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Hugo Chavez Kicks Out Israeli Ambassador to Venezuela
8:19 am By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Venezuela| israel · 13 Comments
7 Jan 2009
So much for the restraint Jen yesterday wrote about Hugo Chavez showing. Venezuela yesterday expelled the Israeli Ambassador, saying it was an act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.
From an official statement:
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses, yet again, together with people across the world, horror at the death of innocent women and children—a product of the Gaza Strip’s invasion by Israeli troops and the continual aereal and ground bombardment systematically unloaded by the State of Israel on the Palestinian Territory.At this tragic and indignant hour, the People of Venezuela manifests its unrestricted solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people; share the pain that has overcome the thousands of families for the loss of their loved ones; and standing with them, the Venezuelan government affirms that it will not rest until those responsible for these criminal atrocities are severely punished.
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela sharply condemns the flagrant violations of the international law which the State of Israel has incurred, and denounces its planned use of State terrorism, with which this State has positioned itself at the margins of National order.
For the reasons outlined above, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has decided to expel the Israeli Ambassador and part of its personnel at the Israeli Embassy in Venezuela, reaffirming its vocation of peace and its existence that international law be respected.
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has prepared its mission in accordance to the UN so that, together with the majority of governments who require it, pressure is put on the Security Council to apply urgent and necessary measures to stop the current invasion of the State of Israel against the Palestinian Territory.
President Hugo Chávez, who has supported encounters with high representatives from the World Jewish Congress and has always opposed all anti-Semitism as he has all types of discrimination and racism, makes a brotherly plea to the Jewish community throughout the world to oppose the State of Israel’s criminal policies that serve as a reminder of the worst pages in the history of the twentieth century. With the genocide of the Palestinian people, the State of Israel will never be able to offer its own people a prospect toward a necessary and long lasting peace.
Via / Kabobfest
Image Via / Inca Kola
Hugo Chavez Tells Venezuelan Jews to Denounce Gaza Attacks
2:20 pm By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Religion| Venezuela · 1 Comment
6 Jan 2009
More verbal than Barack Obama and forever willing to comment on anything that’s going on in the world, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has put a call out to Jews in his country: denounce the Israeli military actions in Gaza. Rather surprisingly, he did so with good taste and decorum
“A Palestinian community lives here with us which we adore and love and there are also Jews that live here who we love as well, but I wish the Jewish community would declare themselves against this barbarism. Do it. Don’t you strongly denounce any act of persecution and the Holocaust? What do you think we are looking at [in Gaza]? Put your hand on your heart and be fair.”
Of course, he had other things to say, which fit well into his typical spiel, like how Fidel is called a tyrant but he has never invaded a country like Israel is doing now. And how Irani president Ahmadineyad is equally vilified, yet he has never taken action against any country.
What do you think? Are the comparisons fair?
Via / El Universal (Venezuela)
Israel’s Assault on the People of Gaza: Cluster Bombs, White Phosphorous, and Depleted Uranium
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Palestine| israel · Comments Off
6 Jan 2009
Israel, with United States sponsorship is now using chemical weapons against the people of Gaza, including white phosphorous.
From Kabobfest:
What did Saddam Hussein use in his Halabja poison gas attack, along with other chemical weapons?White phosphorous.
The US used this very same chemical weapon in the attack on Falluja in 2004.
The Geneva Conventions make the use of white phosphorous as a chemical weapon illegal and when you read the effects of it, it’s easy to see why.
It ignites on contact with oxygen. Particles on a person can be temporarily extinguished with water, but as soon as they are dry they will recombust. Longer-term exposure causes poisoning, which leads to wounds of the mouth and eventual destruction of the whole jawbone.
Exposure to white phosphorus smoke in the air can also cause liver, kidney, heart, lung or bone damage and even death.
Israel insists that it is using white phosphorous as a smoke screen.
Israeli Diamonds Are Not Salma Hayak’s Best Friend
8:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Celebrities| Gaza| Palestine| Women| israel · 2 Comments
2 Jan 2009
Mexicana and la Macha’s secret girlfriend, Salma Hayak doesn’t want to be associated with Israeli blood diamonds.
Apparently Salmita asked that Jewish-American billionaire Lev Leviev remove her picture from his diamond store website after Leviev was linked to settlement expansion in the West Bank and right-wing Zionist causes.
Other actresses who also want to keep their distance include Sharon Stone, Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Drew Barrymore, Brooke Shields, Andie Macdowell, and Lucy Liu.
The celebrities were contacted by the rights group Adalah and the New York based ‘Jews Against the Occupation’ and asked them to distance themselves from a corporation that supports the Zionist project.
The stars took action only after being contacted by the activists working to expose Leviev’s anti-human rights agenda.
Via / Kabobfest
Nothing New for Gaza in the New Year
10:30 am By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Palestine| israel · Comments Off
1 Jan 2009
This morning in Gaza was like that last five mornings. There was no confetti littering the streets, instead the streets are stained with blood and filled with cries and fears of more attacks from Israel as the death toll likely has passed the 400 mark and more than 2,000 have been wounded in the strikes. The UN has said at least 25 per cent of the dead are civilians. One of the dead is a senior leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Nizar Rayyan. Four Israelis have been killed by home-made rockets fired by the Palestinian factions since the Israeli operation started. In airstrikes this morning a children’s hospital in Gaza City was damaged (I’m sure that hospital for children was a Hamas training ground ::eye roll::)
Yesterday, the Israeli cabinet rejected a French proposal to agree a 48-hour ceasefire and now Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, is to meet Tzipi Livni, Israel’s foreign minister, to try and attempt to broker a truce to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip
Nothing more threatening than a former U.S Congresswoman/former U.S. Presidential candidate bringing medical supplies to Gaza. Add this to an ever growing list of international laws Israel is breaking.
Via / Prison Planet
What is Obama Waiting for to Say Anything on Gaza?
2:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Politics · 6 Comments
30 Dec 2008
President-Elect Obama has officially said “no comment” in response to the mass murder that is happening right now in Gaza. His advisers are speaking however and are showing where loyalties are.
It was the single deadliest attack on Gaza in over 20 years and Obama’s initial reaction on what could be his first real test as president was “no comment”. Meanwhile, Israel has readied itself for a land invasion, amassing tanks along the border and calling up 6,500 reserve troops.
On Sunday’s “Face the Nation,” Obama’s Senior Adviser David Axelrod explained to guest host Chip Reid how an Obama administration would handle the situation, even if it turns for the worst.
“Well, certainly, the president-elect recognizes the special relationship between United States and Israel. It’s an important bond, an important relationship. He’s going to honor it … And obviously, this situation has become even more complicated in the last couple of days and weeks. As Hamas began its shelling, Israel responded. But
it’s something that he’s committed to.”
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
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