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Killed by Israel Policy: Delayed Exit of a Toddler from Gaza Results in Death


By Jesse Bacon | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Saturday, a child the same age as my daughter was killed in Gaza. She was not killed by a missile, or a suicide bomber, or any of the other dramatic ways children die in the Middle East. She was killed by an Israeli policy, that the people of Gaza are to be imprisoned as punishment for who the adults voted for. While many children have been killed by this policy, this case sounds particularly horrific. Her family and Physicians for Human Rights tried valiantly to get her admitted into Israel for treatment, to no avail. I can imagine no worse nightmare for a parent, to watch your child dying knowing there is medical care a few miles away that you are not allowed to seek out. The next time someone tells you things aren't so bad in Gaza any more, or that Israel is not responsible for what goes on there, remember this story. There can be no justification for allowing a sick child to die when you have the means to prevent it.

PHR-Israel has the story
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Nasma Abu Lasheen died on Saturday, October 16, 2010 in Gaza. Israel failed to issue her an urgent entry permit for life-saving medical treatment at Ha-Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel. She was two years old.
Abu Lasheen, a young resident of Gaza diagnosed with Leukemia, was referred for emergency treatment in Israel on October 6, 2010. When requests to the Israeli Army for an entry permit went unanswered for several days, by way of B'tselem, the family contacted Physicians for Human Rights- Israel (PHR-Israel) for additional help. That very same day, on October 13, 2010, PHR-Israel contacted the Gaza District Coordination Office (DCO) demanding a permit be issued immediately to the baby and her father to enable their entry into Israel. A military approval was finally granted the next afternoon, October 14, 2010.
Abu Lasheen's medical condition had been deteriorating rapidly and by the time the permit was received, the treating doctor in Gaza, Dr. Mohammad Abu Sha'aban, said she was too sick to travel. Nasma died in the early morning hours of October 16, 2010.
PHR-Israel immediately lodged a complaint with the head of the Israeli DCO, demanding an immediate inquiry into those responsible for the delayed response.
Abu Lasheen's death comes just days PHR-Israel testified to the Israeli Turkel Commission which investigates the Flotilla incident, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip as a result of Israel's closure policy. In their October 13th testimony, PHR- Israel pointed to the rising numbers of Gaza patients denied exit for treatment in hospitals outside the Strip, a phenomenon that has intensified since Israel's tightened closure took effect June 2007. PHR-Israel emphasized that for the patients, a delayed or non-approved permit could mean the difference between quality of life and preventable pain and suffering, and in many cases, even the difference between life and death, as demonstrated by the Abu Lasheem case.
PHR- Israel calls on the Israeli authorities at Erez Crossing to investigate those responsible for delays involved in Nasma Abu Lasheen's case. PHR- Israel reiterates its demand that Israel fulfill its obligations vis-à-vis the residents of Gaza by ensuring them full and timely access to medical treatment unavailable in the Gaza Stip.
For more information, please contact Ran Yaron, Director of PHR-Israel's Occupied Territories Department by telephone: +972-54-7577696, or via E-mail ranyaron@phr.org.il
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UN withholding Israeli war crimes probe results

The United Nations has once again delayed disclosing the findings of its investigation into the recent Israeli bloodshed of the Palestinians.

Having missed two previous deadlines, on Thursday, the world body said the results from its probe into the 22-day Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip were not yet ready.

"It is not done yet. As we indicated last week, it might be about another week or so from now before it is done," UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said at the organization's headquarters in New York on Friday in response to a Press TV correspondent question.

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ACTION ALERT: FAX ISRAEL

*** PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY ***

After the successful email campaign, it's time to move to the next level: calling some of the war criminals.

Objectives of this campaign are as follows:

1. Bombard their phone/mobile/fax lines with anti-war, anti-Zionist messages. This can be in the form of calls, faxes or even sms's;
2. Waste the time of these war criminals as much as possible. Some of them are doing nothing else but jumping on the TV screens to spread lies and hatred. They justify killing Palestinian children and civilians;
3. Directly delivering to them the message that we are disgusted by what they are doing and they should stop now;
4. Show them the magnitude of support that Palestinians have after the world witnessed their war crimes in Gaza.

Let's start with war criminal, Mark Regev, International Media Adviser to the Prime Minister.

His MOBILE number is: +972-5-0620-3264 and his office number is +972-2670-5354
If you like to follow your call/sms with an email, use this one:
mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il

Second war criminal, Shlomo Dror in the Ministry of Defence.
His MOBILE number is +972-5-0629-8148, office number is +972-3697-5339, fax number is +972-2670-5602
As before, if you like to follow it up with an email, use this:
mediasar@mod.gov.il

Third war criminal is Major Liebovitz from the Israeli Navy
His MOBILE number is +972-5-781-86248
(Sorry, I could not find his email. If you have it, please share it to update this post.)

If you know or come across any mobile number* of any Israeli war criminal, please send it to (haitham.sabbah@gmail.com) so that I can update the list here. Meanwhile, you can bombard the top war criminal, Olmert and his office assistance, managers, spokesperson, etc… Please visit the following page to select the name that you like to play with and pick his/her office number and/or fax number.
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/PM+Office/Contacts/

Note: To call or fax any in the above list, remove the "zero" and add +972 (Israel Int'l code) before the number. (Example: Ehud Olmert's phone number is 02-670-5555 will become +972-2-670-555, fax number is 02-670-5475 will become +972-2-670-5475)

I suggest that you put your feelings on paper either by drawing or as a letter (in any language, in fact using other than English language will keep them busier and waste more of their time, which we want) and fax it to the maximum fax numbers you find there, but phone calls are still very important if you can.

More? Yes, you can do more. Call or fax the current Knesset members. Go to the following link, select any name and you will find their phone and fax numbers. Again, to call or fax any, remove the "zero" and add +972 before the number. (Example: Benjamin Netanyahu (a.k.a. Bibi the butcher!) phone: 02-6408456 will become +972-2-6408456 and his fax number is 02-6496659 which becomes +972-2-6496659)

Knesset members:
http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindex_current_eng.asp?view=0

Also Knesset Directory (add +9722 before the numbers you find here):
http://www.knesset.gov.il/description/eng/eng_directory.htm

To: The Israeli Ministry of Defense, Fax: +972-3-697-6717
To: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fax +972-2-5303367

Last but not least, share a copy of your fax with others. Please post your fax on this flickr group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/fax-israel/

PS. Feel free to do the same with any and all pro-Israel war on Gaza. You can start with:

White House (although they are busy backing up there files, but we can only hope that Obama will get something to read and learn about on his first day in office):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

The Congress (which justed gave Israel new green light to kill kids and women of Gaza):
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Be creative! Search for the contacts of your government official's website and contact them. Save Gaza!

Remember, Silence is Complicity!

* Israeli mobile numbers start with the following codes:
9725 Israel-Mobile
9726 Israel-Mobile
97251 Israel-Mobile
97253 Israel-Mobile
97255 Israel-Mobile
97256 Israel-Mobile
97258 Israel-Mobile
97252 Israel-Mobile-Cellcom
97257 Israel-Mobile-Mirs
97254 Israel-Mobile-Partner
97250 Israel-Mobile-Pelephone
Source: http://www.nstelcom.com/support/codes_il.htm


Update: Here is a list of most terrorist Israeli officials. Feel free to bombard them with your words of condemnation and pictures of their war crimes. [Hat tip: Shadia]

Shimon Peres (president@president.gov.il); Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister (eulmert@knesset.gov.il); Ehud Barak - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Defense (minister@mod.gov.il); Tzipi Livni - Acting Prime Minister , Minister of Foreign Affairs (zlivni@knesset.gov.il); Abraham Dicter - Minister of Internal Security (adichter@knesset.gov.il); Ariel Atias - Minister of Communications (aatias@knesset.gov.il); Binyamin (Fouad) Ben-Eliezer Minister of National Infrastructure(binyaminb@knesset.gov.il); Eli Aflalo - Minister of Immigrant Absorption (eaflalo@knesset.gov.il); Eliyahu Yishai - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor (eyishay@knesset.gov.il); Gideon Ezra - Minister of Environmental Protection (gezra@knesset.gov.il); Isaac Herzog - Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism (iherzog@knesset.gov.il); Jacob Edery - Minister of the Development of the Negev and Gal); (yedri@knesset.gov.il); Meir Sheetrit - Minister of Internal Affairs (mshitrit@knesset.gov.il); Raleb Majadele - Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport (gmagadla@knesset.gov.il); Ruhama Avraham Bal);a - Minister of Tourism (ravraham@knesset.gov.il); Shalom Simhon - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (ssimhon@knesset.gov.il); Shaul Mofaz - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Transportation and Road Safety(shaulm@knesset.gov.il); Ze'ev Boim - Minister of Housing and Construction (zaevb@knesset.gov.il); Haim Ramon - Vice Prime Minister (ChaimR@knesset.gov.il); Rafi Eitan - Minister of Pensioner Affairs - (reitanhantman@knesset.gov.il); Ronnie Bar-On - Minister of Finance (rbaron@knesset.gov.il); Yacov Ben Yizri - Minister of Health (ybenyizri@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Cohen - Minister of Religious Services (izchakec@knesset.gov.il); Yuli Tamir - Minister of Education (ytamir@knesset.gov.il); Majalli Whbee - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (mwahaba@knesset.gov.il); Matan nai - Deputy Minister of Defense - (matanv@knesset.gov.il); Meshulam Nahari - Minister Without Portfolio (mnahari@knesset.gov.il); Benjamin Netanyahu (bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il); Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Raanan Dinur - Director General Of the Prime Minister's Office (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ovad Yehezkel - Government Secretary (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ya'akov Galanti - Head of Communications Division and Media Adviser to the Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Shalom Tourgeman - Foreign Policy Adviser for Prime Minister (MEDINI@IT.PMO.gov.il); Amnon Ben-Ami - Deputy Director General (amnon.benami@it.pmo.gov.il); Tzahi Gavrieli - Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister (TzahiG@it.pmo.gov.il); Shlomit Barnea Farago - Legal Adviser (legal@pmo.gov.il); Joseph Strauss - Accountant (J.strauss@it.pmo.gov.il);Marit Danon - Director of the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women (women@it.pmo.gov.il); Uzi Keren - Adviser to the Prime Minister (Settlement Affairs) (Uzi.Keren@it.pmo.gov.il); Hagar Biran - Advisor to the Prime Minister for Liaison with the Knesset (hagar.biran@it.pmo.gov.il); Ruti Avramovitz - Pub);c affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ofer Levy - Adviser to the prime minister for official visits and special events (PMO.HEB@it.pmo.gov.il); Yael Nachmias - Head of the Division for policy Implementation (Yael.Nachmias@it.pmo.gov.il); Gavriel Golan - Adviser to the Prime Minister for Planning and Development (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Mark Regev - International Media Adviser to the Prime Minister (Gali.Cohen@it.pmo.gov.il); Rachael Risby-Raz - Diaspora Affairs Adviser (risbyraz@it.pmo.gov.il); Gal Alon - Adviser for Strategic Development (gal.alon@it.pmo.gov.il); Julia Braya - Adviser to the Prime Minister for the Russian Languge Media (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Edna Halbani - Director of International Visits - (edna@it.pmo.gov.il); Vered Swid - Adviser to the Prime Minister (Social Affairs) (Vered.Swid@it.pmo.gov.il); Avi Widerman - Adviser to the Prime Minister (aviw@it.pmo.gov.il); David Baker - Senior Foreign Press Coordinator (david.baker@it.pmo.gov.il); Yehiel Nizri - Director of the Prime Minister's Bureau (Central Region) (yehiel_nizri@walla.co.); Avigdor Liberman (aliberman@knesset.gov.il); Ami Ayalon (aaylon@knesset.gov.il); Amir Peretz (aperetz@knesset.gov.il); Abraham Hirchson(ahirshson@knesset.gov.il); Alex M);ler (am);ler@knesset.gov.il); Amira Dotan (adotan@knesset.gov.il); Amnon Cohen (amncohen@knesset.gov.il); Arieh Eldad (aeldad@knesset.gov.il); Avishay Braverman(abraverman@knesset.gov.il); Avraham Michaeli(amichaeli@knesset.gov.il); Avraham Ravitz(aravitz@knesset.gov.il); Avshalom V);an(av);an@knesset.gov.il); Benyamin Elon(belon@knesset.gov.il); Chaim Amsellem(eamsalem@knesset.gov.il); Chaim Oron(horon@knesset.gov.il); Colette Avital(avitalk@knesset.gov.il); Dalia Itzik(yor@knesset.gov.il); David Azoulay(dazulay@knesset.gov.il); David Rotem(drotem@knesset.gov.il); David Tal(davidt@knesset.gov.il); Dov Khenin(dhanin@knesset.gov.il); Effie Eitam(efye@knesset.gov.il); Eitan Cabel(ecabel@knesset.gov.il); Elhanan Glazer(eglazer@knesset.gov.il); Eliahu Gabbay(egabai@knesset.gov.il); Esterina Tartman(etertman@knesset.gov.il); Gideon Sa'ar(gsaar@knesset.gov.il); ad Erdan(gerdan@knesset.gov.il); Haim Katz(hkatz@knesset.gov.il); Isaac Ben-Israel(itzik@knesset.gov.il); srael Hasson(ahason@knesset.gov.il); Itshac Galantee(ygalanti@knesset.gov.il); Izhak Ziv(yziv@knesset.gov.il); Lia Shemtov(lshemtov@knesset.gov.il); Limor Livnat(llivnat@knesset.gov.il); Marina Solodkin(msolodkin@knesset.gov.il); Mazor Bahyna(mazorb@knesset.gov.il); Meir Porush(mporush@knesset.gov.il); Menahem Ben-Sasson(mbensason@knesset.gov.il); Michael Eitan(meitan@knesset.gov.il); Michael Melchior(melchiorm@knesset.gov.il); Moshe Kahlon(mcachlon@knesset.gov.il); Moshe Gafni(mgafni@knesset.gov.il); Moshe Sharoni(msharoni@knesset.gov.il); Nissan Slomiansky(nslomianski@knesset.gov.il); Nissim Zeev(nzeev@knesset.gov.il); Ophir Pines-Paz(pinespaz@knesset.gov.il); Otniel Schneller(oschneller@knesset.gov.il); Ran Cohen(rancohen@knesset.gov.il); Reuven Rivlin(rrivlin@knesset.gov.il); Robert );atov(r);atov@knesset.gov.il); Ronit Tirosh(rtirosh@knesset.gov.il); Sara Marom Shalev(smarom@knesset.gov.il); Shachiv Shnaan(shanans@knesset.gov.il); Shai Hermesh (shermesh@knesset.gov.il); Shelly Yacimovich (syechimovich@knesset.gov.il); Shlomo (Neguse) Molla (smolla@knesset.gov.il); Shmuel Halpert (shmuelh@knesset.gov.il); van Shalom (sshalom@knesset.gov.il);Sofa Landver (slandver@knesset.gov.il); Stas Misezhnikov (smiseznikov@knesset.gov.il); Tzachi Hanegbi (zhanegbi@knesset.gov.il); Tzvia Greenfield (tzviag@knesset.gov.il); Uri Maklev (umaklev@knesset.gov.il); Uri Yehuda Ariel (uria@knesset.gov.il); Yakov Litzman (ylitzman@knesset.gov.il); Yakov Margi (ymargi@knesset.gov.il); Yisrael Katz (yiskatz@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Aharonovitch (iaharon@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Levy (ithakl@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Vaknin (yvaknin@knesset.gov.il); Yoel Hasson (yhasson@knesset.gov.il); Yohanan Plesner (yohananplesner@knesset.gov.il); Yoram Marciano (ymarziano@knesset.gov.il); Yosef Shagal (yshagal@knesset.gov.il); Yuli Yoel Edelstein (yedelstein@knesset.gov.il); Yuval Steinitz (ysteinitz@knesset.gov.il); Zahava Gal-On (zgalon@knesset.gov.il); Zeev Elkin
(Zelkin@knesset.gov.il); Zevulun Orlev (zorlev@knesset.gov.il);Zvi Hendel (zhendel@knesset.gov.il)

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Israeli Ground Attack Begins:

Photos of the day

Israeli Ground Attack Begins:
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This screen grab taken around 7:00pm (GMT), on January 3, 2009 from Sky News shows Israeli terrorist soldiers as they enter the Gaza strip near the town of Beit Lahiya. Israeli ground troops have entered the Gaza Strip eight days after the terrorist Jewish state launched its massive offensive war crimes on Gaza.

This is the starting signal of yet unseen-like war crimes during the days to come of Israel terrorist attack on Gaza.

More War crimes:

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Earlier this evening: The bodies of two Palestinian children killed in a terrorist Israeli air strike on the Ibrahim al-Maqadna mosque in Jabalia, lie next to each other in the mortuary of a hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 3, 2008. At least 16 Palestinians, including four boys, were killed today when the terrorist Israeli air raid struck a mosque during prayers in the northern town of Jabalia. More than 450 Palestinians killed and 2800 injured. (Photo 1 credit: MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images, photo 2 credit:REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah)

ACTION ALERT: Spy for Israel

Yesterday Aljazeera Arabic TV showed the leaflet which Gazans awoke to find scattered everywhere by the terrorist Israeli air force.

After a long search for a copy of the leaflet, I finally found it on Ma'an News (a Palestinian news agency). The leaflet gave me an idea for action that might help our people in Gaza a little. Let's read this leaflet first then follow the action.

The leaflet reads:

59468_200x150To the residents of the Gaza Strip,

Take responsibility for your fate!

If you wish to provide help and assistance to your people in the sector, call the number below to provide us with the needed information. The projectile launchers and the terrorist elements pose a threat to you and your families.

The power to stop the massacre is in your hands.
Don't hesitate!

We will be glad to receive any information you have and it is not necessary to give us your personal information.

Your anonymity is guaranteed.

Call us at the following number:
02-5839749

Or you can e-mail us at: helpgaza2008@gmail.com to provide us with any information on the terrorist factions.

Note: To protect your safety, we ask you to be secretive when you call us.

Head of the Israeli Defense Forces

It is clear that these Israeli terrorist pamphlets are marketing the blind insane destruction services of Israel to anyone who is WILLING to advise them of a target. In other words, to Spy for Israel!

These are the desperate and bankrupt measures (referring to 'Targets Bank' the IOF is supposed to attack) that this terrorist gang has reached. Note that they themselves understand that they engage in massacres, and that their actions are premeditated. They also offer no guarantees of safeguarding the informants.

As you notice in the pamphlet, they ask Gazans to call 02-583-9749, therefore for those outside of Palestine that's +972-2-583-9749. Also they left an email to contact them: helpgaza2008@gmail.com

So, what can be done? Simply, I encourage everyone to call above mentioned number (from your land line, mobile phone, Skype, etc.) and say in Hebrew "Atem Poshim, tafsiku laharog palestinayim, Palestien Meshuchreret, Aza meshuchreret."

The above is an oral Hebrew translation of: "You are Criminals. Stop Killing Palestinians. Free Palestine. Free Gaza."

Alternatively, use the above mentioned email (for your privacy, read below) and attach one of the following photos or album link to show them the result of their war crimes in Gaza.

Photos (click to enlarge):

gaza-war-crime-6 gaza-war-crime-5

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Photo album:

Link: http://tinyurl.com/9sta9r

Your privacy:

For privacy reasons, we don't want the IOF to record your email, IP address, ISP, country, etc and track you down and maybe hack your PC or something worse. Therefore, don't use your original email account to contact them. To overcome this, you can send them ANONYMOUS emails. This way they can't track you or find any info about the sender (you).

There are two ways to send an anonymous email.

(1) The easy way:

All you need to do is go to the following address and register for a new email account. I suggest you create a completely random pseudonym (username). It will take you only 5 sec. to register and start sending emails (you don't have to give any personal info and they will not record any info about you, e.g. IP address etc. More: http://tinyurl.com/6wxmxk )

Go here to register and send your email:
http://tinyurl.com/6wxmxk

(2) The hard way:

Create and use your own anonymous email by using reliable remailers and GnuPG. This method is for high-tech wizards who like to do it the hard way:
Here is a step-by-step tutorial:
http://tinyurl.com/f6h2l

Update: As indicated by Shaltaf here, the anonymous email service won't allow you to attach a file unless you upgrade to the paid version. Fair enough! You still can paste the link of the album mentioned above (and few strong words of your liking).

Update 1:
A clearer version of the same leaflet found on Facebook (Hat tip: Omar):
gaza-leaflet

Update 2: As indicated by Shaltaf here, the anonymous email service won't allow you to attach a file unless you upgrade to the paid version. Fair enough! You still can paste the link of the album mentioned above (and few strong words of your liking).

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Vittorio Arrigoni - Eyewitness from Gaza

By Vittorio Arrigoni
6:05 PM, Marna house, Gaza city

gaza2411An acrid smell of sulphur fills the air while the sky is shaken by earth-shattering rumbles. My ears are now deaf to the explosions while my eyes are all out of tears from all the corpses. I stand in front of Al Shifa hospital, Gaza's main hospital, and we've just received Israel's terrible threat that they intend to bomb its under construction wing. This would be nothing new, as Wea'm hospital was bombed just yesterday, along with a medicine warehouse in Rafah, the Islamic university, which was also destroyed, along with various mosques scattered along the Strip. Not to mention many CIVILIAN structures.

Apparently, they can no longer find "sensible" targets, the air force and the navy is killing time targeting places of worship, schools and hospitals. It's another 9/11 every single hour, every minute around here, and tomorrow is always a new day of mourning, always identical to the previous one. You notice the helicopters and airplanes constantly overhead, you see a flash, but you're already a goner and it's too late to take flight. There are no bunkers against the bombs in the Strip and no place is really safe. I can't contact my friends in Rafah, not even those who live North of Gaza City, hopefully because the phone lines are overloaded. Hopefully. I haven't slept in 60 hours, and same goes for every Gazan.

Yesterday three other ISM members and I spent the entire night at the al Awda hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp. We were there because we were fearing the much dreaded ground raid that never happened. But the Israeli tanks are posted all along the Strip's border, and their corpse-hungry creaks will apparently form a funeral march tonight. Around 11:30 PM a bomb fell about 800 metres from the hospital, the shock wave blow several windows apart, injuring the injured. An ambulance arrived, then they blew up a mosque, thankfully empty at that time. Unfortunately, though it actually has nothing to do with bad luck but with the criminal and terroristic will to massacre civilians, the Israeli bomb has also struck the building adjacent to the mosque, which was also destroyed. We watched as the tiny bodies of six little sisters were pulled out of the rubble - five are dead, one is in life-threatening conditions. They laid the little girls out on the blackened asphalt, and they looked like broken dolls, disposed of as they were no longer usable.

This wasn't a mistake, but a voluntary, and cynical horror. We're at a toll of 320 dead, more than a thousand wounded and, according to a doctor at Shifa, 60% of these are destined to die in the next few hours or days, after a prolonged agony.There are many missing, and for the last two days despairing wives have been searching for their husbands or children in hospitals, often to no avail.

The morgue is a macabre spectacle. A nurse told me that after hours of searching, a Palestinian woman recognised her husband from his amputated hand. All that's left of her husband, and the wedding band on her finger from the eternal love they had sworn one another. Out of a house inhabited by two families, very little has remained of their bodies. They showed their relatives half of one bust and three legs.

Right now, one of our Free Gaza Movement boats is leaving the port in Larnaca, Cyprus. I spoke to my friends on board. They've heroically amassed medicine and steeped it everywhere in the boat. It should reach the port of Gaza tomorrow around 8:00 AM. Here's to hoping that the port will still exist after another night of endless bombing. I'll be in touch with them for the entire night. Please, someone stop this nightmare.

Choosing to remain silent means somehow lending support to the genocide unfolding right now. Shout out your indignation, in every capital of the "civilised" world, in every city, in every square, covering our own screams of pain and terror. A slice of humanity is dying in pitiful in a useless listening.

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Hurl a shoe at Israeli officials

Sabbah

A friend asked me if I "have the addresses of high officials in the Israeli government to send "old shoes" to as a symbol about how she feel about the illegal, abusive, mistreatment of the Palestinian people whom the land rightfully belongs to."

I didn't have them, so, I asked around, and thanks to Steve, he gave me the hint to check the Knesset website and found most of what I'm looking for beside links to others Israeli official websites.

So, here is a comprehensive list of Israeli government members, officials and Knesset members. (Few I could not find, like criminals Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu. Therefore, if you have them or more as well updates for other email addresses of below mentioned official and other, please contact me).

Without more delay, here is the list I got. Please fire them with your old shoes:

Shimon Peres: president@president.gov.il

Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister - eulmert@knesset.gov.il
Ehud Barak - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Defense - minister@mod.gov.il
Tzipi Livni - Acting Prime Minister , Minister of Foreign Affairs - zlivni@knesset.gov.il

Abraham Dicter - Minister of Internal Security - adichter@knesset.gov.il
Ariel Atias - Minister of Communications - aatias@knesset.gov.il
Binyamin (Fouad) Ben-Eliezer - Minister of National Infrastructure - binyaminb@knesset.gov.il
Eli Aflalo - Minister of Immigrant Absorption - eaflalo@knesset.gov.il
Eliyahu Yishai - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor - eyishay@knesset.gov.il
Gideon Ezra - Minister of Environmental Protection - gezra@knesset.gov.il
Isaac Herzog - Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism - iherzog@knesset.gov.il
Jacob Edery - Minister of the Development of the Negev and Galil - yedri@knesset.gov.il
Meir Sheetrit - Minister of Internal Affairs - mshitrit@knesset.gov.il
Raleb Majadele - Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport - gmagadla@knesset.gov.il
Ruhama Avraham Balila - Minister of Tourism - ravraham@knesset.gov.il
Shalom Simhon - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development - ssimhon@knesset.gov.il
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Congradulations to Haitham Sabbah

Congradulations to Haitham who works very hard on various sites throughout the web. Sabbah’s Blog has been nominated for the Fifth Annual Brass Crescent Awards 2008. Polls close Friday, December 19!

Last year, Laila El-Haddad (of Raising Yousuf, Unplugged) won the first position andSabbah's blog was given a “Honerable mention”.

So what are you waiting for? To vote for Sabbah, go to “BEST MIDEAST BLOG” section and vote before polls close.


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American woman from San Jose, CA, among 18 abducted at gunpoint in Gaza

Darlene Wallach, a human rights observer from San Jose, California, is among eighteen persons abducted off the coast of Gaza on November 18, 2008. The others are fellow human rights observers Andrew Muncie of Scotland and Vittorio Arrigoni of Italy, as well as fifteen Palestinian fishermen. All eighteen were fishing in Gaza waters in zones authorized for Palestinian fisherman by the Oslo agreements of 1993 and 1994. They were abducted at gunpoint by Israeli frogmen and taken to Israel, along with the fishing boats.

The fishermen were released and returned to Gaza, although their boats, which are their means of livelihood, are still being held. Israel is charging the three human rights observers with illegally entering Israel, and is making arrangements to deport them to their home countries.

The observers counter that they were forcibly taken to Israel and should be returned to Gaza. “We were never in Israel, and all of us were taken against our will and contrary to all agreements that Israel has signed,” says Wallach, 57, who was also arrested and deported from Israel in 2002 for participating in human rights advocacy in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank region. “Israel claims that it no longer occupies Gaza, so what is it doing in Gaza waters, especially when there is no security threat at all?”

On August 23, 2008, Wallach, Muncie and Arrigoni were among 44 participants in the Free Gaza Movement who were aboard the first boats in forty-one years to enter Gaza by sea, breaking the Israeli blockade. They remained in Gaza to participate in human rights activities with the International Solidarity Movement. They are conducting a hunger strike in prison until Israel meets their demands to return them to Gaza and release the fishing boats.

Further information is available at www.freegaza.org and www.palsolidarity.org. Wallach, Muncie and Arrigoni can sometimes by reached by telephone in prison for press interviews. Interested parties are invited to contact the persons listed in this message.

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IOF soldiers reveal how to brutally repress Palestinian civilians



This is Ehud, speaking 12 years after having served in the occupied Palestinian territories.“Whilst I was there, I lost all my faith in the Israeli army. They put it right in your face: ‘Go be the oppressors for your people. Force yourselves upon them’. They told us…’take these bats wrapped up in plastic and…calm things down’…We had skulls on our helmets, dude. We walked around with machetes, all kinds of crazy stuff. Sheriff badges. We’d improvise some very unique solutions”
Like the thousands before him, he was a paratrooper in the Israeli army during the first Palestinian intifada (1987-1993). Some of the improvised solutions he came up with while serving in the occupied territories included attaching the plus and minus cables from a two-way radio battery to the ears of a Palestinian to give him an electric shock.

“We had lots of ’sophisticated methods,’” Ehud relates.

Aftershock is a film about four soldiers — Ehud, Haim, Omri and Haliva — who served in the occupied territories during the first Palestinian intifada and were interviewed by Yariv Horowitz, who at the time had been given a mission by the IDF to make a film for the Educational Corps. The army hoped the film would boost morale in Nablus, but after they saw it they decided to censor it, for as soon as Horowitz turned on the camera, “Things were said that would get everyone into trouble.”

Over a decade later Horowitz decided he couldn’t wait any longer. He had already been waiting for 12 years. So he decided to pick up his old videotape and camera and revisit his former comrades to make a film about them. This is it.
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What d'ya mean you got nothin t' read?

Welcome to Carter's 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid' the Book.

Here you can find 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid' on the right hand side is the table of contents. Be sure to click on the images so you can clearly see. The blog is for review reference purposes only:
http://peacenotapartheidbook.blogspot.com/

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Video: Carter says Israel has 150 nukes

Aijaz Ahmad: Why is corporate media marginalizing a former President?

Former US President Jimmy Carter has again come under fire in the US mainstream media, since publicly saying that Israel has 150 or more nuclear weapons in its arsenal.

Details about Israel's nuclear weapons programme started emerging in 1986.

International nuclear experts now believe that Israel maintains a cache of between 100 and 300 nuclear weapons, though Israel, backed by the US, maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity.

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Adalah rally outside UAE UN office in New York

A Jewish-Palestinian advocacy group held a thank-you rally outside the UAE's representative office in New York on Tuesday over the country's stand on not allowing a controversial Israeli businessman from opening a store in Dubai.

The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Adalah) gathered on Tuesday outside the UAE representative office in New York city to thank the UAE for not allowing Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev from opening his self titled diamond boutique in Dubai, and deliver a letter on behalf of Palestinian children.

Source: Gulfnews


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