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Star of David

While the world is transfixed by Gaza protests, Israeli forces continue to invade Nabi Saleh in the West Bank

Anne Paq and Heidi Motola
Mondoweiss
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:13 UTC
Belal Tamimi israel soldier
© Anne PaqJanna Jihad Ayyad confronts Israeli soldiers invading her village of Nabi Saleh during clashes with youth, April 21, 2018. Janna who turned 12 counts herself among the youngest journalists in the world, and has been reporting about the situation in the village since she has been a very young child.
"What's happening now is what is happening every week, sometimes everyday, since nearly nine years", explains Belal Tamimi, a resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. "Every Friday, we have this situation, the soldiers try to surround the village, they don't want anyone to be near the spring area that the settlers occupied nine years ago. Every Friday, the situation is horrible", says Belal, who has taken the role of documenting the protests and the constant raids by the Israeli army.

Nabi Saleh, a small village of 600 inhabitants, has been recently in the headlines, following the arrest of the young activist, Ahed Tamimi (17), who slapped an Israeli soldier in front of her home last December. However, there is little attention to the fact that the village is regularly invaded by the Israeli army, days and nights, triggering clashes with the youth, who confront the soldiers with stones. The arrests takes place mostly during the nights and currently, according to Belal Tamimi, 19 residents of Nabi Saleh are imprisoned by the Israeli authorities.

Comment: The smirk on the soldier's face in the last photo says it all. The army is untouchable and they know it. So long as the US continues to enable Israeli criminality, the Palestinian people will continue to suffer.

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Pirates

'Nazi scum get out': Milo Yiannopoulos hounded out of NY bar by socialist mob


RT
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:24 UTC
Milo Yiannopoulos
© Lucas Jackson / ReutersMilo Yiannopoulos
Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was hounded out of a Manhattan pub on Sunday by a group of political activists and reporters. Video of the incident shows the left-leaning mob shouting: "Nazi scum get out" at Yiannopoulos.

According to reports, Yiannopoulos was patronizing an unnamed Manhattan pub that was also hosting a group of Democratic Socialists, who quickly spotted the controversial commentator and began jeering at him and his associate, Chadwick Moore.

Several journalists from outlets like the Nation and Gizmodo joined in on the "Nazi scum get out" chants, according to media reports and Milo's own retelling of the events.


Comment: It's quite a feat to turn a gay Jewish man married to a black man - into a white supremacist Nazi. The far left is acting out the very things they claim to condemn.

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Star of David

Video proves family's claim that unarmed Palestinian teen was far from border fence when executed by Israeli snipers


RT
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:30 UTC
palestinian teen executed idf
The fact that a 15yo Gaza boy was unarmed and rather far from a border fence didn't stop Israeli snipers from shooting him, a witness who filmed the act told RT, as grieving parents called the killing of their son an "execution."

Mohammed Ayoub was shot dead by an Israeli sniper on Friday, as the heated protests along the heavily fortified Israeli border with Gaza went into their fourth week. The so-called 'March of Return' protest is being staged as a desperate Palestinian claim to their former homes, appropriated from them by Israel in 1948. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, thousands of protesters have so far been injured - and almost 40 killed - as the rules of engagement allow the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) to use live fire against any rioters they deem dangerous.

The moment Ayoub was hit "with an explosive bullet in the head" was captured by a local cameraman, Abdul Hakim Abu Riyash, who told RT the teenager was nowhere near the frontline and rather "far away from the Israeli fence - about 200-300 meters."

"He was not a threat to the Israeli army and he was not making any movement that can be considered as a threat," the cameraman said, emphasizing that the 15-year-old "was participating in the march like everyone else."


Comment: Yes, the incident will be 'thoroughly checked'; IDF soldiers will be cleared of any wrongdoing and congratulated for doing such a fine job: Netanyahu: Israeli snipers are doing 'holy work'

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Vader

The failed US strike on Syria: Lies, deception and quiet desperation

Federico Pieraccini
The Duran
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:53 UTC
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At 4am on April 14, the United States, France and the United Kingdom executed a strike on Syria. The Syrian Free Press reported:
US Navy warships in the Red Sea and Air Force B-1B bombers and F-15 and F-16 aircraft rained dozens of ship- and air-launched cruise missiles down on the Syrian capital of Damascus, an airbase outside the city, a so-called chemical weapons storage facility near Homs, and an equipment-storage facility and command post, also near Homs.

B1-Bs are typically armed with JASSM cruise missiles, which have a 450 kg warhead and a range of 370 kms. US Navy warships launched Tomahawks, which have 450 kg warheads and an operational range of between 1,300 and 2,500 kms. The British Royal Air Force's contingent for the assault consisted of four Tornado GR4 ground-attack aircraft armed with the Storm Shadow long-range air-to-ground missile, which the UK's Defense Ministry said targeted 'chemical weapons sites' in Homs. These weapons have a range of 400 kms. Finally, France sent its Aquitaine frigate, armed with SCALP naval land-attack cruise missiles (SCALP is the French military's name for the Storm Shadow), as well as several Dassault Rafale fighters, also typically armed with SCALP or Apache cruise missiles.

According to the Russian defense ministry, the B-1Bs also fired GBU-38 guided air bombs. Undoubtedly wary of the prospect of having their aircraft shot down after Israel lost one of its F-16s over Syria in February, the Western powers presumably launched their weapons from well outside the range of Syrian air defenses, with all the targets located just 70-90 kms from the Mediterranean Sea, and having to fly through Lebanon first.
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Newspaper

Why are Trump & Russia the only thing we ever hear about in the media today?

Jennifer Breedon
RT
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:35 UTC
Trump Putin
© Jorge Silva / Reuters
The US seems to be going down a dangerous path where a handful of voices in the mainstream media dictate what "should" matter, and events of global importance are shunned in favor of anything that involves Trump or Russia.

A recent Gallup poll noted that Americans are losing confidence in mainstream media. As technology advances, so does knowledge. We are witnessing a greater capacity to achieve global knowledge than any generation before us. As such, we are not content to study history or lose ourselves in fiction: rather, we long for current events, relevant stories, and news about the world around us. Right now. Today.

So what happens when our sources of knowledge, with all the technological advances and communications at their disposal, decide what our news should be? In the United States and Europe, media outlets such as CNN and the BBC have eyes and ears all over the world. Reporters are provided stories of victories, triumph amidst adversity, and genocidal terrorist organizations intent on eradicating entire nationalities, ethnicities, and religious people in the name of service to a "god" they think desires that.

In my time traveling in the Middle East, it took one week to learn of a small village in northern Iraq where a mere 10 farmers fought off 70 Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants to provide their families time to escape before the terrorist organization invaded their home. They were victorious and nearly every family was able to escape before IS came back. Yet, to learn of this story, I was not even privy to the vast resources of a Western news outlet, so we can only imagine what foreign reporters and correspondents are able to learn every day.

Comment: One can't trust the mainstream news to report a story without some agenda behind it. The responsibility now falls on the public to take things into their own hands during this time of "information warfare".

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Attention

South Africa to make laws on black ownership of mines stricter


RT
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:10 UTC
mine shaft south africa
© Mike Hutchings / ReutersMine shaft, Westonaria, South Africa
South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources has filed an application reportedly seeking to make the country's laws on black ownership of mines stricter, by making black-owned stakes permanent.

Under the current legislation in the country's mining charter, white owners of mining companies are obliged to sell at least 26 percent of their companies to new black owners.

However, there is a so-called "once empowered, always empowered" principle, under which a company which has sold a required stake to a black owner and then bought it back remains compliant with the charter, despite losing its black ownership due to such an exit.
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Binoculars

Flashback Israeli regime has a "shoot to cripple" policy in the West Bank

Max Blumenthal
AlterNet
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:07 UTC
15 year old Palestinian, murdered by Israeli Sniper fire near the Gaza border
15 year old Palestinian, murdered by Israeli Sniper fire near the Gaza border
At 10 PM on August 8, a twenty-year-old resident of the Al Amari refugee camp named Muhammad Qatri arrived dead at the Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah. He had been killed by Israeli soldiers during a protest near the illegal West Bank settlement of Psagot - shot through the heart right on the spot on his shirt that read, "Gaza."

From the parking lot outside the hospital's emergency room, a group of men bellowed chants about the latest unarmed young man to fall before Israeli gunfire in an usually bloody few weeks. I arrived at the hospital gates with a colleague and met Dr. Rajai Abukhalil, a 26-year-old resident physician who had just phoned Qatri's father to deliver the bad news. Not even midway through his night shift, Abukhalil was already on his fifth coffee and still awaiting a free moment to take breakfast.

At a coffee kiosk behind the hospital's emergency room, Abukhalil told me Qatri's body arrived cold. The soldiers who killed him had apparently delayed his evacuation by at least an hour, possibly preventing the opportunity to save his life.

Most disturbing about the killing was how familiar scenes like it had become. According to Abukhalil, the Israeli army has exhibited a clear pattern of either shooting to kill or shooting to cripple over the past six months. Rather than disperse protests with traditional means like teargas and rubber coated metal bullets, the army has begun firing at protesters' knees, femurs, or aiming for their vital organs.

Comment: The policy is still in effect. The irony is that Israelis think they're civilized. They're not. They're barbarians.

See also: Israeli general confirms snipers have orders to shoot children - and defends them for it

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Israeli general confirms snipers have orders to shoot children - and defends them for it

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:43 UTC
Zvika Fogel
© WikipediaIsraeli Brigadier-General (Reserve) Zvika Fogel
An Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along Israel's boundary with Gaza shoot at children, they are doing so deliberately, under clear and specific orders.

In a radio interview, Brigadier-General (Reserve) Zvika Fogel describes how a sniper identifies the "small body" of a child and is given authorization to shoot.

Fogel's statements could be used as evidence of intent if Israeli leaders are ever tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court.

On Friday, an Israeli sniper shot dead 14-year-old Muhammad Ibrahim Ayyoub.

The boy, shot in the head east of Jabaliya, was the fourth child among the more than 30 Palestinians killed during the Great March of Return rallies that began in Gaza on 30 March.

More than 1,600 other Palestinians have been shot with live ammunition that has caused what doctors are calling "horrific injuries" likely to leave many of them with permanent disabilities.


Comment: What can you even say in response to a morally perverted human-shaped specimen like Fogel? Clearly, Israeli culture is incompatible with the values of the West - like due process and the sanctity of the individual. If the U.S. had any moral integrity, Israel would be next on the list for a little "freedom and democracy". But the U.S. just likes to virtue signal - it doesn't actually hold the values it professes in words. In fact, when it comes down to it, the values of the U.S. government are in line with those of the Israeli government. They're not human values; they're psychopathic, plain and simple.

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Arrow Down

Vigilante justice: Canadian man suspected of murdering indigenous healer strangled by mob of villagers in Peru


CTV News
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:05 UTC
shaman lomas peru
Shaman Olivia Arevalo Lomas was a well-known activist for the cultural rights of the Shipibo-Conibo indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon.
An Indigenous traditional healer's murder has sparked outrage in Peru, and a video has emerged showing a mob of villagers strangling the man they believed to be her killer.

That man has been identified in a statement from Peru's interior ministry as Canadian Sebastian Paul Woodroffe.

Relatives of Olivia Arevalo Lomas, 81, said that a foreigner had asked her for a healing session and then shot her to death.

The man's body was later found buried about one kilometre from Arevalo's home, and an autopsy showed he died by strangulation after receiving several blows.

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Question

Student says she was traumatized after Underground Railroad reenactment

Nicole Rojas
Newsweek
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:07 UTC
McKinley Junior High School Illinois
© GoogleA student at McKinley Junior High School in South Holland, Illinois, claims she was left "traumatized" after participating in an Underground Railroad simulation with her classmates.
An Illinois mother claimed her 11-year-old daughter was traumatized during a camping trip designed to teach students about the Underground Railroad.

Dawn Peterson said daughter Bailey Peterson participated in McKinley Junior High School's annual trip to Nature's Classroom Institute in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. During the trip, students studied nature, conducted science experiments and participated in an Underground Railroad simulation, WSL-TV reported.

Bailey and about 70 other sixth graders from the South Holland school attended the four-day trip in March. "I did have fun. It's just what happened that drove me away from being excited about it," Bailey told the news station.
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