President Shimon Peres and Israeli Lies

Posted by Oui | Jan 11, 2009 | 12 |

Greatest threat to Middle East peace (Israel’s existence?)

Iran

Terror acts
Purpose of Israel’s invasion is to let Gaza free;
Militants fired from UN school gounds.

In last few days, Peres was quoted as saying: “We take care of our children” in explaining the high death toll of Palestinian children killed by IDF and IOF bombing raids on Gaza.

IDF admits ‘errant’ bombshell killed civilians at UN school

Bloodied Gaza set for the endgame

(Times Online) Jan. 11, 2009 – In the emergency room of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Dr Raed al-Arayni was entering his 12th day of nonstop work and was preparing for yet another operation when his worst nightmare came true.

The bloodied little boy being carried into the room by a neighbour was screaming at him. “Baba, baba [daddy, daddy],” the child cried.

“I did not recognise my own child because of his injuries,” recalled Arayni. “For a few seconds I couldn’t move, my knees became weak. I could barely stand at the sight of my child halfway between life and death.”

Running over he realised that both his sons – Hathifa, 7, and Abdul Rahman, 5 – were lying in his emergency room, severely wounded.

Tears streaming down his face, Arayni began working feverishly on Hathifa, who had the worst injuries. A chunk of shrapnel had pierced his chest, his right leg was broken and blood poured from his wounds.

A colleague began treating Abdul Rahman. The nerves in his broken left arm had been severed and he had no feeling in his hand. They were able to stabilise the two boys.

Witnesses: “Israeli forces fired phosphorus shells in Khouza”

Palestinian witnesses said Israeli forces fired phosphorus shells early Sunday at Khouza, a village near the border, setting a row of houses on fire. Hospital official Dr. Yusuf Abu Rish said a woman was killed and more than 100 injured, most suffering from gas inhalation and burns.

Gaza invasion next best to …

Israel bombing nuclear facilities in Iran with US support.

Cartoon George’s Last Stand

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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Oui on January 11, 2009 at 7:45 am

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Leading British Jews call on Israel to halt ‘horror’ of Gaza

A group of Britain’s most prominent Jews has called on Israel to cease its military operations in Gaza immediately, warning that its actions, far from improving the country’s security, will “strengthen extremism, destabilise the region, and exacerbate tensions inside Israel”.

Violence erupts at embassy protest

Europeans protest against Gaza offensive
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
idredit on January 11, 2009 at 11:58 am

The War in Gaza – Tactical Gains, Strategic Defeat? – CSIS, Anthony H. Cordesman

The question is not whether the IDF learned the tactical lessons of the fighting in 2006. It is whether Israel’s top political leadership has even minimal competence to lead them.

The Israeli-Hamas War, and there is little else that it can be called, has now lasted two weeks. Israeli jets have flown some 800 strike sorties, and the IDF has pushed deep into Gaza. Israel also continues to report tactical gains. The IDF spokesman reported that the fighting on the war’s 14th day continued the second phase of the ground operation throughout the strip, “with infantry, tank, engineering, artillery and intelligence forces operating in large numbers throughout the Gaza Strip, with the assistance of the Israel Air Force and Israel Navy.”

[.]No one should discount these continuing tactical gains, or ignore the fact that Hamas’ rocket and mortar attacks continue to pose a threat. Nearly 600 rounds hit Israeli territory between December 7th and January 9th. It is also clear that there are no good ways to fight an enemy like Hamas that conducts attrition warfare while hiding behind its own women and children. A purely diplomatic response that does not improve Israel’s security position or offer Palestinians hope for the future is equivalent to no response at all.

The fact remains, however, that the growing human tragedy in Gaza is steadily raising more serious questions as to whether the kind of tactical gains that Israel now reports are worth the suffering involved. As of the 14th day of the war, nearly 800 Palestinian have died and over 3,000 have been wounded. Fewer and fewer have been Hamas fighters, while more and more have been civilians.

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It is also far from clear that the tactical gains are worth the political and strategic cost to Israel. At least to date, the reporting from within Gaza indicates that each new Israeli air strike or advance on the ground has increased popular support for Hamas and anger against Israel in Gaza. The same is true in the West Bank and the Islamic world. Iran and Hezbollah are capitalizing on the conflict. Anti-American demonstrations over the fighting have taken place in areas as “remote” as Kabul. Even friends of Israel like Turkey see the war as unjust. The Egyptian government comes under greater pressure with every casualty. The US is seen as having done virtually nothing, focusing only on the threat from Hamas, and the President elect is getting as much blame as the President who still serves.

One strong warning of the level of anger in the region comes from Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Prince Turki has been the Saudi ambassador in both London and Washington. He has always been a leading voice of moderation. For years he has been a supporter of the Saudi peace process and an advocate of Jewish-Christian-Islamic dialog. Few Arab voices deserve more to be taken seriously, and Prince Turki described the conflict as follows in a speech at the opening of the 6th Gulf Forum on January 6th, “The Bush administration has left you (with) a disgusting legacy and a reckless position towards the massacres and bloodshed of innocents in Gaza…Enough is enough, today we are all Palestinians and we seek martyrdom for God and for Palestine, following those who died in Gaza.” Neither Israel nor the US can gain from a war that produces this reaction from one of the wisest and most moderate voices in the Arab world.

This raises a question that every Israeli and its supporters now needs to ask. What is the strategic purpose behind the present fighting? After two weeks of combat Olmert, Livni, and Barak have still not said a word that indicates that Israel will gain strategic or grand strategic benefits, or tactical benefits much larger than the gains it made from selectively striking key Hamas facilities early in the war. In fact, their silence raises haunting questions about whether they will repeat the same massive failures made by Israel’s top political leadership during the Israeli-Hezbollah War in 2006. Has Israel somehow blundered into a steadily escalating war without a clear strategic goal or at least one it can credibly achieve? Will Israel end in empowering an enemy in political terms that it defeated in tactical terms? Will Israel’s actions seriously damage the US position in the region, any hope of peace, as well as moderate Arab regimes and voices in the process?

To blunt, the answer so far seems to be yes. To paraphrase a comment about the British government’s management of the British Army in World War I, lions seem to be led by donkeys. If Israel has a credible ceasefire plan that could really secure Gaza, it is not apparent. If Israel has a plan that could credibly destroy and replace Hamas, it is not apparent. If Israel has any plan to help the Gazans and move them back towards peace, it is not apparent. If Israel has any plan to use US or other friendly influence productively, it is not apparent.

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- Salunga on January 11, 2009 at 12:49 pm
  
  This bloodletting will haunt Israel and the U.S. for a long time. No plan just violence. People do not appreciate having their families killed. People do not like their land stolen. Israel doesn’t get it. Bush doesn’t get it. Rice doesn’t get it. Its Humanity 101 and its fairly simple to get a passing grade in the course. Of course you have to want to pass.
  - idredit on January 11, 2009 at 2:15 pm
    
    Israel does have a plan. “Operation Cast Lead” for the resources of Gaza..six months of preparation.
    
    It’s for the natural gas that lies off the Gaza coast. Hamas stands in their way. Add that theft to the theft of lands.
    
    Jews will pay the CONSEQUENCES of their leaders actions, Again. They’ve not taken any lessons from their history, over some 5,700 years. They listen not… Not to the words written in the Torah, not to the words of condemnation from the Vatican or world protests, mere mortals we.
    And then, the Zionists and AIPAC will be the first ones to ask — “why has it happened to us again, why were we made scape goats?”
    
    Keep a look out. CONSEQUENCES are coming 2011 – 2012 if not before when Pakistan packs its punch.
    - Salunga on January 11, 2009 at 9:02 pm
      
      War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields
      
      In 2006, British Gas “was close to signing a deal to pump the gas to Egypt.” (Times, May, 23, 2007). According to reports, British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on behalf of Israel with a view to shunting the agreement with Egypt.
      
      The following year, in May 2007, the Israeli Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “to buy gas from the Palestinian Authority.” The proposed contract was for $4 billion, with profits of the order of $2 billion of which one billion was to go the Palestinians.
      
      Tel Aviv, however, had no intention on sharing the revenues with Palestine. An Israeli team of negotiators was set up by the Israeli Cabinet to thrash out a deal with the BG Group, bypassing both the Hamas government and the Palestinian Authority:
      
      “Israeli defence authorities want the Palestinians to be paid in goods and services and insist that no money go to the Hamas-controlled Government.”
      
      The objective was essentially to nullify the contract signed in 1999 between the BG Group and the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat.
      
      We give Israel 3 billion a year to steal and murder.
  - dada on January 11, 2009 at 2:28 pm
    
    from all appearances, it would seem to be a safe assumption that their plan is to, ultimately, impose their dominance as a hegemony over the entire ME as a surrogate of/for the u.s..
  - Mattes on January 12, 2009 at 7:43 pm
    
    Think 9/11.
Oui on January 11, 2009 at 12:43 pm

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Destruction of Gaza (Welt Online)

Photos of Gaza Strip, Dec. 2008- Jan. 2009

YouTube – Made in Israel
≈ Cross-posted from another excelllent diary by Jeff Huber — Gaza’s Eyes to Cry With ≈

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
- Mattes on January 11, 2009 at 1:55 pm
  
  Phosporous.
- Salunga on January 11, 2009 at 8:30 pm
  
  Oui that is a powerful video. People need to see the pain and death in Gaza.
Hurria on January 11, 2009 at 2:06 pm

Errant bombshell?! God, even when they admit to something they lie!

It was not one “errant bombshell”, it was multiple “errant bombshells”. Isn’t interesting how often Israel’s “errant bombshells” make multiple direct hits on things like U.N. compounds sheltering refugees from Israeli violence? How many “errant bombshells” was it that made direct hits on Qana, again?

And how they change their stories over and over and over again – as if no one is going to remember the first three ways they tried to cover up what they have done!
- Oui on January 11, 2009 at 2:51 pm
  
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  Just watch the IDF YouTube channel for their surgical strikes on the most densely populated patch of land in the world. Sure, maximum deviation due to GPS reading is a mere 30 meters. In other times their missiles were accurate enough to enter buildings through windows or chimneys.
  
  Yonatan Shapira Former Israeli Air Force captain, speaks out against Israel’s attack on Gaza.
  
  "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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