Rogue State of Israel II: Licenced to Lie Cheat Kill?

Mensagem de Anonymous a Israel

Faixa de Gaza: "Horror"!
como dizia Marlon Brando em Apocalipse Now.
E somos todos cúmplices passivos

Question to a child, Sara Naim, in Gaza:

- "How old are you?"

- "Three wars, and still growing."
I hope she survives this one too and afterwards there shall be no more occupation, no more abuse, no more wars; only freedom, a national identity, a sovereign State of Palestine; that is to say, dignity and a future. The very rights that Israeli children have been enjoying since 1948 and Palestinians have been unfairly and unjustly denied since the Nakba.

"Those who refused to accept Hamas in a Palestinian government negotiating with Israel, get Hama in another futile and useless round of war."

GUSH SHALOM
Publicado no jornal israelense Ha’aretz July 11, 2014

Using public relations efforts to build public support for military action is not a new idea. But spending money on tweets to shape global perceptions may be the next frontier for such efforts. That is a new Israeli idea: to step up PR efforts on social media. 
On July 16, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, seeking to build support for an escalation of Israeli military operations in Gaza, bought tweets to speak ill of Hamas and promote Operation Protective Edge. 
Needless to say that conventional and social media, under Israeli/US governments "spell", are also spreading accusations of anti-semitism to put pressure on those who dare to criticize the occupation and all the evils that it brings to Palestine, and to Israel. 
Enough is enough. It's time to stop this nonsense once and for all. 

"Stop the Killing, End the Occupation!
We will not remain quiet as the bombs are falling! 
In the past month, Israel raided several thousand homes, and arrested over 600 Palestinians, including women and children [in the West Bank].
Also in the last few weeks, everyday forms of racism and violence, by the state and its officials, have escalated exponentially.
Ongoing occupation, daily oppression, house demolitions, destruction of lives.
The Israeli government is relentless - demolishing in Hebron, expropriating lands in the Naqab / Negev, brutally suppressing popular protests, attacking Gaza.
Once again, Israel launched yet another irresponsible and unnecessary military 'operation,' at the expense of the residents of the south, who, together with Gazans, deserve to live in dignity, without constant and daily threats.
Bombardments and casualties lead nowhere, except for further bombings, rockets and blood. Stop militarism, end the occupation!"
Gush Shalom, ONG de Direitos Humanos, Tel Aviv

17/07/14: US president Barack Obama spoke with israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and offered to help broke a truce, though the State Department 'clarified' that it would not talk directly with Hamas, which Washington considers a terrorist organisation.
So they talked with Egyptian Dictator general Sissi, who has been persecuting Palestinian refugees in his country since his Coup d'Etat.
Wait a minute, if they don't talk with Hamas, how can they broke any deal? 
It is surreal.
Furthermore, Obama's message was quickly 'undermined' by US ambassador in Tel Aviv, Dan Shapiro, who told Israeli Army Radio that Israel would enjoy American support 'even if it decides' to launch a ground invasion. (which means that the ground invasion is imminent).

Maybe that's why the IDF have just decided to target Hamas' learders. Which will only aggravate the situation. Palestinian Resistance doesn't lie in individuals. It lies in the survival of a people. Generation after generation.
Meanwhile, the serial murders Binyamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Ehud Barak, enjoy their freedom and US unconditional friendship.
Nice. Very nice. Very humane and impartial. No double standards at all. 

Life in Gaza explained
Vida em Gaza

O presidente da Autoridade Nacional Palestina, Mahmoud Abbas, reuniu-se com o ditador do Egito no dia 17 de julho, general Sissi, a fim de discutir um cessar-fogo bilateral, em vez do primeiro acordo unilateral que não incluiu nenhum representante palestino. E que por isso, foi recusado pelo Hamas, que ficou sabendo de seu teor através da imprensa.
"We're in a really critical 24 hours," disse um diplomata ocidental. "If there's no ceasefire in the next two or three days, pressure will increase on [the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin] Netanyahu for a ground operation."
Pressão de quem? Dos israelenses, de Washington ou a tal pressão é uma invenção para a investida terrestre agora que a Faixa de Gaza já está em escombros?
Não há eletricidade, nem água e está faltando gêneros de primeira necessidade pois a IDF (Forças Armadas israelense) destruiram toda a infraestrutura pública da Faixa. Mas tudo bem, contanto que a segurança de Israel esteja assegurada. É o que pensam e dizem os sionistas inveterados.

O governo de Israel mandou os gazauís evacuarem suas casas para eles as bombardearem à vontade sem ouvir recriminações internacionais esporádicas. E querem que as famílias vão para onde? E depois, para onde voltar? Para os entulhos depois de ficarem sem nada?
Quanto a Avigdor Lieberman, o ministro das Relações Exteriores de Israel, de extrema-direita e morador de uma das colônias ilegais na Cisjordânia, fez questão de deixar claro aos jornalistas que "the reports of a ceasefire, are far from representing reality, I spoke with the prime minister, and for now they are incorrect".
O representante do Fatah no Cairo reiterou que não havia acordo, ainda, mas que iam continuar tentando. Pois a situação na Faixa é desesperadora.

Por enquanto, o dia 12 continua sendo o dia mais sangrento da Operação militar israelense Protective Edge na Faixa de Gaza. Quando 18 membros da mesma família foram assassinados de uma vez só.
E pela primeira vez, um batalhão naval penetrou em Gaza de madrugada pela praia. Encontrou resistência do Hamas, quatro soldados da IDF foram feridos e bateram em retirada. Pois os palestinos são bucha de canhão, mas a vida de israelense é sagrada.
É certo que a infantaria só vai entrar na Faixa quando não correr mais perigo. E com os escudos humanos bem visíveis. Ou seja, como sempre faz na Cisjordânia e cada vez que ataca Gaza - pondo meninos palestinos em cima dos tanques para garantir sua segurança.  A covardia reina. E este comportamento é constante.
Até agora, nesta "guerra" desproporcional ao extremo, Israel só sofreu uma perda. Os primeiros feridos foram estes quatro dos batalhões navais. Militares profissionais que estão lá pra isso; dar as caras quando o país exige.
Os feridos palestinos já chegam a centenas. Mortos, a mais de duzentos. Feridos graves, dezenas.
Contudo, O secretary of state estadunidense John Kerry teve o descabimento de dizer que estava "engaged with regional leaders to help to stop the rocket fire so calm can be restored and civilian casualties prevented". Como se as únicas vidas que contassem fossem mesmo as dos israelenses. Uma vergonha.
Observadores da ONU puderam constatar que cerca de 80% dos mortos palestinos são civis, ou seja, não integrantes das forças de resistência.
Os 15 membros do Conselho de Segurança se reuniram e solicitaram a Israel e ao Hamas "to respect "international humanitarian laws" and stop the loss of life".
Is he for real?!
Interessante, a demanda é sempre no plural embora se saiba de quem é a única responsabilidade - do ocupante que aterroriza, sequestra, tortura e mata sem parar adultos e crianças nos territórios ocupados.

What the main stream media don't tell you

O que a grande mídia omite 

O Hamas não provoca Israel com seus foguetes; se defende.
Não age; reage.
Sem Ocupação não precisaria haver Resistência.
A culpa é do ocupante e não do resistente. Por que os governos ocidentais se sentem obrigados a condenar os foguetes do Hamas no mesmo nível das sangrentas agressões das potentes Forças Armadas israelenses? Incompreensível.
E o Hamas só voltou a lançar os foguetes após a IDF ter assassinado 9 resistentes de surpresa. Para provocar, com certeza, quando a paz começava a reinar entre Gaza e Ramallah.
A demanda de Binyamin Netanyahu para que os gazauís deixem Gaza é surreal. Ir para onde, já que a Faixa é uma grande prisão que abriga 1 milhão e 800 mil habitantes?

Os (poucos) jornalistas estrangeiros que correm os hospitais super-lotados, carentes de material médico, para informar-se são unânimes: "Most of the casualties we are seeing here are, overwhelmingly, civilians. It really is a horrendous scene," como disse a colega da Al Jazeera.
A IDF está com milhares de soldados em volta do gueto de Gaza esperando que suas forças Aérea e Naval dêem cabo da resistência. Nesse ínterim, aproveita para bombardear até centro de deficientes físicos. Aliás, a maioria das deficiências dos pacientes foram causadas justamente por bombardeios precedentes.
As ambulâncias também são alvo dos aviões da IDF, assim como a imprensa.

Motti Almoz, porta-voz da IDF, deixou claro que esta carnificina que estamos presenciando é só o prólogo:
"We are going to attack there with great force in the next 24 hours due to a very large concentration of Hamas efforts in that area." Esta área é o norte de Gaza. Ousou mandar as famílias evacuarem seus lares "for their own safety." Palavras, palavras, ir para onde? Ir morrer mais ao sul, na cidade de Gaza ou em Raffah? Não há nenhum lugar seguro na Faixa de Gaza, a IDF e o governo de Israel sabem.
Representantes da França, Inglaterra e Estados Unidos aproveitaram uma reunião já marcada em Viena para assunto iraniano para abordar um meio de obter uma trégua, enquanto Tony Blair está representando o Quarteto para o Oriente Médio  (- Rússia) no Cairo, conversando com o ditador Sissi, cúmplice israelense ativo do bloqueio da Faixa destruindo os túneis e impedindo o abastecimento dos mercados.
Os Estados Unidos puseram lenha na fogueira de Binyamin Netanyahu para que atacasse e agora se prontificam para apagar o fogo no propósito de dar-se crédito. Crédito de quê? De cúmplice do ocupante, de seu afilhado sionista que há anos procede a limpeza étnica?
O problema é sempre o mesmo. São sempre os aliados de Israel que negociam. Mushir al-Massri, do Hamas, afirmou que o Hamas não foi envolvido de nenhuma maneira na formulação dos termos de cessar-fogo e só ficou sabendo através da imprensa. O que é um fato. Tudo foi definido pelo Quarteto em consulta apenas com o governo de Israel. O Hamas foi posto diante do fato consumado. "We rejected the proposal in style because no body consulted with us in formatting it, [and] in content because its articles are a free service to the [Israeli] occupation", disse  Mushir. Isto também é um fato.
Por que não chamar representantes do Irã e da Rússia para ter pelo menos simpatizantes do ocupado em vez do ocupante?
Aliás, por que não deixar o assunto nas mãos do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas que foi criado em 1948 justamente para resolver este tipo de problema?
Qualquer cessar-fogo que não incluir o fim da ocupação é uma nuvem de fumaça a mais em favor de Israel. Sem o fim da ocupação, o terror dos drones vai continuar, as invasões civis na Cisjordânia vão aumentar, e os soldados e os colonos/invasores continuarão a humilhar e aterrorizar os donos das terras que ocupam, sem vergonha.
Fim da Ocupação, já! É o único slogan admissível.

Israel vs Palestina by the numbers

Israel vs Palestina em números

"What's happening in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem is not a war between two armies.

The Palestinian people are an unarmed people, people who live under occupation.

It's time now for the international community, and especially the Quartet and the Security Council to take their responsibility to guarantee the international protection of our people."
Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) presidente da Autoridade Nacional Palestina.

Since September 2000, Israeli forces have killed more than 3,000 Palestinians who did not participate in hostilities, according to B’Tselem’s data. But the military justice system has convicted only six Israeli soldiers for unlawfully killing Palestinians, with the longest jail sentence seven-and-a-half months, according to Yesh Din, another rights group. Human Rights Watch has called for Palestine to seek access to the International Criminal Court to deter serious international crimes by all sides. “In case after case after case, Israeli forces are firing live ammunition from assault rifles at Palestinians armed with rocks or nothing at all,” Whitson said. “Since the military can’t be bothered to enforce its own regulations against these soldiers or the commanders giving them orders, it’s time for Palestine to go to the ICC.”

"I have never heard about an occupation that believes [and make believe] it is the victim. And the only victim.
Let's not forget there is an ongoing attempt to dehumanise the Palestinians. To make it easy for us to kill them. If they are not humans like us, then there is no problem in attacking them."
Gideon Levy, jornalista israelense com coluna semanal (sexta-feira) no jornal Ha'aretz de Tel Aviv.

"Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force.
And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where some 1.5 million people on a roughly 140-square-mile strip of land are subject to random terror and arbitrary punishment, with no purpose other than to humiliate and degrade.
Such cruelty is to ensure that Palestinian hopes for a decent future will be crushed, and that the overwhelming global support for a diplomatic settlement granting basic human rights will be nullified. The Israeli political leadership has dramatically illustrated this commitment in the past few days, warning that they will "go crazy" if Palestinian rights are given even limited recognition by the U.N."
Noam Chomsky, professor no M.I.T.

"It’s about land. The Israelis of Sederot are coming under rocket fire from the Palestinians of Gaza and now the Palestinians are getting their comeuppance. Sure. But wait, how come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.
And – a drawing in of breath is now perhaps required – the people who lived in Sederot in early 1948 were not Israelis, but Palestinian Arabs. Their village was called Huj. Nor were they enemies of Israel. Two years earlier, these same Arabs had actually hidden Jewish Haganah fighters from the British Army. But when the Israeli army turned up at Huj on 31 May 1948, they expelled all the Arab villagers – to the Gaza Strip! Refugees, they became. David Ben Gurion (Israel’s first Prime Minister) called it an “unjust and unjustified action”. Too bad. The  Palestinians of Huj were never allowed back.
And today, well over 6,000 descendants of the Palestinians from Huj – now Sederot – live in the squalor of Gaza, among the “terrorists” Israel is claiming to destroy and who are shooting at what was Huj. Interesting story."
Robert Fisk, analista geopolítico do jornal inglês The Independent

Hamas in Gaza Strip

Hamas na Faixa de Gaza

O general Sissi, ditador do Egito, intermediou no dia 14 uma proposta de cessar-fogo provisório feita pelo Quarteto para o Oriente Médio no único propósito de adiar o problema e deixar Israel com imagem de bonzinho por aceitar uma proposta que perpetua seus privilégios e a limpeza étnica gradual que Israel vem fazendo na Palestina. Eis a íntegra da proposta que Israel aceitou e o Hamas recusou por não abordar o cerne do problema, que é a ocupação. Sem ocupação, repito, não haveria foguetório nem Resistência.
Só que a proposta foi concebida sem nenhuma consulta bilateral. Nem o presidente da Autoridade Nacional Palestina, nem o Primeiro Ministro do governo unitário, nem o Hamas participaram da mesa redonda que decidia a vida dos interessados. Daí a negativa do Hamas, que ficou sabendo do documento abaixo através da imprensa.
Confira o teor do Acordo de cessar-fogo e veja se resolve alguma coisa.

 1. Owing to Egypt’s historical responsibility, and out of belief in the importance of achieving peace in the region, protecting the lives of innocents, and ending the bloodshed;

Egypt calls upon Israel and all of the Palestinian factions to enact an immediate ceasefire, due to the fact that escalation and mutual violence, and the victims that will result, will not be in the interest of either party as such, during the period of the ceasefire, both sides shall abide by the following:
a. Israel shall cease all hostilities against the Gaza Strip via land, sea, and air, and shall commit to refrain from conducting any ground raids against Gaza and targeting civilians.
b. All Palestinian factions in Gaza shall cease all hostilities from the Gaza Strip against Israel via land, sea, air, and underground, and shall commit to refrain from firing all types of rockets, and from attacks on the borders or targeting civilians.
c. Crossings shall be opened and the passage of persons and goods through border crossings shall be facilitated once the security situation becomes stable on the ground. [which will only happen with the end of occupation, therefore, which is not mentioned anywhere]
d. Other issues, including security issues shall be discussed with the two sides. [as always, but the discussions never follow]
2. Method of implementation of the initiative: 
a. It has been decided to initiate implementation of the de-escalation agreements at -- : -- hours (GMT) on -- / 7 / 2014, pending the implementation of a full ceasefire within twelve hours of the announcement of the Egyptian initiative and its unconditional acceptance by both sides.
b. High-level delegations from both the Israeli government and the Palestinian factions shall be hosted in Cairo within 48 hours of the initiation of the initiative’s implementation in order to conclude talks for the consolidation of the ceasefire and resume confidence-building measures between the two sides talks shall be held with each of the two sides separately (in accordance with the agreements for the consolidation of de-escalation in Cairo the consolidation of de-escalation in Cairo in 2012).
c. Both sides shall commit to refrain from taking any actions aimed at undermining the implementation of the agreements; Egypt shall receive guarantees from both sides of their commitment to implementing what has been agreed and shall follow up on its implementation and engage with either side in the case of any action that impinges on its stability. 

Quem se manifestou primeiro foi o porta-voz do Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, "we are still under occupation and resistance is the right of our people."
Depois um líder odas Brigadas Qassan, o braço armado do Hamas: A proposta é "an initiative of bowing and submission. It was not worth the ink it was written with".
Khaled al-Batch, um líder do Jihad na Faixa, recusou categoricamente: "It is not acceptable to start observing a ceasefire for short term then negotiate the terms. We have experienced this in the past and it has failed. What is needed now is to agree on the demands of the Palestinian people, chiefly ending the siege and opening the border corsing, then a zero hour can be agreed upon. Otherwise, history will repeat itself, period."
A declaração oficial foi feita por Ismail Haniyeh, líder do Hamas na Faixa, na TV al-Aqsa: "Our people were avoiding the war but the Zionist enemy began it, he announced it, he prepared for it, he started to kill the women, children and families, destroy homes. Entire families were eliminated.
"Every drop of blood is dear to us. My heart and all the people are standing beside these families, but this bloodshed pushes us towards being more committed to our rights and to stopping this aggression, to end this situation in Gaza and the West Bank."
a. It has been decided to initiate implementation of the de-escalation agreements at -- : -- hours (GMT) on -- / 7 / 2014, pending the implementation of a full ceasefire within twelve hours of the announcement of the Egyptian initiative and its unconditional acceptance by both sides.
b. High-level delegations from both the Israeli government and the Palestinian factions shall be hosted in Cairo within 48 hours of the initiation of the initiative’s implementation in order to conclude talks for the consolidation of the ceasefire and resume confidence-building measures between the two sides talks shall be held with each of the two sides separately (in accordance with the agreements for the consolidation of de-escalation in Cairo the consolidation of de-escalation in Cairo in 2012).
c. Both sides shall commit to refrain from taking any actions aimed at undermining the implementation of the agreements; Egypt shall receive guarantees from both sides of their commitment to implementing what has been agreed and shall follow up on its implementation and engage with either side in the case of any action that impinges on its stability.
Não é que o Hamas não queira cessar fogo e nem negociar. É que quer garantia das Nações Unidas que vai acabar a política dos dois pesos e duas medidas e que haverá uma intervenção internacional para pôr fim à ocupação, em vez de soluções paliativas pontuais que só beneficiam a expansão territorial de Israel sem que este país que desrespeita as leis internacionais leve nem um tapinha na mão, quem dirá um mero puxão de orelha.

Compare how Israelis and Palestinians are alerted to incoming bombs

Compare como israelenses e palestinos são alertados sobre ataques 

NAMING THE 237 identified DEAD on hundreds of Israeli strikes on the Palestinians since Monday, July 7, until 20:00 GMT, July 17. 
The 42 victims under 18 in yellow . 
Nome dos 237 gazauís mortos já identificados. Estatística apenas desta Operação Protective Edge, de segunda-feira dia 7 de julho às 20:00 GMT do dia 17.
Os 42 menores  de 18 anos em amarelo.
1. Mohammed Shaaban, 24, killed in Gaza.
2. Amjad Shaaban, 30, killed in Gaza.
3. Khader al-Bashiliki, 45, killed in Gaza.
4. Rashad Yassin, 27, killed in the Nusseirat refugee camp.
5. Mohammed Ayman Ashour, 15, killed in Khan Younis.
6. Riad Mohammed Kawareh, 50, killed in Khan Younis.
7. Bakr Mohammed Judeh, 22, killed in Khan Younis.
8. Ammar Mohammed Judeh, 26, killed in Khan Younis.
9. Hussein Yousef Kawareh, 13, killed in Khan Younis.
10. Mohammed Ibrahim kawareh, 50, killed in Khan Younis.
11. Mohammed Aahed Habib, 22, killed in Gaza.
12. Ahmed Moussa Habib, 16,  killed in Gaza.
13. Saqr Ayesh al-Ajuli, 22, killed in Jabalia.
14. Ahmed Nael Mahdi, 16, killed in Gaza.
15. Basil Salem Kawareh, 10, killed in Khan Younis.
16. Hafez Mohammed Hamad, 30, Islamic Jihad commander, killed in Beit Hanoun.
17. Ibrahim Mohammed Hamad, 26 killed in Beit Hanoun.
18. Mahdi Mohammed Hamad, 46 killed in Beit Hanoun.
19. Fawziya Khalil Hamad, 62, (female) killed in Beit Hanoun.
20. Dunya Mahdi Hamad, 16, killed in Beit Hanoun.
21. Suha Hamad, 25,  killed in Beit Hanoun.
22. Suleiman Salman Abu Sowaween, 22, killed in Deir al-Balah.
23. Siraj Ayad Abdelal, 8, killed in Khan Younis.
24. Abdel Hadi Jumaa al-Sufi, 24.
25. Rashid al-Kafarneh, 30, killed in Beit Hanoun.
26. Nayfeh Farajallah, 80,
27. Abdel Nasser Abu Kweik, 60, killed in Beit Hanoun.
28. Khaled Abu Kweik, 31, killed in Beit Hanoun.
29. Mohammed Arif, 13, killed in Gaza.
30. Mohammed Malake, 18 months, killed in Gaza.
31. Hanaa Malake, 27, (female) killed in Gaza.
32. Hatem Abu Salem, unreported age
33. Mohammed Khaled al-Nimre, 22, killed in Gaza.
34. Sahar Hamdan al-Masri, 40, (female) killed in Beit Hanoun.
35. Mohammed Ibrahim al-Masri, 14, killed in Beit Hanoun.
36. Mohammed Khalaf al-Nawasra, 4, killed in al-Maghazi.
37. Nidal Khalaf al-Nawasra, 5, killed in al-Maghazi.
38. Aicha Najm, 20, (female) killed in al-Maghazi.
39. Salah Awad al-Nawasra, 6, killed in al-Maghazi.
40. Mahmoud Nahed al-Nawasra, unreported age.
41. Amal Yousef Abdel Ghafour, 27, (female) killed in Khan Younis.
42. Raneem Judeh Abdel Ghafour, 18 months, killed in Khan Younis.
43. Ibrahim Daoud al-Balaawi, 24, killed in Rafah.
44. Abdel Rahman Jamal al-Zamli, 22, killed in Rafah.
45. Ibrahim Ahmed Abdeen, 42, killed in Rafah.
46. Mustafa Abu Murr, 20, killed in Rafah.
47. Khaled Abu Murr, 23, killed in Rafah.
48. Mazen Faraj al-Jarba, 30, killed in Deir al-Balah.
49. Marwan Isleem, 27, killed in Deir al-Balah.
50. Hani Saleh Hamad, 57, killed in Beit Hanoun.
51. Ibrahim Hamad, 20, killed in Beit Hanoun.
52. Salima Hassan Maslam al-Arja, 60, (female).
53. Mariam Atiah Mohammed Al-Arja, 11, (girl)
54. Hamid Shihab, 37, journalist, killed in his car that had the letters "TV" affixed to it in large red stickers when it was struck by an Israeli missile
55. Ibrahim Khalil Qanan, 24
56. Mohammed Khalil Qanan, 26
57. Suleiman Al-Astal, 55
58. Hamdi Badie Sawali, 33
59. Mohammed Al-Akkad, 24
60. Ahmed Sawali, 28, killed in Khan Younis.
61. Raed Shalat, 37.
62. Mahmoud Lutfi al-Hajj, 58, killed in Khan Younis.
63. Asmaa Mahmoud al-Hajj, 22, (female) killed in Khan Younis.
64. Tarik Saad al-Hajj, 18, killed in Khan Younis.
65. Saad Mahmoud al-Hajj, 17, killed in Khan Younis.
66. Najlaa Mahmoud al-Hajj, 29, killed in Khan Younis.
67. Fatima al-Hajj, 12, killed in Khan Younis.
68. Omar al-Hajj, 20, killed in Khan Younis.
69. Basima Abdel Fattah al-Hajj, 57, killed in Khan Younis.
70. Ahmed Salim al-Astal, 24, killed in Khan Younis.
71. Moussa Mohammed al-Astal, 50, killed in Khan Younis.
72. Raed al-Zawarea, 33, killed in Khan Younis.
73. Bahaa Abu al-Leil, 35, Islamic Jihad member, killed in Gaza.
74.Salem Qandil, 27, Islamic Jihad member, killed in Gaza.
75. Amer al-Fayyoumi, 30, Islamic Jihad member, killed in Gaza.
76. Abdallah Ramadan Abu Ghazal, 5, killed in Beit Hanoun.
77. Islamel Hassan Abu Jamaa, 19, killed in Khan Younis.
78. Mohammed Ehsan Farwane, 18, killed in Khan Younis.
79. Mahmoud Talee Wallud, 26, Islamic Jihad member, killed in Jabalia.
80. Hazem Ibrahim Baaloushe, 30, Islamic Jihad member, killed in a civilian car in Jabalia.
81. Udai Rafik al-Sultan, 27, killed in Jabalia.
82. Hassan Awda Abu Jamaa, 75, killed in Khan Younis.
83. Yasmin Mohammed al-Mutwak, 4, killed in Beit Hanoun.
84. Ahmed Zaher Hamdan, 24, killed in Beit Hanoun.
85. Mohammed Kamal al-Kahlout, 25, killed in Jabalia.
86. Sami Andan Shaldan, 25, killed in Gaza.
87. Jumaa Atiah Shallouf, 25, killed in Rafah.
88. Bassam Abdel Rahman Khattab, 6, killed in Deir al-Balah.   
89. Abdellah Mustafa Abu Mahrouk, 22, killed in Deir al-Balah.
90. Anas Rizk Abu al-Qas, 33 killed in Gaza.
91. Nour Marwan al-Najdi, 10, killed in Rafah.
92. Mohammed Mounir Ashour, 26, killed in Rafah.
93. Ghalia Deeb Jaber Ghanem, 57, killed in Rafah.
94. Wissam Abdel Razek Hassan Ghannam, 31, killed in Rafah.
95. Mahmoud Razek Hassan Ghannam, 28, Islamic Jihad member, killed in Rafah.
96. Kifah Shahadeh Deeb Ghannam, 33, killed in Rafah.
97. Raed Hani Abu Hani, 31, killed in Rafah.
98. Shahraman Ismaeil Abu al-Qas, 42, killed in Al-Breij.
99. Mazen Mustafa Aslan, 63, killed in Al-Breij.
100. Mohammed Rabih Abu Humeidan, 65, killed in northern Gaza.
101. Shahd al-Qreinawi, 7, killed in Al-Breij.
102. Abdel Halim Abdel Moeti, 54.
103. Hussein al-Mamlouk, 47, killed in Gaza.
104. Saber Sukkar, 80, killed in Gaza.
105. Nasser Mohammed Sammame, 49, killed in Gaza.
106. Rami Abu Musaed, 23, killed in Deir al-Balah.
107. Mohammed al-Sumeiri, 24, killed in Deir al-Balah.
108. Husam Eddine al-Razayne, 39, killed in Jabalia.
109. Anas Youssef Qandil, 17, killed in Jabalia.
110. Abdel Rahim Saleh al-Khatib, 38, killed in Jabalia.
111. Youssef Mohammed Qandil, 33, killed in Jabalia.
112. Mohammed Idris Abu Sanena, 20, killed in Jabalia.
113. Hala Weshahi, 31, killed in the disabled centre in Jabalia.
114. Suha Abu Saada, 38, killed in the disabled centre in Jabalia.
115. Ali Nabil Basal, 32, killed in Gaza.
116. Mohammed Bassem al-Halabi, 28, killed in Gaza.
117. Mohammed al-Suweiti, 20, killed in Gaza.
118. Ibrahim Nabil Hamade, 30, killed in Gaza.
119. Hassan Ahmed Abu Ghoush, 24, killed in Gaza.
120. Ahmed Mazen al-Balawi, 26, killed in Gaza.
121. Rateb Sobhi Youssuf al-Saifi, 22, killed in Al-Zaitoun.
122. Azmi Mahmoud Taha Obeid, 51, killed in shelling on Radwan street.
123. Nidal Mohammed Ibrahim Abu al-Malsh, 22, killed in shelling on Radwan street.
124. Suleiman Saeed Younis Obeid, 56, killed in shelling on Radwan street.
125. Ghassan Ahmed al-Masri, 25, killed in shelling on Radwan street.
126. Mustafa Mohammed Taha Anabe, 58, killed in shelling on Radwan street.
127. Rifaat Yousef Amer, 36, killed in Gaza.
128. Mohamed Idriss Abo Sowaylim, 20, killed in Jabalia.
129. Fadi Yaqoub Sukar, 25, killed in Gaza.
130. Qassim Jabr Adwan Ouda, 16, killed Khan Younis.
131. Mohammad Ahmed Bassal, 19, killed in Gaza.
132. Muhannad Yousuf Daheir, 23, killed in Rafah.
133. Mahmoud Abdallah Sharahta al-Shammal, 53.
134. Shadi Mohammed Zaareb, 21, killed in Rafah.
135. Imad Bassam Zaareb, 21, killed in Rafah.
136. Nahed Naeem al-Batesh, 41, killed in Gaza.
137. Bahaa Majed al-Batesh, 28, killed in Gaza.
138. Qusai Issam al-Batesh, 12, killed in Gaza.    
139. Aziza Yousuf al-Batesh, 59, killed in Gaza.
140. Mohammed Issam al-Batesh, 17, killed in Gaza.
141. Ahmed Naaman al-Batesh, 27, killed in Gaza.
142. Yahia Alaa al-Batesh, 18, killed in Gaza.
143. Jalal Majed al-Batesh, 26, killed in Gaza.
144. Mahmoud Majed al-Batesh, 22, killed in Gaza.
145. Marwa Majed al-Batesh, 25, killed in Gaza.
146. Majid Sobhi al-Batesh, unkown age, killed in Gaza.
147. Khaled Majed al-Batesh, 20, killed in Gaza.
148. Ibrahim Majed al-Batesh, 18, killed in Gaza.
149. Manar Majed al-Batesh, 13, killed in Gaza.
150. Amal Hassan al-Batesh, 49, killed in Gaza.
151. Anas Alaa al-Batesh, 10, killed in Gaza.
152. Qusai Alaa al-Batesh, unknown age, killed in Gaza.
153. Rami Abu Shanab, 25, killed in Deir al-Balah.
154. Khawla al-Hawajri, 25, killed in Nuseirat.
155. Mohammed Ghazi Arif, 35, killed in Gaza.
156. Ghazi Mustafa Arif, 62, killed in Gaza.
157. Ahmed Yousef Dalloul, 47, killed in Gaza.
158. Hijazia Hamed al-Hilou, 80, killed in Gaza.
159. Muayed al-Aaraj, 3, killed in Khan Younis.
160. Fawziya Abdelal, 73, killed in Gaza.
161. Haitham Ashraf Zaareb, 21, killed in Rafah.
162. Laila Hassan al-Awdat al-Maghazi, 41.
163. Hussam Ibrahim al-Najjar, 14.
164. Ruwaida Abu Harb, 30.
165. Izzedine Bulbul, 25, killed in Gaza.
166. Hussein Abdel Qader Muheisen, 19, killed in Gaza.
167. Qassem Talal Hamdan, 23, killed in Beit Hanoun.
168. Maher Thabet Abu Mur, 24, killed in East Rafah.
169. Mohammed Salem Abu Breis, 65, killed in east Deir al-Balah.
170. Saddam Mousa Moammar, 23, killed in east Deir al-Balah.
171. Moussa Shahda Moammar, 60, killed in east Deir al-Balah.
172. Hanadi Hamdi Moammar, 27, killed in east Deir al-Balah.
173. Adham Mohammed Abdel-Fatah Abdelal, 25, killed in Gaza.
174. Hamid Suleiman Abu al-Araj, 60, killed in Deir al-Balah.
175. Abdallah Mahmoud Baraka, 24, killed in Khan Younis.
176. Tamer Salam Qudeih, 37, killed in Khan Younis.
177. Ziad Maher al-Najjar, 17, killed in Khan Younis.
178. Ziad Salem al-Shawi, 25, killed in Rafah.
179. Mohammed Yassir Hamdan, 24, killed in Gaza.
180. Mohammed Shakib al-Agha, 22, killed in Khan Younis.
181. Mohammed Younis. Abu Youssef, 25, killed in Khan Younis.
182. Sara Omar Sheikh al-Eid, 4, killed in Rafah.
183. Omar Ahmed Sheikh al-Eid, 24, killed in Rafah.
184. Jihad Ahmed Sheikh al-Eid, 48, killed in Rafah.
185.  Kamal Atef Yousuf Abu Taha, 16, killed in Khan Younis.
186. Ismael Nabil Ahmed Abu Hatab, 21, killed in Khan Younis.
187. Ahmed Younis. Abu Youssef, 28, killed in Khan Younis.
188. Bushra Khalil Zaareb, 53, killed in East Rafah.
189. Atwa Umeir al-Ammour, 58, killed in east Khan Younis.
190. Ismael Salim al-Najjar, 46, killed in Khan Younis.
191. Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim al-Najjar, 49, killed in Khan Younis.
192. Suleiman Abu Louli, 33, killed in Khan Younis.
193. Sobhi Abdel Hamid Mousa, 77, killed in Khan Younis.
194. Ismael Fattouh, 24, killed in Gaza.
195. Saleh Saeed Dahleez, 20, killed in Rafah.
196. Yassir Eid al-Mahmoum, 18, killed in Rafah.
197. Khalil al-Ashafi, 66, killed in Hajar al-Deek.
198. Mohammed Abdallah al-Rahuk, 23, killed in Rafah.
199. Mohammed Ismael Abu Ouda, 27, killed in Rafah.
200. Mohammed Sabri al-Debari, 20, killed in Rafah.
201. Abdallah Mohammed Abdallah al-Arjani, 19, killed in Khan Younis.
202. Ahmed Adil Ahmed al-Nawajha, 23, killed in Rafah.
203. Mohammed Tayseer Sharab, 23, killed in Khan Younis.
204. Farid Mahmoud Abu Daqqa, 33, killed in Khan Younis.
205. Ashraf Khalil Abu Shana, 33, killed in Rafah.
206. Khodra Salameh Abu Dakka, 24, killed in Khan Younis
207. Omar Ramadan Hassan Abu Dakka, 24, killed in Khan Younis.
208. Ibrahim Ramadan, 10, killed in Khan Younis.
209. Ahed Bakr, 10, Gaza beach
210. Zakaria Bakr, 10, Gaza beach
211. Mohammed Bakr, 11, Gaza beach
212. Ismail Bakr, 9, Gaza beach
213. Abdel Rahman Khalil al-Sarhi, 37, killed in Gaza
214. Hamza Raed Thari, 6, killed Jabalia.
215. Akram Mohamed Abo Amer, 34, Killed in Khan Younis.
216. Kamal Mohamed Mohamed Abo Amer, 38, killed in Khan Younis.
217. Hussein Abdel Latif Al Astal, 23, killed in Kahn Younis.
218. Roqayyah Al Astal, 70, killed in Khan Younis.
219, Yasmin Al Astal, 4, killed in Khan Younis.
220. Osama Mahmoud Al Astal, 6, killed in Khan Younis.
221. Hussam Jamal Shamloukh, 23, killed in Sheikh Ajleen in Gaza.
222. Mohamed Kamel Abdel Rahman, 30, killed in Gaza.
223. Mohamed Mahmoud al-Qadim, 22, Deir al-Balah.

224. Zainab Mohamed Saeed al-Abadla, 71, Khan Younis.

225. Mohamed Abdul-Rahman Hasouna, 67, Rafah.

226. Ahmed Raihan, 23, Beit Lahya.

227. Saleh Salem Fayyad, 25, Deir al-Balah.

228. Abdullah Salem al-Akhras, 25, Rafah.

229. Bashir Mohamed Abdul-Aal, 20, Rafah.

230. Mohammed Ziad Ghanem, 25, Rafah.

231. Mohamed Ahmed al-Hut, 41,Rafah.
232. Ismaeil Youssef El Kafarneh, age unknown, Beit Hanoun

233. Fullah Tarek Shehebar, age unknown, location unknown.

234. Jehad Essam Shehebar, age unknown, location unknown.

235. Wassim Essam Shehebar, age unknown, location unknown.

236. Hamza Hossam Al Abadleh, 29, killed in Khan Younis.

237. Rahaf Khalil Al Jabbour, 4, killed in Khan Younis. 

Há mais de 1.700 palestinos com ferimentos graves. Muitos meninos. Ferimentos "leves", milhares. E mais de 120 mil gazauís desalojados. As estradas estão cheais de famílias ao Deus dará, sem saber para onde ir, sem saber como abrigar-se.
ISRAELI DEAD: 1. Dror Khenin, 37, killed near Erez crossing, checkpoint to enter Gaza Strip.
O foguetório das Brigadas Qassan feriram 10 israelenses.

Professor Noam Chomsky: Gaza is an open air prison

Como se sabe, faz 68 anos que o Estado de Israel foi constituído e os palestinos ficaram com 1/3 de suas terras ancestrais, sem Estado e sem proteção internacional.

Como se sabe, faz 47 anos que o Estado de Israel ocupa ilegalmente os territórios palestinos delimitados pela Organização das Nações Unidas.

(Os palestinos reivindicam o reconhecimento de seu Estado nas fronteiras de 1967, na chamada Linha Verde traçada pelas Nações Unidas.)

Como se sabe, a ocupação na Cisjordânia é civil e militar.
Civil, com as invasões de judeus importados para as ditas "colônias" erguidas em cima de lavouras e lares palestinos, sob a proteção de soldados muito bem armados.
O muro não cerca os invasores e sim as cidades palestinas, para os "colonos" terem espaço à vontade. A ocupação militar está em checkpoints e em toda parte - impedindo inclusive acesso à escola, com soldados invadindo casas e se instalando também à vontade, e a IDF (Forças Armadas Israelenses de Ocupação) é onipresente no dia a dia de adultos e meninos, oprimindo e humilhando sem parar.
(Não me lembro se na escola aprendi que os nazistas agiram assim na Polônia, na França, enfim, nos países que ocuparam ou se é uma inovação israelense.)

Além de submeter os palestinos à brutalidade e à desumanidade da ocupação no quotidiano, de dois em dois anos, Israel põe sua máquina de guerra em marcha para destruir as infra-estruturas reerguidas, ir à caça, aleijar e matar o máximo de gente.
Em 2006 foi no Líbano, também durante a Copa do Mundo; em 2008/09 foi na Faixa de Gaza, no período natalino; em 2012, na Faixa de Gaza; e em 2014, idem, durante a Copa do Mundo, e com operações paralelas de menos intensidade na Cisjordânia.
E as operações militares são cada vez mais ferozes. Pois o arsenal do agressor se aprimora com a ajuda dos Estados Unidos e os "warmongers" voltam ao ataque tecnologia ultra-moderna esmagando pessoas e armas um tanto precárias.
Nas operações militares anteriores, além das armas ditas convencionais, usaram arma química - fósforo branco -  sem nehuma penalidade. E bombas a fragmentação que até hoje aleijam e matam meninos no sul do Líbano e na Faixa de Gaza.

Israel é essencialmente um Estado Militar. Os cargos públicos importantes são ocupados por oficiais da reserva, os menos importantes também. No setor privado, idem.
De sua criação até esta data, Israel só teve três governantes civis. Os outros eram todos generais.
E militar vive de quê? De guerra. Em Israel, guerra é um ofício que os pseudo-civis banalizam e implementam a fim de testar os novos "brinquedos" adquiridos e gastar o patrocínio anual estadunidense de $3 bilhões de dólares; fazendo o quê? Matando gente. Ou melhor, como dizem os sionistas empedernedos e grande parte dos israelenses, matando animais; pois a seu ver, palestino não é gente.
Como também não eram os judeus aos olhos dos nazistas na Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Josh Earnest, o porta-voz da Casa Branca, desconsiderando a desigualdade entre o foguetório do Hamas contra drones armados, potentes caças e helicópteros, porta-aviões de guerra, que martelam a Faixa de Gaza de dia e de madrugada ferindo centenas e matando dezenas, declarou o apoio de Barack Obama a Binyamin Netanyahu, sucintamente, na sua voz mansa de sempre: "We strongly condemn the continuing rocket fire inside of Israel and the deliberate targeting of civilians by terrorist organisations in Gaza."
Já Alemanha, França e Nações Unidas , "urged restraint on both sides".
Moshe Yaalon, o ministro da Defesa israelense, anunciou a carnificina logo de cara: "We are preparing for a battle against Hamas which will not end within a few days."
A tática do governo israelense é a que já se conhece de longa data.
Primeiro a IDF põe suas Forças Aérea e Naval para esmagar toda a infraestrutura "militar" e pública da Faixa de Gaza: de central elétrica a escola, e para mandar o máximo de Gazauís para o hospital e para o cemitério.

Depois da "limpeza", mandam a infantaria com os tanques, os veículos armados e as tropas. Desta vez convocaram 40 mil reservistas que já estão estacionados em volta da Faixa.
Só para lembrar. Em dados de 2009, Israel era o segundo país do mundo, depois dos Estados Unidos, a gastar mais, per capita, em armamento. Gastava então  US$1.882 por israelense. (A Rússia era o 24°). Não tenho dados atualizados sobre este tópico.
Porém, sei outras coisas. Que o orçamento militar israelense anual está entre US15 e US18 bilhões de dólares; tem potencial de infantaria de 187 mil soldados; e no ar, Israel dispõe de 680 aeronaves de combate, entre aviões e helicópteros; no mar, dispõe de 3 fregatas, 3 destroyers, 5 corvetes, 14 submarinos e 66 barcos militares costeiros; e em terra, dispõe de 3.870 tanques, 9.436 veículos armados (os tais cruéis), 706 SPGs (canhões auto-móveis blindados), 350 canhões M777 howitzer, 88 lança-mísseis MLRSs (multi-tarefas).
Pois bem, o que Abu Mazen diz acima é uma verdade irrefutável até para os sionistas cegos, surdos, mudos e seus cúmplices irresponsáveis e desalmados.
O que está acontecendo é um ocupante com Forças Armadas super potentes contra o ocupado que se defende como pode, com um foguetório, na Faixa de Gaza, e na Cisjordânia, sem nada.

Ninguém aguenta mais ouvir as frases cínicas dos iraelenses:  "We're acting in self-defence"; "protecting our citizens"; "they've started it first"; "no other government would accept that rockets rain down on its people."
A capacidade de desinformação de Israel é tão grande que mesmo depois da Naqba e dos 47 anos de ocupação civil e militar da Palestina, até hoje os palestinos ainda não conseguiram que a verdade prevalescesse na mídia e na opinião pública internacional.
Até a BBC está com um discurso esquisito de situar Jerusalém em Israel. Um erro geográfico, já que Jerusalém está legalmente na Cisjordânia, que os OxBridge do canal jamais cometeriam. Portanto, é uma imposição editorial. Vinda de que escalão? Da direção ou do Primeiro Ministro? Dos jornalistas é certo que não.

Concluindo, guerra é de maneira geral uma continuação brutal da política e uma falha diplomática.
Os Estados Unidos têm o costume de usar as armas para conseguir o que querem na marra. Israel também.
Os envolvidos nesta escalada militar sabem, por experiência própria de 2008 e 2012, que todas as perdas humanas e materiais levarão a uma paralisia das negociações de paz.
Binyamin Netanyahu acha que com o ataque à Faixa de Gaza e as blitz brutais na Cisjordânia, Israel vai marginalizar o novo governo unitário da Autoridade Nacional Palestina. União entre o Fatah e o Hamas que ele não conseguiu engolir e nem tentou, pra dizer a verdade. E ficou bastante irritado com a boa acolhida internacional da reconciliação da OLP (Organização de Libertação da Palestina).
Por outro lado, a Operação Protective Edge visa ajudá-lo a manter sua própria coalizão governamental que está periclitando. E cada vez que um governo israelense periclita, ataca os palestinos para sua popularidade subir e manter-se graças à violência. É infalível.
E desta vez, o Primeiro Ministro e seus cupinchas de extrema direita querem punir não apenas o Hamas, mas o Fatah e Mahmoud Abbas, por terem "ousado" recorrer às Nações Unidas e por terem se reconciliado com o Hamas. Este clima de revanche era claro no governo e nas alas extremistas, cada vez mais potentes, que só falam em agir com "mais agressividade" (será possível?) nos territórios ocupados e expandir a colonização da Cisjordânia.

E após John Kerry ter sido claro que as negociações de paz chegaram a um impasse por sua causa, Netanyahu espera com esta Operação sair do isolamento diplomático com os Estados Unidos. O que já conseguiu, com Obama repetindo a lenga lenga do "Israel's right to defend itself". Aliás, o Presidente dos Estados Unidos vê nessa carnificina uma nova oportunidade dos EUA voltar em cena como salvador da pátria negociando um acordo de cessar-fogo avantajoso para Israel, já que em uma semana de bombardeio, a Faixa de Gaza está em escombros e os palestinos já estão sem fôlego.
E tudo está a favor de Israel, já que o ditador do Egito, o general Sissi, é cúmplice de Tel Aviv e de Washington. E se ele for mesmo o mediador, é certo que Israel vai levar vantagem, mesmo.
Agora se a Operation Protective Edge continuar no rítmo selvagem que está, Abu Mazen não vai conseguir segurar a Cisjordânia nem com a maior boa vontade. Ele se opõe com veemência a um levante popular e está segurando com mãos de ferro as Brigadas de resistência do Fatah aposentadas. Porém, se as mortes aumentarem ao rítmo de 20 por dia e o ataque demorar mais, vai ser difícil evitar a Terceira Intifada.

E me pergunto se Binyamin Netanyahu, desta vez, vai conseguir conter os palestinos-israelenses.
Netanyahu e Obama estão brincando com fogo.
Uma Intifada hoje não seria como nas décadas de 80 e nem como no início do terceiro milênio. Os palestinos estão cansados de serem maltratados e despojados. E os chamados árabes-israelenses, também estão cansados de ser cidadãos de segunda classe. A IDF corre o risco de ter de lutar em três frentes.
Aí a jurupoca vai piar.
Está passando da hora de atender o pedido de Yasser Arafat, reiterado por Mahmou Abbas, da ONU interver militarmente para impor a lei internacional. Ou seja, para pôr fim à ocupação com evacuação dos colonos e dos soldados israelenses.

"Beginnings matter. Questions about culpability and responsibility, about the narrow cynicism that defines so much of life in the Gaza Strip, sequence and motive - they all go to beginnings. Why are Israeli men and women battering and gnashing lives and livelihoods in that prison camp? How did it start? Why are they killing? What are they after? How will it end? The answers are embedded in our crusty beginnings.
How it started
In the beginning, Zionists invaded Palestine. They expelled the Palestinians and Gaza, an ancient place that hosted Ramses II, Alexander the Great, and Salahuddin, became a tent city. A wasteland for the dejected and destitute.
It didn't take long for Palestinians in Gaza to begin to fight to reclaim their homes from the Ashkenazis that displaced them. The Fedayeen - refugee militiamen - commenced with overnight raids as soon as the shock of their ignominious defeat began to wear.
The first Israeli massacre in Gaza occured in 1956. My father was a small boy at the time, but he remembers how the men were rounded up and shot. Today, his grand-nephews and -nieces, also refugees, also born in camps, cower in terror as the third generation of Ashkenazis in Palestine shows them their place. Life in the shadows, balanced precariously on obsidian with fire on either side - that's their inheritance.
The latest round
Among Israeli elites, Gaza is everything to everyone. Israeli politicians attack Gaza to enhance their electoral appeal. They use it to muzzle the opposition, to preserve a coalition or to distract from a domestic scandal. Israeli generals like to invade to provide troops with "battle" training or to test new wares, and to debut new formations and tactics; Hamas is not Hezbollah, after all.
Jewish-Israeli scientists, meanwhile, coordinate with the army to use the territory as a convenient testing ground for advanced, experimental technologies. Corporate Israel later repackages those technologies for global export. Those are the relationships - the status quo.
The recent move towards Palestinian reconciliation undertaken by the Hamas and PLO leaderships, threatened to end the political - if not material - isolation of Gaza. It posed a risk to the current state of things by providing Hamas, a political movement which came to power through elections, with a means for re-entering the realm of international legitimacy.
Once the Americans and Europeans agreed to recognise the new caretaker government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to seek a way out of his new, uncomfortable isolation. He could not attack the Palestinians solely for their political reconciliation - the Americans would admonish him for that. Nor, to his great consternation, could he convince world powers to repeal their endorsement of the new government. Desperately, he sought a way out.
It came in the form of tragedy. When the three Jewish-Israeli settler teenagers disappeared in the West Bank, the Israeli leadership claimed that they were still alive. Through its prerogative as the enforcement vehicle of Israeli apartheid, the army spent three weeks smashing into hundreds of homes and terrorising their occupants in the search for the three youths.
More than 500 Palestinian men were rounded up and imprisoned as Netanyahu clamoured for the teenagers' return and inveighed against Hamas, the group he claimed kidnapped the youths. No evidence was offered. Only bluster, bombast, and fatalistic conviction delivered in a sonorous tone of voice.

As Max Blumenthal has documented, it was all a shameful and cynical political show. The Israeli leadership knew within the first day of their disappearance that the youths were dead; bullet holes, blood samples and a telephone recording provided evidence of what happened. But the ever-receptive Jewish-Israeli public demanded revenge and by the time the extent of the sham was revealed, the Israelis had killed nine people in the West Bank and three more in the Gaza Strip through missiles they fired in "retaliation" for the West Bank murders.
Naturally, the Palestinians availed themselves of their right to self-defence. They used crude, unguided workshop missiles to reclaim the balance of fear that existed - thereby providing the Israeli leadership with more material for international consumption. It is now claimed that the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza ghetto had nothing to do with the murders of the three Jewish-Israeli youths. Instead, Israel is merely "responding" to Hamas' nihilistic provocations.
More than a month after the reconciliation, it appears that Netanyahu has succeeded - his balance has been restored. Israelis are free to indulge in a grand delusion of self-righteousness. "No normal country could tolerate terrorists firing missiles into its urban centres," they say.  
"No normal country practises the crime of apartheid."
"No normal country demolishes the homes of suspects…
or punishes millions of people…
or seeks vengeance and vengeance and vengeance in a fit of bloody wrath," we might wearily." Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American who was born in the Gaza Strip. He is a Soros Fellow, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books 2012) and co-founder and CEO of liwwa.com

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Atualização do dia 12/07/2014

As Israel's aerial offensive on Gaza entered its fifth day on Friday, the Gaza health ministry said that at least 121 Palestinians were killed, most of them civilians, including women and children. 
Also hundreds have already been injured since the beginning of "Operation Protective Edge" on Monday, July 7. 
Israel has been strinking overnight the densely populated Palestinian territory hitting more than a thousand targets, in attacks it says target Hamas military infrastructure. Nevertheless, the targets include air strikes on Press vehicles, Family homes, beach-side cafeterias, public infrastructures, and people..

Around 500 rockets have been launched from Gaza into Israel, most of them during the first two days of the campaign, which they call "Operation Protective Edge". 
None has made victims, although some home made rockets have gone as far as the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Israel Iron Dome defense system is able to intercepte most of them or they simply are not effective. 
Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Gaza health ministry, provided the names of those killed since the start of the current Israel's military campaign.
Their names and ages are below, with children highlighted in yellow. As well as the location where they were hit. The bombs don't fall on empty spaces. They fall on public buildings, private properties, and before all, on people with names and faces.   
NAMING THE DEAD. 
1. Mohammed Shaaban (24) killed in Gaza
2. Amjad Shaaban (30) killed in Gaza
3. Khader Al-Bashiliki (45) killed in Gaza
4. Rashad Yassin (27) killed in the Nusseurat refugee camp
5. Mohammed Ayman Ashour (15 years old) killed in Khan Younis
6. Riad Mohammed Kawareh (50) killed in Khan Younis
7. Bakr Mohammed Judeh (22) killed in Khan Younis
8. Ammar Mohammed Judeh (26) killed in Khan Younis
9. Hussein Yousef Kawareh (13) killed in Khan Younis
10. Mohammed Ibrahim kawareh (50) killed in Khan Younis
11. Mohammed Habib (22) killed in Gaza
12. Ahmed Moussa Habibi (16) killed in Gaza
13. Saqr Ayesh Al-Ajuli (22) killed in Jabalia
14. Ahmed Nael Mahdi (16) killed in Gaza
15. Basim Salem Kawareh (10) killed in Khan Younis
16. Hafez Mohammed Hamad (30) (Islamic Jihad commander)
17. Ibrahim Mohammed Hamad (26)
18. Mahdi Mohammed Hamad (46)
19. Fawziya Khalil Hamad (62) (Female)
20. Dunya Mahdi Hamad (16) (girl)
21. Suha Hamad (25) (Female)
22. Suleiman Salman Abu Sowaween (22)
23. Siraj Ayad Abdelal (8)
24. Abdel Hadi Jumaa Al-Sufi (24)
25. Rashid Al-Kafarneh (30)
26. Nayfeh Farajallah (80) (Female)
27. Abdel Nasser Abu Kweik (60)
28. Khaled Abu Kweik (31)
29. Mohammed Arif (13)
30. Mohammed Malake (18 months)
31. Amneh Malake (27) (Female)
32. Hatem Abu Salem (unreported age)
33. Mohammed Khaled Al-Nimre (22)
34. Sahar Hamdan Al-Masri (40) Female)
35. Ibrahim Al-Masri (14)
36. Mohammed Khalaf Al-Nawasra (4)
37. Nidal Khalaf Al-Nawasra (a child of unreported age)
38. Aicha Najm (Female) (unreported age)
39. Salah Awad Al-Nawasra (unreported age)
40. Mahmoud Nahed Al-Nawasra (unreported age)
41. Amal Yousef Abdel Ghafour (Female) (unreported age)
42. Raneem Judeh Abdel Ghafour (Young girl of unreported age)
43. Ibrahim Daoud Al-Balaawi (24)
44. Abdel Rahman Jamal Al-Zamli (22)
45. Ibrahim Ahmed Abdeen (42)
46. Mustafa Abu Murr (20)
47. Khaled Abu Murr (23)
48. Mazen Faraj Al-Jarba (30)
49. Marwan Isleem (27)
50. Hani Saleh Hamad (57)
51. Ibrahim Hamad (20)
52. Salima Hassan Maslam Al-Arja (Female) (60)
53. Mariam Atiah Mohammed Al-Arja (11) (girl)

54. Hamid Shihab (27) journalist, killed in his car that had the letters "TV" affixed to it in large, red stickers when it was struck by an Israeli missile
55. Ibrahim Khalil Qanan (24)
56. Mohammed Khalil Qanan (26)
57. Suleiman Al-Astal (55)
58. Hamdi Badie Sawali (33)
59. Mohammed Al-Akkad (24)
60. Ahmed Sawali (28)
61. Raed Shalat (37)
62. Asmaa Mahmoud Al-Hajj (Female) (unreported age)
63. Tarik Saad Al-Hajj (unreported age)
64. Saad Mahmoud Al-Hajj (unreported age)
65. Najlaa Mahmoud Al-Hajj (Female) (unreported age)
66. Fatima Al-Hajj (Female) (unreported age)
67. Omar Al-Hajj (unreported age)
68. Basima Abdel Fattah Al-Hajj (Female) (unreported age)
69. Ahmed Salim Al-Astal (unreported age)
70. Moussa Mohammed Al-Astal (unreported age)
71. Raed Al-Zawarea (33)
72. Mahmoud Lutfi Al-Hajj (58)
73. Bahaa Abu Al-Leil (35)
74. Salem Qandil (27)
75. Amer Al-Fayyoumi (30)
76. Abdallah Ramadan Abu Ghazal (4)
77. Mohammed Ehsan Farwane (18)
78. Islamel Hassan Abu Jamaa (19)
79. Mahmoud Talee Wallud (unreported age) (Islamic Jihad)
80. Hazem Ibrahim Baaloushe (unreported age) (Killed in a civilian car North Gaza)
81. Alaa Abdel Nabi (unreported age) (Killed in a civilian car North Gaza)
82. Raed Mohammed Abu Shalt (37)
83. Hassan Abu Jamaa (19)
84. Yasmin Mohammed Al-Mutwak (4) (girl)
85. Mohammed Mounir Ashour (25)
86. Anas Rizk Abu Al-Qas (33)
87. Wissam Abdel Razek Hassan Ghannam (23)
88. Ghalia Deeb Jaber Ghanem (7) (girl)
89. Mahmoud Razek Hassan Ghannam (23)
90. Kifah Shahadeh Deeb Ghannam (20)
91. Nour Marwan Al-Najdi (10) (girl)
92. Abdellah Abu Mahrouk (Unreported age)
93. Sami Andan Shaldan (25)
94. Mohammed Kamal Al-Kahlout (Unreported age)
95. Ahmed Zaher Hamdan (22)
96. Bassam Abdel Rahman Khattab (6)
97. Jumaa Atiah Shallouf (Unreported age)
98. Noor Rafik Udai Al-Sultan (Unreported age)
99. Shahraman Ismaeil Abu Al-Qas (42) Killed in Al-Breij
100. Mazen Mustafa Aslan (63)
101. Mohammed Rabih Abu Humeidan (65)
102. Shahd Al-Qreinawi (7) 
103. Abdel Halim Abdel Moeti (54)
104. Hussein Al-Mamlouk (47)
105  Saber Sukkar (80)
106. Nasser Mohammed Sammame (49)
107. Rami Abu Musaed (23) Killed in Deir Al-Balah
108. Mohammed Al-Sumeiri (24) Killed in Deir Al-Balah
109. Husam Eddine Al-Razayne (39) Killed in Jabalia
110. Anas Youssef Qandil (17) Killed in Jabalia
111. Abdel Rahim Saleh Al-Khatib (38) Killed in Jabalia
112. Youssef Mohammed Qandil (33) Killed in Jabalia
113. Mohammed Idris Abu Sanena (20) Killed in Jabalia
114. Handicapped, unidentified - Killed in Jabalia
115. Handicapped, unidentified  - Killed in Jabalia
116. Ali Nabil Basal (32) Killed in Gaza
117. Mohammed Bassem Al-Halabi (28) Killed in Gaza
118. Mohammed Al-Suweiti (20) Killed in Gaza
119. Unidentified body, brought in to Al-Shifaa compound
120. Unidentified body, brought in to Al-Shifaa compound
121. Unidentified body, brought in to Al-Shifaa compound

Palavra a um israelense humano e consciente.
"Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before.
But I can hardly hear the sirens which warn of rockets coming towards Tel Aviv. I cannot take my mind off the awful thing that happened in Jerusalem.
If a gang of neo-Nazis had kidnapped a 16-year old boy in a London Jewish neighborhood in the dark of the night, driven him to Hyde Park, beaten him up, poured gasoline into his mouth, doused him all over and set him on fire – what would have happened?
Wouldn't the UK have exploded in a storm of anger and disgust?
Wouldn't the Queen have expressed her outrage?
Wouldn't the Prime Minister have rushed to the home of the bereaved family to apologize on behalf of the entire nation?
Wouldn't the leadership of the neo-Nazis, their active supporters and brain-washers be indicted and condemned?
Perhaps in the UK. Perhaps in Germany.
Not here.
This abominable atrocity took place in Jerusalem. A Palestinian boy was abducted and burned alive. No racist crime in Israel ever came close to it.
Burning people alive is an abomination everywhere. In a state that claims to be “Jewish”, it is even worse...
...Under Israeli law, East Jerusalem is not occupied territory. It is a part of sovereign Israel.
The chain of events was as follows:
Two Palestinians, apparently acting alone, kidnapped three Israeli teenagers who were trying to hitchhike at night from a settlement near Hebron. The objective was probably to use them as hostages for the release of Palestinian prisoners.
The action went awry when one of the three succeeded in calling the Israeli police emergency number from his mobile phone. The kidnappers, assuming that the police would soon be on their tracks, panicked and shot the three at once. They dumped the bodies in a field and fled. (Actually the police bungled things and only started their hunt the next morning.)
All of Israel was in an uproar. Many thousands of soldiers were employed for three weeks in the search for the three youngsters, combing thousands of buildings, caves and fields.
The public uproar was surely justified. But it soon degenerated into an orgy of racist incitement, which intensified from day to day. Newspapers, radio stations and TV networks competed with each other in unabashed racist diatribes, repeating the official line ad nauseam and adding their own nauseous commentary – every day, around the clock.
The security services of the Palestinian Authority, which collaborated throughout with the Israeli security services, played a major role in discovering early on the identity of the two kidnappers (identified but not yet caught). Mahmoud Abbas, the PA president, stood up in a meeting of the Arab countries and condemned the kidnapping unequivocally and was branded by many of his own people as an Arab Quisling. Israeli leaders, on the other hand, called him a hypocrite.
Israel’s leading politicians let loose a salvo of utterances which would be seen anywhere else as outright fascist. A short selection:
Noam Perl, world chairman of Bnei Akiva, the youth movement of the settlers: “An entire nation and thousands of years of history demand: Revenge!”
Uri Bank, former secretary of Uri Ariel, Housing Minister and builder of the settlements: “This is the right moment . When our children are hurt, we go berserk, no limits, dismantling of the Palestinian Authority, annexation of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), execution of all prisoners who have been condemned for murder, exile of family members of terrorists!”
And Binyamin Netanyahu himself, speaking about the entire Palestinian people: “They are not like us. We sanctify life, they sanctify death!”
When the bodies of the three were found by tourist guides, the chorus of hatred reached a new crescendo. Soldiers posted tens of thousands of messages on the internet calling for “revenge”, politicians egged them on, the media added fuel, lynch mobs gathered in many places in Jerusalem to hunt Arab workers and rough them up.
Except for a few lonely voices, it seemed that all Israel had turned into a soccer mob, shouting “Death to the Arabs!”
Can anyone even imagine a present-day European or American crowd shouting “Death to the Jews?”
The six arrested until now for the bestial murder of the Arab boy had come straight from one of these “Death to the Arabs” demonstrations.
First they had tried to kidnap a 9-year old boy in the same Arab neighborhood, Shuafat. One of them caught the boy in the street and dragged him towards their car, choking him at the same time. Luckily, the child succeeded in shouting “Mama!” and his mother started hitting the kidnapper with her cell phone. He panicked and ran off. The choking marks on the boy’s neck could be seen for several days.
The next day the group returned, caught Muhammad Abu-Khdeir, a cheerful 16-year old boy with an engaging smile, poured gasoline in his mouth and burned him to death.

(As if this was not enough, Border Policemen caught his cousin during a protest demonstration, handcuffed him, threw him on the ground and started kicking his head and face. His wounds look terrible. The disfigured boy was arrested, the policemen were not.) [Footage below -picture]
The atrocious way Muhammad was murdered was not mentioned at first. The fact was disclosed by an Arab pathologist who was present at the official autopsy. Most Israeli newspapers mentioned the fact in a few words on an inner page. Most TV newscasts did not mention the fact at all.
In Israel proper, Arab citizens rose up as they have not done in many years. Violent demonstrations throughout the country lasted for several days. At the same time, the Gaza Strip frontline exploded in a new orgy of rockets and aerial bombings in a new mini-war which already has a name: “Solid Cliff”. (The army's propaganda section has invented another name in English.) The new Egyptian dictatorship is collaborating with the Israeli army in choking the Strip.
The names of the six suspects of the murder-by-fire – several of whom have already confessed to the appalling deed – are still being withheld. But unofficial reports say that they belong to the Orthodox community. Apparently this community, traditionally anti-Zionist and moderate, has now spawned neo-Nazi offspring, which surpass even their religious-Zionist competitors.
Yet terrible as the deed itself is, to my mind the public reaction is even worse. Because there isn’t any.
True, a few sporadic voices have been heard. Many more ordinary people have voiced their disgust in private conversations. But the deafening moral outrage one could have expected did not materialize.
Everything was done to minimize the “incident”, prevent its publication abroad and even inside Israel. Life went on as usual. A few government leaders and other politicians condemned the deed in routine phrases, for consumption abroad. The soccer world cup contest elicited far more interest. Even on the Left, the atrocity was treated as just another item among the many misdeeds of the occupation.
Where is the outcry, the moral uprising of the nation, the unanimous decision to stamp out the racism that makes such atrocities possible?
The new flare-up in and around the Gaza Strip has obliterated the atrocity altogether.
Sirens sound in Jerusalem and in towns north of Tel-Aviv. The missiles aimed at Israeli population centers have successfully (up to now) been intercepted by counter-missiles. But hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are running to the shelters. On the other side, hundreds of daily sorties of the Israeli Air Force turn life in the Gaza Strip into hell.
When the cannon roar, the muses fall silent.

Also the pity for a boy burnt to death."

Uri Avnery, 12/07/2014

Explicação sucinta (em inglês) das colônias/invasões israelenses 

erroneamente chamadas "assentamentos" (3')

Israeli colonies - wrongly called settlements - explained

 "This is Netanyahu's modus operandi: diverting attention from the real cause of the cycle of violence," disse o porta-voz do Comitê Executivo da OLP a propósito do desaparecimento e assassinato na Cisjordânia dos três jovens invasores judeus extremistas e posterior sequestro e assassinato de um jovem palestino por invasores civis judeus, na Jerusalém ocupada.

Link Interativo Al Jazeera: Gaza undersiege 

http://ajinteractive.businesscatalyst.com/GazaLifeofSiegeJazeera/index.html

E neste momento grave de ameaça de uma Terceira Intifada, devido à agressão brutal da IDF (Forças Armadas israelense) nos territórios palestinos ocupados, faço meu, o seguinte apelo que o Movimento BDS lançou no dia 04 de julho:

"Israel must be held accountable for its collective punishment of Palestinians

http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/israel-must-be-held-accountable-for-its-collective-punishment-of-palestinians-12181

Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists are urging governments and international civil society to take action to hold Israel to account for its continued collective punishment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza following the disappearance and death of three Israeli settlers.

Zaid Shuaibi, a spokesperson for the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the civil society coalition that leads and supports the BDS movement, said:

“Israel’s on-going actions are designed to terrorise Palestinians and constitute collective punishment. Military violence, collective punishment and the deliberate targeting of civilians are endemic to Israel’s of decades old system of occupation, colonisation and apartheid.”

“Israel is able to act with utter impunity because of the military, economic and political support it receives from governments around the world. We call on international governments to impose a two-way arms embargo immediately and to suspend bilateral agreements until Israel fully complies with international law”.

“At a time when mainstream bodies such as the Bill Gates Foundation, the Presbyterian Church USA and the US​ United Methodist Church are divesting from companies profiting from Israel’s occupation, including G4S and Hewlett Packard, we call on people of conscience to intensify BDS pressure.”
Shuabi also called on people of conscience and supporters of BDS to consider joining the Month Against the Apartheid Wall that is marking the 10th anniversary of the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel’s apartheid Wall is illegal.

Hundreds of military raids have been launched across the occupied West Bank since June 12, with more than 1000 private homes and refugee camps and the offices of civil society organisations ransacked.

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and many more have been injured. More than 500 Palestinians have been detained and initial reports suggest that many of those arrested are held under administrative detention, a form of detention without charge or trial on secret evidence. The number of children held in Israeli jails has risen to 250. Israel has also imposed severe restrictions of movement.

On Wednesday, Israeli settlers kidnapped and killed a 16 year old from the Shuafat area of Palestinian East Jerusalem and Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinians in Jerusalem.

Palestinian organisations have detailed how Israel’s recent actions constitute collective punishment, a crime prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention as well as customary international humanitarian law.

Israeli occupation forces have also targeted the campuses of Birzeit University near Ramallah and the Arab American University in Jenin, resulting in the detention and arrest of students and staff and greatly infringing the Palestinian right to education.

Samia Botmeh, a professor at Birzeit University and a steering committee member with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, said:

“Israel’s latest violations against Palestinian universities are part of its long history of oppression aimed at Palestinian education. Closure of universities for periods stretching to years, murder and detention of students and professors, destruction of universities’ properties and labs as well as the banning of lists of books have been Israel’s systematic policies targeting Palestinian education.”

“It must be emphasized that throughout the decades of oppression, no Israeli university or association of Israeli academics has ever protested the sustained assaults on Palestinian universities.  It is essential to intensify all forms of BDS, including the academic and cultural boycott, until Israel ends its violations of Palestinian rights.”

Israel has conducted at least 100 airstrikes and shellings of Gaza in recent days, including an intense bombing of dozens of locations in the early hours of Tuesday, further worsening the situation for Palestinians in Gaza, which has been under a brutal military siege for more than 7 years.

Haidar Eid, associate professor at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza and a PACBI steering committee member, said:

“We, residents of Gaza, have been unable to fathom how it is that official bodies of the international community tolerate blatant war crimes committed against the people of Gaza, in spite of thousands of reports by mainstream human rights organizations!”

“Is it farfetched to expect people of conscience to heed our call to boycott this intransigent, racist and militarized Israeli regime and the institutions that keep it thriving, the same way apartheid South Africa was boycotted until it crumbled?”

Ayah Abubasheer, a youth and BDS activist in Gaza, added:

“During the past few weeks, Israel has been violently and intensely launching a series of air strikes against the Gaza Strip. The population of the Gaza Strip continues to pay the price and bear the blaze of Israel’s polices.”

“Because collective punishment is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, we urge the international community to pressure Israel to end its all-out military assault aimed against the total population of Gaza, open Rafah crossing permanently and heed our call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions.”

http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/israel-must-be-held-accountable-for-its-collective-punishment-of-palestinians-12181

A ocupação e o roubo pernicioso dos recursos naturais palestinos

Apesar da Copa do Mundo, os problemas e os conflitos internacionais não param.

E quem não é jornalista esportivo continua cobrindo sua área com o mesmo afinco, embora a atenção se volte intermitentemente para nossos estádios.
Antes de entrar no assunto, já que falei em futebol, na véspera da abertura da Copa Israel deteve Sameh Fares Mohammad, um jogador da Palestina - que aliás não participa da Copa porque não pode nem reunir sua seleção por causa das barragens. O ministro israelense de Esportes Limor Livnat ousou "avisar" a FIFA que o jogador foi preso por "participar de um complô" para "harm the state of Israel and its citizens". Segundo o Ministro, Sameh encontrou no Qatar um membro do Hamas que lhe teria dado um celular, dinheiro e recados para ele levar para o partido na Faixa de Gaza. Incrível.

Pois é, em período de Copa, há áreas que se acalmam. A minha quase sempre dá uma piorada.
Foi o caso em 2006, quando Israel aproveitou a distração mundial para martelar o Líbano.
E neste ano igual, com outra operação militar infernal nos territórios palestinos ocupados.
Oficialmente, a operação começou no dia 12 de junho após o desaparecimento dos jovens invasores/colonos judeus na Cisjordânia.
Mas na verdade a repressão já havia aumentado por causa do Governo de união do Fatah e do Hamas, piorou demais. Há semanas que a IDF não para de dar batidas nas principais cidades, casa por casa, prendendo e depredando à vontade.
No dia 30 de junho, quando os três jovens colonos judeus foram encontrados mortos, a IDF já causara muito dano nos territórios ocupados, mesmo sabendo que o Hamas não tem  nada a ver com este ato isolado que está sendo usado como mais uma propaganda para tentar vitimizar o culpado.
O culpado da morte dos três colonos judeus e de todos os males na região é claro: é a ocupação civil e militar dos territórios palestinos.
Sem a ocupação e o terrorismo constante que Israel impõe na Faixa de Gaza e na Cisjordânia, cada um estaria do seu lado da Linha Verde vivendo em paz.

Que fique claro também que não é porque os três rapazes morreram que viraram santos. Eram colonos extremistas e não foram tirados do aconchego de seu lar como a IDF faz diariamente nos territórios palestinos ocupados.
Eles estavam saindo de uma yeshiva ultra-extremista instalada ilegalmente em Hebron, na Cisjordânia. Lá mesmo, onde os invasores judeus maltratam os cidadãos locais o tempo todo, ao ponto de estes serem obrigados a pôr grade em volta de casa e transitar pelos telhados (Blog 29/04/12).
Muhammad Abu Khdeir, o jovem palestino de 16 anos que foi raptado em seguida perto de casa foi queimado vivo! Um ato selvagem.

Vale também lembrar que Israel detinha, em abril de 2014, 5.201 palestinos - 191 menores, covardemente sequestrados em casa, na rua, em barragens. Hoje o número está ultrapassando 6 mil, por causa da desculpa dos três colonos do foguetório das Brigadas do Fatah e do Hamas.
Abro parênteses para fazer uma perguntinha: Por que os milhares de palestinos que vão parar nos presídios israelenses são "capturados", "presos", e depois torturados, sem reclamação internacional, embora sejam civis (e dezenas, inclusive meninos, e que sofrem abusos traumatisantes), e os três colonos judeus extremistas são "sequestrados"?
É incrível como a semântica funciona em favor do ocupante e seu objetivo de desinformar nunca falha.

Lamento a morte dos três colonos/invasores judeus porque sou contra a violência e acho que ninguém tem o direito de tirar a vida de ninguém em nenhuma circunstância.
Mas lamento mil vezes mais o terror que Israel impõe aos palestinos dia e noite na Cisjordânia e na Faixa de Gaza.
Se em vez de estarem na Cisjordânia os três rapazes e seus pais extremistas que os criaram com ódio e mentiras estivessem em Israel, estariam vivos e bem dispostos. Os colonos têm para onde ir - além de seu país de origem (são judeus importados de países europeus e da Argentina mediante "incentivo" financeiro e fiscal), têm seu país de adoção, Israel, dentro das fronteiras internacionais deste.
Por que viram fora-da-lei ocupando terra alheia?

Os palestinos quando são sequestrados, mortos, são agredidos em casa, em sua cidade, em suas terras ancestrais, pelo ocupante que quer forçá-los ao exílio e a uma outra Naqba.
Em conclusão, vale lembrar que só de 2009 a maio de 2014, a IDF deixou centenas de palestinos com deficiência física durante ataques militares e em barragens - atiram nos joelhos e bloqueiam socorro para aleijar meninos para a vida toda, e matou 565 civis na Cisjordânia e na Faixa de Gaza. Dentre eles, 84 menores e 19 mulheres. No maior anonimato.

Só em 2014, a IDF e colonos já mataram mais de 30 palestinos. E só estamos no meio do ano e a operação de "retaliação" só está começando. E da pior maneira - botando fogo no adolescente de 16 anos como fazem todos os dias com as oliveiras e lavouras palestinas.
Os colonos se armam, treinam os filhos desde pequenos a odiar e aterrorizar os donos das terras que invadem, e se locomovem em bandos para pegar os nativos desprevenidos e humilhá-los quando não feri-los ou matá-los covardemente. Com a bênção dos soldados.
Não são vítimas. Não são coitados. São bárbaros. Têm de ser evacuados.

E o bárbaro mor é o seu ministro das relações exteriores Avigdor Lieberman, o fascista que realmente dita as ordens ao primeiro ministro Binyamin Netanyahu. Ele teve o despudor de dizer há pouco: "The alternative is clear. Either with each round we attack terror infrastructure and they shoot, or we go to full occupation."
Em resposta à punição coletiva que Israel vem impondo aos palestinos nestas últimas semanas, é verdade que os foguetes Qassan voltaram a ser lançados contra Israel - cerca de 60 desde o início da operação militar israelense. 28 alcançaram território israelense. Sem nenhuma vítima, pois o objetivo dos resistentes gazauís é apavorar e não ferir.
Os foguetes visam dar o troco do sobressalto a que os Palestinos são submetidos pelo Shin Bet e a IDF há mais de 60 anos.
O Hamas só aumentou os foguetes por causa do assassinato de seis gazauís em um túnel bombardeado pela IDF.

Lieberman e Netanyahu - que voltaram a pôr Barack Obama no bolso desde a re/união do Fatah e Hamas - há semanas estão preparando, com Ehud Barak no comando, a operação sangrenta que estão pondo em prática na Faixa de Gaza. Com autorização e apoio de Washington.
Esta se chama Operation Solid Cliff, mais um nome "poético" e em inglês.
A morte dos três colonos, os foguetes Qassan, tudo isso é bobagem. Mais uma desculpa esfarrapada para combater o Hamas com armas desproporcionais e continuar a limpeza étnica da Palestina com mais dureza e eficácia.

As agressões dos invasores civis e militares têm multiplicado, como mostra a vídeo abaixo.
No domingo, a IDF bombardeou a Faixa de Gaza de madrugada, como sempre faz para causar mais perda humana e vai continuar bombardeando até o mundo mandar parar. Até domingo, 9 palestinos morreram no ataque. Os feridos foram tantos que o número vai aumentando. Os mortos são de grupos da resistência do Hamas e do Fatah.
Pelo jeito o Shin Bet e a IDF querem provocar uma Terceira Intifada.
Coitados dos palestinos. Deus os guarde.
O governo de Netanyahu, Lieberman e seus cupinchas é uma vergonha para os israelenses íntegros e para os seres humanos em geral.
Intervenção do Exército da ONU, já!

Israel is perhaps the only country in the world where the following sentence is an acceptable way to finish an article in a major newspaper: "The committee's chairman, [Member of Knesset] David Rotem (Yisreael Beiteinu), responded to claims the bill was meant to reject Arabs from joining Jewish towns. "In my opinion, every Jewish town needs at least one Arab. What would happen if my refrigerator stopped working on a Saturday?" 

(Nesse ínterim, Bravo! para os protestantes da Igreja Presbiteriana dos Estados Unidos. Estes protestantes acabaram de aprovar adesão total ao movimento de boicote de Israel, BDS. Fazia dez anos que tentavam e o lobby sionista estadunidense pressionava e conseguia seu intento.
A margem foi mínima: 303 votos contra 301, mas já decidiram a venda imediata de suas ações (no valor de cerca de US$21 milhões) nas empresas Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard e Motorola Solutions - que são ativas no processo de ocupação da Cisjordânia e na repressão em todo território palestino ocupado.
Johnnie Monroe, um dos que votaram a favor do boicote, disse que  "It was because of divestment that we were able to break the apartheid in South Africa. The church has to make a moral stance for moral justice."

Foi um voto de adesão ao boicote que repercutiu em todos os devotos presbiterianos dentro e fora dos Estados Unidos, onde o BDS vem crescendo bastante.
A Assembleia aprovou também, em voto separado, o re-exame de seu apoio histórico à solução de dois Estados.
O lobby sionista reagiu com a ladainha de sempre, gritando que os presbiterianos estavam negando o direito de Israel existir.
Porém, Bill Ward, um dos votantes, deixou claro que "the proposal, which reaffirmed Israel's right to exist, was not an attack on the country. It is motivated by stewardship integrity, not partisan political advocacy. It is not anti-Israel nor is it pro-Palestinian beyond the matter of human rights.''
Ah, se o Vaticano também ousasse tomar atitudes concretas contra o goveno de Israel!)

Documentário Al Jazeera wolrd: Going against the grain (47')

"The occupation is 47 years old. 

Forty seve years of hatred and bloodshed, 
enormous waste of resources, 
corruption of our society. 
Israel must free itself of the occupation".
Publicado no Ha’aretz, 06/06/2014

"Onde side's terrorists are the other side's freedom fighters. That is not simply a matter of terminology. It is a difference of perception, which has far-reaching practical consequences.
Take prisoners, for example. 
For the freedom fighter, achieving the release of imprisoned comrades is a sacred duty, for which he is ready to sacrifice his life... 
...This is the core of the incident that has dominated Israel’s life for the last two weeks.
At ten o’clock pm, two weeks ago, three teenagers from a settlement yeshiva near Hebron stood at a lonely road crossing, trying to hitchhike to their settlement homes...
...Thus it is not the same as the capture of the soldier Gilad Shalit some years ago. Shalit was held in the Gaza Strip, which is densely populated by Palestinians and controlled by Hamas. The West Bank, on the other side, is riddled with Israeli settlements, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that every tenth Palestinian there is an Israeli informer. 47 years of occupation have given the Israeli Security Service innumerable opportunities to press Palestinians into their service by blackmail, bribery and other means...
...The Netanyahu government immediately saw in the incident an auspicious opportunity.
Without the least evidence (as far as we know) it accused Hamas. The next day (there was a slight delay because of police incompetence) a huge double operation went into action. Many thousands of soldiers were employed to comb the countryside and conduct house-to-house searches. But at the same time an even bigger operation, that had obviously been prepared a long time in advance, started an attempt to eradicate Hamas in the West Bank.
Night after night, everyone with the slightest connection to Hamas was arrested. Groups of heavily armed soldiers burst into people's homes, pushed away the frightened children and women, dragged the men from their beds, and took them away, handcuffed and blindfolded.
They numbered many hundreds – social workers, teachers, preachers, everyone belonging to the large social and political network of the Hamas movement.
Among the arrested were many released in the Shalit prisoner exchange. The Israeli political and intelligence leadership had agreed to that lopsided exchange (one hostage for more than a thousand prisoners) only under immense public pressure, and had obviously decided even then to return them to prison at the earliest opportunity.
Not by accident was it disclosed this week that one of these released prisoners had been accused of killing an Israeli some months ago. It must be assumed that, while most prisoners are grateful to return to their families after decades of incarceration, some of the most determined indeed returned to militant activity.
The effort to eliminate Hamas is foolish. Hamas is a religious movement that exists in the hearts of its adherents. How many can you arrest?
During these two weeks, Israeli society showed itself in the worst possible light – as an armed ghetto, devoid of compassion for others and incapable of rational thinking.
True, the first reaction was not uniform. I have heard several people in the street cursing the three missing young settlers for their stupid arrogance, standing in the dark of the night in the middle of the occupied territory and climbing into a strange car. But such impious sentiments were soon washed away by a huge wave of brainwashing, which was well-nigh inescapable.
It is a universal trend for peoples to unite in a national emergency. In Israel, this is amplified by the ghetto reflex, formed by centuries of persecution, for Jews to stand together against the evil goyim.
The deluge of government propaganda assumed incredible proportions. Almost the entire coverage in the newspapers was devoted to the military operations. Radio and TV extended this coverage live around the clock, 24 hours daily, day after day.
The journalistic establishment was led by the “military correspondents”, almost all of them former army intelligence officers, who were acting as agents for the army spokesman, reciting army communiqués as though they were their own disclosures and insights. No difference between the various stations and newspapers could be detected. If some liberal commentator dared to voice a word of criticism, it was very muted and concerned only minor details....
... The government is obviously far more interested in a political propaganda victory than in securing the release of the hostages.
The main aim is to pressure Mahmoud Abbas to abandon the inter-Palestinian reconciliation and to destroy the new experts-only Palestinian government. Abbas resists. He is already widely denounced in Palestine, because of the ongoing close cooperation between his security forces and the Israeli ones, even while the Israeli operation is continuing. Abbas is playing a very dangerous game, trying to balance all the pressures. Whatever one’s political opinion, his courage cannot be denied.
The Israeli leadership, living in its bubble, is totally unable to understand world reaction, or the lack of it.
Before it all started, the number of Palestinians, including children, killed by live fire during demonstrations had steadily increased. Apparently, the rules of engagement, as understood by the soldiers, have made this easier. Since the present operation started, more than five non-combatant Palestinians have been killed by the army, some of them children.
In the Israeli edition of the New York Times, a large part of the front page was taken up by the picture of a Palestinian mother grieving for her child, not by the hostages.
But when the three mothers, who were sent for propaganda purposes to the UN human rights commission in Geneva, were accorded a chilly reception, the Israeli government was astonished. Delegates were more interested in human rights violations by Israel than in the hostages – for many Israelis another glaring example of the anti-Semitism of the UN.
More than anything else, this episode shows again how desperately we need peace. The inter-Palestinian reconciliation could bring peace nearer – and therefore the Israeli Right, and especially the settlers, wants to destroy it.
I believe that the settlements are a disaster for Israel. But my heart bleeds for the three boys – two of them 15 years old, one a bit older – who are now being held in conditions it is hard to imagine, if they are still alive.
The best way to prevent hostage-taking is to release prisoners voluntarily. Even the Security Service cannot seriously maintain that all the many thousands of political prisoners now in our prisons constitute a mortal danger to our existence.

An even better way forward is to end the occupation by making peace."
Uri Avnery, da ONG israelense de Direitos Humanos Gush Shalom. 28/06/14

No to the murder of children! No to revenge! No to pogroms!

No to building new settlements! No to the occupation of the territories!

Yes to peace between Israelis and Palestinians...

Palavras de ordem da passeata que aconteceu em Tel Aviv no dia 03 de julho, na praça Habima. Organizada pela GUSH SHALOM.

Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence 
sobre a violência quotidiana que os palestinos sofrem
nas mãos dos colonos judeus na Cisjordânia.
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