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Attacks on Gaza Strip spark anti-Israel protests

Fars News Agency
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:05 UTC

People in different parts of the world staged demonstrations to condemn Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, specially the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

Rallies were held in London, New York City, Paris, Sydney, Beirut and Cairo against the ongoing assault by the Israel on the besieged Gaza Strip.

In New York, protesters gathered outside the Israeli Consulate on Thursday, calling for an immediate end to the attacks on Palestinians.

The protesters then marched to the Times Square and called on the US administration to stop supporting the Israeli regime.

Palestinian missiles hit Tel Aviv, city's underground bunkers opened

Press TV
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:36 UTC

The Israeli Iron Dome system fires to intercept incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, November 15, 1012. So far Iron Dome has proved a complete failure, with 80% of Hamas rockets getting through.

Several rockets fired from Gaza Strip have hit the Israeli capital, Tel Aviv, forcing police to open all underground bunkers in the city.

Two of the rockets have reportedly hit a commercial district in Tel Aviv, but there was no report of possible casualties. A number of rockets were also fired toward the Israeli parliament, Knesset.

Israeli police, however, claims that only one Palestinian rocket was fired at Tel Aviv, landing in the sea off the city.

Air raid sirens were also heard in the Israeli cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon and Be'er Sheva. There are reports of looting in Be'er Sheva as residents took cover in bunkers.

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

Press TV
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:28 UTC

Palestinian fighters have downed an Israeli warplane flying over the Gaza Strip as

File photo shows an Israeli F-16 fighter jet.

retaliatory rocket attacks from the enclave continue to sound alarms across Israel.

According to Hamas sources, the Israeli F-16 fighter jet was shot down on Friday.

Meanwhile, several Israelis were injured after three rockets fired from Gaza hit the Zionist settlement of Gush Etzion in al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Palestinian missiles and rockets have also hit the other Israeli cities of Tel Aviv, Eshkol, Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Be'er Sheva.

Hamas chief Jabari held 'peace deal' draft in his hands when IDF assassinated him

Russia Today
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:09 UTC

An Israeli peace activist says the Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari, assassinated at the start of Israel's offensive, was murdered amid talks on a long-term truce with Israel. For details, RT talks to peace activist Gershon Baskin.

Israeli officials talk long war in Gaza, prepare invasion

Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:37 UTC

Tanks and armored vehicles poured into southern Israel today while busloads of soldiers were brought to the front, as a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the first since early 2009, seems to be coming closer.

Air strikes have been a virtual constant against the tiny strip over the past day, with large numbers of civilian casualties and Israeli officials talking up the idea that the attacks are just the beginning.

Israeli officials have condemned Hamas for retaliating against their attacks, with Benjamin Netanyahu terming the retaliation a "double war crime." Officials say if Hamas continues to retaliate they will consider a ground invasion, but others have suggested they will keep launching air strikes whether Hamas reacts or not, and it seems increasingly that the timing of the ground invasion is just a question of getting reservists and other troops into the area, with a decision likely already made.

The Pentagon spends billions on bizarre "non-security" projects

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:57 UTC

From a workshop on whether Jesus' salvation would apply to aliens to determining the color of the feathers on a 150-million-year-old creature deemed the Earth's first bird, the Pentagon has spent money on some questionable projects, according to Sen. Tom Coburn.

At a time when many Republicans argue the Defense Department cannot afford new spending cuts, Mr. Coburn, Congress's top waste-watcher, released a report Thursday arguing that in fact the Pentagon is awash in billions of dollars of non-security spending that should be cut.

"The American people expect the Pentagon's $600 billion annual budget to go toward our nation's defense," the Oklahoma Republican said. "That isn't happening. Billions of defense dollars are being spent on programs and missions that have little or nothing to do with national security, or are already being performed by other government agencies."

Egyptian Prime Minister on rare Gaza visit amid continued fire

Xinhua
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil arrived in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip Friday morning for a solidarity visit to the territory, which Israel has been bombing for a third day.

Sources said Qandil crossed into Gaza through Rafah crossing on Gaza's southern border with Egypt.

Ziad al-Zaza, deputy of the de facto Hamas government's Prime Minister Ismail Haneya, received the Egyptian delegation. Haneya and other senior Hamas leaders have gone underground since the beginning of the Israeli military operation.

Israeli media reported earlier Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to halt airstrikes on the Gaza Strip for three hours during Qandil's visit, on condition that no rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel.

However, Israeli media reported at least 10 rockets fired at Israel's Eshkol region soon after Qandil's entry, with no injuries reported. Meanwhile, Israeli jets are also heard hovering over Gaza.

How sexy is Benghazi?

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:57 UTC

The Love Pentagon - as in the Petraeus-Broadwell-Kelley-Allen-FBI shirtless torso guy - is the farce that keeps on giving. But this should really not be about sex, lies and emails. This should be about Benghazi.

Scandal or not, General David Petraeus finally accepted to testify, at a still unspecified date, to the Senate Intelligence Committee, about the 9/11, 2012 attack on the US consulate in Libya in which ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed; he may eventually be asked about what the CIA had been up to before, during and after the attack.

As for President Obama, in his first press conference after re-election he has warned Republicans - who have been trying to twist Benghazi to their own purposes for weeks now - to "go after me"; for them to go after UN ambassador Susan Rice, "who had nothing to do with Benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received", and to "besmirch her reputation", that's "outrageous."

Palace Revolution

Justin Raimondo
AntiWar.com
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:03 UTC

First Petraeus, then Allen - who's next?

The political class is aghast at the spectacle of one after another of their holy icons falling: first it was David Petraeus, outed by a lone FBI agent in Tampa who took the discovery of his affair with Paula Broadwell to the House Republican leadership and effectively dynamited the CIA chieftain's career. Now it's Gen. John Allen, commander of US forces in Afghanistan: the discovery of his "thousands of pages of emails" to Jill Kelley - a 37-year-old looker whose complaints of email "harassment" garnered the full attention of the FBI and led to the downfall of Petraeus - has him in the dock.

Who's next?

One could easily succumb to the temptation to simply cackle, like Madame Defarge, and attend to one's knitting as heads roll. Rather than give in to such pure indulgence, however, this writer would much prefer to pursue the answer to a puzzling question: what is going on here? Is this just about the rutting habits of the lords and ladies of Washington, the national security realm's version of Days of Our Lives - or is what we're witnessing the equivalent of a palace revolution?

Israel would have us believe that these children are terrorists

Information Clearing House
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:34 UTC

Pictures of children killed and injured during the Israeli air strikes on Gazan civilians on November 14, 2012

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." - Rev. Martin Luther King

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Attacks on Gaza Strip spark anti-Israel protests

Palestinian missiles hit Tel Aviv, city's underground bunkers opened

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

Hamas chief Jabari held 'peace deal' draft in his hands when IDF assassinated him

Israeli officials talk long war in Gaza, prepare invasion

The Pentagon spends billions on bizarre "non-security" projects

Egyptian Prime Minister on rare Gaza visit amid continued fire

How sexy is Benghazi?

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Israel would have us believe that these children are terrorists

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