Here's a selected sampling:
"Wiping Palestine "Off the Map""
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
– David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”
– Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
“[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs.”
– Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, “Begin and the ‘Beasts,”‘ New Statesman, June 25, 1982.
“Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them.”
– Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.
– Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online
“Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.”
– David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”
– Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
– Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
Source: Sabbah.mt
Since 1948 there have been over 2 million Palestinian deaths (according to Yahoo) but is anyone keeping count? Does anyone care?? Perhaps the world is accepting the zionist’s response of 'those were accidental fatalities’…. does that make what we are witnessing an accidental holocaust? Does the number have to reach 6 million to get into Webster’s?
When Israel finishes its planned genocidal extermination of the Gazans, the number of indigenous Palestinians killed by the Zionists will be close to 4 MILLION.
Will that make the current Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign against the indigenous Palestinians a Holocaust©?
Or would that be considered a copyright infringement?"
Today Gaza's only electrical plant shut down, deprived of fuel by the Jewish blockade. Last week the Jews sealed all crossings into Gaza. For months, the victims inside have been living with fuel cutbacks, power outages, and shortages of supplies. The power plant's closure will force 400,000 people in Gaza City to live in darkness. Rain is predicted for Tuesday and Wednesday.
On 28 June 2006, Jewish air strikes destroyed the $150 million power plant. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency spent a year repairing it.
Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for Israel's defense ministry, said Gaza has enough fuel. He accused Palestinian officials of trying to create the impression of a crisis that did not exist. “The power plant shutdown will not be comfortable, but it's not a humanitarian crisis."
He had no definition of what constitutes a humanitarian crisis.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency – the organization in charge of Palestinian refugees -- warned that the Jewish blockade would create a crisis for hospitals, sewage treatment plants, and water facilities. "The logic of this defies basic humanitarian standards," said Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the Agency.
"We are going to shut down completely," said Rafik Maliha, director of the power plant. The regular fuel shipment from hasn't arrived Sunday because the fuel terminal, Nahal Oz, was closed, and the plant has nearly no stored reserves.”
The Jews have illegally withheld tax revenues from the Palestinians for two years. Gaza gets half its electricity from the power plant, and half from outside the prison wall.
Israel, with Egypt's cooperation, has blockaded Gaza since June, when Hamas expelled the corrupt Fatah gangsters.
Even after imposing the blockade, Israel allowed basic food items and humanitarian supplies into Gaza until Thursday, when Ehud Barak ordered all crossings closed.
Barak repeated that Israel is preparing for a large-scale invasion of Gaza. Already the Jews hit Gaza with air strikes every night and day, and have murdered nearly 40 people this week alone.
MSNBC
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From the United Nations web site:
"It's a nightmare for my children", says Mohammed, a 55 year-old Palestine refugee from the Beersheba area in the Negev Desert. His children often wake up during the night and scream because of the darkness.
"There aren’t enough candles in Gaza. You can go all over Gaza, and you won't find candles". Even if candles are available, he says they are in limited supply and are too expensive, selling for triple the usual price of NIS 1 ($0.25). "The borders are closed and you have to live in darkness.”
Mohammad, who lives with his family of ten in Jabalia Camp, builds an indoor fire in an empty room. The fire, made with cartons and tree branches, is used to cook lentils and the spinach-like greens (khubbezeh) that his children gather from fields.
It makes the house smell, bit it’s the only alternative for cooking that is available to Mohammad's family. "There is no electricity", the father of five begins. "The gas is expensive and all other energy sources are expensive. There is no money.”
But he considers his family lucky to live on the main road, where part of his house receives light from the streetlights. He wants to buy a gas lamp, but says they are too expensive—a small container of gas to fill them costs roughly 21 NIS ($5). Many Gazans are using their kerosene lamps from the 1950s, or gasoline lamps.
May all zionists and their supporters burn in hell."
So Palestinian woman in picture was AT A WEDDING PARTY!
You'll need the to click on the link to watch video.
""...casualties were celebrating wedding at nearby structure during attack"
Gaza: Israel destroys Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry ; woman killed
(Video) Palestinian sources say woman killed, 15 injured in Israeli missile strike that destroyed Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry building; casualties were celebrating wedding at nearby structure during attack
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"Gaza plunged into darkness as Israel blocks fuel"
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Geneva Convention: "...collective punishments are a war crime..."
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's only electrical plant shut down Sunday after Israel blocked the shipment of fuel that powers them, plunging Gaza City into darkness and sending already beleaguered Gazans to stock up on food and batteries in anticipation of long, dark, cold days ahead.
A U.N. agency and human rights groups condemned Israel, but Israel said they should direct their criticism at Palestinian militant groups that fire rockets at southern Israel every day.
Israel sealed all crossings into Gaza last week because of a spike in rocket barrages, cutting off fuel. Several weeks ago Israel reduced the supply as a pressure tactic.
CLAIM: Hezbollah leader says group has Israeli bodies
In addition to the fuel it receives from Israel to power its electrical plant, Gaza gets about two-thirds of its electricity directly from Israel. Israeli officials said that supply would not be affected.
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Hamas officials shut down the plant and plunged Gaza City into total darkness, Gaza Energy Authority head Kanan Obeid said. TV crews and reporters were invited to witness the shutdown just before 8 p.m.
Minutes later, Gaza residents started a candlelight march as a protest. Live Associated Press TV pictures showed dots of light moving slowly up a main straight.
The regular fuel shipment from Israel did not arrived Sunday because the fuel terminal was closed, and the plant has nearly no reserves, said Rafik Maliha, director of the power plant.
Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain warned that the fuel cutoff would cause a health catastrophe. "We have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms," he said.
Shlomo Dror, spokesman for Israel's Defense Ministry, said Gaza has enough fuel and accused Palestinian officials of trying to create the impression of a crisis that did not exist.
Residents of Gaza City were buying up batteries and candles, as well as basic foods like rice, flour and cooking oil, said grocery store owner Sami Mousa. More would be doing the same, he said, but "the problem is that the people don't have the money to buy."
Bakeries stopped operating because of the blockade, bakers said, because they had neither power nor flour.
There were no signs of panic, as Gazans have been living with fuel cutbacks, power outages and shortages since Islamic Hamas militants overran the seaside territory in June, triggering international sanctions.
Earlier, Obeid called on people to cut back their use of electric appliances. The U.N. organization in charge of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warned the Israeli blockade would drastically affect hospitals, sewage treatment plants and water facilities.
"The logic of this defies basic humanitarian standards," said Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.
Human rights groups also condemned the fuel cutoff. The British group Oxfam called it "ineffective as well as unlawful." Gisha, an Israeli group that has fought the fuel cutbacks in Israel's Supreme Court, said "punishing Gaza's 1.5 million civilians does not stop the rocket fire; it only creates an impossible 'balance' of human suffering on both sides of the border."
Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, but many see Israel as still responsible, since it controls most land, sea and air access to the territory.
Israeli Cabinet minister Zeev Boim said that rather than condemning Israel's move, the U.N. should condemn Palestinian militants for subjecting Israeli civilians to barrages of rockets. "I don't hear the U.N.'s voice," Boim said.
Alon Ben-David, military analyst for Israel's Channel 10 TV, said Israel could not maintain the blockade for more than a few days. "Israel understands that a humanitarian crisis is developing here," he said.
By nightfall Sunday, four rockets exploded in Israel through the day, a significant drop from the level of last week. The military said since last Tuesday, the start of the escalation, more than 200 rockets and mortars hit Israel. There have been no serious injuries over the past week, but residents of the Israeli towns have been traumatized by months of daily salvos.
Despite its seven-month blockade, up to now Israel allowed basic food items and humanitarian supplies into Gaza. That changed Thursday, when Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered all crossings closed after intense rocket fire.
A defiant Hamas said its attacks on Israel would not cease because of the sanctions.
"We will not raise the white flag, and we will not surrender, " Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Sunday.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved."
"Ex-Israeli army officer arrested in Brazil charged with illegal organ trafficking"
Geldaya Tauber Gady told a court that Israel financed organ transplants in other countries, primarily South Africa, through national health services.
Organ transplants are not illegal in Israel. But due to religious objections mainly by ultra-orthodox Jews, there is a critical lack of organ donors in Israel, and patients in need of a transplant are usually obliged to travel abroad....
"See also Israel Kills Palestinian Boys, Steals Organs For Transplants.
The Zionist state has tacitly admitted that doctors at the Israeli forensic institute at Abu Kabir had extracted the vital organs of three Palestinian teenage children killed by the Israeli Army nearly ten days ago.Zionist Minister of Health Nessim Dahhan said in response to a question by Arab member of the Zionist Parliament 'Knesset', Ahmed Teibi, on Tuesday that he couldn't deny that organs of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli forces were taken out for transplants or scientific research.
I am not surprised at this revelation, readers, and I am -- in fact -- quite sickened!
Zionists are EVIL!!!!!!!
"Death and Darkness in Gaza, People are dying, Help us!"
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A humanitarian crisis is underway as the Gaza Strip's only power plant began to shut down on Sunday, and the tiny coastal territory entered its third full day without shipments of vital food and fuel supplies due to Israel's punitive sanctions.
The Gaza Strip's power plant has completely shut down on Sunday because it no longer has the fuel needed to keep running. One of the plant's two electricity-generating turbines had already shut down by noon.
This will drastically reduce output to 25 or 30 megawatts, down from the 65 megawatts the plant produces under normal conditions. By Sunday evening the plant will shut down completely, leaving large swaths of the Gaza Strip in darkness.
Omar Kittaneh, the head of the Palestine Energy Authority in Ramallah, confirmed that by tonight, the one remaining operating turbine will be powered down, and the Gaza power plant will no longer be generating any electricity at all.
“We have asked the Israeli government to reverse its decision and to supply fuel to operate the power plant”, Dr. Kittaneh said. “We have talked to the Israeli humanitarian coordination in their Ministry of Energy [National Infrastructure]. We say this is totally Israel’s responsibility, and that reducing the fuel supplies until the plant had to shut down will affect not only the electrical system but the water supply, and the entire infrastructure in Gaza – everything.”
After months of increasingly harsh sanctions, Israel imposed a total closure on the Strip's border crossings, even preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid. The Israeli government says the closure is punishment for an ongoing barrage of Palestinian homemade projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip.
"Famine"
180 fuel stations have shut down after Gaza residents to buy gas for cooking.
A Palestinian economist Hasan Abu Ramadan said the current humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip will be deepened by the blockade on fuel and food supplies. He warned that Gaza Strip could go from a situation of deep poverty to all out famine, disease, and malnutrition.
Abu Ramadan said that more than 80% of the Strip's 1.5 million residents have been surviving with the help of food aid from international organizations such as UNRWA for Palestinian refugees.
International condemnation
Most international actors in the region believe there already is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator, the Undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs John Holmes, who said at a press conference at UNHQ in New York on Friday that "This kind of action against the people in Gaza cannot be justified, even by those rocket attacks".
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed particular concern, in a statement issued later on Friday through his spokesperson, about the "decision by Israel to close the crossing points in between Gaza and Israel used for the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Such action cuts off the population from much-needed fuel supplies used to pump water and generate electricity to homes and hospitals".
The UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied territories, John Dugard, also issued a much sharper statement on Friday, saying that Israel must have foreseen the loss of life and injury to many nearby civilians when it targeted the Ministry of Interior building in Gaza City.
This, and the killings of other Palestinians during the week, plus the closures, "raise very serious questions about Israel's respect for international law and its Commitment to the peace process", Dugard said. He said it violates the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention, and one of the basic principles of international humanitarian law: that military action must distinguish between military targets and civilian targets.
Source:
Maan
Please click on the links, readers, and look at the arabic script and pictures!
I'm distraught and heartbroken, readers!
And here is ANOTHER PIECE:
Our punching bag
Pulverizing Gaza Strip won’t help; Sderot will rest only when Gaza rests
Yigal Sarna
Published: 01.20.08, 15:22 / Israel Opinion
How do we try to calm hell? By making it even hotter. Every year we kill hundreds of hell residents, destroy homes and vehicles, and wait for everything to quiet down. This is how it works in Gaza. This is how it fails.
We kill 19 people in one day, including the son of a senior figure, and wait for quiet to prevail. And then, a Qassam barrage follows. Just like the Second Lebanon War. The routine is simple: The IDF does not rush to enter the Strip for fear of heavy casualties among our troops. So we deliver hard, non-surgical blows. We kill many from the air, and then we see a change: A sea of Qassams.
And then, the brilliant idea of a ground incursion emerges again; the same thing that was carried out at the end of the Second Lebanon war – the 33 casualties of the last, needless hours. A ground incursion into Gaza is like a magic cure for baldness around here: Everyone counts on it, but nobody believes in it.
Let’s say we enter Gaza with tanks and large Golani or Givati or paratroop forces. Let’s say we go door-to-door through the miserable camps, hurt others and sustain blows ourselves. Will we be able to clean up the crowded prison cells of a million and a half Gaza inmates? Nab every gunman? Uncover every arms cache? Block every tunnel? Will we stay there for a year and then dream about leaving? Won’t we see a rain of Qassams pouring down during the operation? Just look at the Lebanon war and you can see everything.
There is no way to crush popular resistance to occupation or to a foreign army – I heard this message from 100 Shin Bet officials in the years I have been visiting these military training zones. There is no military way, and still, even Olmert, the sly attorney who lost his faith in the army and who even dared complain about the army’s power to drag all of us in, tries the same military moves time and again. He is being dragged by the IDF, and by Ehud Barak, who is his defense minister but also a political rival who wishes to see the PM ousted. This is such a dangerous, lethal combination.
Rocket range equals depth of despair
This is the same defense establishment that failed to thwart a simple Gaza ambush by a few gunmen and allowed them to kidnap IDF soldier Gilad Shalit from his tank. It’s the same defense establishment that was unable to regain its composure immediately after the ambush and rescue the soldier; the same defense establishment that failed to conduct quick and effective talks to secure his release.
We shall say it for the thousandth time: Gaza is hell. In the 40 years it was in our hands - and it is still in our hands ever since we left, through our spy aircraft and border crossings, and collaborators, and fences – not even one hospital room or clean well was added.
It is hell that is subjected to bombings and ceaseless nightly incursions. Gaza is hell right next to our home. And as long as it is merely a punching bag for our troops without any grandiose aid or rescue plan and no real diplomatic talks, Gaza will poison us like an abscess.
There is no ground incursion that would salvage Sderot; because Sderot and Khan Younis and Beit Hanoun are tied together in a Siamese-city alliance with the same blood system.
The deeper Gaza sinks, the more it goes hungry, the more it is darkened, burned, pulverized, and beaten, the more we will see the rocket range grow. The firing range equals the depth of despair. Gaza will grow quiet only when it starts hoping.
This is much more complicated than any ground incursion, but Sderot will rest only when Gaza rests. I know this sad, sick, dusty, hungry, thirsty, unemployed, and hopeless hell. It will be there forever, next to us, and just like any burning place it will give off burning shrapnel as long as it’s on fire.
Those who wish to attempt to put out the fire through a ground incursion or the killing of the sons of leaders should be reading the upcoming Winograd Report. Everything is in there; the folly of the military establishment, the brutality of the Mofaz-Halutz army and their successors, and the complete absence and abduction of the democratic ruler – the political leadership."
