18 November 2012 — Information Clearing House
Targeting Civilians: Israel’s Specialty
By Steve Lendman
Another potential holocaust looms. Civilians always suffer most. Israel and America willfully target them. It part of the imperial strategy of both countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33063.htm
Medics: 5 killed in Gaza airstrikes – Death toll to 48.
“May your children die, you dogs”:
As Gaza burns, Israelis bay for blood in streets of Tel Aviv
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These were some of the calls from a group of Israelis demonstrating in favor of Israel’s attack on Gaza in the streets of Tel Aviv last night.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33067.htm
Gaza Battle Everyone’s Battle: Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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Nasrallah called on Arabs, Muslims, and all the free people in the world to take a real stance with Gaza and the resistance
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33069.htm
Dissecting IDF Propaganda:
The Numbers behind the rocket attacks
By Phan Nguyen
How many people have been killed by rocket attacks fromn Gaza. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33062.htm
AIPAC Praises Obama, Senate and House For Backing Israel’s Attack On Gaza
By JTA
Both Houses of the U.S. Congress unanimously passed resolutions expressing support for Israel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33060.htm
Stop Pretending the US is an Uninvolved, Helpless Party in the Israeli Assault on Gaza
By Glenn Greenwald
The Obama administration’s unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33061.htm
France Leads Neocolonial Carve-up of Syria
By Finian Cunningham
What gives these foreign powers the right to subvert a sovereign government is nothing but their own arrogant presumption.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33065.htm
Flirtation is the Least of their Crimes
By Debra Sweet
The actions of both of these men represent the real face of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, and they need to be thoroughly investigated, with the aim of keeping criminals like this away from people they could kill.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33068.htm
Obama Administration Must Account to Congress for Targeted Assassinations
By Dennis Kucinich
President Obama maintains a list of alleged militants to be assassinated. Some are US citizens. None will get to plead his case.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33058.htm
Damn Right, George Bush Should Face Criminal Proceedings for Waterboarding
By Katherine Gallagher
How can the man responsible for ordering these heinous crimes, openly enter a country that has pledged to prosecute all torturers regardless of their position and not face legal action? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33059.htm
Israel kills 40 in Gaza
At least 40 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed since Israel assassinated Hamas‘ military head on Wednesday
Israel attack kills 10, destroys Hamas headquarters in Gaza: Israeli strikes on Gaza killed 10 Palestinians and destroyed the Hamas government headquarters on Saturday as Israel called up thousands more reservists for a possible ground war. http://is.gd/s1Ygj1
List of victims of Israel’s assault on Gaza:
Names of Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive as of Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=538489
Hamas militants kill ‘collaborator’ as Israel slams Gaza: Hamas militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades on Friday executed a man on charges of “collaborating” with Israel as warplanes pounded Gaza, Palestinian sources said. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/58348.aspx
Israeli military counts 800-plus Gaza airstrikes: Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with more than 180 airstrikes early today, the military said, widening a blistering assault. http://is.gd/0ZeQFj
“The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years.” –
Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Israel’s operation in Gaza: http://is.gd/K3AniZ
Tel Aviv rocket: A statement of defiance from Hamas: Video – The rocket that so panicked bathers on a Tel Aviv beachfront this afternoon we watched a few short moments earlier as it screamed past our office window. A spectacular sight, an unforgettable roar, and an unmistakable statement of defiance from Hamas. http://is.gd/gkiXUU
Arab League are a sick joke:
Arab leaders to back Gaza against aggression : Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby has pledged to support Palestinians against “Israel’s aggression” and to end the blockade of Gaza during talks between Arab foreign ministers in Cairo. http://is.gd/IjXFkW
Turkey talks big, does nothing:
Israel will pay price for Gazans’ tears, Erdogan says in Cairo: Israel will sooner or later pay the price for the children killed in the Gaza Strip, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, vowing support for Palestinians. http://is.gd/4PFFQ8
Thousands protest in Egypt against Israeli attacks on Gaza: Western governments are watching Egypt’s response to the Gaza conflagration for signs of a more assertive stance towards Israel since an Islamist came to power in the Arab world’s most populous nation. http://is.gd/OcN1oQ
Americans protest Israeli attacks on Gaza: US activists have gathered outside the White House for the second consecutive day to protest against Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, Press TV reports. http://is.gd/wGsj5E
Protesters ask Canada to condemn Israel’s policies: Members of Montreal’s Jewish community gathered in Côte Saint-Luc on Thursday to pray for the dead in Israel. http://is.gd/WfCAmG
Protest outside Israeli embassy in London: “We are insisting that the British government uphold international law and human rights and tells Israel to end its war now,” she said. http://is.gd/cKOO8r
Global anti-Israel protests staged as fears of Gaza ground invasion escalate : Pictures: . Thousands of people across the Middle East, the West, and Europe have come out to show their disdain. Yet, some countries remain convinced of Israel’s right to attack. https://rt.com/news/israel-gaza-attack-protests-932/
Car Bomb in Iraq Kills 7, Including 3 Iranians: An Iraqi health official says seven people, including three Iranian pilgrims, were killed when an explosives-laden car detonated as they were exiting a rest stop north of Baghdad. http://is.gd/HzPJSJ
Hezbollah man wanted by US freed from Iraq custody: Iraq freed a jailed Hezbollah commander wanted by the United States on Friday, his lawyer said, returning him home to Lebanon in a move that underscores Washington’s waning influence in Baghdad since last December’s troop pullout. http://is.gd/CV5P4u
Syria: Rebels Seize Airport Near Iraqi Border: Rebels captured an airport used by Syria‘s military near the Iraqi border on Saturday, activists said, a move which they said would allow them to maintain their hold on the recently seized border town of Albu Kamal. http://is.gd/GcaqZo
US pushes Syrian Kurds to join Arabs'” rebellion”: Concentrating control in their own areas of northwest Syria, Kurdish leaders have been slow to join the broader rebellion against Assad, preferring to seek greater regional autonomy with Kurds in neighboring Iraq and Turkey. http://is.gd/Dr8xwW
Syrian opposition member named ambassador to France: France on Saturday welcomed a member of the Syrian opposition as the country’s ambassador, a bold bid to confer legitimacy on the week-old opposition coalition and encourage other Western nations to follow suit. http://is.gd/PHvghM
German soldiers ‘ready to defend Turkish border’: Report suggested the government was checking the legality of such a posting, ahead of a Turkish request expected on Monday. http://is.gd/ppLTnj
Terrorists behind Benghazi attack but CIA files were altered, says Petraeus: Former CIA director David Petraeus told US lawmakers during private hearings he believed all along that the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Libya was a terrorist strike, even though the Obama administration initially described it as protests against an anti-Muslim video. http://is.gd/l5J5yW
US denies visas to Iranian UN delegates:
Tension grows as Tehran accuses US officials of ‘wanting to prevent us interacting and co-operating with the United Nations’ http://is.gd/MGKzkK
Boots on the ground: Obama’s cybersecurity directive could allow military deployment within the US : The White House is being asked by attorneys to explain a top-secret presidential policy directive signed last month that may allow for the domestic deployment of the US military for the sake of so-called cybersecurity. http://is.gd/aPF5WY
Sports in the United States now a major part of US Military propaganda: Why is there so much recruitment propaganda on sporting websites that children and young adults frequent? Why are soldiers, sailors and airmen being wheeled out at every single sporting event until sometimes you forget there is a game about to be played. http://is.gd/GObQrj
Red Cross Spends $181,000 On Soho Grand Hotel Rooms For Sandy Relief Workers (PHOTOS): The American Red Cross has come under fire for its slow response to certain areas hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, and now critics have a new complaint against the relief organization: It’s paying $181,000 for volunteers to stay at a swanky downtown Manhattan hotel. http://is.gd/evNGnw
Thousands of Spanish police officers march against austerity : Around 5,000 Spanish police officers marched through the streets of Madrid on Saturday to protest government austerity measures, including frozen pensions and the elimination of their Christmas bonuses. https://rt.com/news/spain-protests-police-austerity-953/
Cost Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq “1,455,590“
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,883
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,229
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,394,023,575,030
The New Dark Age 