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Best of the Web: Israeli pathological war in photos: Israel relentlessly bombs Gaza, West Bank protests repressed


The Electronic Intifada
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:47 UTC
Hanen Tafesh
© Majdi Fathi / APA images)The mother of 10-month-old Hanen Tafesh, killed the day before in an Israeli air strike, mourns over her daughter’s body before her funeral in Gaza City, 16 November.
Israel has shown no mercy in its bombing of the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip, as airstrikes and shelling entered into the fifth day on Sunday (see previous photostory documenting the run-up to and first days of the assault). Israel has reportedly approved the drafting of 75,000 reservists, though so far there has been no ground invasion.

With nearly 50 fatalities in Gaza since Israel's breaking of a tenuous ceasefire on Wednesday, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday that Gaza's hospitals "are overwhelmed with casualties from Israel's bombings and face critical shortages of drugs and medical supplies," according to the Reuters news agency ("Gaza hospitals stretched, need supplies to treat wounded: WHO").

Reuters adds: "the WHO, quoting Health Ministry officials in Gaza, said 382 people have been injured - 245 adults and 137 children." Gaza's health facilities were already "severely over stretched mainly as a result of the siege of Gaza," the UN organization said.
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Israel-Gaza conflict: Psychopathic "Gates of Hell"


YouTube
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
Will the crisis in Gaza escalate? Should we expect a ground incursion? What does Israel hope to achieve with its military assault this time? How well is Gaza prepared for another conflict? And do the Palestinians have the right to use military force to resist Israel's siege of Gaza? CrossTalking with Norman Finkelstein, Dan Pollak and Harry Fear.

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Best of the Web: Israel and the U.S. CREATED Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda

WashingtonsBlog
Washington's Blog
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:17 UTC
Hamas
Israel created Hamas
Creating the Enemies We Now Fight Against

We've extensively documented that the U.S. and Israel created Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in an attempt to fight other enemies.

Larry Johnson - a counterterrorism official at the U.S. State Department - says:
The Israelis are their own worst enemies when it comes to fighting terrorism. They are like a guy who sets fire to his hair and then tries to put it out by hitting it with a hammer. They do more to incite and sustain terrorism than curb it.
As one example, Israel helped create Hamas.

Veteran journalist Robert Dreyfuss writes:
In the decades before 9/11, hard-core activists and organizations among Muslim fundamentalists on the far right were often viewed as allies for two reasons, because they were seen a fierce anti-communists and because the opposed secular nationalists such as Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh.

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In Syria, the United States, Israel, and Jordan supported the Muslim Brotherhood in a civil war against Syria. And ... Israel quietly backed Ahmed Yassin and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West Bank and Gaza, leading to the establishment of Hamas.
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War Whore

Israel ready to expand Gaza offensive, says Netanyahu

Harriet Sherwood, Peter Beaumont and agencies
Guardian
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:37 UTC
Israeli prime minister says Israel is prepared for 'significant' widening of Gaza operation as bombardment enters fifth day

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© RONEN ZVULUN/ReutersIsraeli soldiers prepare for mass murder near the Gaza Strip, November 16, 2012.
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has said it is prepared for a "significant" widening of its Gaza offensive as the bombardment entered its fifth day.

The Palestinian death toll since the conflict began on Wednesday topped 50 after a night of sustained bombing that killed seven civilians, including five children, according to a Gaza health official. Two children died and 12 people were injured when two houses were hit in northern Gaza.

Shells fired from Israeli gunboats off the coast pummelled Gaza for an hour in the middle of the night, causing massive explosions, and six people were injured when two Israeli war planes hit media buildings in Gaza City.

Netanyahu told the Israeli cabinet in remarks broadcast on Sunday: "We are exacting a heavy price from Hamas and the terrorist organisations and the Israel Defence Forces are prepared for a significant expansion of the operation."
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War Whore

Obama: Israel has 'every right' to defend itself from Gaza missile attacks

Shawna Thomas
NBC News
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:43 UTC
President Barack Obama said Sunday that Israel has "every right" to defend itself against missile attacks by militants inside Gaza but warned that escalating the offensive with Israeli ground troops could undermine any hope of a peace process with the Palestinians.

"Let's understand what the precipitating event here that's causing the current crisis and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles that were landing not just in Israeli territory but in areas that are populated, and there's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders," Obama said at press conference in Thailand at the start of a three-nation tour in Asia.

"So we are fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on people's homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians."

He added: "Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory. If that can be accomplished without a ramping up of military activity in Gaza, that's preferable. It's not just preferable for the people of Gaza. It's also preferable for Israelis, because if Israeli troops are in Gaza, they're much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded."

Comment: Obama "warned that escalating the offensive with Israeli ground troops could undermine any hope of a peace process with the Palestinians."

Mr. Obama, to what peace process are you referring to (Security Council resolutions, Arab-Israeli Accords, road-map to peace, Geneva Peace conference)? The list is long, as are the years of U.S. lies and bowing to Israeli aggression(s) toward her neighbors. Also, how is Israel defending itself, if they are in fact "escalating the offensive"? It's 'cause Israel has been on the offensive since the mid-1940s!
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#GazaUnderAttack: Names and ages of Palestinians killed by Israelis in 'Operation Pillar of Cloud' to date

Shahd Abusalama
Palestine From My Eyes
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:56 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Said KhatibFamily members shout in grief as they carry the body of two-year-old Palestinian Walid Abadleh, killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes, during his funeral in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis on November 15, 2012.
Because we are NOT just numbers, keep following this post of the names and ages of murdered people who fell victim during the Israeli attacks on Gaza since Wednesday. The number rises to 53 and still rising :( I hope that this battle will cost us no more souls. However, nothing will depress us, no matter how much Israel escalates its inhumanity and crimes. We'll remain ready to pay any price for attaining of freedom and dignity. RIP!

1- Ahmad Al-Ja'bary, 52 years old.
2-Mohammed Al-hams, 28 years old.
3- Rinan Arafat, 7 years old.
4- Omar Al-Mashharawi, 11 months old.
5-Essam Abu-Alma'za, 20 years old.
6-Mohammed Al-qaseer, 20 years old.
7- Heba Al-Mashharawi, six-month pregnant, 19 years old.
8- Mahmoud Abu Sawawin, 65 years old.
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Pirates

CIA plot against Correa funded by drug money

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:48 UTC
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Correa, man of the people: how long before the US ousts him too?
Hillary Clinton is repeating the methodology of the Iran/Contra affair, using "black" funds to finance the operation to ensure President Correa is not re-elected.

I had two excellent sources for the news that the US/UK strategy against Julian Assange was to ensure the defeat of President Correa in Presidential elections next spring, and then have him expelled from the Ecuadorean Embassy. One source was within the UK civil service and one in Washington. Both had direct, personal access to the information I described. Both told me in the knowledge I would publish it.

Of course Assange is not the only reason Clinton wants rid of Correa; but it adds spice and urgency.

We now have completely independent evidence from Chile that this CIA operation exists, from journalists who were investigating a smuggling operation involving 300 kg per month of cocaine, organised by the Chilean army and security services.
The links to US intelligence emerged after an anonymous source from the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia (ANI) told Panoramas News that the smuggling of 300 kilos of cocaine was in fact a highly sensitive CIA/DEA operation that would help to raise money to topple the government of Ecuador. The operation is similar to the one carried out by the Agency in Central America during the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980's, the source said.
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Propaganda

No witnesses: Israeli air strikes hit media centres in Gaza City

Harriet Sherwood
Gaza City
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:19 UTC
Six injured as strikes target buildings housing media organisations including Sky News, al-Arabiya and al-Quds TV

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© Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesSmoke rises after an Israeli air strike on an office of Hamas television channel al-Aqsa in Gaza City.
Israeli military planes struck two media headquarters in Gaza City in the early hours of Sunday morning, injuring six people including a cameraman, who lost a leg.

A number of media organisations are based in the al-Shawa building, including al-Quds television, which is associated with Islamic Jihad. Khader al-Zahhar, a cameraman with al-Quds TV, had his leg amputated as a result of injuries sustained in the attack.

A second air strike struck another media complex in the city, the al-Shuruq building. It houses Sky News, the al-Arabiya news network, Dubai TV and an office of al-Aqsa TV, which is affiliated with Hamas.

Sky News reporter Sam Kiley was sleeping in the offices when the missile struck shortly before 7am. "The missile hit the floor above us. There was a big flash of light and the sound of breaking glass."

In a statement, the Israeli Defence Forces said: "A communications antenna used by Hamas to carry out terror activity against the state of Israel, was ... targeted."

Comment: This was no accident. The IDF itself admitted as much through their Tweeter account:
The sites that we targeted overnight were all positively identified by precise intelligence over the course of months.
Of course, it is harder to bomb civilians "back to the Middle Ages" when the global press is looking.

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Right to defend itself? Israel interior minister says goal is to send Gaza "back to Middle Ages"

Brett Wilkins
Digital Journal
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:52 UTC
Eli Yishai
Israel's interior minister and final solution promoter Eli Yishai.
Israel's interior minister has publicly vowed to "send Gaza back to the Middle Ages" as the aerial and naval bombardment of the besieged enclave, as well as the Palestinian rocket barrage against Israel, continued into Sunday.

"The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages," Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai, a member of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, said, according to the leading Israeli daily Haaretz.

"Only then will Israel be calm for 40 years." The Orthodox Jewish news site Yeshiva World News also quoted Yishai as saying, "We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water."

There was no calm in Gaza as 'Operation Pillar of Defense,' Israel's air and sea bombardment of the densely populated enclave, entered its fifth straight day on Sunday. Israel has carried out 950 air strikes targeting Palestinian militants who have launched more than 500 rockets into Israel during the course of hostilities.

Reuters reports that the Palestinian death toll stood at 47 going into Sunday morning. Around half of those deaths were civilians, including 12 children. Gaza health officials said that 385 Palestinians have been wounded.
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Toward the final solution: For Netanyahu, Gaza escalation could pave the way to Iran strike

Amir Oren
Haaretz
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:52 UTC
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© ReutersAn Iranian-made Shahab long-range missile
Until this week, Prime Minister Netanyahu took pride in never having lead Israel into a war. Now he may be on the verge of starting not one but two.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have not given up the dream of carrying out a major operation in Iran. For some time, prior to the recent American election, they were in disagreement: Barak was against creating facts on the ground which President Barack Obama would be forced to deal with, whereas Netanyahu entertained the idea of exploiting the sensitive political period preceding what he thought would be the surefire victory of his esteemed ally, Mitt Romney.

As the election there recedes into history while ours approaches, this twosome is going back to dealing with the Iran plan - which is one that will necessarily influence the character of the next Knesset and government.

For Netanyahu, Operation Pillar of Defense is not a baptism of fire. Sixteen years have passed since the opening of the Western Wall tunnel in September 1996, an act that escalated events on the ground (called "Hot Iron" at the time by the Israel Defense Forces ). Netanyahu - at the time a novice, arrogant prime minister - took a public beating so painful that he was forced to revoke his refusal to make concessions to PLO leader Yasser Arafat concerning Hebron. Since then, throughout seven years of power during two terms in office, Netanyahu has kept his fingers off the trigger, and has even been proud of his restraint.
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