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Remembering Operation Cast Lead, 10 years ago today

[email protected] December 27, 2018 chemical weapon, gaza war, history, IDF, israeli defense forces, operation cast lead, white phosphorus

Today we remember the 2008-9 Israeli incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, which was launched exactly 10 years ago. 1400 Palestinians – including 344 minors – and 9 Israelis were killed in the hostilities.

A UN report found that Israel’s military operation “destroyed a substantial part of the Gaza Strip’s economic infrastructure and its capacity to support decent livelihoods for families.” A decade later, little progress has been made in rebuilding, thanks in part to Israel’s 2 subsequent attacks on Gaza.

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IDF shot a Palestinian Teen, Dragged Him Around, Chased Ambulance Away

[email protected] December 23, 2018 btselem, children, IDF, stone throwing

The coldness of Israel and its soldiers is incomprehensible – shooting a Palestinian minor in the back, shooting at the neighbor who tried to help, threatening to shoot the ambulance driver, while the youth bled to death. This has become a common occurrence, with at least 52 Palestinian children killed in 2018.

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Truth is stranger than fiction: 3 days in the West Bank

[email protected] December 17, 2018 collective punishment, fourth geneva convention, humanitarian law, IDF, international law, occupation, zionism

Elderly women, families, children, and of course young men in the occupied Palestinian territories are regularly treated with brutality by Israeli forces. International laws are in place to protect vulnerable populations, but Israel ignores such laws – and gets away with it. Simple, common decency ought to elicit restraint on the part of the occupier, but does not.

These very brief stories are snapshots of Israeli cruelty between December 15 and 17, 3 days out of the 50+ years of violent occupation which the United States endorses and supports to the tune of over $10 million a day.

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A cruel, yet very usual Israeli incident that almost nobody knows about

[email protected] December 15, 2018 abu hmeid, collective punishment, home demolition, icrc, occupation, punitive home demolition, resistance, zionism

The illegal Israeli occupation continues its illegal collective punishment by demolishing the home of an alleged terrorist’s family and terrorizing the entire neighborhood.

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Three Palestinians and three Israelis killed in spate of deadly incidents

[email protected] December 13, 2018 drive-by, extrajudicial killing, IDF, manhunt, occupation, ofra, settlement, zionism

The Israeli military has recently been conducting aggressive operations inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including in Area A, where the Palestinian Authority is supposed to be in full control.
Israel continues to prolong and entrench the now 50+-year occupation, citing the need for security; in reality the occupation and its injustice are the cause of Palestinian resistance, not the result of Palestinian violence.

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Marc Lamont Hill’s “anti-Semitism” is a distraction

[email protected] December 6, 2018 analysis, anti-Semitism, apology, BDS, dareen tatour, ethnic cleansing, home demolition, khan al ahmar, Marc Lamont Hill, nation-state law, occupation, open air prison, palestine exception, settlement, solidarity, torture, United Nations, zionism

Marc Lamont Hill, in Nazareth 2014. screenshot from Vimeo video. As is often the case with proponents of justice for Palestinians, Marc Lamont Hill was watched closely by Israel partisans as he spoke before the UN last week. They took a phrase – one phrase – from the speech and threw the rest aside, hoping…

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Palestinian groups agree to Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel

[email protected] November 13, 2018 ceasefire, Egypt, Gaza, Gideon Levy, hamas, IDF, Netanyahu, occupation, zionism, zionist

Last weekend saw an escalation of violence that started when Israeli military infiltrated Gaza, initiated a firefight, and retreated under cover of shelling. One Israeli and 7 Palestinians were killed, and Hamas responded with rockets. Today, factions in the besieged Gaza Strip say they have agreed to an Egypt-brokered ceasefire. “The resistance will respect this declaration as long as the Zionist enemy respects it.”

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Israeli project brings young scientists on free trip to “learn about Israel”

[email protected] August 29, 2018 Weizmann institute

A tax-deductible organization in the U.S. helps fund a program to bring recent high school graduates to Israel for a free, month-long program where they will engage in science while “learning about Israel.” Weizmann USA, with assets of two-thirds of a billion dollars, takes money away from the U.S. economy and sends it to Israel…

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Opinion: A Law That Tells the Truth About Israel

[email protected] July 13, 2018 apartheid, BDS, democracy, jnf, nation-state law, occupation, reuven rivlin, south africa

If Israel is Jewish, it cannot be democratic; if it’s democratic, it cannot be Jewish. But now the nation-state law makes it plain. Israel is for Jews only, officially.

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Israeli Troops First Shot a Gaza Journalist’s Left Leg, Then His Right. And They Didn’t Stop There

[email protected] May 2, 2018 abed al rahman nufal, ahmed al bahar, amputation, gaza march, march of return, Return March, safe zone, sniper, yousef kronz

Yousef Kronz was well within Israel’s designated “safe zone” in Gaza, wearing a Press vest, when he was shot in both legs. A young man who ran to help him was shot in the leg as well. Then Israel refused Yousef passage to the West Bank for treatment that would have saved at least one of his legs.

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