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POPS19 Female Palestinian Prisoners to be Released in Exchange for Sign of Life From Gilad Shalit
From there, they were handed over to the Red Cross at 11:30 am, where they awaited the green light from Israel's envoy to Shalit talks Hagai Hadas' authorization before being released via Bitunia Checkpoint near Ramallah and Erez crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel and the Bitunia Checkpoint near Ramallah. At around 1 pm, Hadas is slated to take the tape to the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, to present it to Netanyahu. A copy of the tape will be delivered to the Shalit family by helicopter. Brigadier General Avi Zamir, head of the army's Human Resources Branch, will present the video to the Shalit family at around 3 pm. The video may even be flown in a helicopter to the family so as not to expedite its arrival. The family requested to watch the video in private. Copies of the video will also be delivered to the defense minister, the IDF chief of staff and the Shin Bet chief. Who will see the tape? After watching the videotape, Jerusalem will have . .
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POPSNetanyahu's speech / Cheapening the Holocaust And if we can compare a poorly equipped terrorist organization to the horrific Nazi killing machine, why should others not compare the Nazis' behavior to that of Israel Defense Forces soldiers? In both cases, the comparison is baseless and infuriating. Netanyahu began the speech as if he were chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial - Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust; his family and his wife's family. Then he spoke in Shimon Peres' terms, proposing a "rosy future" to humanity. No less demagogic was his attack on the Iranian regime. They shoot demonstrators there, he protested vehemently. As if they don't do that in our Bil'in and Na'alin. Then came the kicker: Operation Cast Lead was a pinpoint attack. Israel telephoned thousands of people to tell them to leave their homes. Where to, Mr. Prime Minister? Into the sea? He said the IDF, which killed nearly 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, exhibited unprecedented restraint.
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POPSZbigniew Brzezinski To Obama: Shot Down Israeli Planes If They Attack Iran In an interview with the Daily Beast, Brzezinski was quoted as saying, "They have to fly over our air space in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?" Currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Maryland, the former White House official added, "We have to be serious about denying them that right. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back, or not." Lt.-Gen. Ashkenazi maintained, however, that Israel will do whatever is necessary to defend itself when the time comes. "Israel has the right to defend itself, and all options are open," said the IDF Chief of Staff. "The IDF's working premise is that we have to be prepared for that possibility, and that is exactly what we are doing." With regard to the cooperation between the IDF and the U.S. Armed Forces that would be essential should military intervention become necessary,
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POPSJustice begins at home
The main thing to keep in mind here is that Goldstone is not lying. Everything he says is true. It should be obvious to anyone who has followed this situation that the IDF's so-called "serious violations" of the laws of war are truly nothing of the kind. Even if one hasn't been following the situation, simple rhetorical analysis will show then the utter fallacy that underlies Goldstone's sentence: notwithstanding his pro forma nods to Hamas violations, he's obviously telling only one side of the story, Hamas's side. His version implies that the IDF was indiscriminately bombarding hospitals, schools and other typical civilian sites to sow terror as part of a campaign to subdue the Resistance. This is just a fairy tale. For example, ask yourself why Israel attacked the civilian structures. It was because they couldn't fairly be considered civilian if they were being used as firebases by Hamas. But the essential point is this: there would have been no IDF attacks whatsoever,
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POPSIsraeli President Calls Deal on Kidnapped Soldier 'Close' Asked about that decision, Peres told Fox News, “You’re right. It is a very difficult decision and it’s very painful. But, according to our set of values and to our way of life " the life of a single person is worth the whole world. We take care of every individual as though he would be the collective sum of many people.” Peres also said Sunday that Israel will "reply immediately" if attacked by Hamas " one day after after Israel Air Force planes bombed a tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip in response to a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants into an Israeli town early Saturday. "They know immediately there will be retaliation," he said. "There is an unwritten game between us and them. They know if they won’t respect it, they will pay heavily.”
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POPSWhat you Can and Cannot Do in the Middle East I can't really blame this artist; he's a victim of his homeland's (Israel) program of propaganda, which deceives them into thinking that Israel is doing nothing wrong, when in reality, they are stealing land from a cultural minority that the government treats like blacks were treated during the South African Apartheid. The only Palestinian casualties they ever hear about are "insurgents"; they don't hear about the women and children that are imprisoned or killed for no reason by the IDF. They've been set up like spoiled brats; trained to look down their noses at other nations in the Middle East, despite the fact that their government is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity (and show no sign of stopping those crimes). Not to say that Iran is a Garden of Eden, but Israel ranks right up there with Iran when it comes to tyranny.
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POPSFurther refutation of the Obamoid "settlement freeze" formula Michael Oren is Israel's ambassador to the US. He is also an IDF veteran and a historian of some note. His book, Power, Faith, and Fantasy covers the two-hundred-years US history of relations with Arab/Muslim nations. His article here of course is in support of Netanyahu's policy towards the West Bank. That's to be expected since Oren is Netanyayhu's ambassador. But the point is that Oren/Netanyahu have some facts on their side while the Obamoids only have Power, Faith, and Fantasy
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POPS"Peace in Jerusalem" Little bit of Love Going out to the IDF. God Bless you all. The true Keepers of the Eternal Flame. If anyone wants to see True *Hope* Visit Israel.
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POPSHamas Summer Camp These are the people who are ready to be at peace with Israel? Only if by peace you mean every Jew dead.
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POPSEx-Israel troops: Army used reckless force in Gaza The Israeli military rejected the report in a strongly worded statement, questioning its veracity and accusing the group of "defaming and slandering the IDF and its commanders." Strongly worded statement? 1500 against 12 deaths? And how many were wounded and left without their homes? Even such words as atrocity, massacre or bloodbath cannot express what was done to the defenseless humans. People of Israel and Jews in whole world must say (and already started to say as we can see from this clip) their own strong words about their own criminals-in-charge. Now shadow of genocide blanketing each of their supporters and there is no status of limitation for the crimes against humanity.
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POPSReport: IDF and Iran already Engaged in 'Cyber War' Well if this is true, then it will be a fast paced escalation into other war types. I wonder with all the cyber battles happening around the world, when we will begin to see Cyber Mercenery's begin to offer their services to countries. I suppose the benefit of cyber war for a mercenery is that while they might get zapped online, they don't have the worry of physical damage or death. Could possibly be a very lucrative business in the future for really good hackers looking to be cyber mercenerys or cladestine cyber operatives ;-)
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POPSOne Friday After Prayers - Pt.2. Israeli shot by IDF Israeli journalist Shimi Gat has taken a bullet to the chest. J.Post: Ten wounded during Ni'lin clashes http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1218710374283 An Israeli photographer was among 10 people hurt Friday afternoon during clashes between Palestinians and security forces over construction of the West Bank security fence near the village of Ni'lin. Shimi Gat, who Israel Radio said sustained moderate wounds from a rubber bullet to the chest, was working with an American team. Security officials said they were investigating the circumstances of Gat's wounds. Seven Palestinians and two border policemen were lightly injured. ... JPost
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POPSOne Friday After Prayers - Pt.1 The frequency with which the IDF set fire to the olive trees cannot be consequential. The excessive number of gas canisters are of no value against the demonstrators and only serve to destroy 100+ year old olive trees. These are all they will grown in the environment except with the use of excessive amounts of very scarce water. So the deliberate burning and up-rooting of the olive trees is policy and a part of ethnic cleansing.
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POPSHa'aretz:"Israeli occupation is both brutal and cruel" What is the tipping point when history repeats itself and 60 years later we have a full blown Nazi state in the Middle East. Goebbels might not qualify in the Zionist propaganda machine so well does it function. Convincing the Arab victims that they're to blame and the Zionists are the victims of their numerous atrocities, is some coup. Their latest ploy of requiring Arab-Israel citizens to pass a loyalty test could only come from those whose double/duel loyalty has rightly been questioned! What better than accuse others of your own shortcomings!
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POPSRafael Eitan: "And what did you do to the Indians?" Yossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. Sarid was member of the Meretz-Yachad party in the Knesset until he withdrew from politics shortly before the 2006 elections. Sarid holds a Master's degree in Political Science from New School for Social Research, New York. He writes a weekly column for the daily, Haaretz, which during the 2006 political campaigns published his ongoing commentary on the Israeli political scene.
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POPSZochrot: a group of Israeli citizens raising awareness of Nakba For ALL the very bad aspects of Zionism - racism, apartheid, theft of lands, human rights violations, the segregation Wall, IDF murderers, corruption, etcetera - REMEMBER there is at least one organisation of really GOOD 'self-hating' Jews making huge sacrifices to counteract Zionist vileness.
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POPSJTA distorts "to imply that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic" Zionists and their panderers are enemies of the entire human race!!!! Zionism is nothing other than ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism, and it is simply racist to believe that Jews of all people on the planet could not be Nazi!!! Most of the anti-Israel leaders and activists on-campus are Jewish!!!! ... fta
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