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Monthly Archives: January 2009

How to assess winning or losing a war: case study Gaza 2008 and Lebanon 2006

{Olmert: “Israel” attained its goals in Gaza! A special thank you to the US and its allies} How do you gain victory in a war? Military experts and other political analysts would answer if you achieve the goals and aims set out for this war. The answer is logical and objective no one can disagree [...]

Sacrosanct State and Complacent West

By Jeremy Salt ‘Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.’ — Barrack Obama ‘I’ve been to Gilo and seen the security fence protecting Israeli families from attacks in their own homes.’ — Hillary Clinton ‘When I heard about the rocket fire at Israel I felt it was a danger to [...]

Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Livni makes light of Gaza civilian casualty Israel’s foreign minister has sought to justify the high number of casualties in Gaza by calling it a normal “product of circumstance”. “We seek out the terrorists, and it can happen that civilians are sometimes hurt in the fight against terror,” said Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Israeli [...]

Obama in…Bush out

by Imad Hajjaj Obama today takes the stage while Bush goes to history’s trash bin even though he should be put on trail not for every death he caused only but for every wound whether physical or psychological he caused for millions of people through his wars: Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, etc. Because of [...]

Gaza: The Beginning of the End of Israel?

By Alex Whisson Through its criminal actions of the past three weeks, Israel must surely have succeeded only in digging its own grave. And no decent-minded person will shed a tear at its funeral. It’s truly astonishing the way it only takes a handful of five-second ‘soundbites’ to reduce a complex story of injustice to [...]

For Gaza-protest pictures

Jan.16-Jan.18,2009 Yemen West Bank Turkey Taiwan South Korea Spain Romania Philppines Pakistan Malaysia Jordan Jerusalem/Palestine Italy Iraq Indonesia Kashmir Greece Lebanon Germany France China Bosnia Afghanistan Colombia Syria All pictures from Reuters: http://search.us.reuters.com/query/?s=USPHOTOS&q=Gaza

“Israel” tries to get out of the quagmire of the Gaza war

A Palestinian boy stands next to his family’s house, destroyed during Israel’s offensive, in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 19, 2009. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA) The Arabs rulers had another summit today, yes another summit well gosh they found the time now to meet after the damage was done in Gaza, hooray to them. [...]

Palestinian Children found with bullets lodged in their head

By TOPAZ AMOORE Cairo: Doctors operating the only brain-scanning machine at an Egyptian hospital near Gaza have been almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children arriving with bullet wounds to the head. On just one day last week, staff at the Al Arish hospital in Sinai were called to perform CAT scans on a [...]

Twenty three days after the start of the war on Gaza

People pull the body of a Palestinian, a member of the Samouni family who was killed during Israel’s offensive, out from the rubble in Gaza City January 18, 2009. Hamas said on Sunday it would cease fire immediately along with other militant groups in the Gaza Strip and give Israel, which already declared a unilateral [...]

Resistance fighters in Gaza make Israeli soldiers run for their lives!

When IOF soldiers run for their life 5 IOF Soldiers killed in an ambush in Gaza

Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’

A very interesting article about an American view of “Israel”. A section: Israel’s ‘Right To Exist’ has virtually bankrupted the United States, and all of it off the backs of hard-working Americans for the last sixty years. We’ve given Israel untold billions of dollars NEVER TO BE REPAID, to say nothing of the military hardware [...]

The twenty second day of the war on Gaza

Palestinian children, who fled their houses with their families during Israel’s offensive, survey the damage after Israeli tank fire killed two boys at a U.N.-run school in the northern Gaza Strip January 17, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA) The number of martyrs has passed 1200 in Gaza while the political scene unfolds categorizing countries around the [...]

We are all Gaza-protest pictures

Jan.13-Jan.15, 2009 Yemen Syria Romania Philippines Peru Netherlands Lebanon Jordan Hungary Pakistan France Bangladesh Jordan All from Reuters: http://search.us.reuters.com/query/?s=USPHOTOS&q=Gaza

A Report From Gaza: Terribly Bloodied, Still Breathing

By CAOIMHE BUTTERLY Gaza The morgues of Gaza’s hospitals are over-flowing. The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Some are intact, most horribly deformed, limbs twisted into unnatural positions, chest cavities exposed, heads blown off, skulls crushed in. Family members wait outside to identify and [...]

My Message to the West

By Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh – Gaza I write this article to Western readers across the social and political spectrum as the Israeli war machine continues to massacre my people in Gaza. To date, almost 1,000 have been killed, nearly half of whom are women and children. Last week’s bombing of the UNRWA (UN Relief [...]

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