Israeli Attacks Kill Over 310 in Gaza in One of Israel’s Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians Since 1948

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Dec 29, 2008

Israeli Attacks Kill Over 310 in Gaza in One of Israel’s Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians Since 1948

Amidst worldwide protests, Israel is continuing its bombing campaign against Gaza for the third consecutive day and preparing to launch a possible ground invasion. Following months of a crippling blockade, this has been described as one of Israel’s bloodiest attacks on Palestinians since 1948. Latest reports indicate that 310 people have been killed and 1,400 injured in the aerial strikes across the Gaza Strip since Saturday morning. The latest targets of the air strikes include the Hamas Interior Ministry building and the Islamic University. Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced today that Israel is in an “all-out war with Hamas and its proxies” in Gaza. Fears of a ground invasion are growing after Israel declared a military buffer zone around Gaza, closing off the strip and its 1.5 million residents to journalists and civilians.

We speak to Dr. Moussa El-Haddad and Fida Qishta in Gaza, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti in Ramallah, Gideon Levy in Tel Aviv and Ali Abunimah in the US. [includes rush transcript]

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Guests:

Dr. Moussa El-Haddad, retired physician in Gaza City. His daughter Laila El-Haddad is a journalist who writes the popular blog ‘Raising Yousef’

Fida Qishta, Freelance journalist and Gaza Strip Coordinator for the International Solidarity Movement

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, independent Palestinian lawmaker and democracy activist

Gideon Levy, journalist with the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz

Ali Abunimah, author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse and co-founder of The Electronic Intifada. His latest piece is called ‘We Have No Words Left’ published today in London’s Guardian newspaper.

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Protesters speak out against Gaza raids

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The Israeli offensive has been largely met with quiet approval in the US.

But there have been protests in Washington and South America as Tom Ackerman reports.

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“We cannot allow Gaza to remain under Hamas control.”

(Israeli Foreign Minister Tzpi Livni) [1]

“This operation will be extended and deepened as we find necessary… [E]liminating the threat of rocket attacks from Gaza will entail toppling the Hamas rule over the Strip and uprooting the Iranian base there.”

(Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak) [2]

“The goal of the operation is to topple Hamas… We will stop fire immediately if someone takes the responsibility of this government, anyone but Hamas.”

(Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon) [3]

“We are hitting not only terrorists and launchers, but also the whole Hamas government and all its wings… After this operation there will not be one Hamas building left standing in Gaza.”

(Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Brigadier-General Dan Harel) [4]

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1) Livni: Gaza cannot remain under Hamas control

by Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz, 15 December 2008

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1046182.html

2) Barak: This is ‘all out war’ on Hamas

by Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post, 29 December 2008

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456512919&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

3) Israel concedes attacks aim to topple Hamas

Press TV, 29 December 2008

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=79863&sectionid=351020202

4) Deputy chief of staff: Worst still ahead

by Tova Dadon, Ynetnews, 29 December 2008

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3646462,00.html

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Israeli jets are again bombing targets in the Gaza Strip. The air assualt is now into a third day. Warships have also been involved in the attacks, shelling the area around Gaza’s port.

The death toll in Gaza has risen to 318. A UN agency says at least 51 of those victims were civilians.

Despite the onslaught, the Palestinian resistance continues. Rockets fired from Gaza have killed one person and injured seven in the city of Ashkelon.

Roza Ibragimova reports.

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http://www.euronews.net Dozens of Israelis demonstrate against military action in the Gaza Strip as the Palestinian wounded from Qassam rocket in the coastal enclave evacuated for treatment in Israel

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Even the most ardent reactionaries, deluded ‘patriots,’ and apathetic cynics, whose myopic, Panglossian perspectives ensure that they continue to reflexively genuflect to the deeply criminal enterprise of American Capitalism and rationalize the savage imperialism of US foreign policy, are beginning to concede that we are in the midst of a crisis of epic proportions.

So lack of awareness, which is usually the first obstacle to solving a problem, isn’t the real enemy here. Our chief foe is a swarm of greed-driven, self-absorbed, mean-spirited locust-like human beings who are dedicated to “reforming” and perpetuating capitalism, the very system that has led us to this woeful state of environmental, economic, social, and political affairs.

Capitalism, the systemization of greed, selfishness, subjugation, and exploitation camouflaged by the narcotic of consumerism, the irresistible illusion of equal opportunity for all, and its ostensible compatibility with liberal democracy, has seduced hundreds of millions of people into ignoring its contradictions, injustices, and malevolence.

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The New York Yankees just bought a first baseman for $180 million. For the next eight years, Mark Teixeira will earn about $22.5 million a season. The week before, the Yanks bought seven years of pitcher CC Sabathia’s life for $161 million, about $23 million a season–and five years of A.J. Burnett for $82.5 million, about $16.5 million for each season, according to the Associated Press. None of the salaries include any incentive pay or outside endorsements, which add millions to each salary.

The three new pinstriped multimillionaires join third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who has a 10-year $275 million contract, and shortstop Derek Jeter, whose 10-year $189 million contract ends in 2010. First baseman Jason Giambi, who won’t be with the Yankees next year, picked up about $23.4 million during the 2008 season. Although the Bronx Bombers bombed this past year, and didn’t even make the playoffs, they are on the fast track to the World Series of Obscene Salaries. They aren’t the only ones in contention.

The Best of Technology Update 2008

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This month on Technology Update, we review a year in high technology. We bring you the latest developments in the year’s big innovations – Russian special effects wizards wowing Hollywood with impossible images, the international project set to recreate the big bang in the world’s most expensive experiment, the future of green energy from volcanoes to hydrogen and new hope for the paralysed wanting to walk away from their wheelchairs.

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The 2008 Gaza War – Update

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1. Gush-Shalom report about the demonstration in Tel-Aviv.

2. ICAHD piece.

3. Ravid Barak Ha’aretz ‘Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about’

4. Gideon Levy Ha’aretz ‘The Neighborhood bully strikes again’

5. Zvi Barel Ha’aretz ‘Delusions of victory in Gaza’

Gush Shalom reports that 1000 people took part in a spontaneous demonstration against the war yesterday outside the defense ministry in Tel Aviv, just at the point when ‘war propaganda’ supporting the attacks ‘pours out of all the media and all the parties, from the extreme Right to Meretz.’

The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions gives a lucid analysis of the motives for the war, claiming that it is in essence ‘conflict management.’ In other words it is about how to stop or at least minimize rocket attacks on Israeli territory without doing anything to change the fundamental injustices to which these attacks are a response, albeit a morally unjustifiable response. The press release helpfully distinguishes between the immediate trigger for the war (the rocket attacks) and its underlying cause.

300 dead in Gaza as Israel gears up for ground assault

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Israeli fighter jets have killed 300 people in Gaza in two days of air strikes against Hamas. In the latest attacks, at least seven were killed early on Monday. Islamic extremists are calling for a new intifada against Israel.

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