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Israeli army targets family over brutality film
thenational.ae — Nilin, West Bank // The window through which Salam Amira, 16, filmed the moment when an Israeli soldier shot from close range a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee has a large hole at its centre with cracks running in every direction. “Since my video was shown, the soldiers shoot at our house all the time,” she said.
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- bastardometer, on 09/03/2008, -6/+28what a story, makes me sick what is happening over there
- elimrawne, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2I was all set up to write a comment about how awful Israeli soldier are... but then I read that the guy was shot in the foot... with a rubber bullet...
a slightly misleading summary. I think everyone will agree
However... yes Israel soldiers are still bad
- elimrawne, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2I was all set up to write a comment about how awful Israeli soldier are... but then I read that the guy was shot in the foot... with a rubber bullet...
- Conspiracy20, on 09/03/2008, -7/+29FTA: We need to show the world who is the occupier and who the occupied. Israel understands how threatening this is, which is why it is using so much force against us.”
We must ask why the US doesn't show these stories also. We are worse for allowing this s*it to go on while we furnish the occupiers with billions per year. - damack, on 09/03/2008, -7/+15It's ironic how you can be against Russia attacking Georgia and be for what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
Israel need to mend their relations with the Arabs, America's heyday is coming to an end it won't be long before Iranian allies like Russia and China have the last say in world politics so there won't be much of an Israel left if Israel don't fix their foul approach to the Palestinians. - MarkusGarvey, on 09/03/2008, -6/+12site is very slow....mirror..
http://www.thenational.ae.nyud.net:8080/article/20 ... - foreignbodytv, on 09/03/2008, -6/+14wow, and to think thats not even the worst of it ;(
- RightHand, on 09/03/2008, -6/+12Israel frees father of Palestinian girl who filmed shooting of bound man - Haaretz - Israel News
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1012731.html
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The IDF wes court of appeals has ordered the release from detention of the father of the Palestinian girl who filmed an IDF soldier shooting a bound Palestinian youth from point-blank range. Jamal Amira, father of 17-year-old Salam Amira who caught on tape the shooting incident two months ago, was arrested July 23 for his involvement in the protest against the separation fence, in the West Bank village of Na'alin. Amira was then charged with harming local security, wounding a Border Police officer and violating a closure decree in the area. "One cannot overlook the fact that out of all the protestors, only Amira was arrested," the military judge read from his ruling Sunday. The judge called the confrontation between Amira and the Border Police officer "completely unprofessional," adding "I find that the confrontation somewhat strengthens the position of the appealer [Amira]."
... Ha 'aretz
MyTags:- appeal court IDF detainees family bound.blindfolded Palestine youth weapons apartheid.seperation.Wall West.Bank - RightHand, on 09/03/2008, -6/+11IDF soldier shoots bound Palestinian at short range - Haaretz - Israel News
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1003717.html FTA
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem released a video showing an IDF soldier shooting a Palestinian youth with a rubber bullet at short range, his arms and legs bound by a high-ranking Border Police officer. According to B'Tselem, the shooting was witnessed by several other soldiers and officers, including the lieutenant colonel who bound the teen's limbs. The organization allegedly demanded an investigation be opened into his role and that the soldier who fired the gun "be brought to justice." The incident occurred on July 7, in the West Bank village of Na'alin, B'Tselem said. Palestinians and leftists have increased their protests in recent months against the separation barrier in the town, and the demonstrations have at time culminated in violent clashes.
... Haaretz - Stevanoski, on 09/03/2008, -12/+8When you have been attacked as many times as Israel has I reckon you get slightly more defensive, in a military way.
- Kizilbash, on 09/03/2008, -7/+8If you don't want to be attacked, it is often a good idea not to occupy another nation.
- MarkusGarvey, on 09/04/2008, -5/+10that's not being defensive Stevie...that's called intimidation...
- Stevanoski, on 09/04/2008, -4/+8I disagree.
- MarkusGarvey, on 09/04/2008, -4/+8i expect nothing less...17 yr old girls with cameras are a major threat...she has the most powerful weapon there is...the truth...
- xs11ax, on 09/04/2008, -5/+4yes. they fear the truth. that is why they try so hard to suppress the truth.
- FrankHope, on 09/03/2008, -7/+14This is sad. It breaks my heart to see this happening. This young girl is the sweetest thing. Her father was arrested after the video was released. God bless them.
- m2garand, on 09/04/2008, -4/+10My tax dollars at work. Man does that piss me off.
- GrandmaSheila, on 09/04/2008, -4/+9The people of Gaza are kept in concentration-camp conditions, denied the very basics of life, including drinkable water and medical aid, and everybody rushes to blame them when "violent clashes" break out. To everybody here: what the HELL WOULD YOU DO if it were you and your family? Lay down like dogs in a cage, or stand up and fight for your rights?
- xs11ax, on 09/04/2008, -4/+4get up stand up, stand up for your rights.
get up stand up, dont give up the fight!- bernk1, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2"Everyone is crying out for peace. None is crying out for justice.
"Everyone is crying out for peace. None is crying out for justice.
"I don't want no peace. I want equal rights. And justice."
Peter Tosh, "Equal Rights"
- bernk1, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2"Everyone is crying out for peace. None is crying out for justice.
- dkapuchino, on 09/04/2008, -2/+6A concentration camp with one of the Top 10 population growths in the world, and one of the lowest Death rates in the world (#187). Just check the UN reports.
- writie, on 09/04/2008, -4/+2Relevance? Blockading a civilian population in a ghetto is still criminal. What's more, it has proven totally ineffective for Israel's purposes as Shalit is still held hostage and Hamas is still in power.
Time to move on and change tactics, I'd say. - Kizilbash, on 09/04/2008, -4/+3I thought you hated the UN (after it gave you the only justification for Israel's existence). So, what UN Report is that? This one? "A UN human rights investigator has likened Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories to apartheid South Africa and says there should be "serious consideration" over bringing the occupation to the international court of justice. The report by John Dugard, a South African law professor who is the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, represents some of the most forceful criticism yet of Israel's 40-year occupation." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/23/israel ...
Or maybe this one? " Around 46 per cent of Gaza and West Bank households are "food insecure" or in danger of becoming so, according to a UN report on the impact of conflict and the global boycott of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
The unpublished draft report, the first of its kind since the boycott was imposed when the Hamas government took office last March, says bluntly that the problem "is primarily a function of restricted economic access to food resulting from ongoing political conditions"." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-eas ...
Or maybe these? "The unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip now stands at 45 percent, higher than anywhere else in the world, according to a report released recently by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Nearly 95 percent of all factories operating in Gaza have been closed down in recent years, says the report. Israel's year long economic blockade on the coastal territory and repeated closure of electricity and fuel sources have also contributed to the humanitarian crisis.
According to a separate report published by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the unemployment rate in the West Bank reached 25 percent between July and December 2007 - double the average rate in the Middle East and North Africa region." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1006282.html
- writie, on 09/04/2008, -4/+2Relevance? Blockading a civilian population in a ghetto is still criminal. What's more, it has proven totally ineffective for Israel's purposes as Shalit is still held hostage and Hamas is still in power.
- RightHand, on 09/04/2008, -5/+2@Dkapuchino
"A concentration camp with one of the Top 10 population growths in the world, and one of the lowest Death rates in the world (#187). Just check the UN reports."
Says it all. The essence of the Zionist/Palestinian problem is population. Can the Zionist out-bred or import non-Arab fake Jews faster than the Palestinians can out-bred them. The Nazis at least had the excuse that their concentration camps were work camps. The Zionist don't have that luxury of time and yet cannot have total death camps. The answer is to import scumbag settlers to steal Arab land so the Palestinians will depart as in 1948. Combined with the façade of a peace process. - dkapuchino, on 09/05/2008, -1/+4Obviously none of you have actually addressed my comments. You feed propaganda and lies, such as the claim that palestinians do not have enough drinking water, and when confronted with a simple fact that the palestinains are growing and barely dieing, you go on to other lies and propaganda.
- MarkusGarvey, on 09/05/2008, -5/+3the birth rate anywhere goes up after any type of disaster...except this one hasn't ended yet..hence the increased birth rate....is that what you wanted?
- bernk1, on 09/05/2008, -2/+5Don't expect an answer from a few of these people. They sit in comfortable, safe places, care-less of the fact that others are losing their lives as a result of what they advocate, though they never come out and say just what they think is a societal model. Favoring a society that they would never want to live in for one day.
Revolution is the opiate of the arm-chair revolutionary. Get up, stand up for your rights -- indeed! What rights? Workers rights? Well, take your pick. Hamas or Histadrut [General Federation of Workers]? Well, do they care? And where can they be most freely expressed in the Middle East? Do they care? Or do rights only apply to non-"Zionists" -- as if they trick people as to who they mean.
It is possible to be an anti-Zionist without being an anti-Semite (there are anti-Zionist Jews). However, ALL anti-Semites are anti-Zionists. If you hang around with pigs for a long enough time, you begin to smell like one. I need to get some fresh air -- it stinks around here. - Kizilbash, on 09/05/2008, -5/+2***** you *****. I was in Gaza, I was in Jenin, I was in Nablus, I was in Hebron, in Ramallah, in Bethlehem. Were you? I even rode the famous Israeli buses that are so scary according to what we are supposed to believe. You think that's scary? Try walking home in the pitch dark because the Israelis have cut off the electricity when you hear the Israeli tanks driving around. Try spending the night in any Palestinian cities when the Apache helicopters come flying over. Don't you ***** try to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. It certainlyu stinks around here alright, it did the moment you walked in with your cheap accusations and meaningless rhetoric.
And kapuchino you're comments are meaningless. We have only your word for this crap and frankly your word means nothing to me. - dkapuchino, on 09/05/2008, -2/+5At least markus tried (barely) to refute my claims. Markus, I get the increased birth rate. How do you explain the fact that with all the lack of water, food, and the Israelis just killing them off for fun (some of you even like claim there is an ongoing genocide), the Palestinians are at #187!!!! in death rates per 1000 lives.
Kizilbash, I just love it how you completely ignore the fear of riding on bus when every other day a suicide bomber blows himself up on a bus, killing dozens and seriosly wounding dozens more. Afraid to walk in the dark? I've been only a few houndred feet away from over 4 suicide bombings. I one day missed my train, and my life was saved because of that. If anyone here is all rhetoric and lies, it's you. - bernk1, on 09/05/2008, -1/+4Kizil -- If you are talking to me with your "***** you *****" comment. - Yes, I was in Gaza, no - I was never in Jenin, yes - I was in Nablus, yes- I was in Hebron, yes - in Ramallah, yes - in Bethlehem. (For being such a repressive police state, you sure managed to get around a lot.)
I too rode the Israeli buses -- scary? What do you mean -- never mind.
Try spending the night in Sderot when the mortar rounds and missiles come flying in from Gaza! Try going to elementary school in Ma'alot. Try eating a felafel in an Arab-owned restaurant that is suicide-bombed. Try being a teachers' union member in Gaza. Try going to an internet cafe in Gaza. Try -- never mind.
Sorry to imply that you don't know what you are talking about. I am certain that you know exactly what you are saying. And I am certain that you know the toll that is paid in bloodshed for what you defend and advocate.
Can't you even maintain a civil tone? Don't bother answering. Everyone can see. - writie, on 09/06/2008, -1/+1"Obviously none of you have actually addressed my comments."
I asked for the relevance, if I might remind you. The article was about what looks like army bullying of the family of the witness of a crime. It comes in the same week as some Israeli military were found guilty of throwing a teenager from a speeding vehicle (note: fair play to the Israeli court in this case).
I don't see the relevance of a discussion of just how bad the conditions are in Gaza. It is a Warsaw Ghetto type situation. Whether the conditions could/should be worse I leave to your conscience.
- RightHand, on 09/06/2008, -3/+1Guide: Gaza under blockade. It has been under an Israeli blockade since Hamas seized control in June 2007. What gets in and out of Gaza, what has been the impact of the restrictions, and what has changed since the truce between Israel and Hamas in June?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7545636.stm TFA
For the past year, Gaza's 1.5m people have been relying on less than a fifth of the volume of imported supplies they received in Dec 2005.
Only basic humanitarian items have been allowed in and virtually no exports permitted, paralysing the economy. Reduced fuel supplies and lack of spare parts have had heavy knock-on impacts on sewage treatment, waste collection, water supply and medical facilities.
75% of Gaza's residents rely on some form of food aid. Rations provide 66% of their daily nutritional needs.
The 55MW EU-run power plant in Gaza received only 2.2m litres of industrial diesel a week. It could generate 80MW if this was increased to 3.15m.
Power cuts and shortages of fuel for back-up generators have meant Gaza's 3 sewage plants have been unable to secure the 14 days uninterrupted power supply required to treat sewage.
...BBC
Sorry, didn't think this Zionist was serious in his argument. I take it he is refering to Gaza although he doesn't say so. - RightHand, on 09/06/2008, -3/+1Unless you were on another planet or are so far up your own arse, and are such a ***** that you have lost all sense of being a human that you believe that it is normal in anyway to treat humans like the Zionists treat the native Arabs. In Ireland you would be jailed for treating animals as the Zionist treat the third rate Arabs. The second rate are the true Jews of Middle-Eastern background and not the pseudo-Jews in control from the Russian criminal prison, released and flown to Israel for to have citizenship conferred on them and American money to build squatter settlements with the convenience of the corrupt Mafia state.
Arse and ***** are appropriate here as sewerage is the one thing that the pseudo-Jews from Russia have in abundance to direct for free upon their reluctant Arab neighbour. A child and his gran died in this filth from filth. Their presence pollutes the land and their filth pollutes the water.
The state of Israel charges the UN and EU EXORBITANT prices for what ever it chooses to supply the starving of Gaza. It is the sole supplier of that it dreams to sell. This is why they threatened to sink the token supplies landed from Cyprus.
This bollocks says they haven't died yet so they are not starving. That they are increasing in numbers despite the best efforts of the Zionist to cull their numbers. Does he know nothing of human nature and population numbers in famine countries? Is he human at all?
Does he believe that Hamas would wait about while the Zionist turned on and off the tap of food, water and power? Committing mass suicide would be preferable that allowing that, but it would please the Zionists, mightily. So what to do to exist? You tunnel and smuggle. You die by the score, buried by the Zionist IDF, but you bring home the bacon to keep your community alive. The Zionist claim arm smuggling in the Western controlled media. You cannot eat bullets.- dkapuchino, on 09/06/2008, -0/+3I suddenly understand why you only resort to quoting articles in a manipulative way. You can't even get a though straight, let alone a reasonable thought.
When its a matter of your own words, and not copy-pasting, all I see is lies, propaganda and pure hate towards anything Jewish. At least you have anti-zionism to hide your own anti-semitism. You'd be best to stick to quoting articles. At least your true colors don't show that way.
- dkapuchino, on 09/06/2008, -0/+3I suddenly understand why you only resort to quoting articles in a manipulative way. You can't even get a though straight, let alone a reasonable thought.
- RightHand, on 09/06/2008, -2/+1ips --- MIDEAST: Sewage in Water Threatens Gazans.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43038 TFA
Gaza is being forced to pump 77 tonnes of untreated or partially treated sewage out to sea daily due to the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory. The fear is that some of this is creeping back into drinking water.
"The health of Gaza's 1.5 million people is at risk," Mahmoud Daher, of UN WHO after it carried out a number of tests on Gaza's contaminated water.
On the ground Israel's closure has translated into a lack of fuel, electricity and spare parts needed to operate wastewater and sewerage treatment plants. Gaza's water and sanitation systems are near complete collapse as the power required to run treatment and desalination plants, pump water to homes, and pump sewage away from populated areas is only available on a very limited basis.
Following Hamas' takeover in Gaza last year, after it won legislative elections in 2006, Israel designated the densely populated strip of 360 square kilometres hostile territory and sealed off the borders, enforcing an embargo which is supported by the international community.
Since then the Jewish state has allowed only a trickle of humanitarian goods into Gaza, and only after intense international pressure and intervention. Besides drastically reducing fuel and electricity supplies, Israel has also barred import of most vital technical parts, which humanitarian organisations argue are necessary if Gaza's basic infrastructure is to operate.
"We are extremely concerned about a possible outbreak of water-borne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, dysentery, and gastro-enteritis," added Daher.
Following WHO's water analysis results, the Palestinian Water Authority last month told Gazans to boil all water before cooking or drinking, following a shortage of hypochlorite, the chemical used to clean water, due to the blockade.
WHO also warned that nitrates in Gaza's drinking water coming from leaking sewage and agricultural chemicals in the groundwater are 13 times higher than international safety standard levels.
Doctors in Gaza have indicated that the high levels of nitrates are partly responsible for the rising number of Palestinians suffering from anaemia, although poverty and malnutrition, exacerbated by the economic embargo and the resulting decimation of the territory's economy are also to blame. - RightHand, on 09/06/2008, -2/+2NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
Raw sewage runs in the streets of Gaza
http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2008a/03 ...
By MOHAMMED OMER
Inter Press Service
Gaza City, Palestine
A stream of dark and putrid sludge snakes through Gaza’s streets. It is a noxious mix of human and animal waste. The stench is overwhelming. The occasional passerby vomits.
Over recent days this has been a more common sight than the sale of food on the streets of Gaza, choked by a relentless Israeli siege.
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans, almost all of its able male adults among a population of 1.5 million, crossed over into Egypt in late January to buy essential provisions -- and a new lease on life. That has staved off starvation. But streets continue as sewers.
The rain has not helped. The sludge has spread, and the stench with it. Starved of timely income and essential supplies, municipal services have all but ceased.
“The smell,” said Ayoub al-Saifi, 56, grimacing as he holds a handkerchief over his nose and mouth. “The stench of the sewage … my wife has asthma, and she can’t breathe.”
Saifi lives next to what has become a newly formed pool of waste. This used to be the street leading to home. “It’s getting worse day by day,” said neighbor Said Ammar, an engineer and father of four.
The sewage treatment plant in al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City requires 20,000 liters of fuel a day. In January Israel ceased delivery of all fuel and supplies to Gaza. The consequences have been catastrophic.
Without fuel to pump it away, the waste backs up, flooding the streets and clogging the plumbing. The local ministry of health has declared this an environmental catastrophe.
Doctors have warned that a medical catastrophe could follow by way of the spread of cholera and other diseases. That is at a time when not even life-saving medical services are available any more. - RightHand, on 09/06/2008, -2/+2The loathsome smearing of Israel's critics
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11 ...
05.08.2008 | The Indipendent
By Johann Hari
I wrote an article that described how untreated sewage was being pumped from illegal Israeli settlements on to Palestinian land, contaminating their reservoirs. This isn't controversial. It has been documented by Friends of the Earth, and I have seen it with my own eyes.
The response? There was little attempt to dispute the facts I offered. Instead, some of the most high profile 'pro-Israel' writers and media monitoring groups - including Honest Reporting and Camera - said I an anti-Jewish bigot akin to Joseph Goebbels and Mahmoud Ahmadinejadh, while Melanie Phillips even linked the stabbing of two Jewish people in North London to articles like mine. Vast numbers of e-mails came flooding in calling for me to be sacked.
Any attempt to describe accurately the situation for Palestinians is met like this. If you recount the pumping of sewage onto Palestinian land, 'Honest Reporting' claims you are reviving the anti-Semitic myth of Jews 'poisoning the wells.' If you interview a woman whose baby died in 2002 because she was detained - in labour - by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint within the West Bank, 'Honest Reporting' will say you didn't explain 'the real cause': the election of Hamas in, um, 2006. And on, and on.
The former editor of Israel's leading newspaper, Ha'aretz, David Landau, calls the behaviour of these groups 'nascent McCarthyism'. Those responsible hold extreme positions of their own that place them way to the right of most Israelis. Alan Dershowitz and Melanie Phillips are two of the most prominent figures sent in to attack anyone who disagrees with the Israeli right. Dershowitz is a lawyer, Harvard professor and author of The Case For Israel. He sees ethnic cleansing as a trifling matter, writing: 'Political solutions often require the movement of people, and such movement is not always voluntary ... It is a fifth-rate issue analogous in many respects to some massive urban renewal.' If a prominent American figure takes a position on Israel to the left of this, Dershowitz often takes to the airwaves to call them anti-Semites and bigots.
- xs11ax, on 09/04/2008, -4/+4get up stand up, stand up for your rights.
- FrankHope, on 09/04/2008, -4/+6You can watch an interview with Salam Amira, the young girl who took the video of the Israeli Army shooting a Palestinian youth.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_cont ...
Here are my comments after watching this video the first time:
The young girl who shot the footage reminds me of Mary the Mother of Jesus. The Palestinians are the true people of the Bible. It is a perversion that the Zionists are Ashkenazi Jews and are being supported by Christian groups. Some of the last words of Christ are truly the words of the Palestinian People, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" - Kizilbash, on 09/06/2008, -1/+2Give me a ***** break with your 'civil tone' bernk, you hypocrite. You are the one who started name-calling, you make me sick. You think it is perfectly alright for Israel to kill 20 Palestinians because the Palestinians shoot rockets that injure one Israeli. There is no comparison between what is happening in Gaza and in Israel. I know the toll in bloodshed for what you defend an advocate.
And yes, the repressive police state made it impossible to get around anymore. They are even letting their soldiers get away with killing journalists now. - CoolHandLuke70, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1What lovely people the Israeli soldiers!
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