***Israel initiates genocidal ground war into Gaza: 1,300 killed > 6,000 wounded

[Biggs]

anyone newish to the topic may be interested to read this brief history of the Palestine Israel conflict

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=77980.0

[Biggs]

some worthwhile info on Ashdod, one of the towns hit by Hamas play rockets that is used to justify the slaughter in Gaza

Ashdod Built on 'Leveled' Arab Suqrir
umkahlil

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50302&hd=&size=1&l=e



Arab Suqrir before the diaspora.

Jan 3, 2009

Ashdod has figured prominently in the western press because one Israeli woman died there as a result of a rocket attack. One hundred times as many Palestinian Arabs have died during Israel's latest massacre, but the woman who died in Ashdod featured prominantly in a Newsweek story.

The Israeli town Ashdod sits on the remains of 'Arab Suqrir. It was established in 1955.

According to Walid Khalidi in All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, "Arab Suqrir was the subject of the first Haganah operational proposal to level a village . . . ." He cites an intelligence report that recommended: "The village should be destroyed completely and some males from the same village should be murdered" (80). The village wasn't "physically destroyed until 24-28 August, during Operation Nikayon ("Cleansing")" (80).

The population af 'Arab Suqrir was 390 in 1944/45(80). Palestinian Arabs owned 12,270 dunums of the land, and Jews owned none (80). Their houses were made of stone. The villagers cultivated orchards, citrus, cereals, citrus and bananas (80).

Israel was quite busy during the second truce of the 1948 war leveling villages and ethnically cleansing the Arab Palestinian population.

"The Brigade [Giv'ati] made use of the second truce of the war 'to expell all unarmed [persons] from [the area],' according to the operational orders. A Giv'ati intelligence officer claimed that most inhabitants had left by the time the orders were implemented, so the units blew up stone houses and burned huts, and 'ten Arabs who tried to escape were killed'" (80).

"Two houses remain standing" (81).

[Biggs]

IT IS CALLED MIND CONTROL BECAUSE IT WORKS.............

Americans Closely Divided Over Israel’s Gaza Attacks
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
 http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/americans_closely_divided_over_israel_s_gaza_attacks

Americans, while far more sympathetic to Israel than the Palestinians, are closely divided over whether the Jewish state should be taking military action against militants in the Gaza Strip.

Forty-four percent (44%) say Israel should have taken military action against the Palestinians, but 41% say it should have tried to find a diplomatic solution to the problems there, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.

Fifty-five percent (55%) of adults, however, believe the Palestinians are to blame for the current situation in Gaza, while 13% point the finger at the Israelis. Nearly one-third (32%) aren’t sure.

[Biggs]

The Reality In Gaza

4 Minute Video

A doctor from Norway details the reality of Israeli attacks on Gaza

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21612.htm

[Geolibertarian]

Fifty-five percent (55%) of adults, however, believe the Palestinians are to blame for the current situation in Gaza, while 13% point the finger at the Israelis. Nearly one-third (32%) aren’t sure.

I'd be interested to know what percentage of that 55% even know where Gaza is on a friggin map.

[Triadtropz]

I'd be interested to know what percentage of that 55% even know where Gaza is on a friggin map.

thats because the brainwashing coming out of the msm and washington. is that they are terrorists and they are firing rockets, it justifies the slaughter and humanatarian crisis ...2400 hit..to 4.. it seems about right..that 55% is brainwashed....bush and condi have assured them, that it's us or them..your with us or your with the terrorists..all those cute lil catch phrases...justifying dead children in the steets..

[GlobalCordon]

[Boubear]

I'm not sure if this has been posted but it's a good article

Whatever Happened to Western Morality?

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

On the last day of the old year in CounterPunch, two Israelis, Jeff Halper who heads the Israeli peace movement ICAHD and Neve Gordon who is chairman of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University, asked, “Where’s the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?”

“Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and universities who prominently denounced an effort by British academics to boycott Israeli universities in September 2007 have raised their voice in opposition to Israel’s bombardment of the Islamic University of Gaza earlier this week,” report Halper and Gordon. They note that Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger, who has in the past ignorantly insulted Islamic representatives, “has been silent.”

It is the goyim moralists who are silent, not the Jews. It is the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, not the goyim media, that provides reports of Israel’s abuse of Palestinians. Gideon Levy’s “The Neighborhood Bully Strikes Again” was published in Haaretz (29 December), not in the goyim press. Levy’s words--“Once again, Israel’s violent responses, even if there is justification for them, exceed all proportion and cross every red line of humaneness, morality, international law and wisdom”--are not words that can appear in American print or TV media. Such words, printed in Israeli newspapers, never reach the goyim.

The extent of Americans’ ignorance is breathtaking. Israel has the Palestinians jammed into tightly controlled ghettos known as Gaza and the West Bank. With Egypt’s help, Israel controls the inflows of food, medicines, water, and energy into Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza are not permitted to enter Israel or Egypt. Last week a humanitarian ship bringing food and medicine was rammed by Israeli gunboats and turned away.

In the West Bank Palestinians are walled off from their fields, jobs, medical care, education, water, and from one another by endless checkpoints, roads for “Jews only,” walls, barbed wire, and machine gun towers. Palestinians are being evicted from their towns house by house, block by block.

Israel’s slow theft of Palestine is illegal under international law but protected by US “diplomacy.”

The Palestinians are no more of a threat to Israel than Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were a threat to the Nazi state. Yet, everywhere in America--Congress, the executive branch, the print and TV media, the universities, evangelical Christian institutions--there is the belief that Israel is on the verge of annihilation by Palestinian terrorists. This ignorance, so carefully cultivated by the Israel Lobby, turns genocidal aggression into self-defense.

It fools Americans, but it doesn’t fool Israelis. The Israelis have always known that “self-defense” is a cloak for a Zionist policy of territorial expansion. The policy is controversial within Israel. Many Israelis object, just as many Americans object to President Bush’s illegal wars and violations of US civil liberties. Many Israelis give voice to their moral conscience, but they are overwhelmed by vested interests.

Karl Marx declared morality to be merely a mask for vested interests. The writings of Marx and Engels are scornful of good will and moral ideals as effective forces in history. The Israeli state epitomizes Marx’s doctrine that power alone is the effective force.

Many American conservatives share the Israeli state’s belief in the efficacy of power. Conservatives who turned against Bush’s wars did so because the US was not brutal enough. They turned away from Bush’s long inconclusive wars in the way that fans desert a losing team.

Americans used to say that “the pen is mightier than the sword,” but this hasn’t been the case for US and Israeli aggression. The success the two regimes have had in instilling fear into their populations is part of the explanation for the impotence of morality. Another part of the explanation is that vested interests are a powerful constraint on morality.

Consider the case of Lee Bollinger. Columbia University is dependent on Jewish money, faculty and students. If Bollinger were to take a stand against Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians, he would be denounced as an anti-semite. Presidents of competitor universities would not come to his defense. They would pile on in hopes of recruiting Columbia’s top faculty and students and redirecting the flow of financial resources from Columbia to themselves.

An American newspaper or TV network that took a stand against Israel’s abuse of Palestinians would be confronted with an advertising boycott organized by AIPAC. American politicians who criticize Israel go down to defeat by Israel Lobby money.

Hegel gave too much emphasis to ideas, Marx too much to material interests. Both forces operate in the world. There are times in history when revolutionary ideas shatter material interests. Other times the two coexist in a balance of power. In other times material interests prevail over morality.

We are living in the latter time. Financial interests, the military-security complex, and the Israel Lobby are the powers that rule America. They are buttressed by neoconservatives and Christian Zionists and by the patriotic hubris that America is the main force for good operating in the world. The evils America commits are dismissed as necessary to the service of good. The destruction of Iraq, for example, is justified as “bringing freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people.”

A number of commentators, including myself, predict a decline in America’s economic power. As this occurs, Israel will have to abandon its policy of violence. With the accumulated hatred that its policies have fomented, Israel will be vulnerable.

The world will need to remember that although Israel is a Jewish state, it is a state whose policies many Jews find objectionable, just as a majority of American Jews oppose President Bush’s wars of aggression in the Middle East and his unconstitutional policies at home. We must not confuse Israel’s Zionist government with world Jewry, just as we must not confuse the American people with the war criminals in the Bush Regime.

Consider, who do you trust with your civil liberties, the US Department of Justice or the ACLU’s phalanx of Jewish attorneys?

We must avoid the mistake that was made by blaming the German people for Hitler. It was the aristocratic German military that tried to remove Hitler. In contrast, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blocked the attempt to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Pelosi is a discredit to California, but shall we blame all of America for Pelosi’s defense of war criminals? How can we do so when US Rep. Dennis Kucinich courageously read out the articles of impeachment on the House floor?

Are all Americans guilty because Kucinich did not prevail?

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01022009.html

[OldSchool]

That pic is worth a million words bro. Good post.

[Optimus]

The Gaza slaughter: Europe's hand is bloodied too
http://route24.freehost10.com/index.php/world-at-war/israel/the-gaza-slaughter-europes-hand-is-bloodied-too.html


Source: http://www.anarkismo.net/article/11133

Hundreds of dead and thousands of injured, sacrificed on the altar of Zionist expansionism and fundamentalism. In Europe, the foreign ministers of every EU country talk about an "exaggerated", though "legitimate", reaction on the part of Israel, reversing the true situation with an operation that would make the most cynical illusionist feel proud by making the aggressor, the State of Israel, appear to be the victim.

They continue to pretend that they do not remember that Gaza - one of the most densely-populated regions with around one and a half million inhabitants, about half of whom are children - has been the object of a total embargo for years, an embargo which includes medicines and basic necessities and which is supported by the entire "civilized" western world, imposed by Israel and the West as a result of the Hamas election victory, thanks to the mixed electoral system of majority and proportional representation. Just as they pretend to forget that Hamas was once financed by Israel as a way of countering the PLO.

Despite a 6-month truce, the embargo was not even slightly relaxed and not one of the Western powers even timidly suggested relaxing it. The State of Israel has returned to its strategy of military control over Gaza and the West Bank. All Europe's useless, hypocritical proclamations of a desire for peace systematically forget to mention that for 60 years Israel has been blithely violating countless UN resolutions and continues to occupy the territory militarily, with Israeli colonies spreading throughout Palestinian land day by day, building walls that segregate entire villages and prevent millions of refugees from returning to their land, uprooting olive groves and killing livestock, day after day humiliating anyone who tries to cross the segregation walls in order to go to work, to hospital or to school.

And not only that: they hide the fact that the truce was broken by the Israeli State on 4th November 2008 when its army killed a 22-year-old Hamas militant.

But aside from the false, hypocritical proclamations of pacifism, what is the reason for this unconditional support for such an aggressive, warmongering State by practically every major Western power?

As far as the USA is concerned, there is no doubt. Apart from the important strategic and territorial alliance that Israel represents for American imperialism in the Middle East, it also has to deal with the powerful US Jewish economic lobby, which is strong enough to bring about a stong influence on US foreign policy. And what is happening today comes across as a clear warning to the president-elect, Obama.

Europe has partially regained its unity on foreign policy and is probably playing the card of active diplomacy in order to strengthen its role in the Mediterranean and to warn the USA that it cannot act alone in the Mare Nostrum[1] area. But one must not forget arms sales, an area where States are always ready to hide the truth under the blanket of "State secrets" and support the orders of those companies who produce arms and support systems. And these businesses are never biased. They are quite happy to sell arms to opposing parties, as long as they can pay for them. Italy, for example, is one of the biggest arms suppliers to Iran and Lebanon, but has also supplied the Israeli army for years with arms technology through companies like Oto-Melara, Beretta, Borletti and Selenia. And the other countries in Europe do likewise.

Palestine is cynically used as an experimentation ground for deadly new technologies which are increasingly specialising in "urban warfare" and in which every arms company is interested: from US and Israeli companies to English, French, German, Italian, and so on.

So, in this tortured land where men, women and children, crushed by the wargames of the powerful, seem to have no future, new arms are tested, from cluster bombs to impoverished uranium bullets, the effectiveness of UAVs (pilotless aircraft) - able to launch remote controlled missiles - is studied, Achzarit tanks able to withstand landmines are experimented, Namer armoured vehicles with Continental Motors (US) or MTU (German) engines are tested, as is the efficacy of avant-garde systems such as Italian added protection and remote-controlled turrets mounted on Puma armoured vehicles, and Alenia's futuristic robotic war systems such as Sky-X, the first system in the world able to refuel pilotless aircraft in flight.

All this on the shoulders of a people who have always been used in clashes between States and others, cynically used even in the political clashes between the internal factions of one State, as in the case of Israeli political machinations connected with the electoral struggle both within the governing coalition between the hawkish Kadima, responsible for some of the most extreme acts - like the evacuation of the Strip proposed by the MK Yisrael Hasson - on the one hand and the Labour doves, in favour of a more measured approach, on the other, and between Kadima and the Likud super-hawks, increasingly moving towards ultra hardline positions.

We certainly do not expect the Arab and/or Islamic States to do anything, divided as they are or intent on strengthening their prestige and their influence in the area, even if it comes at the cost of the Palestinian people. Like the case of Iran, that uses the Palestinian tragedy to publicise itself as the only bulwark against the hated American imperialism and set itself up as the emerging power in the region.

But beyond all the international political conjecturing, the situation of the Palestinian population today seems bleak, with few prospects for reaching a solution that can give them a chance for a life with even a minimum of dignity, both from the point of view of social security and from that of guaranteeing respect of the minimum rights of survival.

Today perhaps the only guarantee that the Palestinian people may, as quickly as possible, find even a little respite and peace is that the marauders of all shapes and sizes - physically or ideologically thronging at their borders, or engaging in political speculation inside - reach a new, precarious balance.

The only real prospect for emancipation that we can glimpse in the near future is a growth and spread of the sort of self-organisation that many Palestinian villages practise, encouraged by the solidarity between Palestinian popular committees and initiatives such as Anarchists Against the Wall, involving internationalists from all over the world and anti-Zionist Israelis, who fight the arrogance of the Israeli settler colonists and the army that supports them using prevalently peaceful resistance. And it is not by chance that in these villages another road has been chosen and not the militarism of Hamas.

As class-struggle anarchists and libertarians we will continue to denounce Zionist settler colonialismm as we denounce all forms of imperialism and fundamentalism that oppress the liberty and dignity of every people. We will go on denouncing the fact that huge swathes of the world's proletariat suffer under the oppression and misery that results from inter-imperialist clashes and the cynical political games of powerful local oligarchs who are in turn used, knowingly or unknowingly, as pawns in the international chessboard of imperialist disputes, marked with the blood of the proletariat.

We will continue to support the struggles and act of solidarity with the Palestinian people, supporting all those embryonic manifestations of self-determination that typify the struggles of whole villages in Palestine, convinced that only if they can free themselves of the malicious influences of all State or para-State oligarchies can the working men and women begin to hope for a more dignified life.

2 January 2009

Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (Italy)
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (South Africa)

Note:
1. Literally "our sea", used by the imperial Romans with reference to the Mediterranean. The suggestion is that the modern European powers want to control the Med as the Romans did 2,000 years ago.


 

Related Link: http://www.anarkismo.net

[bigron]

PALESTINE’S LONG TORMENT


Anindya Bhattacharyya, thepeoplesvoice.org
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50315&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

Jan 3, 2009




In 1917 the British foreign secretary Lord Balfour gave official backing to their colonial ambitions. He hoped that a Zionist state in Palestine would serve the interests of British imperialism.

The Gaza Strip is effectively the world’s largest prison camp.

Zionist terror gangs drove its population from their homes during the creation of Israel in 1948.That event – known in Arabic as the Nakba (catastrophe) – saw 750,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed. They were uprooted and driven out of their homes and homeland to the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and to other countries.

Prior to this Britain controlled Palestine. The British imperialists had promised the land to both the native Palestinian population and to the Zionists, who had settled there over the previous 50 years.

Zionism was a Jewish nationalist movement that arose in Europe in the late 19th century as a response to the growth of anti-Semitism. (Anti-Zionism is wrongly used by Zionist to mean anti Zionist and anti Israeli, noting that the original Jews who form a minority of today’s Jews are a small minority of what are known today as Jews, the rest were converts to Judaism, who are of central Asian Turkic origin and has nothing to do with the Semitic race to which Arabs are the majority today and since thousands of years. They moved to the north of the Caspian sea where a number of them followed their king when he converted to Judaism. Zionism was actually invented by western colonialism, to establish an outpost and a long arm for itself in the Arab homeland to serve its colonialist purposes, then some western Khazari non-Semitic Jews adopted it and started its campaign to colonize Palestine and displace and replace the indigenous Palestinian Arabs in Palestine. A.S.K.)

Zionism’s founder Theodor Herzl argued that anti-Semitism could never be defeated and that Jews should found a new "homeland". Only a small minority of Jews backed this. Herzl and his supporters looked to the major powers for support.

In 1917 the British foreign secretary Lord Balfour gave official backing to their colonial ambitions. He hoped that a Zionist state in Palestine would serve the interests of British imperialism.

After the horror of the Holocaust, when Nazi Germany exterminated six million Jews(!!!), Zionism became a majority trend amongst Jews (That is not correct today’s Jewish majority are not pro-Zionism even in the U.S. A.S.K.). Tragically, some Jews went from being the oppressed in Europe to becoming the oppressor in the Middle East.

In 1947 the UN proposed to partition Palestine and give the Zionists 55 percent of Palestinian land, even though they comprised just a third of the population.

This was not enough for the Zionists who began to ethnically cleanse Palestine in March 1948. By the end of the year they controlled 80 percent of the territory and had driven the refugees into two enclaves that made up the remaining 20 percent – the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Occupied territories

Israel annexed and occupied these in its 1967 Six Day War with Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Israel has controlled these Occupied Territories ever since.

From Israel’s inception, imperialist forces courted the Zionist state as an ally in the oil-rich Middle East. As the US emerged as the world’s superpower after the Second World War it began to arm and fund Israel to act as its "watchdog" in the region. Israel’s attacks on its neighbours almost always take place with US consent.

With US support Israel has ignored hundreds of UN resolutions that have criticised it.

The Palestinians have resisted Israel throughout the past six decades. In 1987 the Intifada (uprising) broke out in the Occupied Territories.

This was one factor forcing Israel to open up negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) – the so-called "peace process". In 1993 this led to the Oslo Accords, signed by Israel and the PLO. A "two state solution" was promised in which Israel would remain intact but the Palestinians would be allowed their own state.

Many people still argue for a two state solution, but the experience of the "peace process" shows that it cannot work.

Apartheid

It was designed to retain Israeli dominance, with the PLO forced to police its own people. The Palestinians were to be given "Bantustans" – the name given to the supposedly independent states in apartheid South Africa that were, in reality, dominated by the racist state.

There is a massive imbalance of power between the two sides – a highly militarised state funded by the West on one side and an oppressed and isolated people on the other.

Zionists have continued to build settlements in the Occupied Territories. There are now 270,000 Israeli settlers living in the West Bank and a further 200,000 in East Jerusalem. The ongoing construction of an "apartheid wall" isolating the West Bank highlights the cynicism behind the talk of a "peace process".

The notion of a two state solution also involves giving up a fundamental principle of the Palestinian struggle – the right of refugees to return to their land. This would effectively legitimise the ethnic cleansing of 1948.

And it means accepting the idea that Jews and Arabs cannot live together – despite their long history of peaceful coexistence before the birth of Israel.

In the long run a solution can only take place in the context of a wider political upheaval across the Middle East. The corrupt, pro-Western Arab regimes have done nothing to support the Palestinians. The Arab masses are angry at the treatment of their Palestinian brothers and sisters, and at the repression and poverty they face at home.

The Arab working class has the power to challenge their own rulers and win fundamental change in the region. That would open the possibility of a single, democratic and multi-ethnic state encompassing all of historic Palestine – the only chance of a lasting and just settlement in the Middle East.

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Source: http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2009/01/palestines-long-torment.html

THE ORIGIN OF THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL CONFLICT (Part I)
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2008/11/28/title-11

THE ORIGIN OF THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL CONFLICT (Part II)
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2008/11/28/the-origin-of-the-palestine-israel-confl

 

[Nailer]

GROUND OPERATION*** TANKS OPENED FIRE TOWARD GAZA


Posted by GAIA on GLP who lives in Israel.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message697005/pg1

IDF artillery batteries fire shells into Gaza

By Amos Harel and Yoav Stern and Yanir Yagana, Haaretz Correspondents, and News Agencies

Tags: Israel news, Israel, Hamas

Israel Defense Forces artillery batteries began firing shells into open areas inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday, heralding a possible escalation in more than a week of fighting.

Palestinian witnesses said the barrage caused a large explosion in Gaza City. There was no immediate word of casualties.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052034.html

[larsonstdoc]

IT IS CALLED MIND CONTROL BECAUSE IT WORKS.............

Americans Closely Divided Over Israel’s Gaza Attacks
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
 http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/americans_closely_divided_over_israel_s_gaza_attacks

Americans, while far more sympathetic to Israel than the Palestinians, are closely divided over whether the Jewish state should be taking military action against militants in the Gaza Strip.

Forty-four percent (44%) say Israel should have taken military action against the Palestinians, but 41% say it should have tried to find a diplomatic solution to the problems there, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.

Fifty-five percent (55%) of adults, however, believe the Palestinians are to blame for the current situation in Gaza, while 13% point the finger at the Israelis. Nearly one-third (32%) aren’t sure.

   We Americans have our bread and circuses to watch (right now the college football bowl games).  While we watch those games, the networks have 30 second reports on Gaza.  The sheeple, being drunk and mind-controlled, believe the sound bytes that Palestine is responsible for the mess they are in.

[Nailer]

17:49 Palestinians report IAF attack on Gaza mosque, 6 dead (Haaretz)

17:45 Gaza militants fire one rocket into Netivot; one person lightly hurt (Israel Radio)

17:38 2 Qassam rockets strike near Sderot; no damage or injuries reported (Ch. 10)

17:18 Witnesses: Israel shelling along entire length of Gaza Strip (Channel 10)

17:04 Arab League slams Livni comment `there`s no humanitarian crisis in Gaza` (AP)

16:51 Turkish PM heads to Saudi Arabia in bid to broker Gaza truce (AP)

16:51 Thousands demonstrate in Britain against Israel offensive in Gaza (DPA)

16:34 IAF steps up airstrikes on northern Gaza, Gaza City (Israel Radio)

16:26 IDF artillery batteries begin firing shells into open areas inside Gaza (Haaretz)

16:18 Meshal to Iran: Hamas` determination took Israel by surprise (Army Radio)

16:02 Several Palestinian rockets strike communities near Gaza border; no one hurt (Ch. 10)

16:01 IAF strikes 40 Hamas targets in Gaza, including training grounds (Israel Radio)

15:44 Hamas: We won`t let Israel, world, impose Gaza truce terms (AP)

14:42 De Graafschap FC completes transfer for Chelsea striker Ben-Shahar (AP)

14:14 Qassam strikes open area in Sderot (Haaretz)
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message697005/pg3
posted by GAIA

Israel is dropping fliers, you know why?
Telling civilians to run away because the attack is about to start.
Do you think Hamas thought in their kids when they were firing missils from the backyards of Family houses?



Update:

The Masjid bombing.

15 Dead and rising.

60 injured and rising.

[Geolibertarian]

   We Americans have our bread and circuses to watch (right now the college football bowl games).  While we watch those games, the networks have 30 second reports on Gaza.  The sheeple, being drunk and mind-controlled, believe the sound bytes that Palestine is responsible for the mess they are in.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/wasdin/wasdin10.html

[David Rothscum]

Video footage of an Israeli terror attack on a Gazan Market:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KP4E6Z5U

http://muslimtv.magnify.net/video/ISRAEL-CARNAGE-CIVILIANS-CHILDR
Realize before following the links that it's shocking to watch. The megaphone will gladly show you black and white footage of mosques they bombed because they had weapons stored there, but they leave the video footage of the children they slaughtered at market places out.

[Joseon]

   We Americans have our bread and circuses to watch (right now the college football bowl games).  While we watch those games, the networks have 30 second reports on Gaza.  The sheeple, being drunk and mind-controlled, believe the sound bytes that Palestine is responsible for the mess they are in.

I'll admit it Larson, I do like sports, even college football. Hell, I went to Rutgers and I root for my alma-mater. However, I do recognize the difference between entertainment and serious matters. I am much more concerned about this ground assault that Israel is attacking with. How many more will die needlessly?

[Dig]

Some information on the zionist/neocon plan for a forced rapture and the second coming:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=77953.msg435530#msg435530



This might explain the over 10,000 articles on this genocide, while the genocide in Africa only has a few dozen articles available:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=77676.0

[voodo0]

    
BREAKING: 'Dramatic escalation' in Gaza, tanks 'moving toward frontier'


GAZA CITY (AFP) – Israeli artillery on Saturday bombarded the Gaza Strip in a dramatic escalation of the campaign against Hamas after a week of air attacks which have left more than 440 Palestinians dead.

Israeli tanks were seen moving toward the frontier as Howitzer guns fired dozens of shells across the border. AFP correspondents saw huge plumes of black smoke rise on the Gaza side.

The Israeli army made no immediate comment on the operation which came amid mounting speculation that Israel would send troops into Gaza.

With thousands of troops and tanks massed at the frontier, Israeli air strikes earlier killed a Hamas military commander and destroyed a school as the military campaign against rockets fired from Gaza entered a second week.

Israeli radio warned the public that rocket attacks could intensify in "coming hours".

Israel has staged more than 750 air raids against Hamas leaders and military targets since launching "Operation Cast Lead" on December 27. At least 442 Palestinians have been killed -- including 75 children -- and 2,290 wounded, according to Gaza medics.

Four people have been killed in Israeli by more than 500 rockets fired from Gaza over the same time.

Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal warned Israel on Friday of a "black destiny" if it invaded. But US leaders have given their key Middle East ally free rein to begin a ground operation, again blaming Hamas for the new conflict.

More than 30 air raids on Saturday hit Hamas targets across the densely populated territory.

One strike killed Mohammad al-Jammal, who Gaza sources said was a Hamas military commander. Israel said he was responsible "for the entire rocket launching enterprise in all of Gaza City."

Jammal's death came two days after an air raid killed top Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan.

Another raid demolished a school in northern Gaza and killed a guard there. Israel said its warplanes had targeted "a college used as a base for firing a large number of rockets."

Two people were killed when a strike hit their car in the southern city of Khan Yunis, medics said.

The Israeli strikes have so far failed in their declared aim of ending rocket fire from Gaza and there is mounting concern over the humanitarian impact of the Israeli operation.

Maxwell Gaylard, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said on Friday "there is a critical emergency in the Gaza Strip right now. By any definition this is a humanitarian crisis and more."

About 80 percent of the 1.5 million population relies on international food aid .

But the United States has given fresh backing to Israel, insisting that the key to a truce is Israel's demand that Hamas stop firing rockets.

In his weekly Saturday radio address, the text of which was released by the White House, President George W. Bush called on Hamas "to turn away from terror, and to support legitimate Palestinian leaders working for peace."

Bush blamed Hamas for the violence and rejected calls for a unilateral ceasefire that he said would allow the Islamists to continue targeting Israel with rocket and mortar fire.

Thousands of Israeli troops with tanks have been waiting along the 60-kilometre (37-mile) border with Gaza for the green light from the government to advance.

Amid new diplomatic efforts to halt the fighting, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to meet French President counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy in Ramallah on Monday. He was then to travel to New York to appeal for a ceasefire at the UN Security Council.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday met Iran's Supreme National Security Council chief Saeed Jalili to discuss the Gaza crisis, Syria's official SANA news agency reported.

Jalili also met the exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah on Friday, a Palestinian source said.

In a televised speech on Friday night, Meshaal warned Israel: "If you commit the stupidity of launching a ground offensive then a black destiny awaits you."

The week of Israeli strikes has destroyed Hamas government buildings, the homes of senior Islamist officials, mosques, schools and other buildings said to have stored weapons, and roads and tunnels used to smuggle arms and supplies.

Israel has kept the territory virtually sealed since Hamas seized power there in June 2007 from Fatah forces loyal to the secular Abbas.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/BREAKING_Dramatic_escalation_in_Gaza_tanks_0103.html

[RickT]

Ground invasion has begun.  CNN right now.

[Freeski]

CNN.com with a "breaking news" item saying "Israeli ground troops have begun moving slowly into Gaza, sources tell CNN."

[Freeski]

Foxnews.news with nearly the same exact line: no story yet

Breaking News >> Reports of Israeli Ground Forces Crossing Border Into Gaza Strip

[Geolibertarian]

CNN.com with a "breaking news" item saying "Israeli ground troops have begun moving slowly into Gaza, sources tell CNN."

Mike Rivero is talking about it as I speak.

[Joseon]

Hold your breath....
say a prayer, bless hail Mary seven times.
precious life deteriorating, the horizon of death .
more people dying,
young babies crying,
the day soon known as the aggression of Zion.

[RickT]

Live footage on CNN

[Hawkwind]

anyone got a live feed?

[Dok]

Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza Strip 
 
By Amos Harel, Yoav Stern and Yanir Yagana, Haaretz Correspondents, and News Agencies 
 

Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a large explosion in Gaza City as well as a series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel.

Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the entire length of the shared border.

At one tank base along the border, the roar of tank engines and the rumble of their movements toward the border could be heard after dark, though none moved across the frontier. Hamas officials also reported tank movement toward the border near the northern Erez crossing point.

Defense officials said some 10,000 troops, including tank, artillery and special operations units, were massed on the Gaza border and prepared to invade. They said top commanders were split over whether to send in ground forces, in part because such an operation could lead to heavy casualties but also because they believe Hamas already has been dealt a heavy blow.

A family in Beit Lahiya said that an Israeli artillery shell had hit a house there, wounding many people. Ambulances could not immediately reach
them because of the resulting fire, they said.

Meanwhile, Israel Air Force warplanes stepped up airstrikes on Gaza, bombing the main road that runs throughout the strip in three different spots, making travel from one side of the Strip to the other close to impossible.

Palestinian health officials in Gaza reported Saturday evening that 13 people had been killed in another IAF bombing of a mosque in Beit Lahiya. They said that 26 Palestinians had died in IAF raids after dark Saturday.

The air force struck more than 40 Hamas targets over the course of Saturday, killing the third senior Hamas official since Israel's aerial assault began.

On Saturday morning, Israel Radio quoted a spokesman for the Hamas military wing as saying it had repelled an attempt by Israel Defense Forces soldiers to infiltrate the Shajaiyeh section of Gaza City.

According to Israel Radio, Hamas said that its militants detected the soldiers and fired six mortar shells. Hamas said the soldiers reportedly opened fire and then returned to Israeli territory.
 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052299.html

[larsonstdoc]

anyone got a live feed?

  GCN Live membership (I think it's 7.95 per month--2 cups of Starbuck's coffee).

[Freeski]

The operation has a name now?

Operation Cast Lead

http://www.jpost.com/

[larsonstdoc]

  I knew those bastards would do it after dark--850 pm Gaza time right now.

[Geolibertarian]

  GCN Live membership (I think it's 7.95 per month--2 cups of Starbuck's coffee).

That's prisonplanet.tv.

GCN Live streams are free:

http://www.gcnlive.com/Listen_Live.html

[Devotional Soul]

My neighbor is a from Palestine, and has a friend in Gaza who sent an email saying she is fully prepared to die. Please keep these innocent people in your prayers.  

[Dok]

On a Sabbath, the Jewish holy day of rest!  The first attacks started on a Sabbath, too, the Sabbath during Hanukkah!   The non-Zionist Jews know that this is a disgrace to Judaism.

My neighbor has a friend in Gaza who sent an email saying she is fully prepared to die. Please keep these innocent people in your prayers.  

Sabbath was over a couple of hours ago over there.

[larsonstdoc]

That's prisonplanet.tv.

GCN Live streams are free:

http://www.gcnlive.com/Listen_Live.html

Sorry, I pay for the archives to listen to at anytime.  I'm glad they are free in these times.

[Boubear]

On a Sabbath, the Jewish holy day of rest!  The first attacks started on a Sabbath, too, the Sabbath during Hanukkah!   The non-Zionist Jews know that this is a disgrace to Judaism.

My neighbor has a friend in Gaza who sent an email saying she is fully prepared to die. Please keep these innocent people in your prayers.  

Yeah, isn't that interesting!!  It just shows they are not Jewish!!

Praying for all the innocent people!!

[voodo0]

 

[Boubear]

Sabbath was over a couple of hours ago over there.

Oh I thought it started last night??  I'm confused!!

[Nailer]

cnn showing them going into Gaza..

[Devotional Soul]

Your right, doc.  It's Saturday day here, but if it's night time there, it's past the Sabbath now (friday night to saturday).

The first attacks began on Saturday, though.

[Godfather77]

Gaza: secondary war being fought on the internet
December 31, 2008
Full article:- http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5424671.ece

As fighting rages in the Gaza Strip an unprecedented 'virtual war' is being joined in cyberspace.

A furious public information battle is taking place on sites ranging from YouTube to Facebook between the Israeli state and Hamas.

It is part of an attempt by Israel's political leaders to use the internet to spread their message and has seen the country's Army, the IDF, becoming the first ever national force to set up their own YouTube channel.

More than 4,000 people have already subscribed to the IDF channel, launched on December 29, which shows constantly updated video footage of bombing raids from drones targeting Hamas infrastructure.

Meanwhile, on social networking site Facebook, a battle has emerged between quasi-official pro and anti-Israeli posters. One group, 'I Support the Israel Defence Forces In Preventing Terror Attacks From Gaza,' set up on Monday by a former Israeli Army veteran, has so far accumulated 22,964 members. Counter-groups have been set up opposing it.

The Hamas web operation has also sprung into action online. The group has relied on shocking images of civilian casualties taken by local media workers to rally people to its cause. The images have also been placed on Islamist websites, along with messages calling for Israel's destruction.

Hamas-supporting hackers have launched their own guerrilla conflict, targeting Israeli-run websites of all descriptions with around 300 reportedly defaced or taken offline in the first weekend of the conflict alone.

Nevertheless Hamas has produced nothing to rival the organisation and sophistication of Israel's PR war. Explaining the focus on information, Israeli military spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovich said: "The blogosphere and new media are another war zone and we have to be relevant there."