As the American media lies about the sequence of events that lead to Israel’s breaking of the effective truce to resume its massacres in Gaza where “two days of Israeli air strikes have killed 19 Palestinians, including seven militants and 12 civilians, among them six children and a pregnant woman. A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis” …
- How Israel Shattered Gaza Truce Leading to Escalating Death and Tragedy: a Timeline (electronic intifaada)
- Israeli N ewspaper: Israel Attacked Gaza Knowing Truce Was in the Works (Daily Kos)
- Two Palestinians, Including A Child, Killed In Jabalia (International Middle East Media Center)
- Gaza Kids at Risk in Crowded Urban Battle Zone (AP / abc News)
- Egyptian PM Arrives in Gaza as Rocket Attacks and Air Strikes Continue (Guardian)
- Muslim Brotherhood Mobilizes Protests Against Israel in Cairo (USA Today)
- Gaza Conflict: Israel Vows to Intensify Offensive (BBC)
“The Israelis launched their attack shortly after the US elections and shortly before the US was about to swear in a president at the inauguration in January and just before Israeli elections were scheduled as well. So there is no question that it has everything to do with Israeli politics‖Phyllis Bennis, director of the Institute for Policy Studies:
- ‘Obama Angry at Netanyahu over Gaza Assault’ (Russia Today)
“I say, we are children. There is nothing that is our fault to have to face this. They are occupying us and I will say, as Abu Omar said, “If you’re a mountain, the wind won’t shake youâ€. We’re not afraid, we’ll stay strong”:
- Civilians Under Attack in Gaza: a Photo Essay (Counterpunch)
- Customer Sues Muslim Barber for Refusing to Cut Her Hair (Washington Post)
- Hezbollah Man Wanted by US Freed From Iraq Custody (AP / abc News)
The protests began over fuel subsidies, but some sources “agree that the forthcoming elections are designed to turn the economic issue into a political one, and link it to the Syrian situation and the internal Palestinian conflict.
- Muslim Brotherhood Weighs Options in Jordanian Protests (As-Safir / Al-Monitor)
“It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus is a person reportedly implicated in a 2005 Israeli spy scandal”:
- Jane Harman and Israeli Spying (Counterpunch)
- Helpline Reaches Out to Muslim Women (Mississauga.com)
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