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Video: Israeli war crimes in Gaza
AlJazeera.net
| A group of former Israeli soldiers say they have new evidence of potential war crimes committed by the Israeli army during the war on Gaza. These are not the first allegations of war crimes levelled at the Israeli military and the claims have sparked a bitter debate within Israel’s defence forces and wider society over the “morality” of the IDF and its behaviour in Gaza….
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A taperecording of Nadia Matar’s call for the assassination of Mahmoud Abbas
Mondoweiss
| A number of people have asked if I have a recording for the report that Israeli colonist Nadia Matar called for the killing of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas last night during a lecture at the Safra Synagogue on E. 63rd Street in New York. Here’s an audio, including about 10 minutes of the 1-1/2 hour lecture. At the beginning, a guy in the crowd (somewhat inaudibly) asks Matar, What do you do with a million Palestinians? Matar gives a rambling and hair-raising answer, most of which is here, including the statement that Israel should have kicked out all the Arabs in ’48 or ’67 and grabbed the Temple Mount, too…
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New Israeli minister calls for re-occupation of Gaza
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
| Matan Vilnai, the deputy Israeli defense minister under the newly-formed Israeli government, stated Sunday that he believes the Israeli military should re-occupy parts of the Gaza Strip with military force in order to stop the Palestinian resistance. “We need to conquer the areas from which mortar shells are being fired,” said Valnai in a speech at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel. He continued, “The mortar shel l is the main threat. They are (fired from) a limited (distance) of 5-6 km and we just need to be there.”..
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Mousawi, Freeman and Galloway: Three musketeers or stooges?
Sometimes good guys are tripped but still excel at the finish line
Franklin Lamb
| When Charles Freeman, a veteran diplomat slated to become the top U.S. intelligence analyst, withdrew from consideration on March 9, 2009 he released a statement denouncing the Israel Lobby for “character assassination.” “I have concluded that the barrage of libelous distortions of my record would not cease upon my entry into office. The effort to smear me and to destroy my credibility would instead continue. The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth”…
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Israel opens fire on Gaza
Sameh Akram Habeeb
| Israeli army launched several air attacks on the Gaza Strip. Khan Younis City mid of the occupied Gaza Strip faced heavy Israeli bombings from the naval forces in the western part. Meanwhile, Israeli troops based in the eastern part of the City was attacked by heavy gunfire and shells… The Israeli escalation comes within very hard time for Palestinians. The so-called ceasefire still imposing hard siege leaving more people in hunger and sentencing more people to death. Three P alestinians were killed yesterday due to inability of leaving abroad for treatment…
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Is America Already a Police State?
By Nathan Coe, GNN
| In the last eight years we have seen a slew of police state legislation, to the point that it has often been hard to keep up. By now, most take the Department of Homeland Security for granted, but the implications of its emergence should not be ignored. We’ve all, of course, heard of the PATRIOT Act*, though by now it is in the back of our minds, having been normalized in the discourse of the mainstream, corporate media. A few remember the ‘continuity of government’ me asures implemented during 9/11 (though few are aware that they were never revoked and instead left in place indefinitely). Many haven’t forgotten the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. Still, many Americans have lost track of the legislative developments, or assumed that the end of the Bush era meant the end of the era of police state preparations, which it obviously did not…
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Three patients die in Gaza due to the ongoing siege
Saed Bannoura – IMEM
| The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday that three patients died in Gaza hospitals after being barred from leaving the area for medical treatment abroad, and added that the number of patients who died due to the siege has now reached 311. The Ministry reported that the three patients died on Sunday due to the Israeli siege and the Egyptian insistence on keeping the Rafah Border Terminal sealed off. The ministry identi fied the three patients as Myassar Al Zamily, 24, and Jihad Al Aloul, both suffering heart failure, and Mariam Suleiman…
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Shalit supporters attack prisoners’ families near Tulkarem
Ma’an news
| A number of Israeli settlers attacked buses transporting relatives of Palestinian prisoners near the Hadarim jail close to Tulkarm on Monday. Ma’an’s correspondent in Tulkarem reported that more than twenty Israeli youths attacked the buses transporting the families through the At-Taiba crossing south of Tulkarem en route to Hadarim. The Israelis threw stones at them and attacked the buses with sticks, while they awaited an order to enter the prison, th e families explained…
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Lebanon blast kills PLO leader
AlJazeera.net
| At least four people, including a senior official from the Palestinian Fatah movement, have been killed in an explosion at a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, security officials say. A Fatah spokesman in the occupied West Bank said that Kamal Naji – also known as Kamal Medhat – had been “assassinated”. Naji was deputy representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon and a former Fatah intelligence chief. Munir Maqdah, who is in charge of security at t he Mieh Mieh camp near the city of Sidon, said that a roadside bomb had exploded as Naji’s convoy had passed on Monday…
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Israeli troops shut down press conference with injured American’s parents; beat activists
Ma’an news
| A woman and journalist were among those beaten by Israeli troops during a press conference held by the parents of critically wounded American peace activist Tristan Anderson Monday afternoon. Anderson had an Israeli tear-gas canister shot at his head in Ni’lin on 13 March, his skull shattered and several surgeries have left him semi-conscious in a Tel Aviv hospital. His parents arrived shortly after Tristan was hospitalize d. Israeli troops detained 11, including Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and Khaled Zabaka, in addition to three foreign activists…
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Judaization of Jerusalem
Mohammed Mar’i, Arab News
| The head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, said yesterday that Israeli authorities were planning to “evacuate and demolish 1,700 homes in East Jerusalem during the current year.” Salah, also the founder of the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage, said in a press statement that the Israeli authorities would demolish hundreds of houses in different parts of the city. “Israel is planning to build a police station of 140 sq uare meters adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” he said. According to Salah, Israel “has announced that it has earmarked $150 million to Judaize the Old City and to increase the number of synagogues around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”..
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Anti-Arab attacks ‘on the rise’ in Israel
| Anti-Arab verbal and physical attacks inside Israel have spiked in the wake of elections held earlier this year in which right-wing parties made major gains, a human rights group said on Sunday. The Mossawa Centre for the Rights of Arab Citizens in Israel has documented 250 incidents of aggression against Arab Israelis since the start of the year, compared to 166 in all of 2008, the group said in a report. “The physical and verbal aggression has increased mainly in cities with mi xed Arab-Jewish populations,” the report said…
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