BIPARTISAN IMPERIALIST-ZIONIST PARTNERS IN STATE TERRORIST WAR AGAINST PALESTINE
Palestinians are a people under occupation who has the right to self-determination under the UN Charter.
The use of force as part of resisting occupation in the Palestinian case is therefore derived from the international legitimacy to recourse to armed struggle in order to obtain the right to self-determination.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21559.htm
Israel used new U.S. supplied bunker-buster missile. Military Intelligence's Psychological Warfare Department broke into radio broadcasts in Gaza and warned Palestinian civilians not to cooperate with Hamas terrorist activity
Israel will not hesitate to target the homes of civilians who protect Hamas
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456505080&pagename=JPost%...
http://tinyurl.com/7gj5kt
U.S. again used its veto powers on Sunday to block a resolution calling for an end to the massive ongoing Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21562.htm
U.S. - Israeli mouthpiece pretends terrorist strategic offensive may cause problems for Obama and more 'regional instbility'
Israeli Troops Mass Along Border; Arab Anger Rise
With the death toll in Gaza rising to nearly 300, a furioureaction spread across the Arab world, raising fears of greater instability in the region.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/world/middleeast/29mideast.html?th&emc...
Gaza attacks put heat on Obama
By The New York Times and Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — When President-elect Obama visited Israel in July — to the very town whose repeated shelling culminated in this weekend's new fighting in Gaza — he all but endorsed the punishing Israeli attacks now unfolding.
Early on as a candidate, Obama suggested he did not necessarily oppose negotiations with groups like Hamas, though he spent much of the campaign retreating from that position under fire from critics.
By the time he arrived in Israel in July, he suggested he would not even consider talks without a fundamental shift in Hamas and its behavior, effectively moving his policy much closer to Bush's.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," he said in Sderot, a small city on the edge of Gaza that has been attacked repeatedly by rocket fire. "And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."
"I don't think any country would find it acceptable to have missiles raining down on the heads of their citizens....I expect Israelis to do (all they can to stop them)....In terms of negotiating with Hamas, it is very hard to negotiate with a group that is not representative of a nation state, does nnot recognize your right to exist, (and) has consistently used terror as a weapon. Hamas is a terrorist organization....it's hard for Israel to negotiate with a country like that."
PA 'ready' to take Gaza if Hamas ousted
Dec. 28, 2008
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShow...
Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah said Saturday that they were prepared to assume control over the Gaza Strip if Israel succeeds in overthrowing the Hamas government. "Yes, we are fully prepared to return to the Gaza Strip," a top PA official told The Jerusalem Post. "We believe the people there are fed up with Hamas and want to see a new government." Another PA official said Fatah had instructed all its members in the Gaza Strip to be prepared for the possibility of returning to power."We have enough men in the Gaza Strip who are ready to fill the vacuum," he said. "But of course all this depends on whether Israel manages to get rid of the Hamas regime."
The two officials voiced hope that the current IDF operation would end Hamas rule in Gaza. They said that the PA was also prepared to dispatch security forces from the West Bank to replace the Hamas militiamen.However, they denied Hamas allegations that the PA had urged Israel to launch a massive attack to overthrow the Hamas government....
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The December 26th bomb attack by Israel against the Palestinian population in Gaza will be remembered for its horror and disgrace. Children on the way to school were terrorized. Women and families ran for cover as U.S.-built F 16 airplanes rained hell from the skies. The mid day attack against the defenseless Palestinian people was an act of war and must be condemned....Israel is a state built upon the theft of Palestinian land accompanied by the forceful removal of millions of Palestinians. As such, the most recent attack against the people of Gaza is nothing short of a continuation of this genocidal policy.
Peace and freedom loving people of the world mourn and protest the loss of the hundreds of victims ... At the same time, we must take note: as long as the U.S. military outpost of Israel exists, there will be more such attacks. This may be even more true during the presidency of Barrack Obama, a staunch supporter of Israel....
We call on the world’s people to condemn this and all other forms of imperialist aggression. Only through peoples’ resistance and revolution can U.S. imperialism and Zionism be overthrown and a new world built.
Down with U.S. Imperialism
Down with Zionism
Defend the Palestinian People’s Right to Self Determination
Arab Countries adopted the Plan of Gaza Destruction
Israel and USA used the Arab and other foreign countries, among them Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority…and Europe to justify their war crimes against the population of Gaza. The USA preparation plan for the destruction of Gaza was presented to the Arab countries and Europe as a step to strengthen the President Mahmoud Abass and as a protection measure for their regimes from the growing danger of the radical Islamic of Hamas, according to the deluded American rhetoric.
The Arab leaders adopted this criminal plan, and finally we saw Tzipi Livni threaten the population of Gaza with destruction from Egypt during an official press conference with the Egyptian foreign minister Abdul Gheit.
The Saudi Arabian King, who invited some Jewish Rabbis to a religion conference in USA, was seen together with George Bush in his farm in Texas. This illiterate king who hardly speaks a word in English and is known to only know street slang in Arabic, received from his ally George Bush the plans to destroy Gaza. It was demanded from him to cut the relationship with Hamas leaders.
As a result of this visit, the Palestinian Muslims from Gaza were being denied their right of pilgrimage to Mecca. Finally, the Israeli President and war criminal Shimon Peres “justified” the plan to destroy Gaza in the newspaper Al-Sharq- Al-Awsat of Saudi Arabia. The corrupt and criminal Prime Minister Ehud Olmert justified his crimes on the Saudian Al-Arabiya TV.
Finally, the American employee Salam Fayyad cabinet of collaborators imprisoned hundreds of Palestinian political activists in the West Bank as a preparation for the Israeli war crime against the people in Gaza. Last week the PA American trained forces jailed the Palestinian Rajab Awni Tawfiq Al-Sharif age of 36, a resistance personality who was declared dead after the Israeli strike in Nablus in 2006.
The PA had been informed by their Israeli partners in crime about the Israeli destruction plan against Gaza. They were demanded to jail all Palestinian political opposition as a preventive step before the destruction. President Mahmoud Abbas was in USA on December 18 2008 to discuss the final steps to implement the USA-Israel plan in the West Bank and Gaza.
Kawther Salam's blog: http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2008/12/28/the-bloody-saturday-of-israel-in-...
Gaza Destruction as an Israeli-American Plan
On June 18, 2007, I wrote in my article “Who won Gaza: Dahlan-US-Israel or Hamas?”:
“Why did Fatah let Hamas win the small battle in Gaza, and how did the Israeli intelligence infiltrate the militant Hamas? It was not by accident that the PA and Fatah leaders were not in Gaza during the operation of the Hamas militants. It was not by accident that the PA officials from Gaza fled to Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Ramallah crossing EU- and Israeli-controlled borders at the beginning of battle with Hamas.
It is known from past events that, whenever Dahlan or the Israelis arranged for the murder of somebody, Dahlan and selected people from the PA would run to Egypt for the length of these operations. Also, in “normal” times it takes on average 2 weeks for Palestinians to get an answer when they request a permit to pass the borders of Gaza for medical emergency cases, and it can take up to one month to receive an answer from the Israelis to such urgent requests.
So, how did the Palestinian officers flee out of Gaza and arrive Ramallah in no time? This could not have happened without full help of the Israelis. During “normal” times the Israel was never helpful to Palestinians. There is no mercy under their occupation. Pregnant women are dying at the Israeli borders all the time, people sick of cancer are dying at their homes because they are not allowed to go to a hospital. But the traitors around Abbas and Dahlan were allowed free and unhindered passage. What will happen after the Fatah officers hand over Gaza to Hamas? What is the real deal between Dahlan-CIA-PA-Israel and the Hamas? Hamas did not win Gaza. In reality, Dahlan won by implementing the first stage of the CIA-Israel-PA conspiracy.
Which will be the second stage of this Dahlan-CIA-PA-Israel conspiracy? Whatever happens, 1.5 million Palestinians live in Gaza and other further millions in the West Bank. The so-called “International Community”, the European countries and the United Nations should be held responsible for any crimes and destructions which Israel will commit or cause to be committed in Gaza and the West Bank against Palestinian civilians. The smell of a conspiracy and disaster spreads out of Gaza”
“The suspicion is that the second stage of this conspiracy will be that Hamas shoots some rockets at Israel so as to give them an “excuse” to bomb Gaza flat - “Palestinians” from Lebanon have already done so - while the upper Hamas hierarchy escapes to Egypt leaving poorly armed fighters there to be liquidated together with many other civilians. Israel’s new-old minister of “defense”, Barak, has already announced that they are contemplating a full-scale invasion of Gaza with 20.000 troops, air force, hundreds of tanks … At the same time, the Hamas death squads, under protection from the IDF, will kill everybody on the Israeli hit lists in the West Bank. The only peace which Israelis know and understand is the peace of the cemeteries, and this is why Olmert called Abbas’ new “emergency” government “partners for peace”. With the help of the USA, Europe, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, possibly millions of Palestinians will now be butchered, as has always been intended.”
Today Gaza, tomorrow the West Bank, next week the World
“What started in Gaza today will happen in the West Bank sooner or later. The plans for genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians have been written in the 1880s, and Israel is not about to refrain from those plans by itself. Abbas, Dahlan, the King Saud and other Arab leaders will receive their “thank you” from Israel in the form of a knife in the back, and they know it. The pressure from the USA on all these traitors would not be effective by itself to make them sell out not only the Palestinians, but to accept Israel”.
Arab Leaders demean themselves in IsraelLast month and before the Palestinian-Israeli truce ended in Gaza, the Israeli government opened an exhibition to sell the presents which they received from Arab countries. These expensive presents, which the former director of the Israeli Mossad received from Arab countries and showed in the Israeli exhibition shows the shameful face of the Arab leaders and their regimes.
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'Gaza strike is not against Hamas, it's against all Palestinians'
By Amira Hass
"This assault is not against Hamas. It's against all of us, the entire nation. And no Palestinian will consent to having his people and his homeland destroyed in this way."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21563.htm
To Be In Gaza Is To Be Trapped
By Peter Beaumont
Ironically, one of Israel's experiments involved assisting in the creation of Hamas, which had its roots in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, to counter the power of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation. Israel has been determined to push Hamas ever closer to all-out war since insisting that even though it won free and fair Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, its right to govern could not be treated as legitimate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21565.htm
An appeal to the world on behalf of Palestine
by George Salzman and me.
Transmit as you think best.
http://www.counterpunch.org/salzman12292008.html
If you want more information about the crisis, see this new article
by Jennifer Loewenstein:
http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein12292008.html
Rebel against indifference.
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
http://www.idiom.com/~garcia
George Salzman
george.salzman@umb.edu.
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*News Update from Gaza*
/Sameh A. Habeeb/
...I'm writing to you late due to limited access to the Internet. My
house was exposed to many shrapnel of Israeli rockets. I would not be
able to update you hourly through the Internet....-Victims of Israeli
air raids are 300 while wounded up to 1000. -Around 80 air raids took
place in Gaza strip from the early morning of Sunday till 7pm in the
evening. Around 300 air raids are the total outcome of the latst 2 days.
-Trauma spreads across Gaza residents especially children! due to the
loud voices of the heavy bombs of F16s. -Israeli air forces bombarded 40
targets across the strip between civil and security buildings... -Gazans
are still out of Gas, power and bread....
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*Shock, Awe and Lies: The Truth Behind the Israeli Attack on Gaza*
/Chris Floyd/
Here is a simple, stone cold fact. You cannot read or hear the truth
about what is happening in Gaza from any corporate media in the United
States. The only thing you will find there are regurgitations of Israeli
spin, which are themselves only regurgitations of the kind of spin that
American militarists have put on their own depredations -- for centuries
now. Up and down the American media and political establishments, you
will find not! hing but bleatings about Israel being "forced" to launch
its vicious blunderbuss attacks against heavily populated Gaza because
of the "recent spate of Hamas bombings" since the end of a six-month
ceasefire. This is of course a damnable and deliberate lie....
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http://www.uruknet.de/?p=50049
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*'Gaza strike is not against Hamas, it's against all Palestinians'*
/Amira Hass/
..."Seventy policemen were killed there, not all Hamas members," said
S., who opposes Hamas. "And even those who supported Hamas were young
men looking for a job, a salary. They wanted to live. And therefore,
they died. Seventy in one blow. This assault is not against Hamas. It's
against all of us, the entire nation. And no Palestinian will consent to
having his people and his homeland destroyed in this way." ....
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*THIS MISERABLE WORLD IS SILENT*
/Ibrahim Ebeid/
In these days, the Western Judeo-Christian world is pretending to
celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth while our people, in Iraq and
Palestine, are being slaughtered by the same people who claim to believe
in the "King of Peace". Peace on Earth turned to be Hell on our part of
the Earth. The United States and its stooge allies are committing crimes
of genocide against the Iraqis and Palestinians. What else can we call
it but genocide when thousands of Iraqis and Pa! lestinians are being
savagely killed every month by the United States and its cohorts in the
area especially by the colonialist racist settlers in Palestine? The
Zionist US-made airplanes are pounding Gaza and the Strip
indiscriminately killing men, women, children, and old people and
destroying buildings, crushing people inside them. This is permitted and
tolerated by the US politicians and by the White House; the people of
Gaza are "terrorists and aggressors" as many Israelis say... As a
Christian Arab I say to the Judeo-Christians of the West, carry your
cross and go away, you are not part of us, we refuse to be part of you,
we are part of Palestine, of Iraq and part of the rest of our Muslim
brethren in this vast land that we lived in sine time immemorial...
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http://www.uruknet.de/?p=50042
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*Obama on the Attack on Gaza*
/Joshua Frank/
...It was the single deadliest attack on Gaza in over 20 years and
Obamas initial reaction on what could be his first real test as
president was "no comment." Meanwhile, Israel has readied itself for a
land invasion, amassing tanks along the border and calling up 6,500
reserve troops. On Sundays Face the Nation, Obamas Senior Adviser
David Axelrod explained to guest host Chip Reid how an Obama
administration would handle the situation, even if it turns for the
worst. "W! ell, certainly, the president-elect recognizes the special
relationship between the United States and Israel. Its an important
bond, an important relationship. Hes going to honor it ... And
obviously, this situation has become even more complicated in the last
couple of days and weeks. As Hamas began its shelling, Israel responded.
But its something that hes committed to." Reiterating the rationale
that Israels bombing of Gaza was an act of retaliation and not of
aggression, Axelrod, on behalf of the Obama administration, continued to
spread the same misinformation as President Bush: that Hamas was the
first to break the ceasefire agreement, which ended over a week ago, and
Israel was simply responding judiciously...
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http://www.uruknet.de/?p=50044
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*We have no words left
/Palestinians are at a loss to describe this latest catastrophe.
International civil society must act now/*
/Ali Abunimah/
"I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing."
Those chilling words were spoken on al-Jazeera on Saturday by Ofer
Shmerling, an Israeli civil defence official in the Sderot area adjacent
to the Gaza Strip. For days Israeli planes have bombed Gaza...
Palestinians are at a loss to describe this new catastrophe. Is it our
9/11, or is it a taste! of the "bigger shoah" Matan Vilnai, the deputy
defence minister, threatened in February, after the last round of mass
killings? Israel says it is acting in "retaliation" for rockets fired
with increasing intensity ever since a six-month truce expired on 19
December. But the bombs dropped on Gaza are only a variation in Israel's
method of killing Palestinians. In recent months they died mostly silent
deaths, the elderly and sick especially, deprived of food, cancer
treatments and other medicines by an Israeli blockade that targeted 1.5
million people - mostly refugees and children - caged into the Gaza Strip...
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http://www.uruknet.de/?p=50051
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*Most Gaza casualties were non-combatants, civilians*
/Press release, Al Mezan/
In one of its bloodiest military operations, the Israeli Occupation
Forces (IOF) initiated a wide-scale air strike operation against the
Gaza Strip. Dozens of targets were attacked from the air simultaneously
using heavy missiles and bombs. Mostly, the strikes targeted police and
security installations across the densely populated Gaza Strip, which is
indicative of IOF's disregard for civilian life and well-being. More
than 900 people hav! e been killed and injured, most of whom are
non-combatants. The number of casualties was because the timing of the
strike, which coincided with the change in school shifts when tens of
thousands of schoolchildren were on their way to or from school. Seven
UNRWA [the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees] Gaza Vocational
Training Center students were also killed in one of the air strikes in
Gaza City....
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*PFLP Statement on the Massacre in Gaza
/Now is the time for unity and resistance/*
/Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine/
....The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement
calling for the broadest resistance to meet and confront this aggression
against the Palestinian people and to respond to these massacres, and
for the unity of the resistance, and the unity of the Palestinian
people, to greet the occupier with resistance, strength and
steadfastness despite his brutal crimes.! The statement stressed the
urgent need for national unity immediately to confront the crimes
against our people and to greet the occupier and its brutality with
tremendous and unified resistance that is capable of shaking its
foundations. The PFLP statement further called upon all resistance
forces to come together now and establish unified resistance front to
coordinate and take up the challenge of these attacks against our
people. It pointed to the responsibility of the United States for these
attacks, as a strategic partner of the occupier, working hand in hand
with its massacres and crimes against the Palestinian people, and as the
source of the arms used by the occupier against our people. The PFLP
further called for the immediate end to any and all negotiations with
this brutal occupier who plans massacres against our people and stated
that if he will not end the negotiations immediately, Abu Mazen must
resign now....
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*Basra Federal Region Update*
/Musings On Iraq/
...3,000 people marched in the city of Basra in support of a federal
region for the province. Parliamentarian and former governor of Basra
Wail Abd al-Latif has proposed the idea. In November 2008 he turned in
an initial petition with enough signatures for the Iraqi Election
Commission to move forward on the plan. Latif and his followers now have
to get 10% of the provinces voting population, approximately 140,939
people, to sign a second petition. That effort started ! on December 14,
and they have until January 14 to finish. If they accomplish that there
has to be an election within 15 days. The initiative will pass with 51%
of the vote. A Basra federal region has been on the mind of Latif and
others for quite some time, but will face opposition from many powerful
parties. Latif has been pushing the idea of a separate Basra region for
several years now...
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*Fresh Israeli strike kills five sisters*
/Saed Bannoura - IMEMC/
The Israeli army is still ongoing with its offensive against the
residents of the Gaza Strip and killed on Monday at dawn five sisters,
all children. Death toll since Saturday is more than 305 Palestinians,
and nearly 1000 were wounded. Palestinian medical sources reported that
that army shelled the house of Anwar Balousha, in the Jabalia refugee
camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing five sisters, all
children, while the rest of their ! family remain under the rubble and
others were hospitalized....
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*Update: Gaza*
/Laila El-Haddad/
Gaza's punishment continues today. Communication has been intermittent,
but we have managed to keep the lines open. My father just called to
inform me he was ok- after warplanes bombed the Islamic University
there, considered to be the Strip's premiere academic institution. A
little later I called my mother, only to hear her crying on the phone.
"The planes are overhead" she cried "the planes are overhead"... OCHA
reports search operations for dead bodies trapped under the rubble are!
still ongoing. Piles of bodies were places in front of Shifa hospital
for identification-some too charred or dismembered to identify. Most
fatalities were civilian police; others included at least 20 children,
nine women, and 60 other unarmed civilians. The plotters have plotted;
the pawns were in place; and the living dead continue to be massacred
without a protest....
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*HerHenry Kissinger: Eminence Noire
/(A Special Report)/*
/Robert Parry/
... Among the evidence that was never shared with the American people
was the fascinating connection between David Rockefeller, Henry
Kissinger and the shadowy operatives who had clandestine contacts with
the Iranian mullahs during the hostage crisis. Like the secret of the
Nixon campaigns "treason" in 1968, apparently the powers-that-be felt
it was "best for the country" that the full story of the 1980 October
Surprise be kept from th! e American people, too. With those troubling
secrets kept or at least quieted Kissinger has continued shaping
American foreign policy up to the present. On Dec. 5, 2008, he was given
space on the Washington Posts op-ed page for an article entitled "Team
of Heavyweights" in which he hailed President-elect Barack Obamas
national security team as "extraordinary."..
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*IJAN Joins The Call for Action to Decry the Attacks on Gaza*
/IJAN - International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network/
The world majority stands with the Palestinian people in this
devastating time that Israeli Defense Secretary Ehud Barak calls "just
the beginning." Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past 24 hours have killed
over 200 people and injured hundreds more. We decry the multiple forms
of collective punishment currently being inflicted that reflect Israel's
60-plus year history of ethnic cleansing: lack of access t! o
electricity and potable water, blockades of food and medicine, and these
brutal attacks. We are outraged but not surprised by this escalation.
Israel's unilaterally designed and implemented disengagement from Gaza
has maintained control of the borders, air and water space, and
completely isolated Gaza practically and politically. This has been
accomplished with unconditional support from the United States and its
allies and with the complicity of the broader international community
and Gaza's neighbors. It has also set the stage for these horrendous
events...
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*A Poem for Gaza*
/Remi Kanazi. Axis of Logic/
I never knew death until I saw the bombing of a refugee camp
Craters filled with disfigured ankles and splattered torsos
But no sign of a face, the only impression a fading scream
I never understood pain
Until a seven-year-old girl clutched my hand
Stared up at me with soft brown eyes, waiting for answers
But I didn't have any
I had muted breath and dry pens in my back pocket
That couldn't fill pages of understanding or resolution...
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*Abbas blames Hamas for bloodshed*
/AlJazeera.net/
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has blamed Hamas for
triggering Israel's deadly raids on Gaza, by not extending a six-month
truce with the Jewish state. He also blamed Hamas, which controls the
coastal Gaza Strip territory, for disrupting national unity talks that
could have paved the way for general and presidential elections. "We
have warned of this grave danger," he said in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday...
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*'Little Baghdad' in Gaza - bombs, fear and rage*
/Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent/
There are many corpses and wounded, every moment another casualty is
added to the list of the dead, and there is no more room in the morgue.
Relatives search among the bodies and the wounded in order to bring the
dead quickly to burial. A mother whose three school-age children were
killed, and are piled one on top of the other in the morgue, screams and
then cries, screams again and then is silent....
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*Palestinian leaders in Israel declare strike, call for boycott*
/Appeal, The Higher Follow Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel,/
In the presence of all national alliances, an urgent meeting for the
Follow up Committee was held today declaring Sunday 28 December 2008 a
general strike in protest of the Israeli massacres committed against
Palestinians in Gaza. The meeting called for the organization of
demonstrations and marches in every Arab town in al-Naqab [Negev], the
Triangle, the Galilee areas and coastal to! wns as a symbol of the rage
and severe grief of the Palestinian nation upon the loss of hundreds of
its citizens in Gaza. It was decided that the High Follow Up Committee
remains on alert to hold further meetings to take steps in resistance
and to stop the consistent aggression and break the siege on Gaza
including the opening of all border crossings especially that of Rafah...
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FAKE: More Zionist Holocaust Horseshit - Promoted Bigtime by Oprah -Will Still be Zionist Movie
Publisher Cancels Holocaust Memoir
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/publisher-cancels-holocaust...
Angel at the Fence“Angel at the Fence,” a memoir by Herman Rosenblat, was canceled by its publisher after Holocaust scholars disputed its story. (Berkley Books)
Berkley Books, a unit of Penguin Books, has canceled the planned February publication of “Angel at the Fence,” a memoir by Herman Rosenblat, a man who said he met his wife while a prisoner at a concentration camp during the Holocaust.... Several Holocaust scholars attacked the story in the blogosphere and in a recent article in The New Republic...
Ms. Hurst said in a statement on Sunday: “It is with heavy heart that I share what I learned today from my client, Herman Rosenblat, about his book, ‘Angel at the Fence.’ Herman revealed to me that part of his memoir was not true. Like millions of others who read this story or saw Herman and Roma on Oprah, I never for a moment questioned the authenticity of the widely circulated story. I know that everyone who has worked so hard with Herman this past year is as stunned and disappointed as I am that this story of hope has such a sad ending.”...
Through Ms. Hurst, Mr. Rosenblat also released a statement Sunday: “To all who supported and believed in me and this story, I am sorry for all I have caused to you and every one else in the world.” ...
Early Sunday morning, Atlantic Overseas Pictures, which is making a movie based on Mr. Rosenblat’s story, said it would proceed with production and “portray the fictional elements of the love story.” Atlantic said that Mr. Rosenblat had “agreed to donate all monies from the film to Holocaust survivor charities as a condition to moving forward.”
