International Day of Rage

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Ragman you are absolutely correct, there are other party's that are responsible. Israel windrow from the Strip in 2005,

Which in essence was the jailer leaving the cell - and then locking the cell door behind him.

in 2007 Hama'ss terror group won the elections and took control of the place.

If you want to refer to Hamas as a terror group, then I will refer to the IOF (IDF) similarly as a terror group - there is absolutely no question whatsoever which organization has more blood on it's hands (Hint: it ain't Hamas):

Statistics | B'Tselem

(Compare the civilian casualties: Israeli vs. Palestinian)

And actually Hamas won the elections in 2006 - not 2007 as you state ... you know, for an Israeli you sure seem a little "fuzzy" on the facts:

In its election manifesto for the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, Hamas omitted a call for an end to Israel, though it did still call for armed struggle against the occupation. Hamas won the 2006 elections, winning 76 of the 132 seats to Fatah's 43. Seen by many as primarily a rejection of the Fatah government's corruption and ineffectiveness, the Hamas victory seemingly had brought to an end 40 years of PLO domination of Palestinian politics.


In early February 2006, Hamas offered Israel a 10-year truce "in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories: the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem," and recognition of Palestinian rights including the "right of return." Mashal added that Hamas was not calling for a final end to armed operations against Israel, and it would not impede other Palestinian groups from carrying out such operations.

In 2006 after the Gaza election, Hamas leader sent a letter addressed to George W. Bush where he among other things declared that Hamas would accept a state on the 1967 borders including a truce. However, the Bush administration did not reply.

On June 9, 2006, during an Israeli artillery operation, an explosion occurred on a busy Gaza beach, killing eight Palestinian civilians. It was assumed that Israeli shellings were responsible for the killings, but Israeli government officials denied this. Hamas formally withdrew from its 16-month ceasefire on June 10, taking responsibility for the subsequent Qassam rocket attacks launched from Gaza into Israel.

Hamas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

that's 8 years ago, yet none ever blame the Gazan themselves for choosing violent over quality of life.

Uh-huh:

You know the Nakba was 65 years ago, yet none ever blame the Israelis themselves for choosing a violent over quality of life.

Whose statement do you think is really more accurate, in terms of not being blamed in he public's mind ? (at least in the US ... and Israel of course)

poverty in the refugees camps came be over with tomorrow, if the residents of Gaza choose too.

Tomorrow ?

Moose, you're getting to a point of desperation where you've become totally unaware of how blatantly obvious your lies actually are ...

IOW: you've started to believe your own bullcrap.

not to mention the bugging question of howcome they still have refugee camps to begin with, just another bad choice.

Might have something to do with their neighbors who keep destroying the civilian infrastructure ...

 

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More coverage on Prawer including the map ... but it's not actually the original map, which the government is still hiding ...

Until now, nobody knew the extent of the Prawer-Begin Plan. No government official or statement has detailed how many Bedouin citizens will be displaced, how many unrecognized villages razed and how much land will be expropriated by the state.

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) on Monday published a copy of a map distributed to members of the Knesset Interior Affairs Committee. The map was prepared by the Prime Minister’s Office for Housing Minister Uri Ariel of the Jewish Home party in an attempt to assuage his party’s fears that too much land would be given to the Bedouin.

Read +972′s full coverage of the Prawer-Begin Plan

According to a report published yesterday on +972, the new map details plans to displace some 40,000 Bedouin and for the state to expropriate 250,000 dunams (61,700 acres) of Bedouin land.

“The government hid this map from the Bedouin. The government hid this map from the Knesset,” MK Khenin wrote on his Facebook page.

It was not clear whether the map was merely an explanatory document meant to swing votes in the Knesset or an actual working document for the eventual implementation of Prawer. MK Merav Michaeli wrote on Twitter Monday afternoon, [I]“t seems the doc the gov presented isn’t the original doc, the gov is still hiding the original and why the changes.”

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See the Prawer Plan map Israel's government was keeping secret | +972 Magazine

 

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Ethnic cleansing, historic & prolonged:

Israel stripped more than 100,000 residents of Gaza and some 140,000 residents of the West Bank of their residency rights during the 27 years between its conquest of the territories in 1967 and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994.

As a result, close to 250,000 Palestinians who left the territories were barred from ever returning.

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Israel admits it revoked residency rights of a quarter million Palestinians Israel News | Haaretz

 

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Israel, not being content with already having caused raw sewage to back up and flood Gaza (as a consequence of it's economic blockade and having bombed Gaza's powerplant), recently decided to deliver a special holiday "present" to the people they oppress by flooding the place by opening some dams ... turning the place into an even worse ****hole:

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Israel 'opens dams' flooding Gaza Strip near Deir al Balah | Maan News Agency

Freezing and canoeing in Gaza | Mondoweiss
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From the "In Gaza" blog:

Gaza drowning ... and under power and media blackout | In Gaza

 

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As you read this please take a look outside your window ... and then realize that it's winter "over there" too:

UN slams Israel demolition of West Bank properties

Jerusalem (AFP) - The United Nations Wednesday slammed Israel's demolition of 30 Palestinian properties in the West Bank, saying it displaced some families for the second time in less than two weeks.

"I am concerned about the destruction of Palestinian structures in the Jordan Valley yesterday (Tuesday)," UN Humanitarian Coordinator James Rawley said in a statement.

"The demolitions resulted in the displacement of 41 people, including 24 children, and affected another 20. Both refugee and non-refugee families were affected." the statement said.

"Some of the families were displaced for the second time this month and a number of donor-funded structures were among those demolished."

Israel's civilian administration of the West Bank had no immediate comment on the demolitions.

(rlent editorial comment: I'll bet they didn't ...)

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UN slams Israel demolition of West Bank properties

 

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What happens when a nation really starts believing they are the "master race":

Ahead of worst winter storm in years, IDF razes Palestinian homes

The Middle East is experiencing one of the worst winter storms to hit the region in years. All almost all of the mountain ranges from Syria to Sinai are covered in snow and the coastal areas are seeing very large amounts of rainfall. State and local authorities throughout the region are working to bring homeless people into shelters and rescue those caught in the storm.

Yet on Tuesday, just as the storm was approaching, the Israeli army’s Civil Administration in the West Bank destroyed tents and shacks belonging to Palestinian families in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, leaving some 40 people – including at least 18 children – homeless.

Ahead of worst winter storm in years, IDF razes Palestinian homes | +972 Magazine

 

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I expect the worst of this is yet to come - probably a very good chance of a cholera outbreak for starters. May be possibly end up being a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions - one which was easily foreseeable by Israel as a consequence of their actions. Hopefully the Palestinians will pursue the matter - since it constitutes a war crime, if not also a crime against humanity - at the International Court of Justice:

UNRWA calls Gaza 'disaster area,' pleads for end to Israeli blockade

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness said that large regions of the Gaza Strip are a "disaster area" and called on the world community to lift the Israeli blockade in order to allow recovery efforts to proceed, in a statement sent to Ma'an.

"Large swathes of northern Gaza are a disaster area with water as far as the eye can see. Areas around Jabalia have become a massive lake with two meter high waters engulfing homes and stranding thousands," the statement read.

"Four thousand UNRWA workers are battling the floods and have evacuated hundreds of families to UNRWA facilities. Our sanitation, manintenance workers, social workers and medical staff have been working through the night and round the clock to assist the most vulnerable, the old, the sick, children and women," the statement continued.

"We have distributed five thousand of litres of fuel to local pumping stations, but the situation is dire and with the flood waters rising, the risk of water borne disease can only increase. This is a terrible situation which can only get worse before it gets better," it added, referring to major fuel shortages across the Gaza Strip that have dramatically worsened in the last few months.

Gunness also highlighted the need for an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip in order to allow the region recover from the current crisis.

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UNRWA calls Gaza 'disaster area,' pleads for end to Israeli blockade | Maan News Agency

 

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Ziobots whine about having their whootle feewings hurted ... from a rather mild and benign political protest ... while the more unhinged among them advocate actual violence:

Students post eviction notices at U of Michigan dorms, draw attention to Palestinian plight

 

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Yeah ... no discriminatory double standards at work by the "democratic nation of laws":

In West Bank, Arab home faces demolition while Jewish ones get stamp of approval

Defense Ministry changes housing regulation according to whether the houses belong to Jews or Palestinians.

The Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration on Tuesday rejected a request to legalize a Palestinian house, claiming it was too close to a main West Bank road. A day earlier, the administration approved the construction of homes in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, after revoking the very ban on which the Tuesday decision was based.

In West Bank, Arab home faces demolition while Jewish ones get stamp of approval - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz

 

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A little more insane psychopathic derangement from John Podhoretz - back when he was writing at the NY Post.

Well, apparently the poor oppressed rightwing Ziobot was getting beat up so bad by the moderator of this discussion (who is actually a petite female - Jane Eisner - the Editor of the The Jewish Daily Forward) that he went into complete meltdown mode (but not before egging some in the crowd on to boo and hiss) and just got up and stormed off the stage:

The Exodus at the 92 Street Y - Forward Thinking - Forward.com

"Less than a month ago, Santa Mira was like any other town. People with nothing but problems. Then, out of the sky came a solution. Seeds drifting through space for years took root in a farmer's field. From the seeds came pods which had the power to reproduce themselves in the exact likeness of any form of life …

Your new bodies are growing in there. They're taking you over cell for cell, atom for atom. There is no pain. Suddenly, while you're asleep, they'll absorb your minds, your memories and you're reborn into an untroubled world...Tomorrow you'll be one of us...There's no need for love…Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without them, life is so simple, believe me." - Dr. Kaufmann, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

#stayclassyjpod

 

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Israeli David Sheen has reissued his "Racist Ringleaders In Israel" list, updated for 2013 - with new details on the various individuals that made the list this year, including a couple of drop-offs from 2012 and some new rising stars:

Racist ringleaders 2013: Israel's war on Africans intensifies

 

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The photo below is May Golani - a new rising star in Likud (Bibi's party) - she looks like quite the wholesome little sweetie. Unfortunately the quotes below the picture are some of what comes with the complete package:

"I am proud to be a racist ..."

At a political rally designed to incite (hatred/violence ?) against African
refugees, May stated the following to an Israeli counter-demonstrator:

"Just as women are raped, may you be raped in your grave."

But that's not even close to the full extent of the totally vile utterances
this woman let pass her lips - which are entirely unsuitable
for posting on this forum.

You can read some of what else she has said at the link below - but be
forewarned: the language is extremely graphic and completely disgusting:

"May you be raped in your grave," says new darling of Israel's ruling Likud party

Just remember: It's your tax dollars that subsidize this putrid vitriol ...​

 

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Another attempt at theft of land from the Palestinians by those crazed right-wing Likudniks:

Israeli ministers committee votes to annex Jordan Valley

 

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And some more illegal settlement expansion to pizz off the EU:

... A week ago, Haaretz disclosed that the ambassadors from Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy had met with the acting director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Nissim Ben-Sheetrit, and demanded that Israel not announce new construction in West Bank settlements to follow the release of the Palestinian prisoners. The ambassadors warned that if the peace process collapsed in the wake of a new announcement of settlement construction, the EU would place the blame on Israel.

Full article:

EU protests to Netanyahu over planned wave of settlement construction - Diplomacy and Defense Israel News | Haaretz

 

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Israeli Uri Averny - who served in the Irgun as a teenager - speaks out on the foolishness of John Kerry assuming that he has a real partner for peace in Bibi and the actual truth about what is really going on with the Jordan Valley ... and just how far back those "designs" actually go:

Land Theft in the Jordan Valley
by URI AVNERY

So here comes John Kerry again, for the umpteenth time (but who is counting?) to make peace between us and the Palestinians.

It is a highly laudable effort. Unfortunately, it is based on a false premise. To wit: that the Israeli government wants peace based on the two-state solution.

Unwilling – or unable – to recognize this simple truth, Kerry looks for a way around. He tries approaches from different directions, in the hope of convincing Binyamin Netanyahu. In his imagination he hears Netanyahu exclaim: “Now, why didn’t I think of that?!”

So here he comes with a new idea: to start by solving Israel’s security problems and doing away with its worries.

Let’s not talk for now about the other “core problems”, he says. Let’s look at your concerns and see how to meet them. I have brought with me an honest-to-goodness combat general with an honest-to-goodness security plan. Have a look at it!

This approach is based on the false premise – the offspring of the overall premise – that the “security concerns” cited by our government are genuine. Kerry is expressing the basic American belief that if reasonable people sit around a table and analyze a problem, they will find a solution.

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Full article:

Land Theft in the Jordan Valley » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

 

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Israeli Ido Naveh hounds cops arresting African refugees who have fled persecution in their native lands with a sign that says:

"70 yrs ago in Germany they arrested Jews on the streets"