livni has the same style as the shrub admin and the nazis. say it often enough and it is fact. she is one smart multi-lingual lawyer. former massad.

Thank God for the Israeli propaganda machine, or we would never know the truth.

Thanks Siun.

For anyone interested, here is a shortcut to the Oxdown post containing the links Siun mentioned.

She lies like Condi.

Fraid some comments got nuked when I was fixing the html. My apologies.

Reconstructed comment from Laura Doty:

Thank you, Siun for keeping at this story, morning and night. And thank you again to MFI for all those links. I’m sure the parents of the dead children and teenagers would have a word or two to say to Tzipi about the conditions in Gaza tonight.

is okay.

Ominous that foreign nationals are permitted/being asked to leave. Precursor to invasion. What about international aid agencies being allowed in? Journalists? Neutral observers? We are looking at slaughter – and for what.

From Siun:

Livni’s comments were just too much for me … esp having just watched the interview in the youtube.

The ghetto has been sealed off. Is there no sense of history here?

It’s probably true that she can’t see any humanitarian crisis from Paris.

From selise:

In addition, Israel has also closed off the West Bank:

imo, not a good sign. may indicate one of the following: 1) preparation for an escalation, 2) intelligence of an planned attack on israelis, 3) collective punishment out of frustration.

From Siun:

The Israeli Supreme Court said they have to let in journalists but could limit it to 8 or 12 (there is some confusion in the reports) but those reporters can only go in when Israel opens one particular crossing …at which time they’ve said they may let some aid workers in … and the Doc in the youtube above got in via Rafah after some difficulty.

Thank you Siun–(My earlier, nuked comment boils down to that!)

Are there supposed to be links in this post?

i sense too much fear to get involved. dealing with a mad powerful regime is risky.

Journalists?

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that they were allowed access to Gaza, yesterday…

what’s up?you channeling siun and selise?

The Israeli government and its minions learned well from the Nazis.

ha

Crossed in the toobz…! ;-)

nice pics of solidarity from ramallah.

maybe westbank is closed because of the protests?

If Livni admits that there’s a humanitarian crisis, then she has to admit that Israel is responsible (at least in part) for it.
Doing that would call into question a lot of the stuff they’ve done (or allowed to be done) in the last twenty or thirty years … and she might end up on the wrong end of a very serious trial. So would a lot of her fellow politicians.
(Sort of like Bush and Cheney, yes.)
I think Israel needs to decide whether they want to be a democracy, with full rights for Palestinians and everyone else they currently restrict, or a religious state, with limited rights for everyone who isn’t an orthodox Jew (which would make them just one of many such states in the region, even if the official religion is different).

That is one hell of a vid, if you haven’t taken a look folks, please do. Especially around 3 minutes, where the doc discusses the possibility that some type of radioactive weaponry is being used.

Digg is open

I’ve done it before but recently I have been trying to resist the temptation to make analogies comparing Israel to WWII Germany. I just don’t want to inflict any additional pain to the many Jewish people in the world who are appalled at what the government of Israel is doing. There have been countless instances throughout history of the powerful oppressing and slaughtering the weak. This is yet another testament to the human capacity for senseless cruelty.

Shorter Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni: “I can lie as well as the boys can. Vote for me!”

The links are restored – refresh and all will be well

I’ve just finished re-adding the links – sorry for the delay, of course this was the one time I did not have a separate draft with my links …

refresh and they are there.

Thanks for highlighting the video – it really must be watched to understand what is going on.

i like this one from haaretz. it begins:

If you (or I) were Palestinian
By Yossi Sarid

This week I spoke with my students about the Gaza war, in the context of a class on national security. One student, who had expressed rather conservative, accepted opinions – that is opinions tending slightly to the right – succeeded in surprising me. Without any provocation on my part, he opened his heart and confessed: “If I were a young Palestinian,” he said, “I’d fight the Jews fiercely, even by means of terror. Anyone who says anything different is telling you lies.”

His remarks sounded familiar – I had already heard them before. Suddenly I remembered: About 10 years ago they were uttered by our defense minister, Ehud Barak. Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy had asked him then, as a candidate for prime minister, what he would do had he been born Palestinian and Barak replied frankly: “I would join a terror organization.”

and it ends with this:

There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely. And now we are fighting those whom a goodly number of us would be like, had we been in their place for 41 and a half years

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If Israel had to behave as a genuine member of their neighborhood, rather than as America’s pitbull (fed, trained, and urged to attack) then the history of the last five decades or so, might have been much more peaceful and secure for everyone.

This history might, were we concerned about the truth (and consequences), provide us some small hint as to the future … and what WE should do.

We shall see.

I could not make heads nor tails of what weapon he was talking about… ‘Dime’…?

how many macho countries will swagger up to the line to echo the phrase “israel has a right to defend itself” ?

I’m not comparing them to the Nazis. They have, however, adopted the methods the Nazis used. The Israeli govt has done its best to turn Gaza into a ghetto. While not a perfect analogy, Warsaw comes to mind.

Calendar of Protests–End Israel’s Attacks on Gaza

That is unfortunately true. I made precisely the same comparison within the past week. The walls, the starvation, etc… It is a tragic historic parallel.

i wonder if some missles have some enrichment for the guidance mechanism. surely they wouldn’t resort to a dirty bomb. would they? would they?

Who would provide them such a thing, california?

DIME weapons were most likely used in Gaza in 2006 and from the sounds of it they are using them again.

well, i would suspect they have their own resources, of course.

Tzipi Livni is Dick Cheney’s soul-less mate. They both have that cold, evil aura about them.

Headline on HuffPo’s front page.

“HAMAS ROCKETS COULD THREATEN ISRAEL’S NUKE PLANT”

Fear monger much?

Thank you for sorting that out! I was going to go digging on this. The wiki links says:

The carcinogenic effects of heavy metal tungsten alloys (HMTA) have been studied by the U.S. Armed Forces since at least 2000 (along with depleted uranium (DU)). These alloys were found to cause neoplastic transformations of human osteoblast cells[3].

A more recent U.S. Department of Health study in 2005 found that HMTA shrapnel rapidly induces rhabdomyosarcoma cancers in rats.[4]

The tungsten alloy carcinogenicity may be most closely related to the nickel content of the alloys used in weapons to date. However, pure tungsten and tungsten trioxide are also suspected of causing cancer and other toxic properties, and have been shown to have such effects in animal studies. [5]

Aha! DIME… Utilized in these bombs…

SDB Focused Lethality Munition (FLM)

Under a contract awarded in September 2006, Boeing is developing a version of the SDB I which replaces the steel casing with a lightweight composite casing and the warhead with a focused blast explosive such as Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME). This will significantly reduce the possibility of collateral damage when using the weapon for pin-point strikes in urban areas.[6]

Dang, I’m late to the party again…! ;-)

Al Jazeera covers a drone bombing investigated by B’Tselem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..15874.html

okay, nothin ta worry about. it’s just cancer in rats.

Livni Sees No Humanitarian Crisis

War criminals never do. But what do you expect from someone who unleashed this campaign solely for campaign purposes?

Of course she believes there is no humanitarian crisis. Kadima and Likud do not believe that Palestinians are humans.

Thank you Laura – I had not seen the video – such a sad event.

The cost of the second variant was more uncertain, but tentative estimates were $90,000 per unit or more.

I would think that dropping $90K in dollar bills would actually achieve better results, eh? :-(

thers upstairs

The Israeli govt has done its best to turn Gaza into a ghetto. While not a perfect analogy, Warsaw comes to mind.

Of course they have. What did you expect?

Did you think they’d turn their enemy into a mountain that MUST be climbed?
A desert that MUST be crossed? A winter storm that MUST be endured?

C’mon, they’re doing what they know and destroying the way they can.

What they, and their neighbors, are lacking is some knowledge of how to live in peace as neighbors.

Perhaps war will tire the crazies on both sides, but even at the end of that they need some ideas (and none seem to be just lying around in wait of use).

Maybe they can look to the British-N.Ireland conflict or to Serbia-Bosnia or some other conflict area which has calmed down. But, it’s not easy.

An excellent essay from David Bromwich.

Thank you, Laura, for this link.

From the essay:

“The role of the President of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel.”

Ann Lewis …(Identified by Wikipedia as a “senior adviser to Hillary Clinton” …)

Ooph. I hadn’t caught her connection to Clinton. Thanks for that, David.

Happy New Year to you. Hope all is well. (Come visit my blog some time!)

And, a most happy and productive New Year to you, Laura.

Well enough, thank you … and hoping things are equally so with you and yours.

I shall, with pleasure.

David

All heavy metals are poisonous. Poisons tend to lead to cancer.

And $77 million worth of these will be used where? Probably on Israel’s nuclear facility so they can blame Palestinian rockets. Then on to Iran and their underground facilities. They bought a 1,000 of these ‘bunker busters’. Why did the US reverse its original decision not to sell these to Israel? Kind of makes one think that this ‘war’ was a common secret between the US and Israel.

http://www.darkgovernment.com/…..to-israel/

It won’t tell the truth, but here is the Israeli propaganda machine. How to spin the propaganda in the media;has been active for at least 10 months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..ne-pr-spin

By way of buzzflash.com is Starhawk’s take on Gaza.

“You wouldn’t know from the western media that Israel’s foreign minister (and would-be prime minister), Tzipi Livni, made a disastrous appearance on al-Jazeera television last week, just as you wouldn’t have seen dreadful pictures of dead children and their screaming distraught mothers in Gaza unless you watch al-J TV, which is almost impossible in the US. Here in France we can receive al-Jazeera, and the images are truly horrific. But Ms Livni doesn’t want us to see them. Nor do most western governments. She declared that “when you show one-sided images from Gaza you’re not helping peace. I understand that pictures which create provocation lead to anger and hostility among the citizens, but we want a better future for this region.” In other words – don’t look at pictures that tell the truth because they will make you angry about people who blast children into ragged fragments. What we don’t see, says Livni, won’t harm us, which is the theme of authoritarian censors through the ages.

This woman, with all the compassion of a raging shark that has smelled blood in flesh-strewn water, is furious that pictures have appeared in public of the mangled bloody bodies of children her country has slaughtered in its frenzy of vicious bombing and rocketing. But they’ll never be seen by the great majority of people in the west, simply because media outlets don’t want to upset readers and viewers. Nor, of course, do they want to upset Israel, that bastion of kindly morality which wields so much influence over US politicians that they dare not speak out against airstrikes that kill children.

Livni claimed that prior to the air assault Israel informed all the residents living in the area of the planned strikes and urged them to leave. She was asked “leave for where?” (Where could they go in tiny Gaza, mainly desert, with its 1.5 million people?) and of course had no answer – because the blitz had been kept secret. She is a blatant liar.”

Brian Cloughley, writing over at Counterpunch.

I wish someone skilled in Photoshop would do a “three wise monkeys” featuring C. Rice, Cheney and Livni.