November 2012
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 21 November 2012: Zionist drones and warplanes pollute Gaza’s skies immediately after 9 pm “cease-fire”
IMEMC – The Israeli army intensified its bombing to the Gaza Strip, apparently rushing to bombard as much targets at it can before the truce agreement is implemented. The Wednesday Israeli shelling led to the death of 22 Palestinians while dozens have been injured., … Continue reading
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PCHR_e Israeli Offensive on Gaza Stopped Following 8 Days of Attacks
By the Last Day of the Offensive: – Palestinian Deaths Rise to 156, Including 103 Civilians, and 1,000 Others, Including 971 Civilians, Wounded – 33 Children Killed and 274 Others Wounded – 13 Women Killed and 162 Others Wounded – 3 Journalists Killed Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (14 -21 Nov. 2012)
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (14 – 21 November 2012). The first attack was conducted on Wednesday, 14 November 2012, when IOF extra-judicially executed the leader of Ezz Eddin al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas movement), Ahmed al-Ja’bari, and his bodyguard. Continue reading
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FAIR: Palestinians and the Proper Way to Grieve Dead Children
That question might not occur to you, but readers of the New York Times (11/20/12) were treated to correspondent Jodi Rudoren’s unusual critique of a funeral for members of the Dula family, whose home in Gaza City was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday. Continue reading
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ICH 21 November 2012: Jimmy Carter – Israelis don’t want a Palestinian state
21 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Breaking News Gaza Ceasefire Agreed in Cairo Ceasefire takes effect By Aljazeera Israel and Hamas agree to truce after eight days of attacks in which 162 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed. http://is.gd/XP9tr1 Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 22, 2012 — Is Israeli Apartheid OK? Susan Rice & Humanitarian Intervention
21 November 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Disconnecting the Dots on Israel-Palestine: Is Apartheid Only A Crime When Committed Against Blacks? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most of the world supported the struggle of African Americans against Jim Crow during the Freedom Movement. Most of the progressive black Continue reading
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FAIR: Precise Weapons Kill Civilians Too
As a general rule, it’d be better if media accounts of war did not stress the surgical precision of the weapons being used. It’s a fixture of U.S. reporting on U.S. wars, but the same rhetoric is used when U.S. allies are dropping bombs. Continue reading
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Gaza Cease-Fire to Begin Shortly- Egypt’s Foreign Minister
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 — 12:48 PM EST — NYT Gaza Cease-Fire to Begin Shortly, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Says The cease-fire, announced with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Read More: http://www.nytimes.com?emc=na Continue reading
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A WEEK IS A LONG TIME IN GAZA. OR, HOW THE BBC COVERED 38 CONSECUTIVE BREAKING NEWS STORIES
The BBC’s reporting on the current conflict in Gaza has been subject to claim and counter-claim of bias from pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli camps. Surely they can’t both be right. I decided to take a closer look at the BBC Breaking News twitter feed to try and determine whether there was any substance to the claims Continue reading
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Gaza live report: Day 8
21 November 2012 — Ma’an News Agency Continue reading
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21 Palestinians Killed In Gaza Tuesday, 137 in last 7 days By Saed Bannoura
Despite talks about truce and mediation, Israeli soldiers continued to bombard Gaza, Tuesday, and killed 21 Palestinians in different parts of the coastal region, while dozens of civilians have been injured. At Least 137 Palestinians, mainly children and civilians, have been killed since last Wednesday, while more than 950 have been injured. Continue reading
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ICH 20 November 2012: Yet Another False Flag?
20 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel Demands Our Support Because It Fights Its ‘War Against Terrorists’ in Our Name By Robert Fisk We westerners set the precedent when it comes to “collateral damage”, now the Israelis are reeling out the same tired excuses. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33095.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 20 November 2012:
20 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 21 Palestinians Killed In Gaza Tuesday, 137 Since WednesdayIMEMC – Despite talks about truce and mediation, Israeli soldiers continued to bombard Gaza, Tuesday, and killed 21 Palestinians in different parts of the coastal region, while dozens of civilians have been injured. At Least 137 Palestinians, mainly Continue reading
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PCHR: 3 Journalists Killed in 2 Separate Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah
21 November 2012 — PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights PRESS RELEASETime: 10:30 GMTRef: 135/2012 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the killing of 3 journalists in two separate airstrikes on Tuesday, 20 November 2012, in Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah. PCHR believes that such crimes are aimed Continue reading
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Video: Gaza War is Cover for Israeli Occupation by grtv
A UN special Rapporteur tells Press TV that by waging the current deadly war on Gaza the Zionist regime of Israel is trying to divert attention from its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Continue reading
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HLLN: The lies of RNDDH | Miami Herald finally covers the Brandt kidnapping: Jacqueline Charles Charles fails to confess that her paper was the main racist culprit
Former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune spent years wrongfully jailed. Thousands of young Haiti men were warehoused in indefinite detentions, without trial, in Haiti since 2004 because of the lies of RNDDH, the myth of Haiti’s violent street gangs threatening the nation, also substantiated by Mark Scheider’s International Crisis Group studies, along with the Haiti Democracy… Continue reading
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Hassan Illeik, “How Hamas Gets Its Weapons”
Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard units specialized in smuggling weapons from Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, and other countries into the Gaza Strip are on high alert. These weapons usually begin their journey in Iranian or Syrian ports. From there, they head to Sudan, where they are transported to the Sinai in Egypt and end… Continue reading
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The Assads: Washington’s one-time favorite family in Damascus By Wayne MADSEN
Archived declassified files from the Central Intelligence Agency point to successive U.S. administrations supporting Syria’s long-serving President Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar al-Assad, as a bulwark against Arab radicals. Israel also recognized Hafez al-Assad as the “most pragmatic” of all the Arab leaders of his day… Continue reading
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Veterans For Peace Appeals to Israeli Soldiers to Lay Down Their Arms By David Swanson
Israel’s military has in recent days attacked the Gaza strip with drones and F-16s, and has apparently been preparing for a possible ground war. Israel is using weaponry provided by the United States at the expense to U.S. taxpayers of $3 billion per year. Veterans For Peace member Doug Rawlings adresses the following statement to… Continue reading
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A Living Hell: Death in Gaza, Déjà Vu By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
Forty-six-year-old Ahmad Jabari and his companion, Mohammad al-Homs, were together in their car when Israel incinerated them with the astonishing accuracy of its high-tech, precision-strike weapons. Were they conscious in those last seconds? Did an instant of suspended animation allow them to bid their world good bye? On the dark side of the Manichaean universe… Continue reading
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