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NEWS DIGEST: Israeli Police Confirms Hamas Didn’t Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens
Maisoon ميسون
Poems/Song by Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani
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( From his poetry book ' Voice of Heart ' )
( From his poetry book ' Voice of Heart ' )
O Israel ; the illegitimate child of the West !
(With French and Urdu versions)
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Your sins have now transgressed those limits,
Which are bound to invoke the Divine Wrath;
Your hubris and conceit will see your ruins,
You will meet with an awful and horrific end.
Your perpetual records of crimes in the world,
Are shaking the conscience of all, except a few;
The moment of time is approaching you fast,
When ocean and land will give you no refuge.
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(With French and Urdu versions)
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Your sins have now transgressed those limits,
Which are bound to invoke the Divine Wrath;
Your hubris and conceit will see your ruins,
You will meet with an awful and horrific end.
Your perpetual records of crimes in the world,
Are shaking the conscience of all, except a few;
The moment of time is approaching you fast,
When ocean and land will give you no refuge.
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Oh the Jews of the World!
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I know the vast multitudes amongst you,
Follow the cult of Abraham and Moses;
But are eclipsed by the misdeeds of a few,
Who have tarnished your figure as a race.
Look around and try to discern the change,
The righteous are now raising their heads;
Against their barbaric and impious regimes,
To purge their soul of the evil of their rulers.
We are anxious to see your determined vow,
To make a display of your distinct shape ;
Which is different from what we have found ,
In the heinous crimes against Palestinian folk.
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I know the vast multitudes amongst you,
Follow the cult of Abraham and Moses;
But are eclipsed by the misdeeds of a few,
Who have tarnished your figure as a race.
Look around and try to discern the change,
The righteous are now raising their heads;
Against their barbaric and impious regimes,
To purge their soul of the evil of their rulers.
We are anxious to see your determined vow,
To make a display of your distinct shape ;
Which is different from what we have found ,
In the heinous crimes against Palestinian folk.
Song For a Palestinian Child ( With Urdu and Arabic versions)
( From my poetry book ' Voice of Heart ' )
( From my poetry book ' Voice of Heart ' )
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Shaja'iya destroyed. Pulverized into rubble. See all 81 pictures of Israel's horrific war crimes on Gaza
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Horrifying details continue to emerge of massacre in Khuza’a
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Palestinians pull 85 bodies from under Gaza rubble
An Israeli air strike in southern Gaza hours before a humanitarian truce was declared killed 20 people, including 11 children, most of them from a single family, medics said.
Separately, the bodies of at least another 85 Palestinians were recovered from rubble across Gaza on Saturday, raising the overall Palestinian death toll in the 19-day Israeli terror campaign to 985, the overwhelming majority of them civilians.
“Ambulance crews have recovered the bodies of 85 martyrs under destroyed houses, including children and women, across the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of martyrs to 985 as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,” Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra wrote on Twitter.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army said two more occupation soldiers had been killed, taking its toll to 37.
“No Safe Place”: After Deadly Attack on Gaza School, U.N. Warns 150,000 Seeking Shelter Are at Risk “No Safe Place”: After Deadly Attack on Gaza School, U.N. Warns 150,000 Seeking Shelter Are at Risk
At least 16 Palestinian were killed and 200 others were injured after Israeli warplanes bombed UNRWA school in Beit Hnoun, northern Gaza, which was sheltering hundreds of Palestinians displaced by the current aggression.
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Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid, Says UN Rapporteur
A UN human rights investigator has accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies against Palestinians.
Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said Israel carried out a "systematic and continued effort to change the ethnic composition of East Jerusalem".
Falk, an 82-year-old American, said that in recent years Israel had made it more difficult for Palestinians to reside there while encouraging the building of new Jewish settlements, which are illegal under international law.
Falk, an emeritus law professor at Princeton University, said that more than 11,000 Palestinians had lost their right to live in Jerusalem since 1996.
Israeli Lawyer Doesn’t Deny Nuremberg Crimes on Palestinians
I spoke with the head military lawyer for the IDF, Joel Zinger. And I said … “It’s clear you people are inflicting Nuremberg crimes on the Palestinians. Exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. What’s your explanation?”
He said: “Military necessity.”
Notice, he didn’t disagree with me.
I said: “That argument was rejected at Nuremberg when the lawyers for the Nazis made it.”
And then he said: “Well, we have public relations people in the United States … and they handle these matters for us.”
The Palestinians’ Right to Self-Defense
If Israel insists, as the Bosnian Serbs did in Sarajevo, on using the weapons of industrial warfare against a helpless civilian population then that population has an inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. The international community will have to either act to immediately halt Israeli attacks and lift the blockade of Gaza or acknowledge the right of the Palestinians to use weapons to defend themselves.
No nation, including any in the Muslim world, appears willing to intervene to protect the Palestinians. No world body, including the United Nations, appears willing or able to pressure Israel through sanctions to conform to the norms of international law. And the longer we in the world community fail to act, the worse the spiral of violence will become.
Amnesty International: Israel Remains the Occupying Power in Gaza and is Thus Bound By the Law Of Occupation
Amnesty International notes today:
Israel maintains sole control of Gaza’s air space and territorial waters, and continues to prohibit any movement of people or goods in or out of Gaza via air or sea. Israel directly controls all but one of Gaza’s land border crossings, and continues to close three out of the four crossings for commercial goods, restrict the volume of key imports, and ban most exports, all of which have a serious impact on humanitarian and socioeconomic conditions in Gaza. Israel continues to control the Palestinian population registry, which covers residents of both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, so any change in these records and all Palestinian Authority identity documents (including ID cards and passports) require Israeli approval. An Israeli-approved ID card or passport is required for any Palestinian to leave Gaza, including through the Rafah crossing. And the Gaza Strip continues to depend on Israel for the majority of its electricity supply.
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Rula Jebreal: 90% of people in Gaza 'don’t have access even to water'
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Seven Palestinians killed in protests across West Bank
By: Elias
As Palestinians in Gaza buried the dozens killed during the eighteenth consecutive day of Israel’s relentless military assault by air, land and sea, Israeli fire killed at least seven during protests in the occupied West Bank.
At least ten Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and by Israeli civilians in the West Bank since the beginning of the Gaza assault on 7 July as Palestinians in the West Bank and present-day Israel rise up in solidarity with Gaza, where at least 843 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the onslaught.
Israel Sabotages Ceasefire
Golani is the best infantry brigade of the IDF. It was defeated by a Hamas regional battalion in the Battle of Shuja'iyya. I reviewed the battle in Hamas Battalion Held Ground against IDF Golani Brigade.
Golani was removed and replaced by reserve forces (Israel Transforms Tunnels into Gas Chambers).
The commander of the unit was wounded (Wounded Druze Colonel Runs to Gaza), three officers were killed, another ten soldiers were wounded.
Information on details of military operations is slow to reach civilian media. Today it was disclosed that Hamas also hit two battalion commanders, Shai Siman-Tov of Golani Battalion 12 and the commander of Golani Egoz; the name of the latter is classified.+.
In other words, with a much smaller force, Hamas wiped the command of an elite brigade of the IDF, forcing it to leave the battlefield. Israel took offence.
West Bank Demonstrators Shot Dead By Israeli Troops
ISRAEL continued its murderous campaign of repression today with the killing of demonstrators in the West Bank and continued air raids in Gaza.
Four Palestinians were killed in the West Bank — two shot by Israeli troops and the other by settlers.
Jerusalem since 1996.
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Turkish Prime Minister: Israel Has ‘Surpassed What Hitler Did To Them’
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an ridiculed Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, accusing the Israeli government of “barbarism that surpasses Hitler.”
Speaking at a political re-election rally in the Turkish city of Ordu, Turkey’s prime minister said that Israel has “surpassed what Hitler did to them” and declared the country a “terrorist state.”
“[Israelis] have no conscience, no honor, no pride. Those who condemn Hitler day and night have surpassed Hitler in barbarism,” said Erdo?an. He accused Israel of rejecting ceasefires that Hamas has proposed and “spitting death, spitting blood.”
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Ireland is pro-Palestinian, says Israeli media
Ireland's 'pro-Palestinian stance' has made it into the Israeli headlines after a minute's silence was held in the Dail for the people of Gaza.
Pro-Gaza, Israel marches choke German city centres
By: WUFYS
Anticipating possible violence against Jews and citing a "marked increase in danger for Israeli establishments", police in Berlin deployed more than 1,000 officers around the opposing demonstrations.
Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with pro-Israelis in Berlin
By: WUFYS
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Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Berlin Friday in protest of the recent attacks on Gaza . Minor clashes broke out between counter-protesters waving Israeli flags and chanting at the pro-Palestinian protesters. No arrests or casualties were reported
Watch: When media coverage of Gaza and Israel becomes the story
By: Redress
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Israel bans radio advert listing names of children killed in Gaza
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has banned a radio advertisement from a human rights organisation which listed the names of some of the scores of children killed in Gaza since the conflict began 17 days ago.
B'Tselem's appeal against the decision was rejected on Wednesday. It intends to petition Israel's supreme court on Sunday in an effort to get the ban overturned.
The IBA said the ad's content was "politically controversial". The broadcast refers to child deaths in Gaza and reads out some of the victims' names.
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If Americans Knew What Was Happening In Israel …
If my fellow Americans understood the history of Israel and Palestine, their views would change overnight … and they would demand that Israel no longer be given unconditional support and blank checks to do whatever they want:
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ISRAELIS ARE LIARS, DECEITFUL and you can bet THEY KIDNAPPED ND KILLED these 3 Israeli boys to blame Hamas and thus give them the excuse they wanted to attack Gaza. Their Minister spoke about a kidnap of 3 boys a couple of weeks PRIOR to the event happening. They probably got their Thugs from their created ISIS to do the deed for them, this so calld ‘lone cell’
It Turns Out Hamas Didn’t Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens After All
After Israel's top leadership exhaustively blamed Hamas for kidnap of 3 teens, they've now admitted killers were acting as "lone cell."
Webmaster's Commentary:
, HAMAS and FATAH need world support for their new unity government. A stunt like kidnapping and killing three teenagers destroys the very public support the unity government needs. This is clearly something HAMAS is not going to do, but of course is perfect for Israel to do and then frame HAMAS as part of Netanyahu's promise to wreck the unity government."
So Israel attacked HAMAS without provocation and now even Israel is admitting they attacked HAMAS without provocation, but will continue the bombardment after the current cease-fire ends claiming a right to self-defense because HAMAS dared fight back when attacked without provocation.
And Israel wonders why all those Jewish students paid to post pro-Israel propaganda on social media have failed to build support for Israel's actions!
Well some good news emanating from the US for a change
Christian Evangelicals Turning Backs on Israel
• Blind support for genocidal policies of Zionist state no longer a prerequisite for salvation.
Zionists are worried.
For decades, conservative evangelical Christians have been among the most fervent backers of the terroristic, rogue nuclear, apartheid Zionist occupation government in the Holy Land, known as Israel. They typically also have failed, knowingly or not, to acknowledge even basic human rights for the oppressed native Palestinians—Muslim and Christian—who face racial extinction at the hands of the region’s Jewish overlords. But that seemingly impregnable mountain of support has started to erode. A growing minority of ministers and younger believers have begun to challenge the established doctrine and practice, asserting that Zionism is contrary to God’s teaching in the Bible, and that continued persecution of Palestinians is a gross violation of fundamental morality.
Israel Losing Support from Its Biggest Ally: American Evangelical Christians
We documented yesterday that the biggest supporters of Israel are American evangelical Christians … Protestants or – to a lesser extent – Catholics.
But that support base is slipping …
Especially Among the Young
We documented yesterday that the biggest supporters of Israel are American evangelical Christians … Protestants or – to a lesser extent – Catholics.
But that support base is slipping …
Buzzfeed reported in January:
Figures with deep roots in America’s religious right have launched a quiet effort aimed at pushing evangelical Christians away from decades of growing loyalty to Israel and toward increased solidarity with the Palestinians.
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The campaign by a coalition of religious leaders, international nonprofits, and activists has taken place in recent years largely behind the scenes and away from the prying eyes of the political press — and it’s being driven by a generation of Evangelicals alienated by the way their faith was yoked to Republican foreign policy during the Bush years. Now, organizations like the Telos Group and the large Christian nonprofit World Vision have joined a small army of ministers and Christian opinion-makers working to reorient Evangelicals’ stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — producing documentaries about the plight of Palestinian Christians, providing theological rationale for a more “balanced” view of the issue, and taking Evangelicals on trips to the Middle East.
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The campaign has alarmed America’s most committed Christian supporters of Israel, who acknowledge their rivals’ message is gaining momentum within the church.
The Forward noted in March (via Haaretz):
Support for Israel is weakening among evangelical Christians, prompting a new struggle for the hearts and minds of younger members of America’s largest pro-Israel demographic group.
Evangelical leaders on both sides of the divide on Israel agree that members of the millennial generation do not share their parents’ passion for the Jewish state; many are seeking some form of evenhandedness when approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“What is happening is that the hard line of Christian Zionists was not successfully passed forward to the next generation, because it was based on theological themes that are now being questioned by younger evangelicals,” said David Gushee, professor of Christian ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University in Atlanta.
The grip of Christian Zionists over young evangelicals has been loosening for several years, according to observers within the community. But in recent weeks, the leading evangelical pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel, has set off alarm bells in articles and interviews decrying the inroads made by pro-Palestinian activists into the evangelical community. CUFI’s leaders are calling for a new strategy to block them.
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Analogy to US media reporting on Israel & Gaza: ‘1776: Congress vows to destroy England!’
By: Carl_Herman
*hyperlinks live at source*
US/Israel corporate media reporting lies that Hamas threatens to “kill all Jews”, and ongoingly that Iran threatens to “wipe Israel off the map.” How would such reporting cover the US Declaration of Independence to protect Empire interests?
US/Israel corporate media reporting lies that Hamas threatens to “kill all Jews”, and ongoingly that Iran threatens to “wipe Israel off the map.” How would such reporting cover the US Declaration of Independence to protect Empire interests?
(Satire): His Majesty, King George III, addressed Parliament today in response to the US Declaration of Independence. Excerpts:
King George: I will never apologize for England - I don’t care what the facts are. [1]
How is England supposed to fight back against a terrorist organization whose entire mission is the destruction of England? I mean, it’s in the Congress’ Declaration of Independence that they want to kill all English.
Look at what this says (holding a copy of the Declaration): The terrorist group, Congress, calls we English “destructive,” “evil,” and vows for America to destroy England. [2]
US ‘News’ lying sack of spin warmonger: ‘It’s in the Hamas charter they want to kill all Jews’
By: Carl_Herman
*hyperlinks/video live at source*
2-minute interview
FOX News (sic) interviewed Anna Baltzer, an ongoing hero to expose Israeli apartheid and now genocide upon Palestinians. This is the type of “coverage” Americans receive from corporate media, and why every other nation but America have negative polling data of Israel’s government.
I’m sure how Ms. Kelly communicates in this excerpt is typical:
Megyn Kelly: “How is Israel supposed to fight back against an organization whose entire mission is the destruction of Israel? I mean it’s in the Hamas Charter that they want to kill all Jews.”