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Major airlines suspend American and European flights to and from Israel

RT
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:08 UTC

A number of major US and European airlines are immediately suspending flights to and from Israel after a rocket attack near Ben-Gurion International Airport. US Airways, Lufthansa and Delta are some of the companies grounding their planes.

The decision was taken following a warning from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), after a rocket fell in the city of Yehud, which is just five kilometers from the airport, Haaretz reported.

The FAA has ordered US airlines not to fly to or from Ben Gurion Airport "for a period of up to 24 hours." Meanwhile, their European counterparts, the European Air Safety Agency (EASA) says it has issued a 'strong recommendation' to avoid Tel Aviv airport until further notice.

A Delta Boeing 747 from New York was flying over the Mediterranean Sea heading for Tel Aviv on Tuesday when it turned around and flew to Paris instead. Flight 468 had 273 passengers and 17 crew on board.

The Russian airline Transaero also decided to turn back a flight that was bound for Tel Aviv. Flight number 311 was en-route to the Israeli city but instead headed back to Moscow. A spokesman for the company said that Wednesday's flights to Israel have also been cancelled.

US Airways, which has one daily flight from Philadelphia, canceled that flight Tuesday and the return trip from Tel Aviv. It has relocated planes, which are currently at Ben-Gurion airport, according to Haaretz.

Comment: Flights cancelled for one rocket (whose?) near Tel Aviv / no flights cancelled over Gaza. Really? Is the FAA complicit in a high profile international propaganda stunt to influence opinion as to who is the victim in Gaza, knowing the EASA would follow suit? Or is this more false flag to camouflage that the "alleged" Hamas rockets are as absent and ineffective as Hamas claims? Could be both.

Israeli professor Mordechai Kedar suggests rape as 'terror deterrent'

Ori Kashti
Haaretz
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:32 UTC

"The only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be raped." This assertion was made by Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University on an Israel Radio program. "It sounds very bad, but that's the Middle East," added Kedar, of Bar-Ilan's Department of Arabic.

The program "Hakol Diburim" ("It's All Talk") was broadcast on July 1, immediately after the discovery of the bodies of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah, who were kidnapped and murdered in the West Bank. It dealt, among other things, with the question of how Hamas can be deterred.

"You have to understand the culture in which we live," said Kedar. "The only thing that deters [Hamas leaders] is a threat to the connection between their heads and their shoulders." When presenter Yossi Hadar asked if that "could filter down" the organization's ranks, Kedar replied: "No, because lower down the considerations are entirely different. Terrorists like those who kidnapped the children and killed them - the only thing that deters them is if they know that their sister or their mother will be raped in the event that they are caught. What can you do, that's the culture in which we live."

When Hadar said, "We can't take such steps, of course," Kedar continued: "I'm not talking about what we should or shouldn't do. I'm talking about the facts. The only thing that deters a suicide bomber is the knowledge that if he pulls the trigger or blows himself up, his sister will be raped. That's all. That's the only thing that will bring him back home, in order to preserve his sister's honor."

Comment: Just like the IDF can't and doesn't target civilians. Except it does. What Israel says and what it does are worlds apart.

Comment: Hadar's backtracking seems disingenuous at best. If he really thinks this is the only thing that will work to deter 'terror', does he really think the IDF won't use it? What kind of a mind even thinks in these terms?

Anonymous' cyberwar against the Israeli government, the inside story

Dana Liebelson
Mother Jones
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:25 UTC

The shadowy hacker outfit vows to make Israel "feel fear tingling in their servers."

The shadowy hacker collective known as Anonymous has announced it will launch a round of cyber-attacks this Friday against the Israeli government, in retaliation for Israel's ongoing military intervention in Gaza. This onslaught would add to a wave of cyber assaults staged in recent weeks by hackers largely from the Middle East, Asia, and South America, who are supporting "OpSaveGaza," an Anonymous-backed campaign targeting Israeli government websites that has succeeded in temporarily taking down the sites of the Israeli defense ministry and the Tel Aviv police department.

This isn't the first time Anonymous has zeroed in on Israel; the collective has been launching cyber-attacks against the country for several years, with mixed results. "As a collective 'Anonymous' does not hate Israel, it hates that Israel's government is committing genocide & slaughtering unarmed people in Gaza to obtain more land at the border," an Anonymous spokesperson, using the Twitter handle @YourAnonCentral, tells Mother Jones. The spokesperson notes that there has never been any Anonymous action taken against Palestinian targets, including Hamas, the outfit governing Gaza and launching rocket attacks against Israel.

The most recent round of cyber-attacks began in early July, and the Anonymous spokesperson claims that collective members sabotaged "thousands" of Israeli websites. Several of the sites targeted were indeed down recently. The International Business Times reported last week that "numerous Israeli government homepages have been replaced by graphics, slogans, and auto-playing audio files." On Monday, hackers leaked a list of log-in details they claim belong to Israeli government officials, but the government hasn't confirmed this

Comment: So far it is a "wait and see" as to how effective Anonymous can/will be in disrupting cyber security and making a statement. If successful, the group will deliver a strong message and create a degree of infrastructure havoc. At the least, they continue to draw attention to the sham of world politics and the state of humanity, more than most of us do in a lifetime.

Breaking News: TransAsia airplane crashes making emergency landing - 51 reported dead

RT.com
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:25 UTC

At least 40 people have been killed, after a TransAsia plane made an emergency landing in Taiwan's Penghu county, the Xinhua News ‏agency reports. A Taiwanese news agency reports that more than 51 people have been killed in the crash.

According to the commercial aircraft news portal Air Life Net as cited by AP, the aircraft was an ATR-72 belonging to TransAsia airways. Seven people were reportedly injured in the crash, which happened during an emergency landing.

Details to follow

The ten plagues that are hitting America right now

Michael Snyder
The End of American Dream
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:49 UTC

Why are so many plagues hitting the United States all of a sudden? Yes, one can always point out bad stuff that is happening somewhere in the country, but right now we are facing a nightmarish combination of crippling drought, devastating wildfires, disastrous viruses, dying crops and superbugs that scientists don't know how to kill.

And as you will see, we even have a plague of flies down in Mississippi. So what in the world is going on? Is this just a case of bad luck, or is something else happening?

At the conclusion of this article, please feel free to tell me what you think. The following are ten plagues that are hitting America right now...

Border Patrol agents hold Iowa Boy Scouts at gunpoint for taking a picture of them

Arturo Garcia
The Raw Story
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:23 UTC

Young Boy In A Field Looking Through Binoculars,

A Border Patrol agent allegedly held a member of an Iowa Boy Scout troop at gunpoint while another threatened another boy with arrest and a 10-year prison term for taking a picture of him, KCCI-TV reported.

The incident reportedly took place while members of Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111 and volunteers traveling with them were attempting to drive through the border between Canada into Alaska. Troop leader Jim Fox told KCCI that the group was detained and searched after the scout took the picture. The agent allegedly told Fox that the scout had committed a federal offense.

"The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison," Fox was quoted as saying.

Fox and his troop complied with the agent's order, but as another scout was unloading luggage from one of the group's vans, "He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here's this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man's head."

The troop was released after being detained for four hours, and made it back to Iowa this past Sunday.

Journalist attacked by 'angry Israeli' during on-air report near Gaza

RT
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:39 UTC

A BBC Arabic correspondent was attacked on air in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, just outside Gaza, while reporting on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The journalist, Feras Khatib, was wearing a PRESS vest during the live report in the Arabic language when a man, apparently an Israeli, approached and violently shoved him sideways, as seen on the video posted on YouTube.

The attacker was quickly pulled away from camera view by another member of the BBC team, while Khatib continued his reporting.

The incident took place in Ashkelon, just north of Gaza, according to a BBC Arabic spokesman. The attacker reportedly left right after the incident.

Khatib "was manhandled by an angry Israeli...Feras was unharmed and will continue reporting as normal," the channel said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's office in Gaza was fired at on Tuesday. The network blames Israel for the attack. "Two very precise shots were fired straight into our building," Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker said. "We are high up in the building so we had a very strong vantage point over the area. But we have evacuated."

Tuesday saw the Gaza conflict move into its third week. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the number of Palestinians killed has risen to 633 - the vast majority of whom are civilians.

Overall, five mosques, a sports stadium, and the home of a deceased Hamas military chief were hit on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, 29 Israelis have been killed - two of them civilians. Two soldiers were also killed on Tuesday, according to Tel Aviv. This death toll is the highest number of Israeli military deaths since the 2006 Lebanon war.

Comment: How dare this reporter attempt to tell the truth about Gaza!

Elderly veteran arrested for asking gov't officials to speak louder

RT
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:05 UTC

A 76-year-old military veteran was arrested for disorderly conduct at a public county board meeting for asking officials to speak up when they refused to use the microphones. The hearing was over a controversial new plant in the area.

The contentious meeting involved a group fighting a proposed US Nitrogen plant and its plans to build a pipeline that would empty into the nearby Nolichucky River in Greene County, Tenn. The meeting - promoted as being a public one - was Friday at 8 a.m., which citizens complained was designed to keep them from attending

In the meeting room, the county's board sat in a circle around a roped-off table at the front of the room, and did not use microphones or podium behind the table, several attendees said. At least four board members had their backs to the public viewing area.

"They, in writing, presented a 'public meeting', but did everything they could to confuse people as to when it would be, having during the worst time of day and while conducting it, making sure no could properly hear or understand what they were saying," Roberta Drake posted to the Save the Nolichucky Facebook page. "It was all a farce."

When citizens began complaining, Mayor Alan Broyles, who announced in January he would not be running for reelection, according to WJHL, warned, "If we have any more outbursts from the audience, you will be removed from the building."

At this point Eddie Bruce Overholt, who the Greeneville Sun describes as the owner of the popular CJ Papadops restaurant at Bybee and a well known figure in both Cocke County and western Greene County, stood up and said, "Would y'all speak up until the whole audience can hear you?"

Police, who were on standby at the meeting, then moved to Overholt and removed him from the room with his arms behind his back, as he asked, "Are you throwing me out from a public meeting?"

Malaysian experts arrive at MH17 scene; team leader praises "hell of a job" done by rebels at site

RT
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:19 UTC

© AFP Photo / Bulent Kilic
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and members of a forensic team inspect a refrigerator wagon containing the remains of victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez on July 21, 2014.

Malaysian aviation experts have arrived in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, to investigate the crash of the MH17 flight. Earlier local militia said they found presumed data recorders at the site and would hand them over to international investigators.

"Twelve aviation experts from Malaysia have safely arrived in Donetsk," Andrey Kavtaradze, a member of the DNR Security Council, said on Monday.

The experts are to investigate the causes of the catastrophe of the MH17 flight that crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. The self-defense forces said that they will assist them and could hand over the evidence they found at the scene - the aircraft parts looking like flight data recorders.

Comment: Compare this to all the BS lies about the rebels "blocking" the investigation. They did nothing of the sort. The investigators hadn't even arrived yet!

On Saturday, the Donetsk People's Republic's (DPR) Prime minister Aleksandr Boroday stated that these findings cannot be given to Kiev since they could possibly damage them to "falsify the results [of the recordings]."

Comment: Exactly. But you won't hear that in the MSM: in their eyes, DPR is already guilty.

Massachusetts Governor's offer to shelter immigrant kids compared to Jews turned away in 1939

Arturo Garcia
The Raw Story
Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:58 UTC

© guardianlv.com
Children from Central America have come to the U.S. in droves. Many come to escape the turmoil of poverty and violence in their own countries.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) announced a proposal on Friday for two military facilities to serve as host sites for some of the thousands of undocumented Central American immigrants who have come into the U.S. in recent months, saying the move falls in line with the country's tradition of helping children in need.

"We have rescued Irish children from famine, Russian and Ukrainian children from religious persecution, Cambodian children from genocide, Haitian children from earthquakes, Sudanese children from civil war, and New Orleans children from Hurricane Katrina," Patrick said. "Once, in 1939, we turned our backs on Jewish children fleeing the Nazis, and it remains a blight on our national reputation. The point is that this good Nation is great when we open our doors and our hearts to needy children, and diminished when we don't."

Patrick's remark alluded to the refusal on the part of U.S. in 1939 to allow a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees escaping the emerging Nazi regime in Germany to land on American shores. Belgium, France, Britain and the Netherlands subsequently took the refugees in.

CBS News reported in May that the U.S. also denied London stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winston's request that same year to provide asylum for 669 Czechoslovakian children - many of them Jewish - who were also fleeing from the Nazis. A memo from the State Department to the American embassy in London instructed embassy staff to tell him that the U.S. "unable, in the absence of specific legislation, to permit immigration in excess of that provided for by existing immigration laws." Those children were also taken in by Britain.

Comment: Flying in the face of all the lunacy at the Texas border, Governor Patrick is a breath of fresh air in offering a humanitarian housing solution to the children from Central America. Given current events, it was a counterpoint to hear from a local rabbi about these "precious souls of God"..."our task is to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly, and in that walk, may we walk alongside these precious children..." when other children are being starved, maimed, tortured, slaughtered or incinerated every day in Gaza by Israel. And, not one word spoken of them.

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Society's Child

Major airlines suspend American and European flights to and from Israel

Israeli professor Mordechai Kedar suggests rape as 'terror deterrent'

Anonymous' cyberwar against the Israeli government, the inside story

Breaking News: TransAsia airplane crashes making emergency landing - 51 reported dead

The ten plagues that are hitting America right now

Border Patrol agents hold Iowa Boy Scouts at gunpoint for taking a picture of them

Journalist attacked by 'angry Israeli' during on-air report near Gaza

Elderly veteran arrested for asking gov't officials to speak louder

Malaysian experts arrive at MH17 scene; team leader praises "hell of a job" done by rebels at site

Massachusetts Governor's offer to shelter immigrant kids compared to Jews turned away in 1939

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