#Israel’s Deliberate Plan to “#DestroyLife” in #Palestine?

US Military Bases in Turkey and Qatar May be Removed for Security Reasons
By Steven Sahiounie
The US government has long faced a dilemma in dealing with Turkey and Qatar, who pose as partners on the global stage. The US has maintained relations with both while being increasingly concerned with their malign behavior.
Both support the Muslim Brotherhood, finance terrorists, promote extremist ideologies such as Radical Islam, and openly host and partner with Hamas and al-Qaeda. Turkey and Qatar are ‘brothers in arms’ and share an affinity for Radical Islam that shapes their regional engagement. Read more...

The West’s Present “Misconduct” Has a Long History. America’s Proclivity for War
By James ONeill
One of the persistent themes of western political leaders is that they support the notion of “the rule of law”. By this they generally mean the system of law as developed by western nations, and in the international context the formulation over the past 120 years or so of international law.
By this of course, they mean “their law”. Any deviation from this by non-western nations is to be deplored and where appropriate punished. Read more...

The UN Predicted Gaza Would be “Unliveable” by 2020. Israel’s Deliberate Plan to “Destroy Life” in Palestine?
By Tania Hary
While revelers around the world are making new year’s resolutions for 2020, in the Gaza Strip, a

The #American #PoliceState

Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead
Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly. Read more...

Cuba’s Earthy Traditions, and Jean Vanier
By Prof Susan Babbitt
Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly. Read more...

We Take to the Streets of Tel Aviv to Demand an End to the Siege on Gaza

#RussiaGate and the #MuellerReport

Three Lessons for the Progressive Left from the Mueller Inquiry
By Jonathan Cook
The left never had a dog in this race. This was always an in-house squabble between different wings of the establishment. One wing wants to make sure the pig’s face remains painted, the other is happy simply getting its snout deeper into the trough while the food lasts. Russiagate was never about substance, it was about who gets to image-manage the decline of a turbo-charged, self-harming neoliberal capitalism. Read more...

Trump Recognizes Israeli Annexation of Golan Heights: Green Light for Global War
By Bill Van Auken
The hastily completed White House ceremony in which President Donald Trump signed a decree granting official US recognition to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights is an act which, on its surface, appears to change few facts on the ground in the Middle East. Read more...

Venezuelan Gov’t Presents Evidence of Alleged Opposition Paramilitary Plot
By Ricardo Vaz
Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez presented what he claimed to be evidence of “ultra-right plans to promote regime change.” According to Rodriguez, Venezuelan intelligence

#Gaza as #Israel’s #Military #TrainingGround

U.S Green Party Urges International Criminal Court to Prosecute Israel for Crimes Against Palestinians
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Members of the delegation understand they have a responsibility to act and to educate others in the United States about the truth of the violent Israeli occupation of Palestine and apartheid state. Read more...

Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Is Meant to Keep Gaza Imprisoned
By Jonathan Cook
Palestinians in Gaza should have been able to breathe a sigh of relief last week, as precarious ceasefire talks survived a two-day-long, heavy exchange of strikes that threatened to unleash yet another large-scale military assault by Israel. Read more...

Military Escalation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Missile and Bombing Attacks on Civilian Buildings

#RegimeChange, #Brexit Challenges

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A Neoconservative Plan for Punishing Iran
By Philip Giraldi, July 10, 2018
President Donald Trump makes a point of insisting that he has nothing against the Iranian people and is only interested in opposing what he regards as the dangerous activities of their government, but his own record in office belies that claim. It is clear that what he is trying to do is put pressure on the people of Iran to rise up and force a change in government, a process otherwise referred to as regime change.

British MPs Should be Ashamed of Supporting Regime Change in Tehran
By Peter Oborne, July 10, 2018
Former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers was among senior Tories who travelled to Paris last week to

The #Istanbul #Summit and #US #Palestine #Relations

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Why the Istanbul Declaration Must Succeed: “The Whole World to Recognize East Jerusalem as the Occupied Capital of Palestine”
By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, December 18, 2017
To obtain the support of the whole world, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which initiated the Summit will have to go beyond the OIC. An international committee should be established comprising states that are committed to the recognition of East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian State. It should be led by China which has endorsed wholeheartedly the East Jerusalem proposal.

Wheelchair-bound Man with No Legs Killed by Israel’s IDF in Gaza During Jerusalem Protest
By RT News, December 18, 2017
Abu Thurayeh, 29, was shot dead east of Gaza City, according to Gaza’s health ministry as cited by the Times of Israel. He is one of four Palestinians who were killed during a protest over the decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Turkey Opens Embassy in East Jerusalem: Erdogan’s Grandstanding East Jerusalem Vow

Why #Palestine Is Still the Issue

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Genetically Modified Bread Given Green Light by Vatican

By Julian Rose, July 10, 2017

This is not a criticism of these individuals. It is the institution which must be first to answer for its deviousness. All the evidence exposing institutional corruption is contained in cardinal Sarah’s proclamation that genetically engineered bread is acceptable – and gluten-free bread is not. 

Why Palestine Is Still the Issue

By John Pilger, July 10, 2017

What enrages those who colonise and occupy, steal and oppress, vandalise and defile is the victims’ refusal to comply. And this is the tribute we all should pay the Palestinians. They refuse to comply. They go on. They wait – until they fight again. And they do so even when those governing them collaborate with their oppressors. 

Trump Cannot Improve Relations with Russia When Trump’s Government and the US Media Oppose Improved Relations

#UK #Government: 700 #Israeli Attacks on #Gaza since 2014 #Ceasefire

By Ben White

Israel has opened fire on the Gaza Strip on “at least 696 occasions” since the August 2014 ceasefire, the UK government has told Parliament.

These incidents are in addition to 29 strikes on Gaza conducted in response to rocket fire.

The figures were provided by Tobias Ellwood, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, citing UN agency figures, and in response to a question by Labour MP Alex Cunningham.

Tobias Ellwood, UK Conservative Party politician

On September 4, Cunningham asked “how many times the Israeli military have opened fire into Gaza since August 2014; and what steps his Department is taking to prevent future such incidents.”

Answering a week later, Ellwood stated.

We are aware of Israeli forces responding to illegal rocket fire from Gaza with 29 strikes since

#Gaza: The #World’s #Largest #OpenAir #Prison

High-Seas Piracy: Israel’s Latest Bandit Act

By Stephen Lendman

Previous articles discussed Israel’s seizure of the Swedish vessel Marianne Ship to Gaza carrying humanitarian aid despite Israel’s hollow denial. 

Israel wants Gazans trapped indefinitely in the world’s largest open-air prison deprived of essentials for well-being – suffocated under a policy of slow-motion genocide.

Israeli commandos lawlessly seized the Marianne in international waters. Netanyahu saying it was done lawfully is one of a litany of Big Lies he claimed about the incident – a bandit act like so many others Israel commits endlessly.

A June 29 Ship to Gaza press release said “the ‘Marianne’ contacted the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and informed us that three boats of the Israeli navy had surrounded her in international waters, while sailing approximately 100NM from Gaza coast.”

“After that we lost contact with the ‘Marianne’ and at 05:11AM (Gaza time) the IDF announced that they had visited and searched Marianne. They had captured the boat and

The Return of #European #Anti-Semitism? Not Exactly.

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NY TIMES WHINES ABOUT EUROPEAN 'ANTI-SEMITISM'

 

NY Times: Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the Shadows

By JIM YARDLEY

In the wake of the conflict in Gaza, three communities became flash points of violence and began contending with hatred they thought was buried in the past.

REBUTTAL BY THE ANTI-NEW YORK TIMES

Strike up the violins and break out the barf bags. The poor little defenseless Jews who, by the way, own the bloody West - lock, stock, and barrel - are concerned about a recent rise in European 'anti-Semitism' -TM. As evidence of Europe's possible "return to 1939" (palm to face,sigh), Sulzberger's Jew York Slimes cites a handful of isolated incidents which took place on this continent of 300 + million people:

• A single pro-Gaza protester in France allegedly yelled, "Gas the Jews!"
• A synagogue in Germany was allegedly attacked by a Molotov Cocktail.
• A Swedish Jew was allegedly beaten up just for being Jewish.

Assuming that these were actually true stories and not staged events (which Jews are well known for!), this is hardly the equivalent of 14th - 19th century pogroms,-TM in which angry villagers, reminiscent of those old Frankenstein movies, would grab their torches, march into the Jewish quarter, and vent their righteous indignation upon the local well-poisoners, child-sacrificers, and loan sharks. Ah, the good old days when European men were men! 

"That shyster charged me 50% interest and then took my farm!"

#Gaza and the Threat of World #War

Mainstream Media Propaganda: 

Breaking the Last Taboo – 

Gaza and the Threat of World War

By John Pilger

“There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.”

For many people, the truth is out now. At last, they know. Those once intimidated into silence can’t look away now. Staring at them from their TV, laptop, phone, is proof of the barbarism of the Israeli state and the great destructive force of its mentor and provider, the United States, the cowardice of European governments, and the collusion of others, such as Canada and Australian, in this epic crime.

The attack on Gaza was an attack on all of us. The siege of Gaza is a siege of all of us. The denial of justice to Palestinians is a symptom of much of humanity under siege and a warning that the threat of a new world war is growing by the day.

When Nelson Mandela called the struggle of Palestine “the greatest moral issue of our time”, he spoke on behalf of true civilisation, not that which empires invent. In Latin America, the governments of Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, El Salvador, Peru and Ecuador have made their stand on Gaza. Each of these countries has known its own dark silence when immunity for mass murder was sponsored by the same godfather in Washington that answered the cries of children in Gaza with more ammunition to kill them.

Unlike Netanyahu and his killers, Washington’s pet fascists in Latin America didn’t concern themselves with moral window dressing. They simply murdered, and left the bodies on rubbish dumps. For Zionism, the goal is the same: to dispossess and ultimately destroy an entire human society: a truth that 225 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have compared with te genesis of genocide.

Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the website of the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, Moshe Feiglin, demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, whose party is a member of the governing coalition, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.

For years, reporters have watched Israeli soldiers bait Palestinian children by abusing them through loud-speakers. Then they shoot them dead. For years, reporters have known about Palestinian women about to give birth and refused passage through a roadblock to a hospital; and the baby has died, and sometimes the mother.

For years, reporters have known about Palestinian doctors and ambulance crews given permission by Israeli commanders to attend the wounded or remove the dead, only to be shot through the head.

For years, reporters have known about stricken people prevented from getting life-saving treatment, or shot dead when they’ve tried to reach a clinic for chemotherapy treatment. One elderly lady with a walking stick was murdered in this way – a bullet in her back.

When I put the facts of this crime to Dori Gold, a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister, he said, “Unfortunately in every kind of warfare there are cases of civilians who are accidentally killed. But the case you cite was not terrorism. Terrorism means putting the cross-hairs of the sniper’s rifle on a civilian deliberately.”

Israel Steals Gaza’s Offshore Natural Gas

$15 Billion Deal with Jordan

By Julie Lévesque

Photo: “Gaza electricity; ‘enemy of the (Jewish) state’” wrote the Middle East Online during the 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead.

While Gazans suffer from daily power shutdowns, Israel is signing an important deal to sell gas to Jordan, gas which, researchers say, was stolen from Palestinians.
In addition to confiscating Palestine’s energy resources, Israel has destroyed Gaza’s only power station in its latest military offensive.
On July 29, 2014, RT reported:

Over a million people in Gaza could be without electricity after Israeli tank shells hit the fuel depot of the enclave’s only power station, causing it to shut down. Its director, Mohammed al-Sharif, said, “The power plant is finished.” (Gaza’s only power plant shut down by Israeli shelling, RT, July 29, 2014)

The Middle East Monitor reported September 4, 2014 that a Memorandum of Understanding ”is due to be signed between Israel and Jordan in the reservoir of Leviathan to export Israeli natural gas to Jordan during the next 15 years with a total value of $15 billion”. (Jordan to buy $15bn of Israeli gas, Middle East Monitor, September 4, 2014.)
Israel’s first natural gas export deal will also be signed by “the Leviathan field partner Noble Energy Inc. on behalf of itself and its partners Delek Group Ltd. units Avner Oil and Gas LP and Delek Drilling Limited Partnership and Ratio Oil Exploration (1992) LP.” (Leviathan partners signing $15b Jordanian gas deal, Globes, Israel business news, on September 3, 2014)
We may recall that in the wake of the Israeli bombing and invasion under Operation Cast Lead, “Palestinian gas fields were de facto confiscated by Israel in derogation of international law”:

A year following “Operation Cast Lead”,  Tel Aviv announced the discovery of  the Leviathan natural gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean “off the coast of Israel.”

At the time the gas field was: “ … the most prominent field ever found in the sub-explored area of the Levantine Basin, which covers about 83,000 square kilometres of the eastern Mediterranean region.”

Coupled with Tamar field, in the same location, discovered in 2009, the prospects are for an energy bonanza for Israel, for Houston, Texas based Noble Energy and partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration and Ratio Oil Exploration. (Felicity Arbuthnot, Israel: Gas, Oil and Trouble in the Levant, Global Research, December 30, 2013)

The Gazan gas fields are part of the broader Levant assessment area. (Michel Chossudovsky, War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields, Global Research, January 8, 2009)

The Times of Israel said this first export deal “makes Israel chief energy supplier for [the] kingdom.” (Marissa Newman, Israel signs $15 billion gas deal with Jordan, The Times of Israel, September 3, 2014)
The Israeli business news outlet Globe reports that the U.S. State Department “assisted” both countries in signing the deal which gives Israel the capacity to “use its position to achieve strategic aims”:

The deal has been brought to fruition with the assistance of Israel Minister of Natural Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources Silvan Shalom and the US State Department.

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs Amos Hochstein is in Jordan for the signing ceremony. Silvan Shalom will be required to approve the deal before contracts are finally signed.
This deal significantly changes the economic strategic relations between Israel and Jordan and makes Israel an energy producer and exporter that can use its position to achieve strategic aims. Discussions over Israeli gas exports have rumbled on in Israel for the past few years and ultimately it was decided that Israel can export 40% of its offshore natural gas reserves. (Leviathan partners signing $15b Jordanian gas deal, Globes, Israel business news, on September 3, 2014)

¡Gaza! Un Campo de Concentración

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¡Gaza!

Un campo de concentración

(¿Qué queda de la moral de occidente?)

El ex-vice primer ministro inglés John Prescott anota: Gaza un campo de concentración en el cual Israel determina quién es terrorista. O sea que Israel es juez, invasor y justiciero.

Regis Debray en Contretemps, elucida el concepto de terrorista en estos términos: El estereotipo de terrorismo es infantil pero eficaz; lo encierran en una tara caracterial. Lo contrario de un razonamiento objetivo y de discernimiento intelectual.

Más allá de estos esclarecimientos descubrimos a Guernica de Pablo Picasso. Para aquél gran creador: La pintura del artista no está hecha para decorar los departamentos. es un instrumento de guerra contra el enemigo. 

Guernica de Picasso (1939)

Nuestra generación quiso creer que esta obra quedaría en el tiempo como representación de la gran victoria del espíritu sobre la materialidad de los poderes fácticos. Picasso invita a participar como un grito de denuncia a la conciencia de la humanidad. Sin embargo, ¿qué observamos en estos últimos decenios: La guerra del Vietnam, de Argelia, la llamada revolución cultural china, las dictaduras fascistas establecidas por la United States of América en América Latina, el genocidio en Uganda, exterminio de la población conocido como el genocidio de Ruanda (1994). Ahora en Afganistán, Irak, Libia, en la ex Yugoslavia, en Chechenia, y la monstruosidad en Palestina, etc…

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“Respuesta a la Carta Abierta de Aguinis y Otros Intelectuales pro Sionistas”

Abdul Karim Paz‏

 

La carta que publicaron algunos en defensa del genocidio que lleva a cabo el ejército de ocupación sionista en Gaza está llena de falsedades. 

La primera de ellas, es la de describir a este genocidio como una “guerra”. Lo que está sucediendo no es una guerra entre dos ejércitos y menos con el grado de paridad necesaria para poder denominarla así. Lo que está sucediendo es una ocupación por parte de un Estado armado hasta los dientes con todo tipo de armas convencionales y prohibidas por la legislación internacional, a un territorio – el palestino-, cuyo pueblo, harto de tanta opresión, resiste como puede. 

El genocidio que tiene lugar en estos días ante la mirada pasiva y permisiva de los poderes internacionales, es una constante y no se limita a lo que sucede ahora con el bombardeo en Gaza. Cuando cesa el fuego, el genocidio “por goteo” continúa, con nuevos asentamientos, nuevas expulsiones, nuevas humillaciones, cárceles, torturas, despojos y abusos. Todos lo saben, pero los grandes medios cómplices lo esconden a los ojos de la población mundial que si pudiese saber el diez por ciento de lo que hacen sufrir los sionistas a los palestinos a diario, no permitirían que esta situación aberrante continúe por tanto tiempo.

Dios Altísimo, la conciencia humana y hasta las Naciones Unidas, tan reacias a condenar a Israel, permiten al ocupado la defensa. 

La segunda falsedad es que Hamas, el partido con mayoría de seguidores en la Franja de Gaza, inició la “guerra”. La agresión genocida la inició el ejército ocupante con la excusa de vengar el secuestro y asesinato de tres colonos (ocupantes), pero después se supo que no fueron los del Hamas o algún palestino el que los asesinó, sino israelíes. 

¿Qué Tienen en Común las Guerras de Ucrania, Gaza, Irak, Siria y Libia?

Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Los juegos de vidéo de la série «Call of Duty: Modern Warfare» (los más vendidos a nivel mundial) presentan la confrontación entre Estados Unidos y Rusia con la guerra por el petróleo como telón de fondo.

Los cronogramas, organigramas, infogramas y genealogías son seminales para el análisis geopolítico. Dos días antes del misterioso y letal misil que derribó en el cielo tempestuoso ucraniano el avión de Malaysia Airlines –como todo lo recóndito que ha ocurrido con sus dos recientes vuelos–, fue clausurada la histórica VI cumbre del BRICS y su conexión con UNASUR, donde concurrieron notablemente Colombia y Perú [1].

Un día antes del misil letal, Obama elevó la puja de las sanciones contra Rusia y su binomio inextricable de la banca y los energéticos. "Coincidiendo" el mismo día con el letal misil misterioso en los cielos de Ucrania, «Netanyahu, jefe de un Estado nuclear, ordenaba a su ejército invadir la franja de Gaza»: apreciación sugerente de Fidel Castro, quien en su filípica acusa de «provocación insólita» al gobierno golpista de Ucrania bajo la férula de Estados Unidos [2].

¿Qué sabrá perturbadoramente el caribeño viejo zorro de mil batallas?

Mientras el misil misterioso derribaba el vuelo de Malaysia Airlines, el Estado racista/paria/apartheid de Israel invadía la franja de Gaza, lo cual le han puesto en desacato de las resoluciones de la ONU y de «aislarse con la opinión pública mundial», como señala el ex presidente Bill Clinton [3] y coincide marcadamente con mi opinión en la radio mexicana.

Al unísono de la «coincidencia» (Castro dixit) de las agendas geopolíticas de Ucrania y Gaza, arreciaban los enfrentamientos sectarios y energéticos en tres países árabes: Libia, Siria e Irak –tildados de «fallidos» por los estrategas de Estados Unidos–, sin contar las guerras de Yemen y Somalia.

Five Facts that the Israeli Government Would Prefer you did not Know

By Anthony Bellchambers

1. Binyamin Netanyahu claims to speak for the majority of world Jewry although, in fact, he represents only a minority of Jewish Israelis and Americans – those who support his right-wing, Likud Party. To many others, particularly in Europe, he is considered a US-financed, Zionist rabble-rouser with an extremist political agenda that rejects any Palestinian state and requires the ‘transfer’ of all indigenous Arabs out of former Palestine.

2. Israeli policies such as the illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state); the 8 year blockade of essential supplies into Gaza; the mis-labelling of exported fruit and vegetables to Europe and the horrific killing of hundreds of defenceless women and children in Gaza – all have the effect of exacerbating antisemitism around the world. The agenda of the Israeli government against the indigenous Arab population being the primary driver of anti-Jewish feeling both in Europe and globally.

3. Netanyahu is well aware of this link and the detrimental effect of his policies on the security of Jewish communities worldwide, and on public opinion, but he also knows that the greater the increase in antisemitism the more French, British and other Jewish nationals will be forced to sell their homes and reluctantly leave the countries of their birth to seek sanctuary in Israel. This is a key principle of the Netanyahu government agenda that all American, European and diaspora Jews should be ‘persuaded’ to emigrate to the Israeli state – together with their assets.

4. However, this agenda is also partly supported by millions of evangelist, Christian Zionists in America, who believe in the literal word of the bible and whose goal is for all 14 million Jews in the world to be relocated to the Israeli state where they can be baptised and converted, en masse, into the Christian church! The Israeli government ministers smile knowingly behind their hands as they accept this support – without which their economy would collapse.

5. The Israel lobby in America comprises over a dozen organisations including AIPAC, the primary Zionist political pressure group with links into the White House that heavily influences US foreign policy around the world.

However, for many integrated European Jewish communities, Mr Netanyahu’s alleged war crimes in Gaza plus his violent, expansionist agenda with its consequent rise in antisemitism, are very bad news indeed.

The head of UNICEF said yesterday, that 392 children had been killed in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and that about 370,000 children had been traumatised.

A boycott of academic and trading links with the state of Israel now seems to be inevitable consequence of the atrocities carried out in Gaza.

Israel Is Targeting CIVILIANS In Gaza

United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch

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Recommend International Criminal Court Investigation

Update: Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the U.S. for help in avoiding war crime charges.
Amnesty International just released a report stating:

An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
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“Even more alarming is the mounting evidence that the Israeli army has targeted health facilities or professionals. Such attacks are absolutely prohibited by international law and would amount to war crimes. They only add to the already compelling argument that the situation should be referred to the International Criminal Court.”

Human Rights Watch released a report this week headlined, “Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians“, stating:

Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that on July 25, a Red Crescent volunteer [the equivalent of the Red Cross] was mortally wounded in an Israeli attack in Khuza’a, and other volunteers who tried to rescue him were fired on. Under the laws of war, medical workers are civilians who may not be targeted for attack.
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Human Rights Watch investigated several incidents between July 23 and 25 when, local residents said, Israeli forces opened fire on civilians trying to flee Khuza’a, but no Palestinian fighters were present at the time and no firefights were taking place.
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“The horrors of war are bad enough for civilians even when all sides abide by the law,” [Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa director] said. “But it’s abhorrent that Israeli forces are making matters even worse by so blatantly violating the laws of war designed to spare civilians.”

Last month, Human Rights Watch documented that the types of weapons used by the Israeli military prove that the killing of civilians was intentional.
Human Rights Watch executive director (and former federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York) Kenneth Roth – said:

25 Verdades Sobre Asedio de Gaza por Israel

Salim Lamrani

Contrariamente a las afirmaciones de las autoridades israelíes, el actual bombardeo de Gaza tiene como objetivo romper la unión nacional entre el Fatah y el Hamas e impedir la reanudación del proceso de paz.

1. En 2005, Israel se retiró formalmente de la Franja de Gaza y desmanteló sus colonias de poblamiento. En realidad, el ejército israelí dispone de un control total del espacio aéreo y marítimo del enclave, ocupa una zona colchón en el interior de Gaza, controla la única zona comercial del territorio palestino con el exterior, así como el paso pedestre en Erez que vincula Gaza con Cisjordania y con Israel, y mantiene el registro de estado civil.

2. Desde 2007, Gaza vive bajo bloqueo israelí y egipcio. Según la ONG israelí GISHA, los habitantes del enclave son privados de muchos productos de base (mermelada, vinagre, chocolate, frutas enlatadas, granos, nueces, galletas, dulces, patatas fritas, gas para bebidas gaseosas, frutos secos, carne fresca, yeso, asfalto, madera de construcción, cimento, hierro, glucosa, sal industrial, recipientes de plástico/vidrio/metal, margarina industrial, firme a base de asfalto para chozas, tejido para ropa, cañas de pescar, redes de pescar, cordaje para la pesca, cluecas y piezas de recambio, piezas de recambio para tractores, mangueras de riego, instrumentos de música, papel formato A4, instrumentos para escribir, cuadernos, periódicos, juguetes, navajas de afeitar, máquinas de coser y piezas de recambio, caballos, asnos, cabras, ganado, polluelos, etc.)

3. Con una superficie de 360 km² y una población de 1,7 millones de habitantes, Gaza tiene la más fuerte densidad al mundo con más de 4.700 habitantes/km². Bajo estado de sitio militar, con una tasa de desempleo del 40% (60% entre los jóvenes de 15 a 29 años), un 53% de la población con menos de 18 años de edad, la población sufre de numerosas penurias materiales así como regulares apagones y sobrevive en condiciones cercanas a la indigencia. Más del 70% de los palestinos dependen de la ayuda humanitaria.

4. El secuestro y asesino de tres jóvenes adolescentes israelíes en junio de 2014 sirvieron de pretexto para el Primer Ministro israelí Benyamin Netayahu para desatar una nueva agresión mortífera contra la población civil de Gaza. 

5. Hasta hoy, no existe la menor prueba de la implicación del Hamas en este crimen. Al revés, los dirigentes de la organización armada palestina negaron toda responsabilidad en el acto. El 25 de julio de 2014, Jon Donnison, corresponsal de la BBC, informó que Mickey Rosenfeld, portavoz de la policía israelí, reconoció que Hamas no estaba implicado en los asesinatos y que se trataba probablemente de la acción de un “grupo aislado”. 

Israel’s Military Strategy:”Obliterate Them Completely”

Overwhelming Evidence of Genocide, Precise Data on Death and Destruction in Gaza

Death Toll Exceeds that of “Cast Lead”, 2008-2009

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Genocide directed against Palestinians has become a “New Normal” according to the Times of Israel. 

Under certain circumstances –according to the Times of Israel article–“Genocide is Permissible” because it is directed against Palestinians who are “terrorists” and who should be “obliterated”.

Implementing a policy of genocide against terrorists including innocent civilians is permissible to ”achieve responsible goals” as formulated by the Netanyahu government.

“What other way then is there to deal with an enemy of this nature other than obliterate them completely? …
If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?
” (See The Times of Israel: Genocide is Permissible “to Achieve Responsible Goals?”  Global Research, August 01, 2014)

The following data (carefully compiled by Lesley Bravery, scroll down) confirm the central objective behind Israel’s military strategy which consists in “implementing genocide”, in carrying out “a strategy of obliteration”.

While killing civilians is a central objective, destroying the Palestinian economy, wrecking the institutions of civil society and making life impossible and unbearable for those who survive the bombings are an integral part of the military campaign:

Residential areas are singled out for bombing and shelling campaigns. Most of the buildings destroyed or damaged are people’s homes.

Schools, hospitals, clinics are targeted.

The bombings are also intent upon the destruction of electricity, water and waste-water infrastructure.

The Unspoken objective is Genocide directed against the People of Palestine.

The Expulsion of Palestinians from their Homeland
Let us be under no illusions. The central objective of the Zionist State is expulsion and territorial expansion  

Powerful voices in Israel’s Knesset (parliament) have called upon the government to expel the Palestinian population and resettle the territory with Jews. (Statement of the deputy speaker of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin):

“After the IDF completes the ‘softening’ of the targets with its firepower, the IDF will conquer the entire Gaza, using all the means necessary to minimize any harm to our soldiers, with no other considerations,…Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever, ... Subsequent to the elimination of terror from Gaza, it will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel.” (Moshe Feiglin quoted in Ali Abunimah, Expel Palestinians, Populate Gaza with Jews, Says Knesset Deputy Speaker , July 28, 2014

The underlying premise is “Greater Israel”: ” Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever”

Complicity of the West
Western leaders are not only complicit, they have blood on their hands.

This carefully planned Israeli military undertaking was coordinated with the Pentagon and NATO. It has broad geopolitical and economic ramifications (which are beyond the scope of this article).

Israel’s military actions are supportive of Washington’s Middle East strategy which consists in destabilizing and fragmenting Israel’s neighboring Arab States.  It is also part of the road map of US-NATO-Israel war plans directed against Iran. The timing of Israel’s attack on Gaza coincides with the militarization of Eastern 

Europe and relentless war threats directed against Russia.

“Paying Lip Service” to Israeli War Crimes

The “Washington Consensus” pays lip service to Israeli war crimes. According to the powerful Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which overshadows the US State Department, prime minister Netanyahu is said to have a profound “dislike for military conflict”.

According to the CFR, Netanyahu “is at the mercy of events” which are “beyond his control“. The victims of Israeli war crimes are said to be responsible for their own deaths. Netanyahu is “safe and reliable”, he is committed to peace, he was “politically compelled to act”. He is portrayed as the victim.

Genocide is the “New Normal”
In turn, the US media has also embraced the “New Normal” which intimates that “genocide is permissible” under certain circumstances. According to the Wall Street Journal, the solution is the outright elimination and/or expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland:

What did Gazans think was going to happen? Surely they must have understood on election night that their lives would now be suspended in a state of utter chaos. Life expectancy would be miserably low; children would be without a future. Staying alive would be a challenge, if staying alive even mattered anymore. (Professor Thane Rosenbaum, WSJ, July 21, 2014, emphasis added)

Michel Chossudovsky, August 3, 2014

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Data Compiled by Leslie Bravery of the Palestinian Human Rights Campaign
Auckland, New Zealand
The death and destruction to midnight on 31^st July are:

Palestinians killed: 1372 (315 children, 166 women and 60 elderly).

Palestinians wounded: 7680 (2307 children, 1529 women and 287 elderly).

Buildings destroyed: 5238

Buildings damaged: 4374

Damaged Hospitals and Health Centres:

13 hospitals and 10 clinics

34 health facilities closed

12 ambulances damaged

38 health personnel injured including:

Two pharmacists, four paramedics, one assistant pharmacist, one laboratory and blood bank manager.

One nurse and an Administration Manager died as a result of Israeli airstrikes.

The Roman Catholic Church in Gaza, hosting over 800 refugees and 29 handicapped children was threatened with bombardment although it was impossible to move the handicapped children outside the church.

Once again, Israel has targeted offices providing services to Palestinian and international media.

Over 245,000 people have been forcibly displaced.

1,700,000 people (the entire population of the Gaza Strip) have been affected by the destruction of electricity, water and waste-water infrastructure.