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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21710.htm>"Limbs
And Meat" In The Street

By Ewa Jasiewicz

'A boy next to me, he went crazy, he was
overwhelmed, he saw the massacre, the street was
full of blood, the nails from the shells were as
long as your hand'
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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21702.htm>Weapons
Killing People In Gaza, Made In USA

By Ron Paul

What moral responsibility do we have for the
violence in Israel and Gaza after having provided
so much military support to one side?
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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21703.htm>US
Plans Massive Arms Delivery to Israel

By Press TV

The Pentagon plans to make a large arms delivery
to Israel, rising fears that the military
campaign in Gaza will go on for a long time.
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21703.htm>Continue


<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21705.htm>Both
Parties Cheerlead Still More Loudly for Israel's "War"

By Glenn Greenwald

Apparently, it isn't enough that we supply the
very bombs being dropped on the Palestinians and
use our U.N. veto power to prevent any U.N.
action to stop the war or even to urge its
cessation. The U.S. Congress wants to involve the
U.S. further still in Israel's war.
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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21706.htm>Israel
Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December

By Gareth Porter

Contrary to Israel's argument that it was forced
to launch its air and ground offensive against
Gaza in order to stop the firing of rockets into
its territory, Hamas proposed in mid-December to
return to the original Hamas-Israel ceasefire
arrangement, according to a U.S.-based source who
has been briefed on the proposal.
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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21708.htm>Wherever
I go, I Hear the Same Tired Middle East Comparisons

By Robert Fisk

"When does the mandate of victimhood expire?" he
asked. "At what point does the Nazi genocide of
Europe's Jews cease to excuse the state of Israel
from the demands of international law and of
common humanity?"
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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21709.htm>British
MP George Galloway: "Victory To The Palestinian Resistance"

Video

"The Palestinian People Will Never Surrender"
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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21707.htm>In
Washington, All Roads Lead to Tehran

By Daniel Luban

As the war in Gaza approaches its third week, a
chorus of influential voices in the U.S. media
has cast the conflict as a proxy war in which the
real enemy is not Hamas but Iran.
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<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21704.htm>What
You Don’t Know About Gaza

By Rashid Khalidi

NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe
about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential
points that seem to be missing from the
conversation, much of which has taken place in
the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza
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Children of Gaza, Run to the Angels

by Suzanne Baroud

<http://www.globalresearch.ca/>Global Research, January 10, 2009


Ironically, it was in Palestine, 20 years ago,
that I concluded that there is no God. For how
could a God, who claims to love all and treat all
with impartiality, allow such horrors like those in Palestine to happen?


This unbelief grew stronger with each curfew,
with each strike that mourned the death of yet
one more martyr, with a decapitation induced by
gunfire in the main square on a sunny Ramallah
afternoon so many years ago. But it was cemented
the day I had to tell one of my fifth grade
students that his brother had just been taken
away by the Israeli army. His expression, his
body going limp, the shuddering of his shoulders
as he wept with his classmates…that’s what finally did it.


Nearly 20 years have passed since that day, and I
have now married into a Gazan family. I am a wife
and mother, the sister and aunt of so many kids
living the horror of what Gaza has become. As we
watch the footage of Israel’s onslaught, I hear
myself, whispering as I see one more martyred
child, “Run to the angels….run.” After so many
years, this living nightmare is fostering a
burning desire to believe once again in the afterlife.


Caged, starved, sniped, suffocated. They are
slaughtered like sheep, but the leaders of the
free world just cannot seem to find a moment to
comment. Golfing, vacationing, Obama, Bush, even
the EU, they just aren’t important enough. My
mutterings have become a like a canter. I call
out to these stricken and shattered little
bodies, who frankly never experienced life to
lose it. The only consolation to offer is the respite found in death.


A crowd gathers, shrouded in gas, smoke and dust.
In the front stand eight young fathers, each
holding a white swaddled bundle of what used to
be a son, a daughter. For a few moments there is
no screaming, no chanting or crying, but a moment
of quiet and stillness that presses one to wonder
just whom has been granted the greater mercy, the
toddler who caught the snipers bullet, or the
young father, who will have to find some way to live beyond this moment?


A young boy sits on the sidewalk beside his
mother. She is propped up against the wall of a
collapsed building and her life is bleeding out
all over the sidewalk. It is spattered on his
face and smeared on his shirt. She uses the last
of her strength to lift her arm and clutch his
cheek in her palm and then she is gone. He rests
his head in his hands and cries. He is all alone.


The camera zooms in on the scene of a freshly
detonated building, a civilian home. A little
girls brown curly hair covered in dust and eyes
wide open is all that can be found of her. Her
mother wails and pulls her hair while her father
frantically searches among the rubble for the
rest of his daughter, where could she be? I
whisper again, “you will be made whole again in Paradise. Run to the angels”.


What amazing faith. What strong devotion that a
father loses his mother, father, wife and eight
children, that this man before anything can
assert, “God is Great, Thank God for Everything”.
He holds his child, now still and ashen, he
smothers him with kisses and then gently pulls
back the sheet to expose two bullet holes in his
chest. He then tenderly places the child beside
his brother and again, pulls the sheet back of
his youngest son to reveal a single snipers
bullet to the chest. He can barely compose
himself and he moans to the sympathizing camera
man, “God is Great, Thank God for Everything”.


An old and wrinkled Imam so lovingly cradles a
little girl’s lifeless body, as if mishandling
her now could inflict more pain, he mumbles a
benediction and gently lies her beside her
sisters and her brothers in the mass grave. I try
to comfort her, saying, “Finally, a place of
safety. Rest beside your sister. Your brother.
Put your fears to rest and meet your beloved
Prophet and the many of your little friends who have fallen before you.”


Hospitals, schools, mosques, civilian homes, UN
shelters, all worthy targets. Doctors, medicines,
food and water, truckloads of relief from all
corners of the world line up for miles at the
Egyptian border but they are refused entry.
Security is high, food is scarce, water is completely gone.


Faith seems to spring forth in the strangest of
moments. For me, it seems to be coming full
circle out of desperation and in agony, for the
sake of the snow-white souls of the many bloodied
and dismembered innocents of Gaza.


UN workers coordinate with Israelis to get
civilians to safety inside a UN school. Hundreds
are tucked inside the mutually agreed safe haven.
Soon after, the school comes under Israeli fire.
Bruised and battered refugees stare Satan in the
face, clad in his fatigues. Hundreds wounded,
scores dead, many lost and unaccounted for.


Governments negotiate a cease-fire. Rumors buzz
of conspiracies. The US President-elect is
forever silent. Parents search beneath the
collapsed walls for what remains of their
children. Shattered concrete, random arms and
legs, broken glass, tossed together in a bloody
hodge-podge. But, in my mind, I see them whole,
their little bodies swiftly being swept up into
Paradise and I call out to them, “Run!”


Suzanne Baroud is the Managing Editor of
<http://www.PalestineChronicle.com/>www.PalestineChronicle.com.

© Copyright Suzanne Baroud, Global Research, 2009

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Israel Attacks UN Aid Convoys to Gaza

by Jeremy R. Hammond


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<http://www.globalresearch.ca/>Global Research, January 10, 2009
<http://foreignpolicyjournal.com/>foreignpolicyjournal.com


The United Nations Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA) has suspended operations in Gaza since
coming under attack by Israeli military forces on Friday.

A statement from the UNRWA said its temporary
suspension “was compelled by incidents in which
UNRWA staff, convoys and installations have come under attack.”

The statement said, “On numerous occasions in
recent days, humanitarian convoys have come under
Israeli fire even though their safe passage
through clearly designated routes at specifically
agreed times, had been confirmed by the Israeli liaison office.”

The suspension of operations was necessary due to
“the nature, severity and frequency of these incidents”.

The suspension includes movement of staff
throughout the Gaza Strip and vehicle movement,
such as the delivery of aid into the territory.
The agency said its presence in Gaza would
continue, and that it would “continue to serve
displace civilians who seek safety in UNRWA
schools. UNRWA’s clinics will also remain open.”

The inability of the UNRWA to deliver relief to
the residents of Gaza exacerbates an already
critical humanitarian emergency situation. The
Gaza Strip has been under siege by Israel since
it withdrew military forces and dismantled
settlements in 2005. Since that time, Israel has
implemented a blockade of the territory,
controlling the land, air, and sea, and allowed
only minimal amounts of humanitarian supplies
into Gaza. It has also engaged in military
incursions into Gaza at will. This situation has
led some to argue that Israel is still, by any
practical interpretation, the occupying power in
Gaza under international law, and therefore
responsible for the welfare of its civilian population.

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza beginning on
December 27 and its subsequent invasion of the
territory have greatly worsened the already
critical situation. Much of the population in
Gaza has no food, water, or electricity. Gaza’s
overflowing hospitals are running on generators
and have little or no spare fuel, or medical supplies.

“There is no doubt in my mind that we are dealing
with a full-blown and major crisis in
humanitarian terms,” said Pierre Kraehenbuehl,
the director of operations in Geneva for the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
“The situation for the people in Gaza is extreme and traumatic.”

John Ging, the head of the UNRWA in Gaza, said,
“There are very real shortages of medicine. This
hospital has not had electricity for four days.
If the generators go down, those in intensive
care will die. This is a horrific tragedy here,
and it is getting worse by the moment.”

The Israeli attacks on UN aid convoys are in
addition to numerous other attacks on UN sites in
Gaza. Four UN sites have also come under Israeli
attack over the course of the week. Four UN-run
schools and a medical center were hit.

On Tuesday, a school run by UNRWA in the Jabaliya
refugee camp was shelled by the Israeli Defense
Force (IDF) in the fourth attack on a UN site,
killing more than 40 and wounding dozens more
Palestinians who had taken refuge there in an
attempt to escape Israel’s bombardment.

The IDF claimed that Hamas militants had fired
rockets from the school. Mark Regev, spokesman
for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said,
“Unfortunately, this is not the first time that
Hamas has deliberately abused a UN installation.”

But UN officials denied the claim.

John Ging said that Hamas had not violated the
sanctity of any UN sites in Gaza. He said he was
“very confident now that there was no militant
activity inside the school nor militants in the school.”

“We are completely devastated,” Ging also said.
“There is nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorized and traumatized.”

In a press statement, he emphasized that all UN
schools in Gaza were clearly marked and the
coordinates of their exact locations had been
provided to Israel. He said that “the Israelis
have to end their disproportionate and
inappropriate use of force in densely populated areas.”

Another UNRWA official, Christopher Gunness, said
that the agency was “99.9 percent certain there
were no militants or military activity in its school.”

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the
attacks “totally unacceptable.” He added, “After
earlier strikes, the Israeli government was
warned that its operations were endangering UN
compounds. I am deeply dismayed that despite
these repeated efforts, today’s tragedies have ensued.”

Adnan Abu Hasna, a UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, said
that the agency had “several times noted to the
Israeli sides to avoid targeting our schools that
shelter civilians.” Yet, “In spite of rising the
blue flag of UNRWA on our schools, the Israeli
army has been targeting those schools by missiles and tanks shells.”

“Neither homes nor UN shelters are safe,” said
Maxwell Gaylard, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator
for the Palestinian territories.

UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness said on
Friday, “In briefings, senior IDF officers
conducted for foreign diplomats, they admitted
the shelling to which IDF forces in Jabaliya were
responding did not originate from the school.”

The ICRC issued a press release Thursday saying
when Israel finally granted safe passage for
ambulances on January 7, their team “found four
small children next to their dead mothers in one
of the houses. They were too weak to stand up on
their own. One man was also found alive, too weak
to stand up. In all there were at least 12 corpses lying on mattresses.”

While the ICRC rescue team was assisting other
survivors in other houses, Israeli soldiers
“ordered the rescue team to leave the area” but
refused to do so. “Large earth walls erected by
the Israeli army had made it impossible to bring
ambulances into the neighbourhood,” the ICRC
statement added, noting that “the Israeli
military failed to meet its obligation under
international humanitarian law to care for and
evacuate the wounded” and calling the situation “unacceptable.”

“This is a shocking incident,” said ICRC official
Pierre Wettach. “The Israeli military must have
been aware of the situation but did not assist
the wounded. Neither did they make it possible
for us or the Palestine Red Crescent to assist the wounded.”

More than 700 Palestinians have been killed in
the war, according to the most recent estimates.
The UN has estimated that 25 percent of
Palestinian deaths have been women and children,
with an addition unknown number of men who were also civilians.

Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor working in the
Gaza Strip, when asked by a reporter whether
Hamas militants were included amongst those
arriving at his hospital for treatment, replied,
“I’ve seen one military person among the tens
of…I mean, hundreds we have seen and treated. So
anybody who tries to claim this is sort of a
clean war against another army are lying. This is
an all out war against the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza.”

Jeremy R. Hammond is the editor of Foreign Policy
Journal, a website dedicated to providing news,
critical analysis, and opinion commentary on U.S.
foreign policy from outside of the standard
framework offered by government officials and the
mainstream corporate media, particularly with
regard to the "war on terrorism" and events in
the Middle East. He has also written for numerous
other online publications. You can contact him at
<mailto:jeremy@...>jeremy@....


© Copyright Jeremy R. Hammond,
<http://foreignpolicyjournal.com/>foreignpolicyjournal.com, 2009

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NOTE: All honor to the name of Rachel Corrie! -- kl, pp

From: mann david <<mailto:dmann51@...>dmann51@...>
Date: January 10, 2009 11:50:40 AM GMT-05:00
Subject: [911TruthAction] (unknown)
Reply-To: <mailto:911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com>911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com


In the words of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old
American college student who was murdered in
Rafah [Gaza Strip] by the Israeli Occupation Forces on March 16, 2003:

“…Just want to write to my Mom and tell her that
I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide
and I’m really scared, and questioning my
fundamental belief in the goodness of human
nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good
idea for us all to drop everything and devote our
lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an
extremist thing to do anymore. I still really
want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have
boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But
I also want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is
what I feel. Disappointment. I am disappointed
that this is the base reality of our world and
that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not
at all what I asked for when I came into this
world. This is not at all what the people here
asked for when they came into this world…So when
I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should
break with their racist tendency not to injure
white people, please pin the reason squarely on
the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide
which I am also indirectly supporting, and for
which my government is largely responsible.”

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From: Rick Davis <<mailto:rdavis@...>rdavis@...>
Date: January 10, 2009 7:00:17 PM GMT-05:00
Subject: News links, January 11, 2009


<http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-day-of-reckoning-obamas-speech-on.\
html>This
Day of Reckoning

<http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE5071TT20090109>FACTBOX
-- 18 countries affected by gas row

<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/01/07/pakistan-mexico-and-us-nightma\
res/>Pakistan,
Mexico and U.S. nightmares
<http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11411512?source=most_emailed>U.S.
ready for Mexico violence
<http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0929438620090109>Mexico
sees recession, cenbank suggests rate cuts
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=azqM0XHcu1VQ&refer=latin_am\
erica>Mexico
President Calderon to Meet Obama Next Week
<http://www.financialsense.com/Market/allison/2008/1222.html>The
Coming Oil Train Wreck -- First stop: Mexico?
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008602532_mexico08.html>Mexi\
co
drug war likely to intensify
<http://whitelocust.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/mexican-civil-unrest-revolution-com\
ing-soon/>Mexican
Civil Unrest: Revolution Coming Soon
Comment: Amigos, the Big Tortilla is ready to blow up.

<http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/663>Kissinger,
Putin, and the "New World Order"

<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hVOS_o_QqxLEzNZo5uj9VD84HWQg\
>Obama-Bush
teams to stage 'disaster' exercise
"It is a disaster scenario where the government would be very much tested."

<http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html>\
White
House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7820980.stm>New
clashes break out in Athens

US:
<http://www.themilitant.com/2009/7302/730204.html>War
college: need troops in U.S. for ‘civil unrest’
<http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-victory10-2009jan10,0,7167635.story>\
Victory
gardens sprout up again
<http://rawstory.com/news/2008/N._Orleans_cops_shoot_man_in_0109.html>N.
Orleans cops shoot man 12 times in the back
<http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Cheney_in_last_days_in_office_still_01092009.html>\
Cheney,
in last days in office, still hopes to catch bin Laden
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/59421.html>Budget
crisis drives California to close offices twice a month
<http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20090108233407311>Martial
Law, the Financial Bailout, and War
<http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/government-heavily-manipulates-so\
cial.html>Does
The Government Manipulate Social Media?
Video:
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21701.htm>Peter
Schiff: The Coming Collapse In The Value Of The The US Dollar
Comment: I don't have a high-speed internet
connection and have not seen this video.
<http://seekingalpha.com/article/114099-2-6-million-jobs-were-lost-in-2008>2.6
Million Jobs Were Lost in 2008
<http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/schiff/2009/0109.html>The
Fed’s Bubble Trouble
"If U.S. taxpayers or foreign creditors are
unwilling or unable to pony up, and if the
nightmare hyper-inflation scenario is to be
avoided, default will be the only option."
<http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/10/news/economy/bush_request_restoftarp/index.htm>\
Another
$350 billion: Bush may soon request rest of bailout
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4210300/Downturn-esc\
alates-on-both-sides-of-the-Atlantic.html>Downturn
escalates on both sides of the Atlantic

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28583580/>Bank
industry slams Citigroup mortgage deal
<http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/01/citigroup-pieces-for-sale-st\
arting-with.html>Citigroup
Pieces For Sale, Starting With Smith Barney

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a41yCmVLVa2c&refer=canada>S\
hell
Committed to Oil Sands, to Maintain Investments, CEO Says
<http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=186463>Saudi
Aramco cuts Asian oil supplies by 10% for Feb.

<http://chinaworker.info/en/content/news/606/>Chinese
regime braced for 'mass conflicts' in 2009
<http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/content/view/9879>China
Increases Security to Prevent Mass Unrest
<http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/01/20091795929107596.html>China
braces for more Tibet unrest
<http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE5050RE20090106>Possible
triggers for unrest in China
<http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE50400Z20090105>China's
young generation gets thrifty in gloomy economy

<http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece>Re\
vealed:
the environmental impact of Google searches
"Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that
performing two Google search uses up as much
energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea."

<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680>War
and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields

<http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-fi-57heaven9-2009jan09\
,0,998101.story>Dinosaurs
of Motor City
"A museum showcasing cars from Detroit's banner
year of 1957 finds itself sputtering in the economic hard times of 2009."

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