Land theft
Waqf Minister: Israel used Gaza invasion as chance to confiscate West Bank lands
Land confiscations in the West Bank are continuing, said Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs Jamal Bawatneh, and soon there will be no land to hold a Palestinian state. In a Tuesday letter the minister expressed his concern over the continued confiscations while "whole world was preoccupied with Gaza," and accused Israel of using the attacks as a free-ticket to act in the West Bank. Hundreds of dunnums of lands in Yatta village [south of] Hebron were confiscated" during the Gaza invasion, said Bawatneh. He called on Arab and Islamic leaders to pay attention to the land grabs, and speak out against them. [end]
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Attacks against Palestinians/Testimonials/
Gaza Carnage in Context; Timeline
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Bodies of two women uncovered, three residents die of earlier wounds
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday morning that the bodies of two women, aged 90 and 62, were located in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and that three residents, wounded during the offensive, died of earlier wounds.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
The Israeli military injures a Palestinian old woman near Hebron
A Palestinian old woman was injured on Wednesday by Israeli troops fire in the village of Shoykh Al Arob village near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Army claims soldiers bombed Gaza after eight shells were fired at Israel
The Israeli air force shelled a target in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening and claimed that the shelled target was used earlier in the day by Palestinian fighters who allegedly fired eight homemade shells into Israel.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Gaza police chief, 230 of his men killed during Gaza offensive
The Hamas-ruled police chief, 230 other police officers and police men were killed during the 22-day Israeli military offensive on Gaza that ended on Sunday, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Islam Shahwan, the Hamas-rule Police forces spokesman told a news conference held in Gaza that "General Tawfiq Jabber and 230 police officers and police men were killed during the brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Fatah affiliates say Israel destroyed Gaza City office
An armed group linked to Fatah said its Central Information Office in the Gaza City neighborhood of Tal Al-Hawa was destroyed during Israel's assault that ended Sunday. The "Martyr Yasser Arafat Group," a section of the armed Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, said the office was destroyed on Tuesday, according to spokesperson Abu Seif, but confirmation of the destruction was not made until Wednesday when members could move through the streets.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Father: 'I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls'
A Palestinian father has claimed that he saw two of his young daughters shot dead and another critically injured by an Israeli soldier who emerged from a stationary tank and opened fire as the family obeyed an order from the Israeli forces to leave their home.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
'The last children to die in Gaza'
AFP - In a quiet courtyard hidden down a maze of alleys, the Abu Eich family gathers to mourn their four girls killed by an Israeli shell just hours before Israel halted its assault on Gaza.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Mourning for 29, the Al Samouni family
Zahwah Al Samouni is still in a state of shock. She is one of tens of members of the same family who were trapped from the third through the tenth of January. Among them were dead and injured, grandparents and babies. Zahwah is one of the survivors of the Israeli attacks on Gaza City's Al Zeitoun neighborhood.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Gaza doctors struggle to treat deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus
Doctors in Gaza described today how they had struggled to treat dozens of patients with terrible and unusually deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus weapons, during Israel's three-week war in Gaza. Nafiz Abu Shabaan, head of the burns unit at Shifa hospital and the most senior burns surgeon in Gaza, said 60 to 70 patients had died in his unit during the war from severe burns that were unlike any injury he had previously seen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
While Israeli children return to school, kids in Gaza sift through rubble to find bodies of friends
Israeli media reported Monday that Israeli children from the town of Sderot have returned to school and normalcy. Meanwhile, children in every part of the Gaza Strip are either bleeding in overcrowded hospitals or sifting through the rubble of what used to be their schools, mosques and homes.
http://imemc.org/article/58552
Do not be confused by the ceasefire, the siege of Gaza continues. From the Israeli human rights organization Gisha (emphasis their's): On "the day after" the fighting in Gaza, the magnitude of the death and destruction continues to come to light. Bodies are still being pulled out of the wreckage, bringing the death toll to well over 1,300, and hundreds of thousands of people are contending with water, sewage, and health systems that are in a state of collapse.
http://www.philipweiss.org/
'I feel like I am trapped here in a cage'
There were many foreign doctors walking around the hospital and it was evident that medical personnel from all over the world had dropped what they were doing at home and flown to Palestine to assist.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Man who lost five children in one strike
The first Anwar Khalil Baalousha knew of the tragedy that struck his family was when the water tank in his house exploded over him as he slept. "I didn't hear the airstrike - it was like I was having a dream - then I was suddenly drenched in water," says Baalousha, a slight man with a dark beard and equally dark rings under his eyes.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Journalist returns home to find girl nearly dead
For two days 15-year-old Amerah's wound bled without medical treatment. She fled her home and left the dead bodies of her father and two brothers.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
A child full of light will never see again
So many crimes have already been documented by Amnesty International and other human rights institutions. Many more are still untold stories. I can tell one story with my own words and my own camera -- that of eight-year-old Louay Sobeh. Little Louay could not know what this war had in store for him or his family. Sameh A. Habeeb writes from the occupied Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Jordanian doctors returning from Gaza: 90% of injuries from phosphorus bombs
The Jordanian medical team that returned from the Gaza Strip told a press conference that 90% of injuries suffered by Palestinians in the IOF aggression were from the white phosphorus bombs.
POLITICS: U.N. Chief Appalled at Israeli Destruction in Gaza
When Israel went on a military rampage during its 22-day air strikes and artillery attacks on Gaza, it largely singled out residential neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools and U.N. buildings on the pretext of targeting Hamas fighters.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.
Amnesty International team talks to Gaza survivors
After three weeks of Israeli bombardment, previously deserted Gaza streets are filling up again as tens of thousands of people who had fled their homes begin to return. But, as Amnesty International's fact-finding team in Gaza witnessed on Tuesday, thousands have no homes to return to, because so many were destroyed by Israeli forces.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/
IAEA to look into Gaza uranium ammunition claim
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday it would look into a claim by Vienna-based Arab ambassadors that Israel may have used ammunition containing depleted uranium in Gaza attacks.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Rights groups demand Gaza op probe
Human rights organizations urge attorney general to investigate violations of combat rules in Gaza.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
An international investigation deems Israeli use of white phosphorus in city a war crime
As some doctors and medical supplies are being allowed in to the Gaza Strip to work on the thousands of injuries, Amnesty International delegates found that the Israeli use of white phosphorous against Palestinians "is clear and undeniable." An Amnesty delegation is among those investigating the humanitarian disaster and status of war crimes.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza
One of the places most seriously affected by the use of white phosphorus was the main UN compound in Gaza City, which was hit by three shells on 15 January. The same munition was used in a strike on the al-Quds hospital in Gaza City the same day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
United Nations calls for investigations over targeted UN buildings
The United Nations' top official on Tuesday called for an international investigation into Israel's shelling of three UN buildings in the Gaza Strip. "I am just appalled," said Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on visiting the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) compound that was bombed by Israel last week. "It is an outrageous and totally unacceptable attack against the United Nations," he added, reiterating his call for a full investigation and to make those responsible accountable.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
UN demands flow of goods to Gaza
The UN humanitarian chief urges Israel to fully open all crossings with Gaza to allow in humanitarian items for reconstruction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-
Israeli human rights activists: Arrest Olmert, Livni, and Barak for war crimes
Anonymous self-described Israeli human rights activists have set up an Internet site detailing alleged war crimes committed by senior government officials and Israel Defense Forces officers. No known human rights organization is behind the site, whose founders refuse to give their names.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Petition: Creation of a Special Tribunal to try Israeli War Criminals Petition
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/
ISRAEL-OPT: Displaced Gazans seek shelter from the cold
TEL AVIV Wednesday, January 21, 2009 (IRIN) - One of the chief concerns for displaced Gazans and aid agencies is to find adequate shelter in temperatures that can drop to minus 7-8 degrees Centigrade at night.
http://www.irinnews.org/
Gazans stay away from Israeli clinic
Medics at Israel's newly inaugurated border clinic expressed their frustration Tuesday at the lack of patients from Gaza coming to the facility, which is situated on the Strip's northern border, and was officially opened Sunday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
Study: 89% of Gazans have received no humanitarian assistance
An overwhelming 89% of Gaza's 1.5 million residents have received no humanitarian aid since Israel began its three-week war in December, the international aid agency CARE reported on Wednesday. CARE conducted a survey among Gaza residents that it says shows that more aid and humanitarian workers are needed in Gaza, and that Israel should "fully open" Gaza's borders to allow "humanitarian supplies, building materials, and commercial goods into the region."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Videos of the crimes
Video: Prima Facie Evidence of War Crimes by Israel
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
Video: Jewish State has achieved its objectives
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
The aftermath
WSJ: Gazans Rally Behind Hamas
"Hamas is now our army, the only ones fighting to defend the Palestinian people," said Gaza resident Ahmed al-Sultan, standing outside the rubble of the north Gaza City home his family has lived in for 40 years. "I saw how they fight, their courage and their sacrifice, and so I've changed my opinion about them."
http://online.wsj.com/article/
The myth of Israel's strategic genius
Many supporters of Israel will not criticize its behavior, even when it is engaged in brutal and misguided operations like the recent onslaught on Gaza. In addition to their understandable reluctance to say anything that might aid Israel's enemies, this tendency is based in part on the belief that Israel's political and military leaders are exceptionally smart and thoughtful strategists who understand their threat environment and have a history of success against their adversaries. If so, then it makes little sense for outsiders to second-guess them.
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/
Israel's "Dahiya Doctrine" comes to Gaza
In the last days before Israel imposed a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza to avoid embarrassing the incoming Obama administration, it upped its assault, driving troops deeper into Gaza City, intensifying its artillery bombardment and creating thousands more displaced people. Israel's military strategy in Gaza, even in what its officials were calling the "final act," followed a blueprint laid down during the Lebanon war more than two years ago. Jonathan Cook analyzes.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Gaza and the Franco-Egyptian Proposal
The Israeli attack on Gaza had exposed the treacherous role the Egyptian Mubarak's regime had been playing, since he received presidency, in the Arab/Israeli conflict and in the Palestinian/Palestinian division. During the attack Mubarak's regime tried to portray itself as an honest mediator between Israel and Hamas, while, in reality, it was playing the role of an Israeli proxy negotiator, who was trying to impose Israeli conditions on Hamas government. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Tsibi Livni, had hinted to this when she stated that the negotiations through Egypt were not with Hamas but against it.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Hamas, Fatah bicker following Gaza op
Hamas and Fatah have been accusing each other of stealing humanitarian aid that was on its way to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They are also competing as to which one of them would be in charge of rebuilding the destroyed infrastructure and houses.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
'Inevitable' that U.S. Will Have to Deal with Hamas
This is a case in which I've come to feel we would have been much better off and the region could have been better off had we engaged with the PLO in those early days. ....On Hamas, a group which has not, to my knowledge, ever launched a deliberate blow against the United States, such as the PLO did--.....Right now there is a cease-fire. Israelis are determined to do nothing that will allow any degree of legitimacy to Hamas.....I don't think we can, politically, move directly to open contacts with Hamas. What we can stop doing is endorsing a policy deliberately aimed at fighting the Palestinians and weakening Hamas.
http://www.cfr.org/
Audio: Abunimah, Finkelstein, Mearsheimer discuss Israel's attacks on Gaza
On Saturday, 27 December 2008, Israel began its onslaught against the 1.5 million besieged and imprisoned Palestinians in the Gaza Strip -- one of the most densely populated areas in the world. On 8 January, a panel featuring John J. Mearsheimer, Ali Abunimah and Norman G. Finkelstein was held at the University of Chicago to discuss the the reasons and ramifications of the recent attacks on Gaza and the larger Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Control Of Gaza Subject Of Debate; Many Wonder if Fatah Will Assume Leadership Role
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- As Palestinians begin thinking about how to rebuild the bombarded Gaza Strip, the biggest hurdle quickly became apparent: Who will be in charge? European countries, oil-rich Arab kingdoms and the United Nations have all pledged money or aid since Israel declared a cease-fire Sunday in the military offensive it launched Dec. 27. But none of the donors wants to deal with Hamas, the Islamist movement that still controls Gaza but is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the European Union and the United States.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Smuggling from Egypt into Gaza resurfaces
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Smuggling from Egypt into Gaza is under way again, only days after the end of Israel's campaign against Hamas. AP Television News footage shows Palestinian smugglers today filling a fuel truck with gas that came through a cross-border tunnel from Egypt. The footage also shows workers busy clearing blocked tunnels and bulldozers carrying out other repairs.
http://www.freep.com/article/
Livni: We need progress on Shalit before we address Hamas demands
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Tuesday that progress over the return of kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit is a precondition for any Israeli concessions to Hamas. "It is clear to me that at this point in time Hamas, on the one hand, and the international community, on the other hand, are going to pressure Israel over border-crossings and other matters," Livni told students at the College of Management. While there things that Hamas wants to obtain from Israel, there is a human being that we want back - Gilad Shalit," she continued. "The two matters are mutually dependent; it is impossible to separate them and we cannot move forward on any other issue until we make progress on the return of Gilad Shalit. "
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Hamas open to coordination with PA in Gaza reconstruction
Hamas' de facto government in the Gaza Strip said it would welcome help from the rival Fatah-led government in Ramallah in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. The minister of Housing and Public Works in the Gaza government, Yousef Al-Mansi, said during a press conference on Wednesday said his government would not mind coordinating with the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, but that the de facto government would supervise the reconstruction effort.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Collaborators
Hamas confirms PA affiliates in Gaza executed for collaboration
Former Palestinian Authority figures "distributed candy celebrating the Gaza offensive," Hamas claimed on Wednesday. According to Hamas leader in exile Mousa Abu Marzouq, PA sympathizers "sent kisses to Israeli warplanes" and "guided these planes to their targets."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israel prevents Abbas from bringing cash to Gaza
Western, Palestinian officials say restrictions on transfer of $80 million to pay workers, others hard-hit by war may undercut ability of PA president's West Bank government to reassert presence in Hamas-ruled territory.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Khalid Amayreh arrested by Abbas' "security" forces!!! Then released, UPDATE!!
Dear friends, colleagues, brothers and sisters all over the globe. I would like to thank each and everyone of you for your solidarity during my short but difficult ordeal. I am quite certain that had it not been for the public and media pressure on the PA, I would have been kept in that dark cell for many more weeks or months. My brief incarceration was meant to make me exercise "self-censorship" and refrain from calling things by their real names. But, Nay, this I will never do.
http://palestinianpundit.
ANALYSIS / Jordan's king is torn between U.S.-Egypt and Syria-Hamas axes
"I swear in the name of Allah that I will not use that American merchandise, I will not bring it into the house and I will not permit the members of my family to use it." That was the vow made in recent weeks by members of Jordan's committee against normalization with Israel. The burning of U.S.-made goods, a call for a boycott on companies that cooperate with Israel, and even a demand to sever Jordan's diplomatic relations with Israel are nothing new, but the burning of the Israeli flag by Jordanian MPs inside the parliament building - that has never happened before.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Egypt Arrests 35 at Gaza War Protest
Egyptian police arrested 35 people including four journalists at a downtown Cairo protest against Israel's war in Gaza on Saturday, a security official said. Anti-riot police were deployed in strength to deal with the protest by around 1,000 people, mostly members of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group, the official said, asking not to be named.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Media/Media bias/Propaganda
Egypt prohibits reporters from entering Gaza
Egyptian authorities turned away dozens of foreign journalists from entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing to cover the aftermath of the recently halted Israeli aggression on the impoverished strip.
http://www.alarabiya.net/
Terrorist rhetoric from an Israeli "leftist"
This is supposed to be a leftist "peace" loving Israel. It only shows you that there are no discernible differences in the Israeli political spectrum--they only disagree over the desirable number of Palestinian children to be killed: "Obviously, the Palestinians cannot be let off the hook for their crimes and mistakes. That would be tantamount to belittling and condescending to them...We cannot pardon the Palestinians or treat them forgivingly
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Solidarity
Gaza Shows: Omar Offendum & Ragtop
http://illuminarcy.blogspot.
Demonstration for Gaza - Saturday Jan 24, 2009
http://jewssansfrontieres.
King's students stage sit-in over Gaza
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Great protest sign
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Thousands protest in Tunisia against siege of Gaza
http://www.middle-east-online.
Thousands march to celebrate victory against IOF invasion
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Anti-solidarity
VIDEO: Israeli Jews dancing in celebration of the slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Other Gaza news
Bishop Hanna on support for Gaza: the people rose up and said no to barbarism
"Blessed Gaza pride, what a hero of resistance you are," echoed the words of dozens of residents of East Jerusalem during a press conference held by Islamic and Christian leaders. Their first words were a tribute to the "steadfastness of the people in the face of Israeli aggression." After three weeks of attacks both the survivors and the killed are being held as the heroes who confronted the occupation.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Iran: 'Palestinian resistance has right to arms'
Iran, accused by Israel of supplying arms to Hamas militants, today said resistance groups around the world like those in Gaza had the right to have access to weapons to fight against "colonialists."
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Iraqis Mull Support for Palestinians
Some say Iraqi government has not done enough to aid Gaza residents. Iraqis throughout the country believe their government should have taken a stronger stance against the Israeli military offensive in Gaza, but are torn over how much support Iraq should offer Palestinians. Citizens informally polled by IWPR-trained reporters in Mosul, Karbala, Baghdad and Sulaimainiyah largely expressed sympathy for Palestinians in Gaza and said they were following the Israeli-Hamas conflict closely on Arab, Iraqi and Palestinian news channels. Israel and Hamas separately declared cease-fires on January 18, establishing a fragile, short-term truce which many hoped would ultimately end three weeks of war. As Israeli troops pulled out of Gaza, news agencies estimated that 1,260 Palestinians had been killed, more than half of them civilians. Thirteen Israelis were killed by rocket fire from Gaza.
http://www.iwpr.net/EN-icr-f-
MIDEAST: Egypt Bent at the Border
Tens of thousands of houses inside the Gaza Strip were destroyed by air strikes and artillery during Israel's recently concluded military campaign. Areas along Egypt's border with the hapless enclave, meanwhile, have not been immune from the devastation.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.
West Bank and Israel
Troops invade village near Jenin, impose curfew and kidnap 10 youth
Palestinian sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Tuesday at dawn that Israeli soldiers invaded Toura Al Gharbiyya village, west of Jenin, and kidnapped 10 Palestinian youths.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
IOF Arrests 31 Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, Tuesday, 31 Palestinians from the West Bank cities of Hebron, Jenin, Ramallah, Nablus and Bethlehem, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
http://english.wafa.ps/?
The Israeli army storms Qabatiya village near Jenin and kidnaps one civilian
The Israeli military invaded the town of Qabatiya located near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday and kidnapped one Palestinian civilian.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Supreme Court: Umm al-Fahm rightist march after elections
Court rebukes State for ignoring ruling, repeatedly postponing rightists Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir's march in Arab city; rules rally should be held within six weeks after general elections.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Op-ed/Analysis
'Legal' weapons also kill
The weapons and ammunition that killed the brothers Kassab and Ibrahim Shurab, aged 28 and 17, were legal. But apart from the weapons and ammunition, was there anything legal about killing them? On Friday, January 16, the two were driving with their father Mohammed, 64, in a red Land Rover from the family's farm near the Green Line to their home in Khan Yunis. The father drove, Kassab sat in the passenger seat and Ibrahim sat in the back. The temporary cease-fire, allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza, was held between 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. that day.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Q&A: 'Without Loyalty, No Citizenship'
Arab Israeli lists Balad and Ta'al might not be allowed to take part in the upcoming elections. Last Monday, representatives from all major parties voted for the exclusion of the lists. Danny Hershtal, candidate of main instigator Yisrael Beitenu explains why his party considered such a move necessary. In the shadow of operation Cast Lead and a growing feeling of national conformity, right-wing parties Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home) and National Union petitioned for the exclusion of Arab Israeli parties Balad and United Arab List-Ta'al.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.
Norman Finklestein: The Grandchildren Of Holocaust Survivors From World War II Are Doing To The Palestinians Exactly What Was Done To Them By Nazi Germany
http://www.normanfinkelstein.
A push for a two-state solution must not exclude the rule of law
Amnesty International has now joined the United Nations and Human Rights Watch in accusing the Israeli government of breaking international law outlawing the use of white phosphorus shells in the middle of highly populated areas of Gaza. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, has condemned Israeli attacks on UN humanitarian centres in Gaza as "outrageous" and has called for an independent, international inquiry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Outrage and Impotence as Gaza Burned
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon expressed his "outrage" and the President of the General Assembly, Miquel d'Escoto Brockmann, accused Israel of violating international law. "Gaza is ablaze," he told the UN General Assembly, "it has been turned into a burning hell." The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Professor Richard Falk, characterized the Israel offensive as containing "severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law." But an outspoken US lawyer isn't overly impressed with the indignant words of Ban, Brockmann, or Falk.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
The only democracy in the Middle East (other than Hamas)
The only democracy in the Middle East (other than Hamas) is arresting its own citizens for protesting against their government's war crimes in Gaza. Nora Barrows-Friedman is reporting that Israeli police are reviewing videotapes of protesters to see who they'll arrest next
http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/
Dialogue with Hamas is only path to peace, urges novelist
David Grossman, the renowned Israeli novelist, issued a pained rebuke to his countrymen over the Gaza invasion yesterday and called for the immediate opening of talks with the militant Hamas movement.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
The Israeli Campaign Against Its People
I've talked about the arrest and prosecution of the first Israeli reserve soldier, to refuse to go to Gaza. Now, almost two days after the "unilateral" ceasefire, another reserve soldier, Noam Livne, has been arrested. Have no mistake, these brave men were not arrested just because they defected. Livne even came in to the base, to make sure that there are no misunderstandings- He's not defecting, he's a conscientious objector. They were arrested for defecting in a time of war.
http://www.zcommunications.
Not to Remain Silent
I write simply not to remain silent in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression against the Palestinian population in general, and the Gaza population in particular. Where to start? There are so many other writers and spokespersons appearing regularly on the internet alternate media that speak clearly, passionately, and knowledgeably about the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. On the regular media, the corporate controlled agenda continues its endless reiterations of the Israeli line that their purpose militarily is to stop Hamas' rockets, a position so grievously out of context and so contrary to the obvious war crimes being committed against the people of Gaza
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Hamas tells Obama to learn from Bush's mistakes
Islamist group calls on US president to 'respect the Palestinian people's choice and support their right to defend themselves'
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Palestinians say pro-Israel US policy will not change
GAZA CITY: As they clean up the rubble of Israel's deadliest war on their coastal strip, Gazans hold out little hope that new US president Barack Obama can end the cycle of violence. The tide of global hope that has surged with Obama's arrival has not washed over Gaza, where 1,300 Palestinians died, more than 400 of them children, and 5,000 were wounded in Israel's 22-day offensive that only ended on Sunday. "Obama won't bring my husband back to life," said Leila Khalil. "He was martyred and left me with six children to feed on my own. And Obama won't repair our house that was damaged in the (air) raids."
http://www.gulf-times.com/
Sacrosanct State and Complacent West
'Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.' -- Barrack Obama.
'I've been to Gilo and seen the security fence protecting Israeli families from attacks in their own homes.' -- Hillary Clinton.
'When I heard about the rocket fire at Israel I felt it was a danger to Italy and to the entire West.' -- Silvio Berlusconi.
'While we speak here today thousands of people are living in fear and dread of missile attacks and acts of terror by Hamas.' -- Angela Merkel
These quotes are chosen at random from a script written in the theatre of the absurd known as 'the west'. Does Barrack Obama, the Harvard law graduate, not know that Jerusalem is an occupied city? Does Hillary Clinton not know that the Israeli 'families' living at Gilo have built their homes on land belonging to someone else? Does Silvio Berlusconi seriously regard Hamas rocket attacks as a threat to Italy and even the 'entire West'? Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton were speaking at the AIPAC conference in Washington last June, Angela Merkel in the Knesset in March and Silvio Berlusconi at Sharm al Shaikh this week. He and other European 'leaders', as they are called, Merkel, Sarkozy and Gordon Brown among them, had gathered in Egypt to 'discuss' Gaza with Husni Mubarak and Mahmud Abbas, i.e to tell them what their part would be in the European plan to bring peace to Gaza.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Palestinians sceptical of meaningful change
Palestinians are unimpressed by new president and prospects for a change in US policy, despite promises.
http://www.thenational.ae/
Hitting the ground rerunning, Obama issues disappointing language on Israel/Palestine
Obama's White House is now online. The White House's foreign-policy agenda begins by vowing "to seek a lasting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." But then three paragraphs of absolute support for Israel no matter what is very disappointing. Not a shock, but disappointing nonetheless. And of course not a word about the Gaza slaughter and destruction. Friends don't let friends drive drunk.
http://www.philipweiss.org/
In the Middle East, the Gaza conflict overshadows Obama's inaugural message of hope
Watching Barack Obama's inauguration on television in Amman, Jordan, as he stumbled over his words during the oath, then spoke eloquently of Americans now choosing "our better history", I wanted to celebrate, like many, as we did in November. After the election, the change of mood in the normally subdued Jordanian capital was palpable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Faisal Abbas: An Open Letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President, Allow me first to congratulate you, the American people and all believers in liberty, equality and human rights all over the world on this remarkable occasion. I can't seem to be able to restrain myself from saying how much I envy the American people on this day for electing their first ever African-American President; I say this because I happen to know the context of this achievement and the fact that the Civil Rights Movement started less than 5 decades ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
The incredible political significance of Obama's inauguration will inevitably resonate to the Middle East
Having watched TV half the day, I can say with assurance that the symbolic meaning of Obama's elevation is too large to be contained by any policy pronouncement or interpretation. Which is making me very optimistic re Israel/Palestine. President Obama's mere presence is sending shockwaves through the culture. The repeated insistence today by white commentators that America is finally dealing with its "original sin"--slavery, racism--is just too profound not to have a big effect on our politics and the politics of the Middle East. I noticed that when Tom Brokaw was talking about segregation in the south today he called it "apartheid."
http://www.philipweiss.org/
Inauguration Day: Burying the Gaza Dead
I missed the inauguration of Barack Obama this morning because I was burying the Palestinians dead in the Gaza War. I woke up this morning at 10:00 am after an unusually deep and prolonged sleep and realized that I missed the inauguration ceremony. As I got up, a bit surprised, for I had gone to bed early expressly for that purpose, I remembered that I dreamt that I was in Gaza burying the Palestinians dead from the Gaza War. The dream was especially vivid. I was exhuming and extricating bodies of dead Palestinians killed in the last three weeks in Gaza. I was in destroyed building of concrete and metal and my claustrophobia was set on high as I tried to pull out bodies from under the rubble with other Palestinians. I was calm and determined and, shockingly even now, not sad. My father was in Gaza as well, burying the dead with me.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/
Eshu's blues: Evacuate Israel to the "heartland"
Israel in its present configuration and location "is just not working out." Its behavior isn't suited to Palestine - a bad choice, in hindsight, for a Jewish homeland. Better to "offer the new Israeli government the states of Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas," where "orthodox Christian populations" that are so enamored of the current State of Israel "should be quite amenable to moving out of the region" to make room for the newcomers. Right-wing preachers like Pastor John Hagee should certainly be capable of explaining that "God has now revealed Texas to be the promised land of Zion." After all, "If you've sold one 'God gave them the land' package, you've sold them all."
http://www.blackagendareport.
An MOU To Kill More Palestinians
The MOU has ignored the fact that the Palestinian living in Gaza are occupied; they are not terrorist as promulgated by the colonial rhetoric; they are freedom fighters who want their legitimate rights - people who want to live in dignity like all the peoples of the world, says Akram Habeeb.
http://www.middle-east-online.
Iraq
Tuesday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 35 Wounded
http://www.antiwar.com/
Interrogation judge commits suicide in Missan
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: A judge who works at the interrogation court of al-Majar Al-Kabeer suburb, southern Missan, committed suicide on Wednesday morning, after he shot himself inside his house, said a source from the province's police. "The judge shot himself inside his house at al-Majar al-Kabeer suburb, 40 km south of Amara, using his Ak-47," the source [...]
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=
Women may win seats, not rights, in Iraqi poll
Reuters - More than a quarter of the 14,431 candidates registered for Iraq's provincial council elections are women, but college student Fatma Imad sees few women's faces on the posters plastered across her neighborhood.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
U.S.
Bush Booed At Inauguration (VIDEO)
Former President Bush was welcomed to the inaugural podium with boos from the million-person plus crowd. The video below picks up some of the dissenting crowd. If you were watching the ceremony live, the boos were loud and clear throughout the mass of people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
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