Netanyahu: 'Take Off the Gloves' and 'Go All the Way' -- Israel attacks Gaza

Operation Solid Rock, Gaza Invasion Begins  -  by Richard Silverstein

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/20`4/07/07/operation-mighty-cliff-gaza-invasion-begins/

"...All of these deaths are needless of course. They're testimony not just to Israel's obduracy and rejectionism, but to the indifference of the international community which needs to come to its senses and intervene to stop the slow-mo decimation of peace, justice, and Palestinian sovereignty.

Israel is a garrison nation in a constant state of war with its neighbors. Nothing and no one within Israel is capable of transforming the country into a peaceful country. That's why the rest of the world better do it before Israel lights the match and the entire region bursts into flame..."

TRNN: Israeli Government and Press Knew Teenagers Were Dead For Weeks (and vid)

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...

"...And this exactly is what this whole operation is about. The unity between Fatah and Hamas brought the latest in a series of political embarrassments to the Israeli Prime Minister, and he was adamant to break the unity between the two rival Palestinian political factions.

Now it looks like the rage on the streets, on the Palestinian streets in the West Bank, as we've covered last week, has turned against the PA, - and the Israeli government and the Israeli military at the same time have been crippling the Hamas Party. So we're seeing here both externally and internally a rift between the two parties, which will likely lead to the end of unity.

Yesterday they killed a senior official in the Hamas Party, and as a result for the first time since November 2012, since the last war we had here, the Hamas Party launched a rocket against southern Israel. So we're seeing there's a very intentional campaign of agitation.

There was one soldier who leaked to the Orthodox paper Behadry Haredim that there was actually snipers in the Jenin refugee camp who were trying to shoot people to instigate the stone throws. So we're seeing that the government is intentionally trying to instigate a third intifada, which will then legitimize a very wide, violent campaign against the West Bank and Gaza Strip..."

Some reports are saying that as many as 23 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, and yet there's been not one word from any NDP MPs about these atrocities. Shame on Israel for these atrocities, and Shame on the NDP for its silence!

shame on Canada really

Anyways, locations to rally for Palestinians

http://samidoun.ca/2014/07/take-action-protests-around-the-world-respond...

Gaza Death Toll Surpasses 60 as Israel's Offensive Enters Third Day

http://rt.com/news/171684-gaza-death-toll-israel/

"The death toll in Gaza has risen to 64 after 14 people - including seven women and children - were killed in Israeli airstrikes as Operation Protective Edge entered its third day.

At least 18 children have been killed since Tuesday."

Israel Steps Up Military Offensive in Gaza LIVE UPDATES

http://rt.com/news/171320-gaza-hamas-israel-rockets/

RT News: July 10, 2014 [1700 msk and vid]

http://rt.com/bulletin-board/171748-rtnews-july-10-17msk/

"More than 80 people, including many children, are confirmed dead in Gaza as Israel pummels more targets, vows to step up its air offensive and plans for a possible ground assault..."

Haaretz: Jewish Hate of Arabs Proves Israel Must Undergo Cultural Revolution

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39025.htm

"...Abu Khdeir's murderers are not 'Jewish extremists'. They are the descendants and builders of a culture of hate and vengeance that is nurtured and fertilized by the guides of 'the Jewish state'. Those for whom every Arab is a bitter enemy, simply because they are Arab...

No less responsible for the murder are those who did not halt, with an iron hand, violence by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians, and who fails to investigate complaints 'due to lack of public interest.'

The term 'Jewish extremists' actually seems more appropriate for the small Jewish minority that is still horrified by thse acts of violance and murder But they too recognize, unfortunately, that they belong to a vengeful, vindictive Jewish tribe whose license to perpetuate horrors is based on the horrors that were done to it.

Prosecuting the murderers is no longer sufficient. There must be a cultural revolution in Israel. Its political leaders and military officers must recognize this injustice and right it. They must begin rasing the next generation at least, on humanist values, and foster a tolerant public discourse.

Without these the Jewish tribe will not be worthy of its own state."

Gaza Mother Dies Shielding Children From Israeli Attack (and photos)

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=711730

"Suha Hamad, 25 sacrificed herself to save the lives of her four children.

Mahdi Hamad, Suha's father, said that 'nobody called us to evacuate the house and there aren't any resistance members around it."

Fanning the Flames of Hate: Israeli Officials in their Own Words

http://imeu.org/article/fanning-the-flames-of-hate-israeli-officials-in-...

" Muslims that arrive here do not even believe that this country belongs to us, to the white man."

Eli Yishai, Then Minister of the Interior in PM Netanyahu's coalition government (June 2012)

"Where Violence is the Norm  -  by Sam Bahour

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/10/where-violence-is-the-norm/

"...The extremist parts of the Jewish Israeli community and Jewish diaspora, particularly American Jews, are being seen in the open ...The world is getting a peak into the Israel that Palestinians have been complaining about."

Demo, today, 6 PM ROM Corner Toronto - FREE PALESTINE!

A View From Gaza: This Is A Brutal Attack; NOT A 'Military Operation'  - by Dr Mona El Farra

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/08-4

Twitter Uproar Over Pic of 'Applauding' Israelis Watching Night Attack on Gaza

http://rt.com/news/172324-israel-watching-gaza-attacks/

Baird Attacks UN For Israel Criticism

http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2014/07/12/baird-attacks-un-for-israeli...

"...Baird says there can't be any 'moral equivalence' between a democratic state like Israel and Hamas, which he calls a listed terrorist organization with a blatant disregard for human life.

He says Israel's military has taken extraordinary steps to reduce civilian casualties."

I think I understand your intent, but to your actual statement: BULLSHIT. The only thing that matters to them is the imperial interests of Canada, the U.S., and the "West" in general (which of course includes Israel). Under different circumstances, they would watch quietly while Jews were led into death camps. Just as they watch with various degrees of indifference as Palestinians are slaughtered.

What is there to "reconcile"? Those Jews in the streets are self-hating traitors. I should know, I've been one for decades. Baird never opens his filthy mouth without calling Israel "the Jewish state". These are the enemies of the Jewish people everywhere. Trudeau and Mulcair are no different.

Only the Palestinian people and the other victims of aggression in the region - along with the Israeli opposition - with the assistance of such movements as BDS - can restrain Israel. If those forces aren't powerful enough, then the aggression and mass murder and denial of national liberation and apartheid will continue. And ask me how optimistic I am about progress.

Gaza Live-Cam Link

http://www.ustream.tv/OccupiedAir

Palestinians Will Not Give Up (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/07/12/371012/palestinians-will-not-gi...

"Press TV has conducted an interview with Hani al Bassos, from the Islamic University of Gaza, to discuss the deadly Israeli  situation in the Gaza Strip.."

RT News - July 14, 2014 [1700MSK and vid]

http://rt.com/bulletin-board/172564-rtnews-july-14-17msk/

"...In Gaza scenes of destruction and terrified Palestinians following a week of bombing - but Israel's Prime Minister, with public backing, vows only to intensify the offensive..."

Israeli Lawmaker Calls For Genocide of Palestinians Gets Thousands of Facebook Likes  -  by Ali Abunimah

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-lawmakers-call-...

"A day before Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khudeir was kidnapped and burned alive allegedly by six Israeli Jewish youths, Israeli lawmaker Ayelet Shaked published on Facebook a call for genocide of the Palestinians.

It is a call for genocide because it declares that 'the entire Palestinian people is the enemy', and justifies its destruction, 'including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.'

It is a call for genocide because it calls for the slaughter of Palestinian mothers who give birth to 'little snakes'.

If Shaked's post does not meet the legal definition of a call for genocide than nothing does..."

CIJA: Statement By The Prime Minister of Canada in Response to the Situation in Israel

http://www.cija.ca/hamas/statement-prime-minister-situation-in-israel/

"PM Stephen Harper today issued the following response to the situation in Israel:

'Canada is unequivocably behind Israel. We support its right to defend itself, by itself, against the terror attacks and urge Hamas to immediately cease their indiscriminate attacks on innocent Israeli civilians..."

Israel’s incremental genocide in the Gaza ghetto

There was a ceasefire agreement all ready to go today - but Hamas rejected it because they would have to stop firing rockets and I guess that would have spoiled their fun.

Why would anyone reject a ceasefire????

FAQ on Failed Effort to Arrange Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas

Q - Why do you think Hamas didn't accept the terms of the ceasefire?

RK [Rashid Khalidi] - "Hamas has insisted that there be a lasting resolution of the basic problem of Israel's siege of Gaza, as was promised as part of the 2012 cease-fire, but never implemented in spite of Israel's recognition that Hamas scrupulously maintained the cease-fire until quite recently. The Egyptian proposal makes lifting of the siege conditional on Israel's approval, which means never."

MR [Mouin Rabbani] - "Hamas, and with it other Palestinian organizations such as Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, have indicated that they were not consulted on the Egyptian cease-fire proposal, and that it has not been formally presented to them but rather released to the media after its terms were agreed with Israel.

"In terms of the proposal's contents, what these organizations and many Palestinians object to is that it simply restores a 2012 ceasefire agreement that Israel has systematically violated and does not provide any guarantees such violations would cease. These violations consist not only of periodic armed Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, but also Israel's refusal to respect clauses on the rights of fishermen in Gaza's territorial waters and farmers in land close to the Gaza/Israel boundary.

"Hamas has additionally stated that it would not accept an agreement that does not provide for the immediate re-release of Palestinian prisoners who were released by Israel in 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel, but re-arrested by Israel in the last month.

"More broadly, Hamas and other Palestinian organizations are averse to returning to an untenable status quo, which lasts only until Israel once again decides to launch a major assault on the Gaza Strip, and which does not include concrete steps towards lifting the ongoing and prolonged blockade of the Gaza Strip.

"There is widespread Palestinian suspicion that Egypt, which has shown nothing but unremitting hostility towards Hamas since the current regime seized power in July 2013, released a proposal it ensured would be acceptable to Israel but rejected by the Palestinians, in order to help Israel legitimize an escalation of attacks against the Gaza Strip. It is likely to have done so in close cooperation with its new best friend, Tony Blair, and other advocates of Israeli power in the Arab world and internationally."

NE [Noura Erakat] - “Within two days of Israel’s aerial assault on the population of the Gaza Strip, Hamas announced five conditions for a ceasefire: 1) stop the airstrikes; 2) observe terms of 2012 ceasefire; 3) release the Palestinians released during the Shalit prisoner exchange who were recently re-arrested; 4) lift the siege; and 5) don’t interfere with Palestinian unity government. What little is known about the proposed ceasefire agreement is that it demands a cessation of violence with no conditions thus reverting to conditions that are even worse than the status quo ante.

“This clearly weakens Hamas politically, exacerbates the humanitarian conditions under which Palestinians struggle, and emboldens Israel to strike again with zero accountability. That said, it is not in the Palestinians’ best interest for Hamas to continue launching rockets regardless of the circumstances, as it provides a justification for Israel to continue its brutal attacks on a defenseless and besieged population.”