Despite It’s Military Might, Israel is a Weak and Dying State: The Self-Defense of Suicide
By OREN BEN-DOR, COUNTERPUNCH
“THE RADIO REPORTED THAT MY FRIEND WAS UNDER THE RUBBLE”
By Dr. Haider Eid, Live from Palestine, 31 December 2008
I was lying in my bedroom when the first strike happened, around 1:30 in the morning. A strike isn’t just one
explosion, it’s a series of explosions. Boom, boom, boom, boom. The whole building shook. I woke up and went to the
bathroom first, and within 30 seconds the second strike hit. F-16s were bombing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
building, about 500 meters away. I could hear glass shattering everywhere. Dr. Haider Eid reports from the besieged Gaza Strip.
Harm to civilians during the fighting in Gaza and Southern Israel
Israeli human rights organizations have launched a bi-lingual blog providing
information on human rights violations and harm to civilians during the
fighting in Gaza and Southern Israel
Is the UN complicit in Israel’s massacre in Gaza?
Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 1 January 2009
UN fails to make progress on Gaza:BBC
The UN Security Council has discussed a draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire to halt the Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Operation Cast Lead: Five sisters killed whilst they sleep
56% of Gazan are Children: Israel wages war on 800,000 children
press-release-from-richard-burden-mp
A statement just released by 57 MP and some House of Lords members
Hamas leader killed in air strike: BBC
A senior Hamas leader has been killed by an Israeli air strike on his home in the Gaza Strip, Hamas officials say.
Truth From Israel: The Draft resistors speak
Watch this amazing film made by the Shministim! Contrary to Israeli war party propaganda in the US, not all Jews and not all Israelis support Israel’s Nazi-like conduct in the Occupied Territories. This simple fact is probably the single most censored piece of news in the United States.
Here are some young people heading to prison because they won’t join the genocide.
You can support these brave kids here:
Write: http://december18th.org
IDF tries to sink the Dignity en route to Gaza
On the third day of the current round of Israeli war crimes in Gaza, two or more Israeli IDF patrol boats have tried to sink the boat Dignity, the Free Gaza vessel, veteran of delivering medicines to the blockaded Gaza. You can watch the eyewitness reports, including those of the CNN reporter on board, clearly putting the lie to Israeli claims that this was ‘an accident’. Instead, this is another example of Israel’s illegal behaviour at home and abroad, in this case operating as pirates, in international waters, 90 miles off the coast. I have put together six clips about the Dignity!
U.S. balks at Arab push for UN resolution to impose Gaza truce: Ha’aretz
The UN Security Council, meeting for emergency consultations Wednesday night, rejected an Arab request for a legally binding resolution that would condemn Israel and halt its attacks.
AMIRA HASS / Thousands of Gazans near Rafah displaced by IAF bombing of tunnels
Rafah residents came to the realization on Tuesday that the air force has adopted a new method for destroying weapons smuggling tunnels in the town. On Monday, the military fired 10 missiles which are believed to have destroyed 10 tunnels. Palestinians say IAF drones fired seven missiles on Tuesday at the same number of tunnels.
IAF strike in Gaza kills Hamas political leader Nizar Rayyan
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
An Israel Air Force strike on a home in the Gaza Strip on Thursday killed a senior Hamas political leader, Hamas security sources said.
Poll: Most Israelis support continuing Gaza military op
By Yossi Verter, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
A decisive majority of respondents support continuing the army’s air campaign against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip without endangering the lives of Israel Defense Forces soldiers in a ground offensive, according to a Haaretz-Dialog public opinion poll.
Israelis who blame Israel are not helping the Palestinians: Ha’aretz
This pathetic and denuded defence of the murder and destruction by Ari Shavit, is as criminal as the war crimes he praises. May his callous words come to haunt him yet! It has to be read to be believed:
“Operation Cast Lead is an intelligent, impressive operation. The element of surprise was total, the intelligence was precise and the timing was brilliant.”
Robert Fisk: The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act: The Independent
There was a day when we worried about the “Arab masses” – the millions of “ordinary” Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut – and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people? And now – after three decades of Hosni Mubarak – can Mubarak (or “La Vache Qui Rit”, as he is still called in Cairo) restrain the anger of his people? The answer, of course, is that Egyptians and Kuwaitis and Jordanians will be allowed to shout in the streets of their capitals – but then they will be shut down, with the help of the tens of thousands of secret policemen and government militiamen who serve the princes and kings and elderly rulers of the Arab world.
Donald Macintyre: Lessons of Lebanon return to haunt Israel: The Independent
Although their proposals differ in detail, two of Israel’s best-known writers, Amos Oz and David Grossman, have joined the calls for a ceasefire after several days of Israel’s offensive.
Israel continue Gaza assault: The Independent
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said today that Israel was fighting Hamas with an “iron fist”, his words backed by more Gaza air strikes but challenged by rocket fire that continued to hit Israeli cities.
Gaza violence goes into sixth day: BBC
Violence has continued in the Gaza Strip for a sixth day, after calls for a UN-backed ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants foundered.
ochaopt protection of civilians weekly
OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS – UN
Turkish mass rallies demand Israeli boycott
The Turkish public has reacted with anger to the Israeli air strikes on Gaza by appearing in huge numbers at rallies aimed at condemning Israel for the onslaught, which has taken the lives of almost 400 Palestinians.
Israel’s War Crimes,
By Richard Falk. Published in The Nation The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.
קונספירציה ושמה עזה
יגאל לביב טוען שאין מנוס ממחשבה שהמתקפה בעזה התחילה מלא יותר מאשר תכנית הישרדותית של קדימה והעבודה לאור ניצחונו הצפוי של הליכוד בבחירות על פי העולה מהסקרים. הוא גם מביא סימוכין מהתנהלותה התמוהה של הממשלה סביב מה שקדם למבצע הזה, החל בהפרת הרגיעה מצד ישראל כדי שיהיה טריגר לפעולה ועד לשימוש הלא הגיוני בצנזורה
Cast Lead in the Foundry
a commentary from the editors of Middle East Report, is now available in Middle East Report Online: