Israel planned to kill Erdogan: Report

Turkish media sources detail information implicating the Israeli Mossad in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

An e-mail found on a personal computer belonging to one of the members of the underground Ergenekon organization exposed Mossad's role in the failed assassination efforts against Erdogan, Turkish media outlets reported on Friday.

The organization has been accused of orchestrating a coup plot against the current Turkish administration.

The indictment list tabled by the Turkish prosecution against the organization says that an Israeli journalist had sent the e-mail to a number of Ergenekon figures to inform them of Israeli readiness to assassinate the Turkish premier.

According to sources in the Turkish press, the e-mail promised support for Mr. Dugo -- whose identity has not been revealed -- against Erdogan after coordination with Mossad chief Meir Dagan.

The e-mail explained that the Mossad would wait for a green light from Mr. Dugo to carry on with the assassination plans.

Turkish sources have claimed Mr. Dugo to be Turkish Labor Party head Dugo Prinitchek -- who is suspected of leading the secret organization.

The news of an alleged Israeli role in the plot comes after a report last month suggested that Tel Aviv sought to stage regime change in Turkey in response to Ankara's condemnation of Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Tensions between Israel and Turkey emerged in late January, when Erdogan stormed out of a Davos forum after a heated debate with Israeli President Shimon Peres on the military aggression brought upon Gaza.

The Turkish prime minister walked out of the debate -- attended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other panel members --, while complaining that his comments on the conflict were cut short by the Washington Post's moderator David Ignatius.

Erdogan had told Peres at the Forum, "When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill."

The criticism was leveled at the Israeli killing of over 1,350 Gazans amid a crippling 20-month blockade on the densely-populated Palestinian sliver.

"I know very well how you hit and killed children on beaches," he lashed out.

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Terrorist Organization now advisory group for the Harper Government

Terrorist organization that planned to bomb Concordia
University advised Canadian government to
ban MP George Galloway

By Scott Weinstein

An organization that planned to blow up Concordia University, and that the FBI, the U.S. State Department, and U.S. courts have branded a 'terrorist organization', has given advice to the Harper government that led Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to barring a British MP from Canada.

A Kenney spokesman said Kenney first heard about British MP George Galloway's visit from a Jewish Defense League (JDL) March 16 letter.

The Jewish Defense League, is categorized by the FBI as a "right-wing Jewish terrorist group", founded in 1968 by ultra Zionist Meir Kahane. Kanahe then founded the terrorist group Khach in Israel . JDL leader Meir Weinstein (no relation to the author) boasts of getting the Canadian government to ban Galloway .

Mr. Galloway, labeled a terrorist threat by the Conservative government, is freely touring the U.S. now. Galloway is scheduled to speak in four Canadian cities from March 30 to April 2 on "Resisting War from Gaza to Kandahar ". He plans to speak against the Conservative government's war in Afghanistan and uncritical support for Israel , which is why his Canadian defenders - and even some opponents - feel he is banned from speaking here.

The JDL can now claim further success because Concordia University just forbade a planned Galloway live video feed into their auditorium, citing Canada 's banning his entry into the country.

The JDL's well documented history of terrorism

It is impossible that the Harper government is unaware that the JDL's terrorism designation given how earnestly Canada and the US share such information, and how public information of some of their dozens of domestic terror acts is. (See here)

The US State Department designated the JDL's Israeli affiliates, Kach, founded by Kahane, and the Kahane Chai, named in honor of Kahane after his murder, as "foreign terrorist organizations" - a decision recently upheld by a US Appeals Court. The Israeli Cabinet declared them terrorist organizations in 1994.

Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Palestinians praying in a mosque in Hebron . The Jewish Defense League's states, "We view Dr. Goldstein as a martyr in Judaism's protracted struggle against Arab terrorism. And we are not ashamed to say that Goldstein was a charter member of the Jewish Defense League".

The JDL is still active with Hebron 's Jewish settlers, most visibly remarkable for its hate graffiti such as: "Arabs to the Gas Chambers". (See here)

In a 1986 study of domestic terrorism, the US Department of Energy concluded: "For more than a decade, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been one of the most active terrorist groups in the United States . Since 1968, JDL operations have killed 7 persons and wounded at least 22."

Despite their terrorist designation, and the post 9-11 war on terror, JDL leaders, members and chapters still function unhindered by security agencies in North America . One can only attribute it to the similarity between the JDL's ideology and our governments' Middle East and Muslim policies.

In 2001, JDL leader, Canadian Irv Rubin and another member were convicted of planning a terror attack in California against an Arab American congressman and a mosque. Rubin was also accused of planning to bomb Concordia University . Both JDL members were murdered in prison, although authorities claim Rubin's slashed neck and two-story fall was a suicide.

Rubin's death appeared to be the end of the JDL in North America .

The JDL resurfaces in fertile Canada

Canadian Jewish critics of Israel have noted the Harper government's numerous unholy alliances to contain opponents of its Middle East and Afghanistan policies. Some believe that the little known Canada-Israel Security Agreement maybe behind the Galloway ban. Certainly, the Conservatives have provided a political terrain that is now fertile for the JDL to operate.

It is contemptible that the Conservative government for "national security reasons" bans outspoken anti-war critic and Palestinian supporter British MP George Galloway while allowing a known terrorist organization a free pass to operate in Canada and advise their policies.

Given that Concordia University 's Security Department is run by a former RCMP officer, we should question their readiness to accept such a politicized chain of events leading to the University banning the Galloway video feed.

The recent past appears forgotten and forgiven for the JDL, which resurfaced in Toronto two years ago. Meir Weinstein answered the question by The Jewish Press if the JDL in Toronto adheres to the ideology of Meir Kahane? "I will always be a loyal disciple of Rabbi Kahane. Our ideology is based on the Jewish Idea as taught by Rabbi Kahane."

Last year Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) leader Bernie Farber's opinion on the JDL was "they have the right to exist" as long as they behave. The Canadian Jewish News on March 20, 2009 wrote the " CJC commends government for denying George Galloway entry to Canada ".

The Jewish B'nai Brith and the JDL both targeted the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) in 2007 to prevent them from debating a motion critical of Israel . The JDL is now going after the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) for similar reasons. Liberal aide Warren Kinsella appeared last week at a meeting organized by the JDL as a surprise guest.

In last week's interview on British Channel 4 TV with George Galloway, JDL leader Meir Weinstein threatened any Canadian who attended or supported Galloway 's presentation would be "monitored" by the Canadian government. (Video here)

Perhaps the Conservative government is testing whether Canadians still care about their rights, or Canada 's policies in Afghanistan and the Middle East . Canada sinks into infamy when its government labels its enemies terrorist, while coddling its allies who are real terrorists.

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Let the world see Israel's true, ugly face

By Khalid Amayreh

There is no doubt that the new Israeli government, led by Benyamin Netanyahu, honestly reflects the collective mindset of the Israeli Jewish Zionist society. True, there are Israelis who are averse to racism and fascism, but these are unfortunately very few in numbers and their influence is almost negligible.

Indeed, a fleeting glance at the composition of the new Israeli cabinet reveals an extremist coalition of war criminals, pathological liars, racist thugs (both of the Hitlerian and Stalinist styles), and hateful religious maniacs who inhale and exhale hatred 24 hours per day.

For those who don’t know him, Benyamin Netanyahu is a pathological liar par excellence. His modus operandi is based on dishonesty, mendacity, prevarication, and deception.

Despite his public relations babbling about “peace with our neighbors,” the man is firmly anti-peace, against the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and against equal rights for Jews and non-Jews.


He is actually an enthusiastic advocate for Judaizing East Jerusalem by checking Arab demographic growth, demolishing Arab homes and denying Jerusalemites their natural rights to build homes to meet natural growth.

This brazenly racist policy is known as “narrowing Arab horizons” and its ultimate goal is to force the Arab inhabitants of Al-Qods, or as many of them as possible, to leave the city and emigrate for good.

Netanyahu’s venomous racism is not confined to the Palestinians of the “occupied territories” or the “Shtachem” as the West Bank and Gaza Strip are often referred to in Hebrew.

He was quoted on several occasions as demanding that “measures” be taken to prevent Israel’s Palestinian citizens from reaching the 30% threshold.

Furthermore, Netanyahu who often invokes the concepts of civility, democracy and western culture, especially when addressing naïve western audiences, actually believes that Israel should embark on a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians if and when the international community, particularly the US, would tolerate such a scenario.

In 1989 Netanyahu told students at Bar-Ilan University that "Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."

Well, for those who take the word “transfer” lightly, they should know that “transfer” is only a euphemism for genocide.

If such is the character of the premier, one can have a clear idea about his lieutenants and ministers from Avigdor Lieberman, to the gurus of Gush Emunim (the settler movement), who are shamelessly demanding that non-Jews in Israel-Palestine be either exterminated, deported or enslaved as water carriers and wood hewers in the service of the master race!

And then there is the irredeemably opportunistic war criminal Ehud Barak who insists rather arrogantly that the army that exterminated hundreds of Gaza children with White Phosphorus just two months ago is the most moral army in the world.

Netanyahu is not stupid. He realizes that his ideological convictions are too ugly and too fascist to be accepted by the international community, including the US, Israel’s guardian-ally.

This is why he is going to mislead the world by blurring and hiding, as much as possible, his government’s fascist nature.

He will heavily resort to employing “diversionary tactics” such as “terror,” “Iran,” “anti-Semitism,” and “Hamas” to distract attention away from the fascist and criminal platform of his government.

He will shout “Auschwitz, Treblinka, Mauthauzen, Bergen Belsen” whenever Israeli crimes are exposed and criticized.

He will claim that Israel will not allow itself to be pushed to the brink Auschwitz whenever Israel is demanded to end its Nazi-like occupation of the Palestinian homeland and allow the Palestinian people the right to independence and self determination.

In short, we are talking about a man who lies as often as he breathes a dishonest politician who thinks and smart public relations can be a more effective substitution for an honest peace process based on human rights and international law.


This is why, the capitals of the world must not allow themselves to be duped, deceived and cheated by this notorious, cardinal liar.

I am, of course, in no way suggesting that the previous Israeli government was less nefarious than the new one. The previous government of the evil trio Olmert, Livni and Barak had all the hallmarks of a Zionist Third Reich.

What else can be said of a government that ordered its army to exterminate and incinerate thousands of civilians with White Phosphorus, and then shamelessly claimed that it didn’t really mean to do it?

However, that government was considered by many states around the world, such as the gullible Europeans, a “government of peace,” a “liberal,” even “leftist government,” which really gave a new meaning to the term “verbal fornication.”

For us Palestinians, and despite the legitimate and understandable anxiety stemming from the rise of fascism in Israel, it is still better to have in Israel a manifestly fascist government pursuing fascist policies than a deceptively “liberal” or “leftist” government pursuing the same criminal policies.

Let the world see Israel as it really is.

In the final analysis, an honest criminal is better than a lying saint. At least the former is predictable and consistent.

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The "blue-eyed-West"

Two Prime-ministers,
but one is more prime than the other.

Practically all the Western-governments
are now busy bailing out the financial-institutions.

Muslim Governments are worried only for
their own non-Muslim-financial-institutions
because their Muslim-banks are practically unconcerned
and relatively much safer.

A couple of hundred years ago
those same financial-institutions
were called evil and the devil's own.....
and later they became legal and respectable
because the West needed them to finance its colonial-plans.

And what about Zionism ??

First , Zionism was financed only by the Jews
while being considered to be "evil" by the West
and then later financed by the same West ,
for the benefit of the same blue-eyed-Jews
and now, it is considered legal and even moral ,
by the same West.


The Prime Minister of Brazil very recently
called this financial-crisis:
" a product ( the fault) of the blue-eyed-West"
Myself I call Zionism :
" a product (the fault) of the blue-eyed-Jews "

Nonetheless both the Zionism-crimes
and the Financial-crimes
are today supported and sponsored by.......
the "blue-eyed-West"


Do not consider me a racist , please !!
my mother has the prettiest-blue-eyes from the Lebanon
and my wife has also a pair of Bohemian-blue-eyes.

I am not racist, because I am an Arab
so I just try to learn from past-history,
to analise and make my own conclusions.....:

Zionism came from the West
and the Financial-crises too....


Raja Chemayel

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Nuclear Threat is from Israel NOT Iran

This chilling video features 3-D simulations of Israel's nuclear facilities at Dimona, based on information and photographs from Mordechai Vanunu. It is similar an earlier video which I also distributed.

Ezer Weizman once said "The nuclear issue is gaining momentum [and the] next war will not be conventional." From the 1950s the US trained Israeli nuclear scientists and providing nuclear technology, including a small 'research' reactor in 1955 under the 'Atoms for Peace' program. The French built a uranium reactor and plutonium reprocessing plant in the Negev desert, called Dimona. The Israelis lied, stating it was "a manganese plant, or a textile factory". In return for uranium, Israel supplied South Africa with the technology and expertise that allowed the white supremacist regime to build the "apartheid bomb".

In 1979 US satellite photographs revealed the atmospheric test of a nuclear bomb in the Indian Ocean off South Africa, Israel's involvement was quickly whitewashed by a carefully selected scientific panel, kept in the dark about important details. Israeli sources have since revealed "there were actually three tests of miniaturised Israeli nuclear artillery shells".

Mordechai Vanunu worked as a nuclear technician at Dimona. A supporter of Palestinian rights, Vanunu believed it was his duty to warn the world about the danger Israel posed. In 1986, he smuggled out photographs showing that the plant was producing enough plutonium to make 10 to 12 bombs a year, and that at least 200 miniaturised bombs had been built.

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This is what the Canadian Government did not want Canadians to hear from George Galloway

George Galloway in Toronto by video on 30 March 2009 after the Canadian government denied him entry. The venue was the Metropolitan United Church. The title of his presentation was "Resisting Imperialism From Gaza To Kandahar".

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The Israeli forces are targeting Palestinian women researchers of Prisoners files

Iqbal Tamimi

The Israeli occupation forces arrested early this morning 31 March 2009 a researcher at the Centre of Studies of Prisoners. The arrested researcher is Rajaa Algul (39) is in charge of the file of Palestinian women prisoners who happens to be one of the freed ex prisoners at Israeli jails. Rajaa suffers a heart problem and her colleagues at the Centre are holding the Israeli authorities full responsibility should her health deteriorate.

Rajaa was arrested after the soldiers surrounded her home and her father’s home and her father in law’s house in the city of Jenin where they live in a refugee camp; the force was accompanied by the Israeli intelligence personnel’s.Israeli forces also seized a number of computers from an Internet cafe that belongs to Rajaa’s brother after raiding the cafe in the camp, in addition to seizing her own personal computer and the four cellular phones belonging to the family.

The ex prisoner Rajaa AlGhoul suffer from a problem in the arteries, and has been imprisoned in the Israeli occupation jails for four years before.

The Director of the Centre for Studies of prisoners Rrf’at Hamduna is holding Israeli authorities full responsibility for her life, especially that Al-Ghoul because of the difficult conditions and ill-treatment experienced by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails which puts their lives at risk.

Hamduna called upon the international institutions and international bodies to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop the violations of human rights and its illegal practices against the Palestinian prisoners.

The Centre for Studies of prisoners sees that the arrest of Rajaa is a flagrant violation of human rights and international conventions, and condemned the occupation forces’ targeting human rights figures especially that they have already arrested a week ago, the freed prisoner Siham Alheeh from the city of Hebron who is also working as a prisoners’ researcher.
The Centre pleas to the media to raise the matter about targeting and arresting human rights activists and researchers, and requests of lawyers and, institutions, associations and all who are interested in human rights to support them.

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Israel Just Keeps on breaking it's own ceasefire

Israel has staged new air attacks on the Gaza Strip, inflicting more casualties on the blockaded territory, medical workers have confirmed.

An air raid in the Maghazi area in central Gaza has killed two Palestinian fighters and wounded two others, a health ministry official said on Tuesday.

"The bodies of two fighters were brought to al-Aqsa hospital and their identities are unknown," said Mu'awia Hassanein.

Residents of the Maghazi refugee camp said a helicopter fired two missiles at the fighters.

The air attacks came after exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters near the Kissufim border crossing to the east of Maghazi. Two other Palestinians had been wounded in the conflict.

Gaza residents said the Israeli forces rolled 200 meters into the Palestinian-controlled territory.

Israel unleashed three weeks of all-out war on the Gazan population on December 27, leaving nearly 1,350 Palestinians dead and 5,450 others wounded -- many of them women and children.

While Tel Aviv declared a unilateral ceasefire on the Palestinian ghetto in mid January in the face of global condemnation, it continues incursions into the territory on a regular basis.

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Will The Canadian Government Consider The Pope A Terrorist?

The Canadian Government under rule of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the JDL consider George Galloway a Terrorist one of the reasons is that George was recently in Gaza making donations that will assist the people of Gaza that are under siege of Israel. Now we have the pope offering aid to the Gaza Strip. Do the whores for Israel in the Canadian Government have anything to say.Pope Benedict XVI is to direct offerings collected on Holy Thursday before Easter to the impoverished population of the Gaza Strip.

Those attending the Mass of the Last Supper presided over by the Pope "will be invited to make a charitable offering to support the Catholic community of Gaza," the Pontiff's office said in a statement.

The feast that is to be held on Thursday at the Vatican's Basilica of St. John Lateran commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles.

Tel Aviv unleashed a three-week war on Gaza on December 27. Three weeks of ensuing air strikes and a ground incursion left over 1,350 Palestinians -- at least 1100 of whom were civilians -- dead and around 5,450 people injured.

Around 2,000 Christians comprising of Catholic, Greek Orthodox and evangelical Christians live in the coastal sliver.

The Gazan population currently lives under a 20-month Israeli-imposed blockade which prevents necessary humanitarian aid and assistance from reaching the 1.5 million people inside the strip -- nearly twice the size of Washington DC.

Eleven days into the carnage brought upon the strip, Pope Benedict XVI called for a cease-fire in Gaza and said military operations offer no solution.

Since Tel Aviv's January assault on the Palestinian strip, 520 families have been receiving aid from the church through affiliated organizations in the region.

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Annapolis Deal Was A Waste Of Time

Israel foreign minister rejects Annapolis deal

Israel's new foreign minister says Tel Aviv is not bound by the 2007 Annapolis deal to pursue the creation of a Palestinian state.

"There is only one document that binds us and it is not the Annapolis conference, it has no validity," ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman said at a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry a day after being sworn in by parliament.

"The Israeli government never ratified Annapolis, nor did the parliament," he added.

Lieberman's comments marked a sharp break with former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, who had led the Israeli delegation to the Annapolis peace talks with the Palestinians.

A political source close to new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Reuters that Lieberman's remarks largely reflected the premier's position.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, an aide to acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmud Abbas, was quoted by AFP as saying that Lieberman was 'an obstacle to peace'.

"Nothing obliges us to deal with a racist person hostile to peace such as Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Lieberman," he added.

During the Annapolis conference, the then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to pursue 'the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine' in peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

However, his government failed to meet a 2008 end deadline for reaching a two-state agreement with the Palestinians.

Lieberman, meanwhile, said that Israel would instead pursue the 'Road Map' which is an international peace plan launched in 2003, under which Israel bound itself to the principle of a Palestinian state and vowed to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied territories.

Netanyahu, whose right-wing government was sworn in on Tuesday, said during his inauguration speech that Israel would continue peace talks with Palestinians but declined to express support for a two state solution.

Israel has also announced in recent months the construction of hundreds of new Jewish homes in al-Quds although both the Annapolis summit and the Road Map oblige Israel to stop settlement activities in East al-Quds and the West Bank.

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Malaysia wants Israel dragged to court

Malaysia explains why the international community needs to take Israeli leaders to court as a first step toward peace and prosperity.

At a Tuesday forum in London with the theme The Gaza Genocide: The World Community Must Act, Malaysian Foreign Minister Rais Yatim suggested Israeli military aggression against Palestinians to be worthy of prosecution. "We drag a person to court to be prosecuted for his act of having killed someone. We use the maxim mens rea in determining his murderous intent," noted the Malaysian diplomat.

"But we simply allow a neighboring state to marauder thousands with guns, air strikes, chemicals and tanks," continued Rais, questioning the impunity Israel has enjoyed for sixty years.

Israel in December began pounding the Gaza Strip in air operations that later escalated into a full-fledged ground attack on the densely-populated territory.

Tel Aviv went against its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention and attacked schools, mosques, houses, UN compounds and government buildings during the conflict.

The three weeks of military aggression inflicted more than $1.6 billion in damages on the Gazan economy. The carnage also killed around 1,350 Palestinians and injured nearly 5,450 people -- mostly civilians.

Israel also committed war crimes, including the use of the deadly white phosphorus shells in densely populated civilian areas, as revealed by various investigations.

Rais responded that the Palestinians had suffered more than their fair share of human calamity ever since Britain and world powers allowed the establishment of Israel in 1948 and the dispossession of the Palestinian homeland.

Israel has been emboldened by sixty years of world inaction and supposes that there is very little the international community can do in terms of punitive measures, he explained.

"It knows for sure that the American government shall always shield them, at least from the operatives of the Security Council (SC). Israel also knows that for so long as the SC is controlled under the veto system, nothing much could be done by way of sanction and execution," he said.

The US has so far vetoed at least 45 anti-Israel resolutions at the UN and has blocked official condemnation of crimes committed against the native Palestinian population.

"Israel continues to receive armaments from the United States which, in turn, were used as weapons of mass destruction against the Palestinians," Rais said.

The aggression against Gaza was the latest in a series that began when world powers created Israel in 1948 under the Zionist slogan of a 'land without a people and a people without a land'.

The establishment of Israel in the Middle East was carried out in compensation for the hardships and suffering imposed on the Jews of Europe due to anti-Semitism in the continent.

Zionists benefited by gaining power over the native land of the Palestinians, but the establishment and the subsequent terror attacks against the Palestinian population gave rise to the philosophy of resistance and in recent years armed retaliation.

The United States and European powers have since failed to condemn Israeli crimes against Palestinians for their fear of the powerful Zionist lobby and being labeled 'anti-Semitic'.

Celebrated Malaysian politician and former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad touched on the issue on the sidelines of the forum in an interview with Press TV.

"I feel that his (US President Barack Obama's) hands are tied. Most American presidents and I will say including Obama may not take any stand against Israel for fear of losing comfortable support in the US itself," he said.

"The Israeli lobby in the US is truly powerful and they can determine who wins and who loses in the elections."

Mahathir explained that while Israel should "exist in some form or another", the current trend that it "occupies Palestinian land" and terrorizes Palestinians must not continue.

Malaysian officials believe the only way the world can see peace is for war to be criminalized.

Rais said the Israeli conduct in Gaza amounted to "genocide" and suggested that "If there be nothing else, Malaysia and like-minded states move that an Israeli War Crimes Tribunal be formed under the UN Charter, that an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) be organized along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) established by the Security Council."

"The establishment of ICTI should provide some small degree of justice to the victims of Israeli war crimes against humanity and genocide against the people of Palestine, just as the ICTY had done in the Balkans," he added.

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Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Unveils Global Governance Agenda

by Daniel Taylor

The Council on Foreign Relations, often described as the "real state department", has launched an initiative to promote and implement a system of effective world governance.

Henry Kissinger, a CFR member, anticipates that President Obama will, "…give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. I think his task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It’s a great opportunity, it isn’t just a crisis."The program, titled " The International Institutions and Global Governance Program," utilizes the resources of the "…David Rockefeller Studies Program to assess existing regional and global governance mechanisms…" The initial funding for the program came with a $6 million grant from the Robina Foundation, which claims that the grant is "…one of the largest operating grants ever received in Council history."

The IIGG program, launched on May 1st, 2008, is the latest manifestation of an agenda that has existed since and before the founding of the Council on Foreign Relations. Former CFR member, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, stated regarding the group,

"The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common - they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government."

The International Institutions and Global Governance Program identifies several "global issues" that require a system of world governance. Environmental issues, terrorism, the global economy and energy are all mentioned. The project then states that a system of "universal membership" could be pursued, or alternatively a regional organization, such as the European Union model.

"In each of these spheres, the program will consider whether the most promising framework for governance is a formal organization with universal membership (e.g., the United Nations); a regional or sub-regional organization; a narrower, informal coalition of like-minded countries; or some combination of all three."

The programcalls for the "Re-conceptualizing" of national sovereignty, citing the European Union’s "pooling" of sovereignty as a model. The CFR project recognizes that historically, the United States has been resistant to the ideals of global governance. The project states, "Among the most important factors determining the future of global governance will be the attitude of the United States…"

The IIGG program continues, "…few countries have been as sensitive as the United States to restrictions on their freedom of action or as jealous in guarding their sovereign prerogatives." The program then states that the separation of powers as stated in the Constitution, along with the U.S. Congress, stand in the way of the United States assuming "new international obligations."

As stated,

"…the country’s longstanding tradition of liberal “exceptionalism” inspires U.S. vigilance in protecting the domestic sovereignty and institutions from the perceived incursions of international bodies. Finally, the separation of powers enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress a critical voice in the ratification of treaties and endorsement of global institutions, complicates U.S. assumptions of new international obligations."

The actions of the Military Industrial Complex under the Bush Administration have served globalist interests well. "Global structures" are now presented as the mechanism to prevent such atrocities. America’s demonization is central to building a system of world governance. Patrick M. Stewart, who is currently the director of the CFR IIGG program, is anticipating the Obama administration "…to seek to turn the page on what many perceived to be ‘cowboy unilateralism’ of the Bush years, by embracing multilateral cooperation, re-kindling U.S. alliances and partnerships, and engaging in sustained diplomacy within the UN framework," as reported by Xinhua. The IIGG project itself stated in May of 2008 that, "Regardless of whether the administration that takes office in January 2009 is Democratic or Republican, the thrust of U.S. foreign policy is likely to be multilateral to a significant degree."

Globalist forces are hard at work in the economic and political realms in an attempt to shape the future of the world, furthering the dominance of the global elite. Calls for a global currency in response to the economic crisis are regularly occurring, drawing the tacit support of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, speaking to the CFR.

Henry Kissinger, a CFR member, anticipates that President Obama will, "…give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. I think his task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It’s a great opportunity, it isn’t just a crisis."

The Council on Foreign Relations global governance program will undoubtedly be pursued under the Obama administration, which is filled with CFR members. President of the CFR, Richard Haass, is serving as a top adviser to the Obama administration. As the IIGG program admits, regardless of who sits in the White House, the globalist agenda moves forward full speed ahead.

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U.S.A to Help Deflect Human Rights Abuse Accusations

The US will run for a seat in the UN Human Rights Council in order to "change" it. Translation=No more critisizing of Israel will be allowed.

Well, this really makes me sick. here comes the USA to defend Israel once again. So much for "hope and change" And notice how it comes after the Gaza genocide? I wonder if this move is so that when the human rights abuses being to come hard and fast at Israel, the US will deflect them for Israel. What a disgrace this move is and totally transparent.US President Barack Obama's administration announced Tuesday it will run in May for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council -- a body the Bush administration had shunned.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said the United States wanted a seat to help reform the body from within, according to the State Department.

"We're very committed to bring about the serious reform that the council needs," she said.

"The principal problem is there has been too little focus on the most egregious abuses of human rights ... and too much focus, unbalanced focus we believe, on other issues that don't merit the amount of time," she added.

"Yes, of course, we mean Israel."

The next round of elections to the Council will be held on May 15 in the UN General Assembly in New York when members will be elected to a three-year term.

Howard Berman, the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the United States could no longer afford to be on the sidelines after the body had "become increasingly dysfunctional and politicized.

But the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a leading anti-Semitism watchdog, expressed concern over the decision.

"ADL had urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to seek reform of the Council before deciding to join it," it said in a statement.

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Obstruction of Justice

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is scheduled to issue a ruling in the Eastern District of Virginia at the end of April in a case that will send a signal to the Muslim world and beyond whether the American judicial system has regained its independence after eight years of flagrant manipulation and intimidation by the Bush administration. Brinkema will decide whether the Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, held for over six years in prison and under house arrest in Virginia since Sept 2, is guilty or innocent of two counts of criminal contempt.

Brinkema's ruling will have ramifications that will extend far beyond Virginia and the United States. The trial of Al-Arian is a cause célèbre in the Muslim world. A documentary film was made about the case in Europe. He has become the poster child for judicial abuse and persecution of Muslims in the United States by the Bush administration. The facts surrounding the trial and imprisonment of the former university professor have severely tarnished the integrity of the American judicial system and made the government's vaunted campaign against terrorism look capricious, inept and overtly racist.

Government lawyers made wild assertions that showed a profound ignorance of the Middle East and exposed a gross stereotyping of the Muslim world. It called on the FBI case agent, for example, who testified as an expert witness that Islamic terrorists were routinely smuggled over the border from Iran into Syria, apparently unaware that Syria is separated from Iran by a large land mass called Iraq. The transcripts of the case against Al-Arian-which read like a bad Gilbert and Sullivan opera-are stupefying in their idiocy. The government wiretaps picked up nothing of substance; taxpayer dollars were used to record and transcribe 21,000 hours of banal chatter, including members of the Al-Arian household ordering pizza delivery. During the trial the government called 80 witnesses and subjected the jury to inane phone transcriptions and recordings, made over a 10-year period, which the jury curtly dismissed as "gossip." It would be comical if the consequences were not so dire for the defendant.

A jury, on Dec. 6, 2005, acquitted Dr. Al-Arian on eight of the counts in the superseding indictment after a six-month trial in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. On the 94 charges made against the four defendants, there were no convictions. Of the 17 charges against Al-Arian-including "conspiracy to murder and maim persons abroad"-the jury acquitted him of eight and was hung on the rest. The jurors, who voted 10 to 2 to acquit on the remaining charges, could not reach a unanimous decision calling for his full acquittal. Two others in the case, Ghassan Ballut and Sameeh Hammoudeh, were acquitted of all charges.

The trial result was a public relations disaster for the Bush White House and especially then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, who had personally announced the indictment and reportedly spent more than $50 million on the case. The government prosecutors threatened to retry Al-Arian. The Palestinian professor accepted a plea bargain that would spare him a second trial, agreeing that he had helped people associated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad with immigration matters. It was a very minor charge given the high profile of the case. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida and the counterterrorism section of the Justice Department agreed to recommend to the judge the minimum sentence of 46 months. But U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr., who made a series of comments during the trial that seemed to condemn all Muslims, sentenced Al-Arian to the maximum 57 months. In referring to Al-Arian's contention, for example, that he had only raised money for Palestinian Islamic Jihad's charity for widows and orphans, the judge told the professor that "your only connection to orphans and widows is that you create them."

I spent an afternoon with Dr. Al-Arian in his small apartment in Arlington, Va., on Friday. His lawyers have asked that he make no public statements about his case. But we talked widely about the Middle East, the new Israeli government, the siege of Gaza, our families and the changes he hopes will come with an Obama administration. He sat on a couch wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle, thankful to be with his wife and children after being shuttled between jails across the South and kept for 45 months in solitary confinement during his five-and-a-half-year ordeal. But he remains perplexed, as are many, by the gross miscarriage of justice and the ferocity of the government's campaign to smear him with terrorism charges.

The government originally sought a standard cooperation provision as part of the final plea agreement. Al-Arian objected. He refused to plead guilty if he had to cooperate with the Justice Department. The Justice Department-including lawyers from the counterterrorism section of Main Justice-then negotiated to take out the cooperation provision in return for a longer sentence on the one count. That was the deal. He was to have been held in jail until April 2007 and then deported. But that never happened.

Right-wing ideologues, led by Assistant United States Attorney Gordon Kromberg, had no intention of letting him leave the country. Kromberg, a staunch supporter of Israel, arranged to keep Dr. Al-Arian behind bars even after he had finished serving his sentence. He blocked the deportation and subpoenaed Al-Arian to appear in Virginia to testify in an unrelated investigation of a Muslim think tank. This subpoena was a clear violation of the original plea bargain, and Al-Arian, heeding the advice of his lawyers, refused to give in to Kromberg's demands. This led Kromberg to set in motion the newest charges of criminal contempt. Criminal contempt, bolstered by something called terrorism enhancement under Patriot Act II, is the only charge in U.S. statutes that does not carry a maximum penalty. The enhanced criminal contempt charge increases Al-Arian's sentence from the usual 14 to 21 months for criminal contempt to a staggering 17 to 24 years for obstructing a state terrorism investigation. A handful of members of the House, including Jim Moran and Dennis Kucinich, have denounced Kromberg's newest attempt to orchestrate a judicial lynching.

Kromberg, like many involved in the case, has also repeatedly made derogatory and insulting comments about Muslims. When Al-Arian's lawyers asked Kromberg to delay the transfer of the professor to Virginia, for example, because of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, they were told "if they can kill each other during Ramadan they can appear before the grand jury." Kromberg, according to an affidavit signed by Al-Arian's attorney, Jack Fernandez, also said: "I am not going to put off Dr. Al-Arian's grand jury appearance just to assist in what is becoming the Islamization of America."

Judge Brinkema, in one of the rare examples of judicial courage during this saga, defied the government to allow Al-Arian out on bail.

The case against Al-Arian, in the eyes of the grand inquisitors like Kromberg, is a battle against a culture and a religion that they openly denigrate and despise. This racism, the driving engine behind the campaign against Al-Arian, mocks the integrity of the American judicial system. Let us hope that in a few weeks we will witness a new era. Justice delayed is better than justice denied. We owe Dr. Al-Arian, and ourselves, a return to the rule of law.

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Israel Closes Investigation into Alleged War Crimes Committed in the Gaza Strip

On Monday, 30 March 2009, Military Advocate-General Avichai Mandelblit closed Israel ’s inquiry into Israeli soldiers accounts of alleged crimes committed in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers had made serious allegations that included war crimes, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions (1949). However, the inquiry was closed after just eleven days.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) believes that the speed with which this inquiry was concluded illustrates the consistent failure of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to genuinely investigate crimes perpetrated against Palestinian civilians. Investigations of this nature do not meet international standards of independence and transparency, and obstruct justice.

PCHR’s investigations have revealed that over the course of the offensive many IOF attacks amounted to war crimes, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. In addition, the widespread and apparently systematic violations of customary international humanitarian law (IHL) may also amount to crimes against humanity. The seriousness of these allegations demand effective judicial redress.

Israel ’s 23-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip claimed the lives of 1,417 Palestinians, including 926 civilians, and 255 non-combatant police officers. Over 5,300 Palestinians were injured.

PCHR remind the State of Israel of its legally-binding obligation – as codified in Article 146 of the Fourth Geneva Convention – to effectively investigate and prosecute all those suspected of committing grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Should Israel prove unable or unwilling to do so, as is evidently the case, then in accordance with the principle of universal jurisdiction, all High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions are obliged to search for and prosecute persons accused of committing grave breaches, irrespective of where theses crimes occurred. There is no valid pretext, legal or otherwise, for not respecting the Conventions in their entirety.

PCHR calls on the international community, including representatives of the international media, to expose Israel ’s failure to investigate these alleged crimes and to pressure Israel to ensure its compliance with international law.

PCHR:

1. Calls for the opening of an independent, impartial investigation into Israel ’s 23-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip;

2. Reminds the international community, including the State of Israel, of their legally-binding obligations with respect to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, particularly common Article 1, and Article 146 of the Fourth Geneva Convention;

3. Notes that the interests of justice demand effective judicial remedy. Should Israel continue to undermine the effective pursuit of justice, the individual States of the international community must fulfill their obligation to prosecute those accused of committing war crimes, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. The rule of law must prevail. Impunity must not be allowed to persist.

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This House believes it's time for the US to get tough on Israel

This event was held at Gaston Hall at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

The statements and views expressed in the debate are solely those of the Doha Debates and the film participants. They are neither endorsed by nor represent the views of Georgetown University.

Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit FOR
Dore Gold, President, Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs AGAINST
Avraham Burg, former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset FOR
Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor AGAINST

MOTION PASSED by 63% to 37%
Broadcast: April 4th and 5th
Venue: Georgetown University, Washington DC

An often heated Doha Debate at Georgetown University in which a 450-strong mainly student audience voted 63-37 percent in favour of a new "get tough on Israel" policy reflected a sharp mood swing in America, commentators said.

The Doha Debates were invited to travel from Qatar to stage their monthly debate at what is widely regarded as North America's most political university.

Phil Wilcox, a former US ambassador to Israel and fellow of the Washington-based Middle East Institute, said the debate appeared to reflect a general malaise among Americans over the Bush administration's Israel policy.

"It has been evident from recent opinion polls and reactions from the Jewish community, as well as broader public opinion in America, that there is a demand for much stronger leadership from the US government towards Israel.

"While the Jewish community may not actually be calling for a "get tough" policy, it is certainly seeking stronger, more consistent leadership from the administration.

"There is a mythology that a right-wing Jewish establishment has run our policy on Israel for years. This is not only a myth but I think we will see the Obama administration looking at this entire relationship much more carefully," he said.

The Georgetown debate followed a letter sent to the White House in January signed by a collection of seven Jewish, Arab, American and religious organisations calling for President Obama to take the lead in efforts to deliver a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It called on the President to make a "fresh start" in efforts to "find solutions, create incentives and implement a plan".

"There's a fresh breeze blowing in Washington when it comes to American policy toward Israel and the Middle East," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director of J Street, the Washington-based political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.

A recent poll published by J Street found that 86 percent of American Jews approved of the US playing an "active role" in the peace process, while 81 percent would maintain their approval even if both sides were pressurised by Washington.

"American Jews are ready, by a margin of two-to-one, to work with a Palestinian unity government, including Hamas, to achieve a peace agreement with Israel. They overwhelmingly support active American engagement even if it means disagreeing with Israel and the Palestinians publicly," Ben-Ami of J Street said.

During the Doha Debate on March 25th, Chairman Tim Sebastian had to intervene frequently to call for both sides to stop arguing with one another and hurling insults as tempers frayed.

At one point, when no one could be heard properly because of the raised voices, the chairman reminded both sides that similar debates were regularly held in Qatar without descending into chaos.

The motion 'This House believes it's time for the US administration to get tough on Israel' was carried convincingly despite passionately-argued support for the status quo from Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN, and Alan Dershowitz, a prominent Harvard law professor.

The vote came at a time when President Obama's administration is seeking to implement fresh initiatives in the Middle East. It delivered a message to Capitol Hill that America may be ready to ditch decades of virtually unqualified support for Israel.

Arguing in favour of the motion, Michael Scheuer, founder and former head of the CIA's Bin Laden tracking unit, suggested that the present US-Israel relationship undermined national security and Israel should be left to its own devices.

He referred to a "pro-Israel fifth column of US citizens" that "corrupt US politics" and subordinate US interests to those of Israel. That support had turned Israel into the most "arrogant, avaricious and treacherous American ally".

Mr. Scheuer said America should cut all ties with Israel and the Palestinians, leaving both sides to settle their disputes without support or interference from outside on the principle that "no nation has a right to exist and the war's outcome is irrelevant to America".

Supporting him, Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Israeli Knesset and a senior member of the Labour Party spoke of the "cowboy, isolationist, indifferent, arrogant policy" of the Bush administration which had achieved nothing but a stalemate in the region.

Only a "dramatic turnaround" could change the situation. He likened America's attitude to Israel to that of a "bad parent" who never says "no" to their offspring. "If it calls for tougher measures to unlock the locked horns of both sides, then so be it."

Dore Gold, ambassador to the UN between 1997-1999, insisted that it was "myopic" to speak of putting pressure on Israel to force it to change its policies since Israel was not the real problem.

"We and our Arab neighbours have a different perception of the central problem of the Middle East - it is a nuclear Iran, it isn't Israel."

Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, said any notion of "getting tougher" on Israel would merely send the wrong signal to Israel's enemies and cause even greater bloodshed in the Middle East. Support for the motion "will cause war not peace".

"We need to be smart with Israel, not tough," he said. As the only democracy in the Middle East "they are tough enough on themselves." It is the countries without democracies "that need pressure - not Israel".

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Robert Fisk: Galloway a victim of Canada's baffling approach to fighting terror

"Come out and debate with me like a man," the old bruiser shouted over the video-link to Toronto. "Let's book the biggest hall in Canada and you and I will debate these issues of war and peace and freedom of speech and censorship... If we don't achieve a political settlement (in the Middle East), we're in for war. If there's no justice, there will be no peace for Palestine."

It was, of course, the old scallywag himself, George Galloway, fuming about the Canadian Immigration Minister James Kenney's refusal to allow him to speak in Canada on the grounds that he – Galloway – was involved in "terrorism". The Scottish-born MP was talking from an important centre of "world terror" – New York City.

Mr Kenney's spokesman, Alikhan Velshi, last week compared Mr Galloway to Oliver Cromwell and said he would not be allowed to enter Canada. Self-publicist, friend of dictators, reality TV show performer and general silly ass Mr Galloway may be. But he has no more in common with Cromwell than the minister has with Ghengis Khan.

But this is no laughing matter. How could the Canadian embassy in London have believed Mr Galloway's food and medicine shipment to Gaza, made with Israel's agreement, and its delivery to the Hamas government was a "terrorist" act, even if Stephen Harper's Canadian government regards Hamas as a "terrorist organisation".

Mr Galloway wasn't shipping guns and is touring the US with his anti-war, pro-Palestinian, non-terrorist speeches. "It's just not credible, Mr Kenney," Mr Galloway shouted, "to call a man touring the United States, playing to packed audiences... a terrorist or a security threat."

Quite so. After all, the US has lost thousands of soldiers in its "war on terror" in the Middle East. Canada's army in Afghanistan comprises barely 2,000 and has suffered fewer than 120 military casualties.

Only a Canadian Jewish organisation agreed with Mr Galloway's exclusion; one paper here suggested this might have prompted the ban. The right-wing National Post came out against the exclusion, though only because a "future left-wing Canadian government" might ban Israeli or US speakers.

But there's a bigger issue. Canada helped the US send an innocent Canadian citizen, Mahar Arar, to "rendition" in Syria, where he was savagely tortured. Only a few days ago, another Canadian Muslim told me how he was whipped with steel cables in Damascus as his torturers read out questions from the Canadian embassy. Yet another Canadian Muslim citizen, Abousfian Abdelrazik, has been living in the reception of the US embassy in Khartoum for 10 months after Canadian agents asked the enormously democratic Sudanese government to imprison him for terrorism. Now the government won't let him come home unless he's taken off not a Canadian, but a UN "terrorist" list. Cromwellian isn't the word for it. But the mystery is this: how did so many millions of decent Canadians come to be ruled by such a weird government?

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"My mother, my wife, and my three daughters all held white flags..."

Sameh Habeeb is a twenty-three year old journalist based in the Gaza Strip. He has been active for years to bring out the word of his people’s suffering. Janet Zimmerman is a twenty-one year old journalist and an American citizen, determined to help after she had seen the horrendous crimes that perpetrated in Gaza by Israel. She crossed thousands of miles to evaluate the situation with her own eyes, her own mind, and her own heart. She stumbled across Sameh’s work online, and it was not long before they became friends and united in the struggle to open the eyes of the world to the agonies in which they are so often closed. One story that caught their attention was located in the eastern Gaza Strip. It is an account of the personal catastrophe of Khaled Abd Rabo.

We began our journey and were barely able to reach the town of Abd Rabo. As we drove along, our car dipped to the right and to the left. The ground was rutted from the holes that the Israelis tore into the streets with their bombs, their bulldozing, and their fires. The land was also wounded. A once lush and tranquil neighborhood had been transformed into hell on earth. Our eyes were filled with nothing but devastation, and masses of people covered the place like flies.

Our car came to a halt and we walked down the street to Khaled’s shattered home. And there was Khaled himself, sitting in the rubble of what was once a happier time.

“This house used to have four floors, and a nice garden. It brought us peace and tranquility,” he began to tell us. “The Israeli army came to this house many times before, but the last time was in March of 2008."

He explains how they invaded his home and investigated him and his family. "They found nothing. I am a police officer in the Ramallah government; I have nothing to do with Hamas.

"That day when they left us, they did not take anything or harm anyone," he continued. "I remember it was 12:50pm on the fourth day of the military ground invasion when the army took control of the region. A real battlefield was born and thousands of people were trapped. Nobody could leave due to the excessive fire from the Israelis, and the soldiers kept on coming, and coming, and coming.

"And then the tanks came. One of them was based only meters away from my house. There were twenty-five of us, and we were all told to leave," he said as his voice trembled and he began to cry. "The soldiers were eating chips and chocolate, and they were smiling when they killed my daughters.

”My mother, my wife, and my three daughters all held white flags when they tried to leave the house. We saw two of the soldiers get out of their tank, and we told them how we wanted to leave. We waited and waited for their response but were given no answer. Then, to our own surprise, a third soldier emerged and he opened fire on the children with insanity.

"Souad was only seven years old, Summer was three, and Amal was of only two years. My mother was shot as well, and I watched all that I loved fall to the ground. I screamed for them to stop! I ran into the house to call civil defense, ambulances, anyone who could help.

"For one hour the injured were bleeding, and two of my daughters were killed despite the so called ceasefire. No help was able to come to us in time. One of the ambulances tried, but the Israeli soldiers stopped the paramedic and forced him to remove his clothing. They then bombed the ambulance and it was buried in rubble. The paramedic fled naked while their fire surrounded him.

"I left the house with some of my family members," Khaled continued. "We carried my mother in a crib. I held Summer in my arms, and she was still breathing despite her gaping spinal wound. I thought to myself, ‘no way can I leave little Summer, even if I end up dead like my other two daughters.’ I passed her to my brother and then took the body of Souad in my hands, and my wife held Amal as we left the house.

"The soldiers were firing uncontrollably above their heads and everywhere around them. Many of the houses were demolished by their tanks. As we crossed one of the roads, there was a man and he tried to save us but the snipers saw this and killed both him and his horse. When we finally reached the town of Jabaliya, we saw that everyone had brought all of the injured citizens here. So shocked were we by what we saw that we threw our bodies to the ground, and for one hour we remained there unable to fathom what has become of our people."

We asked him why he thought they would kill his children. He replied, "I am certain they were drunk, or were given orders to kill everyone including the children. This was on Harets a couple of days ago, that many Israeli rabbis were giving orders to leave no one alive," he explained. "I don’t know why my daughters were killed. They never committed any crimes, they were children! They did not fire rockets at Israel, although Israel claims to only aim at those who have first fired at them.

"We are a very peaceful people, we have nothing to do with fighting or rockets. I know if I go to the court about what has happened the Israeli army would create thousands of pretexts to make their soldiers appear innocent. They have done this with many other cases before," he went on.

"It was not a war between two immense armies. Obviously, it was a war between civilians and the fourth largest army in the world: Israel. But they do not call it a war. They call it an operation.”

An operation where tens of thousands of Gazans were either killed or psychologically and physically wounded. The devastation did not only effect the people, but all you can imagine. Yet buildings can be repaired and the land will grow again, but Khaled’s mayhem will never be alleviated. He will never hear the laughter of Saoud and Amal again, but he will hear the aching cries of Summer. She is now paraplegic due to her injuries. The only thing that functions is her mind. A mind that will forever be telling the nightmare of what happened to her life. Even during her first interview in the hospital, in every single detail, she narrated the story to Al-Jazeera as Khaled did to us.

Photos of Khaled and the scene of the crime: picasaweb.google.com/sameh.habeeb/StoryOfKhaledAbedRabuTheLostChildren#

By Janet Zimmerman and Sameh A. Habeeb

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Siege gets harsher as crossings closed

Gaza, April 1, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli authorities reopened on Wednesday Kerem Shalom and Nahel Oz commercial crossing points and Al Muntar. The crossings expected to operate on low capacity that will never bridge the gap of the needs of 1.5 peoples.

115 trucks of humanitarian aids and commodities planned to get in. for almost 3 years, Israeli army blockaded crossings allowing partial operation of low capacity.

Last week Israeli authorities opened 2 crossings in the same capacity. Raed Fattuh, head of the Gazan committee for entry of goods, said that, " Israel opened crossing points to let 115 truckloads cross into the Gaza Strip through Kerem Shalom, 49 of which are humanitarian aid for UN and international agencies and about 66 trucks for the Gazan private sector, including yogurts, frozen meats, flour, sugar, rice, beans, fruits and fertilized eggs."

Fattuh made clear that the Israeli authorities kept Karni crossing point closed for unknown reasons.

Since its last war on the Gaza Strip on Dec. 27, Israel started to open Gaza main commercial crossing points partially, allowing some of the waiting domestic goods and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

Israel imposed its appalling blockade on the Gaza Strip since June 2007. The suffering among Palestinians is exacerbated by the massive restrictions on the movement of workers and goods, which has isolated the population of approximately one and a half million Gazans, and led to skyrocketing levels of unemployment and government deficit.

The normal needs of Gazan population is 500 trucks a day loaded of food, commodities and secondary necessities. However, Israel is manipulating facts regarding crossing announcing there is no humanitarian crisis. The closure of crossings left more than 312 people killed in the last three years. Around 1000 patients are not able to leave Gaza for treatment and many of them in critical conditions.

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Siege claims life of a 30-year old woman in Gaza

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday that a 30-year old woman died at a Gaza hospital after she was unable to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment in Egypt.

Abeer Ahmad Al Agha, a mother of five, was hospitalized at the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. She suffered second-degree burns in the lower part of her body in an accident while cooking a meal for her kids last week.

Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, stated that Al Agha died on Tuesday evening.

The Palestine News and Information Center, WAFA, affiliated with Fateh movement, accused Hamas of controlling a department in charge of transferring patients abroad, and of not recognizing referrals to hospitals abroad.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health of the dissolved government in Gaza, said that it decided to control the agenda of referrals in order to stop corruption and bribery, having accused a number officials of receiving bribes in order to agree to refer patients abroad.

The Gaza ministry accused the Palestinian government in Ramallah of refraining from referring patients to Israeli hospitals since December of last year.

On the ground, the main cause for the death of the patients is the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza.

In the past two months, five patients, including two children, have died due to being denied access to medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip. The number of patients who have died due to the Israeli siege is more than 312.

Doctors in Gaza reported that 1000 Palestinian patients have all the necessary documents to receive medical treatment abroad, but Israel is not allowing them to travel.

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