grrr.. b why do you split up (compartmentalize)posts on the same or similar topics just when discussions gets going? I’ve seen this happen on several occasions…
Barclays decision to close UWT account.

The Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) is dismayed by receiving a 30 day notice from Barclays to close their bank account. The trust has been banking with Barclays since its inception in 2001 in order to carry out relief operations in over twenty countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East providing support to over a million people.
Barclays Bank has given no apparent reason to why the notice has been served. UWT Director of Operations Mohammed Ahmed said in a statement, “We are deeply concerned with Barclays Bank’s decision to close our accounts without any justification. This decision will not only affect the great work carried out by UWT but will affect millions of people who rely on UWT. This decision sets a dangerous precedent of disrupting British charities without any substance, especially as INTERPAL is in the process of having its bank accounts closed by Lloyds TSB. Targeting charities in this way shows there is a conceited attempt to stop the good work in politically-sensitive regions by leading British Muslim charities.
UWT is calling on all supporters and friends to urge Barclays Bank to review its decision so UWT can continue its humanitarian projects across the world without any disruption. UWT would like to reassure its supporters this is a decision of a bank and does not reflect the view of the Charity Commission.
Notes to Editors:
Ummah Welfare Trust is a UK registered international relief and development charity operating in over 25 countries. For further details, visit http://www.uwt.org or contact: UWT Head Office, 351 Derby St. Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL3 6LR.

Just as my last post in the ‘Israel “Absorbs” Bombs’ and how they attacked the humanitarian boat here’s a list of Civilians aboard the Dignity:

(UK) Denis Healey, Captain
Captain of the Dignity, Denis has been involved with boats for 45 years, beginning with small fishing boats in Portsmouth. He learned to sail while at school and has been part of the sea ever since. He’s a certified yachtmaster and has also worked on heavy marine equipment from yachts to large dredgers. This is his fourth trip to Gaza.
(Greece) Nikolas Bolos, First Mate
Nikolas is a chemical engineer and human rights activist. He has served as a crewmember on several Free Gaza voyages, including the first one in August.
(Jordan) Othman Abu Falah
Othman is a senior producer with Al-Jazeera Television. He will remain in Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught.
(Australia) Renee Bowyer
Renee is a schoolteacher and human rights activist. She will remain in Gaza to do human rights monitoring and reporting.
(Ireland) Caoimhe Butterly
Caoimhe is a reknowned human rights activist and Gaza Coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement. She will be remaining in Gaza to do human rights monitoring, assist with relief efforts, and work on project development with Free Gaza.
(Cyprus) Ekaterini Christodulou
Ekaterini is a well-known and respected freelance journalist in Cyprus. She is traveling to Gaza to report on the conflict.
(Sudan) Sami El-Haj
Sami is a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and head of the human rights section at Al-Jazeera Television. He will remain in Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught.
(UK) Dr.
David Halpin
Dr. Halpin is an experienced orthopaedic surgeon, medical professor, and ship’s captain. He has organized humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza on several occasions with the Dove and Dolphin. He is traveling to Gaza to volunteer in hospitals and clinics.
(Germany) Dr.
Mohamed Issa
Dr. Issa is a pediatric surgeon from Germany. He is traveling to Gaza to volunteer in hospitals and clinics.
(UK/Tunisia) Fathi Jaouadi
Fathi is a television producer and human rights activist. He will remain in Gaza to do human rights monitoring and reporting.
(USA) Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia is a former U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia, and the 2008 Green Party presidential candidate. She is traveling to Gaza to assess the ongoing conflict.
(Cyprus) Martha Paisi
Martha is a senior research fellow and experienced human rights activist. She is traveling to Gaza to do human rights work and to assist with humanitarian relief efforts.
(UK) Karl Penhaul
Karl Penhaul is a video correspondent for CNN, based out of Bogotá, Colombia. Appointed to this position in February 2004, he covers breaking news around the world utilizing CNN’s new laptop-based ‘Digital Newsgathering’ system. He is traveling to Gaza to report on the ongoing conflict.
(Iraq) Thaer Shaker
Thaer is a cameraman with Al-Jazeera television. He will remain in Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught.
(Cyprus) Dr.
Elena Theoharous, MP
Dr. Theoharous is a surgeon and a Member of the Cypriot Parliament. She is traveling to Gaza to assess the ongoing conflict, assist with humanitarian relief efforts, and volunteer in hospitals.
Civilians aboard the Dignity
(UK) Denis Healey, Captain
Captain of the Dignity, Denis has been involved with boats for 45 years, beginning with small fishing boats in Portsmouth. He learned to sail while at school and has been part of the sea ever since. He’s a certified yachtmaster and has also worked on heavy marine equipment from yachts to large dredgers. This is his fourth trip to Gaza.
(Greece) Nikolas Bolos, First Mate
Nikolas is a chemical engineer and human rights activist. He has served as a crewmember on several Free Gaza voyages, including the first one in August.
(Jordan) Othman Abu Falah
Othman is a senior producer with Al-Jazeera Television. He will remain in Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught.
(Australia) Renee Bowyer
Renee is a schoolteacher and human rights activist. She will remain in Gaza to do human rights monitoring and reporting.
(Ireland) Caoimhe Butterly
Caoimhe is a reknowned human rights activist and Gaza Coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement. She will be remaining in Gaza to do human rights monitoring, assist with relief efforts, and work on project development with Free Gaza.
(Cyprus) Ekaterini Christodulou
Ekaterini is a well-known and respected freelance journalist in Cyprus. She is traveling to Gaza to report on the conflict.
(Sudan) Sami El-Haj
Sami is a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and head of the human rights section at Al-Jazeera Television. He will remain in Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught.
(UK) Dr.
David Halpin
Dr. Halpin is an experienced orthopaedic surgeon, medical professor, and ship’s captain. He has organized humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza on several occasions with the Dove and Dolphin. He is traveling to Gaza to volunteer in hospitals and clinics.
(Germany) Dr.
Mohamed Issa
Dr. Issa is a pediatric surgeon from Germany. He is traveling to Gaza to volunteer in hospitals and clinics.
(UK/Tunisia) Fathi Jaouadi
Fathi is a television producer and human rights activist. He will remain in Gaza to do human rights monitoring and reporting.
(USA) Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia is a former U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia, and the 2008 Green Party presidential candidate. She is traveling to Gaza to assess the ongoing conflict.
(Cyprus) Martha Paisi
Martha is a senior research fellow and experienced human rights activist. She is traveling to Gaza to do human rights work and to assist with humanitarian relief efforts.
(UK) Karl Penhaul
Karl Penhaul is a video correspondent for CNN, based out of Bogotá, Colombia. Appointed to this position in February 2004, he covers breaking news around the world utilizing CNN’s new laptop-based ‘Digital Newsgathering’ system. He is traveling to Gaza to report on the ongoing conflict.
(Iraq) Thaer Shaker
Thaer is a cameraman with Al-Jazeera television. He will remain in Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught.
(Cyprus) Dr.
Elena Theoharous, MP
Dr. Theoharous is a surgeon and a Member of the Cypriot Parliament. She is traveling to Gaza to assess the ongoing conflict, assist with humanitarian relief efforts, and volunteer in hospitals.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 30 2008 22:53 utc | 3

I’m just mindful that support of Israel means the historical necessity of accepting its experiment in a democracy defending jews. I have always felt this is an important project. I just think people forget this.
Anyway, I’m not a fan of Benny Morris, but this is a valid summary of the issue of Israel’s vulnerability.

Posted by: slothrop | Dec 30 2008 23:28 utc | 5

“Gentlemen, you have transformed
our country into a graveyard
You have planted bullets in our heads,
and organized massacres
Gentlemen, nothing passes like that
without account
All that you have done
to our people is
registered in notebooks”
Mahmud Darwish

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 30 2008 23:39 utc | 7

slothrop
it is insufferable that you should cite the thug historian, benny morris who is not only a leading apologist of israeli terror but who has also thrown shame on scholarship. his work elevates the massacres of deir yassin into foundation myths
& israel is not the victim for fuck’s sake – to paraphrase paul celan -fot the palestinian people, death is an israeli
armed to the teeth by us imperialism – i am completely unable to see anyy ‘vulnerability’ – except her own political & moral pollution

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 30 2008 23:48 utc | 9

Will they ever learn?
No.
Israel is a worshipped entity. A deity can do no wrong, everything is permitted. A religio fascist mindset, twined with self pity. Lethal and stupid.

Posted by: Thrasyboulos | Dec 31 2008 0:03 utc | 11

then let me be clkearer, the political & moral landscape of israel has become so polluted, so criminal in its activity – it is not fit to govern
if it can only govern with overwhelming force – then it does not have a right to exist
the geopolitical solution to the exterminatory policy towards the jews should have been resolved by liquidating the ‘nation’ of austria & of taking bavaria – this should have been the jewish homeland – if indeed a state needed to exist to protect their identity as a people. that would have been the organic solution but that solution would have required political & moral courage & in the 20th century it was patently obvious that the west possessed no such moral courage
the state of israel has annexed the policies of its oppressor of the last three centuries & i guarantee, i guarantee any reading of raul hilberg’s magisterial work on the extermination of european jewry reveals that the israel has assumed the ‘moral’ mantle of its oppressors
imperialism (& josef stalin, in the case of israel) have created a middle east that is an abbatoir. the rich & multiple diversity of its people have been reduced
the wounds imperialism creates are a horror to behold & i imagine an impossibility to live

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 31 2008 0:17 utc | 13

in reading hilberg you are constantly aware of the detail, the administration of a war against a people.
in the occupied territories we are aware that there is the same detail, the same administration of terror. the germans padded thier genoicide with language – calling it everything but what it was – mass murder. so to the states of israel have padded their language with exactly the same purposes & sometimes with exactly the same language
we are never made aware of the fact i have mentioned previously – that over half the population of gaza are children under the age of 15 – when we are concious of that – a genocidal plan comes clearer into view. that the only real response to the demographic problem is extermination. once perhaps they could have like the nazis ivented madagascar as a geographic solution – here, the jordan solution – which is now for all sorts of reasons, quite impossible
slothrop has spoken of israel’s vulnerability – but its real vulnerability is demographic. here too, the dark lessons of the nazis exist just under the skin of israels policy

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 31 2008 3:09 utc | 15

Gilad Atzmon: Eine Kleine Nacht Murder: How Israeli Leaders Kill for their People’s Votes

In order to grasp the latest devastating murderous Israeli expedition in Gaza one must deeply comprehend the Israeli identity and its inherent hatred towards anyone who fails to be Jewish and a hatred against Arabs in particular. This hatred is imbued in the Israeli curriculum, it is preached by political leaders and implied by their acts, it is conveyed by cultural figures, even within the so-called ‘Israeli Left’.
I grew up in Israel in the 1970’s people of my generation are nowadays the leaders of the Israeli army, politics, economy, academia and the arts. We were trained to believe that ‘a good Arab is a dead one’. A few weeks before I joined the IDF in the early 1980’s, General Rafael Eitan, the Chief of Staff at the time announced that the “Arabs were stoned cockroaches in a bottle”. He got away with it, he also got away with the murder of many thousands of Lebanese civilians in the 1st Lebanon war. In a word, Israelis manage to get away with murder.
Luckily enough, and for reasons that are still far beyond my comprehension, at a certain stage I woke up out of that Hebraic lethal dream. At one point I left the Jewish state, I evaded the Jewish hate mongering, I had become an opponent of the Jewish state and any other form of Jewish politics. However, I am utterly convinced that it is my primary duty to inform every being that is willing to listen about that which are we up against.
As much as Zionism was there to transform Jews, and by “giving them a State of their own” make them like any other people, it failed miserably. The Israeli barbarism as we have seen this week and too many times before is far beyond bestiality. It is killing for the sake of killing. And it is indiscriminate.

He should know — he’s an Israeli.

Posted by: bea | Dec 31 2008 4:11 utc | 17

Israeli Serial Killers Document Crimes on youtube Videos

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 31 2008 7:59 utc | 19

Guess what, some colonial apologists seem to have the free time (or funds) to write detailed lists in Wikipedia about the Kassam rockets launched (I guess that I could try to search the detailed list of colonial murderous attacks inside Gaza in the same time frame from Wikipedia but I wonder why I doubt I will find it).
List of Qassam rocket attacks in Israel in 2008
If that list is credible there would be no reduction other than may be over an hypothetical increase after the terrorist bombing of Gaza started.
BTW, and of course the list provides complete detail of the suffering of those poor colonialists (russian or whatever else living around Gaza third or fourth level colonial citizens inside the hyper racist hyper stratified western colony in Palestina) … from the horrible experience of shock. As you all known shock is even worst than being maimed, losing all your family or your own live. If the shock happens to higher than non-human palestinian vermin that’s it.

Posted by: ThePaper | Dec 31 2008 8:33 utc | 21

Youtube CNN: Israeli Patrol Boat Rams Gaza Relief Vessel Cynthia McKinney & CNN Penhaul Reports

The Dignity arrives in Tyre, Lebanon, after it was reportedly rammed by an Israeli military vessel Tuesday.
1 of 3 CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot pleasure boat Dignity when the contact occurred. When the boat later docked in the Lebanese port city of Tyre, severe damage was visible to the forward port side of the boat, and the front left window and part of the roof had collapsed. It was flying the flag of Gibraltar.
The Dignity was carrying crew and 16 passengers — physicians from Britain, Germany and Cyprus and human rights activists from the Free Gaza Solidarity Movement — who were trying to reach Gaza through an Israeli blockade of the territory.
Also on board was former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney.
Penhaul said an Israeli patrol boat shined its spotlight on the Dignity, and then it and another patrol boat shadowed the Dignity for about a half hour before the collision.
One patrol boat “very severely rammed” the Dignity, Penhaul said.
The captain of the Dignity told Penhaul he received no warning. Only after the collision did the Israelis come on the radio to say they struck the boat because they believed it was involved in terrorist activities, the captain said.
But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor denied that and said the patrol boat had warned the vessel not to proceed to Gaza because it is a closed military area.
Palmor said there was no response to the radio message, and the vessel then tried to out-maneuver the Israeli patrol boat, leading to the collision. Watch Penhaul describe the boat damage »
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The captain and crew said their vessel was struck intentionally, Penhaul said, but Palmor called those allegations “absurd.”
“There is no intention on the part of the Israeli navy to ram anybody,” Palmor said.
“I would call it ramming. Let’s just call it as it is,” McKinney said after the boat docked in Lebanon. “Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side. Watch Cynthia McKinney discuss the collision »
“Our mission was a peaceful mission to deliver medical supplies and our mission was thwarted by the Israelis — the aggressiveness of the Israeli military,” she said.
The incident occurred in international waters about 90 miles off Gaza. Israel controls the waters off Gaza’s coast and routinely blocks ships from coming into the Palestinian territory as part of an ongoing blockade that also applies to the Israel-Gaza border. Human rights groups have expressed concern about the blockade on Gaza, which has restricted the delivery of emergency aid and fuel supplies.
Tuesday’s collision was so severe, Penhaul said, that the passengers were ordered to put on their life vests and be ready to get in lifeboats. The Dignity began taking on water, but the crew managed to pump it out of the hull long enough for the boat to reach shore.
“It could have ended with people drowning if they hit us more square on,” Dignity’s captain, Denis Healey, said. “It could have gone down in minutes.”
Palmor said the vessel refused assistance after the incident.
The boat was carrying boxes of relief supplies, volunteers and journalists to Gaza, the Palestinian territory that has been subject to an intense Israeli bombing campaign since Saturday.
Israel Tuesday lambasted McKinney — the Green Party’s 2008 candidate for the U.S. presidency and a former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia — for taking part in the maritime mission.
In a written statement, the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast, based in Atlanta, Georgia, said McKinney “has taken it upon herself to commit an act of provocation,” endangering herself and the crew.
“We regret that during this time of crisis, while Israel is battling with the terrorist organization of Hamas and defending its citizens, that we are forced to deal with Ms. McKinney’s irresponsible behavior,” the statement read.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 31 2008 11:40 utc | 23

i have just been listenign to a norwegian doctor from gaza who is speaking haltingly of what he is living, of what he is seeing before his very eyes
je is using exactly the same language as i have been in this last week. he goes further – beseiged gaza is a prison
i have a friend here – a restaraunter – palestinian who has the same problems as i do – fucked heart & diabetes 1 – i am worried for him – this last week has taken years off his life – he & his family feel as impotent as we do. if my language has been intemperate it is because there is no way of witnessing this without being aware of how particularly the israeli govt has followed the nazis inside russia, inside what once once called the jewish pale
everything. everything. the ghettoisation, the destruction of public services, the collective punishements, the exemplary murders, the besieging & the terror bombing
& there is no one, absolutely no one on the israeli political landscape who is not polluted morally by the day to day politics of occupation
marwan bhargouti – perhaps, perhaps – someone capable of leadership of the palestinian people rots in an israeli prison & i do not know what state he is in – or if he is even physically able of such a demand
& it is clear that behind livni, barak etc is that corrupt monster netanyahu who will taker this murder forward into a moral space which no israeli citizen can ever return

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 31 2008 17:30 utc | 25

war. the pornographers of the israel propaganda ministy – many who are johnnu-come-lately’s to israel itself who speak of war
the palestinians possess no standing army, they have no heavy weaponry, they have no tanks, they have no navy, they have no airforce, they do not even have helicopters. the palestinians do not possess a technological apparatus of any significance – on & on
it is what others have sd – israel is shooting fish in a barrel

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 31 2008 17:40 utc | 27

#26, If Americans were sufficiently informed (the domestic news services seem to be giving this story very scant coverage), an approach similar to that used on apartheid South Africa may have some effect.
If you or your firm does business with entities controlled by or owned by Jews, ask them to publicly repudiate Israel’s actions. A public demonstration or two might also be in order.
But you can bet that the right-wing Zionist organizations will also mount a very public campaign that will accuse you of antisemitism. It will do no good to point out that the current situation involves one Semitic people murdering another.

Posted by: Obelix | Dec 31 2008 19:43 utc | 29

Israel has become a pathetic excuse for a nation. At one time they fought off the combined forces of nation states. They are now reduced to gloating over pounding the shit out of a defenseless isolated prison population of their own making, as if it were some heroic national sacrifice. From the occupation of Lebanon, to the 2006 war on Lebanon, and now this siege of Gaza means they continue to ratcheted themselves further into a disrepute so deep they are unlikely to ever emerge. The government of Israel and by all accounts, 80+% of their population, have largely fallen under the spell of a vicious circular reasoning where escape or success becomes progressively more impossible – as they screw themselves yet deeper into the kind of moral and logical decay that made histories greatest losers, live forever in infamy. The legacy produced by their collective insanity will one day arrive unannounced at their doorstep, and, the last thing it will be interested in, is a civilized negotiation for peace.

Posted by: anna missed | Dec 31 2008 20:26 utc | 31

William Pfaff

…
As Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes in his book, The Controversy of Zion, the Zionist vision, according to Jabotinsky, “could only be realized by a Jewish minority…and this required the use of force.” He held that “all that is great owes its triumph to the sword.” He was a right-wing nationalist; the Likud party in Israel has always represented his views.
Former president Benjamin Netenyahu and Foreign Minister Tzipi Levni are both from families who were supporters of Jabotinsky. She is a former Mossad operator. Defense Minister Ehud Barak is assumed to share their views.
With Labor in power in Israel in the past, it was always possible to think that a two-state solution was possible between Israelis and Palestinians. This cannot be said about the Jabotinsky right. They do not believe that a settlement with the Arabs is feasible. They believe, as Barak has said, that the bombardment of Gaza must continue until Hamas is destroyed. Hamas is an unacceptable element in the region, as they envisage it. Israel was humiliated by Hizbollah in Lebanon two years ago. It must reestablish its position of total military domination of the Middle East. Destroying Hamas is the way to do it.
The present Israeli government seems now to think that it can do this in Gaza, before the new administration in the United States of Barack Obama takes power. It is a show of force intended as a demonstration to the United States, as well as to Hamas.

This is the last part – the whole article is worth a read.

Posted by: Hamburger | Dec 31 2008 21:27 utc | 33

Juan Moment,
Strapping Ambassador Bolton inside a humvee and putting him on the front lines in Iraq would be one surefire way to get him to stop being so gung-ho for war.
And notice his Freudian slip. He says that Iran is on a quest to develop “nuclear power.” This just goes to show that deep down he knows that Iran is out to develop a civilian nuclear program, not necessarily a military one.

Posted by: Cynthia | Dec 31 2008 21:35 utc | 35

thanks everyone, for the great thread… esp. anna missed and r’giap.

Posted by: bea | Jan 1 2009 4:54 utc | 37

Ibrahim Al-Jamaj
Ibrahim Al-Jamaj
Isma’il Al-Husari
Isma’il Salem
Isma’il Ghneim
Eyman Natour
Eyhab Ash-Shaer
Ibrahim Mahfoudh
Abu Ali Ar-Rahhal
Ahmad Al-Halabi
Ahmad Al-Kurd
Ahmad Al-Lahham
Ahmad Al-Hums
Ahmad At-Talouli
Ahmad Zu’rub
Ahmad Abu Jazar
Ahmad Radwan
Ahmad ‘Udah
Ahmad Abu Mousa
Ahmad Tbeil
Adham Al-Areini
Osama Abu Ar-Rus
Osama Abu Ar-Reish
Osama Darweish
Ashraf Ash-Sharabasi
Ashraf Abu Suhweil
Amjad Abu Jazar
Ameen Az-Zarbatli
Anas Hamad
Anwar Al-Bardini
Anwar Al-Kurd
Ayman Abu Ammouna
Ayman An-Nahhal
Ibrahim Abu Ar-Rus
Basil Dababish
Bassam Makkawi
Bilal Omar
Bahaa Abu Zuhri
Tamir Qreinawi
Tamir Abu Afsha
Tawfiq Al-Fallit
Tawfiq Jabir
Thaer Madi
Jabir Jarbu’
Hatim Abu Sha’ira
Hamid Yasin
Husam Ayyash
Hasan Baraka
Hasan Abid Rabbo
Hasan Al-Majayda
Hussein Al-A’raj
Hussein Dawood
Hussein ‘Uroq
Hakam Abu Mansi
Hamada Abu Duqqa
Hamada Safi
Hamdan Abu Nu’eira
Haydar Hassuna
Khalid Zu’rub
Khalid Abu Hasna
Khalid An-Nashasi
Khalid Shaheen
Raed Dughmush
Rami Ash-Sheikh
Raafat Shamiyya
Riziq Salman
Rif’at Sa’da
Rafiq Na’im
Ramzi Al-Haddad
Ziyad Abu ‘Ubada
Sarah Al-Hawajiri
Salim Abu Shamla
Salim Qreinawi
Sa’id Hamada
Salim Al-Gharir
Suheil Tambura
Shadi Sbakhi
Shahada Quffa
Shahada Abd ar-Rahman
Sabir Al-Mabhouh
Suhayb Abu ‘Iffat
Suhayb Abd al-‘aal
Tal’at Salman
Tal’at Basal
‘Aasim Ash-Shaer
‘Aasim Abu Kamil
Abid Ad-Dahshan
Abd ar-Raziq Shahtu
Abd as-Sami’ An-Nashar
Abdul-Fattah Abu ‘Uteiwi
Abdul-Fattah Fadil
Abdullah Juneid
Abdullah Al-Ghafari
Abdullah Rantisi
Abdullah Wahbi
Arafat Farajallah
Azmi Abu Dalal
Isam Al-Ghirbawi
‘Alaa Al-Qatrawi
‘Alaa Al-Kahlout
‘Alaa ‘Uqeilan
‘Alaa Nasr Ar-Ra’i
Ali Awad
Imab Abu Al-Hajj
Omar Darawsha
Omran Ar-ran
Anan Ghaliya
Gharib Al-Assar
Fayiz Riyad Al-Madhoun
Fayiz Ayada Al-Madhoun
Fayiz Abu Al-Qumsan
Camellia Al-Bardini
Ma’moun Sleim
Mazin ‘Ulayyan
Muhammad Al-Ghimri
Muhammad Al-Halabi
Muhammad Asaliyya
Muhammad Az-Zatma
Muhammad Az-ahra
Muhammad Gaza
Muhammad An-Nuri
Muhammad Abu Sabra
Muhammad Abu ‘Amir
Muhammad Abu Libda
Muhammad Hboush
Muhammad Al-Mabhouh
Muhammad Sha’ban
Muhammad Abu ‘Abdo
Muhammad Salih
Muhammad Tabasha
Muhammad Al-Habeil
Muhammad Abdullah Aziz
Muhammad Abdul-Wahhab Aziz
Muhammad Awad
Muhammad Abd An-Nabi
Muhammad Salih
Muhammad An-Najari
Muhammad Hamad
Muhammad Barakat
Muhammad Muhanna
Mahmoud Al-Khalidi
Mahmoud Abu Harbeid
Mahmoud Abu Matar
Mahmoud Abu Tabour
Mahmoud Abu Nahla
Mustafa Al-Khateib
Mustafa As-Sabbak
Mu’ein Hamada
Mu’ein Al-Hasan
Mumtaz An- Najjar
Mansour Al-Gharra
Nasser Al-Gharra
Nahidh Abu Namous
Nabil Al-Breim
Nathir Al-Louqa
Ni’ma Al-Maghari
Na’im Kheit
Na’im Al-Kafarna
Na’im Al-Anzi
Nimir Amoum
Hisham Rantisi
Hisham Al-Masdar
Hisham Abu ‘Uda
Hisham ‘Uweida
Humam An-Najjar
Hanaa Al-Mabhouh
Haytham Hamdan
Haytham Ash-Sher
Wadei’ Al-Muzayyin
Wasim Azaza
Walid Abu Hein
Walid Jabir Abu Hein
Yasser Ash-Shaer
Yasser Al-Lahham
Yahya Al-Hayik
Yahya Sheikha
Yahya Mahmoud Sheikha
Yousif Thabit
Yousif Al-Jallad
Yousif Sha’ban
Yousif Diab
Yousif Al-Anani
Yousif An-Najjar
Younis Ad-Deiri
linked from angry arab

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jan 1 2009 16:09 utc | 39

christ, how many times can a livni or a bark mention ‘tewwowist’ & ‘tewwowism’ in a single sentence. clearly they have gone to rudy guiliani school of syntax

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jan 1 2009 17:38 utc | 41

jennifer loewenstein – total war on gaza

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jan 1 2009 20:11 utc | 43

rgiap – i wonder if you have it in you to write something more about the parallels you referenced above. It could make a very powerful post, if there were sources or some verification of the accuracy of the details — side by side.

Posted by: bea | Jan 2 2009 3:19 utc | 45

And another very important piece by Sara Roy today – the ground is shifting:

….In nearly 25 years of involvement with Gaza and Palestinians, I have not had to confront the horrific image of burned children – until today.
Yet for Palestinians it is more than an image, it is a reality, and because of that I fear something profound has changed that will not easily be undone. For how, in the context of Gaza today, does one speak of reconciliation as a path to liberation, of sympathy as a source of understanding? Where does one find or even begin to create a common field of human undertaking (to borrow from the late, acclaimed Palestinian scholar, Edward Said) so essential to coexistence?
It is one thing to take an individual’s land, his home, his livelihood, to denigrate his claims, or ignore his emotions. It is another to destroy his child. What happens to a society where renewal is denied and all possibility has ended?
And what will happen to Jews as a people whether we live in Israel or not? Why have we been unable to accept the fundamental humanity of Palestinians and include them within our moral boundaries? Rather, we reject any human connection with the people we are oppressing. Ultimately, our goal is to tribalize pain, narrowing the scope of human suffering to ourselves alone.
Our rejection of “the other” will undo us. We must incorporate Palestinians and other Arab peoples into the Jewish understanding of history, because they are a part of that history. We must question our own narrative and the one we have given others, rather than continue to cherish beliefs and sentiments that betray the Jewish ethical tradition.
Jewish intellectuals oppose racism, repression, and injustice almost everywhere in the world and yet it is still unacceptable – indeed, for some, it’s an act of heresy – to oppose it when Israel is the oppressor. This double standard must end.

Posted by: bea | Jan 2 2009 3:28 utc | 47

Priceless – Front page story in Haaretz now:
IDF admits to overestimating Gaza rocket severity, but warns worst may be yet to come

The threat that Hamas’ ballistic capabilities pose to the people of the Negev is less serious than initially presumed and the residents of the targeted areas are not demonstrating signs of panic [however the Times, in London, is – Ed.], according to an interim analysis by the Israel Defense Forces of the situation nearly a week after the launching of Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.
The analysis, which the IDF compiled with the Defense Ministry, also said the authorities’ ability to tend to the needs of the population has much improved compared to their performance in the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who toured the Negev yesterday with Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilani, said that Hamas’ capabilities “cannot be compared” with those of Hezbollah.
In six days of fighting, Hamas has fired some 350 rockets into Israel. In 2006, Kiryat Shmona and its immediate surroundings alone took 1,000 rockets.
These figures show that IDF officers and defense experts overestimated Hamas’ ballistic capabilities so far, which were said to allow the organization to launch up to 200 rockets every day while under fire from launcher-hunting Israel Air Force crafts.
Of the 350 rockets that Hamas has fired since Saturday, at least 40 were Katyusha rockets with a range of 40 kilometers. In some cases, Hamas’ rockets even reached 43 kilometers from the launch sites.
Vilnai nonetheless added that should the IDF mount a ground invasion into the Strip, Hamas is expected to pick up the pace and take more risks in launching rockets.

Oh, so it’s the offensive itself that might provoke the rocket that might hit the nuclear plant… an outcome which isn’t even contemplated here anyway…

Posted by: bea | Jan 2 2009 4:32 utc | 49

like when Israel via missile takes out a Hamas leader when he’s at home with his family.
Be sure and watch the AP video at the link. Note the cavalier and light tone of the announcer, as if he is talking about the results of a basketball match.
So now it’s not only legit to commit targeted assassination from the air, but to do so while someone is at home — that place that is supposed to be your “sacrosanct safe base” — with his extended family… who by the happens to live in Jabaliya, a refugee camp with 107,000 residents living on 1.4 sq km? No, none of those facts are relevant…
Of course this is not the first time and certainly won’t be the last. But still it completely blows one’s mind how this type of crime is accepted by the world and the media as if it is understandable and legitimate, part of the normal routine of human behavior…. just another day’s work.
Someone sent me an email recently with an editorial that began thus:

What is the weight of a Palestinian?
Palestinians must be very light; they must be lighter than birds. They must be like clouds, like the very air. Their deaths weigh no one down. No one’s conscience seems to ache when they’re killed.

Posted by: bea | Jan 2 2009 12:27 utc | 51