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U.S. privately gave 'green light' to Israel for its 'genocidal attack'


PressTV
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:09 UTC
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A senior lecturer at the University of Sydney says the United States privately gave "the green light" to Israel for its "genocidal attack" on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Tim Anderson told Press TV in a phone interview on Monday that Israel "can't take a step without getting the green light from Washington" as he commented on the recent deadly attacks by the Zionist regime on Gaza.

"We can take it for granted that Washington would have been informed about it and has given the green light privately to this operation against Gaza," he added.

At least 39 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have lost their lives in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from Israel's attacks on the besieged enclave to 175. Over 1,270 others have also been injured and Palestinian families are fleeing their homes in northern Gaza.

Meanwhile, Palestinian fighters have launched more rockets into Israel in retaliation for the bombardment of Gaza.
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Ex-U.S. presidential candidate: 'Zionists control U.S. political apparatus'


PressTV
Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:25 UTC
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The US government's support for Israel in the massacre of Palestinians is another example of the influence of Israel lobby in the United States, where "Zionists control the political apparatus in Washington, D.C.," a former US presidential candidate says.

Since July 8, Israeli warplanes have struck more than 1,300 targets across Gaza, which is home to around 1.7 million Palestinians. According to latest figures, released by the Palestinian Health Ministry, the strikes have so far claimed the lives of 220 with more than 1,600 others injured.

Hamas rejected an Egyptian-proposed Gaza ceasefire with Israel on Wednesday, saying they had only found about it through the media and was angry that it did not deal with some of the group's major demands, including a conclusive end of Israel and Egypt's blockade on Gaza, and the release of certain prisoners from Israeli jails.

"The current assault on Gaza and a request for a ceasefire, it seems to always be on Israel's terms," said Merlin Lloyd Miller, and independent film director, writer, and producer who was the 2012 US presidential nominee of the American Third Position Party.
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Putin's six-day tour of Latin America ends with creation of BRICS and signing of energy agreements as opposition to Western powers gains strength


RT
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:56 UTC
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© AFP Photo(L to R) Russia's President Vladimir Putin, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, China's President Xi Jinping and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma join their hands during the official photograph of the 6th BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, on July 15, 2014
A six-day tour by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Latin America ended with a long anticipated creation of the BRICS bank and the signing of energy agreements, as Russia looks to build alliances to counter Western influence.

The Latin America tour started with the visit to Cuba, where Putin signed a new agreement on oil exploration in Caribbean waters which contain most of the estimated 124 million barrels of the Island's crude. The exploration will take place a few dozen miles from the US coast.

"We will provide support to our Cuban friends to overcome the illegal blockade of Cuba," Putin said on July 11, referring to the US ban on trade with the island nation.

Earlier on July 12 Russia wrote off 90 percent of Cuba's $32 billion soviet era debt putting the remaining 10 percent in investment of joint infrastructure projects in the island.
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Israeli ambassador to U.S. receives fierce backlash for Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Twitter Q&A


RT
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:27 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Chris KleponisRon Dermer, Ambassador of Israel to the United States
Israel's Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer received fierce backlash on Thursday as he defended his country's Operation Protective Edge offensive on Gaza during a Twitter Q&A.

According to the latest Pew Research polling on the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Americans still heavily lean toward sympathizing with Israel. Yet Dermer urged those who oppose Israel's military actions to ask him any questions so he could clarify his government's position. So they did, but the result was probably not the one that Dermer expected.
What response do you expect when you steel my land, destroy my house and kill my kids?#AskDermer

- Ahmad Enaya (@Ahmad_Enaya) July 17, 2014
After killing so many kids in #Gaza can you see into your own child's eye when you read him bedtime stories? #AskDermer

- Sameer Bhat (@sameerft) July 17, 2014
How do justify killing over 200 and injuring roughly 2,000, when 80% of the victims are civilians? #Askdermer @ambdermer

- Global Revolution (@GlobalRevLive) July 17, 2014
While enacting policies of occupation and ethnic cleansing, does your spine ever shudder with the shame of your ancestors? #AskDermer

- Sarah Slamen (@VictorianPrude) July 17, 2014
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An increase in pro-Palestinian protests against the genocide in Palestine prompts France to ban rallies!


RT
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:10 UTC
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© AFP/Phillipe MerlePeople protest on July 16, 2014 in the central French city of Lyon against Israel's deadly bombing of Gaza.
As thousands of protesters took to Parisian streets in demonstrations this week against the rising Palestinian death toll in Israeli military operations, French authorities reportedly imposed a full ban on pro-Palestinian marches in several cities.

The ban comes at a time when Jewish-Muslim tensions in the country have reached their peak. France is already known for such emotions spilling over into violence. Among them was last Sunday's rally, which started out peacefully, but ended in stone-throwing and sporadic violence, with some Jews holed up inside two synagogues, as police quickly upped the security around Jewish establishments and businesses. There were several injuries.

Another event was planned for Saturday, but was called off due to "the serious risk of disruption of public order that such a protest could engender, in a context of heightened tension," according to an anonymous police source speaking to the AP.

The world's biggest concentration of both Jewish and Muslim communities continues to stand on the brink of chaos that mirrors the Gaza-Israel standoff.


Comment: Your average person with a conscience is going to get emotional and angry about Israel's wholesale slaughter of women and children. The people in Gaza are being completely annihilated and the world needs to pay attention regardless of "sporadic violence" that may occur.

Latest Gaza bombardment: What you're not being told

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Gruesome images of Malaysian Flight MH17 crash scene appear online


RT
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:11 UTC
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Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was traveling from Amsterdam to Malaysia when it went missing near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. There were 285 people and 15 crew members aboard the Boeing-777.

The passenger plane was expected to enter Russian airspace at 5:20pm local time - but the plane had failed to do so.

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"The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace," the airline tweeted shortly after early news of the plane's disappearance began to emerge.
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U.S. intel: Missile brought down Malaysian flight - all sides deny responsibility

Michael Birnbaum, William Branigin and Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:40 UTC
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© Dmitry Lovetsky/APPeople inspect the Malaysia Airlines crash site.
A Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday with 295 people on board, and U.S. intelligence later confirmed that it was brought down by an antiaircraft missile.


Comment: And how, pray tell, do they know?


The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine immediately blamed each other for the crash, which occurred as the Boeing 777 was flying its regular route from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

President Obama said his administration was "working to determine whether there were American citizens on board" the downed plane. "It looks like it may be a terrible tragedy," he told an audience in Wilmington, Del. Russia's Interfax news agency said as many as 23 Americans may have been among the passengers. More than half the passengers were Dutch, the airline said.


Comment: "May" be a terrible tragedy? I guess it's only a tragedy when Americans die... Just like it's only a tragedy when Israelis die, not Palestinians.


Obama said U.S. national security officials are in close contact with the Ukrainian government. "The United States will offer any assistance we can to help determine what happened and why," he said. Vice President Biden called Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to extend that offer, the White House said.


Comment: Yeah, and if you call the cops you can expect polite service! Does anyone really trust the U.S. to offer impartial assistance?!


Hours later, a U.S. official said American intelligence agencies had confirmed that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record about an early intelligence assessment, said government analysts were scrambling to determine who fired the missile.
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Apple to pay consumers up to $400 mn for illegal price-fixing


phys.org
Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:23 UTC
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© UnknownThe Apple logo is seen on September 11, 2012 at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco
Apple will pay up to $400 million to compensate consumers for illegal price-fixing conspiracy for electronic books, officials said Wednesday.

The settlement would reimburse consumers in 33 states whose authorities sought damages for Apple's price-fixing, according to a statement from New York's attorney general.

But the settlement is contingent on the verdict being upheld in a July 2013 federal court ruling that Apple violated antitrust laws by orchestrating a conspiracy with five publishers to raise e-book prices.

If Apple's federal conviction is overturned, no money will be paid. If the case is retried, the settlement amount will be $50 million, the statement said.
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Best of the Web: Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 downed over warzone Ukraine. Who was behind it? Cui Bono?

Tony Cartalucci
Global Research
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:03 UTC
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© Global ResearchYet another Malaysia Boeing 777 is lost under extraordinary circumstances this year.
Flying over warzone Ukraine, The probable and Convenient Happens

At no juncture during the Ukrainian crisis could the downing of Malaysian Boeing 777 flight MH17 have been more convenient for NATO and its proxy regime in Kiev.

Kiev's forces were being picked apart in eastern Ukraine with several units encircled and destroyed. In the west of the country, dissent was growing by Ukrainians unwilling to march off to fight in the east. NATO's attempts to bait Russia into moving into Ukrainian territory and shift global opinion against Moscow had repeatedly failed.

The final card to be played by the US was another round of sanctions that almost immediately was ridiculed as ineffective and impotent. Even US corporate-financier interests condemned the latest round of sanctions claiming they were "unilateral" in nature and thus limited US enterprise from interacting with Russia while leaving European competitors free to move into the void. An effective US policy of confronting, containing, and undermining Russia would require multilateral sanctions with almost universal support - but the impetus for such sweeping sanctions did not exist - until now.

The US FAA Declared Ukrainian Airspace Off-Limits 3 Months Ago

Indeed, the stars have aligned for NATO. While the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared Ukrainian airspace off limits to all aircraft under its jurisdiction, it appears other airlines continued flying over what has been a warzone for months. The Atlantic in a report titled, "The FAA's Notice Prohibiting Airline Flights Over Ukraine," stated clearly that:
Did aviation authorities know that this was a dangerous area?
Yes, they most certainly did. Nearly three months ago, on the "Special Rules" section of its site, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration put out an order prohibiting American pilots, airlines, charter carriers, and everyone else over whom the FAA has direct jurisdiction, from flying over parts of Ukraine.
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Israel invades Gaza, sends in ground troops

William Booth, Sudarsan Raghavan and Ruth Eglash
Washington Post
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:45 UTC
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© AFP/Getty ImagesThe remnants of an Israeli missile lay on the ground inside a heavily damaged building of the Erez border crossing in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces, backed by artillery shells and airstrikes, launched a major ground offensive into Gaza late Thursday, marking a dramatic escalation in the 10 day-old conflict with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Declaring a new phase in its operation, Israel's military said it was entering the coastal strip to wipe out Hamas's rocket capabilities and to dismantle what is believed to be an extensive network of tunnels used by the militants to infiltrate Israel.

The operation came hours after diplomatic efforts in Cairo to negotiate a sustainable truce between Israel and Hamas failed.

The ground offensive began at 10 p.m. Thursday and involves dozens of infantry, armed core, and artillery units, as well as air and naval support, said Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner. The military, he added, plans to call up additional reservist troops to bolster the 50,000 reservists called up so far.


Comment: All this against a region with no real military to speak of, no advanced military hardware, and largely ineffectual rockets. Either the IDF is stupendously inept, or it's the biggest psychopathic bully in the world. I think we all know which.


In Gaza City, from a high floor in an apartment building, reporters watched an hour of heavy fire along the eastern and northern borders of the Gaza Strip.

The sky was lit, as if by lightning strikes. There were sustained barrages, flares and drones flying overhead. Israeli warships fired from the Mediterranean Sea. Hamas' military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, reported fighting with Israeli troops near the Erez border crossing.


Comment: How convenient. While the world watches Ukraine and the passenger plan crash tragedy, the Israelis invade Gaza for the umpteenth time.

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