NEWS DIGEST: Death toll exceeds 1700;It is not just an Israeli war on Gaza...
Maisoon ميسون
WE PALESTINIANS ONLY HAVE OUR FAITH AND OUR RIGHT TO EXIST
OVER 1700 HOLOCAUSTED Gazans and counting
Over 380 children. Over 50 Entire Families murdered
OVER 9080 Injured, MAIMED, Loss of Limbs
6150 homes destroyed
schools destroyed, more mosques targeted, Hospitals, Courthouses,
80 people killed today and many injured around Khan Younus and continued attack on Rafah
No electricity, severe shortage of Food and Medicines
Very few safe shelters left with Israel threatening to bomb Al Shifa Hospital where many Palestinian refugees are heading for, for refuge when all they see around them is Rubble, destroyed homes, mosques, schools, clinics, Businesses etc..
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an excellent article
Letter to an Israeli soldier
Three weeks into your military assault on the most densely populated piece of land anywhere in the world, how does it feel? How does it feel to watch your missiles and shells – delivered from air, land and sea – reduce the Gaza Strip to rubble?
Starved, besieged, yet unbowed, the 1.8 million people you have imprisoned there can do nothing except endure as your bombs and your missiles rain down, targeting hospitals, schools, civic buildings, homes, police stations and even UN compounds where people had sought sanctuary; still believing, despite decades of disappointment and betrayal, in the sanctity and protection of international law.
Your bombs have sought and found their victims, incinerating and blowing to smithereens young and old alike, at the same time as your government attempts to convince the world that every effort is being made to avoid civilian casualties in what they describe as a military operation to root out terrorism and provide security for its citizens. It is a lie.
Slaughtering children is never done in the name of security. It is done in the name of barbarity.
After the air assault you began your ground invasion, and who could ever forget the pictures of you and your comrades, fully armed and equipped for combat, marching into the night, marching over the hopes and lives of the children who in just a few hours were destined to be blown apart by the guns and the bullets you carry so proudly as a testament to your superior civilization and values. You marched into a part of the world that you have ensured remains cut off from the rest of humanity, a punishment you have inflicted on the people living there for daring to resist by electing a government you do not approve of. But this government refuses to recognize us, you have asserted time and again, revealing a grotesque expectation to be recognized by a people who’ve been systematically expropriated, brutalized, and dehumanized since 1948, when your state was formed.
The whole world is watching you and your comrades – soldier of the “most moral army in the world” – with mounting anger and incredulity that such barbarism can be inflicted by a military superpower on a defenseless civilian population in the 21st century. Even your sponsors and apologists in the West are finding it difficult to provide you with the political support you have always counted on while violating international law as if not worth the paper it is written on.This collusion by Western governments in your crimes is a crime in itself, one that history will not forgive.
So tell us: when will your thirst for Palestinian blood be sated? How many dead women and children will be enough before you decide to end this massacre? Gaza is already in ruins, so whatever happens now you can be satisfied when you return to your family and kiss your children like the brave warrior you think you are.
Meanwhile, the suffering, despair and carnage you leave behind will entitle humanity to ask, yet again, if to be born Palestinian is to be born less than human, condemned by the great powers to be considered children of a lesser god – their history, culture and rights denied?
Yet no matter the calumny and lies employed by your government, by their spokesmen and women, who appear on our TV screens with the confidence of those who claim to act in the name of democracy and civilization, who claim to speak and act in the name of past victims of genocide and mass murder, the Palestinians continue to refuse to play the role chosen for them by you and by your apologists. No, the Palestinians refuse to acquiesce in their own destruction, drawing hope from the truth that no missile or bomb, no tank or military aircraft, could ever come close to matching the power of the human spirit.
In just three weeks something has changed. The world has seen with its own eyes that Israel is not the victim it claims. As they have come out in unprecedented number across the world, people understand that the continued dispossession and misery of the Palestinian people will no longer be tolerated. In their millions around the world, and increasingly within Israel itself, people are declaring that no longer will they stand by and bear witness to occupation, oppression, and barbarism carried out in the name of progress. Too many times in the past the world has stood by, with the names and dates of past atrocities a warning of the abyss into which humanity has sunk before and could sink again unless the world remains vigilant.
Guernica 1937: the Warsaw Ghetto 1942: My Lai 1968: Fallujah 2003: Gaza 2008-09, 2012, and 2014
It is not vengeance the world seeks, but justice – and justice for the Palestinians can only begin when the injustice that has placed a wall around your own humanity is ended. End the siege, tear down the apartheid wall, remove the checkpoints, and free not only those you have imprisoned all these years but just as importantly, free yourself.
You affirm time and again that Israel has the right to exist. Yes, but not as an apartheid state, not as a state which exists at the negation of a people whose only crime is that they continue to exist on land which you have long since decided belongs to you. No matter how many tanks, fighter jets and missiles you may possess in your vast arsenal of weapons, the refusal of this tortured, wretched people to disappear into the night of history weakens you. For it acts as an uncomfortable reminder that when you return to your family each night after doing your duty, you do so with your humanity diminished.
It is why we say to you now that you are living on the wrong side of history – in a cold, lonely place called dishonor.
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I don’t normally post anything from Zionist AL Jazeera
Israel 'executed' 6 Palestinian youths in Gaza town:
Witnesses tell Al Jazeera six youths were taken to a bathroom in a house in Khuzaa and were murdered by Israeli forces.
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Two Palestinian protesters shot dead in West Bank:
Israeli forces in the West Bank have shot dead two Palestinian men during demonstrations against Israel's aerial and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip.
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Scientist killed in Israeli shell attack on UN car in Gaza: Dr Bashir al-Hajjar died alongside his younger brother Muneer during the strike in Beer al-Naja in the north of the region. They were travelling in a marked United Nations Relief and Works Agency car when shells landed in front of it and on its bonnet.
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Israel bombs Gaza ambulance as Friday death toll surpasses 100:
An Israeli airstrike hit an ambulance and killed a paramedic Friday. The deaths bring the total in Israel's assault to more than 1,600 as well as nearly 9,000 injured,
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Israeli forces 'open fire at ambulance' amid clashes near Nablus: - Israeli forces opened fire at an ambulance as it was bringing injured Palestinians from a site of clashes near Nablus to a nearby hospital, medics told Ma'an.
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Gaza - 'the worst we have ever seen' says MSF medical adviser:
"There is no safe place inside Gaza right now."
A graphic video showing the killing of journalist Ramy Ryan in Gaza and an attack on an ambulance and rescue workers by Israeli air strikes has surfaced online. Warning: This six-minute video is very graphic. Viewer discretion is advised.
It Is Not Just an Israeli War on Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud
The list of participating countries is growing as is the number of those suspected war criminals fighting and killing in the name of Israel.
Destroying civilian infrastructure is – of course – a war crime under the Geneva Convention.
The following are also war crimes under the Geneva Convention:
The indiscriminate or disproportionate use of force
Collective punishment for the acts of a few
Targeting civilians
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Gaza operation sparks Latin American rebuke:
Five Latin American governments have withdrawn their ambassadors from Israel in recent days, in protest against that country's ongoing ground and air assault in Gaza.
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Latin America comes out in force against Israel
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Aug-02/265787-latin-america-comes-out-in-force-against-israel.ashx
Pope Francis should cast out Netanyahu's demons, Nicaragua president says: "Why doesn't anyone condemn or sanction the state of Israel?" In his opinion, Palestine is the victim of "madness" on the part of the Israeli leader, who seeks to "annihilate the Palestinian people."
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Hamas denies taking missing Israeli soldier:
US president says release is precondition for truce talks but Hamas says it does not know missing soldier's whereabouts.
US president says release is precondition for truce talks but Hamas says it does not know missing soldier's whereabouts.
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Hamas has denied taking this soldier or knowing his whereabouts. Israel needs any excuse to break ceasefires and as usual get fools like Kerry, Cameron on their pathetic side.
Kerry wants Palestinians not to take Israeli soldiers, not to harm them or kill them but it is OK, fine and dandy and permissible for Israeli soldiers to carry out Genocide against Palestinians, for an Israeli soldier to kill 13 children in one day and for Israeli soldiers to annihilate entire Families, to destroy, hospitals, mosques, market places, universities and schools- it is not OK to attack UNRWA schools but go ahead with other schools not run by the useless UNRWA that always lets Israelis KNOW where Palestinians seek refuge and to kill as many of them in one swoop. No doubt the Israelis with their GPS equipment will trace the whereabouts of the British soldier, cousin of Israel’s Military Moshe Ya’alon. Every Israeli soldier now has a GPO tracking device
The soldier that has allegedly been captured by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hours after the start of a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire is believed to be a British-Israeli cousin of Israel's defence minister Moshe Ya'alon, according to British media reports.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Okay, now we KNOW this was staged by Israel, as they need to counter the growing pressure by the British people on Parliament to stop sending weapons and money to Israel.
The Hannibal Directive
Did Israeli Army Deliberately Kill Its Own Captured Soldier and Destroy Gaza Ceasefire?
Did Israeli Army Deliberately Kill Its Own Captured Soldier and Destroy Gaza Ceasefire?
By Ali Abunimah
Who really broke the ceasefire? And why did Israeli forces shell the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah so indiscriminately on Friday, slaughtering dozens of people?
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A Zionist Demanding Genocide
The Times Of Israel Removes Article
The Times Of Israel Removes Article
By Moon Of Alabama
What other way then is there to deal with an enemy of this nature other than obliterate them completely?
By: Elias
The Zionist regime’s reign of terror and treachery in Palestine has not gone unnoticed this time around, and the free thinking peoples of the world are mobilizing en masse to put an end to Zionist impunity once and for all.
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Row breaks out after Palestinian flag is projected on to House of Commons...and controversial mayor raises it over council town hall again after it is STOLEN
A pro-Palestine group projected the national flag on to the Houses of Parliament in London early this morning calling for an end to the bloodshed in Gaza.
The stunt was claimed by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which said it projected the flag, complete with slogans including 'Free Palestine', 'Sanctions Now' and 'Stop the massacre', in an attempt to put pressure on the British government to take action.
But their protest, which came in the early hours as America and the United Nations jointly announced a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, was condemned by British Jews, who called it 'offensive to the British public' and accused the PSC of being motivated by a 'hatred of Israel'.
Meanwhile an east London mayor raised the Palestinian flag above the town hall for the second time after the first one was allegedly stolen.
[In 2009, Israel banned all musical Instruments to Gaza for school children, from trumpets to Violins because they considered them a defeat of terror and an existential threat to their 4th World Nuclear Entity- Prisoners in Nazi Camps were allowed musical instruments. Does all this make any sense to anyone? Chocolate was also banned because it was deemed to many calories for Gazans, along with a long list of other banned foods and products Vindictive Culture of a Supremacist racist Society devoid of anyHumanity!!]
Charges of anti-Semitism used to intimidate and criminalise opponents of war in Germany
By: WUFYS
While millions of people are deeply shocked by the brutal bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli army, politicians and media commentators in Germany have attacked opponents of the war. Isolated anti-Jewish slogans have been highlighted in order to brand demonstrations as anti-Semitic and condemn them.
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