Chronic malnutrition in Gaza blamed on Israel

The Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to a steady rise in chronic malnutrition among the 1.5 million people living in the strip, according to a leaked report from the Red Cross. It chronicles the "devastating" effect of the siege that Israel imposed after Hamas seized control in June 2007 and notes that the dramatic fall in living standards has triggered a shift in diet that will damage the long-term health of those living in Gaza and has led to alarming deficiencies in iron, vitamin A and vitamin D.

Just a warning - God is just and He does not forget...

Abbas: Peace deal must include right of return for Palestinian refugees

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas doubts that any peace agreement can be reached by the end of 2008, as not one of the six key issues in a final-status arrangement has yet been resolved, but insists that any future deal will have to include the right of return for Palestinian refugees.

Sounds like Abbas has given up on the "two state" scenario...

IDF troops admit to taking bribes from Palestinians at checkpoints

"Two IDF soldiers from the Kfir Brigade were arrested last week following suspicions they had accepted bribes from Palestinians seeking to pass through West Bank roadblocks, Ynet has learned."

Notice the spin of the article - they make is sound like a military discipline problem when the issue really relates to criminal behavior and respect for human rights.

Israel's broad American base

"Both peoples, Americans have believed, have a special mission from God. The Jews brought monotheism to the world; Americans are bringing liberty. God led the ancient Hebrews through the Red Sea and over the Jordan into a land flowing with milk and honey; God also, Americans have generally believed, brought our ancestors into the New World to a promised land."

And, let's not forget to mention that "both peoples" through murder and savagery forced millions of innocent indigeous peoples to fled their homes and ancestrial homelands and are now living on reservations and in ghettos known as refugee camps.

Palestinians sue for NIS 40 million for land taken by settlers

"Palestinian landowners on whose property the West Bank settlement of Homesh was constructed are demanding NIS 40 million in compensation and the right to access their land. The state is trying to reach an out-of-court compromise in order to avoid a precedent setting ruling."

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.

Israel's Peres: Islam is not our enemy

"The Palestinians are not our enemy and neither is Islam," said Peres. "Terror, violence and the alliance between religious fanaticism and nuclear weapons are our – and the world's – enemies."

For once, I agree with Peres. Islam is NOT Israel's enemy, Zionism IS. And, "terror, violence and the alliance between religious fanaticism and nuclear weapons ARE the world's enemies." So, why don't Israel stop murdering and terrorizing the Palestinians, disavow Zionism and destroy their more than 200 nuclear weapons?

The Christians in attendance, acutely aware of the absence of their Palestinian Christian brethren, are probably saying to themselves ~ what self-righteous Zionists hypocrites...

Israel's 2007 Victims…Civilians, Gazans

""In 2007, about 35 percent of those killed were civilians who were not taking part in the hostilities when killed," said the B'Tselem organization. The majority of the Palestinians killed were in the besieged Gaza Strip, it noted. The report documented that until December 29, Israeli security forces killed 373 Palestinians, 290 in Gaza Strip and 83 in the West Bank. The victims included 53 minors."

Israel tells Israeli Arabs it time to stop mourning the Nakba (the founding of Israel)

"The celebrations planned to mark Israel's 60th Independence Day have become, as expected, a source of confrontation between the Jewish community, which seeks to foster patriotic feelings and build bridges between its divided populations, and the Palestinian-Israeli community, whose national tragedy it recalls. It is an exact reenactment of the confrontation that occurred 10 years ago, when the celebration of the state's jubilee served as a catalyst and focal point for feelings of mourning and protest, and for designating Nakba Day, which, together with Land Day, became a central date on the Palestinian calendar."

The hypocrisy of the Zionists knows no bounds. The Jews have made the so called "holocaust" into an industry and "holocaust victims" have been pimped like $2 whores for nearly half a century. It's okay for Zionists to run around yelling "never again" to anyone who will listen but Palestinians are supposed to just forget the worst atrocity perpetrated against a people since the destruction of the Native Americans and the African Slave trade.

IDF Commander defends carjacking and murder of unarmed Palestinian

"First Lieutenant Y' has now been incarcerated for five months, accused of a litany of crimes, including kidnapping a taxi driver and binding his hands and feet. In his testimony at the Jaffa Military Court, the officer gave his version of events. "I am neither a criminal nor a fanatic, there are no violations on my record," he declared."

World Health Organization reports Gaza situation 'intolerable'

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"The head of the World Health Organization for the West Bank and Gaza, Dr Ambrogio Manenti, said Monday at a Jerusalem symposium, "There is a situation of physical and mental isolation that has become intolerable.""

Threat to Israel from within, not without

"Israelis are concerned about Iran's nuclear programme, which they believe is an existential threat. Supporting this argument they misquote the Iranian president as saying he wants to wipe Israel off the map. They are right to be worried but their concerns are misplaced. Israel's continued existence as a Jewish state may be in the balance but this has nothing to do with Iran."

IDF soldier arrested for stealing 200 shekels ($50) from Palestinian car

"Soldier charged with looting – an offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment - for pocketing bill found during search of Palestinian car at West Bank checkpoint. Defense attorney says soldier used stolen money to pay off family debts."

Reject the False Peace Conference at Annapolis

"Is peace the intent? It is natural to wonder if the persons representing the well-funded Israeli Zionists on one side, and the persons representing the homeless and hungry Philistines, insultingly called “Palestinians,” have any options to which they can agree."

Who are the Palestinian refugees?

"Palestinian refugees are the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine, the majority of whom were dispossessed, were forced to run away or were expelled when the state of Israel was created in 1948. This dispossession and expulsion has continued since with the second largest such event in Palestine taking place during the 1967 war, which Israel launched on its Arab neighbors and which resulted in the occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."

And, I bet you thought the Arabs attacked Israel, didn't you?

Finding Mandela

"Several years ago, a high-level Israeli official asked me to tell him everything I could about how the Israelis might find their Palestinian Mandela. His question was interesting and appropriate but also troubling because the Afrikaners didn’t really “find” Mandela. It took several months before the answer came to me. Show me the Palestinian to whom you Israelis are willing to lose, and I will to show you your Palestinian Mandela. My friend had overlooked the fact that Mandela and the African National Congress had won in South Africa."

Apartheid Israel - A Call To Action for Black Folks

"Johnathan Scott in a piece entitled the “Niggerization of Palestine” asks “how Americans might respond politically if they came to know that a significant portion of their tax dollars is funding the most brutal system of racial oppression the world has seen since American Jim Crow and apartheid in South Africa.”"

Gaza's Reality

"Could you live like this?"

An endless pool of prisoners

"Why is Israel releasing 440 Palestinian prisoners specifically ahead of the Annapolis conference, and not 500 or 300, or 2,000 as the United States had expected? The impression is that no one is exercised by the security risk entailed in releasing prisoners - aside from politicians who want to make political capital off of it - and that all the wheeling and dealing revolves around the question of how many prisoners "are worth wasting" on this or that event."

What is a Jewish state?

"Israel simply wants to obtain from the Palestinian leadership a recognition that it has a legal and moral right to carry out ethnic cleansing of its Christian and Muslim citizens..."

Yea, that sounds about right....