13 aug 2014
Israel and Palestinians agreed late Wednesday to extend a ceasefire in Gaza for another 72 hours after failing to reach a long-term agreement in Cairo-mediated talks, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said.
A previously agreed three-day truce was set to expire less than an hour afterwards, at midnight local time.
"We have agreed to give more time for the negotiations," Azzam al-Ahmed, head of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo, said, adding that the extra time would be a further 72 hours.
An Egyptian official said Israel also accepted the proposal. Israel had earlier said it would back an extension of the lull.
The last-ditch effort to avoid renewed hostilities came after Palestinian officials said there were still gaps in an agreement for a long-term deal to end the conflict, which has killed almost 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza since July 8.
A previously agreed three-day truce was set to expire less than an hour afterwards, at midnight local time.
"We have agreed to give more time for the negotiations," Azzam al-Ahmed, head of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo, said, adding that the extra time would be a further 72 hours.
An Egyptian official said Israel also accepted the proposal. Israel had earlier said it would back an extension of the lull.
The last-ditch effort to avoid renewed hostilities came after Palestinian officials said there were still gaps in an agreement for a long-term deal to end the conflict, which has killed almost 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza since July 8.
The people of Venezuela collected and packaged about 300 tons of humanitarian aid to be sent to the Gaza Strip soon, a Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua notified his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki during a meeting at the former's office in the Venezuelan capital Caracas, according to a statement.
During the meeting which was held Tuesday, al-Maliki updated Jaua on the most urgent humanitarian aids needed to bring life back to the Palestinian coastal enclave.
After the meeting, the two ministers left to Caracas international airport to officially announce the departure of the first plane carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
A military plane took off at 13:41 p.m. heading to al-Ismailiya airport in Egypt. Venezuelan Minister of Defense Admiral Carmen Melendez attended the ceremony.
More planes will take off in the coming days and the whole amount of aid will then be sent to the Gaza Strip via Egypt's Rafah crossing.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua notified his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki during a meeting at the former's office in the Venezuelan capital Caracas, according to a statement.
During the meeting which was held Tuesday, al-Maliki updated Jaua on the most urgent humanitarian aids needed to bring life back to the Palestinian coastal enclave.
After the meeting, the two ministers left to Caracas international airport to officially announce the departure of the first plane carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
A military plane took off at 13:41 p.m. heading to al-Ismailiya airport in Egypt. Venezuelan Minister of Defense Admiral Carmen Melendez attended the ceremony.
More planes will take off in the coming days and the whole amount of aid will then be sent to the Gaza Strip via Egypt's Rafah crossing.
Three rockets from Gaza reportedly hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday night as the midnight end of a three-day ceasefire loomed with no breakthrough in negotiations in Cairo in sight.
Soon after the three rockets hit Israel, an explosion was heard in Gaza. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, however, denied that the group had fired any rockets.
Israeli Channel 2 TV station earlier reported an extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants was accepted by the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday evening, after being proposed by Egypt earlier in the day.
Hamas has accused Israel of using the short-term extensions of the ceasefire as a stalling tactic as it refuses to consider any of the Palestinian demands for peace.
The Palestinian delegation to ongoing ceasefire talks in Cairo did not give any response to the proposal, and the delegation cancelled a press conference that was to be given at 9:30 p.m.
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces deployed across border areas near Gaza.
The move comes as negotiations have reached an impasse amid a five-week Israeli assault on Gaza that has left nearly 2,000 Palestinians dead and around 10,000 injured.
Israel pulled back from Gazan cities two weeks ago after suffering heavy losses in battles with Palestinian militant groups. Although it initially floated the idea of maintaining a military presence inside Gaza near the border, it subsequently pulled troops out of those areas as well.
Despite the withdrawal, no long-term ceasefire agreement has been reached, as Israel has refused to accede to Palestinian requests even as Israeli military force has so far failed to subdue resistance.
The Palestinian ceasefire delegation in Cairo has insisted that Israel end its eight-year siege on the Gaza Strip, release dozens of prisoners whom Israel has re-arrested that were released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit exchange, the re-opening of a seaport and airport in Gaza, and the creation of a safe passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
These demands are consistent with the terms of the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, but which Israel has failed to abide by amid its refusal to consider direct negotiations of any kind with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group.
Israeli authorities have said that they would be willing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely but have also stressed that a long-term agreement should include the demilitarization of the Strip.
Palestinians have scoffed at this demand, saying it was al-Qassam fighters who prevented the full-scale infiltration and re-occupation of Gaza by Israeli forces in recent weeks.
Soon after the three rockets hit Israel, an explosion was heard in Gaza. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, however, denied that the group had fired any rockets.
Israeli Channel 2 TV station earlier reported an extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants was accepted by the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday evening, after being proposed by Egypt earlier in the day.
Hamas has accused Israel of using the short-term extensions of the ceasefire as a stalling tactic as it refuses to consider any of the Palestinian demands for peace.
The Palestinian delegation to ongoing ceasefire talks in Cairo did not give any response to the proposal, and the delegation cancelled a press conference that was to be given at 9:30 p.m.
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces deployed across border areas near Gaza.
The move comes as negotiations have reached an impasse amid a five-week Israeli assault on Gaza that has left nearly 2,000 Palestinians dead and around 10,000 injured.
Israel pulled back from Gazan cities two weeks ago after suffering heavy losses in battles with Palestinian militant groups. Although it initially floated the idea of maintaining a military presence inside Gaza near the border, it subsequently pulled troops out of those areas as well.
Despite the withdrawal, no long-term ceasefire agreement has been reached, as Israel has refused to accede to Palestinian requests even as Israeli military force has so far failed to subdue resistance.
The Palestinian ceasefire delegation in Cairo has insisted that Israel end its eight-year siege on the Gaza Strip, release dozens of prisoners whom Israel has re-arrested that were released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit exchange, the re-opening of a seaport and airport in Gaza, and the creation of a safe passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
These demands are consistent with the terms of the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, but which Israel has failed to abide by amid its refusal to consider direct negotiations of any kind with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group.
Israeli authorities have said that they would be willing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely but have also stressed that a long-term agreement should include the demilitarization of the Strip.
Palestinians have scoffed at this demand, saying it was al-Qassam fighters who prevented the full-scale infiltration and re-occupation of Gaza by Israeli forces in recent weeks.
1416 tons of supplies including medicine, food, power generators, and tents entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt through the Rafah crossing during the Israeli offensive.
The director of emergency services of the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement of Tuesday that these supplies entered through the Rafah crossing through coordination with the Egyptian Red Crescent.
Bassem al-Rimawi added that 75 percent of all supplies that entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing were from Egyptian sources, the vast majority of which came from the military.
Al-Rimawi added that 936 tons of food supplies and medicine were sent by the Egyptian Armed Forces, 57 tons of medicine and medical supplies from the Arab Doctors Union, eight tons of tents, blankets, medicine, and 4.6 tons of food supplies from the Egyptian Red Crescent, eight ambulances from the University of Palestine in Egypt, and two tons of medicine from the Egyptian Doctors' Syndicate.
The Egyptian al-Azhar Red Crescent, meanwhile, sent 47 tons of food, medicine and medical supplies, while three tons of medicine and supplies were sent by SEDICO Company in Egypt.
Al-Rimawi added that the UAE sent 90 tons supply of medicine and medical supplies, a power generator, six "field hospitals," 3 mobile clinics, a field bathroom, an ambulance, and 40 tons of relief/emergency supplies.
The government of Tunisia sent 28 tons of food, medicine and medical supplies, the government of Morocco sent 57 tons of medicine and food supplies, the government of Saudi Arabia sent 73 tons of food, and 35 tons of medicine and medical supplies were sent by the Islamic Development Bank and the Red Crescent.
The Kuwaiti Red Crescent sent 10 tons of medicine and medical supplies, half a ton of medicine and medical supplies was sent from the Arab League, and the Jordanian lawmaker Muhammad al-Isha sent 25 tons of medical supplies and medicine to the Gaza Strip.
Al-Rimawi added that the Egyptian Red Crescent is currently working on getting 25 tons of food and medical supplies that were sent from Kuwait into Gaza.
The director of emergency services of the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement of Tuesday that these supplies entered through the Rafah crossing through coordination with the Egyptian Red Crescent.
Bassem al-Rimawi added that 75 percent of all supplies that entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing were from Egyptian sources, the vast majority of which came from the military.
Al-Rimawi added that 936 tons of food supplies and medicine were sent by the Egyptian Armed Forces, 57 tons of medicine and medical supplies from the Arab Doctors Union, eight tons of tents, blankets, medicine, and 4.6 tons of food supplies from the Egyptian Red Crescent, eight ambulances from the University of Palestine in Egypt, and two tons of medicine from the Egyptian Doctors' Syndicate.
The Egyptian al-Azhar Red Crescent, meanwhile, sent 47 tons of food, medicine and medical supplies, while three tons of medicine and supplies were sent by SEDICO Company in Egypt.
Al-Rimawi added that the UAE sent 90 tons supply of medicine and medical supplies, a power generator, six "field hospitals," 3 mobile clinics, a field bathroom, an ambulance, and 40 tons of relief/emergency supplies.
The government of Tunisia sent 28 tons of food, medicine and medical supplies, the government of Morocco sent 57 tons of medicine and food supplies, the government of Saudi Arabia sent 73 tons of food, and 35 tons of medicine and medical supplies were sent by the Islamic Development Bank and the Red Crescent.
The Kuwaiti Red Crescent sent 10 tons of medicine and medical supplies, half a ton of medicine and medical supplies was sent from the Arab League, and the Jordanian lawmaker Muhammad al-Isha sent 25 tons of medical supplies and medicine to the Gaza Strip.
Al-Rimawi added that the Egyptian Red Crescent is currently working on getting 25 tons of food and medical supplies that were sent from Kuwait into Gaza.
3 rockets from Gaza hit Ashkelon in southern Israel, no injuries
Three rockets from Gaza hit Ashkelon in southern Israel on Wednesday resulting in no injuries, just hours before a 72-hour ceasefire was due to end.
Three rockets from Gaza hit Ashkelon in southern Israel on Wednesday resulting in no injuries, just hours before a 72-hour ceasefire was due to end.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out Wednesday at the UN Human Rights Council, accusing it of granting "legitimacy to terror organizations" by investigating Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
"UNHRC gives legitimacy to murderous terror organizations like Hamas and Daash (Islamic State)," he said, accusing the rights body of overlooking "massacres" committed elsewhere in the Middle East in favor of investigating Israel for defending itself against rocket attacks from Gaza.
In response to Netanyahu's comments, a spokesman for the 47-member rights council said the inquiry it launched last month will probe both sides in the Gaza conflict, which killed more than 1,950 Palestinians -- the vast majority of whom were civilians -- as well as 67 in Israel, 95 percent of whom were soldiers.
"The resolution establishing the Commission of Inquiry clearly states the commission will investigate all violations of international human rights and humanitarian law since the current military operations began in mid-June," Rolando Gomez told AFP.
"This directly implies that both parties will be subjected to a thorough investigation."
Netanyahu spoke just days after the rights council named Canadian international law expert William Schabas to run the inquiry, in a move which sparked fury in Israel, with officials denouncing him as biased.
"Instead of investigating Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens and its use of Gazans as human shields, instead of probing the massacre (President Bashar al-)Assad is perpetrating against the people in Syria or that Daash is carrying out among the Kurds, the UN decided to come and investigate Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East ... that is acting legitimately to defend its citizens against murderous terror," he said.
"First let them carry out an investigation in Damascus, in Baghdad, in Tripoli, let them go and see Daash and the Syrian army and Hamas. It is there, not here, that they will find war crimes," Netanyahu said.
The right council's commission is due to publish its findings in March 2015.
The Israeli leader accused Schabas of having "already decided" that Hamas was not guilty of anything and that there was "nothing to investigate there."
In a series of interview with the Israeli media, Schabas on Tuesday defended himself against allegations of bias.
Asked by Channel 2 television if he would describe Hamas as a "terror organization," Schabas said it would be "inappropriate" to answer such a question, and urged Israel to participate in the inquiry.
"It is important for Israel to cooperate because the allegations have a great deal to do with the use of force, the targeting, and the proportionality of that targeting, the identification of military objectives," he said, noting that Israel had described its use of force as "proportionate."
Israel has long had stormy relations with the UNHRC, which it accuses of having a built-in bias against Israel.
In January 2012, it became the first country to refuse to attend a periodic review of its human rights record. And two months later, it cut all ties with the council over its plans to probe how Jewish settlements were harming Palestinian rights.
In a separate development, Israel's state comptroller on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the Gaza offensive, a spokesman said.
Media reports said the investigation would consider the operation in view of both Israeli and international law.
"UNHRC gives legitimacy to murderous terror organizations like Hamas and Daash (Islamic State)," he said, accusing the rights body of overlooking "massacres" committed elsewhere in the Middle East in favor of investigating Israel for defending itself against rocket attacks from Gaza.
In response to Netanyahu's comments, a spokesman for the 47-member rights council said the inquiry it launched last month will probe both sides in the Gaza conflict, which killed more than 1,950 Palestinians -- the vast majority of whom were civilians -- as well as 67 in Israel, 95 percent of whom were soldiers.
"The resolution establishing the Commission of Inquiry clearly states the commission will investigate all violations of international human rights and humanitarian law since the current military operations began in mid-June," Rolando Gomez told AFP.
"This directly implies that both parties will be subjected to a thorough investigation."
Netanyahu spoke just days after the rights council named Canadian international law expert William Schabas to run the inquiry, in a move which sparked fury in Israel, with officials denouncing him as biased.
"Instead of investigating Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens and its use of Gazans as human shields, instead of probing the massacre (President Bashar al-)Assad is perpetrating against the people in Syria or that Daash is carrying out among the Kurds, the UN decided to come and investigate Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East ... that is acting legitimately to defend its citizens against murderous terror," he said.
"First let them carry out an investigation in Damascus, in Baghdad, in Tripoli, let them go and see Daash and the Syrian army and Hamas. It is there, not here, that they will find war crimes," Netanyahu said.
The right council's commission is due to publish its findings in March 2015.
The Israeli leader accused Schabas of having "already decided" that Hamas was not guilty of anything and that there was "nothing to investigate there."
In a series of interview with the Israeli media, Schabas on Tuesday defended himself against allegations of bias.
Asked by Channel 2 television if he would describe Hamas as a "terror organization," Schabas said it would be "inappropriate" to answer such a question, and urged Israel to participate in the inquiry.
"It is important for Israel to cooperate because the allegations have a great deal to do with the use of force, the targeting, and the proportionality of that targeting, the identification of military objectives," he said, noting that Israel had described its use of force as "proportionate."
Israel has long had stormy relations with the UNHRC, which it accuses of having a built-in bias against Israel.
In January 2012, it became the first country to refuse to attend a periodic review of its human rights record. And two months later, it cut all ties with the council over its plans to probe how Jewish settlements were harming Palestinian rights.
In a separate development, Israel's state comptroller on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the Gaza offensive, a spokesman said.
Media reports said the investigation would consider the operation in view of both Israeli and international law.
Two Palestinians on Wednesday died of injuries sustained during the Israeli assault on Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said Dima Kloub died in a hospital in Jordan where she was receiving treatment, while Raed al-Halabi died from injuries he sustained in airstrikes on northern Gaza.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, 1,957 Palestinians have been killed and more than 10,100 injured in five weeks of intense Israeli bombardment on the besieged coastal enclave.
Medical sources said Dima Kloub died in a hospital in Jordan where she was receiving treatment, while Raed al-Halabi died from injuries he sustained in airstrikes on northern Gaza.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, 1,957 Palestinians have been killed and more than 10,100 injured in five weeks of intense Israeli bombardment on the besieged coastal enclave.
Three Palestinians who were detained during Israel's ground offensive in the Gaza Strip were assaulted, injured, and denied medical treatment, a lawyer told Ma'an on Wednesday.
Youssef al-Nasasrah, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, said that Ahmad Taymur Abu Rida was detained from his home in Khan Younis and "brutally beaten" by Israeli soldiers.
Khalid Kamel Ibrahim al-Najjar from Khuza, a neighborhood of Khan Younis, was injured in an Israeli airstrike and arrested while still bleeding from his injuries.
He was not given medical treatment following his arrest.
Momen Khalid al-Najjar, also from Khuza, was assaulted while being detained.
Al-Nasasrah visited the detainees in Israel's Ashkelon prison, where rights groups say 26 Palestinians are being held.
Over 250 Palestinians were detained during Israel's ground operation and uncertainty remains over the exact number still being held in Israeli prisons
Youssef al-Nasasrah, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, said that Ahmad Taymur Abu Rida was detained from his home in Khan Younis and "brutally beaten" by Israeli soldiers.
Khalid Kamel Ibrahim al-Najjar from Khuza, a neighborhood of Khan Younis, was injured in an Israeli airstrike and arrested while still bleeding from his injuries.
He was not given medical treatment following his arrest.
Momen Khalid al-Najjar, also from Khuza, was assaulted while being detained.
Al-Nasasrah visited the detainees in Israel's Ashkelon prison, where rights groups say 26 Palestinians are being held.
Over 250 Palestinians were detained during Israel's ground operation and uncertainty remains over the exact number still being held in Israeli prisons
Israeli Channel 2 TV station reported an extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants was accepted by the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday evening, after being proposed by Egypt earlier.
The current 72-hour ceasefire was due to end at midnight on Wednesday, but with the potential extension the ceasefire would be extended until midnight on Saturday.
The Palestinian delegation to ongoing ceasefire talks in Cairo said they would give a press conference at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, in which its position on the extension of the ceasefire was expected to be discussed.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the Israeli ceasefire delegation in Cairo was on its way back to Israel.
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces had deployed across border areas near Gaza as the deadline loomed with no agreement made.
The move comes as negotiations have reached an impasse amid a five-week Israeli assault on Gaza that has left nearly 2,000 Palestinians dead and around 10,000 injured.
Israel pulled back from Gazan cities two weeks ago after suffering heavy losses in battles with Palestinian militant groups. Although it initially floated the idea of maintaining a military presence inside Gaza near the border, it subsequently pulled troops out of those areas as well.
Despite the withdrawal, no long-term ceasefire agreement has been reached, as Israel has refused to accede to Palestinian requests even as Israeli military force has so far failed to subdue resistance.
The Palestinian ceasefire delegation in Cairo has insisted that Israel end its eight-year siege on the Gaza Strip, release dozens of prisoners whom Israel has re-arrested that were released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit exchange, the re-opening of a seaport and airport in Gaza, and the creation of a safe passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
These demands are consistent with the terms of the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, but which Israel has failed to abide by amid its refusal to consider direct negotiations of any kind with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group.
Israeli authorities have said that they would be willing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely but have also stressed that a long-term agreement should include the demilitarization of the Strip.
Palestinians have scoffed at this demand, saying it was al-Qassam fighters who prevented the full-scale infiltration and re-occupation of Gaza by Israeli forces in recent weeks.
The current 72-hour ceasefire was due to end at midnight on Wednesday, but with the potential extension the ceasefire would be extended until midnight on Saturday.
The Palestinian delegation to ongoing ceasefire talks in Cairo said they would give a press conference at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, in which its position on the extension of the ceasefire was expected to be discussed.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the Israeli ceasefire delegation in Cairo was on its way back to Israel.
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces had deployed across border areas near Gaza as the deadline loomed with no agreement made.
The move comes as negotiations have reached an impasse amid a five-week Israeli assault on Gaza that has left nearly 2,000 Palestinians dead and around 10,000 injured.
Israel pulled back from Gazan cities two weeks ago after suffering heavy losses in battles with Palestinian militant groups. Although it initially floated the idea of maintaining a military presence inside Gaza near the border, it subsequently pulled troops out of those areas as well.
Despite the withdrawal, no long-term ceasefire agreement has been reached, as Israel has refused to accede to Palestinian requests even as Israeli military force has so far failed to subdue resistance.
The Palestinian ceasefire delegation in Cairo has insisted that Israel end its eight-year siege on the Gaza Strip, release dozens of prisoners whom Israel has re-arrested that were released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit exchange, the re-opening of a seaport and airport in Gaza, and the creation of a safe passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
These demands are consistent with the terms of the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, but which Israel has failed to abide by amid its refusal to consider direct negotiations of any kind with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group.
Israeli authorities have said that they would be willing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely but have also stressed that a long-term agreement should include the demilitarization of the Strip.
Palestinians have scoffed at this demand, saying it was al-Qassam fighters who prevented the full-scale infiltration and re-occupation of Gaza by Israeli forces in recent weeks.
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By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
I have been receiving of late several email messages, especially from North America, all critical of my propensity to compare the manifestly genocidal Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip with Nazi atrocities in the course of the Second World War. Many of these messages came from recalcitrant Zionist supremacists who think the entire world must move according to the Zionist compass. Other messages, however, were sent by apparently ignorant and naïve non-Zionists, seemingly brainwashed by protracted Zionist-Jewish propaganda. As we all know, Zionist-Jews more or less tightly control the media discourse in North America and to a lesser extent in Europe and Australia. This is one of the main reasons behind the unrestricted and often blind backing of the evil Zionist enterprise by most western governments, especially that of the U.S. One of the critics of the Zionist-Nazi analogy wrote: "You call the Israelis the Nazis of our time. You clearly have no knowledge of history. Let's take one example; at Barbi Yar in the Ukraine the Nazis slaughtered 30,000 Jews in one operation. 100,000 over a period of time. If the Israelis were the equivalent of Nazis neither you nor any other Palestinian would exist in what you call Palestine. If ever there was the big liar, like the Nazis, it is you. I hope the PA comes for you again and puts you back in a deep hole." Palestinians don't have to lie to promote their cause Well, as Palestinians we don't accuse Israel of murdering six million Palestinians, although Israel would have annihilated (physically) our entire people a long time ago had the circumstances been more "conducive" to the perpetration of such a genocide. It is for this reason that instead of committing a single-event mega-genocide, the Zionist entity resorted to carrying out a series of genocidal atrocities, spread out overall several decades. This way the Zionists calculated the genocidal episodes would look less dramatic and world reactions would be muted and desensitized. None the less, the ultimate Jewish-Zionist goal remained unchanged, namely the obliteration and physical annihilation of the native Palestinians in order to take over their country. So the Palestinians are not inventing a "holocaust industry" to voice their plight and incriminate Israel. In fact, Israeli behaviors and actions are more than sufficient to condemn Israel. To put it very simply, the Palestinians don't need to lie to expose Israeli Nazism and evilness. Israel, its Talmudic doctrine, and the Zionist ideology in general do exude |
a clear mental willingness to embark on such a diabolical crime. Any honest observer can easily reach this inevitable conclusion by merely thoroughly examining any religious edicts, statements, lectures and speeches by numerous Israeli politicians and religious leaders.
So we are by no means making any hyperbolic or far-fetched claims here.
In fact, genocide by Jews against non-Jews is perfectly compatible with Orthodox Judaism, Talmudic doctrine and Jewish history. In any case, what is practiced in reality remains more eloquent an expression of Jewish Nazism than all the books and edicts.
Here is a testimony by Nurit Peled, daughter of Matti Peled, an Israeli Major-General, a celebrated Israeli military commander and war hero who describes Gaza as a concentration camp.
Video 1
Numerous rabbis, past and present, made unequivocal and unmistakable statements enthusiastically supporting the notion of genocide against the Palestinian people. A few years ago, a Jewish settler leader affiliated with the messianic Jewish movement "Gush Emunim" was quoted as saying that "the proper way to deal with the Palestinians is the Biblical way," an allusion to genocide. (See video 2:)
More to the point, there is more to Jewish Nazism than just the sheer number of its Palestinian victims, although the numbers are not small by any means. Take for example the 2000 Palestinians murdered and the estimated 11000 maimed in the ongoing Judeo-Nazi blitzkrieg against Gaza so far. In proportion to the size of population, this would be like having about a million Americans murdered and maimed, and this happens during just "one military operation."
Besides, Nazism, whether Jewish or Aryan, is not only about the sheer number of victims. It is also about a mental depravity, a criminal mindset, an evil intent, a barbarian value-system and a satanic ideology. Just watch how Judeo-Nazi Israelis are now celebrating the mass murder and mass destruction of Gaza. (See video 3:)
In fact, there is a striking similarity between the various aspects of Jewish Nazism and Aryan Nazism. The Germans had the Mein Kampf, the Judeo-Nazis have the Talmud, the Chesront Shas and the Tanya, and the Germans had the Ubermenschen and the Untermenschen while Jews have the goyem concept, which dehumanizes non-Jews in a nefariously shocking manner. The Germans had the Lebensraum concept and the Zionist Jews have the settlements. The German Nazis taught that non-Aryans were lesser or infra-humans, while synagogues in Israel and around the world shamelessly teach that the lives of non-Jews have no sanctity.
Needless to say, this evil Talmudic indoctrination functions as the ideological underpinnings of the genocidal crimes being perpetrated by the Nazis of our time, the Israelis. This is the reason that makes thousands of Israeli Jews, gleefully and sadistically, celebrate the mass murder of Palestinian civilians.
I don't know when the world can ever call Israel “Nazi" after all that Israel has done and is doing.
The unspoken words of many Zionist Jews would suggest that the world must refrain from calling Israel Nazi unless Israel murders six million Palestinians?!!!!
But this is an expression of absolute evilness by every standard of imagination. In the final analysis, if Israel were to suffer even a fraction of what it has inflicted on the Palestinians, Israeli leaders would not hesitate to call it a holocaust and pathological Jewish liars like Binyamin Netanyahu and Elie Weisel would immediately invoke Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Dachau and Mauthauzen.!!!
In fact, they are already doing this although less than ten Israeli settlers have been killed.
In light, it is perfectly legitimate to call Israel the Nazis of our time, if only because Israelis are thinking, behaving and acting in Nazi-like manner.
As victims of Jewish Nazism, we Palestinians are not going to die quietly in the uninterrupted Jewish holocaust against our very existence. We are not going to behave meekly at the Jewish slaughterhouse in deference of Jewish feelings.
Let the shipyard dogs of Jewish Nazism, from California to Sydney, let them bark as rabidly and uncontrollably as they could, but they won't be able to suppress our voices.
Don't tell us Israel has many Nobel Prize winners and talented doctors and scientists. So what? The Nazis, too, had many talented doctors and scientists! We all know the rest of the story.
So we are by no means making any hyperbolic or far-fetched claims here.
In fact, genocide by Jews against non-Jews is perfectly compatible with Orthodox Judaism, Talmudic doctrine and Jewish history. In any case, what is practiced in reality remains more eloquent an expression of Jewish Nazism than all the books and edicts.
Here is a testimony by Nurit Peled, daughter of Matti Peled, an Israeli Major-General, a celebrated Israeli military commander and war hero who describes Gaza as a concentration camp.
Video 1
Numerous rabbis, past and present, made unequivocal and unmistakable statements enthusiastically supporting the notion of genocide against the Palestinian people. A few years ago, a Jewish settler leader affiliated with the messianic Jewish movement "Gush Emunim" was quoted as saying that "the proper way to deal with the Palestinians is the Biblical way," an allusion to genocide. (See video 2:)
More to the point, there is more to Jewish Nazism than just the sheer number of its Palestinian victims, although the numbers are not small by any means. Take for example the 2000 Palestinians murdered and the estimated 11000 maimed in the ongoing Judeo-Nazi blitzkrieg against Gaza so far. In proportion to the size of population, this would be like having about a million Americans murdered and maimed, and this happens during just "one military operation."
Besides, Nazism, whether Jewish or Aryan, is not only about the sheer number of victims. It is also about a mental depravity, a criminal mindset, an evil intent, a barbarian value-system and a satanic ideology. Just watch how Judeo-Nazi Israelis are now celebrating the mass murder and mass destruction of Gaza. (See video 3:)
In fact, there is a striking similarity between the various aspects of Jewish Nazism and Aryan Nazism. The Germans had the Mein Kampf, the Judeo-Nazis have the Talmud, the Chesront Shas and the Tanya, and the Germans had the Ubermenschen and the Untermenschen while Jews have the goyem concept, which dehumanizes non-Jews in a nefariously shocking manner. The Germans had the Lebensraum concept and the Zionist Jews have the settlements. The German Nazis taught that non-Aryans were lesser or infra-humans, while synagogues in Israel and around the world shamelessly teach that the lives of non-Jews have no sanctity.
Needless to say, this evil Talmudic indoctrination functions as the ideological underpinnings of the genocidal crimes being perpetrated by the Nazis of our time, the Israelis. This is the reason that makes thousands of Israeli Jews, gleefully and sadistically, celebrate the mass murder of Palestinian civilians.
I don't know when the world can ever call Israel “Nazi" after all that Israel has done and is doing.
The unspoken words of many Zionist Jews would suggest that the world must refrain from calling Israel Nazi unless Israel murders six million Palestinians?!!!!
But this is an expression of absolute evilness by every standard of imagination. In the final analysis, if Israel were to suffer even a fraction of what it has inflicted on the Palestinians, Israeli leaders would not hesitate to call it a holocaust and pathological Jewish liars like Binyamin Netanyahu and Elie Weisel would immediately invoke Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Dachau and Mauthauzen.!!!
In fact, they are already doing this although less than ten Israeli settlers have been killed.
In light, it is perfectly legitimate to call Israel the Nazis of our time, if only because Israelis are thinking, behaving and acting in Nazi-like manner.
As victims of Jewish Nazism, we Palestinians are not going to die quietly in the uninterrupted Jewish holocaust against our very existence. We are not going to behave meekly at the Jewish slaughterhouse in deference of Jewish feelings.
Let the shipyard dogs of Jewish Nazism, from California to Sydney, let them bark as rabidly and uncontrollably as they could, but they won't be able to suppress our voices.
Don't tell us Israel has many Nobel Prize winners and talented doctors and scientists. So what? The Nazis, too, had many talented doctors and scientists! We all know the rest of the story.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has denounced the mounting Israeli aggression against Gaza civilians, calling for an immediate ceasefire and holding Israel responsible for the repercussion of its genocides, pointing out the non-applicability of statutory limitations to such war crimes. The OIC welcomed in a statement late on Tuesday the decision issued by the UN Human Rights Council on July 23, 2014, slamming the Israeli occupation over the Gaza offensive.
The OIC urged the UN to immediately put into effect the terms of the resolution, particularly assigning an international independent committee to urgently investigate any potential infringements to the provisions of the international humanitarian law in Gaza.
The organization expressed deep disappointment at the U.S. voting against the resolution and slammed the reluctance of the Arab countries to back the decision up, which gives Israel so large a space to step up its military aggressions and breach international laws.
The OIC urged the UN to immediately put into effect the terms of the resolution, particularly assigning an international independent committee to urgently investigate any potential infringements to the provisions of the international humanitarian law in Gaza.
The organization expressed deep disappointment at the U.S. voting against the resolution and slammed the reluctance of the Arab countries to back the decision up, which gives Israel so large a space to step up its military aggressions and breach international laws.
The British government has ruled for the suspension of 12 arms export licenses to the Israeli occupation after having found out about their potential usage in carrying out attacks throughout the Gaza offensive. The British Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday that most of the military items exported to Israel are not to be used in carrying out military operations in Gaza.
The statement concluded that 12 licenses might involve items used by the Israeli army throughout the conflict.
“A ceasefire is being currently put into effect. Britain has been urging both parties, during the Egyptian-brokered talks, to preserve the terms of the truce and stop the fighting,” the statement added.
“In case the truce breaks down the British government would not perhaps be able to tell whether the terms of the export licenses have all been met. In light of that uncertainty we have taken the decision to suspend these existing export licenses as a precautionary measure,” the statement concluded.
The statement concluded that 12 licenses might involve items used by the Israeli army throughout the conflict.
“A ceasefire is being currently put into effect. Britain has been urging both parties, during the Egyptian-brokered talks, to preserve the terms of the truce and stop the fighting,” the statement added.
“In case the truce breaks down the British government would not perhaps be able to tell whether the terms of the export licenses have all been met. In light of that uncertainty we have taken the decision to suspend these existing export licenses as a precautionary measure,” the statement concluded.
UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay raised alarm bells over the tragic state of affairs in Gaza, warning of an impending humanitarian crisis to rock the strip and calling for a large-scale relief campaign to heal the wounds of thousands of displaced civilians. Pillay said mass international uproars, clamoring for restocking the strip with the basic humanitarian needs, have been on the move.
Pillay spoke out, in a report she handed to the UN, against the sweeping damages generated throughout the Israeli offensive, stepped up over the last month amid ongoing rickety ceasefire give-and-take rounds.
“Any attempt to examine the ongoing offensive with meticulous scrutiny remains vain if we do not take into account the renewed Israeli military operations launched on Gaza, along with such a long-term colonization,” she declared.
“In 1967 the 242-UN resolution declared that any commitment to the UN Charter requires the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the occupied territories and a just settlement of the refugee affair,” she added.
“The occupation and the overloading repercussions of the illegal Gaza siege, imposed since 2007, along with the Israeli-enforced buffer zones, have made life just unbearable in the strip,” she maintained.
Pillay reiterated her calls for an urgent rehabilitation of Palestinians’ human rights, namely the right to self-determination, and for an immediate reformation of what has been damaged by the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank before it is too late.
Pillay spoke out, in a report she handed to the UN, against the sweeping damages generated throughout the Israeli offensive, stepped up over the last month amid ongoing rickety ceasefire give-and-take rounds.
“Any attempt to examine the ongoing offensive with meticulous scrutiny remains vain if we do not take into account the renewed Israeli military operations launched on Gaza, along with such a long-term colonization,” she declared.
“In 1967 the 242-UN resolution declared that any commitment to the UN Charter requires the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the occupied territories and a just settlement of the refugee affair,” she added.
“The occupation and the overloading repercussions of the illegal Gaza siege, imposed since 2007, along with the Israeli-enforced buffer zones, have made life just unbearable in the strip,” she maintained.
Pillay reiterated her calls for an urgent rehabilitation of Palestinians’ human rights, namely the right to self-determination, and for an immediate reformation of what has been damaged by the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank before it is too late.
The Maltese government has pledged the shipment of some 400 thousand dollars of urgent medical aids to the besieged Gaza Strip. Malta's Ambassador to the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, Mark Bach, said that his country pledged to donate some 300,000 Euros in aid to the besieged Gaza Strip and some 67,000 dollars to the UNRWA in order to carry out relief projects in the Strip.
Assistant to the Palestinian minister of European Affair, Ambassador Amal Jadou, raised alarm bells, during a meeting with the Maltese Ambassador held on Tuesday, over the tragic situation endured by Gazans due to the continued Israeli aggression, pointing, at the same time, to the ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement.
Assistant to the Palestinian minister of European Affair, Ambassador Amal Jadou, raised alarm bells, during a meeting with the Maltese Ambassador held on Tuesday, over the tragic situation endured by Gazans due to the continued Israeli aggression, pointing, at the same time, to the ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement.
Political bureau member of Hamas and member of the Palestinian negotiating team in Cairo Ezzet al-Resheq said that the Palestinian delegates have agreed to stay mum about progress of the ceasefire talks. He attributed this position to “public interest” in a statement posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
Another member of the delegation and also political bureau member of Hamas Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk reiterated the same position on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
He pointed out that on the opposite side the Israeli media outlets were rife with statements on the negotiations, which could lead to negative impacts.
Meanwhile, Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot quoted Israeli diplomatic sources as saying on Tuesday night that the negotiations were still “complicated and difficult”.
They said that Cairo was pressuring both the Palestinians and the Israelis to extend the truce in order to allow more time for talks.
Another member of the delegation and also political bureau member of Hamas Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk reiterated the same position on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
He pointed out that on the opposite side the Israeli media outlets were rife with statements on the negotiations, which could lead to negative impacts.
Meanwhile, Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot quoted Israeli diplomatic sources as saying on Tuesday night that the negotiations were still “complicated and difficult”.
They said that Cairo was pressuring both the Palestinians and the Israelis to extend the truce in order to allow more time for talks.
Member of Hamas political bureau, Muhammad Nazzal, vowed that Hamas will be withholding updates about the fate of the captured Israeli soldiers until Israel is made to pay a heavy price in return. ALRESSALAH Net website quoted Nazzal as reiterating the preconditions set by the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, over being provided with the profiles of the Israeli spies in the West Bank and Gaza in exchange for reports on the fate of the captured soldiers.
The Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the capture of the Israeli soldier Shaul Aaron in a clash with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in al-Toffah neighborhood, east of Gaza. The Israeli occupation has announced the disappearance of another soldier east of Rafah.
Israel has been seeking ways to discern the fate of the missing soldiers, appealing to Egypt and other truce-broker parties to work out the affair, Nazzal pointed out.
“Israel got into the habit of acquiring pieces of information for free. Now this has become an out-of-the-question possibility,” he pledged.
According to Nazzal, the following round of swap talks will be independent of the ongoing ceasefire talks and quite apart from any Israeli wordplay, vowing Hamas is ready for another round of swap talks.
A renewed Egyptian-brokered ceasefire hearing is being currently held in Cairo following an agreement Monday on extending the truce for 72 hours.
The Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the capture of the Israeli soldier Shaul Aaron in a clash with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in al-Toffah neighborhood, east of Gaza. The Israeli occupation has announced the disappearance of another soldier east of Rafah.
Israel has been seeking ways to discern the fate of the missing soldiers, appealing to Egypt and other truce-broker parties to work out the affair, Nazzal pointed out.
“Israel got into the habit of acquiring pieces of information for free. Now this has become an out-of-the-question possibility,” he pledged.
According to Nazzal, the following round of swap talks will be independent of the ongoing ceasefire talks and quite apart from any Israeli wordplay, vowing Hamas is ready for another round of swap talks.
A renewed Egyptian-brokered ceasefire hearing is being currently held in Cairo following an agreement Monday on extending the truce for 72 hours.
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