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ICH 17/18 November 2012: Targeting Civilians: Israel’s Specialty
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 Continue reading
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Human rights: the people vs the UN By Eric Walberg
Even as the US government is re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Committee Against Torture hears a complaint against Bush, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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New Phase of Syrian Crisis By Boris DOLGOV
he Syrian opposition abroad held a session in Qatar to form a new organization to guide their activities – the so-called National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition. It is led by elected President Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, a Sunni Sheikh, a former imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and an ardent opponent of Bashar… Continue reading
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Video: Protests Erupt Worldwide Against Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza
Global demonstrations against Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud growing as death toll mounts. Continue reading
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Video: Protests Erupt Worldwide Against Israel's Bombing Campaign in Gaza
Global demonstrations against Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud growing as death toll mounts. Continue reading
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Israeli Military Assault on Gaza – “Operation Pillar of Defence” – Not “defence” but murder of unarmed civilians By Mairead Maguire
The question on many people lips is; ‘When is the Israel government going to stop this bombing and continual wars and threat of war, against the Palestinians, and its neighbours, admit that there will be no military solution to the Palestinian Occupation, and begin to talk seriously with their enemies, in order to solve the… Continue reading
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Towards a Full Scale War on Gaza: The Red Line Israel Brazenly Crossed By Dr. Ismail Salami
Reports indicate that Israel is reportedly setting the stage for a full-scale war on Gaza. According to Israeli media, 16,000 reservists are being briefed on a full-scale war on the Gaza Strip while Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered 75,000 military reservists drafted. Continue reading
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From Stalingrad to Gaza with Love By Gilad Atzmon
Gaza child Benjamin Netanyahu, is made of different material than Barak. Unlike Bark, who is obsessed with the banal implementation of military power, Netanyahu is concerned with the power of deterrence and he is also intelligent enough to realise that the consequences of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip may mean the total eradication… Continue reading
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ICH 16 November 2012: Uri Avnery: “Operation Short Memory”
16 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Egypt PM Says Gaza is ‘A Disaster’ By UPI “What I am witnessing in Gaza is a disaster and I can’t keep quiet. The Israeli aggression must stop,” he said. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33054.htm Continue reading
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Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes in Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis
Israel is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip with air strikes amidst fears that Israel could soon launch a ground invasion into Gaza. Israeli troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are now massing near the Palestinian territory. Earlier today, 85 missiles exploded within 45 minutes in Gaza City, sending black pillars of smoke. At least… Continue reading
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Excuse Me While I Vomit By Alan Hart
I imagine I am not the only one who feels the need to vomit (dictionary definition – “to throw up the contents of the stomach through the mouth”) when Israel’s Goebbels justifies the Zionist state’s ferocious and monstrously disproportionate attacks by air and sea on the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, the prison camp which is home… Continue reading
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Gaza: Who Was Commander Ahmed Jabari (1960 – 2012)? By Stephen Lendman
On November 15, thousands in Gaza City residents mourned Jabari’s assassination. Israel murdered him the previous day in cold blood. Score another victory for occupation harshness. Add one to the column of Israeli crimes against humanity. Volumes are needed to list them. Israel lives by the sword of injustice. One day perhaps it will perish… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Gaza Blitz – Turmoil And Tragicomedy At The BBC By David Cromwell and David Edwards
Newsnight’s journalistic failures on child abuse are bad enough, rightly heaping pressure on the broadcaster. But there was no comparable pressure for senior staff to ‘step aside’ over the BBC’s truly catastrophic failure to challenge US-UK propaganda on Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction and the country’s supposed ‘threat’ to the West. Continue reading
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For Israel, Imperialism Isn’t Enough By Dan Freeman-Maloy
Things in Palestine have developed far beyond the point where any given ‘flare-up’ in the constant violence that defines Israeli rule can be addressed in isolation. The significance of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has absolutely nothing to do with the tired, dull hasbara talking points being peddled by Israeli diplomats — less still… Continue reading
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Gaza News Coverage 16 November 2012
16 November 2012 — Countercurrents Day Two Of Israeli Assault On Gaza: At Least 15 Killed Including 4 Children, Over 150 Injured; 3 Israelis Killed Near AshkelonBy Alex Kane & Adam Horowitzhttp://www.countercurrents.org/kane161112.htmMedics say 15 have died and 150 were injured in the 24 hours since Israel began a major escalation in the Gaza Strip and assassinated… Continue reading
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Gaza escalation: There was another way By Dahlia Scheindlin
As if the heartache over the escalation and its appalling predictability isn’t enough, as if the pain of watching whole communities cower under rockets while planning the next decade of psychotherapy for children isn’t enough, as if fresh Israeli and Palestinian deaths isn’t enough, the IDF sent the following message on its Twitter feed: Continue reading
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ICH 15 November 2012: Excuse Me While I Vomit
15 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu Speaks On Israeli Morality Video – – Warning – Video contains images depicting the reality of Israel’s attack on Gaza. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33044.htm Continue reading
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