palestinians since Saturday. After the vote Israeli warplanes hit Khan Younis, killing two more. Later Wednesday night Israeli forces fired missiles at the southern Strip's Rafah. Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert chaired the meeting that included defense and foreign ministers Barak and Livni.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Report: 3 killed, 40 injured in Rafah strike
Air Force raid on house of leader of Hamas' military wing kills three neighbors, including one woman, local official says; Gaza death toll since start of IDF operation rises to 398.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Israeli shelling badly damages human rights offices
At about 1:50am Tuesday, 30 December 2008, Israeli F-16 fighter jets shelled a Palestinian police site in Gaza, which is 70 meters away from the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme's (GCMHP) main building in Sheikh Ejleen on Gaza Beach. The shelling was part of the vicious military attacks that the Israeli army launched on Gaza starting 27 December 2008.
http://electronicintifada.net/
'Eight civilians killed' in surgical strike on truck
An Israeli human rights group said yesterday it was investigating claims that an apparent surgical strike on a Hamas missile truck in Gaza, which is being publicised by Israel's armed forces on its website, is a case of mistaken targeting that has left eight civilians dead.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Fatima Ba'lousha killed in Israeli airstrike on mosque near her home in Jabaliya
http://www.maannews.net/en/
IDF bombs "terror" mosque
Gloves are off: Air Force razes Gaza Strip mosque used by Palestinian rocket cells targeting Israeli communities; several people reportedly hurt in strike. Army officials say rockets, explosives stored inside mosque.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Gaza hospital director: Israel lying
Gaza doctors slam 'crazy' Shin Bet charges that hospitals in Strip used as Hamas hideouts.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Israel Bombs Refugee Camps - Do Americans Even Know What Refugees Are?
These maps combined show the areas hardest hit by Israel in Gaza (left) and Gaza's refugee camps (right, in red). There is a clear overlap. Refugees, a class of persons normally in need of the most protection, and in fact afforded special coverage under international law, are suffering the most in Israel's bombardment of Gaza. This is one enormous reason for the invalidity of any argument which assumes symmetry between Gaza (or Hamas) and Israel.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Russian intelligence: USA participating in Israeli war on Gaza
MOSCOW, (PIC)-- American aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea are assisting the Israeli occupation forces in the military campaign on Gaza Strip, a well informed source in the Russian intelligence said on Wednesday.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Fatah affiliates fire five more projectiles at Israeli targets
Fatah's armed wing claimed responsibility on Wednesday for firing five more projectiles toward the Israeli town of Sderot and the military post of Zekeim, it said in a statement. The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Brigades said the projectile attacks were ongoing, and that fighters are working together in light of recent Israeli airstrikes.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Ninety people arrested in East Jerusalem as Israeli police look to prevent protests of solidarity with Gaza through intimidation
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
The Israeli Army attacks Nili'n village and injures seven Palestinians
Israeli Army troops attacked the village of Nil'in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday, and injured seven civilians, Palestinian sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli soldiers hurl tear gas canisters at Palestinian homes in Hebron "for fun"
Israeli soldiers hurled tear gas canisters at a Palestinian house in Hebron on Wednesday evening near the illegal Israeli Kiryat Arba settlement in the southern West Bank. Several members of one family suffered from teargas inhalation, said Farid Ar-Razim, who lives in the home targeted by soldiers, told Ma'an over the phone from the scene of the attacks.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
"If there is an Israeli invasion hospitals will collapse"
In Gaza's main hospital, the director's office is under virtual siege, according to an IRIN journalist in Gaza. Relatives of the injured are desperate to get their kin transferred to Egypt for emergency treatment. There is a fear here that the already overstretched healthcare system will collapse if Israel mounts a ground offensive into the tiny coastal strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Gaza's tunnel economy collapses in bombing raids
The Gaza Strip has lost its last lifeline after five days of Israeli bombing raids that destroyed dozens of smuggling tunnels under the sandy border with Egypt. The passages did not just supply Hamas with arms, but brought in flour, fuel and baby milk.
http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.
Behind closed doors, U.S. seeks Israel exit strategy
Washington is worried that a prolonged campaign in the Gaza Strip could bolster the Palestinian Hamas movement. It wants Israel to set a timetable. Reporting from Washington -- While publicly declaring strong support for Israel, the Bush administration is increasingly nervous about the 4-day-old campaign in the Gaza Strip and is urging its ally to settle on a timetable and exit strategy, say foreign diplomats and Middle East experts close to the discussions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Hamas says Israeli attacks must end before any truce talks
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Wednesday Israeli attacks on Gaza had to stop before any truce proposals could be considered. "First, the Zionist aggression must end without any conditions...Second the siege must be lifted and all the crossings must be opened because the siege is the source of all of Gaza's problems."
http://www.alertnet.org/
Hamas Ready to Halt Attacks if Siege Lifted: Russia
Hamas is ready to halt its attacks on Israel if the Zionist entity lifts its blockade of Gaza, Russia's foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. In a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, "voiced readiness to cease armed confrontation but on condition of the lifting of the blockade of Gaza," the ministry said.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Armed groups continue attacks against Israeli targets
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Hamas Warns Settlers; Vows No Retreat No Surrender
Gaza resistance fighters have been firing deeper into the occupied territories in recent days and a spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas vowed on Tuesday rockets would be fired even further if Israel doesn't halt its savage attacks on the Palestinians in Gaza Strip.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Haniyeh tells Palestinians "victory is near"
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh sounded a defiant tone in a televised speech to Palestinians on Wednesday saying that the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip will win the fight against Israel. "We tell the Palestinian people in Gaza and everywhere that you will win, inevitably. Victory is near, God willing, and it is closer than people think," Haniyeh said.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Livni tells French: Gaza truce would give Hamas legitimacy
"There is no humanitarian crisis in the Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce," the Foreign Ministry quoted Livni as saying in a statement. "Israel has been supplying comprehensive humanitarian aid to the Strip ... and has even been stepping this up by the day."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Barak: We Struck Hamas but It's Still Striking Back
Two Grad rockets fired by Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday scored a direct hit on an eight-floor building in the northern Negev city of Ashdod. The rockets caused a fire to erupt in the building. There were no physical injuries reported.
The strike on Ashdod was the twelvth rocket to hit the western Negev on Thursday. Eight Qassam rockets exploded in the Eshkol region over the course of the morning, and two Grad rockets hit the city of Beersheba.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Palestinian demonstrator dies of wounds from clash with Israeli forces
A young man injured in clashes with Israeli forces in Na'lin died from his wounds Wednesday. Twenty-one-year-old Mohammed Said al-Khawaja was injured in protests that broke out following the first Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Saturday.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
33 Protesters Arrested at Pro-Gaza Rally in Cairo
Egyptian police arrested 33 people at a demonstration of around 3,000 people in central Cairo on Tuesday against Israel's continuing assault on the Gaza Strip, a security official said. The latest anti-Israeli protest was organized by Egyptian opposition parties outside the Journalists' Union. People who tried to demonstrate in neighboring streets were manhandled and arrested because "they risked obstructing traffic."
http://almanar.com.lb/
Haniyeh calls for unity, dialogue in televised address
The de facto prime minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip promised Palestinians that peace will prevail in spite of the ongoing onslaught. The Hamas leader was speaking in a televised address from an undisclosed location. In the speech, Ismail Haniyeh wished Palestinian Christians a very Merry Christmas, congratulating them on the occasion of Jesus' birth and thanking them, "for your patience."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Arabs draft UN resolution to halt Gaza attacks
AP - The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday night on an Arab request for a binding and enforceable resolution condemning Israel and halting its military attacks on Gaza.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Pal. Factions Warn against Exploiting Gaza Massacre
Palestinian powers' alliance in Damascus on Tuesday discussed the latest developments in light of the Israeli aggression on Gaza and the massacres perpetrated by the Zionist occupation against the Palestinian civilians. Following the meeting, Secretary of the Palestinian factions Khaled Abdul-Majeed said in a statement that the Alliance underlined the necessity of activating movement along with the political, official and popular powers in order to stop this aggression and boost the struggle of the Palestinian people.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Hamas accuses senior Abbas 'spies' of colluding with Israel
Hamas has accused senior aides of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, of spying for Israel, underscoring an intensification of Palestinian infighting even in the face of Israel's bombardments in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Robert Fisk: The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act
There was a day when we worried about the "Arab masses" – the millions of "ordinary" Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut – and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people? And now – after three decades of Hosni Mubarak – can Mubarak (or "La Vache Qui Rit", as he is still called in Cairo) restrain the anger of his people? The answer, of course, is that Egyptians and Kuwaitis and Jordanians will be allowed to shout in the streets of their capitals – but then they will be shut down, with the help of the tens of thousands of secret policemen and government militiamen who serve the princes and kings and elderly rulers of the Arab world.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Egypt seen as complicit in Gaza assault
As the Palestinian death toll approaches 400, much of popular anger throughout the Arab world has been directed at Egypt -- seen by many as complicit in the Israeli campaign. "Israel would not have hit Gaza like this without a green light from Egypt," Hamdi Hassan, MP for the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition movement, told IPS. "The Egyptian government allowed this assault on Gaza in hopes of finishing off Hamas."
http://electronicintifada.net/
European campaign: Cairo's refusal to open crossing stab in back of Palestinians
BRUSSELS, (PIC)-- The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza has expressed absolute dismay at Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's televised address on Tuesday in which he declared refusal to open the Rafah border terminal with Gaza despite the ongoing Israeli massacres.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Iran Gaza protesters, police scuffle at Jordan embassy
Iranian students scuffled with riot police near the Jordanian embassy on Thursday after some hardline groups threatened to seize the building in the latest protest linked to Israel's attacks in Gaza. Demonstrators demanded the mission's closure and pushed back police who had blocked the street leading to the embassy in Tehran, some of them briefly breaking through the cordon before being chased back.
http://www.aawsat.com/english/
Gaza Assault Worsens Rift Between Palestinian Factions
Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip has exacerbated the deep divisions between Palestinians who want to make peace with Israel and those who support Hamas's militant struggle against the Jewish state.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Report: Cairo refuses Qatari envoy; Tel Aviv welcomes
A Qatari aid plane landed in Tel Aviv to deliver medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, according to an Israeli newspaper that claimed Egypt refused the same envoy on Wednesday. The Israeli daily Hebrew newspaper reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni gave the go-ahead for the plane full of aid from the Arab state of Qatar to land at Ben Gurion International Airport on Wednesday.
Qatar had previously attempted to deliver several tons of aid to Gaza by sea earlier in December, in the wake of the success of the Free Gaze Movement's blockade-breaking voyages to the besieged strip. Egypt had apparently refused to allow the Qatari plane to land in the Sinai, for undisclosed reasons.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
The Turkish option
The involvement of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in pushing a cease-fire indicates primarily the deep-seated differences between the Syria-Hamas-Iran axis and the Egypt-Saudi Arabia-Palestinian Authority axis. These two axes that now need an external mediator still cannot agree on Hamas' status.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Sayyed Nasrallah: Palestinian Resistance Will Triumph
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah reiterated on Wednesday that the Israeli deadliest offensive against Gaza launched since Saturday was identical to what had taken place in Lebanon during the July 2006 war and expected that the Palestinian Resistance would achieve victory and Zionist entity would be defeated once again. His eminence stressed that the Palestinian Resistance was still tenacious and solid, pointing out that its base wasn't affect by the massacres committed until now.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/
Lebanon in Mourning over Gaza, Condemns Israeli Op.
Unlike previous years, December 31, 2008, was not a day for celebrations in Lebanon. Indeed, the situation in Gaza and the Israeli deadly offensive against Palestinians that claimed the lives of over 390 people and injured more than 1750 others has imposed itself on Lebanese who observed a day of national mourning on Wednesday.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Oxfam calls on EU to take larger role in demanding ceasefire
Oxfam called on the EU to take a more active role in preventing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In a statement from Oxfam International's Director Jeremy Hobbs the international agency asked the EU to "push Israel and Hamas to agree an immediate ceasefire." They insisted that "any agreement on improved humanitarian access must not be a fig leaf for lacklustre diplomatic efforts to bring the violence to an immediate end."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
UN official: Gaza people's suffering one of life and death
GENEVA, (PIC)-- The UN coordinator of humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian lands Maxwell Gaylard has warned that the situation in the Gaza Strip was one of life or death for many of its inhabitants.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Amnesty International: there are no safe places in Gaza
ImagePNN - Calls to the Israeli administration to lift the ban on humanitarian staff and journalists entering the Gaza Strip began well before the current air attacks, but since then they have increased. Amnesty International is among those expressing particular concern for children. In the first moments of the current attacks Israeli forces killed seven kids at a school for refugees.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
British telecom firm severs ties with Israeli counterparts over Gaza
"We weren't expecting this from them and there was no prior warning. I don't intend to appeal to them or answer the letter." The email from FreedomCall said, "As a result of the Israeli government action in the last few days we will no longer be in a position to consider doing business with yourself or any other Israeli company." MobileMax, established in 2004, produces a program providing cellular phones with inexpensive international service.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Vice President of the European Parliament tells Hebronites to continue fighting for rights
Vice President of the European Parliament Luisa Morgantini went to Hebron on Wednesday with a delegation of Europeans to show solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli attack. The delegation was received by Hebron mayor Khalid Al-Useili and other members of the city's municipal council.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israel ordered to allow journalists into Gaza
Israel's Supreme Court ruled today that the Israeli government must allow journalists entry into Gaza to cover the ongoing conflict.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Jennifer Utz: Killing the Messenger: Targeting the Press in Gaza
Watch the broadcast media's live coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East, and you'll see correspondents doing stand-ups in Israeli cities like Jerusalem and Ashkelon. But virtually no reporters are actually on the front lines in Gaza.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
The New York Times on Gaza: El-Khodary strikes again
Today's article in the New York Times (front page), is quite revealing. It also has the byline of Bronner and El-Khodary. The first sentence of the article uses the term "punishing air attacks." One needs to look at that phrase. Who invented that? Which bureau of Israeli occupation's military or intelligence apparatus came out with that one? Punishing air strikes. Just ponder that one.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Freedom of Speech Denied to Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Palestinian Israeli students at the Technion University in Haifa demonstrating this week against the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. More than ten public figures from Jaffa, both men and women, were taken on Tuesday for interrogation by the Israeli police and General Security Services (GSS). The interrogators were told they are suspected of inciting terrorism and throwing stones, one day after a legal demonstration that was held in Jaffa and ended peacefully.
http://www.alternativenews.
The Children of Gaza and the Psychological Effects of Israeli Strikes
Gaza, Asharq Al-Awsat - Ghassan Al Neemat attempted in vain to calm his son, Ahmed, aged 6, in the middle of the night, and sought to convince him that it was safe to stay at home as the child was adamant that he and his parents should go to his aunt's house in nearby Barakat al Wazz.
http://www.aawsat.com/english/
"The radio reported that my friend was under the rubble"
I was lying in my bedroom when the first strike happened, around 1:30 in the morning. A strike isn't just one explosion, it's a series of explosions. Boom, boom, boom, boom. The whole building shook. I woke up and went to the bathroom first, and within 30 seconds the second strike hit. F-16s were bombing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, about 500 meters away. I could hear glass shattering everywhere. Dr. Haider Eid reports from the besieged Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Diane Tucker: In Gaza, A Doctor's Voice Tells of Shaking Houses, Breaking Windows
Four days after Israeli air attacks against the Gaza Strip began, hospitals are already overwhelmed by the influx of wounded patients. Medecins Sans Frontieres teams are now in Gaza helping to ease the hospitals' burdens. They brought with them a truckload of life-saving drugs and medical supplies -- there has been a shortage in Gaza for more than a year. Dr. A. A. (name withheld for security reasons) described the scene today in Shifa Hospital, the main hospital in the Gaza Strip...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Anxiety keeps Palestinians glued to TV
Gazans everywhere are glued to the screen for hours a day as the Israeli attacks continue.
http://www.thenational.ae/
A horrible truth from the Al-Amal Orphan Society / A message from David Halpin
Mohammed El-Ewadi is a very calm, polite, shy, and clever boy. He is an orphan living at AL AMAL Orphanage in Gaza. Mohammed left the orphanage early in the morning, to his final exam at school. he was ready for his exam, and looking forward to the winter vacation, as he was planning to learn photography and computer drawing.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Hezbollah-like tactic used by Hamas against Israel
AP - Since taking control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has adopted the rocket tactics used by Lebanese Hezbollah, shifting away from its reliance on suicide bombers in attacks on Israel.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
"Peace process" blown to bits
CAIRO (IPS) - Formally, the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" appears set to continue, in line with the last United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution. But the chances of finding a resolution are virtually nil in light of Israel's new campaign against the Gaza Strip. "Even before Israel's latest bombardment of Gaza, the so-called peace process was dead," Magdi Hussein, secretary-general of Egypt's Islamist-leaning Labor Party (officially frozen since 2000), told IPS. On Saturday, 27 December, Israel began a series of punishing air strikes throughout the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, whose interior is controlled by Hamas.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Donald Macintyre: Lessons of Lebanon return to haunt Israel
Although their proposals differ in detail, two of Israel's best-known writers, Amos Oz and David Grossman, have joined the calls for a ceasefire after several days of Israel's offensive.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Mark Levine: To Succeed in Israel/Palestine Where Clinton Failed, Obama Needs a History Lesson
The renewed Israel-Hamas war in Gaza presents the incoming Obama Administration with its most difficult immediate foreign policy challenge. Yet it also offers Obama a well-timed opportunity to act on his promise to return to the aggressive Mideast diplomacy that characterized the final years of the Clinton Administration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Gaza: the importance of the Bob Gates straddle
US foreign policy Yesterday, as I noted here, Condi Rice gave a degree to acquiescence to a much-needed statement calling for "an immediate and permanent ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas/Gaza, that had been jointly agreed upon by Ban Ki-moon, Bernard Kounchner, Rice, and Sergei Lavrov. Ban had apparently convened the conference call in which the four members of the Mideast "Quartet" all agreed on that position. Was Condi thereby representing the position of President Bush?
http://justworldnews.org/
New birth pangs for the Middle East
No one can say with certainty what Israel's new aggression will unleash, but one can point to some likely outcomes. The attack on Gaza will not destroy Hamas, and even if Israel kills every person who ever supported Hamas, the attack will not end resistance. On the contrary, resistance will be strengthened throughout the region, undermining the notion that resistance is outdated or impossible and that the only remaining "strategic choice" for the Arabs is negotiation from a position of weakness. The Gaza attack will weaken and discredit even further the so-called "moderates" who did their best to extinguish any form of resistance and bet heavily on the failed peace process and its sponsors. Hasan Abu Nimah comments.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Israel Over-Reaches
What a New Year dawns for the Palestinians of Gaza. More Gazans have been killed in just three days than the entire year of 1988, during the first Palestinian uprising., Death and destruction cloud history and context. Fact: Israel's punishment of Gaza predates the Hamas take-over in June 2007. It even predates the existence of Hamas., Israel's siege policies began to take shape back in 1988 when it imposed a "permit system" in Gaza. It introduced closures in 1991 and institutionalized them in 1993. It sealed Gaza off by an electronic wall in 1994. Israel's punishment before and since has included mass home demolitions, air raids, and "targeted assassinations" -- all illegal under international law.
http://www.zcommunications.
Daniel Barenboim: Israel's security depends on wiser action
I have just three wishes for the coming year. The first is for the Israeli government to realise once and for all that the Middle East conflict cannot be solved by military means. The second is for Hamas to realise that its interests are not served by violence, and Israel is here to stay. And the third is for the world to acknowledge that this conflict is unlike any other in history. It is uniquely intricate and sensitive - a conflict between two peoples who are both deeply convinced of their right to live on the same very small piece of land. This is why neither diplomacy nor military action can resolve this conflict.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Wajahat Ali: Unfair and Unbalanced: The U.S. Response to the Gaza Crisis
Moral relativism, political double talk, and a military juggernaut blind to its violence against an occupied people highlight the most recent, tragic conflagration in Israel and Palestine. In justifying Israel's most brutal and bloody salvo against Gaza in decades - which has so far killed nearly 400 Palestinians and wounded more than 1800 - Israel's U.N. ambassador stated Israel rightfully defending itself from continued Hamas rocket attacks within her borders. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert forewarned the offensive "is liable to continue for some time" and Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared it as an "all-out war against Hamas and its branches."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Adam Horowitz: Jews are Soul-Searching About Madoff -- What About Gaza?
There has been an unusual amount of introspection in the Jewish community this holiday season. Hanukkah was almost overshadowed by the Madoff scandal and the accompanying uproar about his impact on the Jewish community. The frenzy of handwringing and accusation culminated with the call for Madoff's excommunication from Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, of Temple Beth El in Stamford, Connecticut, who stated in a passionate a letter to Malcolm Hoenlein that "never before has one man done such damage to individual Jews, Jewish organizations and Judaism itself." Hammerman was motivated by fears for the future of Judaism: "Our own children are watching us."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
A Better World Must Start from Gaza
New Year Greetings and resolutions have become a meaningless custom of lip service while with every passing year the condition of humanity deteriorates from bad to worse. The international community has become insensitive to the sufferings of the downtrodden and have taken for granted the repetitive brutality and oppression conducted by certain regimes year after year on the innocent populace around the world.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Gaza - Israel's Butchering Block
As usual, Israel, once again, demonstrated its blatant contempt to humanity and to all religions when its fourth most powerful army desecrated on Saturday December 27 the most Christian, Muslim and Jewish holiest religious holidays, and even their own supposed-to-be holy Sabbath, by spelling the blood of the weak, the hungry, the thirsty, the poor, the desolate, and the two-years besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. So it's merry Christmas, happy New Year, happy Hanukkha, and Shabat shalom.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Thoughts on Gaza
As I sit and view the reports, photos and live videos streaming in from Gaza I find it impossible to make sense of it all. As a boy growing up in Israel and attending a regular public school, I remember being taught the story of Abraham, the patriarch arguing with God over the decision to destroy the city of Sodom...
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza: President Bush's departing gift to Palestinians
There has been a virtually universal condemnation of Israeli massacre of unarmed Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza with the exception of Bush administration and Gordon Brown of Britain. As the US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped Saturday (December 27) over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing more than 200 persons, the Bush administration was one of the first to offer its support for Israel's attacks by blaming the victims for the massacre.
http://www.opednews.com/
Letter to the American media
Dear Editor, Imagine if more than 63 thousand Americans were massacred in a couple of hours' campaign of F-16 bombing. This number represents (by way of percentage) the number of Palestinians killed by Israel when it launched its massive air strikes in Gaza on Saturday. A friend of mine in Gaza tells me that hundreds are still buried under the rubble and the toll of deaths could easily reach thousands. Already there are more than 1,700 injured with many in serious conditions.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Cast Lead in the Foundry
A stopped clock, the saying goes, is right twice a day. The "senior Bush administration official" who chatted with the Washington Post on December 28 was right that Israel is "not trying to take over the Gaza Strip" with the massive assault launched the previous day, and correct that the Israelis are bombing now "because they want it to be over before the next administration comes in." That's twice, and so one must take this official's remaining reasoning -- that President-elect Barack Obama may not smile upon Israel's gross abuses of military power as the Bush administration has done -- with a grain of salt.
http://www.zcommunications.
Gaza And The World
In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it's comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of its gory and unsettling details, without blemishes and without censorship. When Israel carried out massive air strikes against Gaza on Saturday, December 27, terrorizing an already hostage and malnourished population, I too tuned in to Aljazeera.
http://www.countercurrents.
God's Chariot
Since it was first produced in 1979, Israel's Merkava tank has gained a formidable reputation as one of the world's best-protected fighting machines. Yet, in the summer of 2006, Hezbollah guerrillas in Southern Lebanon shattered this image.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Israel's 'victories' in Gaza come at a steep price
Cambridge, Mass. - I hear the voices of my friends in Gaza as clearly as if we were still on the phone; their agony echoes inside me. They weep and moan over the death of their children, some, little girls like mine, taken, their bodies burned and destroyed so senselessly. One Palestinian friend asked me, "Why did Israel attack when the children were leaving school and the women were in the markets?" There are reports that some parents cannot find their dead children and are desperately roaming overflowing hospitals.
As Jews celebrated the last night of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights commemorating our resurgence as a people, I asked myself: How am I to celebrate my Jewishness while Palestinians are being killed?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/
Like in Lebanon, in Gaza Israel Blinked First
After six days of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reflected the confusion that the Israeli occupation army is passing through following the brave steadfastness of the Gazans, despite the high death toll among them that reached 400 martyrs till now, along with the missile system of the Palestinian resistance that has never stopped firing into the Israeli settlements.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/
US Advises Citizens in Leb. to Avoid pro-Gaza Protests
http://almanar.com.lb/
Solidarity
Palestinians vow solidarity with Gaza and continued resistance in 2009
http://stopthewall.org/
NYC protests against Gaza attacks - slideshow
http://www.kodakgallery.com/
Zapatista's Festival of Dignified Rage condemns Israel's massacre against Palestine
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
"Demos for Gaza, Berlin, 27 and 29.12.08" (Videos)
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
"Hope for Gaza Now! USA, 28-30.12.08" (Videos)
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
Candlelight vigil for Gaza held in Bethlehem
http://www.alarabiya.net/
200 protest Israel bombing Gaza in Salt Lake city
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_
LABOR FOR PALESTINE: STOP ISRAEL'S MASSACRE IN GAZA AND END THE SIEGE NOW!
http://www.ipetitions.com/
Action Alert: Twenty-Six Things to Help Gaza
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
Bush stance on cease-fire shows support for Israel
AP - By insisting that Hamas go first in any cease-fire with Israel, the Bush administration is sticking to its support for the Jewish state's right of self-defense while stopping short of encouraging an Israeli ground assault aimed at fully reoccupying the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Nick Palmer: Israel's friends must say 'stop'
Nick Palmer: Sometimes friends need to tell you when you've gone too far. This is one of those times.
Thursday: 9 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded
Excerpt: At least nine Iraqis were killed and 10 more were wounded on the first day of complete Iraqi control of security. The country formally took control of the Green Zone and likewise the rest of Iraq during a ceremony today. Meanwhile, Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani issued a strongly worded statement blaming Arabs for the growing rift between the two ethnic groups.
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