In Gaza, the real enemy is Iran; Israeli attacks must not stop until Iran’s proxy, Hamas, is defeated.

READ THE LIES!

By Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren Reporting from Jerusalem — The images from the fighting in Gaza are harrowing but ultimately deceptive. They portray a mighty invading army, one equipped with F-16 jets that have bombed a civilian population defended by a few thousand fighters armed with primitive rockets. But widen the lens and the true nature of this conflict emerges. Hamas, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, is a proxy for the real enemy Israel is confronting: Iran. And Israel’s current operation against Hamas represents a unique chance to deal a strategic blow to Iranian expansionism.

In an article combining lies, schreck propaganda and disgusting war-mongering, one can see the typical Zionist line: blame the victim, obfuscate, lie and lie again, and reverse any situation you are discussing on its head. It works, unfortunately, if you do it for long enough.

Continue reading Jan 4, 2009

GROUND ASSAULT STARTED IN GAZA Jan 3 at 17:30

Israeli ground forces enter Gaza in escalation: Yahoo News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli tanks and troops launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip Saturday night with officials saying they expected a lengthy fight with Hamas militants in the densely populated territory after eight days of punishing airstrikes failed to halt rocket attacks on Israel. Hamas vowed that Gaza would be a “graveyard” for Israelis forces.

Link to the above to see fotoage of the night invasion.

Security Council to Hold Urgent Meeting in Coming Hours: Palestine News Agency

NEW YORK, January 4, 2009 (WAFA)- the International Security Council announced, late Saturday, that an urgent special session is to be held in the coming few hours to discuss the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had called, earlier tonight, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and urged him to hold an urgent Security Council meeting to issue a resolution calling on an immediate ceasefire in the Strip. In the past eight days, 465 Palestinians were killed and more than 2350 wounded in Israeli raids on the strip.

Continue reading Jan 3, 2009

Israel’s righteous fury and its victims in Gaza: Electronic Intifada

Ilan Pappe

My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice — even louder than the one heard during the criminal attack against Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israel is engulfed once more with righteous fury that translates into destructive policies in the Gaza Strip. This appalling self-justification for the inhumanity and impunity is not just annoying, it is a subject worth dwelling on, if one wants to understand the international immunity for the massacre that rages on in Gaza. It is based first and foremost on sheer lies transmitted with a newspeak reminiscent of darker days in 1930s Europe. Every half an hour a news bulletin on the radio and television describes the victims of Gaza as terrorists and Israel’s massive killings of them as an act of self-defense. Israel presents itself to its own people as the righteous victim that defends itself against a great evil. The academic world is recruited to explain how demonic and monstrous is the Palestinian struggle, if it is led by Hamas. These are the same scholars who demonized the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an earlier era and delegitimized his Fatah movement during the second Palestinian intifada.

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.

Continue reading Jan 1, 2009

Israel claims success in the PR war

From The Jewish Chronicle, by Anshel Pfeffer A most revealing article on Israel’s PR success, so far, in its war of aggression on Gaza. Note how preparations had started months earlier, refuting all current Israeli claims that their war was in “retaliation” to whatever the Palestinians have done a couple of days earlier.

Gaza aid boat ‘rammed by Israel’ – Further details on the Dignity emergency mission

A boat delivering 3.5 tonnes of Cypriot medical aid to the Gaza Strip has been rammed by Israeli naval vessels in international waters, activists say. See the clip included in the news item!

Continue reading Dec 31, 2008

Alternative Information Centre website

Israeli Aggression toward Gaza as Compensation for Strategic Failures

This is one of the best websites for political analysis in the Middle East

Electronic Intifada by Ali Abu Nimah

Electronic Intifada: News you will not find on CNN!

The best news website on Palestine, always gets the news first. Excellent articles and reports.

Continue reading Dec 30, 2008 (or before)