Fallujah by the Sea: Aping America, Israel Unleashes Chemical Weapons in Gaza

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by Chris Flyod
Empire Burlesque
1.5.09

The Israeli military is reportedly using napalm-like white phosphorus shells in its all-out attack on Gaza, according to the conservative Times of London. The phosphorus in the smoke-emitting shells causes agonizing, unquenchable burns, sometimes searing flesh right down to the bone.

These savage tools of terror are “legal” when used as smokescreens to mask military operations, although their use as an offensive weapon is war crime. This is a rather ludicrous distinction when the shells are fired into heavily populated civilian areas, exploding and spraying phosphorus in all directions. Anyone who orders their use on cities and refugee camps knows with iron certainty that civilians will be burned, maimed and killed by this chemical weapon. That is to say, they know they will be murdering and mutilating innocent people in the most gruesome manner — and they give the order anyway.

America’s leaders also ordered the murder and mutilation of innocent civilians with chemical weapons in the brutal razing of Fallujah in late 2004 (among many other places). There, in addition to the wide use of “Willy Pete” in the city — where tens of thousands of people had been sealed off after more than 300,000 had been driven from their homes — American forces also poured in massive amounts of depleted uranium munitions, thermobaric explosives and jellied gasoline. The Pentagon also declared the entire city a free-fire zone, giving soldiers carte blanche to shoot and kill anyone they saw.

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Mosaic – War on Gaza: Day 10 – 1/5/09 + Footage of attacks on Israeli troops

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“More than 13K Residents Flee their Homes in Gaza,” Al Jazeera English, Qatar
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“Hamas Fires More than 30 Rockets into Israel,” IBA TV, Israel
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“Gaza: Israel’s Nightmare,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Hamas Vows to Strike Tel Aviv,” Al-Alam TV, Iran
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Footage of attacks on Israeli troops in Gaza – 06 Jan 09

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Al Jazeera has obtained footage of what is purported to be a video recording of attacks on Israeli troops in Gaza.

Al Jazeera cannot independently verify the content of the footage.

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The October Surprise (a bit late) by Steven Jonas, MD

Israeli attack on Gaza school kills 30

Historical amnesia and Gaza + Peace activist report from Gaza

What if Israel Was the Victim? by Jeremy R. Hammond

Israel’s own Holocaust (and the US’s, and ours) by William Bowles

More children among Gaza dead + Israels ground offensive in full swing

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The October Surprise (a bit late) by Steven Jonas, MD

by Steven Jonas, MD
featured writer
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crossposted on Buzzflash.com
January 6, 2009

Many folks on the Left (U.S. and otherwise) were sure that the Georgites were going to spring an “October Surprise” just before the 2008 election. It would be “something big” to aid McCain’s chances which, especially with the Wall Street collapse that started in September 2008, needed some pretty big aiding. It would have something to do with “national security,” and it would come in October, that is if it had not come already. As examples of the latter were those absolutely firm predictions by authorities on the Left “in the know” that there would be a U.S. attack on Iran, “for sure,” as far back as June 2006. Certain other not-so-authoritative sources for a variety of reasons thought at the time that this was nonsense. For one thing, once Jim Baker had installed Bob Gates in the Defense Department, with a strong chorus of support for a “no” from the Joint chiefs, that one just wasn’t going to fly.

Israeli attack on Gaza school kills 30

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RussiaToday

UN officials say thirty people, including children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a United Nations-run school in Gaza. The attack in the north of the region is the single most deadly incident since Israel began its offensive 11 days ago.

Historical amnesia and Gaza + Peace activist report from Gaza

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What if Israel Was the Victim? by Jeremy R. Hammond

What if the roles of Israel, Gaza, and members of the international community in the ongoing conflict were reversed? How would Americans and their government respond?

By Jeremy R. Hammond
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Foreign Policy Journal
January 6, 2009

Crossposted on Foreign Policy Journal

Gaza’s offensive against Israel continued today, sharply escalating with a ground incursion that cut off the southern part of Israel from the north.

The Israeli death toll climbed past 400, at least 60 of whom were civilians, according to UN estimates. 4 Palestinian civilians have been killed as a result of Jewish settlers firing rockets into Gaza in response to the military operation led by Hamas.

Cloud bursts with flaming smoke trails were seen over Israeli cities as Hamas employed white phosphorus munitions. The use of such munitions as weapons targeting soldiers or civilians is prohibited by international law, but Hamas says it is only using the munitions legally to provide a smokescreen for its ground offensive.

Israel’s own Holocaust (and the US’s, and ours) by William Bowles

By William Bowles
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6 January 2009

Sitting here, relatively comfortable in freezing London, I have spent the last six hours, virtually non-stop, going through the news reports coming out of the Gaza Strip and publishing what I hope brings home the horrors of Israel’s own Holocaust.

Reflexively, I access the latest BBC report and I note that at last they are realizing that blanket approval for Israel/US genocide just won’t do. But is it enough to report the humanitarian catastrophe that is the relentless, remorseless onslaught? After all Israel’s lockdown of the Gaza Strip has been a humanitarian catastrophe for the last year.

Well I suppose I should be thankful for small mercies, but I won’t. The BBC now insists that “at least 25% of the casualties are civilians” (having added the “at least” since an earlier report) when it is clear from eyewitnesses including an interview on BBC TV News that the great majority are civilians ( see ‘Inside Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital’).

The End of Capitalism? Cracks in the Foundation

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By Ann Robertson
January 05, 2009 “Information Clearinghouse”

The collective consciousness of the U.S. working class is on the brink of a profound transformation. We grew up being told that capitalism was the best of all possible systems, with apparent confirmation being supplied by the fall of the Soviet Union. But we are now entering a new reality that has the potential to overturn all the old, established assumptions perhaps, in the final analysis, even to overturn capitalism itself.

The U.S. government, which has been lecturing other countries for decades about the virtues of privatizing state-owned enterprises, has recently embarked on a campaign of reversing its own dictates by partially nationalizing many of the financial institutions that were teetering on the brink of disaster. In other words, the U.S. government became a stockholder in these companies, thereby ironically taking a step in the direction of socialism socializing their losses, that is, not their profits. Meanwhile, for decades, the U.S. working class has watched helplessly as public education has been defunded, the environment has been progressively destroyed, and social services in general have shriveled, all supposedly because no money was available to launch a rescue operation. Yet the breathtaking speed with which the government threw a staggering trillion-dollar bailout to the financial institutions with no strings attached has not been lost on the working class. And more is on the way: the government has thus far pledged a total of $8.5 billion to help rescue the financial institutions. Workers, too, through their unions, are now demanding bailouts.

More children among Gaza dead + Israels ground offensive in full swing

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AlJazeeraEnglish

1.6.09

Palestinian children are increasingly among the dead as the Gaza death toll continues to rise.

One man has lost his entire family – including children, wife, parents and cousins – after a single attack.

Mohammed Vall reports.

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More children killed as war on Gaza continues – 05 Jan 08

The assault on Gaza is now into its tenth day. As the death and injury toll continues to rise hospitals are becoming increasingly overwhelmed. Israel however insists there is not a humanitarian crisis.

Mohammed Vall reports now on the latest developments.

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Israels ground offensive in full swing

RussiaToday

Israeli tanks and troops have pushed deeper into Gaza as part of their military campaign against Hamas. Over 500 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed during the first day of Israel’s ground offensive.

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Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells

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Money as Debt II – Promises Unleashed

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Promises Unleashed

Jewish Peace News: Report-backs on protests in Israel

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Crossposted with permission from Jewish Peace News

Jewish Peace News
Jan. 5, 2008

On protests inside of Israel, with analysis and reports from Rela Mazali, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Gush Shalom and Tom Pessah

From Rela Mazali:

Israeli news “farteiched und farbessered”

To read the English internet version of Haaretz of January 4th, you wouldn’t know that some ten thousand marchers had protested their government’s policy and attack on Gaza the night before in Tel Aviv or that earlier that day, many tens of thousands (some estimates have quoted 70 to 100 thousand), Jews and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, marched their protest through the Arab town of Sakhnin in the Galilee. They’re not part of the reality constructed by Haaretz’s English website. On January 4th, one headline—topping an item picked up from Associated Press read: “Protesters across Europe urge Israel to end attacks on Gaza Strip” with no mention of domestic protests. Haaretz, mind you, is the newspaper often cited as a central example of Israel’s relatively critical and truthful media.

Richard C. Cook on Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Show

Updated: MP3 no longer available.  So sorry.

with Cindy Sheehan
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

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with Richard C. Cook
Featured Writer
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richardccook.com
Jan. 6, 2009

Note: Cindy moved her show to Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox.

You can listen to this interview with Richard C. Cook  here. Or:

Note: it takes a little while for the page to load as there are many podcast widgets on the page, Cindy’s is at the very bottom as it’s a new show.  ~ DS

Richard C. Cook and Graham Nash are the guests on the debut program with Cindy Sheehan.

Listen: http://www.green960.com/pages/podcasts.html

More info: Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Debut Show

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Bush-Cheney deserve censure for declaring war against the Constitution by Bruce Fein, Ralph Nader

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by Bruce Fein, Ralph Nader
http://www.sfgate.com
Monday, January 5, 2009

Before Inauguration Day, the 111th Congress should pass a forward-looking resolution censuring President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for executive aggrandizements or abuses that have reduced Congress to vassalage and shredded the rule of law. The resolution should express a congressional intent to prevent repetitions by the President-elect Barack Obama or his successors. The objective is not Bush-Cheney bashing, but to restore a republican form of government in which “We the People” are sovereign, and the president is checked and publicly scrutinized by Congress and the courts. The Bush-Cheney duumvirate won an undeclared war against the Constitution. Most troublesome, they captured the power to initiate war from a spineless Congress. The Founding Fathers were unanimous in denying the president that constitutional authority. They knew that presidents would chronically deceive Congress and concoct excuses for war to control public information, benefit political friends through government contracts, quell dissent, assert emergency powers and enjoy the intoxicating thrill of, “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

By wielding the threat of international terrorism, the Bush-Cheney team put the nation on a permanent war footing – the first time in history that war has been undertaken against a tactic. They maintained that the entire post-9/11 world is an active battlefield where United States military force may be used to kill suspected members of al Qaeda irrespective of international boundaries.

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Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells

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Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem and Michael Evans, Defence Editor
http://www.timesonline.co.uk
December 5, 2008

Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen.

As the Israeli army stormed to the edges of Gaza City and the Palestinian death toll topped 500, the tell-tale shells could be seen spreading tentacles of thick white smoke to cover the troops’ advance. “These explosions are fantastic looking, and produce a great deal of smoke that blinds the enemy so that our forces can move in,” said one Israeli security expert. Burning blobs of phosphorus would cause severe injuries to anyone caught beneath them and force would-be snipers or operators of remote-controlled booby traps to take cover. Israel admitted using white phosphorus during its 2006 war with Lebanon.

via Gaza and Israel conflict.

h/t: CLG

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US Blocks UN Security Council Vote Calling for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza

Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims + Israel is Guilty of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

Israels ground offensive set to last + Gaza hospital struggles to cope with casualties

Gaza demo London solidarity + Turkish protest against Israeli airstrike in Gaza

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