Egypt’s Military have Sold Out the Egyptian People to the Imperial Powers & Israel

By: Stewart Brennan
World United News
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.com/
 

It appears that the Egyptian Military has sold out the Egyptian people to the Imperial Powers and are proving that they are a willing part of the larger US / UK plan to remove all regional opposition to Israel.

In a nut shell, the People of Egypt want the siege of Gaza lifted and the Rafah border crossing opened; So how the Egyptian Military or Interim Government of Egypt treat the Palestinians of Gaza is a litmus test to prove who they really work for...and right now they have failed with a capital "F" because the Egyptian Military have been tightening the Israeli siege on Gaza since they took Morsi out of office.
 
Here's a look at what has happened in the region since the Popular Coup against Morsi took place.
 

1. The Egyptian Army closes the Rafah Border and cuts all human life lines to Gaza.

Palestinians in Gaza react to Morsi's ouster, closure of Rafah crossing

 

Source Video: The Real News

http://youtu.be/wntB-Okh3nk

2. The Egyptian army has openly declared Hamas an enemy

Source Video: Russia Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QniI5EtGYDk

3. The Egyptian Military has destroyed most of the lifeline tunnels from Egypt to Gaza

Source Video: Press TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyn_221b3Gs

4. The Egyptian Army has now occupied El Arish

Note: El Arish is the only Port city near Gaza not controlled by Israel where aid can flow into Gaza from other countries.

Egypt army launches counter-extremist operation in Sinai

Video Source: Russia Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wwvss3G17M

5. The Egyptian Army have declared war on the people of the Sinai

 

The Egyptian Military are in the process of ramping up unrest in the Sinai region while locking down their border with Gaza. This is a tactic that has been employed by the USA, UK, Israel & the Saudi regimes throughout the entire Middle East, Eurasia, and Africa.

Egypt set for “Fattah 2 offensive” on Sinai Islamist terror. Gaza sealed. US and Israeli forces on alert

http://www.debka.com/article/23126/

Here are three unrelated reports in regards to Egypt’s Military but are significant in the over all story of what is actually taking place in the region. 

6.The EU has placed Hezbollah of Lebanon on the terrorist list.

Source Video: Press TV

http://youtu.be/Xf6uqEnyvIA

7. Saudi Arabia Sign Arms Deal with Israel.

Press TV: Saudi Arabia Sign Arms Deal with Israel

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/27/315771/s-arabia-israel-army-sign-arms-deal/

8. Prison Escapes in Libya, and Iraq planned by US Backed Terrorists will Bolster the decimated Saudi sponsored attack on Syria and in Egypt's Sinai

Benghazi Jailbreak: 1200 inmates escape from Libyan prison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvlMK_6H2Bo
US Backed Al-Queda in Iraq free 1000 Jailed terrorists
http://youtu.be/V5TaaL-thkc
Libya: 1000 Prisoners escape as protests rage over activist killing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdckuMhIGeQ

The Prison breaks in Libya, and Iraq seem to coincide with the need to bolster the terrorist ranks that are wrecking havoc throughout Syria, Iraq, and now Egypt. In all probability, some of these terrorists will now show up in the Sinai to give legitimacy to the Egyptian Military’s lock down and siege of the Sinai and Gaza. No doubt the terrorists will be magically armed because the terrorist groups and the people in charge of the said countries of Iraq, and Libya are controlled by the USA through the CIA, hired Mercenary Groups and other US Government agencies and proxies.

The US, UK, agenda is to smash all opposition to the State of Israel while enabling the Israeli destruction and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. For Egypt, this means destruction through planned divisions of the Egyptian people and for the region it means the destruction of all links between Iran, Syria, and Lebanon with Palestine.

Morsi Also a US Government Puppet

It has been well proven that Israel, and Saudi Arabia are active in the destruction of Syria while using the weapons supplied by all associated NATO countries including Turkey.

But in a surprise outburst of insanity in mid June 2013, Egyptian President Morsi declared war on Syria seemingly out of the blue, which begs the question “Why?” Why did Morsi support the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria? The only conclusion one can draw is that Morsi was taking orders from the USA, which also means he was siding with Israel & Saudi Arabia who were also actively involved in the destruction of Syria.

Morsi Silenced

Since Morsi was removed in a Military Coup soon after no one has heard from him and there is a reason why you do not hear anything from Egypt’s former president. If Morsi was allowed to speak he would tell the World exactly what he said to the American government to have them stop the Israeli attack on Gaza in Nov 2012.

US threatened, pulls Israel out of Gaza: Richard Becker

Source Video: Press TV

http://youtu.be/DiuY6eMYUq4

What deal did Morsi broker with the US Government behind closed doors to have them halt the Israeli attack on Gaza? Could it have had anything to do with the Suez Canal? Because the Suez Canal is the single most Important and strategic area in the World to the Imperial Powers and to the Saudi's. Unfortunately, we will probably never know, but it certainly would explain the reason why the Saudi’s no longer liked Morsi or why the USA stopped the Israeli attack on the people of Gaza.

Indeed, what deal did Morsi strike with the Imperial powers to boldly side against Syria and to side with Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and the USA? In all appearances, Morsi sold his soul and paid the price in a double deception...and now the Egyptian Military which is also under the US influence has Morsi in custody after taking him out in a Coup.

Everyone deserves a fair trial...but of course the USA, does not uphold justice as we see in the case of Bradley Manning after he exposed the US Military for War Crimes. I believe Morsi will receive a fate much worse since they will want him silenced on what transpired during Israel’s war on Gaza. Egypt's Military has imprisoned Morsi so it is doubtful that there will be justice served considering that they take their orders from the US Government. The trial alone has the potential to tear Egypt apart through sectarian lines. 

Morsi’s ouster was a tactical move on the part of the Western Imperial Powers. They removed Morsi from power, and at the same time, crushed the Egyptian peoples revolution through the sectarian division that rose with Morsi's ouster.

The Imperial powers have played their cards but they have been exposed by their actions and are very vulnerable should a sudden shift in position by the Egyptian people occur. If anything, the people, weather they are for or against Morsi are united in their hatred of the US and Israeli governments. If the people of Egypt take the road of reconciliation and move forward together to make real change, the Imperial Powers will lose and the people of Egypt will win.

Who Benefits from a Divided Egypt and Sectarian War throughout the Middle East?

In every single case, Israel and the Imperial Powers benefit, which tells you who and where the Egyptian governments and military commanders get their orders from.

The Egyptian people must unite if they do not want the Zionist Imperial forces to divide the peoples revolution. The Egyptian Military by its subservience to Washington is sending Egypt down the road of division, sectarian violence and chaos so that Israel can continue to destroy its neighbours in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. The Egyptian people must rise up together and demand the end to the violence in Egypt and also very importantly, they must push to end of the siege on Gaza...as goes Gaza goes Egypt and the rest of the World.

At least 150 people killed in Egypt clashes

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/27/315769/people-killed-in-egypt-clashes/

Final Thoughts:

The State of Israel and Saudi Arabia were created by the Imperial Powers to destroy any attempts by the Arabic people from uniting and becoming a power as they once were under the Ottoman Empire. The major reason is because a large portion of the Worlds oil and gas supply is under Arabic lands, and because Oil powers the Imperial Empires, they will do everything in their power to control it and thus will stop the people of the Arabic speaking nations from uniting or rule themselves.

Israel is their wedge in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia is their hammer. That is why Israel was created in 1948 and why there is a push by the Imperial powers to create sectarian war throughout the Middle East, Eurasia and Africa via Saudi Arabia. Egypt is now the latest victim in this evil plot.

Egypt is Palestine's Protector

Egypt must free itself from bondage by the Imperial powers and must continue to be the hope and protectors of the people of Palestine.

Palestine must be free and reunited for the people of ALL sects so that the native people of the region can live together in harmony once again…and that means a united rule that includes a peaceful coexistence between all sects and beliefs, be they Muslim, Christian or Jew. The enemies of peace are the ones pushing for sectarian division and sectarian dominated rule. They are easy to spot.

In the quest for independence, the Egyptian people must seek out unity amongst all sects with moral foundations help each other rebuild communities and rebuild the Egypt you envision.

The hope of the World rests on the actions that will be taken by the Egyptian people in the coming weeks. Don’t let the Imperial powers divide or stop you in your quest for freedom and unity of all Egypt and all Egyptian people.

In vision, empathy and respect, I pray for you.

Stewart Brennan

World United News

Important Links:

General Sisi pushing Egypt into civil war

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/29/316176/gen-sisi-pushes-egypt-into-civil-war/
Egypt interim PM to allow civilian arrest  by Military
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/28/316089/egypt-interim-pm-to-allow-civilian-arrest/
Egypt’s interim leader gives green light for civilian arrests
http://rt.com/news/egypt-military-civilian-arrests-712/
Egypt army launches counter-extremist operation in Sinai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wwvss3G17M
At least 150 people killed in Egypt clashes
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/27/315769/people-killed-in-egypt-clashes/
Huge protests as Egypt's Morsi accused of Hamas links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QniI5EtGYDk
Morsi Abbas Hold Gaza Talks
http://youtu.be/n7Ud-lS3rfE
US Threatened – pulls Israel out of Gaza
http://youtu.be/DiuY6eMYUq4
Egypt’s Revolution – (News Video Playlist)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMPkpKACKgLGbqPjmVfnn48KOHbr2QvI
Israel Using Turkish Military Base to Attack Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdBaAlPSGBU
EU blacklisting Hezbollah, hypocritical: Eugene Dabbous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGYAGlnG_A
Israel gives green light to more settler homes
http://youtu.be/Di4JO1WUzk8
Israel to ethnically cleanse 30,000 Palestinian from Negev desert
http://youtu.be/RgN6CXcw6JI
Palestine – The Latest Zionist Crimes (News Video Playlist)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMPkpKACKgI7Gd5GQIEEDl-IXF5TrhSO
Palestine – Zionist Crime (News Video Archive 2008 – 2013)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3D53B3A6129AA4F9
US Backed Al-Queda in Iraq free 1000 Jailed terrorists
http://youtu.be/V5TaaL-thkc
Libya: 1000 Prisoners escape as protests rage over activist killing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdckuMhIGeQ
Benghazi Jailbreak: 1200 inmates escape from Libyan prison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvlMK_6H2Bo

 

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TruTube TV Launches

Censorship is alive and well in all the OECD & Western Nations, however, here is a NEW Video platform to combat the silence...  

NEW! - TruTube.TV

http://trutube.tv/

The following videos have been attacked and censored by YouTube and other mediums that are controlled by special interests and as such had been unjustly removed from Public viewing.

In light of this, a new social network and Video platform has been launched that allows Free Speech to continue. Here is the link to the new web platform called “TruTube.TV”.

http://trutube.tv/

Below are but a few videos that were Censored by Special Interests:

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The Talmud’s Death Wish

By: Snordlehans

http://trutube.tv/video/2856/The-Talmud8217s-Death-Wish

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Scum of the Earth

By: Snordlehans

http://trutube.tv/video/2858/Scum-of-The-Earth

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The Terrible Spectre

By: Snordlehans

http://trutube.tv/video/2859/The-Terrible-Spectre

 

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Impressions of Gaza

 

Noam Chomsky

Chomsky.info, November 4, 2012

Source: Noam Chomsky

http://chomsky.info/articles/20121104.htm

Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment, with no purpose other than to humiliate and degrade, and with the further goal of ensuring that Palestinian hopes for a decent future will be crushed and that the overwhelming global support for a diplomatic settlement that will grant these rights will be nullified.

The intensity of this commitment on the part of the Israeli political leadership has been dramatically illustrated just in the past few days, as they warn that they will “go crazy” if Palestinian rights are given limited recognition at the UN. That is not a new departure. The threat to “go crazy” (“nishtagea”) is deeply rooted, back to the Labor governments of the 1950s, along with the related “Samson Complex”: we will bring down the Temple walls if crossed. It was an idle threat then; not today.

The purposeful humiliation is also not new, though it constantly takes new forms. Thirty years ago political leaders, including some of the most noted hawks, submitted to Prime Minister Begin a shocking and detailed account of how settlers regularly abuse Palestinians in the most depraved manner and with total impunity. The prominent military-political analyst Yoram Peri wrote with disgust that the army’s task is not to defend the state, but “to demolish the rights of innocent people just because they are Araboushim (“niggers,” “kikes”) living in territories that God promised to us.”

Gazans have been selected for particularly cruel punishment. It is almost miraculous that people can sustain such an existence. How they do so was described thirty years ago in an eloquent memoir by Raja Shehadeh (The Third Way), based on his work as a lawyer engaged in the hopeless task of trying to protect elementary rights within a legal system designed to ensure failure, and his personal experience as a Samid, “a steadfast one,” who watches his home turned into a prison by brutal occupiers and can do nothing but somehow “endure.”

Since Shehadeh wrote, the situation has become much worse. The Oslo agreements, celebrated with much pomp in 1993, determined that Gaza and the West Bank are a single territorial entity. By then the US and Israel had already initiated their program of separating them fully from one another, so as to block a diplomatic settlement and punish the Araboushim in both territories.

Punishment of Gazans became still more severe in January 2006, when they committed a major crime: they voted the “wrong way” in the first free election in the Arab world, electing Hamas. Demonstrating their passionate “yearning for democracy,” the US and Israel, backed by the timid European Union, at once imposed a brutal siege, along with intensive military attacks. The US also turned at once to standard operating procedure when some disobedient population elects the wrong government: prepare a military coup to restore order.

Gazans committed a still greater crime a year later by blocking the coup attempt, leading to a sharp escalation of the siege and military attacks. These culminated in winter 2008-9, with Operation Cast Lead, one of the most cowardly and vicious exercises of military force in recent memory, as a defenseless civilian population, trapped with no way to escape, was subjected to relentless attack by one of the world’s most advanced military systems relying on US arms and protected by US diplomacy. An unforgettable eyewitness account of the slaughter — “infanticide” in their words — is given by the two courageous Norwegian doctors who worked at Gaza’s main hospital during the merciless assault, Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, in their remarkable book Eyes in Gaza.

President-elect Obama was unable to say a word, apart from reiterating his heartfelt sympathy for children under attack — in the Israeli town Sderot. The carefully planned assault was brought to an end right before his inauguration, so that he could then say that now is the time to look forward, not backward, the standard refuge of criminals.

Of course, there were pretexts — there always are. The usual one, trotted out when needed, is “security”: in this case, home-made rockets from Gaza. As is commonly the case, the pretext lacked any credibility. In 2008 a truce was established between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli government formally recognizes that Hamas observed it fully. Not a single Hamas rocket was fired until Israel broke the truce under cover of the US election on November 4 2008, invading Gaza on ludicrous grounds and killing half a dozen Hamas members. The Israeli government was advised by its highest intelligence officials that the truce could be renewed by easing the criminal blockade and ending military attacks. But the government of Ehud Olmert, reputedly a dove, chose to reject these options, preferring to resort to its huge comparative advantage in violence: Operation Cast Lead. The basic facts are reviewed once again by foreign policy analyst Jerome Slater in the current issue of the Harvard-MIT journal International Security.

The pattern of bombing under Cast Lead was carefully analyzed by the highly informed and internationally respected Gazan human rights advocate Raji Sourani. He points out that the bombing was concentrated in the north, targeting defenseless civilians in the most densely populated areas, with no possible military pretext. The goal, he suggests, may have been to drive the intimidated population to the south, near the Egyptian border. But the Samidin stayed put, despite the avalanche of US-Israeli terror.

A further goal might have been to drive them beyond. Back to the earliest days of the Zionist colonization it was argued across much of the spectrum that Arabs have no real reason to be in Palestine; they can be just as happy somewhere else, and should leave — politely “transferred,” the doves suggested. This is surely no small concern in Egypt, and perhaps a reason why Egypt does not open the border freely to civilians or even to desperately needed materials

Sourani and other knowledgeable sources observe that the discipline of the Samidin conceals a powder keg, which might explode any time, unexpectedly, as the first Intifada did in Gaza in 1989 after years of miserable repression that elicited no notice or concern,

Merely to mention one of innumerable cases, shortly before the outbreak of the Intifada a Palestinian girl, Intissar al-Atar, was shot and killed in a schoolyard by a resident of a nearby Jewish settlement. He was one of the several thousand Israelis settlers brought to Gaza in violation of international law and protected by a huge army presence, taking over much of the land and scarce water of the Strip and living “lavishly in twenty-two settlements in the midst of 1.4 million destitute Palestinians,” as the crime is described by Israeli scholar Avi Raz. The murderer of the schoolgirl, Shimon Yifrah, was arrested, but quickly released on bail when the Court determined that “the offense is not severe enough” to warrant detention. The judge commented that Yifrah only intended to shock the girl by firing his gun at her in a schoolyard, not to kill her, so “this is not a case of a criminal person who has to be punished, deterred, and taught a lesson by imprisoning him.” Yifrah was given a 7-month suspended sentence, while settlers in the courtroom broke out in song and dance. And the usual silence reigned. After all, it is routine.

And so it is. As Yifrah was freed, the Israeli press reported that an army patrol fired into the yard of a school for boys aged 6 to 12 in a West Bank refugee camp, wounding five children, allegedly intending only “to shock them.” There were no charges, and the event again attracted no attention. It was just another episode in the program of “illiteracy as punishment,” the Israeli press reported, including the closing of schools, use of gas bombs, beating of students with rifle butts, barring of medical aid for victims; and beyond the schools a reign of more severe brutality, becoming even more savage during the Intifada, under the orders of Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, another admired dove.

My initial impression, after a visit of several days, was amazement, not only at the ability to go on with life, but also at the vibrancy and vitality among young people, particularly at the university, where I spent much of my time at an international conference. But there too one can detect signs that the pressure may become too hard to bear. Reports indicate that among young men there is simmering frustration, recognition that under the US-Israeli occupation the future holds nothing for them. There is only so much that caged animals can endure, and there may be an eruption, perhaps taking ugly forms — offering an opportunity for Israeli and western apologists to self-righteously condemn the people who are culturally backward, as Mitt Romney insightfully explained.

Gaza has the look of a typical third world society, with pockets of wealth surrounded by hideous poverty. It is not, however, “undeveloped.” Rather it is “de-developed,” and very systematically so, to borrow the terms of Sara Roy, the leading academic specialist on Gaza. The Gaza Strip could have become a prosperous Mediterranean region, with rich agriculture and a flourishing fishing industry, marvelous beaches and, as discovered a decade ago, good prospects for extensive natural gas supplies within its territorial waters.

By coincidence or not, that is when Israel intensified its naval blockade, driving fishing boats toward shore, by now to 3 miles or less.

The favorable prospects were aborted in 1948, when the Strip had to absorb a flood of Palestinian refugees who fled in terror or were forcefully expelled from what became Israel, in some cases expelled months after the formal cease-fire.

In fact, they were being expelled even four years later, as reported in Ha’aretz (25.12.2008), in a thoughtful study by Beni Tziper on the history of Israeli Ashkelon back to the Canaanites. In 1953, he reports, there was a “cool calculation that it was necessary to cleanse the region of Arabs.” The original name, Majdal, had already been “Judaized” to today’s Ashkelon, regular practice.

That was in 1953, when there was no hint of military necessity. Tziper himself was born in 1953, and while walking in the remnants of the old Arab sector, he reflects that “it is really difficult for me, really difficult, to realize that while my parents were celebrating my birth, other people were being loaded on trucks and expelled from their homes.”

Israel’s 1967 conquests and their aftermath administered further blows. Then came the terrible crimes already mentioned, continuing to the present day.

The signs are easy to see, even on a brief visit. Sitting in a hotel near the shore, one can hear the machine gun fire of Israeli gunboats driving fishermen out of Gaza’s territorial waters and towards shore, so they are compelled to fish in waters that are heavily polluted because of US-Israeli refusal to allow reconstruction of the sewage and power systems that they destroyed.

The Oslo Accords laid plans for two desalination plants, a necessity in this arid region. One, an advanced facility, was built: in Israel. The second one is in Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza. The engineer in charge of trying to obtain potable water for the population explained that this plant was designed so that it cannot use sea water, but must rely on underground water, a cheaper process, which further degrades the meager aquifer, guaranteeing severe problems in the future. Even with that, water is severely limited. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which cares for refugees (but not other Gazans), recently released a report warning that damage to the aquifer may soon become “irreversible,” and that without remedial action quickly, by 2020 Gaza may not be a “liveable place.”

Israel permits concrete to enter for UNRWA projects, but not for Gazans engaged in the huge reconstruction needs. The limited heavy equipment mostly lies idle, since Israel does not permit materials for repair. All of this is part of the general program described by Israeli official Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, after Palestinians failed to follow orders in the 2006 elections: “The idea,” he said, “is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” That would not look good.

And the plan is being scrupulously followed. Sara Roy has provided extensive evidence in her scholarly studies. Recently, after several years of effort, the Israeli human rights organization Gisha succeeded to obtain a court order for the government to release its records detailing plans for the diet, and how they are executed. Israel-based journalist Jonathan Cook summarizes them: “Health officials provided calculations of the minimum number of calories needed by Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants to avoid malnutrition. Those figures were then translated into truckloads of food Israel was supposed to allow in each day ... an average of only 67 trucks — much less than half of the minimum requirement — entered Gaza daily. This compared to more than 400 trucks before the blockade began.” And even this estimate is overly generous, UN relief officials report.

The result of imposing the diet, Mideast scholar Juan Cole observes, is that “[a]bout ten percent of Palestinian children in Gaza under 5 have had their growth stunted by malnutrition ... in addition, anemia is widespread, affecting over two-thirds of infants, 58.6 percent of schoolchildren, and over a third of pregnant mothers.” The US and Israel want to ensure that nothing more than bare survival is possible.

“What has to be kept in mind,” observes Raji Sourani, “is that the occupation and the absolute closure is an ongoing attack on the human dignity of the people in Gaza in particular and all Palestinians generally. It is systematic degradation, humiliation, isolation and fragmentation of the Palestinian people.” The conclusion is confirmed by many other sources. In one of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet, a visiting Stanford physician, appalled by what he witnessed, describes Gaza as “something of a laboratory for observing an absence of dignity,” a condition that has “devastating” effects on physical, mental, and social wellbeing. “The constant surveillance from the sky, collective punishment through blockade and isolation, the intrusion into homes and communications, and restrictions on those trying to travel, or marry, or work make it difficult to live a dignified life in Gaza.” The Araboushim must be taught not to raise their heads.

There were hopes that the new Morsi government in Egypt, less in thrall to Israel than the western-backed Mubarak dictatorship, might open the Rafah crossing, the sole access to the outside for trapped Gazans that is not subject to direct Israeli control. There has been slight opening, but not much. Journalist Laila el-Haddad writes that the re-opening under Morsi, “is simply a return to status quo of years past: only Palestinians carrying an Israeli-approved Gaza ID card can use Rafah Crossing,” excluding a great many Palestinians, including el-Haddad’s family, where only one spouse has a card.

Furthermore, she continues, “the crossing does not lead to the West Bank, nor does it allow for the passage of goods, which are restricted to the Israeli-controlled crossings and subject to prohibitions on construction materials and export.” The restricted Rafah crossing does not change the fact that “Gaza remains under tight maritime and aerial siege, and continues to be closed off to the Palestinians’ cultural, economic, and academic capitals in the rest of the [occupied territories], in violation of US-Israeli obligations under the Oslo Accords.”

The effects are painfully evident. In the Khan Yunis hospital, the director, who is also chief of surgery, describes with anger and passion how even medicines are lacking for relief of suffering patients, as well as simple surgical equipment, leaving doctors helpless and patients in agony. Personal stories add vivid texture to the general disgust one feels at the obscenity of the harsh occupation. One example is the testimony of a young woman who despaired that her father, who would have been proud that she was the first woman in the refugee camp to gain an advanced degree, had “passed away after 6 months of fighting cancer aged 60 years. Israeli occupation denied him a permit to go to Israeli hospitals for treatment. I had to suspend my study, work and life and go to set next to his bed. We all sat including my brother the physician and my sister the pharmacist, all powerless and hopeless watching his suffering. He died during the inhumane blockade of Gaza in summer 2006 with very little access to health service. I think feeling powerless and hopeless is the most killing feeling that human can ever have. It kills the spirit and breaks the heart. You can fight occupation but you cannot fight your feeling of being powerless. You can't even dissolve that feeling.”

Disgust at the obscenity, compounded with guilt: it is within our power to bring the suffering to an end and allow the Samidinto enjoy the lives of peace and dignity that they deserve.

Noam Chomsky visited the Gaza Strip on October 25-30, 2012.

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USA blocks UN Security Council statement that calls for Gaza ceasefire labeling it Unbalanced

 

Source: Russia Today

http://rt.com/news/us-blocks-gaza-un-185/

The United States has blocked a Moroccan-brokered UN Security Council call for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, labeling it "unbalanced."

­“The draft press statement failed to address the root cause of the current escalation – the continuing barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel,'' the spokeswoman for the US Mission to the UN, Erin Pelton, said in a statement.

He added that the “counter-productive” statement failed to support “the ongoing diplomacy toward de-escalation of violence and a durable outcome that ends the rocket attacks on Israeli cities and towns and restores a broader calm.”

­Morocco proposed the statement last Thursday, and it would have been adopted automatically if no UN Security Council member spoke against it before 14:00 GMT. Security Council press statements require unanimous approval.

Russia said it is ready to propose the full resolutionto halt the violence between Israel and Gaza.

Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said that document will focus on putting an end to the violence by a negotiated a ceasefire, support for international and regional efforts to settle the crisis peacefully and a call for the resumption of talks between Palestinians and Israelis on a wider range of problems.

Churkin sharply criticized the way the Moroccan statement was handled by the Council, accusing Western governments of “filibustering”it. He argued that three days was ample time to provide written comments, while Council members only commented orally.

Some say the Russian resolution has little chance of being adopted as it also does not claim that Hamas rocket attacks are the cause of the current conflict.

 

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Israeli attacks kill 7 more people in Gaza

 

Palestinians youths search through the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli air strikes on the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on November 18, 2012

Source: Press TV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/20/273596/7-more-palestinians-killed-in-gaza/

At least seven more people, including three journalists, have been killed as Israeli warplanes conduct a fresh round of air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Tuesday deaths included two al-Aqsa cameramen and the al-Quds radio chief.

"Two cameramen from Al-Aqsa TV have been killed: Mahmud Komi and Hossam Salama," said health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra, adding the strike hit a car in Gaza City's Nasser area that was clearly marked as a press vehicle.

Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a car in the central part of Gaza, and another one lost his life in the southern city of Rafah, close to the enclave's border with Egypt.

In retaliation, Palestinian resistance fighters poured rockets and missiles onto the southern Israeli areas, killing 2 Israelis, including a soldier, and injuring 15 others in Eshkol Regional council.

At least five Israelis have reportedly been killed in Palestinian rocket attacks since the fatal offensive on the coastal enclave started on November 14.

Five Israelis were also injured in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel's fourth-largest city of Rishon LeZion, following a similar attack that critically wounded an Israeli in the southern city of Ashkelon.

According to reports, another Israeli has seriously been hurt in another rocket attack on Gush Etzion outside al-Quds (Jerusalem).

 

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Morsi says ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza puts region at risk

 

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi

Source: Press TV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/18/273023/morsi-warns-of-ongoing-israel-airstrikes/

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has warned that the ongoing airstrikes by the Israeli regime on the blockaded Gaza Strip will jeopardize security in the region.

Morsi made the remarks at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Cairo on Saturday. He also warned of dire consequences of a possible ground operation by Israeli forces against Gaza.

The Israeli regime has authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing for a possible ground invasion of Gaza.

Erdogan arrived in Cairo on Saturday for talks with the Egyptian president to discuss the issue of the latest Israeli airstrikes.

The two sides announced that Cairo and Ankara condemn the deadly attacks.

Speaking at Egypt’s Cairo University on Saturday, Erdogan said Israel has once again committed every type of inhumane act to turn the region into a bloodbath.

The Turkish premier said the Israeli regime will pay a price, sooner or later, for killing children in the attacks. He also expressed Turkey’s support for the Palestinians in Gaza.

Nearly 50 Palestinians have been killed and more than 400 others wounded in the Israeli airstrikes since November 14.

On November 16, Morsi said, “Egypt will not leave Gaza on its own… What is happening is a blatant aggression against humanity.”

“I tell them (Israelis) in the name of all the Egyptian people that the Egypt of today is not the Egypt of yesterday and that the Arabs of today are different than the Arabs of yesterday.”

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Iran slams international community's silence on Israeli crimes in Gaza

 

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi

Source: Press TV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/18/273009/iran-slams-international-silence-on-gaza/

Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has slammed the international community’s indifference to the Israeli regime’s aggression against the Gaza Strip.

“The approach of the Zionist Regime [of Israel] results from the lack of a firm reaction by the international community, particularly human rights organizations, towards the war crimes [committed] by this regime in the past and present,” Salehi said on Sunday.

The Iranian foreign minister made the remarks at an opening address to Syria’s National Dialog meeting in Iran’s capital, Tehran.

Nearly 200 participants, including Syrian scholars, tribal and religious leaders, the representatives of different ethnicities, minorities and the opposition are participating in the meeting hosted by Iran.

Salehi added that the international community’s indifference has led to the continuation and escalation of Israel’s crimes.

He said regional institutions, particularly the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), can take firm measures to prevent the repetition of such aggression.

The Iranian foreign minister added that “Arab countries and particularly the Arab League and Muslim countries” should focus all their attention on the main enemy and take practical measures to help the innocent people of Gaza.

At least 50 Palestinians have been killed and more than 400 others wounded since Wednesday, when the recent Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip began. Many Palestinian women and children have been among the fatalities.

Israeli aircraft also bombed Hamas’ government buildings in the Palestinian territory on Saturday. The Tel Aviv regime also authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.

The Iranian foreign minister said Syria’s National Dialogue meeting could be an important step toward resolving the country’s ongoing crisis and restoring peace and stability.

Syria has been experiencing a deadly unrest since March 2011 and many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the turmoil.

Iran has repeatedly voiced its opposition to any foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs, calling for inclusive dialog and national reconciliation as well as free elections as the key to the settlement of the crisis in the country.

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Egyptian PM visits Gaza, sides reportedly exchange strikes despite promised ceasefire

 

Palestinian Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya (R) receives Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil in Gaza City, on November 16, 2012 (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)

Source: Russia Today

http://rt.com/news/gaza-egypt-hisham-kandil-835/

Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil arrived in Gaza to show support to the Palestinian people after a two-day Israeli attack on the area. Reportedly, despite the implemented ceasefire during the PM’s trip, rocket fire was exchanged by both sides.

The ceasefire was broken shortly after Kandil’s arrival, when rockets fired from Gaza hit several sites in southern Israel, according to media reports. The Israeli Air Force responded by sending rockets on to the house of one of the Hamas leaders in Southern Gaza.

“What I am witnessing in Gaza is a disaster and I can't keep quiet. The Israeli aggression must stop,” stated Egyptian prime minister according to BBC’s Middle East Bureau Chief Paul Danahar.

“Egypt supports the Palestinians, Israel’s actions will not go unnoticed,” Kandil said.

Reportedly, Kandil arrived in Gaza for three hours to try and broker a new longer-lasting ceasefire during his visit.

While there he spoke to Palestinian politicians and stopped at a Shifa hospital in Gaza and held a dead child to show his solidarity, reported Global Post Senior Correspondent for the Middle East and North Africa Erin Cunningham.

 

Palestinian Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya (R) and Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil hold the body of a Palestinian baby boy who was killed in an Israeli air strike on November 16, 2012 during a visit to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City (AFP Photo / Manmud Hams)

During the stop in the hospital, Kandil made a statement saying that “Egypt will spare no effort … to stop the aggression and to achieve a truce.”

Media reported that two more people, one of them a child, were killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike while Kandil was visiting.

Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense has already killed 21 Palestinians, including eight militants and 13 civilians, among them six children and a pregnant woman. Also more than 150 were injured. Three Isrealis died from missiles fired from Gaza.

IDF said overnight shelling hit around 150 rocket-launching sites in Gaza, bringing the total sites hit to 450 since the operation began on Wednesday.

Egypt plays a key role as a mediator of the conflict. Egypt was the first country to withdraw its ambassador from Israel and called for the United National Security Council’s (UNSC) emergency meeting, which began Wednesday evening.

President Mohamed Morsi, seen by Hamas as a protector, denounced the Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

Also, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr called on the US to “immediately intervene” to curb “Israeli aggression”in Gaza in a telephone conversation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The new Egyptian president faces domestic pressure to act tough in front of Israel and protect the close historical ties to the Palestinians.

However, Egypt receives $1.3 billion a year in US military aid and relies on American help to aid its economy, which constrain him in his ability to act and show that he differs from his previous US-backed predecessor Hosni Mubarak.

Nevertheless, Hamas has turned to Egypt for support. The group’s leader Ismail Haniyeh spoke out asking for more Egyptian help.

"We call upon the brothers in Egypt to take the measures that will deter this enemy," Haniyeh said.

This conflict will serve as test for President Mohamed Morsi’s domestic stance on the one hand and, on the other, Egypt’s willingness to support the country’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel, which the West sees as the cornerstone for peace in Middle East.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has asked for a “Day of Rage” Friday in all Arab capitals in response to Israeli attack on Gaza. The Muslim Brotherhood has contributed to Morsi’s success in Egypt and is also seen as supporter of Hamas.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel also recognized Egypt’s significant role as a mediator in the region on Friday and has called upon Egypt to use its influence to restrain the conflict in Gaza.

In addition, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Israel and Egypt next week in his own attempt to bring about the end to Israel’s attack on Gaza. Ban is expected to discuss with Egyptian and Israeli officials the danger of escalation and the need to stop the violence.

 

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The Illustrated War Prayer - (Warning - Graphic content)

Video Source: Heretic Productions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cJpecZAJs
From whatreallyhappened.com: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/illuswarprayergaza.html

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!

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Israel threatens to escalate attacks against Palestinians in Gaza

 

A column of Israeli tanks take up position near the Gaza border. (File photo)

Source: Press TV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/24/268590/israel-threatens-to-step-up-gaza-attacks/

Israel has threatened to escalate its deadly attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli siege for many years.

Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak said on Wednesday that more Gazans are going to suffer because of the rockets fired from the territory into Israel.

"Hamas will receive its punishment for what has happened here," said Barak, referring to the Palestinian resistance movement which governs Gaza.

"If they cannot be calmed, and the rockets continue,” the Israeli military will respond, Barak said.

Since Tuesday night, at least four Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in the Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Palestinian resistance groups have been firing the rockets in retaliation for Tel Aviv’s deadly raids on the coastal enclave.

He also said no “element responsible for causing damage in Israel or to Israelis will be spared."

Gaza has been blockaded since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.

The apartheid regime of Israel denies about 1.7 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs that pay proper wages, and adequate healthcare and education.

Israel’s US-funded Iron Dome system has failed to intercept many of the projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip.

On July 27, US President Barack Obama signed a piece of legislation ratified by Congress that had Israel another $70 million in military assistance, on top of the $3 billion the United States had already pledged to provide to the Israeli military this year.

Obama signed the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, which provides more US taxpayer dollars to help Israel expand its Iron Dome short-range missile system.

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Hungarian demonstrators burn Israeli flag in Budapest

 

File photo shows an Israeli flag being burned.

Source: Press TV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/25/268630/israel-flag-burned-in-hungary-capital/

Members of Hungary’s Jobbik ultra-nationalist party have burned an Israeli flag in front of a major synagogue in the capital Budapest, calling on the government to cut diplomatic and economic ties with the Tel Aviv regime.

The protesters gathered outside the Dohany Street Synagogue, which is regarded as the largest synagogue in Europe, on Tuesday, when the country marked the 56th anniversary of the anti-Communist revolution in 1956.

Jobbik leader Gabor Vona denounced Hungary’s cooperation with the Israeli regime and said any “agreement between Hungary and Israel should be canceled.”

Meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador to Budapest Ilan Mor appeared on a TV program later in the day, condemning the anti-Israel demonstration in Budapest.

Jobbik holds 47 parliamentary seats and has been against Israeli investment in Hungary. It also considers Israeli business as threatening for the country.

In an interview in February, the party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Marton Gyongyosi, condemned policies of the Tel Aviv regime toward Palestinians.

Gyongyosi stated that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounted to a “Nazi system.”

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Vittorio in His Own Words

 

Source Video: Heretic Productions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBuuWeOp08

Mossad Killed - Vik Vittorio Arrigoni

Source Video: Gaza Friends
http://www.youtube.com/user/gazafriends

Solution: Free Gaza
http://www.freegaza.org/

 

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