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March 30, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Focus on Gaza: White Phosphorous

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In this week’s show we hear how Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes for it’s unlawful use of white phosphorous. Mike Kirsch a town in the US where white phosphorous is manufactured and shows locals the true human cost of the weapon.

Survivors of the war in Gaza take legal action and we meet a mother burnt by white phosphorous who tells her story.

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March 19, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Report back from Gaza

Crossposted with permission from Jewish Peace News

Jewish Peace News
March 18, 2009

Rose Mishaan was a member of the National Lawyer’s Guild delegation to Gaza shortly after the ceasefire. Her devastating report is a must-read. Go to Mondoweiss, which originally posted it, to see pictures as well:
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/us-eyewitness-in-gaza-as-a-world-we-utterly-failed-the-palestinians-of-gaza-we-stood-and-watched-the.html

–rebecca vilkomerson

US Eyewitness in Gaza: ‘The reality of a very real bloodbath set in…’

By Roxe Mishaan

It took me a month to write this email. In that month, I’ve been through a whirlwind of emotions, trying to find away to process the things that I saw. I still haven’t figured it out.

March 15, 2009 by dandelionsalad

How Israel Gives Jews a Bad Name By Saul Landau

Jewish Activist On Trial Over “Bloody Hands” Protest For Palestine (updated)

By Saul Landau
http://www.counterpunch.org
March 13/15, 2009

The State That Tolerates No Criticism

Most Jews I know get little pleasure from the existence of Israel; just the opposite. They feel disgusted by the behavior of their tribal kin toward Palestinians. This antipathy doesn’t concern Israel’s right to exist, a phony argument still maintained by hard line Zionists. Israel exists, period. Most of the world recognizes that. Anyone wanting to eliminate it belongs in the loony bin or prison.

Israelis have just elected a right wing majority. The number three vote-getting party, Yisrael Beytenu led by Avigdor Lieberman, will occupy a strong place in the new government. Lieberman will become a Minister in the Netanyahu Cabinet. Last year, Lieberman rammed through Israel’s Central Election Committee a ban on Arab political parties. The Israeli Supreme Court ruled the ban unconstitutional before the recent election. Lieberman also demanded the Knesset expel Arab Members. He went further. If Arab citizens of Israel don’t sign oaths of loyalty to Israel, they should have their citizenship revoked.

[…]

My grandfather taught me, growing up during the Holocaust, that Jewish tradition teaches each person to strive to become a pillar of ethics, learn the law and behave so as to answer to God for transgressions – not to rulers of a so-called Jewish state.

Ironically, in the name of all Jews, Foxman and colleagues in AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and other Israeli lobby groups along with right wing and centrist political parties in Israel invoke the Holocaust to justify the very behavior embodied by Holocaust initiators. Israel calls itself a Jewish state. Yet, one fifth of Israel’s population is non-Jewish. I don’t belong to that state and despise its policies of constant war and occupation.

[…]

via Saul Landau: How Israel Gives Jews a Bad Name

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CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years

Focus on Gaza: The Blockade + Israel Bans Gaza Toilet Papers, Soap

Racism Against Jews Is Not Acceptable

chemical weapons-white phosphorus-DU

March 6, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Mosaic News – 3/5/09: World News From The Middle East

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linktv

Mosaic needs your help! Donate here: http://linktv.org/contribute

Headlines coming soon. Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.

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February 24, 2009 by dandelionsalad

The Cleanser – Lobby Whistles Up Cordesman to “Prove” Israel Waged a Clean War in Gaza By Norman Finkelstein

By Norman Finkelstein
ICH
February 23, 2009 “Counterpunch”

Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza massacre.(1) He reaches the remarkable conclusion that “Israel did not violate the laws of war.” The report is based on “briefings in Israeli [sic] during and immediately after the fighting made possible by a visit sponsored by Project Interchange, and using day-to-day reporting issued by the Israeli Defense Spokesman.” Cordesman omits mention that Project Interchange is funded by the American Jewish Committee.

Cordesman’s faith in the pronouncements of Israeli notwithstanding, respected Israeli analysts exhibit less confidence. “The state authorities, including the defense establishment and its branches,” Uzi Benziman observed in Haaretz, “have acquired for themselves a shady reputation when it comes to their credibility.” The “official communiqués published by the IDF have progressively liberated themselves from the constraints of truth,” B. Michael wrote in Yediot Ahronot, and the “heart of the power structure”-police, army, intelligence-has been infected by a “culture of lying.”(2) During the Gaza massacre Israel was repeatedly caught lying among many other things about its use of white phosphorus.(3) Recalling Israel’s train of lies during both the 2006 Lebanon war and the Gaza massacre, Human Rights Watch senior military analyst Marc Garlasco rhetorically asked, “How can anyone trust the Israeli military?”(4)

February 23, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Suspend military aid to Israel, Amnesty urges Obama after detailing US weapons used in Gaza

by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
The Guardian
Monday 23 February 2009 Continue reading →

February 20, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Focus on Gaza: A Crime of War?

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Human rights investigators continue to look into allegations that Israeli soldiers may have committed crimes of war during their Gaza military campaign.

As the first Focus on Gaza A Crime of War? looks at the story of an alleged war crime that occurred during the war in the small village of Khuzaa, half a kilometre from the Israeli border.

Ayman Mohyeldin speaks with village residents who tell the story of a Gazan woman who was killed with a single shot to the head while waving a white flag as she led children to safety.

February 16, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Gaza civilians left with extensive burns

As well as the 1300 Palestinians who were killed in the war, thousands more suffered serious injuries.

Many of them were left with extensive burns, with Israel accused of using highly inflammable white phosphorus in civilian areas.

Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid reports from the burns unit in Gaza’s Shifa hospital.

February 6, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Armed and Dangerous: Weapons Transfers to Israel during the Bush Administration

From an email

http://endtheoccupation.org
Capitol Hill Policy Briefing
February 2nd, 2009 Continue reading →

January 26, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Inside Story – Can Israel be held accountable?

Iranian Defence Minister: Israeli will attack Gaza again in coming months

The International Criminal Court has been discussing the possibility of war crimes tribunals and the UN are calling for a full investigation into Israel’s treatment of civilians in their war on Gaza. Can Israel be held accountable? And who would be able to do it? Inside Story discusses

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Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy, By Ramzy Baroud

Unseen Gaza (must-see)

chemical weapons-white phosphorus-DU

Gaza Crisis Appeal

January 24, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy, By Ramzy Baroud

Crossposted at Thomas Paine’s Corner thanks, Jason.

By Ramzy Baroud
January 24, 2009

My three-year-old son Sammy walked into my room uninvited as I sorted through another batch of fresh photos from Gaza.

I was looking for a specific image, one that would humanise Palestinians as living, breathing human beings, neither masked nor mutilated. But to no avail.

All the photos I received spoke of the reality that is Gaza today – homes, schools and civilian infrastructure bombed beyond description. All the faces were either of dead or dying people.

I paused as I reached a horrifying photo in the slideshow of a young boy and his sister huddled on a single hospital trolley waiting to be identified and buried. Their faces were darkened as if they were charcoal and their lifeless eyes were still widened with the horror that they experienced as they were burned slowly by a white phosphorus shell.

It was just then that Sammy walked into my room snooping around for a missing toy. “What is this, daddy?” he inquired.

January 21, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Israeli war conduct and outcome questioned – 21 Jan 09

Gaza villages Wiped off the map

Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip lasted three weeks and killed more than 1,300 people. Now there are more accusations about Israel’s use of illegal weapons in the fighting. Just hours after Israeli forces withdrew from the Strip footage has also surfaced showing the tunnels that lead from Egypt into Gaza are still being used to smuggle in supplies. Destroying the tunnels was one of the principal justifications Israel gave for its offensive. Al Jazeera’s Tarek Bazely reports.

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Norman Finkelstein: Israel committed massive atrocities in Gaza; Let them all burn in Hell

Gaza Crisis Appeal

January 21, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Norman Finkelstein: Israel committed massive atrocities in Gaza; Let them all burn in Hell

RussiaToday

Controversial American Jewish scholar and specialist on the Middle East, Norman Finkelstein, says Israel committed massive atrocities in Gaza during the three-week war against Hamas militants.

January 20, 2009 by dandelionsalad

Israel Hits UN School in Beit Lahiya + Cell Phone Video

Updated: added another video with some of the same footage but with different commentary at the end (propaganda alert). How anyone can justify what Israel did is beyond me. ~ DS

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wotdoesitmatter

Excellent report by Jonathan Millar reporting from Gaza and the UN School in Beit Lahiya where Phosphorus bombs and artillery struck, killing two children and injuring many more people.

I’ve added a few photographs to this report at 4mins 08secs.

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Updated

Cell Phone Video Of U.N. School Being Shelled