Palestinians blocked from riding on buses with Israelis

new Wednesday 20th May 2015 at 10:47 By David Icke

‘Israel has banned Palestinian workers from riding common buses with Israelis and forced them to return to the West Bank through the same Israeli checkpoint they left.
The pilot program separating Israeli and Palestinian bus travel was initiated on Tuesday under the directive of Israel’s military affairs ministry, Haaretz reported on Wednesday.
The new regulations could increase the commute of Palestinians working in the West Bank for as much as two hours each day, said human rights organizations that are set to issue an appeal against the new restrictions.’
Read more: Palestinians blocked from riding on buses with Israelis
 

Miko Peled – ‘There’s Nothing Racist in Boycotting Israeli Goods And Services. It’s About Justice’

 

 Israel criticized for touting Nepal rescue while Gaza is still in ruins

Street Democracy writes:

Surrounded by infinite amounts of gutter, decayed morals comes from self described civilised people who bomb and explode the life out of living souls to pieces right across their street.

  (Read more: Stanford professor left barefoot, homeless and trapped in Israel for 15 years)

Infused in a decay in virtue and utter madness to assume difference between races explains and justifies such barbarity when both sides of the street bleed when their skin is cut.

The Zionist's and Israeli government have caused such global political chaos to justify the mass slaughter and genocide of another race in a vain attempt to hide this illegal land grab and obliteration of all those who live upon it.

We witness embittered racism, from gut wrenching ideologies, from educated minds who methodically think all through each death dealing strategy to then simply fall back on their embittered racism to justify this onslaught.

That's their reasoning and that's what's frightening. No matter what the intelligence, or the super brain that's in charge, if its riddled with racism, that's the conclusion it comes down too.

A 'Zionist empiric colonisation process of fanatical commitment' done quietly in the pipeline while their political and army puppets exterminate life of the Palestinian as the world watches on.

It is furthering the Draconian 'zero tolerance' of civilised existence if its in the way of the corporate oligarchs and a full explosion of state oppression we must not tolerate.

We permit such atrocity when we should be convulsed with extreme outrage and anger to stop it.

It is important we read further this article. By Debbie Simmons-Street Democracy.

Click here for more:  Israel criticized for touting Nepal rescue while Gaza is still in ruins

Tuesday 28th April 2015 at 08:38 By David Icke

‘The director of Human Rights Watch has criticized Israel for touting its emergency aid efforts for earthquake-devastated Nepal while it continues to block reconstruction in Gaza.
“Easier to address a far away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one of Israel’s making in Gaza,” Kenneth Roth tweeted in reference to Israel’s announcement that it was flying 260 Israeli army medical and military personnel to Kathmandu.
“End the blockade!” Roth demanded. Earlier this month, 46 international aid agencies urged sanctions on Israel if it did not end the tight siege on Gaza that has prevented the rebuilding of a single home in the eight months since Israel’s devastating assault last summer.’
Read more: Israel criticized for touting Nepal rescue while Gaza is still in ruins

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Stanford professor left barefoot, homeless and trapped in Israel for 15 years

new Tuesday 28th April 2015 at 08:07 By David Icke

‘An American citizen was left homeless and barefoot in Israel, and those who provided him with shoes were punished by the courts.
Gary visited Israel for a long weekend to attend his son’s coming of age – or bar mitzvah – ceremony. He was already a divorced man. He had emigrated to Israel (or “made aliyah”) many years before and, after his marriage broke down, he was told by an Israeli court that it would be better if he left Israel and went back to the USA to continue working as he would be better able to provide financially for his children.
Gary’s eldest son is now 28 years of age and is to become a father himself. All good news so far, except that since the bar mitzvah Gary has been held in Israel for 15 years. He is a dual national and is drowning in litigation. He did not know he had a No Exit Order placed upon him until he was at Ben Gurion airport. There he was turned back and since then has been unable to find his way home. He was ordered to pay money for child support for six children in advance, a sum of money so extortionate that only a multi-millionaire could pay.’
Read more: Stanford professor left barefoot, homeless and trapped in Israel for 15 years

More: Israel: chained fathers, trapped mothers, stolen children

Israel: chained fathers, trapped mothers, stolen children

Lancet accused of 'anti-Israel hate propaganda' over its coverage of Gaza conflict

Street Democracy writes:

Is the 'violence of governance' our new dictation of democracy? A warring theology and gunshot political policy of 'do as we force you too?'

We witness this as a sinister violent and bloody subjugation of the Palestinian's. We witness Isreali's military force via unmeasurable death and destruction, carnage, and human atrocities of such a policy and watched by the world on a daily basis.

Where is the mass global moral outrage?

We witness legions of faceless bureaucratic war lords, mass killers who exhibit a mindless art in war propaganda and send death squads in costumes to slaughter in the name of land grab and ethnic cleansing.

These disturbing scenes are processed in mainstream media as a 'glamourisation of war', normalised by our controled global mainstream news outlays, to disensitise us. Disensitise us to view the slaughter of families as a sick show of entertainment. To re-socialise us to except a level of moral decay as a way forward.

The garroting of the Palestinian's as a race of people, is an assured violence of governance who are outwardly exterminating social democracy, exterminating humility and our whole purpose of being.

Remember no civillian society is above military, so what happens in Palestine can easily happen any where else where the elites want the land and the people out of the way. You and I, and our communities are as safe as what exactly?

Debbie Simmons-Street Democracy
Click here for more info: Lancet accused of 'anti-Israel hate propaganda' over its coverage of Gaza conflict

‘One of the world’s oldest and most venerable medical journals is under attack from an international group of more than 500 doctors over its coverage of the humanitarian disaster caused by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’
Read more: Lancet accused of 'anti-Israel hate propaganda' over its coverage of Gaza conflict

Israel strangles a Palestinian village

Street Democracy writes:

 The evils are crippling ordinary peace loving people as they unleash a deadly programme of ethnic cleansing and land grab on a monumental size. The people are Palestinian's living in Palestine. The evils in soulless suits and their political architecture of moral rot have a ferocious art of killing and torturing for their own self gain regardless of how they do it.

A choke hold of a magnitude size has gripped the people of Palestine around their throats with the use of tyrannical iron fist and warring theories that ravage the lands and all who live on them. A mass illegal land grab and permanent practice of war crimes on a daily round the clock systematic bombardment of slaughter is what we are witnessing as the world watches on.

On a selfish note however, this is happening in Palestine today and it has certainly happened before, (Nazi Germany). It is happening else where in our world and can happen outside our own doors at any time. If successful and the rogue state of Israel can obliterate people based on ethnicity, and the world watches on, then any rogue state can obliterate to extinction any race by force.

Remember military power isn't subordinate to civilian power and watch the lives of how Palestinian people are being forced to live. Look into her eyes and ask yourself, 'what would your eyes say if you had to live like this?'

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By Debbie Simmons-Street Democracy

 Israel strangles a Palestinian village

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Israel sprays Gaza farms with poisonous chemicals

Street Democracy writes: 

Warring theologies and permanent war crimes with a true commitment to continue hostility towards the Palestinians. Only a rogue terrorist nation would subject another race to such ethnic cleansing in such barbaric ways.

Israel is a collective 'punishing state' that has turned a race and homeland of people into a giant detention centre and killing fields. Israel has set itself up to be nothing more than a rogue terrorist state corporately controlled by Zionist psychopaths, ruling elites.

Using methods cruel and disturbing Israel's treatment towards the Palestine's is psychopathic and total mental derailment, echoing genocide a complete destruction of an entire race.

 The Terrorist Actions of the Rogue State of Israel - Max Igan & Kev Baker - July 15, 2014

Using every toxic and gutter method to destroy, exterminate and extinguish the Palestinians the Israeli government are using both sociopathic slow kill means as well as bombing for immediate desolation. It's almost like they are experimenting with war tactics and couldn't care less whether they are legal methods of warring or not.

Here we have slow kill methods of torture for families in Palestine. To feed your babies and small children with poisonous toxic chemically laced vegetables is testament to the psychopathic methods used to hurt and mane innately decent and a peaceful race.

By Debbie Simmons -Street Democracy

Israel sprays Gaza farms with poisonous chemicals

 Israel sprays Gaza farms with poisonous chemicals

 

 

Max Igan Explains the History of the Palestinian Struggle

Max Igan Please click on the link to find Max Igan's website. He is a hero of mine who has taken the time and effort to face the venomous dialogue of pure bitterness towards the Palestine's, to include tremendous efforts to stand in the same shoes and face the danger they do.

 He did this by illegally breaking into Palestine and living with the people to fully appreciate the truth of how and what is going on in the Gaza. I hope you listen to him. Many thanks Street Democracy.

 

 Royal British Legion Industries and G4S Are Both Connected to Israel. Does that make them complicit to mass genocide against Palestinians and have blood on their hands? by Debbie Simmons - Street Democracy

There are corporations that harvest on human derailment, death and mass murder. They are murdering and trespassing authors, like thieves who'll steal your lives, your very soul, your homeland in a punishing regime. 

Like a fierce host dishing out death dealing policies, produces nothing but evil in print within a punishing factory, G4S are becoming masters of supporting death, torture both physical and psychological harm to the most poor and vulnerable in various ways across many lands.

G4S are a British Security company that specialises in equipment and provides services for payment and profit who's morals are bankrupt, degenerate and sadistic. They are guilty of creating a malicious atmosphere where people are expendable and are repeating echos of genocide, mass murder and torture.

G4S must end its complicity in Israel's abuse of child prisoners  © 2015 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.

G4S management and shareholders are being called on to end the corporation’s participation in Israel’s brutal occupation. Photograph: Anthony Brown/Alamy

As G4S management and shareholders prepare to participate in the G4S AGM on Thursday, we call on G4S management and shareholders to end the corporation's participation in Israel's brutal occupation. G4S operates and maintains security systems at the Ofer prison, located in the occupied West Bank, and for the Kishon and Moskobiyyeh detention/interrogation facilities, at which human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners, held in solitary confinement.

G4S helps the Israeli prison service to run prisons inside Israel that hold prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory, despite the fourth Geneva convention prohibition of the transfer of prisoners from occupied territory into the territory of the occupier. Through its involvement in Israel's prison system, G4S is complicit in violations of international law and participates in Israel's use of mass incarceration as a means by which to dissuade Palestinians from protesting against Israel's systematic human rights abuses.

By  © 2015 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.

G4S currently provide services to Israeli's prisons however they are up to their necks in supporting the onslaught of children, mothers, fathers in Palestine. They are deep in with turning Palestine into an open air detention centre, a killing field of innocent people, of complete genocide of the killing of an entire race, over 1.8 million. 

G4S already knew this as the history between Israel and Palestine is no secret and this company entered the corrupt capitalist agenda where profits come before people no matter what the situation, or how volatile it is.

The Israeli prisons are home to Palestinians who's only crime is to stand up for themselves. Are described as political prisoners, for not agreeing to the agenda of apartheid, torture and total genocide of their people.

It may be worth asking which of us would sit back and allow our families to be blown up or tortured just for being them and standing in the very space they stood in. No, I doubt any reader would allow this and the Palestinians are no exception.

G4S and their gutter policies towards life is apparent and no secret. On the one hand their death dealing policies destroy life with mortar's in one part of the world and in another they destroy peoples lives in a more subtle perhaps, more sophisticated but deadly psychological attack.

This is where RBLI (Royal British Legion Industries) are contracted to G4S to help guide the unemployed back into employment here in the UK. What actually goes on is blackmail with staff dictating to the unemployed as I have heard this myself and shocked at what was said to a woman who was too sick to work.

You experience a dialogue of bitterness and commanding aggressive sales talk that seem to thrive on dark policies of cruelty and of soul drenching character assassination. A shabby office with shabby suits that sit on shabby desks, move malicious jaws in a front line reception of love, empathy abandoned staff. 

'Do this course'. 'Go here to this interview' and then the best one was 'you have to do as I say when I say it!' A staff member of G4S called Sarah said loud and clear down the phone, 'or you'll be reported and you'll loose your claim!'.  

Now experience the stunned silence that was then felt around the office of non staff members, including the woman she was screaming at down the phone. This humiliation exalted to the highest front line ravishment is every time you don't agree with their opinion. Every time you explain you are unable too participate, or its not what you had in mind to do in work.

You are threatened with the only money you'll receive, and all of your money, food money, essential money to survive. A move this particular female was eagerly threatening to the lady down the phone no doubt very distressed. 

How heartless can you be?

As heartless as those killing life fully endorsed by an organisation called BRLI that willingly can work with fiends in uniforms (G4S) that not only bury our brother and sister's in raw anger, but also of bullets, rocket bombs and total genocide, then it stands to reason the essence the foundations of G4S is psychopathic and so must BRLI.

If company's this psychopathic team with other companies equally psychopathic it states a bleak picture of corrupt rogue capitalism that descends down upon people for profit whether they are blown to pieces in their home lands or blackmailed in an office somewhere. They are the professional destroyers of life.

'Do as we say or you loose your money', most vital money as there is no other money to that person's name. It is a sadistic nature of economic rape and onslaught on the mind to those in desperate situations having to deal with such manner.

My heart goes out to the ruthless treatment of those vulnerable here in the UK, yet it is nothing compared too the punishing state of Palestine. 

G4S bullies whose eyes must have died a long time ago, on their aggressive expedition, a grandiose narcissistic route of crude tactics and fierce savagery of various treatments. Yet those who are themselves inhospitable and create political turbulence who sit at the very top are hidden and are safe from such vile. Those divorced from empathy and compassion and think only of profits. G4S is orchestrated by legions of faceless bureaucrats both political and corporate, issuing demented projects with ruthless efficiency.

Lower down in the UK, staff members of G4S via RBLI constantly harass people by demanding interviews and long day courses forcing people to stay in their offices whether the course is relevant or not to the unemployed. The language of force demands appointments when ever it fits their agenda to enquire about what you are doing to find work. 

A general idea of this administration is of a stern faced, fake smiles, morally degenerate front line reception also connected to the Job Centre's Work Programmes. 

What is so schizophrenic about RBLI is they are meant to care for war hero's and yet here they are antagonising the poor, and are connected to G4S instrumental in a killing frenzy in war torn Palestine. Royal British Legion Industries are meant to care, support and protect those in need from war atrocities?

Listening further, G4S staff use a dialogue of command to obliterate your privacy and use financial sanctioning as weapons against the unemployed, the poor and those too sick to work. This is the real face of the Work Programme and Job Centre Staff of today who order the unemployed around or face loosing your benefits.

This financial sanctioning is echoed all the way through G4S and BRLI and all staff  are well rehearsed in what I call complete character assassination. To bring on total character disintegration, as the pockets of financial squalor brings enough on its own to destroy the lives of the poor without added verbal torment from these administrators.

So we know the level of fiendish behaviour this corporation G4S is capable of doing. What is missing is staff members not knowing who they are supporting and giving valuable time and energy towards, slaughtering of human life. 

G4S and BRLI exaggerate the harsh mechanisms that feed out chronic deprivation upon traumatising poverty stricken families and individuals both home and abroad, no questions asked. 

A true malicious art within policy of either organisations, of malicious jaws that nash and lacerate the minds of the vulnerable. Who fail to hear the inward groan of despair each time a bomb destroys a home, or the life of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby.

Who view and treat the Palestine's as unsophisticated barbarians and believe most wrongly they are vulgar and rotten inside without question also. 

What doesn't enter their heads are any ethical questions as to G4S and BRLI's purpose and reason behind what they stand for. Listen to the videos of the plight of the Palestine's and work it out who is right, who is justified and who is wrong. Then ask do we in the UK want such corporations controlling our lives too?

Yet we face a more serious aspect. We don't want to have any connections with any company or organisations that kill to ethnically cleanse lands here or abroad. G4S are systematically stealing the lives of Palestinians and their lands for profitable purposes of over 1.8 million Palestine's and BRLI are just as guilty and all the other corporations connected no matter how loosely, they still feed the killing machine of death.

What has happened to corporations, but more importantly, the people who work for them? 

What re human beings born with hearts and minds, who have families and homes to take care of, doing working for company killers such as G4S and BRLI? 

How does that even happen?

Debbie Simmons - Street Democracy

Israel’s criminal regime – Netanyahu’s lies exposed

 

Israeli Government Promotes Rape Advocate and Nakba Denialist as Experts on Palestinians

‘As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the United States for the UN General Assembly on Sunday, the Israeli government press office emailed journalists a list of supposed experts to contact on various issues related to his visit.
All those listed hail from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, a hotbed of right wing nationalism in Israeli academia.
Appearing twice on the Israeli government-approved list is Mordechai Kedar, a professor of Arabic literature at Bar-Ilan University who recently advocated for the Israeli army to use rape as a tool of war.’
Read more: Israeli Government Promotes Rape Advocate and Nakba Denialist as Experts on Palestinians

Newly declassified documents reveal how U.S. agreed to Israel’s nuclear program

‘The Obama administration this week declassified papers, after 45 years of top-secret status, documenting contacts between Jerusalem and Washington over American agreement to the existence of an Israeli nuclear option. The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), which is in charge of approving declassification, had for decades consistently refused to declassify these secrets of the Israeli nuclear program.
The documents outline how the American administration worked ahead of the meeting between President Richard Nixon and Prime Minister Golda Meir at the White House in September 1969, as officials came to terms with a three-part Israeli refusal – to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty; to agree to American inspection of the Dimona nuclear facility; and to condition delivery of fighter jets on Israel’s agreement to give up nuclear weaponry in exchange for strategic ground-to-ground Jericho missiles “capable of reaching the Arab capitals” although “not all the Arab capitals.”’
Read more: Newly declassified documents reveal how U.S. agreed to Israel's nuclear program

Netanyahu threatens reoccupation of Gaza Strip

‘The Israeli prime minister says he cannot rule out the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, while the Palestinian resistance group Hamas describes any attempts to disarm Palestinian fighters as worthless.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Saturday threat of further aggression came less than a week after the Israeli regime’s 50-day onslaught on the besieged Palestinian enclave finally came to a halt following a long-term cease-fire agreement.
Netanyahu defended Tel Aviv’s devastating war on Gaza, adding that toppling Hamas still tops the regime’s agenda.’
Read more: Netanyahu threatens reoccupation of Gaza Strip

US broadcaster Mike Malloy wipes the floor with Israel apologists

‘Reasoning with a Zionist is an oxymoron. It is as self-contradictory as saying something is falsely true.
This, we have no doubt, is the conclusion everyone who has tried to have a rational, fact-based debate with Zionists would have drawn.
If that is also your experience – or if you have never had the misfortune of debating with a Zionist – then you will want to listen to the two short clips from Mike Malloy’s radio show.’
Read more: US broadcaster Mike Malloy wipes the floor with Israel apologists

Prof. Omid Safi: Majority of Young Americans Don’t Support Israel Anymore

‘Omid Safi is a Professor of Islamic Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and specializes in Islamic mysticism, contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history. He had previously taught at the Duke University and published several books and articles on the scholarly journals and non-academic papers. Through the past years, he has led the Study of Islam Section at the American Academy of Religion. Safi has been described by Amazon.com as one of the leading Muslim public intellectuals living in the United States.
To discuss the recent wave of violence and bloodshed in the Gaza Strip and the different aspects of the Israeli regime’s incursion into the besieged territory as well as the international reactions to the Israeli offensive, FNA did an interview with Prof. Omid Safi currently based in North Carolina. The following is the text of the interview.’
Read more: Prof. Omid Safi: Majority of Young Americans Don't Support Israel Anymore

An Israeli Ceasefire Has Nothing To Do With Peace

‘What goes around, comes around. It’s just a matter of time. Israel deplores peace. Its entire history reflects conflict.
Its premeditated aggression follows relative calm followed by ceasefires followed by more conflict. The pattern repeats with disturbing regularity. It’s been this way for decades. It’s no different this time. Believing otherwise is pure fantasy.
It bears repeating what previous articles stressed. Israeli agreements aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. They never were. For sure not now.’
Read more: An Israeli Ceasefire Has Nothing To Do With Peace

Try Israeli soldiers for war crimes: Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki

‘The Palestinian government has called on the United Nations and foreign states with citizens serving in the Israeli army to investigate and try them for war crimes committed during Israel’s latest onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the governments of the UK, US, France, Australia, Canada, South Africa and five Latin American countries on Tuesday, reminding them that all states are obliged under international law to probe alleged violations, including war crimes, committed by their nationals.’
He added that governments should warn their citizens that they could be liable for investigation and prosecution.’
Read more: Try Israeli soldiers for war crimes: Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki

The Continual, Unconscionable Failure to Punish Israel for its Crimes Against Humanity

‘After more than sixty years of being paralysed into silence by the Zionist venom — the stigma of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial — that prevented condemnation of incalculable cheating, lying, stealing, murdering, and ruthless violation of the legal and natural human rights of the Palestinian people by a nation devoid of conscience, humanity, or any of the noble principles of the religion to which it claims to belong, the world in general and the West in particular have once again been witness to Israel’s latest arrogant, barbaric, and contemptuous assault on international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.’
Read more: The Continual, Unconscionable Failure to Punish Israel for its Crimes Against Humanity

Wikileaks Advisor Says Israel Can Be Charged for War Crimes, and US for Complicity

‘Israel is implementing the Dahiya Doctrine in Palestine at the moment, argued Michael Ratner, legal adviser to Wikileaks. The doctrine is named after the village of Dahiya, in Beirut, which was destroyed during the 2006 Lebanon War (also known as the Israel-Hezbollah war).
In an interview with The Real News, Michael Ratner, also President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, discussed his work with 2008 Wikileaks cables fom the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.
​In the cable from the U.S. embassy Israeli army officers mentioned the ‘Dahiya Doctrine’. One of them, General Eisenkot, said that, in relation to the doctrine, ‘Israel will use disproportionate force upon any village that fires upon Israel … causing great damage and destruction.”
Read more: Wikileaks Advisor Says Israel Can Be Charged for War Crimes, and US for Complicity

Former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben Yair: Our government staged the assassination of Al-Daif

‘In the biggest blow to Israeli propaganda, which claimed that Hamas broke the ceasefire, former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben Yair has said that “it was Israel who staged the alleged Hamas breach of the ceasefire in order to create the conditions for assassinating Muhammad Al-Daif, Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades.
The website of Makor Rishon newspaper said that Ben Yair, who also worked as a judge in the Israeli supreme court, tweeted on his twitter account the following: “There is no agreement and hostilities have been renewed, but who is the culprit? Hamas who wants an agreement with accomplishments or Israel who staged the breach of the ceasefire in order to justify the assassination of Muhammad Al-Daif?”
The significance of this testimony lies in the fact that Ben Yair, by virtue of his former position, had knowledge of the fine details of the secret Zionist intelligence work. He conducted investigations into the various aspects of the activities carried out by Israel’s Security Agency, the Shabak, which is responsible for intelligence about resistance leaders named for liquidation.’
Read more: Former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben Yair: Our government staged the assassination of Al-Daif

Hack Attack! Anonymous strikes at Israeli govt over Gaza

‘Hacker collective Anonymous has taken down key Israeli government websites in a “retaliatory” attack against Israel and in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Israel Defense Forces, Bank of Israel, and the Israeli PM’s Office were among the targets.
Others hit by the attack included Israeli’s ministry of Finance, the Embassy of Israel to the United States, the Central Bureau of Statistics and Israeli Immigration.
Many of the websites were still down at the time of writing.’
Read more: Hack Attack! Anonymous strikes at Israeli govt over Gaza

Gaza war: It’s about keeping the Palestinians under control

‘At the time of this writing, Operation Protective Edge has come to an end and the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is delicately holding. Though indirect talks are taking place in Cairo, reports from the negotiations indicate an Israeli refusal to lift the siege on Gaza. Hamas has vowed to fight on if the ceasefire doesn’t hold, but the humanitarian crisis in the Strip is likely to make that difficult.
As things now stand, it’s clear that declarations by Israeli ministers and generals on “a new reality” in the south disguise a different, opposite goal for this war: Protective Edge was carried out in order to restore things to way they were before June 2014. In other words, to maintain the status quo.’
Read more: Gaza war: It's about keeping the Palestinians under control

The Historical Perspective of the 2014 Gaza Massacre

‘People in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine feel disappointed at the lack of any significant international reaction to the carnage and destruction the Israeli assault has so far left behind it in the Strip. The inability, or unwillingness, to act seems to be first and foremost an acceptance of the Israeli narrative and argumentation for the crisis in Gaza. Israel has developed a very clear narrative about the present carnage in Gaza.
It is a tragedy caused by an unprovoked Hamas missile attack on the Jewish State, to which Israel had to react in self-defence. While mainstream western media, academia and politicians may have reservations about the proportionality of the force used by Israel, they accept the gist of this argument. This Israeli narrative is totally rejected in the world of cyber activism and alternative media. There it seems the condemnation of the Israeli action as a war crime is widespread and consensual.’
Read more: The Historical Perspective of the 2014 Gaza Massacre

Holocaust survivors and their descendants accuse Israel of ‘genocide’

Dozens of Holocaust survivors, together with hundreds of descendants of Holocaust survivors and victims, have accused Israel of ‘genocide’ for the deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the conflict erupted in July.
In an open letter released by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and published as an advert in The New York Times, the group calls for a full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel over its “wholesale effort to destroy Gaza.’
Read more: Holocaust survivors and their descendants accuse Israel of ‘genocide’

Israeli F-16 Missile Attacks Venezuelan Humanitarian Aid Mission in Gaza

‘Venezuelan ambassador to Egypt, Juan Antonio Hernandez, said Wednesday that an Israeli aircraft attacked the Venezuelan humanitarian delegation in Rafah along the border post between Egypt and Palestine. The delegation was delivering twelve tons of aid to the Palestinian people. No one was injured during the attack.
The F-16 airplane dropped a missile very close to the humanitarian site, though it did not explode. The ambassador confirmed that the missile fell approximately 50 to 70 meters from the site.’
Read more: Israeli F-16 Missile Attacks Venezuelan Humanitarian Aid Mission in Gaza

Israeli air strikes level 12-floor apartment block in Gaza after giving residents just ten minutes’ warning to get out

‘Israeli airstrikes levelled a 12-floor apartment block in Gaza City, injuring at least 18 people including four children, after residents were reportedly given just ten minutes’ warning to get out.
The tower block, containing 44 flats, collapsed in a cloud of fire and smoke after it was hit by at least two missiles, and was followed just hours later by the bombing of a seven-storey office building as well as a shopping centre in the southern town of Rafah early this morning.
The latest strikes have signalled a new escalation in seven weeks of fighting, with the targeting of large buildings apparently a new military tactic by Israel.’
Read more: Israeli air strikes level 12-floor apartment block in Gaza after giving residents just ten minutes' warning to get out