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More on Israeli Attack on Gaza
29 Dec 2008The news, images and stories coming out of Gaza gets more and more disturbing and angering. I know here in the NYC there was a rally yesterday, one planned for today and another one tomorrow. I will try to make my way to one, weather and children permitting.
The death toll has almost reached 300, with Israel saying this is just the beginning and congratulating itself on it’s restraint.
This is what restraint looks like apparently.
Israel Launches Air Strike Against Gaza
27 Dec 2008
I woke up this morning to the horrific and angering news that Israel launched an air strike against Gaza. Israel says it is attacking Hamas targets in an attack that so far has claimed 180 lives (I’m sure by the time I hit publish the death toll will have risen). Hundreds are reported injured.
Mustafa Barghouthi, the former Palestinian information minister, said: “This is not an attack on the Hamas. It is an attack on the whole population and the free will of the people of Gaza.”
He accused Israel of committing “war crimes” and demanded that Abbas and his government stop all relations with Israel.
The Israel army released a statement saying “terrorist installations” were hit and that all Israeli pilots returned unharmed.
Palestinian officials called on the international community to condemn the raids [AFP]
The operation against the Hamas is “only just beginning,” Avi Benayahu, an Israeli military spokesman said.
Via / Al Jazeera, Problem Chylde
An Arguement Against a Border Wall : Gaza
1:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics| israel · Comments Off
25 Jan 2008
While it’s clearly not the same thing as the U.S. – Mexico border debate, the fact that Gazans made another border wall hole on the Gaza-Egypt border wall, is proof positive that the presence of a physical barrier is not going to stop the movement of people, especially when those people are pushed to the brink. Hundreds of thousands have surged into Egypt to buy scarce supplies caused by a recent tightening of a blockade of Gaza.
Both border tightenings are being done in the name of homeland security, to keep racialized undesirables out. Both rely on a climate of fear to succeed and earn support.
It is an international border, it needs to be protected
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Via / BBC
Puerto Rico’s Tito Kayak Under Arrest in Israel
12:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Puerto Rico| israel · Comments Off
24 Apr 2007
A 48 year old Puerto Rican activist, Alberto de Jesus aka Tito Kayak, who made himself especially known protesting the U.S. Navy presence on Vieques, is currently under house arrest in Israel after he climbed a tower near Israel’s West Bank separation barrier and planted a Palestinian flag on it. De Jesus, who has been under arrest since Friday, was originally held in a prison in Beth El Settlement, near the city of Ramallah then placed under house arrest.
De Jesus initially was arrested after climbing a six-story surveillance tower alongside the separation barrier, near the West Bank town of Bilin. De Jesus stayed stayed on the tower for five hours and flew a large Palestinian flag, as part of a weekly protest by peace activists against the barrier.Police were unavailable to comment Tuesday, Israel’s independence day, but earlier said De Jesus would most likely be deported.
Tito’s actions were part of other actions protesting the barrier which Israel says is needed to keep militants out while Palestinians say the wall is part of continued Israeli encroachment on Palestinian land.
Via / CNN
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