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Two Awesome Videos: Israelis for Obama and comedian Sarah Silverman video
Two great videos on Jewish support for presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Israelis for Obama is a touching video showing Israeli support for Obama. Then comedian Sarah Silverman, in her own unique way, discusses how to get Jewish grandparents to vote for Obama. Two great videos on Jewish support for presidential candidate Barack Obama. ... more -
First new West Bank settlement in ten years?
Phyllis Bennis: At this point a two-state solution is near impossible.
"From what I saw in this trip to the West Bank, I would say that if it's not already impossible, it is so close as to be virtually the same. The division of Palestinian land within the West Bank, has divided the West Bank, as have the series of roads that connect settlements but bypass Palestinian villages, towns, refugee camps. The checkpoints—imagine 567 checkpoints, according to the United Nations, in this tiny territory the size of the US state of Delaware. It's insane."
Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power. Phyllis Bennis: At this point a two-state solution is near impossible. ... more -
Bin Laden urges Muslims to liberate Palestine
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- in a blunt new message that coincides with Israel's 60th anniversary -- urged his followers to liberate Palestine, a terrorism analyst told CNN on Friday.
Bin Laden's audio message, released Thursday, told listeners that "liberating" Palestine should be the aim of every Muslim, according to terrorism analyst Laura Mansfield.
The message, which was played over a still image on jihadist Web sites, runs 9 minutes and 40 seconds. In it, Bin Laden decries characterization of Palestinian militant groups as terror organizations. He also says Israel has engaged in terror.
"As your low values show double standards in one issue, you call the Palestinian organizations terror organizations. They were punished and ignored.
"On the other hand, the Israelis were killing civilians from women and children, either through car bombs as in Haifa and elsewhere. Or what is worse than that, when the Zionist organizations massacred Palestinian villagers by scaring him, deporting them, and robbing their lands, what was your stance?"
Today, bin Laden says, "we are living the massacre of Gaza," the Palestinian-controlled territory. Israeli troops and Palestinian militants from Gaza have been fighting and Israeli security moves have had severe humanitarian consequences.
"It is happening in front of the eyes of the world. One and a half million individuals under the deadly bombing are dying slowly because of poor nutrition and scarcity of medicine," bin Laden said. "But your politicians require Egypt's ruler to provision the embargo on them to choke the weak and most of them are women and children."
Bin Laden emphasizes the fighting will continue against "the Israelis and their allies, to obtain justice, to be fair to the ones mistreated."
"We will not abandon one inch of Palestine, God willing, if there is one honest Muslim man left in this world," bin Laden said. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- in a blunt new message that coincides with Israel's 60th anniversary -- urged his followers to... more -
Four Palestinians killed in Gaza
Palestinian medics say at least three militants and a civilian have been killed in two Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip.
An air strike on the southern town of Khan Younis killed one Hamas militant.
Three more people died in a separate raid near the Jabalia refugee camp in the north. Doctors said one of those killed was a student cycling to school.
The Israelis say they were responding to threats of rocket fire, and shooting directed at one of their border posts. Palestinian medics say at least three militants and a civilian have been killed in two Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip. ... more -
Rocket fired from Gaza explodes in Israeli shopping center
JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, wounding at least 14 people, rescue officials said.
At least two women and one girl were seriously wounded and several other people were slightly hurt, said Leah Malul, an official at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said 14 people were wounded — three seriously — and all the casualties had been evacuated from the site of the attack.
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Web site.
Witnesses told Israeli radio stations that the rocket caused considerable damage and rescue service director Eli Bean said at least two people had been trapped under the rubble. The two were rescued and taken to hospital, Army Radio reported.
Army Radio said the rocket hit the third floor of the Hutzot mall. The report said a clinic takes up part of the floor.
The rocket attack came as President Bush wrapped up talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The Israeli leader said at the end of the talks that Israel would not tolerate attacks from Gaza militants. JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, wounding at ... more
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