Four 'Commandos' Killed off Gaza

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian "commandos" at sea off Gaza on Monday, medical sources and witnesses said, as the military said it had foiled a...

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Last week, Israel flattened a small outpost near the West Bank city of Ramallah

"We do not intend to build any new settlements, but it wouldn't be fair to ban construction to meet the needs of natural growth or for there to be an outright construction ban," Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

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"Adolf Hitler would have had me exterminated.." - Taking Sides In The Middle East..

This is an interesting article we found, entitled: Taking Sides In The Middle East

by Burt Prelutsky. Here is an except...

Israel’s foes believe in targeting women and children just so long as they’re Jewish or Christian. They are not only intolerant of the freedoms we take for granted — speech and religion — but they are polygamous, treat their women as chattel and encourage their children to achieve martyrdom as suicide bombers.

Moreover, so-called honor killings are part of what passes for their culture...

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Doctor's Three Daughters Killed

"I had just left the room, carrying my youngest son on my shoulders. Then a shell came through the wall.I rushed back to find their dead bodies - or rather parts of their bodies - strewn all over the room. One was still sitting in a chair but she had no legs..

A Palestinian obstetrician who specialises in treating infertility, he lives in Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip, but used to work part-time in Israel helping Jewish women to have babies....

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Source: bbc news

Papal: Vatican compares Gaza to Nazi camp

The pope's minister for peace and justice was accused yesterday of speaking like a Holocaust denier after comparing Gaza to a "big concentration camp"...

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Source: the independent

Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath

After killing 50 civilians in UN schools sheltering refugees - "C'est la guerre", the Israeli minister Meir Shitreet told the BBC when asked about the atrocities - the Israeli government agreed a three-hour daily lull in the carnage for "humanitarian purposes", as diplomatic manoeuvring intensified over a possible ceasefire deal. All this at the cost of only 10 Israeli dead, six of them soldiers.

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Source: guardian.co.uk

Obama camp 'prepared to talk to Hamas'

The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency's ostracising of the group. The state department has designated Hamas a terrorist organisation, and in 2006 ­Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group...

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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Obama's Hawaii house

A small group of placard-waving pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's vacation retreat in Hawaii on Tuesday to protest against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza…

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Israel steps up Gaza strikes

Israeli leaders said they would press ahead with the Gaza campaign, despite enraged protests across the Arab world and Syria’s decision to halt indirect peace talks with the Jewish state...

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Source: herald interactive

Israel set for Gaza invasion after rocket barrage

Israel's foreign minister brushed off a call for restraint from Egypt's president, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a direct appeal to Gaza's people to pressure their leaders to stop the barrages.


But the attacks showed no signs of ending. By nightfall, three rockets and 15 mortar shells had exploded in Israel...

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Source: chron.com