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Press TV's Gaza correspondent breaks down while covering Israeli killing of Palestinian children


Rainbow

Building bridges: Putin hopes to strengthen Russia's business contacts with Argentina

Putin and Christina de Kirchner
© AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service
Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that his talks with Argentine President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner will open new opportunities for building strategic partnership between the two countries.

"I am convinced that the results of today's talks will open up new opportunities for building strategic partnership between our two countries; strengthen business and creative contacts and promote further interaction in the international arena," President Putin said at dinner which the president of Argentina had given in honour of the Russian guest.

President of Uruguay Jose Mujica was also present at dinner at the invitation of Argentina's president.

"I am very pleased to note that today's talks passed in an atmosphere of full understanding. Openness, sincerity and trust are the distinguishing features of our multi-dimensional contacts. I am sure that this is a solid foundation for strengthening further cooperation between our countries and peoples," Putin said, thanking the Argentine leader for the warm reception given to the Russian delegation.

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Playing with fire! Ukrainian shell kills one, wounds two in house in Russia's Donetsk

Ukraine shells Russian border village
© ITAR TASS / Andrey Kronberg
One person died and two were wounded as Ukraine's shell hits a house in Russia's city of Donets, a source at law enforcement authorities told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee are working in the Rostov region, where a shell from Ukraine hit a house, the authority's press service reports.

The source added the shell from the Ukrainian territory had fallen in the garden of a house.

"One person died there," the source said.

The incident happened in the Dvadtsatka settlement, the source said.

Authorities of Russia's Rostov region (bordering Ukraine) have confirmed a Ukrainian shell hit a private house and killed one Russian citizen, representative of the local government Aleksandr Titov said on Sunday.

He said the Ukrainian shell had damaged two private houses, not one, as it was announced earlier.

"At about 09:02 from Ukraine into the territory of the city of Donetsk (Rostov region) came a shell. Damaged were two private houses in Baltiyskaya Street. One Russian citizen, born in 1967, was killed," the official said.

Comment: It appears that Ukraine is looking for trouble: First warning! Russia demands Ukraine stop shelling of Russian territory


Heart - Black

Blackheart Lady: Margaret Thatcher 'personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers

The Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a meeting with a rising star, who was tipped for promotion, and told him: "You have to clean up your sexual act".
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher personally covered up child abuse ­allegations made against one of her senior ministers, according to explosive new claims.

The Sunday People reports Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a high-powered meeting with the rising star, who was being tipped for promotion, and told him: "You have to clean up your sexual act."

It followed an allegation that the minister had sexually abused young boys at the home of one of his political allies in 1982.

However the minister apparently ignored the warnings.

It is claimed that four years later he was spotted by police seeking young boys for sex at Victoria railway station in London.

But no action was taken.

The extraordinary claims - made to the Sunday People by a source with inside knowledge of Scotland Yard in the early 1980s - are now expected to be put before the Westminster child abuse ­inquiry announced last week by the Prime Minister.

Star of David

Former Pink Floyd frontman sparks fury by [accurately] comparing Israelis to Nazis

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Roger Waters said the parallels between Israel and Germany in the 1930s were 'crushingly obvious'. He's absolutely right.
Remarks by the musician Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd, comparing the modern Israeli state to Nazi Germany have put him at the centre of a furious dispute.

Performers and religious figures reacted angrily to the veteran rock star's argument that Israeli treatment of the Palestinians can be compared to the atrocities of Nazi Germany. "The parallels with what went on in the 1930s in Germany are so crushingly obvious," he said in an American online interview last week.

Waters, 70, a well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, has frequently defended himself against accusations that he is antisemitic, claiming he has a right to urge fellow artists to boycott Israel.

Rocket

Water supply cut off to Hamas head's neighborhood

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© www.truthrevolt.orgIsraeli Defense Forces cut water supply to homes of top Hamas officials in Shati.
No showers at home for Ismail Haniya. Experts say the IDF is targeting Hamas officials' homes, like it did in 2006 against Hizbullah.

Ismail Haniyeh
© www.imemc.orgIsmail Haniyeh, Hamas Prime Minister
The IDF is purposely targeting the homes of top Hamas officials, experts say. According to commentary on Israeli media Wednesday, the water supply at the "refugee camp" neighborhood of Shati in Gaza has been cut off by the Israeli attacks.

This is seen as personally targeting Hamas "Prime Minister" Ismail Haniya, who lives in Shati. As an expert said - Haniya will not be showering in his home in the coming days.

Another expert noted that a similar strategy was pursued by the IDF in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, in which the entire Beirut neighborhood that housed Hizbullah's men - the Dahia - was turned to rubble.

However, Israel is still not targeting civilian infrastructures such as water and electricity in a way that would create large scale pressure on the Hamas leadership. The Chairman of Israel Electric Company, Yiftah Ron-Tal, said Wednesday that he supports cutting off electricity to Gaza - currently supplied by Israel. He noted that the Palestinians owe the IEC a large debt that they are not paying.

Deputy Transprt Minister Tzipi Hotovely also told Channel 2 that it is time for Israel to stop supplying Gaza with electricity and water.

Comment: The real shower, unfortunately, is from rocket fire and both sides will most likely "take a bath." Israel plans to hit the area with heavy force as it steps up an offensive against Gazan "militants" similar to the 2006 conflagration with Hizbullah in Lebanon that ended in utter devastation and high civilian casualties. Netanyahu: "We develop defensive systems against missiles in order to protect our civilians and they use their civilians to protect their missiles." Same difference: missiles are fired and civilians die.


Bizarro Earth

Islamic State growing in strength - 1,000-strong Syrian rebel brigade defects

syrian brigade defects
© Reuters / Alaa Khweled
An entire 1,000-strong rebel brigade based in Syria's Idlib province has reportedly defected to the Islamic State group, raising new questions as to whether other factions will rally behind the militant force that has swept through Iraq's west.

The Dawud Brigade, which was based in Sarmin and fell under the umbrella of the anti-government Sham Army, arrived in the northeastern city of Raqqa last weekend, the main headquarters for the Islamic State (IS) - previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL).

The rebel group arrived in a convoy of over 100 vehicles, including 10 tanks seized from Syrian government forces, McClatchy reported quoting anti-government activists as saying on Tuesday. Syrian journalist Ammar Abu Shahin said that an increasingly complex relationship between anti-government rebel groups prompted Dawun Brigade's leader, Hassan Abboud, to head to Raqqa.

"Frankly speaking, people in the countryside of Idlib are in a real panic about the advancement of the Islamic State," said Shahin.

According to the journalist, who is familiar with the dynamics between pro-Western Syrian rebels and more radical Islamist elements, the decision by the brigade to formally align itself with the Islamic State was "only a change in uniform," suggesting that groups already sympathetic could well identify themselves and also head for its Raqqa headquarters.

Comment: All the hand-wringing over the Islamic State by western powers is just for show. This has been a Western op from the beginning.
  • NATO created Iraqi militant group ISIS execute 1,700 Iraqi soldiers, post gruesome pictures
  • NATO's terror hordes in Iraq to be a pretext for Syria invasion
  • US in Iraq: Geopolitical arsonists seek to burn the whole region
  • VIDEO: U.S. fighting alongside ISIS, playing both sides of the conflict
Yet, things appear to be spiraling out of the handsof the PTB who hoped to control the energy resources of the Middle East. Wishful thinking will get you every time, as the monster may be slipping its leash:
  • Iraq blowback: Major oil companies evacuating personnel over fears ISIS targeting oilfields
  • Did Obama know that ISIS planned to invade Iraq?



Eye 2

Bibi blusters: Nothing will stop our genocidal mission, not even international law

Netanyahu
© AFP Photo / Gali TibbonArch-demon Ben Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the defense ministry in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on July 11, 2014.
The legality of Israel's Operation Protective Edge, which entered its fifth day on Saturday, has been questioned by the UN's humanitarian chief. But Israel's prime minister has said that no international pressure will stop the offensive.

Under international law, Israel must make sure its attacks are proportional, avoid civilian deaths, and identify military versus civilian objects on the ground, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Friday.


Comment: None of which Israel puts even the slightest effort into doing. In fact, she actively does the opposite: responds with disproportionate force, targets civilians to murder, and targets civilian objects and infrastructure.


"We have received deeply disturbing reports that many of the civilian casualties, including of children, occurred as a result of strikes on homes. Such reports raise serious doubt about whether the Israeli strikes have been in accordance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law," Pillay said in a statement.

The Palestinian death toll rose to at least 106 people early Saturday, as Israel continued its airstrikes for the fourth consecutive day, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. At least 75 of those killed are civilians, including 23 children, Reuters quoted medical officials in Gaza as saying.

Meanwhile, there haven't been any casualties in Israel, with only nine civilians injured, Pillay's office said, citing media reports. Earlier, Israeli officials reported that two soldiers had been wounded.

Comment: Vice, Gantz, Netanyahu and the whole bunch do not deserve to be in the positions they have. If there was any justice in the world, they would be rotting in prisons.


Sherlock

Amnesty International: UN must urgently investigate war crimes in Israeli-Gaza conflict

Rafah
© Reuters/Abed Sha'atSmoke and flames are seen following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip July 11, 2014.
Amnesty International (AI) has urged the UN to urgently mandate an independent international investigation into Israeli airstrikes on Gaza as well as Palestine's indiscriminate shelling of Israel, and hold accountable those responsible for war crimes.

Despite claims by Israel that its operation "Protective Edge", launched June 8, targets Hamas militants, most of more than a hundred Palestinians killed in airstrikes on Gaza are civilians, Amnesty says, adding that at least 24 children and 16 women were among the casualties.

Simultaneously, at least 20 people in Israel have been wounded by rocket attacks from Palestinian territories, according to the human rights watchdog, calling on the UN to set up a "fact-finding mission to Gaza and Israel to investigate violations of international humanitarian law by all parties to the conflict."

"Swift UN action is needed as lives hang in the balance," said Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Amnesty International. "The international community must not repeat previous mistakes, standing by and watching the devastating consequences for civilians of both sides."

Amnesty sees arms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian military groups as a means of preventing the violence escalating further.

Star of David

60 seconds to live: IDF "knocks" on Palestinian civilian homes before obliterating them 1 minute later

While the IDF is ignoring allegations that it targets civilian homes (because it is obvious that they are) IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said it uses phone calls and "drops empty shells on roofs" - what it calls "roof knocking" - to warn civilians that air strikes are imminent.

Speaking to US media recently, Learner said that "in one case, members of a family returned to a house in Gaza shortly after having been warned to evacuate it and they were caught in the air strike."

Silly Palestinians. I mean, surely 60 seconds is more than enough for anyone to gather the children, grandparents, pack all important items and leave your house and be at a safe distance before a massive bomb blows it to pieces?! Israel has to 'defend itself' in this way after all, and Palestinians should understand that and not be so stupid as to return to their houses after they receive the neighborly warning that its time to leave!

Check out the "empty shell" that the IDF dropped on this Palestinian home a few days ago to warn the civilians inside that their home would be obliterated 60 seconds later.


This is terrorism by ANY definition of the word.