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Israel’s Incremental Genocide in the Gaza Ghetto Ever since June 1967, Israel searched for a way to keep the territories it occupied that year without incorporating their indigenous Palestinian population into its rights-bearing citizenry. All the while it participated in a “peace process” charade to cover up or buy time for its unilateral colonization policies on the ground. With the decades, Israel differentiated between areas it wished to control directly and those it would manage indirectly, with the aim in the long run of downsizing the Palestinian population to a minimum with, among other means, ethnic cleansing and economic and geographic strangulation. The geopolitical location of the West Bank creates the impression in Israel, at least, that it is possible to achieve this without anticipating a third uprising or too much int...

Israel firing experimental weapons at Gaza's civilians, say doctors Using Gaza as a laboratory DIME  munitions were developed by the US Air Force in 2006 and have since been tested repeatedly on the people of Gaza, who have long served as involuntary lab rats  for Israel’s weapons industry. DIME bombs contain tungsten, a cancer-causing metal that helps to produce incredibly destructive blasts which slice through flesh and bone, often decapitating the lower limbs of people within the blast radius. Renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert , who witnessed the horrific injuries caused by DIME bombs during Israel’s 2009 Gaza onslaught, told The Electronic Intifada over the phone from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City that patients are showing up with DIME-related injuries. “A good number of the injuries seen here are consistent with the use of dense inert metal explosives, or DIME, that we saw during the 2009 attack and also in 2006,” said Gilbert. “The bodies are ...

NSA 'spied on prominent Muslim-Americans' - Americas - Al Jazeera English An online magazine has reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI covertly scanned the emails of five prominent Muslim-Americans under the US government's secret surveillance programme aimed at national security threats. The article in the Intercept , a venture by journalist Glenn Greenwald, said on Wednesday that the targets included a lawyer, a Republican political operative, a university professor and two civil rights activists. The Intercept said all five denied any involvement in terrorism or espionage and had not been accused of any crimes. The magazine questioned whether the government obtained legal permission for its surveillance. The account said that a three-month investigation using classified documents obtained from former NSA contract systems analyst Edward Snowden showed that "the system for authorising NSA surveillance affords the government ...

Israel is deliberately targeting civilians in Gaza The UN says 77 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip have been civilians. A report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs details Israel’s current assault, now it in its sixth day. With over 150 killed , including an alarming number of women and children, and the death toll in Gaza rising by the hour, Israeli officials insist they are doing all they can to avoid civilian casualties. Using precision guided missiles, the Israeli army claims it is only bombing people and infrastructure “ affiliated with Hamas terrorism ” — and the international community is buying it. What is not being discussed, however, is who and what constitutes a Hamas affiliate. Hamas is more than just a militant organization, it is the political party that was democratically elected in 2006 to govern the Gaza Strip and West Bank . Hamas’s control means that...

Bombing of Gaza children gives me “orgasm”: Israelis celebrate slaughter on Facebook Israel’s latest assault  on the besieged Gaza Strip has been accompanied by yet another sharp increase in incitement against Palestinians and solidarity activists on social media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter . Facebook groups have been set up to call for the collective punishment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Others host incitement against Palestinian students at Israeli universities, including posting pictures of and personal information about individual students. The radical and violent anti-Palestinian climate in Israel is not divorced from reality. After more than a week of Israeli government threats to do so, commandos launched the first ground incursion into the northern Gaza Strip early Sunday morning, reported Ma’an News Agency. At the time of writing, there have been no Israeli deaths as a result of rockets fired by armed Palestinian groups in Gaza, though...

Police open fire on Palestine solidarity activists at Los Angeles rally for Israel They kill Palestinians there and try to kill pro Palestinians here in US. Just follow the link from EI. 

The Atrocity By Uri Avnery Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before. But I can hardly hear the sirens which warn of rockets coming towards Tel Aviv. I cannot take my mind off the awful thing that happened in Jerusalem. IF A gang of neo-Nazis had kidnapped a 16-year old boy in a London Jewish neighborhood in the dark of the night, driven him to Hyde Park, beaten him up, poured gasoline into his mouth, doused him all over and set him on fire – what would have happened? Wouldn't the UK have exploded in a storm of anger and disgust? Wouldn't the Queen have expressed her outrage? Wouldn't the Prime Minister have rushed to the home of the bereaved family to apologize on behalf of the entire nation? ...