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Clash Of Civilizations

The murderous attacks upon the Palestinian people, condoned by so many around the world, make it clear we are witnessing a clash of civilizations.

(LONDON) - The Israeli army confirmed today that up to 130 Palestinian civilians were slaughtered in Rafah last Friday following the triggering of the Hannibal protocol - an IDF directive that is designed to thwart the capture of Israeli combatants.

Israel unleashed its full firepower and flattened an entire neighbourhood using tanks, artillery and gunships murdering 130 Palestinians just to make sure that one Israeli soldier, Lt. Hadar Goldin didn’t fall into Hamas’ hands alive.

Mowing The Grass

"They do not forget. All that endure the humiliation, abuse and murder of those they love do not forget." -Chris Hedges

(LONDON) - Today is Sunday and in the West it is a day of leisure. A popular activity is tending well-manicured gardens, enjoying the peace and quiet and mowing the grass.

Mowing the grass in Israeli military speak has a different connotation altogether. ‘Mowing the grass’ is a recognized Israeli military strategy as defined by Professor Efraim Inbar and Dr Eitan Shamir, both of the Begin-Sadat Center of Strategic Studies at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University.

The Slaughter of the Innocents

"Leave or Die" is the message, yet there is no where to leave "to".

(LONDON) - ¹³When the Magi (the three wise men) had gone an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” ¹⁴So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt...

That was then, when the infant Jesus could find a safe haven and sanctuary in Egypt. Which is more that can be said for the children of Gaza today looking to find a safe haven in present day Egypt under the dictatorship of Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi. Two thousand years ago when the world was under the hegemony of the Roman Empire it was a very different world from today.

404 Students Donate Scholarship Funds to Gaza`s Shifa Hospital

These students know the struggle, they all live in long-term “relocation” camps themselves.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - 404 Palestinian students from Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian camps, 194 of whom are women and 210 are men, with academic majors ranging from medicine and engineering to business and computer science have agreed to transfer this semester’s tuition grants to Gaza as an act of solidarity with their countrymen.

As casualties were being brought into Shifa hospital by the minute, some in ambulances, others in cars and trucks, Ms. Hajj announced to Lebanese media that, “This act of solidarity with our countrymen under siege in Gaza is to help with emergency medical supplies and to deliver the message that every Palestinian in Lebanon is of Gaza.”

Hamas Pricks Israel`s Soft Under-Belly, Ben Gurion Airport

The British gave up Lydda airport in April 1948 and IDF soldiers captured the airport on 10 July 1948, in Operation Danny, when the population was driven out as part of Israel's ethnic cleansing programme.

(LONDON) - Hamas has hit Palestine's bloodthirsty occupier where it could hurt real bad -- in the soft under-belly that is Ben Gurion airport. The Resistance has achieved this by lobbing a rocket too close for comfort and causing air carriers in the United States and Europe to halt flights to Tel Aviv after warnings from governmental agencies concerned about passenger safety.

"The carriers are making the right call," said Robert Mann, an airline consultant in Port Washington, New York.

Holocaust in Palestine

At the last count there were over 220 Palestinian innocent children, women and men dead and on the other side one dead Israeli.

(LONDON) - Far be it from me to quote ‘a holy book’ but if you think of those holy books as terms of reference as opposed to a rigid doctrine of worship then quoting them becomes acceptable.

It says in the bible that our journey in life, the human race, is limited to three score years and ten, adding up to seventy. Try to tell that to the many mothers, sisters and grannies in Palestine who suffered the loss of a child before they even made it to ten years, slaughtered by Israeli brute force. A force that is supplied, equipped, trained and sanctioned by western powers, especially the United States of America.

Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel

There is no rationalization for blatant killing of innocents.

(LONDON) - This is the favoured game of the Neo-Fascist Neo-Nazi occupiers of our land. Squeeze as many Palestinians in one place as you can. Leave no escape, nowhere to hide and then bomb them. Over and over and over again.

Why do the Neo-Nazis favour Gaza with this largesse? For no other reason than the Palestinians did as they were told, took the path to so-called democracy and elected Hamas as their legitimate government in 2006.

Israel`s Offensive has Killed 145 Palestinians Since Tuesday

Israel is keeping its options open for a possible ground offensive into densely populated Gaza despite international pressure to negotiate a ceasefire in the conflict.

(GAZA CITY) - An Israeli air strike on the home of Gaza's police chief killed 18 people on Saturday, Gaza's health ministry said, and Hamas fired the largest salvo of rockets yet on Tel Aviv since the start of the Jewish state's offensive in the Palestinian enclave.

The strike on the home of Tayseer Al-Batsh in Gaza City was the deadliest bombing since Israel launched its offensive on Tuesday to end Palestinian rocket fire into its territory.

Israeli Bombing Kills at Least 72, Including Gaza TV Staffer

Jets targeted the marked "Media24" car in Gaza City and killed Hamid Shehab.

(GAZA, Palestine) - On the second day of the Israeli operation, "Protective Edge", at least 72 people have been killed and hundreds more injured by the bombing of their homes and communities.

Israeli occupation warplanes attacked a home in Al-Maghazi camp, killing a woman and 3 children, bringing up the death toll in Gaza to 40 people. An estimated 280 injuries were reported.

We were also attacked. The Israeli occupation targeted our agency's "Media24" car killing the driver.

U.S. Wants Full Investigation into Youth Beating by Police

The Israeli Justice Ministry said in a statement that the police investigations department was looking into the incident.

(WASHINGTON, D.C. ) - The United States has called for speedy investigation of an incident in which it said a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent appeared to have been badly beaten by Israeli paramilitary police.

The family of 15-year-old Tariq Khdeir, from Tampa, Florida, who was visiting family in east Jerusalem, say he was the target of the punches.