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International news agencies | 06.01.2009
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador on Tuesday to protest Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Socialist President Hugo Chavez has condemned the Israeli campaign in Gaza, where nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed in ground and air strikes.
Players of Israel's Bnei Hasharon run from the arena at the beginning of their ULEB Eurocup Group D basketball game against Turk Telekom in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. An Israeli basketball team fled to the changing room Tuesday as hundreds of fist-pumping, chanting Turkish fans protested the violence in Gaza. The European Cup game between Bnei Hasharon and Turk Telekom was later postponed because the Israeli team did not return to the court. There was no word on when or where the game would be played.
USA Today: Israeli team flees to changing room in Turkey
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An Israeli strike has killed at least 40 people who had taken refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip Picture: BLOOMBERG
Dorothy Naor writes:
At 6:00 PM Israel time I turned on the TV to BBC to learn the latest on Gaza, only to be shocked to the core: Israel bombed a UN school, where many people had gone for refuge. The video from the location was ghastly. At least 40 were killed in the attack—the numbers are likely to rise. This strike was the 2nd UN school hit today. And prior to that a house had been hit with at least 12 people in it killed, 7 of them children. The news is reminiscent of 2 years ago in Lebanon. Israel warned people to leave south Lebanon and then bombed them as they were trying to escape. For me one of the most indelibly imprinted and horrific acts was when Israel bombed a bus full of children trying to escape. Not one survived.
What political and/or economic considerations prevent the international community from slapping sanctions on Israel? What kind of country is this? What kind of army and air force? And the world is complicit!
Gazans flee homes and seek refuge in UN schools - 05 Jan 09
New Israeli strike kills 40 in UN school (DemocracyNow report)
New Left Review 55, January-February 2009
PETER GOWAN
Consequences of the New Wall Street System
Against mainstream accounts, Peter Gowan argues that the origins of the global financial crisis lie in the dynamics of the New Wall Street System that has emerged since the 1980s. Contours of the Atlantic model, and implications—geopolitical, ideological, economic—of its blow-out.
Obama has selected Leon E. Panetta, “a former Congressman who served as Office of Management and Budget director and White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton“, to “take over the Central Intelligence Agency“.
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Demonstration in Jaffa. 27/12/2008. Pictures by ActiveStills
“Hundreds of dead and thousands of injured, sacrificed on the altar of Zionist expansionism and fundamentalism. In Europe, the foreign ministers of every EU country talk about an “exaggerated”, though “legitimate”, reaction on the part of Israel, reversing the true situation with an operation that would make the most cynical illusionist feel proud by making the aggressor, the State of Israel, appear to be the victim.“
16 April 2008 Philadelphia, PA
The silence that is buying Israelis time to massacre the defenseless, to freeze, starve, and frighten human beings to death, also enables complicit heads of state to exploit the feckless hope that Obama might be an honest and enlightened broker post-inauguration.
Obama will deploy the racist Dennis Ross and the grandiose Samantha Power to create facts on the ground that will enable Israelis and their co-conspirators in the Arab League to attack Iran and reveal the inevitably of a theocratic state in all of historic Palestine in its wake.
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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP)— Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday called for a global boycott of the US dollar and US-made products, including Coca-Cola, in protest over Washington’s backing of Israel.
Mahathir, who during his two decades in power was a leading voice in the Muslim world, said people had to take action against the United States over its support for Israel, which is conducting a military offensive in Gaza.
“If you stop accepting US currency, the US can’t trade and can’t make any money, it will become very poor and it will have to stop the production of more and more weapons in order to kill people,” he told a press conference.
“We should not be buying all these weapons from the US, we can buy from the Russians if we must have aeroplanes and things like that,” he added.
“People must act… they won’t die if they don’t drink Coca-Cola.”
What Israel doesn’t want you to see
NOT SAFE FOR CHILDREN!
This video clip was taken with a mobile camera immediately after a terrorist Israeli air strike hit a busy market where kids with their mothers and fathers were searching for food to eat from one of the local markets early on Saturday 3 Jan 2009, Gaza. (via)
Updated @1132 on 5 January 2009:
The video has been removed. The reason why is explained here.
Sam Bahour, epalestine, 4 January 2009
The attached photo was published in Jerusalem’s Al-Quds Newspaper (Jan 4, 2009) - the caption reads:
Gaza - During her funeral in the Latin Patriarchate Church, a citizen kisses the forehead of the martyred Christine Turok (14 yrs old) who was martyred due to a heart attack from fear of the Israeli bombardment. (Reuters).
In a phone conversation today, from Gaza the Latin Patriarchate Church priest, Father Manaweil Musallam, clearly shaken, said, “her name is Christine, a tenth grade student. Her father is a doctor and she lived near the YMCA in Al-Remal area. She died of fear. Since the war started she felt apprehensive of the danger. She suffered from neurotic disorder and a hysteric situation just as many children are suffering. On Friday, during the shooting of F-16 missiles, she fell on the ground due to the dreadful sound. Her father tried to help, but he couldn’t. Then he held her in his arms hoping to rescue her in the hospital, but she died before reaching there.”
The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act
Robert Fisk, The Independent, 1 January 2009
To admit that Egypt can’t even open its sovereign border without permission from Washington tells you all you need to know about the powerlessness of the satraps that run the Middle East for us.
Open the Rafah gate – or break off relations with Israel – and Egypt’s economic foundations crumble. Any Arab leader who took that kind of step will find that the West’s economic and military support is withdrawn. Without subventions, Egypt is bankrupt. [Read Robert Fisk's article]
Carlos Latuff: Tanks Rolling Over Gaza - Click on image for reproduction information
The Arab League could assume bills of this nature as it pursues alternatives to current trade deals rather than continue to oppress the citizens of the countries they claim to represent, the refugees cleansed, incarcerated, waiting decades to be freed, and the immigrants imported for slave labour.
Such a move would have wide popular support and in their long term self-interest as the current system implodes. The selfish satraps apparently prefer inaugural parties, private contract lobbying and critical shopping sprees paid for with the blood and treasure of its victims to constructing policies that would alleviate their suffering.
Ilan Pappe: Israel’s righteous fury and its victims in Gaza
My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice — even louder than the one heard during the criminal attack against Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israel is engulfed once more with righteous fury that translates into destructive policies in the Gaza Strip. This appalling self-justification for the inhumanity and impunity is not just annoying, it is a subject worth dwelling on, if one wants to understand the international immunity for the massacre that rages on in Gaza.
It is based first and foremost on sheer lies transmitted with a newspeak reminiscent of darker days in 1930s Europe. Every half an hour a news bulletin on the radio and television describes the victims of Gaza as terrorists and Israel’s massive killings of them as an act of self-defense. Israel presents itself to its own people as the righteous victim that defends itself against a great evil. The academic world is recruited to explain how demonic and monstrous is the Palestinian struggle, if it is led by Hamas. These are the same scholars who demonized the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an earlier era and delegitimized his Fatah movement during the second Palestinian intifada.
Palestinians sit beside a dead horse after an Israeli air strike in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, January 2, 2009. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, January 3, 2009 — 1:46 PM ET
Armored Column Seen Moving Into Gaza
Israeli television showed a column of tanks moving into the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, in what appeared to be the beginning of a ground offensive against Hamas. The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse reported that Israeli defense officials were confirming the movement of ground forces into Gaza.
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Palestine War Enters Science-Fiction Realms
Excerpt
Propaganda wars have escalated and are being fought on the new 21st century battlefield - the Internet - while at the same time entering a level of absurdity: Hackers working for the anti-zionist solidarity movement have carried out electronic attacks on major Israeli websites, altering them with anti-war materials. Leaflets have been dropped over Gaza by the Israeli air-force seeking to …employ spies and traitors!
The leaflets say:
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Guardian: Tens of thousands in London protest Gaza offensive
Protesters march through central London, as part of nationwide demonstrations against Israeli air strikes on Gaza. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
I can’t say an exact figure, but tens of thousands turned out for today’s protest, more than beating my expectations - more than that, it was a very militant protest, comparable to the response to the invasion of Lebanon. I am quite sure that the police are putting an insultingly low figure on the turnout for the media’s consumption, but they ought to bear in mind that, apparently, policemen are no longer civilians.
Israel's target list involves the total population.'
The Politics of an Israeli Extermination Campaign
By James Petras
Introduction
Because of the unconditional support of the entire political class in the US, from the White House to Congress, including both Parties, incoming and outgoing elected officials and all the principle print and electronic mass media, the Israeli Government feels no compunction in publicly proclaiming a detailed and graphic account of its policy of mass extermination of the population of Gaza.
Israel’s sustained and comprehensive bombing campaign of every aspect of governance, civic institutions and society is directed toward destroying civilized life in Gaza. Israel’s totalitarian vision is driven by the practice of a permanent purge of Arab Palestine informed by Zionism, an ethno-racist ideology, promulgated by the Jewish state and justified, enforced and pursued by its organized backers in the United States.
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