The plant strike not only knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of people during sweltering summer heat; it also crippled water pumps, halting water flow to many Gazans.
Back-up generators only have a few days supply of fuel left, says Christer Nordahl, the deputy director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza.
"So my biggest worry now," he said, "is that there will be no water in a few days time. It will be a life threatening situation rather quickly."
Nordahl is concerned desperate people might start tapping unsafe or foul water. And children and the elderly face increased risks of dehydration.
Rafiq Maliha, a manager at Gaza’s 140-megawatt power station, was appalled by the destruction of six new transformers worth
1.5 million dollars which he said would take up to a year to replace.
The plant supplied about half of Gaza’s electricity; the rest comes from Israel.
“You can’t believe the feeling we have,” Dr Maliha said.
“If you do this, you are punishing civilians. Nobody can understand the logic."
The logic is quite simple Rafiq, the Jews have knocked out the competition, now you'll have to buy all your power from their Ashkelon power station and
they can charge what they like ... Robert (Ashkelon desalination)
An Israeli soldier was captured during a Palestinian attack on an Israeli army post on the Gaza Strip border Sunday.
The Palestinian government has denied any link to the operation and called on those holding the soldier to treat him well.
Two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinian resistance fighters were killed in the same attack.
Several Palestinian resistance groups jointly claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was to avenge the Israeli killings of Palestinians ...
Israel drew international criticism recently for repeated attacks that claimed the lives of many Palestinian civilians, mostly children and women ...
1 - Mohammed Jamal Roqa, 5, Sania al-Sharif, six, and Bilal al-Hissi, 16, were killed in an Israeli air attack on Tuesday, June 20, in the Gaza Strip.
2 - Israeli warplanes bombarded Gaza city on Tuesday, June 13, killing at least eleven Palestinians, including three children, and wounding tens others in the deadliest air strike this year.
3 - Israeli shelling killed seven Palestinians on Friday, June 9, while enjoying a picnic on a beach in northern Gaza.
Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Palestinian government, told Israeli army radio that a number of parties, including the Egyptians, were working to resolve the standoff.
KERRY: “I’m going to get it right for those soldiers, because it’s important to Israel, ”
BUSH: “A free Iraq will help secure Israel .”
(Just in case you had any doubt about why the USA invaded Iraq)
A CLEAN BREAK A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.
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I felt like hugging Palestine and Iraq and screaming to them: "We're with you, like you: left alone, suffering and part of your cause, a great one."
(Hanady, Beirut July 19 2006) ... Story
WASHINGTON and Jerusalem have agreed that Israel should continue to bombard Lebanon for another week to degrade the capabilities of the Hizbullah militia before seeking to establish a buffer zone and the deployment of an international force in the south of the country.
ISRAEL'S US SUPPLIED MILITARY HARDWARE
As Israeli jets bombard locations in Gaza and Lebanon, killing civilians (including as many as seven Canadians vacationing in Aitaroun), it is worth remembering that:
!!!THE US ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT CLEARLY STATES THAT US ORIGIN WEAPONS SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR NON-DEFENSIVE PURPOSES!!!
"Section 4 of the [U.S.] Arms Export Control Act requires that military items transferred to foreign governments by the United States be used solely for internal security and legitimate self-defense,"
Since Israeli attacks against Lebanon's civilian infrastructure and population centers clearly go beyond legitimate self-defense, the United States is legally obliged to suspend arms transfers to Israel,"
... more
BETWEEN 1991 AND 2003 THE USA & UK WITH UN BACKING BOMBED IRAQ AND ENFORCED SANCTIONS
THAT DESTROYED THE IRAQI ECONOMY AND CAUSED THE DEATHS OF OVER HALF A MILLION CHILDREN ...
THEN THEY INVADED IRAQ!!! AND THEY'RE STILL THERE AND HAVE KILLED OVER 200,000 IRAQI CIVILIANS SINCE THE INVASION!!! ...
PLAY VIDEO (Pre GW Bush video)
Israel is a VERY SMALL VULNERABLE country, a coordinated simultaneous rocket attack by all the surrounding countries on
Israeli fuel depots, power generating plants, military installations and naval vessels would bring Israel to it's knees in less tha 20 minutes ...
(There are the Israeli submarines submerged offshore in the Mediterranean and the 2 Gulfs that are waiting to launch nuclear armed cruise missiles,
but they could only respond, too late, after the event.) ... Robert
!!!PEOPLE FROM AUSTIN TEXAS WHO WITNESSED THE DEMOLITION OF THE 33 STORY LANDMARK TOWER IN DOWNTOWN AUSTIN
ON 18th MARCH THIS YEAR ... remember "That huge explosion that we all heard and felt"
PLEASE WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO AND CONTACT YOUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE USA TO TELL THEM HOW YOU THINK IT COMPARES TO
THE 911 BUILDING COLLAPSES, ESPECIALLY THE 47 STORY WTC7 COLLAPSE ...
(Small 24MB Pocket PC format wmv, right click & choose "Save Target As..." download)
!!!NEW - WATCH EXPLOSIVE CHARGES BEING DETONATED INSIDE A BUILDING BEING DEMOLISHED!!! PLAY VIDEO (Demolition was in Oslo Norway by Contolled Demolition UK who installed the sacrificial cameras)
(Edited collections of other peoples hard, dangerous work ... Thanks Guys)
(Our thoughts and prayers to all the families who were touched by this evil deed)
(It's time for someone who is in the loop to break out)
!!!ISRAELI KNESSET OKAYS MASSIVE AERIAL STRIKES INTO LEBANON!!!
ISRAEL USES "KIDNAPPING" EXCUSE TO SAY LEBANON DECLARED WAR ON THEM!!!
IN FACT THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED IN A FIREFIGHT WITH HIZBULLAH FORCES
WHO WERE SHELLING ISRAEL IN RETALIATION FOR ISRAEL'S MILITARY ACTION
AGAINST INNOCENT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS ...
Israeli Humvee knocked out by Hizbullah fighters in retaliation for brutal deaths of innocent Palesinian civilians by the Israeli military on the the orders of the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert ... "Olmert the Mad"
ISRAELI FIGHTER BOMBER PREPARED FOR TAKEOFF
(By Ethiopian migrant? and Hebrew Weapons Woman)
The closure of Beirut airport Lebanon on Thursday came after witnesses reported at least two strikes on the facility's eastern runway while Lebanese anti-aircraft batteries fired at Israeli fighter jets.
Until then, the bombing had targeted bridges linking south Lebanon to the rest of the country.
In southern Lebanon, at least 22 civilians were reported killed in overnight Israeli attacks, including a family of 12 in the village of Dweir, leading TV station LBC reported.
KOSHER LIST OF JEWS AT THE TOP OF MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS READ LIST
JOURNALISTS FAIR GAME TO ISRAELI SOLDIERS!!!
Mohammad Az Zanoun was photographing in the Zaitoun area of Gaza, where he lives, when Israeli tanks entered the area. He was injured by shrapnel in his mouth, hand and body, but continued to work believing, in the words of Ma'an, that "his honest photos might move the hearts and conscience of the world".
When he continued to work, Israeli soldiers aimed at him directly, and shot him in the stomach. Eyewitnesses reported that he fell to the ground shouting "Where is the camera? There are many photos in it which are witness to the killing of Palestinians; there are many photos of the Palestinians who have been killed."
He is currently undergoing a serious operation in Gaza's Shifa hospital.
Palestinians like Mohammad exemplify the spirit of nonviolent resistance shared by the majority of the Palestinian people, who only wish to live their lives in peace but face an unimaginable situation of daily violent colonization of their land, as Israel scrambles to change as many facts on the ground in its favor before the world wakes from its slumber.
Shalom, the little Palestinian girl below is right, even the "one state solution" with Palestinians and Jews living in harmony amongst each other would not work with such cold heartless
monsters as the Zionist Jews that use their military might against defenceless Palestinians ... That might was even obtained at the expense of their own Jewish citizens, many living in poverty ...
The only solution is another EXODUS ... Forget about history, we can see with our own eyes HERE AND NOW! Why the original EXODUS from Egypt happened ...
The Jews controlling Israel and those Jews in Israel who do not speak out against the totally immoral and inhuman use of
high powered military weaponry of the 3rd most effective miltary on earth against ordinary mums dads and kids in their homes do
not deserve to live among the indigineous people of Palestine. Nor did they deserve to live there the first time they massacred the indigenous people of Canaan
under the pretext that their G-d commanded them to ... What sort of G-d would ask his "chosen ones" to commit mass murder of his peaceful children !!! ... Robert
WHY ISRAEL INVADED GAZA
!!!AN ISRAELI MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, EFI EITEM, CALLED FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF ALL NEWLY ELECTED HAMAS MOVEMENT CANDIDATES TO THE PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL!!!
(28th January 2006) ... moreIt took the Israeli Government a while, but they finally decided to round up most of the Palestinian Legislative council members leaving the Palestinians without an effective governing body ... except for President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), "a leader who is about as close to a quisling as Israel is likely to find".Now why would the Israeli Jews want to do that???
SO THAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE NO LONGER IN A POSITION TO HAVE A SAY IN WHO DEVELOPS AND BENEFITS FROM THE MASSIVE GAS FIELDS OFFSHORE GAZA
WHICH LIE UNDER PALESTINIAN WATERS ...
"If the ongoing attacks on Gaza succeed in destroying the Palestinian Authority as a viable political entity, all commercial contracts with the Authority, such as that with British Gas, will become worthless and will have to be renegotiated with the Israeli government. Perhaps the most valuable “hostage” that Hamas has in the current crisis then is not the 19-year old Israeli soldier, but the Palestinian gas reserves that Israel claims as its own, and may go to extreme lengths to rescue." ... more
To join Dr Hesham Tillawi's "PalestinianAmericanFederation" Yahoo group click HERE
then click the "Join This Group!" button ... and enter your "Yahoo! ID" and Password
(If you don't have a Yahoo account sign up it's free ...)
Christopher Bollyn & Hesham Tillawi
Israeli spies use WMD in Idaho shopping mall?
ISRAELI ARMY BOMBS AND FIRES SEVERAL MISSILES INTO GAZA ...
KNOCKING OUT ELECTRICITY TO MOST OF GAZA CITY.
ISRAEL "ROUNDED UP" 84 PEOPLE IN THE WEST BANK, BRINGING THE NUMBER OF
"ARRESTS" TO OVER 300 AFTER ARIEL SHARON ORDERED A CRACKDOWN ON
ARMED FACTIONS LAST WEEKEND ...
NO ARIK SHARON IS NOT BACK IN ACTION, THIS IS A STORY FROM SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR!!!
... SOUND FAMILIAR?
(last year) ... After air strikes destroyed two bridges and two buildings Israel said were used by fighters, Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz
said armed groups would "be hit again and again until they understand there are new rules to the game".
He did not rule out an incursion back into Gaza or artillery fire and said Israel could assassinate political leaders of the
biggest group Hamas just as it killed Shaikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in 2004.
"Quiet means quiet," Mofaz was quoted by the ynet media website.
"Until there is quiet, terrorist organisations will know no quiet. If [Hamas leaders] Mahmoud al-Zahar or Ismail Haniyah or
others continue with rocket fire, we will send them to the same place as Rantissi and Yassin."
The current (this year) ruthless and cruel invasion of Gaza by the Israeli military has nothing to do with the capture of the Israeli
soldier by the Palestinian resistance in a combat situation in a Palestinian controlled area.
The invasion of Gaza by the Israelis was planned well before the incident took place.
Arik Sharon even envisaged it when he removed the Jewish settlers from Gaza, probably
so they would not be an impediment to a future all out assault on Gaza ... Robert
NOTE FROM DR HESHAM TILLAWI ABOUT ISRAELI SOLDIER TAKEN PRISONER:
1 - The Israeli soldier was involved in a fire fight with the Palestinians.
2 - The Israeli soldier was illegally present on Palestinian land with a gun, international law gives the Palestinians the right
to consider the Israeli soldier an invading enemy combatant.
3 - When someone is taken under those circumstances, he/she is called a PRISONER.
4 - When Israeli authorities go into a Palestinian civilian home, or place of business and abduct that person, that is called KIDNAPPING.
5 - Over the years more than 10,000 Palestinians have been KIDNAPPED from their homes and businesses by the Israelis and thrown into Israeli jails.
Also in the story above from last year notice the use of "rounded up" (as if Palestinians were cattle to be slaughtered) when in fact the Israelis were kidnapping citizens who were outside their jurisdiction.
Also you can't "arrest" someone outside your jurisdiction ...
But the Western media continue to regurgitate these inaccuracies fed to them by Jewish news feeds ... Robert
MASSACRE???
Broken camping tables, childrens' sandals and
lumps of flesh lay on the sands of Gaza's Sudania beach Friday
evening, June 9, after the Israeli shelling of a picnic party left seven
dead.
Stunned witnesses who witnessed the bloodshed first-hand recounted
how the calm of a day out at the seaside turned into a scene of
carnage ...
Huda Ghalia, 12, survived the barrage but lost her family ...
1 - Haytham Ghalia (5 months old)
2 - Hanadi Ghalia (1 and a half years old)
3 - Sabreen Ghalia (5 years old)
4 - Ilham Ghalia (15 years old)
5 - Aliya Ghalia (17 years old)
Huda's father – Ali Ghalia – and his wife were also killed in
the barrage ... more
Eyewitnesses described how a barrage of shells, fired from the
direction of an Israeli military gunship stationed just offshore,
rained down on the beach-goers, killing members of the Ghalia family
outright and wounding at least forty other people, including 12
children. Many of those taken to hospital sustained critical injuries
and medical sources say the death toll could rise further ... DCI
WHY?!!! VIDEO Huda Ghalia screams for her dead father
The head of the IDF's southern command, General Yoav Galant, has said that IDF forces fired six artillery shells at an area described as approximately 250 meters away from the fatal incident between 4:32 p.m. and 4:51 p.m. on Friday, 09 June 2006.
(Heavy artillery targeting the beach 250 metres from picnicing holidaymakers??? what was the divisional commander thinking General!!!)
IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that the shelling might resume, but henceforth it will require his
authorization rather than only that of the divisional commander.
(seems like an oblique admission of guilt to me.)
What kind of guy is Dan Halutz, IDF Chief of Staff?
"If you insist on wanting to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you. I feel a slight bump to the plane as a result of bomb's release. A second later it passes, and that's all. That is what I feel."
... said then Maj Gen Dan Halutz, a key figure behind Israel’s assassination policy, when asked whether he felt any remorse about an incident on 23 July 2002 when 14 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed when an Israeli F-16 dropped a 1,000-kilogram bomb on an apartment building in the al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City to assassinate only 1 person, Salah Shehadeh, then leader of Hamas' military wing ...
(Imagine people's reaction if the British police had taken out the the whole tube station and passengers with a 1000kg bomb instead of just pumping bullets into the head of that innocent Brazilian (who knew too much about 7/7?), Jean Charles de Menezes !!! story )
ANOTHER MASSACRE OF PALESTINIANS BY ISRAELI FORCES
Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday 13th June in an Israeli Air Force strike on a Katyusha-launching cell van in Gaza City ... more
Seven of those killed were civilians, including two children and three medical personnel.
The incident began shortly after noon, when air force planes fired a brace of missiles at a van containing four or five Islamic Jihad
operatives. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the van also contained GRAD Katyusha rockets; this was confirmed by television footage
from the scene of the strike, in which the rockets were visible. The Jihad operatives were apparently en route to launch the rockets at Israel.
The missiles landed near the van, causing only minor damage, and the Jihad operatives quickly abandoned it, apparently unharmed. Some
of them then went to a nearby house, while others, aided by the numerous bystanders who had gathered at the site, surrounded the van and
apparently tried to extract the Katyushas.
Palestinian eyewitnesses told Haaretz that the second brace of missiles was fired three to four minutes after the first a gap long enough to
enable many civilians to gather at the site.
However, a senior Air Force officer said that only a minute elapsed between the two missile strikes ...
but the IDF declined to present any evidence to support its version of the story, even though it has films of the aerial assault in its possession.
Moreover, if only a minute elapsed between the launches, it is hard to see how the medical crew would have had time to arrive at the scene.
(Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel & Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz correspondents)
PALESTINIAN KIDS ... the UNDISTORTED truth!!!
Surely the Israeli Jews must have a valid reason for assasinating all these innocent kids?
Perhaps they are going to grow up to become evil suicide bombers or rocket wielding terrorists?
Check out this undercover film to find the TRUTH ... PLAY VIDEO ... Link to: SlingShot
FAMILY LIFE IN GAZA
"Despite the physical Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza last August -
much hailed by the international media and politicians – the area remains a big prison with Israeli forces controlling all exit and entry points. The Israeli authorities have kept sealed for most of this year the only cargo crossing point into Gaza, and at the risk of triggering a humanitarian catastrophe have prevented food and medicine supplies from entering the strip. It is unacceptable that the Israeli authorities use the lives and rights of Palestinian children as a political bargaining card and we call on the UN and international community to exert pressure on the Israeli government to stop these cynical practices"
"Let’s be honest: the last thing people associate with Gaza is its food. Most often, Gaza conjures up images of war and destruction razed homes and fields, bombed out buildings, and masked gunmen.
But Gaza boasts a unique cuisine rivalled in its variety only by its versatility of ingredients, with a flavour to satisfy every palate ...
Due to the Gaza Strip’s geographic isolation from the rest of Palestine as a result of decades of occupation and Israeli-imposed closures, many of its dishes have not been heard of outside Gaza. In fact, perhaps the best test to
determine if someone is truly Gazan, or at least well-acquainted with Gaza’ culture, is to ask if he/she knows what sumaggiya is!"
(Photos & article: Laila El-Haddad) ... Laila's "BLOG"
..... "Palestine Online"
MESSAGE TO A LADY IN GAZA
Xxxxx, how could your guys fall so easily into the trap that Israel laid
for them???
An Israeli outpost on Palestinian controlled soil only manned by a few
Israeli soldiers, are your guys so blind they couldn't see it was a trap
... They walked right into it!!!
What have your guys achieved ...
1 - NO ELECTRICITY
2 - NO WATER
3 - 3 IMPORTANT BRIDGES DOWN
IF YOU COULD NOT AFFORD TO REPLACE ANY OF THOSE ITEMS BEFORE THEY WERE
DESTROYED WHAT HOPE HAVE YOU NOW ...
Really smart move, hey ... like it's going to worry some fat Jewish
momma walking her poodle outside her plush appartment in Tel-Aviv.
Not only did your guys fall for the first trap but they walked right
into the second ...
They are so pleased with themselves because they all banded together
with rocket propelled grenades and rifles to resist the invading super power ...
Your own guys dug up YOUR roads and mined them???
Even Ehud Olmert the Israeli prime minister could not have written the
script for the roll of the Palestinian resistance in HIS invasion better
Now he has what the Western media and their readers see as a credible
opposition to his invading forces ...
allowing the Israelis to use even more force in return without overseas
criticism ...
OK Mr "smarty pants" Robert I hear you asking ... "what would you have
done?"
1 - Armed resistance by a few guys with toothpicks against perhaps the
3rd most powerfull military machine in the world is useless, the
Israelis could take out the whole of the Gaza strip in 15 minutes if
they had a mind to, without risking a single Israeli soldier on Gazaan
soil ...
2 - Diplomatic negotiations with a people who are committed to occupying
the whole of the land of Palestine between the Mediterranean and the
Jordon River is equally useless
3 - The only possibility which has a slim chance of success is for the
whole of Palestine (including what is now Israel) to be run by a
democratic government of Jews and Palestinians all with equal rights and
voting rights ...
4 - The Palestinian refugees who are living outside Palestine be allowed
to return to be part of the new democratic Palestine comprising Jews and
Palestinians (All to be called Palestinians)
........ I hope and pray that you and your family don't get caught up in
this ugly mess created by the Jews ... Robert
PS as you have no power I guess you won't receive this message, but I
tried :)
The Israeli Home Front Command said that while Kassam rockets have claimed lives in the past it was mostly a "STUPID AND PRIMITIVE WEAPON" that was far less dangerous than a suicide bomber.
"The evidence was clear. Both Admiral Kidd and I believed with certainty that this attack...was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew.... It was our shared belief. . .that the attack. . .could not possibly have been an accident.... I am certain that the Israeli pilots [and] their superiors. . .were well aware that the ship was American."
Top is a photo of the USS Liberty after Israeli Jews had tried to sink it quickly using overwhelming force, killing 34 US servicemen and injuring a further 172.
One pathetic excuse the Jews gave is they mistook the Liberty for the Egyptian horse carrier in the bottom photo.
As you can all see, several torpedo boat captains and several fighter pilots all highly trained in recognition would NOT have made that mistake ...
(PHOTO LEFT: the true extent of the massive hole in the side of the Liberty is only revealed in the dry dock.)
Liberty, the sacrificial lamb that wouldn't die!!! Were all the living breathing human beings who were the crew of the Liberty to be sacrificed to enable the USA to join the Middle East war on the side of the Israelis?
The dreadful possibility revealed in this story is that the USA may have been complicit in a plan which would kill their own citizens? ... The press conveniently on board the aicraft carrier were perhaps to be fed the story that the Egyptians had sunk the Liberty with all hands? If true it was an unspeakably callous thing to do. When the news broke in the USA perhaps the American people were supposed to rise up in righteous indignation and demand that their government wage war on these evil infidels alongside the long suffering and downtrodden Israeli Jews, who in fact were perpetrating cold blooded murder?, not something new to them, just read their Book.
You will notice that the 3 reviewers of Ennes book at Amazon.com who gave no credence to James Ennes story do not publish their names, but are from:
Fredonia NY, Tampa FL and Hughson CA
SUNY Fredonia Professor John Stinson could well have been responsible for the Fredonia review?
Stinson's main source is debunked in this article
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (who the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert
recently dismissed as "powerless" and unable to "seriously negotiate with Israel." in a CNN
interview) has given his rivals in the Hamas-led government 10 days to accept a plan for a
Palestinian state to exist alongside Israel, or else he will call for a national referendum on the
question ...
"The referendum called by Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is supposedly meant to gain public endorsement for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in all the territories occupied in 1967, as set out in a plan agreed by senior Hamas and Fatah leaders held in Israeli prisons. But Abbas' ploy has nothing to do with hastening the creation of such a state, and everything to do with Fatah's inability to come to terms with its defeat in last January's legislative elections." ... more
Israeli interior minister, Ronnie Baron, follows Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' lead by saying he has decided to annul residency IDs of the three Hamas Jerusalemite lawmakers and that of the PA minister of Jerusalem affairs and kick them out of the holy city if they didn’t relinquish their posts in the PLC and PA government within 30 days ...
After meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that the raging power struggle
between Palestinian factions must not deteriorate into civil war ...
Abbas's men told European observers that a member of Hamas was trying
to break the sanctions on the Palestinians' elected representatives, Hamas, to bring some much needed cash into Gaza from Egypt to pay workers who have not received a
paycheck for 2 months???
Perhaps it would be more productive for President Abbas to work with with the elected Palestinian governing body Hamas rather than hob nobbing with Tzipi Livni who clearly
has the interests of Israel uppermost in her mind ...
JEWS' DECLINING POPULATION versus THE ZIONIST DREAM
In the on going brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, one of the less publicized problems facing Israel is that the demographics of the Jewish
population have been going horribly wrong for the dream of Zionism for the last 6 years ...
So in practical terms, Israel has only three choices in the future in dealing with the growing Palestinian population:
1 - Offer all Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem full Israeli citizenship – which would effectively mean the end
of Israel as a ‘Jewish’ state. The democratically elected Hamas government has said it would be prepared to accept this principle.
2 - Withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, which would allow for the possible establishment of a Palestinian state. This would mean the
evacuation of the whole of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and hope the long suffering Palestinians would be prepared to accept this solution
and not reopen the 1948 UN Partition Plan; which however unfair to the Palestinians, provided for even more Palestinian territory.
3 - Try and impose a unilateral settlement by withdrawing behind a huge (and illegal) wall which stretches deep into Palestinian land
(which would be illegal under international law), leaving behind a damaged Palestinian economy and infrastructure, with the West Bank carved up
to the extent that a future Palestinian state would be unviable. This unilateral solution would also include the annexation of East Jerusalem and not
permitting the return of any Palestinian refugees or any meaningful sovereignty.
There will also be a concerted attempt to encourage or forcibly remove the Muslim populations from areas controlled by Israel.
There is little doubt which of these three plans Israel is working towards but the third option would not solve the security issue for Israel
as the Palestinians and the United Nations would simply not accept such an unfair solution. Instead it would only mark another unilateral Israeli
withdrawal from territory without guaranteeing any peace or security for Israel; Lebanon and Gaza being other examples. The weight and speed
of the growth of the Palestinian population will force the world to realize that Israel's claims to be a democracy look ever more threadbare and
comparisons with South Africa’s Apartheid regime look even more obvious.
A Jewish Israeli minority cannot dominate the greater number of Palestinians between the Mediterranean and the Jordan while still
retaining its claim to being ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ and with the population trend going inexorably against the Zionist dream,
... ISRAEL WILL SOON HAVE TO FACE REALITY!!! more
JEWS, THE DEMONS OF THE NAKBAH
Israel has long denied its responsibility for the events of 1948, the Nakbah, that forced the Palestinian population from Palestine at the point
of Israeli guns. However, today when recognition of the wrongs done to the Palestinians in 1948 is finally dawning, many Israeli politicians are
openly advocating a new "Transfer Option"
In May 2006 more than half of Israelis think the government should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate from Israel, according to an annual survey by the Israel Democracy Institute.
A poll published Tuesday on the state of democracy in Israel found that 62 percent of Israelis support government-backed Arab emigration ...
Put simply MOST JEWS WANT ARABS OUT NOW!!! more Looks like the remaining Palestinians may be walking out of THEIR LAND at the gunpoint of their Jewish occupiers like their ancestors did in 1948 below ...
When Israel took over almost 80 per cent of Palestine in 1948, it did so through settlement and ethnic cleansing of the original Palestinian
population. I found strong proof for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine, and I was taken aback by the speed at which the
judaisation of the formerly Palestinian villages and neighbourhoods was carried out. These villages, from which the Palestinian population had
been evicted in 1948, were renamed and resettled within a matter of months.
The Nakbah -- the expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine -- now seems to many in the centre of the political map as an inevitable and
justifiable consequence of the Zionist project in Palestine. If there is any lament, it is that the expulsion was not completed. The fact that even an
Israeli "new historian" such as Benny Morris now subscribes to the view that the expulsion was inevitable and should have been more
comprehensive helps to legitimise future Israeli plans for further ethnic cleansing.
... (Ilan Pappe) ... more
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that Palestinians and their friends don't just listen to their own media
but find out what the "chosen people" in Israel are thinking, for example:
The lovely and gentle chosen one Ruth Matar speaking on the Women in Green Radio Program on Arutz Sheva, October 23, 2002
told us that her gentle and loving G-d had already told his chosen people to
drive out all the inhabitants of Caanan (Palestine) and not to miss a single one
of these evil doers or they would only cause trouble ... well as we know from
the Bible they didn't just kick them out ...
Now G-d's chosen people have allowed many others to live in the land that G-d gave to
his chosen ones according to Ruth ...
So anyone who has any doubt about the intentions of the nice Israeli Women in Green
towards the Palestinians here's what Ruth said:
"Let's open our Tenach
(Bible) to BaMidbar (Numbers), chapter 33:50-53, and 55. These scriptures
make it very clear that we do have a powerful friend. The G-d of the Bible is
on Israel's side.
"HASHEM spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan, at Jericho.
Saying: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: when you cross the
Jordan to the land of Canaan you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the
land before you; and you shall destroy all their prostration stones; and all
their molten images shall you destroy and all their high places shall you
demolish. You shall possess the land and you shall settle it. For to you
have I given the land to possess it.
But, if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those
of them who you leave shall be pins in your eyes and thorns in your sides,
and they will harass you upon the land in which you dwell." ... more
I'm sure Ruth and the Women in Green are terribly upset about the collateral damage
(more than 700 dead Palestinian kids since 29 Sep 2000 and the rest) but the last thing Ruth and her chosen ones want
are pins in their eyes and thorns in their sides ...
Do you think G-d would say such things to his chosen ones? Or do you think the
chosen ones invented their "chosen" status because they wanted somewhere to settle down?
To put it bluntly lovely Nadia & Ruth & their Women in Green
want to kick all you Palestinians out of Palestine, and they'll stop at nothing till they've achieved their goal
lest G-d smite them down for disobeying his command ... Robert(a chosen one:)
As an occupying power, Israel has a duty to protect the Palestinians – not experiment in its use of heavy weaponry and torture against the Palestinians.
Viewed in this light, Israel’s assassination policy is not only illegal but reprehensible.
I once had a long conversation with a Western journalist who lamented that during an interview with a Palestinian activist, she had used the term “occupation” incessantly.
When I asked what the problem was, the journalist responded,
“We are tired of hearing about the occupation,”
oblivious to the fact that I, as a Palestinian, am tired of living it. (Diana Buttu) moreNow come on Diana, it's like Ruth says, G-d gave the land of Canaan to the Israelites because
he reckoned the Canaanites were indulging in a multitude of totally evil pastimes. He commanded his chosen people
to drive the evil doers from the land and settle it.
Now I know you might say that most of those who call themselves chosen ones are probably not from the original chosen race,
but can you prove that?
Have you approached the eminent chosen one Dr Michael Hammer PhD to DNA test all
those who call themselves "Jews" to verify that they are indeed from the original chosen race?
You may ask why many of the chosen ones lead a life style which
seems to parallel that which G-d saw as so wicked in the Canaanites?
Well being a chosen one has its compensations ...
Some say G-d's chosen people are greedy to want the whole of Palestine for themselves.
But all powerful G-d could have given his chosen ones Africa, Australia, India, America ...
But he just chose to give them little Palestine? ... Robert
We will take a stand until the land of Palestine is free ...
NEW ARTICLE BY: By Dr Hesham Tillawi, PhD April 2006
Hamas - : The Biggest Trap Ever For The Palestinians
"Is Hamas an experience in democracy or a pre-planned design that worked? They say that in an election anything can happen. In most elections we have winners and losers, but in the Palestinian election this was not the case; both parties lost and Israel won. Even the Hamas leaders, such as Hassan Yousef, said, before the election, it would be disastrous for Hamas to get more than 25 seats in the Palestinian Parliament. Well, Hamas got more than 70 seats and it appears to be not only disastrous but catastrophic, not just for Hamas, but for all Palestinians."
... more
AND THANKYOU TO HAMAS: ... (Israeli point of view!) "You have to peel away many layers of rhetoric and propaganda to see that Hamas' control of the Palestinian Authority serves the interests of other regional players.
With Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas) in power, Israel can continue its unilateral policy in the territories." Aluf Benn
(Propoganda from the Israelis to try and get rid of their worst nightmare ... A palestinian governing body who will stand up for the rights of the Palestinians ... HAMAS!!!)
Shimon Peres at Auschwitz: "I wish that Ahmedinejad would visit here"
Hogwash Shimon! Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, wanted to send a team to Poland to investigate what happened to the Jews there during WWII but
the Polish government denied the Iranian historical team access!!!
Israeli Police block Armenian pilgrims from attending Easter ceremony in Jerusalem
(Haaretz Correspondent and AP, By Amiram Barkat) Police prevented hundreds of Armenian worshipers from taking part in a sacred pre-Easter ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre yesterday. Armenian church officials said the police behaved rudely to church members and senior clergy and arrested four Armenians near the Old City police station, releasing them only after the Armenians stopped the festive procession to the church in protest. more
"My friend and I were leaving campus on 9 April, and walking toward the taxi
cabs that would take us to the village.
"Suddenly, I felt a strong object smacking my right eye. I felt my entire head exploding.
"I didn’t know what was happening to me. I collapsed and found myself in the Rafidia
hospital."
"There were no soldiers, no military vehicles, nothing, no helicopters hovering above. It was as if the bullet came from nowhere. If I had known there was shooting, I would have ducked it or moved to a safer place or returned to campus."
"I am, of course, angry, to say the least, but I won’t allow this to cripple my life. I will return to college in a few weeks. Life must go on and I will not sit down at home lamenting my bad luck.
"I will not look for mercy from anybody. I will keep going as if nothing had happened to me."
Ruba Awayes, a student of information technology, said she saw no Israeli military activities or
disturbances in the vicinity, but thinks the type of bullet (rubber bullet) points the finger at the occupation
army.
Humam Rishmawi, the ophthalmologist who treated Awayes’ eye, said:
"Everything was smashed by the impact of the bullet – the cornea, the retina, the internal blood vessels, the entire eyeball was smashed.
"We had no choice but to eviscerate her entire eye, which we did. We also placed a polystyrene ball in place of the eyeball." Awayes will have another operation in a few months to put in an artificial eye.
(Aljazeera) ... PLAYAJYAL FM
ISRAEL TO WAGE WAR FROM OUTER SPACE!!!
(extra judicial killings using satellite laser weapons?)
A 250-page report by an Israeli military-civilian committee, addressing Israeli strategic issues for the next decade, recommends greater
emphasis on operations from OUTER SPACE and INTELLIGENCE (Well the're not too bright are they?) ...
The committee recommends that Israel maintain its policy of "nuclear ambiguity."
(We've got nukes but we think you're all stupid enough to think we haven't if we don't tell you we have ... duh! )
The report also says that: Iran constitutes an existential threat to Israel.
(Meaning if Iran didn't exist there would be no threat so lets get the Yanks to nuke them?)
The committee debated strategic-theoretical issues such as defining "victory" and "deterrence."
("deterrence" extra judicial killing, "victory" no one left to kill)
In a discussion of all the types of wars, the committee proposed adding to "deterring," "warning" and "decisive,"
(Captain R pointed his gun at Iman, "deterring", he fired 2 rounds into her, "warning", he emptied his magazine into her
dead body, "decisive")
There is a major chapter on the various aspects of "defense."
(Offense being well known to the Israeli military)
Only an elite few will be allowed to read the entire contents of this TOP SECRET report. After it has been redacted, it will be HIGHLY
CLASSIFIED. It has not been decided if portions of the report will be published to familiarize the public with the Israeli defense outlook. The
report recommends that defense premises be reexamined at five year intervals .....
(The five year plan was suggested by Russian immigrants?) (For defense read "take out any country that could possibly be a threat in the future or has something we want"?)
The report has been submitted for comment to Mossad chief Meir Dagan, Atomic Energy Committee director Gideon Frank, Shin Bet
chief Yuval Diskin and Chief of Staff Dan Halutz.
(Atomic Energy??? Committee director Gideon Frank, but Israel doesn't have atomic energy, does it?)
(Meir Dagan commented he would take a look at the report as soon as he has completed his latest "defense" project?) (Distilled from report in Haaretz)
While Israeli kids are starving, the government of Israel has just paid a fortune to build a quarter ton satellite (Only 0.7m resolution imaging, old technology) to spy on Iran and have the Russians
launch it for them (like they don't have access to better US spy satellites?) Hey but perhaps "wanted" Billionair Russian/Israeli Jew Boris Berezovski (Friend of the Bush family) & his "wanted" Israeli resident billionair partner financed it & got their Russian connections to give them a good deal?
WHY DONALD RUMSFELD AND AN ADMINISTRATION AND PARTY THAT CONDONED HIS ACTIONS MUST GO!!! play VIDEO ( linkBressler report )
The decision to invade Iraq "was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special
province of those who have never had to execute these missions — or bury the results."
(Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who was the military's top operations officer before March 2003 Iraq invasion)
JOHN BOLTON GEORGE W BUSH CONDOLEEZZA RICE
U.S. blocks UN statement slamming Israeli Occupation Force shelling of Gaza
U.S. envoy John Bolton insists on balanced text; Palestinians accuse America of 'shielding'
Israel.
The UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement Thursday on a recent surge in
violence between Israel and the Palestinians, after the United States said the proposed draft
was unfairly critical of Israel.
The draft proposed by Qatar on behalf of the Palestinians would have expressed
concern about the "indiscriminate shelling against the Gaza Strip, resulting in extensive
human casualties" and called on Israel to halt "military operations and excessive use of force
that endangers the Palestinian civilian populations." The United States had argued for its long-standing belief that any such statement
mention both sides' obligations under the road map and cite Palestinian attacks against
Israel as well.
Because the draft failed, the Security Council will hold an open meeting on Monday
when any of the 191 member states of the United Nations can speak. The council will also
hold a monthly meeting on the Middle East a week after that.
Palestinian UN observer Riyad Mansour strongly suggested that the United States was
the lone holdout against the statement, though he did not mention the U.S. by name.
He referred to "one member who is shielding and protecting the Israeli actions and
aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and in other parts of the occupied
territory."
Diplomats said Britain and Denmark also had problems with the draft, and U.S.
Ambassador John Bolton would not say if the United States was the only one opposed.
"If I were the only holdout I'd be proud of that fact," Bolton said after the council could not
agree on the text.
"The balance of the text as it ended up was still not adequate in our view and we weren't
prepared to support it," Bolton said. "It was disproportionately critical of Israel, and unfairly
so and needlessly so."
The Palestinians had called on the UN Security Council Monday to take urgent action to
stop what they called an escalating military campaign by Israeli forces.
Mansour had said in a letter to the council that at least 18 Palestinians have been killed
since last Friday and scores more have been wounded in a barrage of military attacks.
(Haaretz Service and Agencies) Click on photos for stories ...
Left: Among the dead was Bilal Abu al-Aynayn, 5, whose body is seen here being prepared for burial. He was killed in a strike on a car on Friday.(Aljazeera)
Right: Tom Hurndall, 22, died after being shot in broad daylight by an Israeli soldier who later said his commanders had issued orders allowing him to shoot even unarmed civilians.
"We don't fight because you belong to a certain faith or culture. Jews have lived in Muslim
world for 13 long centuries in peace and harmony... Our conflict with you is not religious but
political. We have no problem with Jews who have not attacked us... Our problem is with
those who came to our land, imposed themselves on us by force, destroyed our society and
banished our people." Hamas leader Khalid Mishal (Hindu, Feb.1, 2006)
CREATING A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS?
(The one state solution to Jewish apartheid in Palestine)
"We, the People of Palestine, declare for all our country and the world to know: that Palestine
belongs to all who live in it, and who have been displaced from it by the current occupying
power, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all
the people; that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by
a form of government founded on injustice and inequality; that our country will never be
prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood, enjoying equal rights and
opportunities; that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure to
all their birthright without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief; And therefore, we, the
people of Palestine, occupiers and displaced disenfranchised people, together equals,
countrymen and brothers adopt this Freedom Charter; And we pledge ourselves to strive
together, sparing neither strength nor courage, until the democratic changes here set out
have been won ... "more
The Jews are scared out of their wits that they are going to be outpopulated by Palestinians within Israel.
"Olmert has a strategy: evacuation of most of the West Bank settlements to save Israel from a demographic disaster"
Israel is trying to get Jews worldwide to migrate to Israel to stop the Jewish population sinking below 50% ...
If Palestine was one state including what is now called Israel, and Palestinians who the Jews forced out of Palestine to other countries returned
then Palestinians would be in the majority in Palestine and with free and fair democratic elections
would control the government in the new Palestine (including the old territory of Israel) ...
If the Jews were not prepared to accept this then the international community should step in to
resolve the situation as they did in white apartheid South Africa ...
Remember Sharon was trying to get French Jews to migrate to Israel after jewish schools were vandalized in France
and Rabbiis attacked (One was attacked by a radical Jew, perhaps all the incidents were intended to scare Jews out of France to Israel?)
Of course the international community should take heed of the words of Israeli Professor Martin Van Creveld:
"Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that this will happen before Israel goes under."
(Young Palestinian guys rush wounded babies to hospital)
8 year old Hadil Ghabin was killed Monday by Israel Occupation Forces artillery fire that hit her
family home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia.
Ten other people were wounded in the shelling,
including Hadil's pregnant mother, Safia, and her 19-year-old sister.
The wounded were taken to hospital in the town, the mother in serious condition.
Plug and Play Judaism:
"There it is again, the optimism, which imbues the entire conference. Bronfman, whose
birthright israel project's success nobody disputes, speaks of a "Jewish renaissance" on the
way, and he does so without a smidgen of irony, without doubts or skepticism or defeatist
worries. "That renaissance is not a possibility, but a probability," he says."
(Annual convention of the Jewish Funders Network, Denver Colorado, a convention for Jews living in a fantasy land that bears no relation to reality?)
(3rd April 2006) 13 year old Mohammad Zaid was wounded (and later died of his wounds in hospital) by Israeli Occupation Force Soldiers who opened fire on Mohammad when they said "he fled the scene after vandalizing the separation fence at Qalandiyah"
How could a 13 year old boy seriously vandalize a 21 foot high reinforced concrete wall with a spray can?
Photos are of massive wall at Qalandiyah and the funeral of Mohammad Zaid.
Aya's baby brother cries for his sister
Palestinians carry Aya Al Astal into an ambulance near Khan Younis, south of the
Gaza Strip January 26, 2006. Israeli soldiers shot dead the nine-year-old
Palestinian girl on Thursday in the Gaza Strip.
"Aya was shot in the neck and stomach. Her stomach was hanging out," said the child's mother, Aisha. "We have no idea why she went there but she was a child. She was so small. She was nine years old. She didn't wear a hijab. It was clear she was just a young girl. This is hatred."
Israel said it regretted civilian deaths but added that they were accidental ...
Well if they call Aya's death "accidental" we must assume that perhaps ALL of the deaths of Palestinian children
at Israeli hands were DELIBERATE ...
And we let Israeli Jews have nuclear weapons!!!
The Israeli Jews can deliver a nuclear bomb to any country in the world using their submarines which can now launch cruise missiles with nuclear warheads!!!
If little Aya had not been so brutaly gunned down by Israeli Jews perhaps she would have liked to be dancing
with the young woman in front of John Halaka's work "Stripped of Their Identity and Driven From Their Land", from the series "Forgotten Survivors" ...
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WASHINGTON and Jerusalem have agreed that Israel should continue to bombard Lebanon for another week to degrade the capabilities of the Hizbullah militia before seeking to establish a buffer zone and the deployment of an international force in the south of the country.
NEW - WATCH EXPLOSIVE CHARGES BEING DETONATED INSIDE A BUILDING BEING DEMOLISHED!!! 
