Thursday, July 17, 2014

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. Emerson

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, "You can't change the world." But the world is changing every day. Only question is...who's doing it? You or somebody else?
~ J. Michael Straczynski



No destiny seems to me more enviable than that of an artist who can permit himself to observe the world around him and to reproduce it in his own way. 
 
Ondaatje, Michael. 1992. The English Patient VIAthetwistedmind, a Gemini shush

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NBC News Pulls Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children

By Glenn Greenwald

Yesterday, Mohyeldin witnessed and then reported on the brutal killing by Israeli planes of four young boys as they played soccer on a beach in Gaza City.
 








As a new round of violence kicks off in Israel-Palestine and more children are killed, it's time to take definitive non-violent action to end this nightmare. Our governments and companies have continued to aid, trade and invest in the violence, but we can help stop it if we call on key banks, pension funds and businesses to pull out their investments -- add your voice now:


SIGN THE PETITION
As a new round of violence kicks off in Israel-Palestine and more children are killed, it's not enough just to call for another ceasefire. It’s time to take definitive non-violent action to end this decades long nightmare. Our governments have failed -- while they have talked peace and passed UN resolutions, they and our companies have continued to aid, trade and invest in the violence. The only way to stop this hellish cycle of Israel confiscating Palestinian lands, daily collective punishment of innocent Palestinian families, Hamas firing rockets, and Israel bombing Gaza is to make the economic costof this conflict too high to bear.

We know it works -- when EU countries issued guidelines not to fund the illegal Israeli settlements it caused an earthquake in the cabinet, and when citizens successfully persuaded a Dutch pension fund, PGGM, to withdraw, it created a political storm.

This may not feel like a direct way to stop the current killing, but history tells us that raising the financial cost of oppression can pave a path to peace. Click to call on 6 key banks, pension funds and businesses to pull out -- If we all take smart action now and turn up the heat, they could withdraw, the Israeli economy will take a hit, and we can turn the calculation of the extremists politically profiting from this hell upside down:


https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?binitdb&v=42612

In the last five weeks three Israeli teenagers were murdered in the West Bank, a Palestinian boy was burnt alive, an American kid was brutally beaten up by Israeli police, and now over 40 Gazan kids have died in Israeli air strikes. This is not the “Middle East conflict”, it's becoming a war on children. And we are becoming numb to this global shame.The media makes out like this is an intractable conflict between two equal warring parties, but it is not. Palestinian extremists' attacks on innocent civilians must be condemned and ended but the root of the conflict lies elsewhere -- in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Israel currently occupies, colonises, bombs, raids, and controls the water, trade and the borders of a legally free nation that has been recognised by the United Nations. In Gaza, Israel has created the largest open-air prison in the world, and then blockaded it. Now as bombs fall, the families, literally have no way to get out. These are war crimes and we wouldn't accept that anywhere else, why accept it in Palestine? Half a century ago Israel and its Arab neighbours went to war and Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Occupying territory after war happens all the time. But no military occupation should turn into a decades long tyranny which only fuels and benefits extremists who use terror to target the innocent. And who suffers? The majority of loving families on both sides that just want freedom and peace.

To many, particularly in Europe and North America, calling for companies to withdraw investments from financing or taking part in Israel's occupation of Palestine sounds completely biased. But it’s not -- this is the most potent non-violent strategy to end the ritual violence, ensure 
Israelis' security and achieve Palestinian freedom. Israel’s power and wealth dwarfs Palestine, and if it refuses to end its illegal occupation, the world must act to make the cost unbearable.Dutch pension fund, ABP, invests in Israeli banks that help fund the colonisation of Palestine. Massive banks like Barclays invest in suppliers of Israeli arms and other occupation businesses. Computer giant Hewlett-Packard supplies sophisticated surveillance to control the movement of Palestinians. And Caterpillar provides bulldozers that are used to demolish Palestinian homes and farms. If we can create the biggest global call ever to get these companies to pull out, we will show clearly that the world will no longer be complicit in this bloodshed. The Palestinian people are calling on the world to support this path and progressive Israelis support it too. Let’s join them: 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?binitdb&v=42612

Our community has worked to bring peace, hope, and change to some of the world’s toughest conflicts, and often that means taking difficult positions to address the root cause. For years our community has looked for a political solution to this nightmare, but with this new round of horror unfolding in Gaza, the time has come to turn to sanctions and disinvestment to finally help end the horror for Israelis and Palestinians.

With hope and determination,

Alice, Fadi, Ben, Laila, Anna, Ricken, Jo, Nell, Mais and the entire Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION:

UN independent expert calls for boycott of businesses profiting from Israeli settlements (UN)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43376#.U7_ynqhMrRI

12 more EU countries warn against trade with Israeli settlements (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.603030

Israelis, Palestinians Pro Peace Process, but Not Hopeful (Gallup)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161456/israelis-palestinians-pro-peace-process-not-hopeful.aspx

Under pressure, a strong EU-Israel relationship faces uncertain future (Middle East Monitor)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/9675-under-pressure-a-strong-eu-israel-relationshi...

Israel-Gaza conflict: 80 per cent of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes are civilians, UN report says (The Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-80-per-cent-of-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-strikes-are-civilians-un-report-says-9606397.html

Rule 156. Definition of War Crimes (ICRC)
http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_cha_chapter44_rule156

Palestinians: Most Gaza dead are children, women, elderly (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.604443

Caught on Tape: US Teen Allegedly Beaten by Israeli Police (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/caught-tape-us-teen-tariq-abu-khdeir-allegedly-24449873

A policy of displacement (Visualizing Palestine)
http://visualizingpalestine.org/infograhic/a-policy-of-displacement

Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
http://www.whoprofits.org/

Additional sources for this campaign:
http://avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_sources_a/?blast</






Witness to a Shelling
First-hand Account of Deadly Strike on Gaza Port

By Peter Beaumont in Gaza

There is a deafening explosion, then a second. Four children are dead.



"They Have To Die":
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By Jonathan Turley

"They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.


Why the Israelis Are Repetitively Violent

By Lawrence Davidson

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Cui Bono?
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When the US Welched on Its NATO Promise

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The Human Price of Neocon Havoc

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Edward Snowden: 'If I End Up In Chains In Guantánamo I Can Live With That'

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The Rise Of The Non-working Rich

By Robert Reich

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Border Children: 'They Don't Speak English, But They Understand Hate'

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  First Woman Tribal Nation Principle Chief of the CWY

........maybe she won with the populist vote here:  "Chief Mankiller
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Ron Paul r3VOLution - As American as American Pie

let's hope the apple doesn't fall far from the tree....Rand?

tis not o-key to look the other way..................we do not have the right to do what is wrong, then who must choose which child is to die so that we may live as we wish?
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Posted: 16 Jul 2014 01:11 PM PDT
16 July 2014
Free palestine march cape town - An estimated 40 000 people in Cape Town marched in solidarity with Gaza today, 16 June and gathered outside Parliament's main gates, calling for the Israeli ambassador to South Africa to be expelled and an end to trade ties between South Africa and Israel.
The huge crowd, which stretched over several city blocks, held aloft scores of banners and posters, calling for an end to the violence in Palestine's Gaza Strip.
                  


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How US and Blair Plotted 'Ceasefire' Scam

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The idea for the so-called Egyptian "ceasefire proposal" was actually hatched in Washington, the messenger boy was arch-war criminal Tony Blair, and the terms were drafted by Israel.



Israel Inflicts Illegal Collective Punishment on Gaza

By Marjorie Cohn

"Israel is able to act with utter impunity because of the military, economic and political support it receives from governments around the world,"


American and Israeli War Crimes

By Margaret Kimberley

Barack Obama and his other partners in world gangsterism such as the prime ministers of Canada, the United Kingdom and other NATO countries blurt out the same lying rhetoric.


Israel Accused Of War Crimes In UK Parliament

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Highlights from a UK parliamentary debate in which MPs variously accused Israel of war crimes.


Full Text : President Bashar al-Assad Speech Following the Swearing-in Ceremony

Video and English Transcript

"A few years ago, some called for freedom - your response was to remain free in the age of subservience, to be masters in the age of slaves."


Atoms For Peace And Iran Nuclear Talk
The Theatrics Continues - From Eisenhower to Obama

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For 34 years, Washington has been engaged in covert and overt operation to overthrow the government of the Iranian people. It has been complicit in war and war crimes.


Government Repeatedly Told Us We'd Have "Blood On Our Hands"

By Elias Isquith

The former editor in chief of the New York Times says Washington often played the terrorism card to spike stories.


Border Wars in the Homeland

By Todd Miller

A Border Patrol agent forced Vermont's senior senator Patrick Leahy from his car at a checkpoint 125 miles south of the New York State border.


The Potential Killers All Around Us

By Dave Lindorff

I've often wondered why so many innocent people who are shot by police end up dead.


America Is Guilty if We Don't Prosecute Obama

By Eric Zuesse

The signs of the fascist turn of the American Government are also all around us.


Why We're Doomed: Interest and Debt

By Charles Hugh Smith

Even if the economy were growing at a faster pace, it wouldn't come close to offsetting the interest payments on our ever-expanding debt.


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Arab MK Stages 'Moment of Silence' for Gaza Dead in Knesset: Video -
MK Basel Ghattas (Balad) cause a firestorm in the Knesset Wednesday, after he staged a "moment of silence" for the "victims" of Israel's attack on Gaza.


Senate panel votes for defense bill that doubles money for Israel's Iron Dome:
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Israel agrees to UN request for humanitarian ceasefire:
Israel on Wednesday agreed to temporarily halt its assault on Gaza after United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry called for a "humanitarian ceasefire." The Israeli Defense Ministry said that the ceasefire was meant for Gazans to see the damage wrought by Israel in the last week and a half.


Report: Hamas, Islamic Jihad offer 10-year truce:
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have submitted a list of 10 demands to Egypt to establish a 10-year truce with Israel, the Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported Wednesday.


Abbas to meet Hamas leaders in Cairo:
Abbas "wants a ceasefire to end the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip," senior Fatah leader Nabil Shaath told a Wednesday press conference in Ramallah.


Infrastructure destruction in Gaza throws doubt on Israeli motives:
Israeli claims that its air strikes are aimed at rocket launching sites, but Gazans complain that the sorties are also targeting infrastructure ranging from fishing boats to schools


Israel buys tweets to promote Gaza escalation:
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Rebel clashes in Yemen leave 35 fighters dead: officials:
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Yemen: 10 million Yemenis still struggle for food: -
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15 ISIL rebels killed in Mosul:
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Iraqi forces retreat from ISIS-held Tikrit:
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Ukraine: At least 30 civilians killed in latest attack as government battles to control eastern regions:
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Airstrike in eastern Ukraine kills 11 civilians:
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More Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting rages in east, peace move flops:
Ukraine's military said 11 more troops were killed in the space of 24 hours, mostly in clashes near the frontier..


Ukraine rebels reclaim village:
Rebels said they retook a village near the Russian border from government forces Wednesday as both sides pressed to claim territory in eastern Ukraine


U.S. hits oil giant Rosneft, other firms with toughest Russia sanctions:
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Russia to reopen Cuban mega-base to spy on America - report:
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Militias Clash At Libyan Airport For Fourth Day:
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Zintan militia in control of Libya airport:
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Assange arrest warrant upheld by Swedish court:
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Bush and Chaney walk free as : Actress who sent Obama ricin sentenced to 18 years:
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