Gaza Christians annul Xmas celebrations to protest blockade

Palestinian Christians living in the Hamas-ruled Gaza will not celebrate Christmas this year and will not perform the midnight Christmas mass, Gaza Latin Church pastor Manuel Musalam said Wednesday.

Of course, the Christians in America are so filled with love for Israel in anticipation of the return of Christ, they completely neglect and totally disregard the suffering the Israelis perpetrate on their brethen in Palestine in general, but in Gaza in particular - strange Christian love and Christ-like behavior...

Why Israeli settlers are lashing out

Armed and building: An Israeli settler worked on a synagogue along with Palestinian laborers earlier this year in the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Bruchin. Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

"We're at a turning point of great significance," Ezrahi says. "What happened in the occupied territories was a growth of a culture of illegalism, and when this culture is allowed to flourish for a long time, violence enters and people think they will be invincible to any repercussions from the apparatus of the state."

In other words, Israeli settlers have been allowed to murder and perpetrate terror on the Palestinians for years while the Israeli government turned a blind eye. Now, the settlers are turning their anger towards the Zionist state. Now, suddenly, they are called "radicals" and "something must be done."

Iranian students raise question for UN

Most children in the Gaza Strip have been tear gassed, have had their homes searched and damaged, and have witnessed shooting, fighting and explosions.

In their letter to the UN secretary general, the Iranian students said they are "grief-stricken" over the inability of Palestinian children to live in peace. "Our dear friends are being killed; we cannot remain calm, study our lessons and play games while witnessing the condition of children in Gaza," the letter reads.

The Iranian children posed a simple question: "What can be done to stop the killing and the war and bloodshed?"

Booth: Gaza a massive concentration camp

Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, plants a tree in a street in Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday. Photo: AP

The sister-in-law of former British prime minister Tony Blair has called Gaza a "concentration camp" and a "humanitarian crisis on the scale of Darfur."

At least someone in the Blair family has the courage to tell the truth about the crimes against humanity that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza...

Israeli restrictions leave Palestinians dependent on aid, says World Bank

"Overwhelming evidence suggests that the current restrictions correlate to settlement locations and expansions," the report says, adding that there is evidence economic restrictions could be removed without risk to Israeli citizens.

Israel doesn't want peace, Israel wants Palestine - And, Tzipi Livni knows well the Israeli playbook...

U.S. Consulate employee dies of heart attack at Israeli checkpoint

"Mohammed Mousa, 63, who has worked for forty years at the US Consulate in Jerusalem and is an American citizen, died of a heart attack when Israeli soldiers refused to allow him to pass through the checkpoint to work this week."

Israel: a cancer on Jewish conscience

"Palestinians are effectively incarcerated. The overwhelming majority can't leave or enter Gaza. Without fuel and spare parts, public health conditions are declining steeply as water and sanitation services struggle to function. The electricity supply is sporadic and has been reduced further along with fuel supply in these past days. UNICEF reports that the partial functioning of Gaza City's main pumping station is effecting the supply of 600,000 people. Medication is in short supply and hospitals are paralyzed by power failures and the shortage of fuel for generators. Hospital infrastructure and essential pieces of equipment are breaking down at an alarming rate, with limited possibility of repair or maintenance as spare parts are not available. Concrete is in such short supply that people are unable to make graves for their dead. Hospitals are handing out sheets as funeral shrouds."

And, the world stands by in silence because the atrocites sited above are being committed by "God's Chosen People."

Gaza's last gasp

Palestinians in Gaza gather in front of the Rafah border crossing at the border with Egypt, 22 January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

"John Dugard, UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories said that "The killing of some 40 Palestinians in Gaza in the past week, the targeting of a government office near a wedding party venue with what must have been foreseen loss of life and injury to many civilians, and the closure of all crossings into Gaza raise very serious questions about Israel's respect for international law and its commitment to the peace process.""

The Strangulation of the Palestinians in Gaza

"The failure on the part of Israel to grasp that this kind of brutal force is deeply counterproductive is perhaps understandable given the demonization of Arabs, and especially Palestinians, in Israeli society. The failure of Washington to intervene -- especially after President Bush's hollow words about peace days before the new fighting began -- is baffling. "

That's what happens when a "Judeo-Christian" nation becomes more Judeo than Christian...

17 Palestinians killed in Gaza violence

"An Israeli soldier, left, at the Israel-Gaza border walks with two blindfolded arrested Palestinian men after an operation inside the Gaza Strip, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008. Israeli tanks, bulldozers and helicopters raided the Gaza Strip Tuesday, killing the militant son of a hardline Hamas leader and 10 other Palestinians in one of the bloodiest days of fighting since Hamas took over the coastal territory in June. Palestinian sniper fire across the border killed a volunteer from Ecuador at an Israeli communal farm. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)"

Israeli tanks, bulldozers, and helicopter gunships ~ how can the world see this as anything but murder?

Gaza parents not allowed to accompany ill children into Israel

Excellent piece from Haaretz.com TV

Gaza parents can't join their sick children in Israel

Bush prays in Bethlehem amid sea of barricades

US President George W. Bush(C) speaks with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilis III(3rd R) while visiting the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (AFP/Jim Watson)

"Bethlehem's own mayor Victor Batarseh was not invited to the ceremony because he is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the US State Department considers a terror organisation."

It's interesting how Christians (the lovers of Christ) places the security and interests of Jews (the haters of Christ) above the security and interests of their own. Even as he drives along the humiliating road-blocks and checkpoints, it probably never occurs to "Born Again Christan" Bush that his Christian brethren are also murdered, starved, and brutalized behind the apartheid wall. This is evidenced by the fact that the PFLP, a Christian organization is branded "terrorist" because it resists Israeli occupation.

Bush calls for end of "occupation" of Arab lands

"President Bush called for a halt to Israel's military occupation of land the Palestinians claim for a state and an end to the terrorist threat over the Jewish homeland, spelling out the U.S. bottom line Thursday for ending the long and bloody Mideast conflict."

This is a perfect example of the bias that is so pervasive in US policy regarding Israel and Palestine. Notice that while Bush "finally" referred to the Israeli "occupation" as an "occupation" he continues to refer to Palestinian resistance as "terrorism." Is he insane? A rhetorical question ~ of course Bush is insane.

Bush is actually suggesting the Palestinians sit idly by while Israel continue to murder innocent men, women, and children with American F-18 fighter jets, helicopter gunships, and tanks; destroy their homes and farms; and, confiscate their land by building "Israeli only" super-highways and settlements.

If the "Americans" had not resisted, but instead offered to "peacefully co-exist" with their English neighbors when the "Red Coats" arrived, the US would still be an English colony. Yet, George Washington and his fellow "patriots" are consider American heros.

Questions on Iran as Bush heads to Mideast

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a press conference after handing the annual budget bill to the parliament in Tehran on Monday.

"President Bush intends to use his first extended tour of the Middle East to rally support for international pressure against Iran, even as a recent U.S. intelligence report playing down Tehran's nuclear ambitions has left Israeli and Arab leaders rethinking their own approach toward Iran and questioning Washington's resolve, according to senior U.S. officials, diplomats and regional experts."

I'm sure the Palestinians will be pleased to hear Bush is in the region to pressure Iran. I'm sure they thought Bush was coming to pressure Israel to halt the wholesale slaughter of their defenseless and innocent men, women and children, stop the destruction of their homes and farms, force the removal of Israeli settlements and checkpoints, and stop the confiscation of their land.

Israel refuses to release report on settlements

"The report, whose preparation was kept secret, revealed that extensive building was carried out without permits on dozens of veteran settlements - not just outposts - often on privately owned Palestinian land. Spiegel's data came from the Civil Administration and other government agencies, as well as from photographic sorties carried out by civilian aircraft leased by the military establishment."

The Spiegel report would show Israeli's true intention ~ to steal Palestinian land and eventually "wipe Palestine off the map."

Just going to work, Palestinians and Israelis travel different roads

Palestinians board buses for the long, checkpoint-ridden commute to work.

"In the pre-dawn chill, Darwish sets his Muslim prayer rug on the floor facing Mecca. In the soft morning light, Steinmetz throws on his prayer shawl and turns toward Jerusalem. Then the lives of these West Bank neighbors diverge."

Sure does look and sound a lot like apartheid to me ~ you know what they say, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck...

Olmert: Israel fails to halt settlements

"Israel has failed to uphold its promise to halt building in settlements, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an unprecedented acknowledgement Friday ahead of President Bush's visit to prod Israel and the Palestinians toward a final accord."

Olmert merely states the obvious...

Broad Israeli Offensive Kills 11 in Gaza

"The Israeli army stepped up a broad offensive in the Gaza Strip starting Thursday and killed at least 11 Palestinians in a 24-hour period after militants fired a rocket that struck deep into Israel. {That fell into an open field that caused to injuries or damage like most Palestinian rockets do}."

Israeli Forces Kill 9 in Gaza

Palestinian families fled their homes in a village near Khan Yunis on Thursday during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip involving troops and tanks backed by helicopter gunships.

"Israeli forces operating in Gaza killed at least nine Palestinians on Thursday and blew up the houses of some known militant commanders, as the Palestinians fired a Katyusha rocket from Gaza that landed in northern Ashkelon, {that landed in a open field causing no injuries or damage} a city of 120,000 people."

And, the slaughter of innocence by the ZioNazis continue as the world stands by in silence. Again, God hears the crys and prayers of the innocent victims and HE is JUST.

IDF kills Islamic Jihad commander, his mother and sister

"Sources in Gaza report IDF fires shell at house of al-Quds Brigades commander near Khan Younis, killing him along with his mother, sister and another family member. Palestinian sources say 16 people wounded in strike, and some are in critical condition."

And, the world stands by in silence as "God's Chosen People" continue to murder innocent women and children. I remind all who will listen ~ God is a JUST God and he is listening to the prayers of the innocent victims.