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POPSUS House: UN report on Gaza 'war crimes' is biased The Goldstone report lambasted both sides in the war, which killed up to 1,387 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, but was harsher toward Israel. It gave Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants six months to mount credible investigations or face possible prosecution in the Hague. Both Israel and Hamas have denied committing any war crimes. Israel has criticized the report as unbalanced and says the 47-nation Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, which commissioned the report, is biased against the Jewish state. (Additional reporting by Louis Charbonneau in New York; editing by Todd Eastham)
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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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POPSObama Reaches Out To Apartheid Regime Purging Jewish Families From Yemen the Palestinian and Israeli, stopping building settlements and his confession of the Palestinians' rights and that security of Israeli is linked to a just solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Less high on Yemen's list: closing the terrorist camps that their intelligence services use for political ends, up to and including the targeting of domestic opponents: Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh faces crises on many fronts. A southern populist uprising in the six governorates of the former PDRY has taken on separatist overtones. At the same time, the northern Saada war with Zaidi Shiite rebels may erupt for the sixth time since 2004. As a result, Saleh has embarked on a strategy of empowering Islamic militants who, in exchange, have been given a free hand over some local populations. At least those camps don't then become safe havens for international terrorism. Think how awkward that would be.
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POPSI'm Confused...... Why is it only Israels closure of boarders that is an issue? Why does no one at the UN decry the Egyptian governments' closed boarders? Now, Egypt, an Arab country who should share the ideals of the Palestinians, isn't allowing much through to Gaza...why? Is it possible that they DON'T share a common bond? When will the UN demand an explanation from Egypt and try to force it, a sovereign government, to open boarders with a country it probably doesn't trust? If Egypt trusted the Palestinian government, they would have allowed any goods, services, supplies in via their boarders...but they don't. Food for thought, huh?
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POPSOne Brave American Lass Speaks the TRUTH!!! " When I first visited the Palestinian territories, I was afraid I would have to hide my identity as an American and possibly wear a headscarf. To my surprise, I was warmly welcomed exactly as I was, and after more than two years living and working there, it remains one of my favorite spots on earth. The people are charming and generous, the landscape is gorgeous, and the parties, concerts, and beer gardens in Ramallah are world-class."
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POPSMcClatchyde: IDF used Gazans as HUMAN SHIELDS "There is powerful evidence that Israel used the tactic that they are accusing Hamas of using," said Fred Abrahams, a Human Rights Watch senior researcher who's investigating what happened in Gaza during the recent Israeli military offensive, which killed more than 1,200 Palestinians. The Abed Rabbo case also is under investigation by the Israeli human-rights group B'Tselem, which led a long campaign that eventually persuaded the Israeli Supreme Court to order the Israeli military in 2005 to stop using Palestinians as human shields. "The testimony seems pretty extensive and presents grave suspicions that Israeli soldiers forced Palestinians to perform dangerous tasks," said B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli. "And the fact that we're seeing these allegations on such a wide scale leads us to suspect that this was policy and not the decisions of one or two random soldiers."
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POPSIsrael has History of Deliberate PROVOCATION as pretext to INVASION. In 1981-1982, when it launched violent raids on Lebanon in order to provoke Palestinian escalation preceding the Israeli invasion of Lebanon; and between 2001-2004, when PM Sharon repeatedly ordered assassinations of high-level Palestinian militants during declared ceasefires, provoking violent attacks that enabled Israel's virtual reoccupation of the West Bank. Israel's current assault on Gaza bears many trademark elements of Israel's long history of employing "strategic escalation" to manufacture a major crisis, if not a war.
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POPSNetanyahu, The Real Threat to Peace in the Middle East Hey Israel, do not elect this Likud party war-monger who has direct ties to the neoconservatives of the Bush administration! No more neocons or Likudniks who only foment wars without just cause. His point about "trumping economics" is also ridiculous and proves his lack of sanity. WAR HAS INCREASED US NATIONAL DEBT UNDER BUSH, DEVALUED THE DOLLAR, RAISED OIL PRICES...EVERYTHING THAT HURT THE ECONOMY. So Bibi (his nick), don't try and sell us more wars for "regime change". Neither has Iran ever attacked another country, while Israel (who has WMDs) has. In fact Israel has attacked three countries within the last 24 months--Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza. Netanyahu is also close friends of Larry Silverstein, lease owner of the WTC complex that was demolitioned on 9/11 which ignited the pre-planned wars for a "new middle east" laid out in the Project for New American Century's Sept. 2000 blueprint. Note the elections follow Gaza.
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POPSSlow GENOCIDE. 2006: 'Put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,' yet The slow genocide of Gazans as the official policy of the Zionist government as announce by Olmert's chief advisor. THIS IS IN APRIL 2006!!! This lingering death just to force Hamas to recognise the de facto reality that the state of Israel exists! Hamas would agree if Israel withdrew in reality too, so that was never the real purpose of the starvation. Forcing the democratically elected Hamas from power was the REAL purpose of the slow genocide. This blighted beacon of democracy in the M-East could not tolerate a REAL democracy next door without hanging chads or politically appointed judges deciding the outcome!!!
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POPSSir Gerald Kaufman, 78: Israeli "Nazis" But his chilling and devastating speech during the Commons debate on Gaza - in which he compared Israeli "murderers" to Nazis - was breathtaking box office and showed that at 78 Sir Gerald remains one of Parliament's star performers. In an emotional speech in a hushed Commons chamber, Sir Gerald told MPs how he was brought up as an orthodox Jew and Zionist after his parents came to Britain as refugees from Poland. ... Sky
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POPSEarly Hamas History This report only lists the earliest Hamas activities - only through 2004. Please note that they have been a known terrorist organization for 21 years. A constant threat and thorn in the side of Israel. I DO NOT wish the Palestinians injured or their homes bombed - but they voted in this government and allow them to use them to further their own ends. Israel has finally said 'enough' and I couldn't agree more.
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POPSTime to Rethink Our Position? I'm not advocating a shift away from our close ties to Israel but a more pragmatic examination of the actions of Israel might be called for. Recent developments in Gaza have been condemned by the world community yet the US has been unusually quiet.
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POPSIsrael Shells Palestinians After Evacuating Them Imagine that you are told to go to one home and take refuge there. Then, later, the very people who told you to go to that home bombards you. It's atrocious. It becomes increasingly apparent that Israel is sending a message to the Palestinian populace at large: "there is no place you can be safe from us."
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POPSAt least two Lebanon rockets Hit North Israel; IDF Responds With Shells In the past, it has allowed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Ahmed Jibril to take the lead in staging attacks against Israeli or American targets. Israel has been preparing for the possibility of Hezbollah igniting a second front, saying it would retaliate massively. The cabinet also had a northern front in mind when it approved a call-up of thousands of IDF reservists last week. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned that should Israel attack Lebanon, it would suffer an even greater defeat than the one he claimed it suffered in 2006. "We are prepared for every possibility and are ready for all aggression... The Zionists will discover that the war they had in July was a walk in the park if we compare it to what we've prepared for every new aggression," Nasrallah said, referring to the Second Lebanon War.
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POPSTrue Evil Exposed: The Gaza School Incidents An AP report notes that Hamas fired on Israeli forces from the school and the Israeli return fire set off secondary explosions - meaning that Hamas used the school as a weapons depot: An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he said the army is still drafting the country's official response to the incident. The Israeli official said "hostile fire" was directed at the soldiers from within the school. He said soldiers returned fire and multiple explosions went off, presumably emanating from munitions stored there.
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