Israeli armor moves into Gaza, digging trenches

Israeli armor moves into Gaza, digging trenches
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:56:49 GMT
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Israeli forces have crossed into the Gaza Strip while tensions remain high following Tel Aviv's Friday incursion into the Hamas-run Palestinian coastal enclave.

Israeli soldiers moved around 500 meters (yards) inside Gaza on Sunday in several armored vehicles including bulldozers.

Witnesses said the troops were predominantly targeting olive groves and almond fields in the Abasan al-Jadida area east of Khan Yunis.

They dug large trenches and fired warning shots to keep farmers away, but there were no reports of casualties.

Sunday's incursion was close to the site where Israeli tanks, bulldozers and jeeps, backed by helicopters, carried out a strike late Friday damaging two houses and killing a Palestinian. Seven people were also wounded in the attack.

In an earlier skirmish, two Israeli soldiers were killed and two others wounded.

This is while Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz has threatened that Tel Aviv will "liquidate" Hamas sooner or later, adding that Israel may even launch a new offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Israel launched a 22-day war on the coastal strip in December 2008, killing over 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians.

The offensive also devastated a large portion of the impoverished territory's infrastructure and left thousands of Gazans homeless.

Israeli minister talks of new war on Gaza

Israeli minister talks of new war on Gaza
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:10:46 GMT
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Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz
A senior Israeli minister has threatened that Tel Aviv will "liquidate" Hamas sooner or later, adding that Israel may even launch a new offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Israel's Finance minister Yuval Steinitz said Tel Aviv has not set a timetable for when it will eliminate the Palestinian movement, but he underscored that it would happen sooner or later.

He said Israel cannot tolerate the movement becoming stronger. Steinitz did not rule out the possibility of a new invasion of Gaza, saying Tel Aviv had no choice, but to take such action.

Israel launched a 22-day war on the coastal strip in December 2008. Over one-thousand-four-hundred Palestinians were killed in the offensive — most of them civilians.

The war also left thousands of Palestinians homeless as entire neighborhoods were flattened by Israeli forces.

Steinitz has also slammed the pressure from the US and the international community on Israel to alleviate the Gaza siege.

"American pressure isn't conductive and isn't fair, because the Netanyahu government made two enormous gestures toward the Palestinians: The opportunity to improve the Palestinian economy, and the settlement freeze," Haaretz quoted the Israeli minister as saying on Sunday.

"The US needs to understand that the atmosphere it created in the Middle East, makes Washington now less friendly to Israel, and isn't making the Palestinians more willing to compromise; it further adds to their rejection of the peace process," he added.

The Israeli minister's claims about Israel's settlement freeze comes as Tel Aviv announced plans to build 1,600 more settlement units in east Jerusalem (Al-Quds), which was occupied by Israel in 1967, a move considered illegal under the international law.

Hands off the Iran

We all remember how the war on Iraq was prepared. As the sanctions and the embargo caused half a million deaths (mainly children, because of the lack of medecine, milk and necessary goods), Iraq was accused to store "weapons of mass destruction". How can we forget the great play-acting through which Colin Powell, in order to justify what was going to be the biggest massacre after Vietnam, went as far as deceiving the UN Assembly by showing the famous "smoking gun"?
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As the war threats escalate, we express our disdain for the statements made by Berlusconi during his visit to Israel. Not only did he justify the indiscriminate massacres against the Palestinians in Ghaza, and not only did he defend the racist and segregationist idea of Israel as a purely Jewish state (with the virtual exclusion of its Arab population from the political rights).

Trampling on the peaceful sentiments of the Italian people and prejudicing the very national interests, Berlusconi assured the Israelis that Italy will stop its economical relationship with Teheran and will actively support the request for severe sanctions. In other words Berlusconi gave a helping hend to the Israeli hawks, who are ready, once they obtain Obama's green light, to unleash a devastating bombardment on Iran, without ruling out the recourse to the atomic weapon.

It is necessary to stop the anti-Iranian escalation and dismantle the Israeli atomic arsenal to denuclearize the Middle-East.

The Israeli siege on Ghaza must end and the Palestinian people must finally see their rights recognized.

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Say ! YOU!, followers of the book(Evangle and old testament )

I seek refuge in The Lord from Satan the rejected

Say ! ,YOU! , followers of the book(Evangle and old testament ) don't praise your religion(morals) and don't follow the low desires of people who went astray(Jews and zionists ) before and led many astray from righteousness

Those who disbelieved from among the "Children of the Israel"(*) , were cursed by tongue of David and Jesus Christ, son of Maria. This was because they disobeyed and used to exceed the limits.(Torah)

They used not to forbid each other the hateful things (which) they did ;certainly evil was what they did.
5:77-79

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* "Israel" was another name of Jacob(Jacov) who was father of Jozef (Josef,Ar.) who in old testament was sold by his brothers as a slave and later had become God's Messenger and king of Egypt .

Palestinian teens killed as tensions rise

March 24, 2010

Palestinian teens killed as tensions rise

Four Palestinian youth were killed this weekend in the West Bank. Army denied live ammo despite evidence.

Four teenagers in the West Bank villages of Iraq Burin and Awarta were killed this weekend by Israeli soldiers. Initially the army denied the use of live ammunition but an X-ray of an M-16 bullet lodged in the skull of one of the killed disproved the claim. In the second incident, where Israeli soldiers detained two teenage farmers, the army claimed the Palestinians were shot (one with five bullets and the other with at least two) because they attempted to attack a soldier with pitchforks, knives, or axes. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke to Edo Medicks and Jesse Rosenfeld of The Daily Nuisance. Rosenfeld and Medicks attended the funerals at Iraq Burin when the shooting in Awarta took place and investigated what actually took place...

Bashing Islam is Freedom of Speech - Criticizing Israel is a Hate Crime

by Mohamed Khodr

(Monday, March 15, 2010)

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It’s not enough that the west has annihilated, bombed, and committed holocausts across the globe against the “other”; now the “other” must endure the verbal and written bombs upon their faith, culture, and traditions.

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“We sent thee not, O! Muhammad, save as a mercy to all the people. Say, O! Muhammad: "It has but been revealed unto me that your God is the One and Only God: will you, then, surrender yourselves unto Him?" (Qur’an: 21: 107-108)

Israel serious about attacking Iran: British diplomat

Israel serious about attacking Iran: British diplomat

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:51:36 GMT

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Deputy director of British Foreign Office's International Security Directorate, Nicholas Hopton

A senior British official claims that fresh sanctions on Iran are necessary to prevent more "dangerous" scenarios like an Israeli strike on Iran.

Nicholas Hopton, deputy director of the Foreign Office's International Security Directorate, said Britain viewed sanctions as the only leverage that could force Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program.

Hopton urged Brazil to join countries that support new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

He outlined the "very direct message" he was taking to Brasilia on the matter, in comments to reporters late Monday in Sao Paulo.

"This is about trying to encourage Iran to engage in a real dialogue. Since 2006 we've been trying to have a real dialogue, and the Iranians have been playing games," he said.

"Either you have a pre-emptive Israeli strike, and they're very serious when they talk about that possibility, or you have a situation where Iran should get a nuclear weapon and other countries in the region feel very threatened by it, can decide to follow the same path, and very soon you've got a much more fragile Middle East than you've got at the moment, with much more risk of nuclear conflagration," he said.

Tehran, which is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has repeatedly declared that its nuclear program aims producing electricity and isotopes for medical applications.

The IAEA inspectors have found no evidence of diversion of nuclear materials from civilian to military applications.

Israel, which reportedly possesses the sole nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, has repeatedly voiced its determination to halt Iran's nuclear program, even through military means.

Ahmadinejad: Even war can not save Israel

Ahmadinejad: Even war can not save Israel

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:20:35 GMT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Israel that initiating a new military conflict in the Middle East would not save it from downfall.

Speaking in the southern Iranian Province of Hormozagan on Thursday, Ahmadinejad said that Israel was a Western prodigy that had now "reached the end of its road."

"See what has become of Israel. They [the West] gathered the most criminal people in the world and stationed them in our region with lies and fabricated scenarios. They waged wars, committed massive aggression… and made millions of people homeless," he told a crowd of supporters in the provincial capital, Bandar-Abbas.

"Today, it is clear that Israel is the most hated regime in the world… It is not useful for its masters [the West] anymore. They are in doubt now. They wonder whether to continue spending money on this regime or not," said Ahmadinejad.

"But whether they want it or not, with god's grace, this regime will be annihilated and Palestinians and other regional nations will be rid of its bad omen," he added.

The top Iranian executive official pointed out that he did not believe that "even a new military conflict" could save the Israeli regime.

"They think in their underdeveloped minds that if they launch another war against Lebanon or Syria it might help them survive a little longer. I am telling them that you are in a situation now that more aggressions or wars will not save you."

Ahmadinejad also advised the US and its allies to pull their troops out of the Middle East and stop "making mischief."

"What are you doing in our region? Why are you deploying military forces here," he asked.

"If you think military deployment will help you seize the oil in Iraq and in the Persian Gulf, I must tell you that the young generation of the Middle East will cut your hands off from the oil reserves of the Persian Gulf," he added.

Compare two news , the same date . Haaretz is liar

EP endorses Goldstone report

European Parliament endorses Goldstone Report

Israel says EP resolution is 'regrettably flawed and counterproductive, as is the Report itself'

by: Yossi Lempkowicz

Updated: 10/Mar/2010 16:29

The European Parliament urges "both sides" to follow up the Goldstone Report’s conclusions by conducting "investigations within five months”.

STRASBOURG (EJP)---Despite intense lobbying efforts from Jewish groups and attempts by the Christian-Democrats to prevent a vote, the European Parliament adopted Wednesday in Strasbourg a joint resolution urging "both sides" to follow up the Goldstone Report’s conclusions by conducting "investigations within five months”.

The resolution, tabled by the four political groups - the Socialists, Liberals, Greens and the European Left- was approved with 335 votes in favour, 287 against and 43 abstentions.

Goldstone report author, Judge Richard Goldstone. (Archive)

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Jewish lobbying sways EU against support of Goldstone Gaza report

By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent

Members of the European Parliament have backtracked from their plan to pass a resolution demanding implementation of the Goldstone report, in response to pressure from European Jewish leaders, Haaretz has learned.

After leaders of all the major EP parties had agreed on the wording of a draft demanding implementation of the controversial document - which accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza last year and proposed prosecuting Israeli officials in the International Criminal Court - the European Union's legislative body was scheduled to vote on the measure Wednesday.

But Tuesday, leaders of the parties backed away from the draft, after the president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, warned them that adopting it would seriously harm EU-Israel ties.
"It appears inconceivable that while the United Nations itself hasn't yet officially adopted this report, the European Parliament, in this motion for a resolution, calls for and demands its implementation," he wrote in a letter sent to the heads of major EP parties.

The joint motion for the resolution was removed from the plenary session's agenda after the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) blocked it.

"The European Jewish Congress played an important role in blocking the legitimization of the Goldstone report," an official from the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Iran's Rome Embassy demands visit with jailed reporter

Iran's Rome Embassy demands visit with jailed reporter

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:07:57 GMT

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Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, the Rome correspondent for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)

The Iranian Embassy in Rome has made a request to visit Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, a veteran Iranian reporter jailed in Italy on charges of arms trafficking.

Italy arrested at least seven people on Wednesday, including five Italians and two Iranians, accusing them of smuggling weapons to Iran in violation of an international arms embargo.

One of the targets of Italian police was Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, who had been working as a senior correspondent for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Rome for more than 15 years.

A vocal critic of Berlusconi-led Italian policies, Masoumi-Nejad had received repeated threats from Italian authorities over his hard-hitting coverage of the scandal-ridden Berlusconi government and its increasingly intimate ties with the Israeli regime.

Four days after the reporter's arrest and subsequent imprisonment in the northwestern city of Turin, Iran's ambassador to Italy Mohammad Ali Hosseini made an official request to meet with him.

8 March , Join Me on the Bridge campaign.

Bridges are all about connection. About bringing together people and lands that would otherwise remain separate, sometimes even in opposition. Peacework is all about building bridges, finding fresh and deep connections (something that women are especially good at!)

This Monday, March 8, for International Women's Day, we are banding with Women for Women International as part of their Join Me on the Bridge campaign. Women will be joining in solidarity on bridges around the world to demonstrate how women have the power to say no to war and build bridges of peace and justice. When you join together on a bridge in your community, you are connected to the women of Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria, Bosnia Kosovo, and beyond.

Dubai's police chief plans to seek the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad

Dubai's police chief plans to seek the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad over the killing of a Hamas leader in the emirate, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday.

Dahi Khalfan Tamim "said he would ask the Dubai prosecutor to issue arrest warrants for ... Netanyahu and the head of Mossad," the television said. It did not give details.

Congratulations for anniversary of the birth of Imam Sadegh

Leader calls for unity against cancerous Israeli regime

Leader calls for unity against cancerous Israeli regime

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:33:48 GMT

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The Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei speaks with a foreign guest in Tehran.

The Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, speaking on the merry anniversary of the birth of Islam's Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), underscored the importance of the Palestinian issue for the Muslim world and called on Muslims to unite around the teachings of the holy prophet.

Ayatollah Khamenei described the "forged, Zionist regime of Israel" as a "dangerous cancer tumor" and insisted that "the only way (for Muslims) to defend against this severe cancer and its supporters is to return to Islam" and unite around the teachings of the glorious Prophet of Islam.

Addressing a group of Iranian officials and foreign guests and dignitaries in Tehran on Thursday, the Leader expounded on the reasons for numerous problems and shortcomings in the Muslim world in defending their rights and cited "tireless efforts by the US, the British, and other enemies of Islam in sowing discord" among Muslim masses.

The leader of the Islamic Revolution then emphasized that such bullying and domineering countries are well-aware that "discord and duplicity" can divert the focus of the Muslims from the very important issue of Palestine. "This is the reason that they resort to any possible means to flare the flame of ethnic, religious and geographic conflict among the hearts and minds of the Shia and Sunni, as well as the followers of other Islamic sects."

Ayatollah Khamenei further spoke of Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, describing the occupation of Palestine as a wound on the body of the Islamic Nation."

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution also declared that "unity of Muslims and defending the Palestinian issue are among the aspirations and priorities of the Islamic Republic (of Iran)."

Recalling the words and priorities of the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini regarding Muslim unity and the Palestinian issue, the Leader added, "The Islamic establishment, all of the country's officials and the great nation of Iran view such principlist issues as religiously obligatory and their words (on these issues) have been and remain the same."

Ayatollah Khamenei also expressed hope that Islamic governments, in tune with their people, would follow the eminent Prophet of Islam in efforts to bring unity among Muslims and to defend their rights, "especially in countering the cancerous, oppressive Israeli tumor and its supporters

Happy be The Anniversary of Birth of Muhammad The sign of Lord's Mercifulity for all

China, Iran Creating 'No-Go' Zones to Thwart U.S. Military Power

As Defense Secretary Robert Gates summed up the problem this month, countries in places where the United States has strategic interests -- including the Persian Gulf and the Pacific -- are building "sophisticated, new technologies to deny our forces access to the global commons of sea, air, space and cyberspace.''
"This era of U.S. military dominance is waning at an increasing and alarming rate,'' Andrew Krepinevich, a West Point-educated officer and former senior Pentagon strategist, writes in a new report. "With the spread of advanced military technologies and their exploitation by other militaries, especially China's People's Liberation Army and to a far lesser extent Iran's military and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the U.S. military's ability to preserve military access to two key areas of vital interest, the western Pacific and the Persian Gulf, is being increasingly challenged.''

What will save America's bacon, Gates and others hope, is something called the Air-Sea Battle Concept. Problem: It has yet to be invented.

Hezbollah: Ban's report biased toward Israel

Hezbollah: Ban's report biased toward Israel

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:18:28 GMT

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Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah says that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has been biased towards Israel.

Hezbollah issued a statement on Tuesday in reaction to Ban's report on the implementation of Resolution 1701, issued following Israel's 33-day war against Lebanon in summer 2006.

The Islamic movement charged Ban with applying double standards in his report on the resolution and with justifying Tel Aviv's aggressions against the Lebanese nation.

The statement added Ban's report glosses over Israel's daily violations of Lebanese airspace as well as the regime's spy rings in Lebanon.

Hezbollah reiterated its condemnation of such acts for threatening Lebanon's security and breach of international laws.

Iran: US war on terror, plot to train terrorists

Iran: US war on terror, plot to train terrorists

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:24:35 GMT

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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki

Iran's foreign minister says former US President George W. Bush's so-called war on terror has actually served as a guise for training terrorists.

"Does fighting terrorism mean supporting professional killers?" Manouchehr Mottaki asked at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast who accompanied him on the trip.

"The US must explain why it has scheduled a meting with AbdolMalek Rigi. The US must explain what AbdolMalek Rigi was doing at the US base in Afghanistan and why he was going to meet high-ranking US officials at the US Manas base near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek," he added.

Last week, Iranian security forces captured ringleader of the Jundallah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, while he was on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan.

"Doesn't the US know that over 400 people have been killed or wounded in criminal activities carried out by this group?" Mottaki asked.

Mehmanparast said that the Iranian foreign minister had also criticized the United States' European allies for removing the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their list of terrorist groups.

The MKO, listed as a terrorist group in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the US, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians over the past 30 years.

The attacks include the assassination of the late president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei, prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar and judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.

The MKO is also known to have cooperated with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

The organization is, moreover, notorious for using cult-like intimidation tactics against its own members, such as the torture and murder of defectors.

Israel experiments on Palestinian prisoners

Israel experiments on Palestinian prisoners

Sunday, February 28

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Jerusalem, (Pal Telegraph)- Jerusalemite MP Ahmed Atton has called for the formation of a fact-finding committee to look into the Israeli occupation authority's use of Palestinian detainees for experiments with new medicines.

The Palestinian MP said in a press release on Friday that Palestinian detainees, especially in the Negev jail, are also exposed to radiation that caused cancer among a large number of them.

He said that the crimes against detainees are met with silence on the part of the Palestinian Authority and Arab countries.

Atton championed prioritizing the issues of Palestinian detainees and occupied Jerusalem this year, focusing all efforts on those two questions.

Source: Al Manar

Israel experiments on Palestinian prisoners

Israel experiments on Palestinian prisoners

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