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Was Qatari emir's visit to Gaza a ruse to locate Hamas leaders?


Press TV
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:04 UTC
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"It's ok, you can trust me, I'm an Arab too." We should remember that Qatar special forces were instrumental in bringing the Western puppet regime to power in Libya
Qatar's King Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has reportedly located the whereabouts of senior Hamas members during his recent visit to the Gaza Strip, and later provided Israel with the information to assassinate them.

According to a report published by the Fars news agency, the emir of Qatar distributed a number of watches and ballpoint pens among Hamas leaders, which could transmit low-frequency signals to Israeli satellites.

The Israeli military officials would then use the received signals to spot the high-tanking Hamas fighters, and launch assassination strikes on them.

Sheikh Hamad arrived in Gaza on October 23 to become the first head of state to visit the besieged enclave since the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, took power in the territory five years ago.
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Whistle

Petraeus, Allen, Gaouette, Ham: The Benghazi Story The Media Isn't Telling You

Ben Swann
YouTube
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:46 UTC
Ben Swann takes a look at 3 generals and 1 admiral who have been either caught up in scandal, forced to retire, or demoted since the Benghazi attack.

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Penis Pump

Israel's 'Iron Dome', paid for with donation of $800 million from US, failing spectacularly against homemade Palestinian 'rockets'

Dan Williams
Reuters
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:22 UTC
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We've heard so much bragging about this vaunted 'Iron Dome' yet three days in the Palestinians have already managed to kill as many Israeli civilians as were killed during the whole of Operation Cast Lead in 08/09.
Defence Minister Ehud Barak will seek cabinet approval for funds that could provide Israel with three new Iron Dome rocket interceptors, officials said on Friday as cross-border fighting surged in Gaza.

Israel's military air defence corps has four Iron Dome batteries deployed and will receive a fifth from state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd after Barak rushed its production, his ministry said in a statement.

It said Barak would on Sunday, the beginning of the Israeli work week, ask the cabinet to earmark 750 million shekels ($190 million) for expanding the Iron Dome program. An Israeli official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, estimated that money would be enough for three more batteries.

Comment: According to Israeli sources, the Iron Dome missile shield has only intercepted one-fifth of the rockets fired from the Gaza Strip:

Palestinians shoot down Israeli F-16 fighter jet in Gaza, Hamas rockets reach Tel Aviv

US to provide Israel with $680 million for Iron Dome anti-missile system

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Yoda

Cenk Uygur on Israel's occupation of Palestine: 'How long is the US going to stand behind this monumental injustice? As a US citizen, it makes me sick'

Cenk Uygur
The Young Turks
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:05 UTC

"Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday and rocket salvoes thudded into southern Israel, as terrified residents on both sides of the frontier holed up at home in anticipation of heavy fighting on the second day of Israel's offensive against Islamic militants.

The operation, launched in response to days of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory, kicked off with the assassination of Hamas' top military commander and deepened the instability gripping the Mideast. Israel's already strained relations with Egypt's new Islamist government frayed even further as Egypt recalled its ambassador Wednesday in response to the Israeli military operation.

Just days earlier, Israel was drawn into Syria's civil war for the first time, firing missiles into its northern neighbor for the first time in four decades after stray mortar fire landed in Israeli-occupied Syrian territory."*

Cenk Uygur provides an in-depth analysis about the disproportionate strike back against Hamas, "collateral damage," and U.S. attitudes toward Israelis and Palestinians.
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MIB

Kenneth O'Keefe calls the Israeli Regime for what it is: Psychopathic in nature


Press TV
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:54 UTC
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Propaganda

As Israel assaults Gaza, BBC reporting assaults the truth

Amena Saleem
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:19 UTC
Gaza
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BBC has shown deference to Israeli government line in its reporting on Gaza in recent days.
In 2006, an independent panel of senior public figures published a report assessing the impartiality of the BBC's coverage of the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

The panel, chaired by Sir Quentin Thomas, a senior figure in the British Home Office, found "identifiable shortcomings, particularly in respect of gaps in coverage, analysis, context and perspective and in the consistent maintenance of the BBC's own editorial standards."

The Thomas Report, as it became known, was quickly shoved under the carpet by the BBC, even though it had originally been commissioned by the corporation's own governors, and business continued as usual ("Report of the Independent Panel for the BBC Governors on Impartiality of BBC Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," April 2006, available on the Internet Archive).

In the last few days, the shortcomings highlighted in the report have never seemed so glaring.
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Star of David

Zionist cat got the BBC's tongue?

Stuart Littlewood
Veterans News Now
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:07 UTC
Israel’s Ambassador to Britain, Daniel Taub

Israel’s Ambassador to Britain, Daniel Taub
Israel's justification for latest assault on Gaza goes unchallenged

Recent scandals calling into question the news-handling skills of Britain's national broadcaster don't seem to have improved matters.

After being treated last night to footage of the slaying of Ahmed Jabari, the military leader of Hamas, by an Israeli assassin flying a drone from his armchair and violating Palestinian airspace, I woke this morning to the kind of crass reporting that has sadly become all too common at the BBC.

BBC Gives Israel's Ambassador free rein

It's flagship news programme Today ran a particularly idiotic item about Israel's unleashing of its latest offensive on Gaza and featured an 'interview' by John Humphrys with the Israeli ambassador to Britain, Daniel Taub. This latest escalation of violence, called Operation Pillar of Defence, had resulted in the killing of 12 Palestinians, including 5 civilians - 3 children, a pregnant woman and a 16 year old boy - and the wounding of dozens more, while 3 Israelis were killed.

Taub, the representative of a brutal occupying power, spoke of 800 missiles fired from Gaza since the beginning of the year but was not questioned about the number of rockets, bombs and tank shells delivered by Israel's high-tech military into the packed humanity of Gaza in the same period.

Taub wanted Israeli citizens to live in peace and quiet but wasn't asked why Palestinian citizens are not allowed to do the same.
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Bad Guys

Palestinian children are dying for Israeli votes, explains Max Blumenthal


RT News
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:03 UTC
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Question

Britain's chief rabbi: "I think it has got to do with Iran, actually."

Alan Hart
Veterans News Now
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:29 UTC
Britain's Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, answered a question honestly because he thought he was off the air.



There was a fascinating moment on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning when Britain's Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, answered a question honestly because he thought he was off the air. That was enough to cause a craven BBC (dictionary definition of craven - "cowardly") to apologize for the fact that one of its presenters had caught him off-guard. So what did he say?

He had just completed his on-air (live) contribution to the programme's two-minute Thought for Today slot. He spoke in support of the BBC's annual Children In Need appeal which, as he said, is focused on "the right of every child to be safe and secure and reach their own potential." Given that Israel's leaders have no qualms about impoverishing and killing Palestinian children, I would have been impressed if he had said "every child includes Palestinian children." But he didn't make any reference to them.

When the daily speaker comes to the end of his or her two-minutes, that's it. The presenter says "Thank you" and you hear no more from the speaker. But not this morning. Evan Davis, one of this morning's two presenters said, "Jonathan, before you go, any thoughts on what's going on in Israel and Gaza at the moment?"

After an audible sigh, the Chief Rabbi replied, "I think it has got to do with Iran, actually."
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Stormtrooper

Israeli ministers okay call up of 75,000 troops; "We're going to significantly aggravate the operation"

Itamar Eichner
Ynetnews
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:05 UTC
Prime Minister Netanyahu convenes his top nine ministers for special discussion on third day of Gaza op. 'We're going to significantly aggravate the operation,' state official says. Four terrorists killed in IDF strike in Gaza.

Israeli soldier
© Gil Yohanan
Security forces comb rocket landing area in Gush Etzion.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his nine top ministers for a special discussion Friday evening, on the third day of Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza.

Meanwhile, Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser conducted a telephone survey among the government ministers to approve the call up of 75,000 soldiers.

According to a state official, "We are going to significantly aggravate the operation."

Comment: From dictionary.com:
ag·gra·vate

1. to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: to aggravate a grievance; to aggravate an illness.
2. to annoy; irritate; exasperate: His questions aggravate her.
3. to cause to become irritated or inflamed: The child's constant scratching aggravated the rash.
Interesting choice of words from a psychopathic regime.

Interesting too the language used by the Israeli media to report an aggression on the oppressed ("terrorists", "terror targets").

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