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Stop the Attack on Gaza EMERGENCY DEMO @ Israeli Embassy

category dublin | anti-war / imperialism | event notice author Wednesday November 14, 2012 21:46author by T

Please take to the streets tomorrow (Thursday) to protest this outrageous attack on the already besieged Palestinian population in Gaza. We must demand an end to such actions and that our government and the international community take meaningful concrete steps to end Israeli impunity once and for all.

Assemble at 5.30pm at the Israeli Embassy, 122 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 on Thursday 15th November.

Today Israel launched what it termed ‘Operation Pillar of Cloud’ on the population of Gaza. In reality this is just the continuation of a week of military assaults on Gaza which in total have left at least 16 people dead, including 5 children, and scores wounded. Today alone, reportedly at least 9 people were killed, including 2 children. An Israeli military spokesperson said this is was the beginning of a “widespread campaign” on Gaza.

Bring flags, banners, noise.





Ed: Continuous updates on Twitter at: #GazaUnderAttack

Comments (69 of 69)

 
author by Here we gopublication date Thu Nov 15, 2012 08:45author address author phone

After a week of constant bombardment, Israel finally retaliates. Where was all the noise, banners and rent a crowd for those victims or do jewish victims not matter. Pathetic.

author by Elricpublication date Thu Nov 15, 2012 15:32author address author phone

The Zionist heartland isn't so safe anymore.

The Israeli army says a rocket has struck near a southern suburb of Tel Aviv. No injuries have been reported.
http://rt.com/news/rocket-suburb-tel-aviv-791/

author by Elricpublication date Thu Nov 15, 2012 15:40author address author phone

The wreckage of the apartment block in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi hit by a Hamas rocket. Three people were killed in the explosion because they did not make it to the building’s fortified stairwell.

Israelis will pay a high price for the murder of Palestinian children.

soldierdamagedfiredsouthern.jpg

author by Elricpublication date Thu Nov 15, 2012 15:44author address author phone

BBC correspondent Jihad Masharawi weeps as he cradles his 11-month-old son in his arms after he was burned alive during an Israeli rocket attack.

BBC correspondent Jihad Masharawi weeps as he cradles his 11-month-old son in his arms after he was burned alive during an Israeli rocket attack.
BBC correspondent Jihad Masharawi weeps as he cradles his 11-month-old son in his arms after he was burned alive during an Israeli rocket attack.

author by Elricpublication date Thu Nov 15, 2012 15:48author address author phone

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Ahmad Jaabari, head of the military wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades, during his funeral in Gaza City, on November 15, 2012.

His death will be avenged.

palestiniancarrybodyahmad.jpg

author by Here we gopublication date Thu Nov 15, 2012 16:32author address author phone

This is what Hamas rockets do, luck child to be still alive, however an eight month pregnant womand died

A Hamas Target 15 November 2012
A Hamas Target 15 November 2012

author by Newsnightpublication date Thu Nov 15, 2012 20:36author address author phone

With an election around the corner the Israeli terrorist state murder innocent children. Four years ago before another election the Israeli State did exactly the same thing and murdered over a thousand innocent civilians and children and illegally used chemical warfare against a civilian population. The strategy of bombing Gaza does not make Israel safer. Its an election stunt by a terroist regime. All trade between the EU and Israel should be stopped immediately.

This child is lucky to be alive
This child is lucky to be alive

This child died , murdered by the Israeli State
This child died , murdered by the Israeli State

author by fredpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 01:26author address author phone

We need tough eu sanctions on Israel and a no fly zone to protect Palestinian civilians!
the Israelis have both chemical and nuclear weapons and have used illegal white phosphorous on civilian populations before.

we need regime change of this bellicose Israeli government. We should supply high tech weapons to dissidents in israel, control the media propaganda message across most tv channels to present Israel in a terrible light and foment dissent among the population to bring change and netenyahu must go at all costs.

Oh wait... that formula was only for Syria and Libya!

author by Elricpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 01:39author address author phone

Watching BBC news now. Rockets hitting Tel Aviv.

author by Elricpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 01:56author address author phone

Full text & vid at link.

A rocket has hit Tel Aviv. The sound of an explosion and air raid sirens were heard throughout the city. There are no reports of injuries or damage. It was the second rocket to land in the greater Tel Aviv area on Thursday.

A siren warning residents of incoming rockets was heard in the Tel Aviv area at around 6:45pm on Thursday. An explosion was reportedly heard shortly after.

RT correspondent Tom Barton said he heard the sirens and the explosion while reporting from central Tel Aviv.

“The sirens sounded, much to our disbelief. We didn’t expect sirens to be heard this far away from Gaza. It’s never happened before,” he said.

Today marks the first time air raid sirens were set off in Tel Aviv since the 1991 Gulf War.


Related Link: http://rt.com/news/rocket-suburb-tel-aviv-791/
author by fredpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 02:01author address author phone

Putin tells Netanyahu to avoid escalation of Mideast violence

http://arabia.msn.com/news/world/608354/putin-tells-net...ence/

At least it might slow down this warhawk nutjob a little and maybe give his US facilitators some food for thought

author by Zionism=Racismpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 02:39author address author phone

As with all commentary by Pro-Israel people, the wider narrative was of course completely absent in the earlier pro Israel comments made by "Here we go"

See for example: .A weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory - For week of 08-13th Nov-2012 _ http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?view=articl...ntent

According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, in the six days before this new orgy of Israeli violence,
Israel murdered



All reasonable timelines of events [A,B], easily checkable by western journalists, demonstrate this [C], as well as Israel’s habitual contempt for ceasefires [D]

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[A] - See Timeline here: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/blog_comme...inder)

[B] - Electronic Intifada Timeline here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-is...eline

[C] - http://imeu.net/news/article0023227.shtml

[D] - http://imeu.net/news/article0022250.shtml

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 02:44author address author phone

A BBC journalist in Gaza, Jihad Misharawi, also lost two children in the Israeli terrorism.

One, Omar, aged 11 months, died of severe burns, and his elder brother Ali, aged four years, was critically injured.

But true to its history of pro-Israeli reporting, the BBC took its time to report this, leaving it to other media, such as the Telegraph, to run the story first. Instead, the BBC chose to lead with the report that three Israelis had been killed in retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza, downgrading the news of dead Palestinian children, pregnant women and other civilians.

author by fredpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 07:25author address author phone

Irish times does the same.

Big picture of Israelis "cowering in fear" in a bunker on the front page. Guess whose side they are on?

I guess killing a political leader during a cease fire seems incidental.

Imagine if the russians killed obama in a drone strike, what would happen then. However Israel killing a key leader of Hamas during a cease fire is supposed to be totally ignored by Palestinians.

And the fighting is now of course the fault of Hamas, not Israel, despite their drone murder.

Such cognitive dissonance.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:33author address author phone

Facts:
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS WEEKLY REPORT
31 OCTOBER - 6 NOVEMBER 2012 - Gaza Strip - http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/8F184E577967FC72852...7A012

Compare these figures
Palestinians murdered by Israeli in Gaza: ...................................... Israelis injured by Palestinian fire from Gaza



author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 13:25author address author phone

https://www.irishtimes.com/letters/index.html#1224326666087

Israel attack on Gaza

Sir, – Israel did not “begin... the attacks with an air strike that killed the Hamas military commander” (Mark Weiss, November 15th), but with an unprovoked assault on Gaza on November 8th, in which a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed while playing soccer.

Prime minister Netanyahu’s statement that “while the militant groups deliberately target innocent civilians, Israel makes every effort to avoid civilian casualties” should not be quoted without critical comment. Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment has (as I write) killed at least two children and critically wounded at least 10. Gaza is the most densely populated area on earth; Israel’s assault on the Strip in 2008-9 resulted in up to 1,000 Palestinian civilian fatalities.

Netanyahu’s claim that “no country would put up with continuous rocket fire on its civilian population and Israel was no different” should have been balanced with clarification that Gaza is under an illegal Israeli siege, and that while rocket fire from Gaza is far from “continuous”, the Israeli embargo that starves its population most certainly is. Mr Weiss should have clarified that “targeted assassinations” are deemed illegal by many authorities on international law, and hence Israel’s threat of their “resumption” (as if they had ever wholly ceased) is itself criminal.

The one pertinent point in Mr Weiss’s report is that “it is likely that electoral considerations played a role in Mr Netanyahu’s decision to launch the latest offensive . . .” In Israel the willingness to slaughter Palestinian children is an infallible vote-winner. – Yours, etc,

RAYMOND DEANE,

Lower Baggot Street,

Dublin 2.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 13:50author address author phone

Excuse me while I vomit
Alan Hart, Nov 15 2012 http://www.alanhart.net/excuse-while-i-vomit/

I imagine I am not the only one who feels the need to vomit when Israel’s Goebbels justifies the Zionist state’s ferocious and monstrously disproportionate attacks by air and sea on the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, the prison camp which is home to 1.5 million besieged and mainly impoverished Palestinians. The Israeli to whom I am referring is Australian-born Mark Regev, the prime minister’s spokesman, for which read spin doctor. The more I see and hear him in action, the more it seems to me that he makes Nazi Germany’s propaganda chief look like an amateur. In the Observer on Jun 6 2010, Ruth Sutherland wrote:



Compelling he certainly is but as Sutherland indicated only to Westerners, and USAians in particular, who have been conditioned for decades by Zionist propaganda and as a consequence know nothing or little worth knowing about the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel. In the immediate aftermath of Israel’s targeted assassination of Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jabari, Regev was at his best. Via the BBC and many other networks his main message to the Western nations was that Israel is just like them: democratic and civilized. He said:



By obvious implication he was saying something very like:



The flaw in that presentation is that Israel is not like the Western nations. It is a brutal occupying power, and the cause of the incoming rockets is its occupation and on-going colonization and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and its blockade of the Gaza Strip. That plus the fact that Israel’s leaders have no interest in peace on terms the Palestinians could accept.

author by Tpublication date Fri Nov 16, 2012 23:55author address author phone

Below are two interesting images from #GazaUnderAttack

hamas_little_rocket_israeli_big_rocket.jpg

am_jewish_and_want_israel_to_stop_killing.jpg

Related Link: https://twitter.com/search/%23GazaUnderAttack
author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sat Nov 17, 2012 02:23author address author phone

Assassinating The Chance For Calm- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/assass....html



Hamas leader Jabari killed amid talks on long-term truce - http://www.lobelog.com/assassinated-hamas-leader-jabari...ment/

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Israel doesn't want peace - never has never will - a Nation State composed mainly of Religious fundamentalists and fascist Military-fetishists cannot thrive in peaceful times

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 16:49author address author phone

Scoreboard, since 2000. Team Israel: No Restrictions.

Boycott Israel
Boycott Israel

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 16:59author address author phone



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234711/10-civi....html

author by Tpublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 17:48author address author phone

Latest reports also state (on twitter) that "Israeli warplanes have just massacred a whole family, the Al-Dalo family, 10 killed, 4 of them children"

israeli_bomb_explosion_in_gaza_nov18_2012.jpg

Courtsey of twitter feed: http://t.co/khkxKfOm
Courtsey of twitter feed: http://t.co/khkxKfOm

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 19:05author address author phone

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author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 19:10author address author phone

An Israeli bombing of a media compound in the Gaza Strip has destroyed the office of Russia Today TV channel, the RT press office said on Sunday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51lp9GKNAu8&feature=auto...ext=1

author by An Draighneán Donn - Páirtí Cummanach na Poblachtapublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 19:58author address author phone

I notice that nearly all the Left Wing organizations in Ireland are outraged by bombing of civilians in Gaza this week. Only a couple of weeks ago, the same thing was happening in Bani Walid. We heard barely a squeak of complaint from these same organisations. Indymedia,ie was one of the only Irish sites that highlighted the plight of the civilians of Bani Walid. Why is that? One might suspect that its just that Irish Leftists are already geared up to hate Zionism, but they are confused about Libya. After all, many of these organisations supported the so called "rebels" who were using chemical weapons against civilians in Bani Walid.

author by Elricpublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 21:43author address author phone

The IDF says it knew there were foreign media at least in one of the two buildings they bombed overnight. However it stressed that the journalists were not target of the attack, a spokesperson told BBC.

Related Link: http://rt.com/news/line/2012-11-18/#id40592
author by Elricpublication date Sun Nov 18, 2012 21:53author address author phone

Full text, vid and more images at link.

An Israeli airstrike on a media compound has injured at least six journalists, Palestinian medical authorities say. Among the outlets damaged are local, Italian, German, Lebanese and Kuwaiti channels. RT's office in Gaza was affected too.

The journalists received minor to moderate injuries, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. One journalist had his leg amputated following the attack, he added.

Two buildings of a media center in Gaza City were targeted by Israeli warplanes early on Sunday in a series of strikes. Witnesses reported that the journalists had evacuated after an initial attack, which was followed by at least two more hits. The buildings were heavily damaged.

Some of the victims are employees of Palestinian Ma’an news agency , while the man who lost his leg is a cameraman with the local al-Quds TV, Ma’an reports. The attack was focused on the 11th floor, where the office of al-Quds TV is located.

Iranian Press-TV reported that one of their cameramen was injured.

Smoke billows as debris flies from the explosion at the local Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza City on November 18, 2012 after it was attacked during an Israeli airstrike. An Israeli air strike hit a Gaza City media building.(AFP Photo / Marco Longari)
Smoke billows as debris flies from the explosion at the local Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza City on November 18, 2012 after it was attacked during an Israeli airstrike. An Israeli air strike hit a Gaza City media building.(AFP Photo / Marco Longari)

Related Link: http://rt.com/news/gaza-media-center-strike-977/
author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 02:17author address author phone

From 2009, but still every bit as relevant as it was then

Latuff , 2009
Latuff , 2009

author by Contrarianpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 13:52author address author phone

Rarely has a letter to the Irish Times had more demonstrable falsehoods per word than Raymond Deane's letter on the Gaza war that's quoted above. Let's itemise them:

Gaza is the most densely populated area on earth No, it's not. Doesn't even come close. Gaza has just under 10000 inhabitants per square mile. That's a lot but Macau has over 7 times as many. Monaco's population densty is 4 times that of Gaza and Singapore's is almost double Gaza's. The Israeli city of Tel Aviv has a population density of 20000 inhabitants per square mile, again double that of Gaza. These facts can easily be checked but accuracy doesn't seem to matter when an anti-Israel point is being made.

Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment Wrong again. Israel's bombardment is far from indiscriminate. It is in fact highly discriminating with very precise selection of targets. Take the pinpoint accurate missile strike that eliminated Hamas's military commander - could there possibly be an example of a less indiscrimate attack than that. Just apply a little common sense. here - if Israel wanted to maximize the death toll in Gaza it could do so easily with the weaponry at its disposal. It rightly makes no attempt to do this and concentrates its military force on military targets. The vast majority of the time this is successful. Occasionally there is an error, but when Israel kills innocent civilains, this is an unintended outcome. When Hamas kills innocent civilians, this is celebrated as a success.

the Israeli embargo that starves its population most certainly is ... (continuous) It's a blockade, anyway, not an embargo, but we'll leave that minor terminological inaccuracy aside. The ONLY items that Israel blockades are armaments (for reasons that are all too obvious) and certain chemical, metallurgical and construction materials that are capable of dual cviilain and military use. Even then, such material can be received directly by international NGO/UN relief organisations within Gaza for genuine civilian purposes. Since June 2010, there is NO blockade of food, medicine, childrens toys, musical instruments or clothes despite well publicized flotillas setting sail for Gaza with such items. There is cdrtainly no blockade, continuous or otherwise, that "starves" the population of Gaza.

Israel did not “begin... the attacks with an air strike that killed the Hamas military commander” (Mark Weiss, November 15th), but with an unprovoked assault on Gaza on November 8th, in which a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed while playing soccer. It wasn't "unprovoked." Israeli soldiers were investigating a cache of explosives in a tunnel next to the security fence between Israel and Gaza when they came under fire. The boy who was playing over 1km away was killed by a stray shot - whether from Israelis or Palestinian militants is unclear.

Israel’s assault on the Strip in 2008-9 resulted in up to 1,000 Palestinian civilian fatalities.
Hamas Interior minister Fathi Hammad and the IDF agree that about 700 of the 1385 Palestinian fatalities were combatants. Given their apparent unaminity, this seems more credible than Deane's suggestion of up to 1000.

targeted assassinations” are deemed illegal by many authorities on international law, and hence Israel’s threat of their “resumption” (as if they had ever wholly ceased) is itself criminal. The killing, during war, of an opposing military leader is hardly illegal or contrary to the laws of war. If it was where would that leave the targeted assassination of of Reinhard Heydrich, SS officer and architect of the Holocaust by Czech partisans in 1942. Hamas openly declares itself to be at war with Israel and therefore the killing (or assassination) of its military commanders is a legitimate act of war.

I make that 6 clear demonstrable errors in a very short letter. Is this a record? Ireland's august paper of record should have known better. But then, truth is the first casualty of war on Israel.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 16:33author address author phone

There is no way to hide the massive dis-proportionality of Israeli violence, so the main media theme is that somehow the poor likkle Israelis are constantly reacting to Palestinian violence, which is an outright lie:



a 2009 study by an MIT professor revealed, “[I]t is overwhelmingly Israel that kills first after a pause in the conflict.”

The study found, “79% of all conflict pauses were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian, while only 8% were interrupted by Palestinian attacks (the remaining 13% were interrupted by both sides on the same day).

In addition, the researchers stated, “…of the 25 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted 24, or 96%, and it unilaterally interrupted 100% of the 14 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than 9 days.

http://ifamericansknew.org/media/relativity.html

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 16:44author address author phone

The Zionist plan was always to expel Arabs and steal their land, - everything else is just a smokescreen to obscure their real aims - they even used to openly admit this before the Zionist State came into being.

Vladimir Jabotinsky was one of the leading and most influential of the earlier Zionists. The Jewish Terrorist gangs, Stern/Hagannah/Irgun etc, that were responsible for the attempted genocide of Palestinians from 1948 onward, now known as the Nakba, were followers of Jabotinsky's' ideology.

Jabotinsky was an admirer of Mussolini and also borrowed much of his philosophy from the NAZI's themselves.

http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/ironwall.htm
The Iron Wall - (We and the Arabs)
(1923)



If it were really the rockets then there would be few if any civilian deaths in the West Bank

But in any average year the figure for West Bank civilian dead is almost the same as that for Gazan civilian dead. And there are no rockets emanating from the West bank But don't fret - there'll be a Zio-Nazi apologist along soon with an attempt to provide a separate different justification for WB civilian deaths soon I'm sure.

The rockets are just an excuse - if they did not exist another excuse would be found - one thing you can always be sure of with Zio-Nazis, and their apologists, is that some excuse will always be found to justify killing Palestinian men women and children

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 17:00author address author phone

They flagrantly broke the partition agreement that they were supposed to have accepted and they get a free pass because "the Arabs made them do it."#

The Arabs also apparently made them expel the Palestinians which incidentally led to the result they were after, a Jewish demographic state.

And of course there are many Zio-Nazi apologists that might claim that if the Arabs accepted partition without any resistance (or alternately, accepted unlimited immigration sans partition), the Yishuv would have dropped their demand for a Jewish state, even though that is why they went to Palestine in the first place.

The Zionist settlers have no moral responsibility for their own actions because they believe they have an unconditional right to what they want damn the consequences for anyone else.

Jabotinsky again:



Of course this can be expanded to killing Palestinians by air (rockets made us do it), killing pregnant women at checkpoints (suicide bombers made us do it), demolishing houses on either side of the Green Line (Leprechauns made us do it) etc etc etc ad infinitum

author by serfpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 17:16author address author phone

contrarian said:

Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment "Wrong again. Israel's bombardment is far from indiscriminate. It is in fact highly discriminating with very precise selection of targets. Take the pinpoint accurate missile strike that eliminated Hamas's military commander - could there possibly be an example of a less indiscrimate attack than that"

Ok then.

The current facts on the ground are that 100+ people have been killed by IDF.
50% of those have been women and children.

Sooooo.... If what contrarian says about pinpoint accuracy and "highly discriminating with very precise selection of targets" above is true then the only logical conclusions I can come to are either:

(a) the IDF DELIBERATELY killed a bunch of innocent palestinian women and children (and journalists they didn't like!)

or else

(b) contrarian is talking out of his rear end again

or

(c) all of the above

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 17:43author address author phone

The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel. It is not about achieving peace.

The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.

Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, mosques, apartment blocks and slums, to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command and control, no army, and calls it a war.

It is not a war. It is murder.

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupiers have to defend themselves against the population they are crushing. You can’t defend yourself when you’re militarily occupying someone else’s land.

That’s not defense. Call it what you like. It’s not defense.
– Noam Chomsky, Nov 17

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=201211180031...40399

author by Contrarian - Hamas=War Criminalspublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 18:52author address author phone

Really serf, you can do better than that that silly (a) (b) or (c) rhetorical trickery.

The issue I called Deane on was his use of the phrase "indiscriminate bombardment" of Gaza. Indiscriminate bambardment amounts to random bombing, not caring where the bombs land or what they hit. That's not what Israel is doing. In fact your own figures prove it. You are right when you point out that approximately 50% of the Palestinian fatalities are non-combatants. (As was the case consistently throughout Cast Lead also) You are wrong when you infer from this that Israel's attacks are indiscriminate. In fact the figures prove the exact opposite. If the bombardment was truly indiscriminate (or random) then it would be truly astonishing if 50% of the fatalities were combatants. Unless of course, if 50% of the total population of Gaza were combatants, a proposition we can safely eliminate! So to get to 50% of the casualties consistently being combatants, you gotta target those combatants and/or the missile storage and launching sites and other facilities where they hang out. Of course, there is no guarantee that ALL the fatalities will be combatants. There are many reasons for this - faulty intelligence, , malfunctioning equipment, human error and so on. But the main reason is the Palestinian penchant for placing its military targets (rockets and launching sites) smack in the middle of densely populated areas.
Occasionally too, Palestinian civilian fatalites result from Hamas rockets exploding on launch or falling to earth shortly after firing. At least 100 rockets fired from Gaza during the current conflict have actually landed in Gaza, causing at least one fatality (a child) that was initially blamed on the Israelis.

author by Contrarian - [Hamas=War Criminals]publication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 19:21author address author phone

@Zionism=Nazism

The piece you've cut and pasted in its entirety from infoshop.org and attributed to Chomsky on 17th November is not just total bullshit, it isn't even an accurate quote from Chomsky at all. Well ok, the last paragraph is actually from Chomsky, a transcript of remarks he made in a 2004 documentary! The rest seems to be from an article by a guy called Chris Hedges.

As for his concept of self defence by occupiers in an accupied territory, even if you fully accepted that principle, that's not what we've got here. The Hamas rockets are mostly falling on israel proper, not the so-called occupied territories.

Does this matter? Yeah, sure it does. It amply demonstrates the tendency of the Israel hating lobby to completely disregard facts and accuracy when it comes to attacking Israel.

Related Link: http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/it-misquoting-noam-chomsky-gaza/
author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 20:22author address author phone

The Hamas rockets are mostly falling on israel proper, not the so-called occupied territories.

Does this matter? Yeah, sure it does. It amply demonstrates the tendency of the Israel hating lobby to completely disregard facts and accuracy when it comes to attacking Israel.


Why would Palestinians fire on Palestine?

The Palestinians in the Territories illegally occupied by the Israeli military, known as "The West Bank", are not attacking the Palestinians in the Israeli-constructed Concentration Camp known as Gaza.

So the Palestinians in Gaza, that are currently being murdered by Israeli Bombs, have no reason to attack the Palestinians in the Territories illegally occupied by the Israeli military, known as "The West Bank", .

You seem to be confused.

Your dissembling has reached the stage where you are now merely reduced to babbling inanities

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 20:30author address author phone

none at all

I notice you want to ignore the Zionist plan as laid out by Jabotinsky.

At the time of Jabotinsky's articulation of his colonisation plan for Palestine no more than 3 or 4 percent of that land, if even that, was owned by Jewish people

That's what Jabotinsky was talking about - the need of the Zionists to rob all the land from the people currently living on it.

It was not possible to create a Zionist state in Palestine without first deciding that you had a right to rob as much as you could from the current occupiers. The Zionists knew it so they had to find the conditions that would allow them to justify it, or if those conditions do not exist, then to create them themselves.

It's all clearly laid out in print since at least 1923.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 21:56author address author phone

Up to 14 members of a single family, al-dalou, in Gaza city were murdered by Israeli bombs,

Remember the Dalou family from Gaza

Child Members of the al Dalou Family, Gaza, murdered by Israeli bombs
Child Members of the al Dalou Family, Gaza, murdered by Israeli bombs

Fuck Israel
Fuck Israel

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 22:10author address author phone

According to the Israeli Military, Israel has attacked Gaza 1,350 times since Wednesday. - http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/19/273234/israel-h...imes/

author by Contrarian - [Hamas=Nazism]publication date Mon Nov 19, 2012 23:49author address author phone

If its mid twentieth century Nazi sympathisers you want, I'll see your Jabotinsky and raise you an Amin al-Husseini, Grand mufti of Jerusalem, Palestinian Nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator. Exiled from Palestine for his pro-German activities, he ended up in Berlin where he was warmly received by Hitler and Himmler. He wrote to Hitler commending his methods for dealing with his "Jewish problem" and seeking assistence to implement "similar methods" in Palestine. Some historians record him visiting Auschwitz though this cant be definitively confirmed. Later in the war he visited Bosnia where he raised a muslim division of the Waffen SS. In a public speech he commented that the Germans knew how to get rid of the Jews and that they had "definitely solved the Jewish problem."

Maybe you should change that moniker to PALESTINIAN ARAB NATIONALISM = NAZISM

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Tue Nov 20, 2012 00:17author address author phone

unlike the ZIonists Palestinians didn't formulate a political ideology based on NAZI principles of blood-purity and "Lebensraum" though,

Palestinian Liberation is based on the fact that Palestinians are the inhabitants of land that Zionists have long acknowledged that they want to steal, and have been stealing from day lone of the Nakba

Jabotinsky and many other Zio-Nazis, such as ben Gurion, have openly acknowledged this truth, something which Modern-day Zio-Nazi-apologists such as yourself refuse to do -in this manner overt racist Zio-Nazis of yore are far preferable to the Modern-day dishonest Zio-Nazi-apologists such as yourself

author by Aunty Hasbarapublication date Tue Nov 20, 2012 09:24author address author phone

As usual the Israelis are given to hysterics and hyperbole.

The fact is that 384 Israelis died in car-accidents in 2011 vs. 3 in the current round of conflict.

Which by the way comes after 78 Palestinians were killed in the past year by the Israelis, vs 1 Israeli killed by the other side in 2012.

Another lie is that Israeli's "targeted" are somehow civilians while Palestinians slaughtered are "human shields" etc.

The fact is that the Israeli military including active reserves has almost 800,000 (>10% of 7.7M population) members while Palestinian militants number 15,000 (0.9% of 1.66M).

Yes, there are 10 times the number of Israeli military personnel per head of population.

Puts things into perspective when an occasional random missile hits an olive tree in the garden of an Israeli settlement doesn't it?

To quote one article on answers.com "The Israeli forces seem to be skilled and experienced at killing civilians."

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/analysis-a-ha...60281

http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2012/11/isra...bacus

author by serfpublication date Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:25author address author phone

" If the bombardment was truly indiscriminate (or random) then it would be truly astonishing if 50% of the fatalities were combatants. Unless of course, if 50% of the total population of Gaza were combatants, a proposition we can safely eliminate! So to get to 50% of the casualties consistently being combatants"

Hey...I never said 50% of those killed were combatants. I said 50% of those killed were women and children. Got it? Stop putting Israeli murder apologist propaganda words in my mouth

Estimates from hospitals in Gaza are more like 80%+ of those killed and injured have absolutely nothing to do with resisting Israel.

author by serfpublication date Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:38author address author phone

Johnathan cooke has penned a decent article highlighting some facts about the timeline of this "war".

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/19/why-gaza-must-su...gain/

I suggest people read it to clarify the actual chain of events that started this "war", who started it (clearly Israel), and the political advantages to Israel and the US in continuing it.

I put "war" in inverted commas because as bill hicks said, "a war is when there are two sides"
This is merely a horrific turkey shoot for the high tech US armed IDF bullies and murderers

author by Alecpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 01:23author address author phone


Israel is NAZ(SION)IST !!!

PALESTINE FREE !!!

author by Contrarianpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:30author address author phone

@serf

Jonathon Cooke, in the counterpunch (hardly an unbiased source!!) article you quote, peddles the myth that:
On November 12, as part of efforts to calm things down, the Palestinian militant factions agreed a truce that held two days – until Israel broke it by assassinating Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari. This myth has been recycled and requoted repeatedly on the web (including here on indymedia) and has been seized on by the Israel haters to (yet again) unjustly demonise the state of Israel.

The awkward facts (for the Israel haters) are as follows: On the mornng of 14th November, when this supposed truce was in effect, 4 rockets landed on Israel. Later that afternoon Jabari was killed. While there appears to have indeed been a ceasefire of sorts, it was broken by the firing of rockets in the morning NOT by the killing of Jabari in the afternoon.

author by serfpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:01author address author phone

actually, the problems really started when a bunch of Israeli soldiers mucking around the wall shot an innocent mentally challenged palestinian boy just out playing football.

A few days later they targetted the moderate Hamas leader then immediately posted the video on the internet amidst much gloating.

This was the same moderate Hamas leader they were in secret talks with.

Of course the palestinians responded angrily. A child was killed then their democratically elected representative was murdered. If somebody shot an american child then blew up obama in his car, you wouldn't expect the americans to take it lying down would you??

Looks like elements in government wanted to remove any chance of progress in the talks, since a military action would help the right's chances of being elected better than making peace with Hamas and the Palestinians

Have you actually looked at the photos of mutilated Palestinian children, killed by Israeli military action Contrarian. If not then why not? If so, then I must ask are you a sociopath or something? Because I think you'd have to be to not be affected by this, and still be trotting out propaganda to try to whitewash this cynical murder spree designed to help nutenyahoo get re-elected

it's now 140 palestinians dead vs 3 Israelis.

thats a ratio of approximately 47:1

is one Israeli life worth 47 palestinian women and children's Contrarian?

And those weasel words about "Hamas being responsible" and "rockets under their beds" won't cut the mustard around here anymore Contrarian. You're an apologist for child murder, plain and simple.

author by serfpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:24author address author phone

http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/blog_comme...inder

This analysis and timeline would seem to back up the assertion that there was a peace settlement in the works and it was obvious that rocket fire had clearly reduced to a mere trickle ( by other groups other than Hamas ) prior to the targetted murder of Jabari.

Why exactly did they target Jabari anyway?? Clearly he was key to any lasting peace arrangement if there was ever to be one. Unless of course they didn't actually want one that is!

Even "Harretz" seems to think there is something to the theory that elements on the right were better served by conflict not peace in order to get more votes.

read the article

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 16:52author address author phone

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Fuck Israel
Fuck Israel

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 18:08author address author phone


Fake bomb discovered on Jerusalem light rail - http://www.timesofisrael.com/fake-bomb-discovered-on-je...rail/
Second incident of dummy device in the last week

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2 fake bombs and one real one on a crowded bus that made a "bang" but somehow didn't manage to kill anyone?

Well done Shin Bet, at least there's some human life that you still respect. Pity the Palestinians and their children are not Jews - then the Psychopathic Zionists and Jewish-Supremacist Religious Fundamentalists that run Israel might see them as "Human"

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 18:11author address author phone

Gaza Is A Massacre

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v...WZXnU
The artist taxi driver

"Who are these fucking lunatics that are supporting fucking Israelis?"

- Warning - Adult Language -

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 18:45author address author phone

We are all too familiar with the standard model employed by MSM and Zio-Nazi-shills alike when it comes to reporting the Gaza Massacres.

Or any aspect of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict for that matter. In the standard model if there's million-dollar Jet-fighters raining Missiles down on Gazans? it's all Hamas' fault. Palestinian Civilians murdered at work, at checkpoints, in their homes? it's all Hamas' fault

It's the "the Palestinian rockets" you see, those home-made fireworks.

It's apparently got nothing at all to do with the insatiable Zio-Nazi appetite for more Palestinian land (the 90% of historic Palestine which they now completely control is not enough apparently - they want it all)

It's apparently got nothing at all to do with the ever-changing and impossible-to-satisfy Zio-Nazi political demands at the mere mention of "peace",

It's apparently got nothing at all to do with the Zionist's almost constant breaking of cease-fire

It's apparently got nothing at all to do with the never-ending stream of dead Palestinians men women and children the Israelis feel it necessary to create every week of every year.

If Gazans only stopped with the fireworks all would be ok apparently, and Israelis and Palestinians could live in peace . . . . . apparently.

But we know it's not true.

We know that there is an insatiable Zio-Nazi appetite for more Palestinian land (the 90% of historic Palestine which they now completely control is not enough apparently - they want it all).

How do we know?

Because They said exactly that, quite clearly, back in the 20's and 30's.

Jewish Zio-Nazis don't just want the "occupied" territories" - it wants all of Palestine for it's Racist "Jewish" state. Naturally the Palestinians don't agree and they tend to fight back when their civilians are targeted by Jewish psychopaths.

This apparently is the great crime of the Palestinians - to fight back. To refuse to just fuck off and die quietly while Zionist racist supremacist psychopaths kill them, steal their land and murder their children.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 18:56author address author phone

The current crisis began on November 8th when an Israeli soldier in a helicopter gunned down a Palestinian child playing soccer; an act clearly calculated by Israel to provoke a response.

Palestinians shot at some Israeli soldiers, whereupon Israel then gunned down two more children then later, as if that wasn't bad enough, to heap injury upon bloody injury, the Israeli scum opened fire on one of the funerals.

These murderous acts were clearly calculated by Israel to provoke a response.

It was not until at that point that the rockets began to fly.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 19:07author address author phone

is something that happens regularly, carried out for the most part with complete impunity.

The Palestinians for the most part can do little to stop these psychopaths murdering their children.

The Zio-Nazi Psychopaths murder Palestinian children irrespective of how Palestinians behave - prior to the latest Zio-Nazi murder-fest in Gaza, 78 Palestinians, many of them children and most of them completely innocent civilians, were killed in the past year by the Zio-Nazis.

These 78 Palestinians were for the most part killed when no rockets were being fired from Gaza - so clearly "Hamas rockets" have little to do with whether or not Palestinians will be killed by Zio-Nazis, and all Israeli and Zio-Nazi-Apologist statements to the contrary are clearly nothing but lies

author by JoeMcpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2012 22:57author address author phone

We rightly condemn Israel , but let's remember that the zionist entity is backed to the hilt by the USA when it commits these war crimes. Let's remember also that ,like the nazis in the nineteen- thirties, the zionists have a huge ,internationally organized propaganda machine to back them up . It's not as if the various western news sources don't know about the deliberate targeting of kids playing soccer.They know what's going on , but consciously distort the truth to favour Israel . The New York Times had this sentence yesterday for example giving the zionist version of the "history" behind the Gaza attack and the Hamas response :

“The Hamas Health Ministry said Monday evening that a total of 107 people had been killed since Wednesday morning, when Israeli airstrikes began, following months of Palestinian rocket fire into Israel.”

David Walsh in a 2003 wsws article referred to the Nuremberg trials when discussing the propaganda role played by the media during the Iraq war
" The [Nuremberg] tribunal was an institution organized by the victorious Allied governments, serving in the final analysis the ruling classes of those countriies"
"Nonetheless, in their arguments US prosecutors set forth a democratic legal principle derived from the international experience of a half-century of carnage: that planning and launching an aggressive war constituted a criminal act and that those who helped prepare such a war through their propaganda efforts were as culpable as those who drew up the battle plans or manufactured the munitions."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/nure-a16.shtml

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Thu Nov 22, 2012 00:44author address author phone


Women, children main victims of attack, says Gaza hospital


http://electronicintifada.net/content/women-children-ma...11917



Zionists are sick psychopaths

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Thu Nov 22, 2012 14:18author address author phone

The massive weapons arsenal available to the Israelis is shown in this graphic illustrating the different types of weapons available to Israel and Palestinian groups.

The massive disparity between the two is obvious.

Check out the infographic below to review the most significant weapons being used in the conflict and their respective ranges.

N.B.: Not shown in graphic below: Israel's arsenal of Nuclear Weaponry, estimated by many to number at least 300 warheads

As stated here already: Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, mosques, apartment blocks and slums, to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command and control, no army, and calls it a war.

It is not a war. It is murder.

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupiers have to defend themselves against the population they are crushing. You can’t defend yourself when you’re militarily occupying someone else’s land.

"That’s not defense. Call it what you like. It’s not defense."
– Noam Chomsky, Nov 17

Israeli Weapons and Army, compared to Palestinians Weapons and Frorces
Israeli Weapons and Army, compared to Palestinians Weapons and Frorces

author by Anti-Semanticismpublication date Thu Nov 22, 2012 19:57author address author phone


Chris McGreal in Gaza City
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 November 2012 19.12 GMT

Palestinians count their dead - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/palestinian...wt_gu

Even as a ceasefire was announced, the death toll was rising amid strikes on targets with little apparent military value

Gaza City
Destroyed government offices in Gaza City. Many had moved to the city after Israeli leaflets warned of strikes on border areas. Photograph: APAimages/Rex Features

The doctors, the ambulance drivers, the human rights monitors all said it was one of the worst days. But no one could be sure just how bad until the reports from the morgues, or of funerals held without fanfare, or of the recovery of another body from under the rubble, dribbled in.

By Wednesday afternoon, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) was reporting 31 Palestinians killed in the Israeli assault over the previous 24 hours – 21 of them civilians – in perhaps the worst bloodletting yet of the military campaign against Gaza.

And even as a ceasefire was announced on Wednesday evening, the bombs and missiles were still falling and the death toll rising with a strike in the south of the enclave that killed two men on motorcycles, and bodies were still being pulled from a bombed Gaza City government complex

The latest victims included Ibrahim Mahmoud Nasser Abu Nasser, 80, and his 14-year-old grandson, Ameera, who were cropping olive trees in Abassan village to the east of Khan Yunis refugee camp when a missile shot from the sky killed them both.

There were the two 16-year-olds – Mahmoud Khalil al-Arja and Ibrahim Ahmed Hamad – who died in an air strike near the southern Gaza border. Ambulance men could not reach their bodies for hours because of the continuing air assault.

Adding to the tally was 14-year-old Ahmed Awadh Abu Olayan, who died of wounds sustained on the first day of the Israeli attack on Gaza.

The Palestinian health ministry puts the total death toll at more than 150, although officials concede they may not know about all of those killed. The PCHR says at least 90 of those are civilians, including about 30 children.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Thu Nov 22, 2012 21:42author address author phone

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author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Fri Nov 23, 2012 14:40author address author phone

Despite the cease-fire, Israel persists in caging Gaza's 1,644 293 people (give or take - over 1 hundred have been murdered recently) in their 365 sq km concentration camp and enforcing the illegal siege.

We can only hope that in the coming days, we will see


According to the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20461914

Towards the end of the BBC report we have this:

So: The BBC's Jon Donnison admits that the zio-Nazis regularly murder Palestinian civilians in Gaza without any retaliation whatsoever from the Palestinians.

Israel has killed a Palestinian within two days of signing a ceasefire which most people must have thought meant they would stop killing people in Gaza.

The ZIo-Nazis killed a Gazan who strayed from Gaza into, er, Gaza.

They managed to go more than a day without breaking their word and without killing a Palestinian.

A Whole day. Without murdering anyone

Imagine that.

Well done Israel - one whole day without murdering anyone, I'm sure YahWeh would be very proud of his "chosen".

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Fri Nov 23, 2012 15:13author address author phone

do the Math . . . [s] . . .

Numbers indicate Israeli responsibility for recent massacre
Numbers indicate Israeli responsibility for recent massacre

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sat Nov 24, 2012 01:15author address author phone

Since the ceasefire declared Wednesday @ 21:00

Palestinians murdered by Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Israelis Murdered by Palestinians


author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sat Nov 24, 2012 03:21author address author phone

Harry Fear speaks with Gazans living next to Buffer Zone bordering Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NEse9QDDj0

Mr Fear interviews a Palestinian shepherd who relates how his forced to sometimes use his sheep as protection from Israeli army near border.

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20 yr old murdered by Zio-Nazis named as Anwar Qudai

20yr old Anwar Qudai shot dead in the mouth today by israeli forces.
20yr old Anwar Qudai shot dead in the mouth today by israeli forces.

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Sat Nov 24, 2012 20:52author address author phone

Between September 2005 and September 2012 Zio-Nazis killed 213 Palestinians near the wire-fence which demarcates the Gaza/Zio-Nazi-Land border.

Of those 213 people killed by the Zio-Nazis, at least 72% [154] of those killed were positively identified as "Innocent Civilians"

The number of innocent civilians murdered by the Zio-Nazis near the Gaza border MAY be higher than 72%

The figure of 72% is a minimum percentage - it includes only those that could be positively identified as "civilian", others of those killed may also be "civilian" but not enough proof either way to say definitively

11% - [17] - of the the 154 innocent civilian murder-victims, were children.

Most of those children were just playing, as children do, when they were simply murdered by a member of the IDF murder-gang for no reason other than they were guilty of being a Palestinian in Palestine.

The majority were killed by Sniper fire - they can in no way be considered "accidents".

Indeed, Israeli courts do not consider it "accidental" nor do the soldiers that carry out such callous cold-blooded murders, and both agree that the cold-blooded murder of such children is just fine and dandy

For example : "Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/nov/24/israel



"Not Guilty: Israeli Soldier Shot Palestinian Girl 17 Times" - http://www.opposingviews.com/i/not-guilty-israeli-soldi...times


So despite not even charging the murderer with the actual murder, instead only charging him with lesser offences, and fully knowing that the "official" IDF account was a complete fabrication, the "Court" acquitted this cold-blooded murderer of all charges

author by Anti-Semanticismpublication date Tue Nov 27, 2012 03:05author address author phone

Excerpts - http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/israel-sold...age=2

3. Shoot to Kill


author by Zionsim=Nazismpublication date Tue Nov 27, 2012 23:40author address author phone

. . .

Gaza- Victim totals, per day
Gaza- Victim totals, per day

author by Angry Arabpublication date Wed Nov 28, 2012 04:34author address author phone

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Zionist propaganda trickery in the New York Times: the false symmetry trick - http://angryarab.blogspot.de/2012/11/zionist-propaganda....html

author by Zionism=Nazismpublication date Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:53author address author phone

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Martin Niemöller . . . updated
Martin Niemöller . . . updated


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