At least 15 dead.
Israel just declared WAR on the WORLD!
What are you going to do about it, world? The people are in the streets. Where are the NATO powers and their governments?
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If Turkey and Armenia are acknowledged as the first of the 20th century it looks like Israel is gonna beat 'em by a few years regarding Palestine.
Related:
Teen Trickery in the West Bank
Israel's Teen Tomfoolery
Gone way past point of funny, especially when you know the authorities knew the teens were dead right from the start and that the NYT helped cover it up for week (it was an honor) so Israel could use pretext of finding kids to advance their territorial conquests. Never mind happened in IDF-controlled West Bank and not Gaza.
Also related:
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
It's all for the world to see now. The level of one-sided bias in favor of Israel over here is obscene; however, even more troubling is the New York Times going along with the fraud that made Israel's crackdown in the West Bank and Gaza possible. They paper of record in AmeriKa, the great New York Times, decided to advance the Israeli charade over the truth. Is there really anything more to type?
"Youth’s death sparks clashes; Teen’s killing could be revenge for kidnappings" by Ruth Eglash | Washington Post July 03, 2014
Honestly, that isn't much of an alternative.
JERUSALEM — The abduction and suspected revenge killing of an Arab youth sparked intense clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem on Wednesday, raising the specter of wider violence two days after three kidnapped Israeli teenagers were found dead in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli police said late Wednesday that they had yet to confirm the circumstances of 16-year-old Mohammad Abu Khieder’s disappearance or identify a badly burned body found in a forest outside Jerusalem, but Israeli news media, citing anonymous security officials, said authorities had determined that Khieder was probably killed by Jews in a ‘‘nationalistic crime.’’
This after the Israeli teens were killed who knows how. Some reports say they died in a car wreck and the corpses were moved to where they could be found, others say they were killed by an Israeli hit squad, still others say it is a complete hoax. The important thing to recognize there is the descriptive terminology employed. These are not terrorists, these are not militants, these are not fundamentalists! They killed a Palestinian out of a feeling of AshkeNazi patriotism!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for restraint as he convened his security Cabinet for the third straight night to discuss a response to the kidnappings and killings.
As he lets loose with the military.
Israel has blamed the slaying of the Israeli teens on the militant Islamist group Hamas, and on Wednesday Palestinian leaders accused extremist Jewish settlers of killing Khieder.
I suppose I will need to be happy with that from the Zionist pre$$.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned settlers for ‘‘killing and burning a little boy.’’ He demanded, in a statement, that Israel ‘‘hold the killers accountable.’’
As reports of the Palestinian teen’s death spread, street battles broke out between security forces and residents from the youth’s neighborhood in East Jerusalem, which has been annexed by Israel.
Russia, Crimea!
Oh wait, they voted to join.
Gee, that mind-manipulating corporate pre$$ is really effective with the word association implants.
Palestinian protesters hurled firebombs and stones at Israeli police officers and soldiers and smashed and set fire to transit stops in the neighborhood. Israeli forces responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, and smoke grenades. Clashes were continuing Wednesday night but had calmed somewhat, witnesses said.
And John Kerry stood up and said attacks on protesters will not be.... oh, wait, that's Ukraine.
You guys just keep doing what your doing. My bad.
The killing of the Palestinian youth occurred one day after Israel buried the three teenagers — Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 — who disappeared June 12 while hitchhiking home from their religious schools in the West Bank. Their bodies were discovered Monday in a field near the city of Hebron, prompting a national outpouring of anger and grief.
More Palestinian youth dead now, and that whole disappearance story in IDF-controlled West Bank.... weird.
Khieder’s relatives said he was abducted about 4 a.m. while waiting alone outside his home for the early-morning call to prayer. Bushra Abu Khieder, his aunt, said a surveillance camera at her husband’s nearby store recorded the scene, which showed a Hyundai car being driven toward her nephew and turning around three times. When it stopped, one of the passengers approached him, asked a question, and then grabbed him and pushed him into the car, she said. Israeli police said they were reviewing the video footage.
Khieder’s mother, Suha Abu Khieder, told reporters that her son had been ‘‘robbed from my lap.’’ Referring to the murdered Israeli teens, she said: ‘‘Their sons were important to them, just like my son is important to me.’’
(Blog editor just....)
Netanyahu urged police to ‘‘swiftly investigate who was behind the loathsome murder and its motive’’ and called on all sides ‘‘not to take the law into their own hands.’’
Yeah, let Israel go outside and commit war crimes!
Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police located the body within 90 minutes after receiving reports that a Palestinian teenager had been pulled into a car. He said police were trying to determine whether Wednesday’s killing had a ‘‘criminal or nationalistic’’ motive.
As the situation simmered, there was rising fear that the spiraling violence could be the spark that ignites a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against the Israeli occupation, just months after the collapse of the latest round of Mideast peace talks.
Yeah, shift the blame to Palestinians for whatever happens.
This Jewish song and dance getting old.
Israeli forces have carried out a massive security operation across the West Bank in recent weeks, arresting more than 400 alleged terror operatives and killing at least five Palestinians during a search for the Israeli teens and their captors.
All premised on a LIE because they WERE NOT SEARCHING FOR KIDS! Thus the operations were about something else entirely, likely tied to the unity government idea.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military said that nine rockets had been fired Wednesday at Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and that all landed in unpopulated areas. Israel responded in the late afternoon with airstrikes on what the military said were the launching sites of four of the rockets.
The opening salvo?
At the same time, protesters in Jerusalem gathered at the western entrance of the city to protest what they said had been an inadequate government response to the killing of the Israeli teens. ‘‘The people demand collective punishment,’’ they chanted.
I can't tell you how dismaying and discouraging it is to see the same people who allegedly were treated that way insisting that their fellow human being be treated that way. One of the reasons I don't want to read their complaints anymore.
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Related: Israel readies troops along Gaza border; Military action follows round of rocket attacks" by Jodi Rudoren and Isabel Kershner | New York Times
Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, said in an interview from Qatar, published Wednesday, that the organization was also not interested in an escalation. But a Gaza-based Hamas leader said Thursday that the group was having trouble convincing other militants to hold their fire.
Especially the Israeli-backed ones looking to cause Hamas trouble.
As Palestinians bury teenager, tensions mount; Police, protesters clash at funeral; rockets hit Israel" by Jodi Rudoren | New York Times
You know why I'm not liking that, right?
Palestinian teenager burned to death, autopsy says" by Mohammad Daraghmeh | Associated Press
It says "the autopsy found evidence that Abu Khdeir had breathed in the flames as burns were found inside his body, in his lungs, bronchial tubes and his throat," except that the reason for that was he was forced to drink gasoline by the Zionist murders. I'm surprised my Zionist-owned and operated ma$$ media in the form of my Globe didn't mention that.
The chaos began after three Israeli teenagers, one of whom was a US citizen, were abducted in the West Bank on June 12, sparking a huge manhunt that ended with the discovery of their bodies last week."
Even AP parrots the lie.
Jewish suspects held in killing of Palestinian youth; As violence spikes, authorities decry vicious slaying" by Isabel Kershner | New York Times
Most of it is a complete rewrite in one form or another, even more Israeli-centric than my print copy, although I was able to salvage this last paragraph:
"During the clashes in Shuafat, Khdeir’s cousin Tariq Abu Khdeir, 15, a high school sophomore visiting from Tampa, Fla., was shown on an amateur video being severely beaten by Israeli border police officers."
What was cut was "The footage was spreading worldwide, fanning local and international outrage." Where it didn't spread outrage was within the halls of my government or its ma$$ media mouthpiece.
Israel calls up 1,500 troops, masses forces at Gaza; Rocket attacks, airstrikes on both sides intensify" by Isabel Kershner | New York Times
Israel steps up offensive with bombings in Gaza" by Isabel Kershner and Fares Akram | New York Times
Gaza fires more rockets, Israel hits back" by Steven Erlanger and Isabel Kershner | New York Times
Show of military strength on both sides? Narrative: Israel hit backs.
Gaza deaths rise in third day of air assaults; Hamas rockets land deep in Israel; UN chief calls for a cease-fire" by Isabel Kershner | New York Times
"Isabel Kershner.... is an Israeli citizen.... possible family ties to the Israeli military"
MBTA’s removal of ad critical of Israel spurs new conflict" by Martine Powers | Globe staff
Is this town owned by Israel or what?
Israel’s airtrikes on Gaza increase in intensity" by Isabel Kershner and Fares Akram | New York Times
The intensity of the aerial attacks has been double that of the eight-day round of fighting in 2012.
Israel has even been accused of lying.
Israel expands strikes into northern Gaza; 156 Palestinians have died in air raids in five days strikes in 5 days" by Khaled Khazziha | Associated Press
Israel has carried out more than 1,200 airstrikes since last week, and the chief military spokesman Brigadier General Motti Almoz said Saturday there would be more. Meanwhile, in a sign that the conflict might widen, Israel fired into Lebanon late Saturday in response to two rockets fired from there at northern Israel. There were no injuries or damage, but Israel fears militant groups in Lebanon may try to open a second front."
Israel fears or hopes, pos war pre$$?
They are advising Palestinians to evacuate, but where are they supposed to go? Shifa hospital like where the article ends up?
I decided to try and catch back up here:
"17,000 Palestinians flee northern Gaza homes; Israel warns of possible invasion; airstrikes against Hamas in 6th day" by Karin Laub and Josef Federman | Associated Press July 14, 2014
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — About 17,000 Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Strip fled their homes on Sunday and sought safety in UN shelters, heeding warnings from the Israeli military about plans for a major offensive in the area.
More refugees to add to the record total since World War II.
The warnings were issued on the sixth day of airstrikes against Hamas that have killed more than 160 people. The fighting intensified Sunday, despite international calls for a cease-fire and growing concerns about the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza.
It's over 700 and counting now.
Early Sunday, the Israeli air force dropped leaflets around the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya ordering people to evacuate their homes. Israel says much of the rocket fire into Israel has come from the area.
More than 100 rockets were fired out of Gaza into Israel on Sunday, with two intercepted over the Tel Aviv area.
That will cost you at least $200,000.
Shortly before nightfall Sunday, Israel carried out a series of airstrikes in Beit Lahiya, with some of the heaviest bombardment of the current conflict.
Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV station reported four airstrikes in a 10-minute span, and a large plume of black smoke could be seen over the area from the Israeli border. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The night before, Israeli commandos carried out a brief ground operation on what it said was a rocket-launching site that could not be struck from the air. Four Israeli soldiers were slightly wounded in the operation, which was the first known deployment of Israeli ground troops in the recent round of fighting.
And they lost the first battle. Got their asses beat in fact!
With Israel massing tanks and thousands of soldiers at Gaza’s borders, some fear that could signal a wider ground offensive.
The UN refugee agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, said 17,000 Palestinians had headed to special shelters set up in 20 United Nations schools in Gaza, mostly from areas around Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun.
Sami Mshasha, an agency spokesman, said the hasty evacuations were an indication of the “difficult situation on the ground.’’
‘‘Once we received the message, we felt scared to stay in our homes. We want to leave,’’ said one resident, Mohammed Abu Halemah.
The definition of terrorism.
As diplomacy continued, Israel said it was planning to increase bombardment and push forward with preparations for a possible ground invasion.
This article is a week old, and is only meant to give you a taste of the agenda-pushing lead-up.
‘‘We don’t know when the operation will end,’’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told his Cabinet on Sunday. ‘‘It might take a long time.’’ He said the military was prepared ‘‘for all possibilities.’’
I did see long-term reoccupation mentioned, yeah.
Secretary of State John Kerry spoke Sunday to Netanyahu and said the United States is ready to help restore calm, while Egypt, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, continued to work behind the scenes.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate cease-fire in a statement issued late Sunday.
“It is in the interest of both sides that steps toward dangerous escalation be replaced with immediate measures to end the fighting, thus preventing further casualties and greater risks to regional peace and security,’’ the statement said.
Ban condemned Hamas’s indiscriminate firing of rockets against Israeli civilian targets as ‘‘a violation of international law,’’ it said. At the same time, the UN chief is ‘‘deeply worried about the impact on Palestinian families of Israeli military action.
Amazing how impotent world leaders are in the face of Israel, huh?
Israel launched the air offensive last Tuesday in what it said was a response to heavy rocket fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes, while Palestinian militants have launched about 800 rockets at Israel.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says 166 people have been killed, including dozens of civilians. There have been no Israeli fatalities, though several people have been wounded, including a teenage boy who was seriously injured by rocket shrapnel Sunday.
Hamas, an Islamic militant group sworn to Israel’s destruction, has remained defiant, and it continued to fire rockets into Israel throughout the day. It urged people in northern Gaza to stay in their homes and has so far rejected proposals for a cease-fire as unsatisfactory.
‘‘They want us to put down our arms and leave the resistance,’’ said Moussa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas official, on his Facebook page. ‘‘They started the battle, and we will stay on our land and fight to protect our future.’’
That's why they are holding up rather well so far. Hamas, like the Vietnamese, is fighting for their homes and families. Israel's army is on a mission of conquest many don't care about.
Despite Israeli assertions that it has inflicted heavy damage on the group, Hamas says it is largely unscathed, and Palestinian medics say most of the dead have been civilians.
The outbreak of violence follows the kidnappings and killings of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, the kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian teenager in an apparent revenge attack, and wide-ranging Israeli moves against Hamas militants and infrastructure in the West Bank.
Hamas has demanded that hundreds of recently arrested activists be freed as part of a cease-fire.
Many of the airstrikes have been on the homes of wanted Hamas militants, putting their families at risk. In an attack on Saturday, the target of one such airstrike, Gaza’s police chief, survived while 17 members of his extended family were killed.
Israel accuses Hamas of using Gaza’s civilians as human shields, putting people in the densely populated territory in danger.
Where else can they go?
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"Egypt offers cease-fire plan for Mideast conflict" by Isabel Kershner | New York Times July 15, 2014
JERUSALEM — Israel and its main militant Gaza adversary weighed an Egyptian cease-fire proposal late Monday, signaling a possible de-escalation of a week-old aerial battle that has left nearly 200 Palestinians dead from Israeli bombs and has sent hundreds of Gaza rockets deep into Israeli territory.
The way the NYT and AmeriKan media try to portray this as an equal fight is disgusting.
A senior government official in Israel, which has been preparing for the possibility of a ground invasion of Gaza, said it was seriously considering the Egyptian proposal. The initial reaction of Hamas, the dominant militant group in Gaza, was less committal, but was not an outright rejection.
What?
The proposal envisioned a cease-fire beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday. It called for border crossings to Gaza to “be opened,” with the movement of people and goods to be “facilitated once the security situation becomes stable on the ground.” Within 48 hours of the initial cease-fire taking hold, talks are to be held in Cairo with the Israelis and the Palestinian militant factions on conditions for a longer-term truce, according to the text of the proposal.
You see what I am wanting and liking, right?
PEACE!
An Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ambassador Badr Abdelatty, said: “We hope it will be acknowledged. We are in close contact with everyone.”
Adding weight to the efforts, Secretary of State John F. Kerry was expected in Cairo as early as Tuesday, according to officials in the region and the Egyptian state news agency.
I haven't given him any guff about global warming because he is taking enough crap from Israel for his pinpoint insight caught on open mic.
The senior Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate diplomacy, said a meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security Cabinet had been called for early Tuesday morning to discuss the proposal and that it was “being considered very seriously.”
That was what, nine days ago?
Hamas, which had said it was prepared to fire rockets indefinitely, appeared to want better terms. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas official in Gaza, wrote on his Facebook page, “The responses of resistance will continue until the demands of our people are achieved. Any unilateral Israeli cessation has no value in the light of the large crimes and the disastrous humanitarian situation.” Osama Hamdan, a spokesman for the Islamic group, was more dismissive. He told CNN’s “The Situation Room” that Hamas did not receive the proposal directly from the Egyptians. That, he said, meant it was “an initiative for the media. It’s not a political initiative.”
When I do watch cable news now it is Al-Jazeera.
One of Hamas’ demands has been the opening of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, but the Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the proposal refers only to crossings “between Israel and Gaza.”
It's not that big of a demand. Just swing open the gate.
Egypt is widely considered the natural regional mediator in such conflicts. But Egypt’s relations with Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, have turned bitter since the military ouster last year of Egypt’s elected Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, a leader in the Brotherhood. Under the new president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a former general who led the military takeover, Egypt has shut down most of the tunnels beneath its border with Gaza that were both an economic lifeline for the Palestinian coastal enclave as well as a major channel for weapons smuggling.
Then how is Hamas so well-armed?
Btw, that is one big reason Morsi had to be gotten rid of.
Tony Blair, the special envoy of the quartet of Middle East peacemakers, which included the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia, welcomed the Egyptian proposal in a statement. He said: “The hope is that this cease-fire will allow us to put in place such a long-term strategy for the future in Gaza, and the West Bank. The international community will give its full backing to such an initiative.”
When is Bliar going to be standing before the bar at the Hague?
International entreaties for a cease-fire intensified in recent days amid growing alarm over the rising death toll in Gaza, but there was no letup in the hostilities on Monday. At least 14 Palestinians were killed on the seventh day of Israel’s air offensive aimed at quelling the rocket fire, bringing the total death toll in Gaza to about 180, many of them civilians.
Alarm has been going off for a week and the daily death toll is growing!
Hamas has fired about 1,000 rockets at Israel over the last week, hitting new targets as far north as Hadera, about 60 miles from Gaza, and keeping millions of Israelis on alert and running for shelter at the wail of the sirens.
Were theirs shelled and people killed?
Israeli officials have said that Hamas was looking for some kind of an achievement, a “victory image,” before giving up the fight. That may have come on Monday when it flew an unmanned aircraft from Gaza into Israel, apparently for the first time.
Forget the propaganda drone, it's the "victory image" coming from the ma$$ media masters of imagery and illusion. Well, former masters.
The Israeli military intercepted the drone, blowing it apart in midair just offshore from the Israeli port city of Ashdod with a Patriot surface-to-air missile, the military said.
Pffft!
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"Facing deadline, US and Iran press nuclear talks" by Bradley Klapper | Associated Press July 15, 2014
VIENNA — The top US and Iranian diplomats searched Monday for a breakthrough in nuclear talks, their efforts complicated by crises across the Middle East and beyond that have Washington and Tehran aligned in some places but often opposed.
Talks broke down, readers.
The state of US-Iranian relations was adding a new wrinkle to the long negotiation aimed at curbing the Islamic republic’s uranium and plutonium programs.
While the two sides are arguably fighting proxy wars in Israel, Gaza, and Syria, they’re talking cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan. And, perhaps in a first, the nuclear matter is battling for full attention....
But even as the United States and Iran have recently found increasing areas for cooperation, such as stemming a flow of Sunni extremists into Iraq, they remain diametrically opposed elsewhere.
US sent them in on purpose.
The US-Iranian regional divide was underscored Monday as the Israeli military downed a drone launched by Gaza militants — the first such unmanned aircraft encountered since the start of the Jewish state’s offensive last week.
What impeccable timing!
Iran is the primary benefactor of Hamas and the presumed source of its newfound drone capacity. Washington provides billions of dollars in aid each year to Israel.
We hurt our own economy with the sanctions, but what the hell?
Israel comes first to AmeriKa's government -- even before the American people!
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See: Brief lull in Gaza ends; first Israeli killed near border" by Jodi Rudoren | New York Times
Glad I didn't buy a Globe that day. If I want to find out what is happening in Palestine there are plenty of other places I can go.
Rallies held locally for Israel, Palestinians
By the end is it all the typical Jewish whining and hyperbole. One guy even says it's “about destroying the civilian population of Israel.”
And just for good measure, let's throw in another false-flag, self-inflicted hoax to make those people for peace and Palestinian bad.
Israeli MP: Mothers of All Palestinians Must Be Killed
Gee, Globe never told me that!
"Egypt offers cease-fire plan for Mideast conflict" by Isabel Kershner | New York Times July 15, 2014
JERUSALEM — Israel and its main militant Gaza adversary weighed an Egyptian cease-fire proposal late Monday, signaling a possible de-escalation of a week-old aerial battle that has left nearly 200 Palestinians dead from Israeli bombs and has sent hundreds of Gaza rockets deep into Israeli territory.
The way the NYT and AmeriKan media try to portray this as an equal fight is disgusting.
A senior government official in Israel, which has been preparing for the possibility of a ground invasion of Gaza, said it was seriously considering the Egyptian proposal. The initial reaction of Hamas, the dominant militant group in Gaza, was less committal, but was not an outright rejection.
What?
The proposal envisioned a cease-fire beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday. It called for border crossings to Gaza to “be opened,” with the movement of people and goods to be “facilitated once the security situation becomes stable on the ground.” Within 48 hours of the initial cease-fire taking hold, talks are to be held in Cairo with the Israelis and the Palestinian militant factions on conditions for a longer-term truce, according to the text of the proposal.
You see what I am wanting and liking, right?
PEACE!
An Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ambassador Badr Abdelatty, said: “We hope it will be acknowledged. We are in close contact with everyone.”
Adding weight to the efforts, Secretary of State John F. Kerry was expected in Cairo as early as Tuesday, according to officials in the region and the Egyptian state news agency.
I haven't given him any guff about global warming because he is taking enough crap from Israel for his pinpoint insight caught on open mic.
The senior Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate diplomacy, said a meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security Cabinet had been called for early Tuesday morning to discuss the proposal and that it was “being considered very seriously.”
That was what, nine days ago?
Hamas, which had said it was prepared to fire rockets indefinitely, appeared to want better terms. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas official in Gaza, wrote on his Facebook page, “The responses of resistance will continue until the demands of our people are achieved. Any unilateral Israeli cessation has no value in the light of the large crimes and the disastrous humanitarian situation.” Osama Hamdan, a spokesman for the Islamic group, was more dismissive. He told CNN’s “The Situation Room” that Hamas did not receive the proposal directly from the Egyptians. That, he said, meant it was “an initiative for the media. It’s not a political initiative.”
When I do watch cable news now it is Al-Jazeera.
One of Hamas’ demands has been the opening of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, but the Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the proposal refers only to crossings “between Israel and Gaza.”
It's not that big of a demand. Just swing open the gate.
Egypt is widely considered the natural regional mediator in such conflicts. But Egypt’s relations with Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, have turned bitter since the military ouster last year of Egypt’s elected Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, a leader in the Brotherhood. Under the new president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a former general who led the military takeover, Egypt has shut down most of the tunnels beneath its border with Gaza that were both an economic lifeline for the Palestinian coastal enclave as well as a major channel for weapons smuggling.
Then how is Hamas so well-armed?
Btw, that is one big reason Morsi had to be gotten rid of.
Tony Blair, the special envoy of the quartet of Middle East peacemakers, which included the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia, welcomed the Egyptian proposal in a statement. He said: “The hope is that this cease-fire will allow us to put in place such a long-term strategy for the future in Gaza, and the West Bank. The international community will give its full backing to such an initiative.”
When is Bliar going to be standing before the bar at the Hague?
International entreaties for a cease-fire intensified in recent days amid growing alarm over the rising death toll in Gaza, but there was no letup in the hostilities on Monday. At least 14 Palestinians were killed on the seventh day of Israel’s air offensive aimed at quelling the rocket fire, bringing the total death toll in Gaza to about 180, many of them civilians.
Alarm has been going off for a week and the daily death toll is growing!
Hamas has fired about 1,000 rockets at Israel over the last week, hitting new targets as far north as Hadera, about 60 miles from Gaza, and keeping millions of Israelis on alert and running for shelter at the wail of the sirens.
Were theirs shelled and people killed?
Israeli officials have said that Hamas was looking for some kind of an achievement, a “victory image,” before giving up the fight. That may have come on Monday when it flew an unmanned aircraft from Gaza into Israel, apparently for the first time.
Forget the propaganda drone, it's the "victory image" coming from the ma$$ media masters of imagery and illusion. Well, former masters.
The Israeli military intercepted the drone, blowing it apart in midair just offshore from the Israeli port city of Ashdod with a Patriot surface-to-air missile, the military said.
Pffft!
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"Facing deadline, US and Iran press nuclear talks" by Bradley Klapper | Associated Press July 15, 2014
VIENNA — The top US and Iranian diplomats searched Monday for a breakthrough in nuclear talks, their efforts complicated by crises across the Middle East and beyond that have Washington and Tehran aligned in some places but often opposed.
Talks broke down, readers.
The state of US-Iranian relations was adding a new wrinkle to the long negotiation aimed at curbing the Islamic republic’s uranium and plutonium programs.
While the two sides are arguably fighting proxy wars in Israel, Gaza, and Syria, they’re talking cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan. And, perhaps in a first, the nuclear matter is battling for full attention....
But even as the United States and Iran have recently found increasing areas for cooperation, such as stemming a flow of Sunni extremists into Iraq, they remain diametrically opposed elsewhere.
US sent them in on purpose.
The US-Iranian regional divide was underscored Monday as the Israeli military downed a drone launched by Gaza militants — the first such unmanned aircraft encountered since the start of the Jewish state’s offensive last week.
What impeccable timing!
Iran is the primary benefactor of Hamas and the presumed source of its newfound drone capacity. Washington provides billions of dollars in aid each year to Israel.
We hurt our own economy with the sanctions, but what the hell?
Israel comes first to AmeriKa's government -- even before the American people!
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See: Brief lull in Gaza ends; first Israeli killed near border" by Jodi Rudoren | New York Times
Glad I didn't buy a Globe that day. If I want to find out what is happening in Palestine there are plenty of other places I can go.
Rallies held locally for Israel, Palestinians
By the end is it all the typical Jewish whining and hyperbole. One guy even says it's “about destroying the civilian population of Israel.”
And just for good measure, let's throw in another false-flag, self-inflicted hoax to make those people for peace and Palestinian bad.
Israeli MP: Mothers of All Palestinians Must Be Killed
Gee, Globe never told me that!
You know who has all the answers?
The Boston Globe -- as long as you ignore the hypocrisy.
"Thousands of Hamas supporters rally in Gaza; Amid financial woes, group vows to resist Israel" by Ibrahim Barzak | Associated Press March 24, 2014
GAZA CITY — Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters thronged the streets of downtown Gaza City on Sunday, a show of strength at a time when the Islamic militant group faces its deepest crisis since seizing power seven years ago.
Didn't, won election, AP knows it but...!
Hamas is dealing with a severe financial shortfall, caused by heavy pressure from both Israel and Egypt. But leaders stressed that the group remains opposed to Mideast peace efforts and is ready for battle against Israel at any time.
‘‘The resistance is stronger than you think, and our force has doubled and our arsenal has doubled,’’ Hamas’s prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, told the crowd. ‘‘What is hidden from you is bigger than you think.’’
Hamas staged the rally to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the death of its spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, in an Israeli airstrike, and the assassinations of other top figures a decade ago.
But a series of events in recent days, including Israel’s discovery of a tunnel stretching from Gaza into Israel, presumably to carry out militant attacks, and the killing of a top Hamas operative in the West Bank by Israeli forces, gave the rally an extra sense of defiance.
‘‘From under the ground and above the ground, we say it loud: Occupiers go out. You do not have a place to stay on the land of Palestine,’’ Haniyeh said.
Hamas, an armed group committed to the destruction of Israel, took control of Gaza in 2007 after overrunning the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Since then, the Palestinians have been divided between two governments, the Hamas regime in Gaza and Abbas’s Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Well, no, that's another distortion, but...
In contrast to Hamas, Abbas favors a negotiated peace agreement with Israel and has been engaged in US-brokered negotiations for eight months.
Hamas has fallen on hard times since its key ally, Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, was ousted in a coup last July. Egypt’s new military government has cracked down on a system of smuggling tunnels along the border with Gaza, robbing Hamas of a lifeline that provided consumer goods, weapons, and a key source of tax revenue.
Israel has maintained a blockade of Gaza since 2007, restricting imports and exports and controlling the territory’s coastline and airspace.
Some call it a siege.
The dual Israel-Egyptian blockade has plunged Hamas into its worst economic crisis since taking power. The group has struggled to pay its thousands of workers and has begun to face some discontent, even among core supporters.
In another setback for the group, Israel said Friday that it had discovered a new sophisticated tunnel stretching from Gaza into Israel. It was the largest in a series of tunnels Israel has found recently that it says are meant to carry out deadly attacks or kidnappings. On Saturday, Israeli forces in the West Bank killed a top Hamas operative in the town of Jenin.
The financial crunch forced Hamas to call off its annual anniversary celebration late last year. Sunday’s rally was also scaled back because of budget woes. Unlike past rallies, Hamas did not provide buses to bring in supporters, and it refrained from putting up large displays and decorations.
Even so, the rally was meant to send a message that Hamas remains firmly in control. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets, including schoolchildren in military fatigues and women wearing veils. Waving Hamas flags, the crowd turned downtown Gaza City into a sea of green.
Hamas battled Israel during eight days of intense fighting in November 2012, firing some 1,500 rockets into Israel before Egypt brokered a truce. Since then, the group has largely refrained from direct confrontation with Israel, though smaller armed groups have continued to fire rockets.
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