Palestine
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PCHR_e 23 July 2014: On the 16th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Dozens of Palestinian Civilians Killed or Wounded by Israeli Attacks; More Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in Border Areas
23 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Releases Ref: 97/2014 Date: 23 July 2014 Time: 07:00 GMT On the 16th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Dozens of Palestinian Civilians Killed or Wounded by Israeli Attacks; More Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in Border Areas Continue reading
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How Britain profits from the attack on Gaza By Ian Dunt
The video emerged on Monday. It appears to show a man searching for his family amid the rubble of Gaza, apparently during a ceasefire. He is shot by a sniper. For a while he lies there, moving awkwardly. Then he is shot again. The component parts of the sniper rifle may have been made in… Continue reading
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PCHR_e 23 July 2014: Statistics: Victims of the Israeli Offensive on Gaza since 08 July 2014
Statistics: Victims of the Israeli Offensive on Gaza since 08 July 2014 Continue reading
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Calls for genocide enter Israeli mainstream
As we watch the horrifying slaughter unfold in Gaza, bear in mind the Israeli psychosis that fuels and justifies it. Here are comments from three rightwing Israelis – two leading politicians and a professor – who very much reflect a strain of mainstream thinking in Israel, one that the international media largely avoids noting. Continue reading
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Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city By Amena Saleem
The BBC’s failure to make a distinction between East and West Jerusalem, or to note that Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem — East or West — has not been recognized, plays straight into the hands of Israel’s propagandists whose aim has long been to establish Jerusalem as the “undivided capital of Israel” in the minds of… Continue reading
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Video: "We Are Going Through Hell" – Report from Gaza
Yousef Al-Helou is a Palestinian journalist and correspondent for The Real News Network based in Gaza-Palestine. His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets including BBC, GRN, CBC Radio Canada, TV New Zealand, UN Observer, Reuters Institute, Middle East Monitor, Press TV, Al-Etejah TV, Maan News Network, Electronic Intifada, Palestine Chronicle, PNN… Continue reading
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Video: “We Are Going Through Hell” – Report from Gaza
Yousef Al-Helou is a Palestinian journalist and correspondent for The Real News Network based in Gaza-Palestine. His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets including BBC, GRN, CBC Radio Canada, TV New Zealand, UN Observer, Reuters Institute, Middle East Monitor, Press TV, Al-Etejah TV, Maan News Network, Electronic Intifada, Palestine Chronicle, PNN… Continue reading
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PCHR_e 22 July 2014: On the 15th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Dozens of Palestinian Civilians Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Attack Apartment Buildings, Mosques, Hospitals and Schools; White Phosphorous Bombs and Flechette Shells Fired by Israeli Forces in Border Areas
22 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Releases Ref: 93/2014 Date: 22 July 2014 Time: 07:00 GMT On the 15th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Dozens of Palestinian Civilians Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Attack Apartment Buildings, Mosques, Hospitals and Schools; White Phosphorous Bombs and Flechette Shells Fired by Israeli Forces… Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 20-21 July 2014
21 July 2014 20:31:24 — williambowles.info Israeli soldier posts picture of Palestine child in the cross hairs (InI) Israel-Gaza conflict: Gazans have nowhere left to go – but deny Hamas is using them as human shields (The Greanville Post) On ‘Human Shielding’ in Gaza (The Greanville Post) Continue reading
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Israeli soldier posts picture of Palestine child in the cross hairs
21 July 2014 — New Power An image is worth a thousand words. An Israeli soldier caused a public outcry when he posted an image of a Palestinian child in the cross hairs of his sniper rifle to Instagram. Such is the brutality of racism, genocide, imperialism. Not only are the imperialists brutal, but they… Continue reading
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Editorial Position of the New York Times: “Thumbs Up for Gaza Slaughter” By Abba Solomon and Norman Solomon
Over the weekend, the New York Times sent out a clear signal: the mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable when the Israeli military is doing the killing. Continue reading
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NYT Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate? By Peter Hart
17 July 2014 — FAIR Blog Yesterday (7/16/14) the New York Times posted its first account of the Israeli strike that killed four young Palestinians on a beach in Gaza. The headline looked like this: That headline appropriately conveys the horrors witnessed and documented by the Times reporters. But at some point–around 9:00 pm, according to… Continue reading
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PCHR_e 21 July 2014: Another Bloody Day On the 14th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Complete Families Attacked While inside Their Homes; Rescue Crews to Search for Victims in al-Shuja’iya Neighborhood; More Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in Border Areas
21 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Releases Ref: 92/2014 Date: 21 July 2014 Time: 07:00 GMT Another Bloody Day On the 14th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Complete Families Attacked While inside Their Homes; Rescue Crews to Search for Victims in al-Shuja’iya Neighborhood; More Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in Border Areas Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s “telegenically dead” comment is grotesque but not original, Goebbels beat him to it By Glenn Greenwald
One suddenly has the impression that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies. The Jews send out the pitiable. They may confuse some harmless souls for a while, but not us. We know exactly what the situation is. – Joseph Goebbels 16… Continue reading
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The End of Israel? By Gilad Atzmon
In his speech to the nation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged yesterday that the war on Gaza is a battle for the existence of the Jewish State. Netanyahu is correct. And Israel cannot win this battle; it cannot even define what a victory might entail. Surely the battle is not about the tunnels or the… Continue reading
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Hamas wants to pile up ‘telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause’ — Netanyahu, on television By Alex Kane and Phil Weiss
Netanyahu: “All civilian casualties are unintended by us but actually intended by Hamas. They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because somebody said, and I mean, it’s gruesome, but they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause. They want– the more dead the better.” Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 19-20 July 2014
20 July 2014 19:37:32 — williambowles.info League of Arab States says Israel’s attacks on Gaza Strip are war crimes (SCF) Palestinian injuries don’t count in ‘Washington Post’ account of Al Aqsa rout (Mondoweiss) Gaza and Israel suffer deadliest day (BBC) Continue reading
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PCHR_e 20 July 2014: Worst and Bloodiest Day Since the Beginning of the Offensive
20 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press ReleasesRef: 91/2014Date: 20 July 2014Time: 07:00 GMT On the 13th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Israeli Forces Continue Ground Operations in the Gaza Strip Covered by Violent Shelling; Mass Killings in al-Shuja’iya Neighborhood in Gaza and Dozens of Dismembered Bodies Are in the Streets; Reports of… Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 18-19 July 2014
19 July 2014 19:13:48 — williambowles.info International activists risk lives to protect Gaza’s ambulances under fire (Mondoweiss) Israel Has Been Bitten by a Bat (The Greanville Post) Protesters join rally for Gaza (BBC) Continue reading
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The Human Price of Neocon Havoc By Robert Parry
Exclusive: Neocons are the “masters of chaos” as they destabilize disfavored governments around the world. But real people pay the price as we’ve seen with Israel’s slaughter of four boys on a Gaza beach and an apparent shoot-down of a Malaysian airliner over war-torn Ukraine, writes Robert Parry. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 