Broadcast on Channel 4 – 22 January 2009 | Part Two, Three, Four, Five, Six.

[ 23/01/2009 – 04:07 PM ]

CAIRO, (PIC)– Palestinians citizens wounded in the Israeli war on Gaza and treated in Egyptian hospitals affirmed Friday that elements of the Egyptian intelligence questioned them and asked them to reveal information on the whereabouts of Hamas’s arms stores.

The Al-Jazeera net news website on the internet quoted a number of those wounded Palestinians as affirming that elements of the Egyptian security interrogated them in very harsh manner, and asked them to reveal what they know about Hamas’s military force, adding that the security officers threatened to deny them medical treatment if they refused to “cooperate”.

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Update:
Haykal Unveils Plot to “Dissolve” Hamas Resistance

23/01/2009 Egyptian prominent journalist Mohamad Hassanein Haykal said that the next stage would witness an attempt to dissolve the Palestinian Resistance movement of Hamas through the “weapon” of the re-construction of the Gaza Strip following the Israeli 23-day aggression.

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Update:
Palestine and Sweden’s Third States Responsibility

4. Don’t assist Israel in economically benefiting from its attacks on Gaza. The United Nations estimates that 45% of international aid sent to the Occupied Palestinian Territories flows back into the Israeli economy. The Paris Accords often render it less expensive to import goods to the OPT from Israel rather than neighboring or European countries. Demand that Israeli taxes on emergency and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip be frozen.

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From the Feuilletons

Psychoanalyst Martin Altmeyer is appalled that anti-Semitism has gained respectability on the left. “Anti-Semitic radicalisation reached its climax when Naomi Klein, icon of the anti-globalisation movement, called in the Guardian for a worldwide boycott of Israeli products, companies and institutions, finally giving respectability within anti-gloablisation circles to the boycott-Israel initiative of Palestinian groups. Professors in universities throughout Britain immediately took up the call, chanting ‘Israel must lose!’ – among them the unavoidable Slavoj Zizek…”

And the sanction then massacre of Palestinians is moral and just? The Israeli government and its supporters are responsible for the increased resolve to boycott the madness. How to end it?

“Trillions worth of U.S. debt is coming soon to the markets. Which foreign central bank or institution will buy this debt…?”

– Samarjit Shankar, a director for global strategy at the Bank of New York Mellon, in Boston.

The banks and institutions that buy the debt should be boycotted as well.