“There are people who want this dialogue not to take place because they will lose their positions and their privileges,” he told Reuters in an interview in the Egyptian town of Ismailia, where he was visiting his wife’s Egyptian relatives.
fevereiro 25, 2009
Hamas: Fatah Spied for Israel ( em inglês )
“There are people who want this dialogue not to take place because they will lose their positions and their privileges,” he told Reuters in an interview in the Egyptian town of Ismailia, where he was visiting his wife’s Egyptian relatives.
janeiro 23, 2009
CULATRA: Mulher queimada e enviuvada, vítima dos ataques israelenses deseja se tornar "mulher-bomba" e vingar mortes de marido e filhos ( em inglês )
Sabah Abu Halima, who lost her husband and four of her nine children in attacks on Gaza, prays for revenge and dreams of killing herself among Israelis
Sheera Frenkel in Gaza City and James Hider in Jerusalem
Two days after their last soldiers returned from Gaza, Israelis are asking increasingly whether the offensive had achieved anything other than spawning a new generation of potential suicide bombers.
The three-week war enjoyed massive popular support at the time but, with the guns silent, scathing criticism is emerging from the Left and the Right of Israel’s political divide.
The stated goal of Operation Cast Lead was to end Hamas’s constant rocket fire on southern Israel and weaken the Islamists’ grip on the territory. It has failed to achieve either. Hamas kept up its barrage of rockets to the very end of the campaign and has won new recruits for its cause.
In Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Sabah Abu Halima, her body covered with burns from what are believed to be phosphorus shells, her husband and four of nine children dead, dreams of becoming a suicide bomber.
“I pray to Allah that I will have revenge, I pray and dream of killing myself among the Israelis,” she says. “I hope that on the last day of my life I kill as many of them as possible and make myself a martyr.”
Israel had hoped that its offensive would sow discontent with the Hamas movement, which had promised to turn the coastal territory into “a graveyard for Israeli soldiers”. Nearly 1,300 Palestinians were killed and thousands more wounded, according to local medics, while only 13 Israeli soldiers died — a statistic which allowed Israel to proclaim itself the victor of the war.
The casualties have failed to dent support for Hamas, with many in the hardest-hit Gaza neighbourhoods pledging their allegiance to the Islamists. There have been muted calls for Hamas to show more flexibility in its ceasefire negotiations with Israel and allow time for residents to recover and rebuild their homes but most feel that Hamas has gained political and international legitimacy in recent weeks.
“Hamas has reached a certain standing on the world stage. It is receiving attention and praise for what it did from other Arab nations,” said one Hamas activist.
“Hamas’s political and military leaders are with the civilians. We are with the people. This is the victory of Hamas against the occupation,” said Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman.
Some Israeli analysts tend to agree. “We have not weakened Hamas. The vast majority of its combatants were not harmed and popular support for the organisation has in fact increased,” said Gideon Levy, a prominent commentator for the centre-left daily Haaretz. “Their war has intensified the ethos of resistance and determined endurance.”
Even Cabinet ministers who backed the offensive admitted that it had not achieved anything more than yet another shaky ceasefire with an Iranian-backed group that refuses to recognise Israel’s right to exist.
“Hamas has not been taken out, nor will we be able to take them out,” said Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, the National Infrastructure Minister and veteran Labour Party politician. “Theirs is an ideology and not just a military organisation, and it will remain.”
Criticism is even more scathing from the Israeli Right. “The soldiers succeeded, but the politicians failed,” said Avigdor Lieberman of the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu Party, which has seen its support grow since the conflict. “They didn’t let the army complete the operation. What was achieved here? Zip, nada.”
Eli Yishai, the Finance Minister and head of the ultra-Orthodox religious party Shas, said that Israel should have kept fighting until Hamas was destroyed. “Now Hamas will rebuild its infrastructure with Iranian money and then they will resume the smuggling and continue firing at Israel. We should have finished the job – pull out the ground forces and continue striking from the air.
“We should have hit thousands more houses and reached a point in which they don’t dare shoot at Israel ever again.”
Gabriel Motzkin, an advocate of Israeli-Palestinian reform, said: “I’d say it was unclear what was achieved.” He pointed out that more than two years after the unpopular war in Lebanon critics label it a dismal failure while advocates claim that it has kept the northern border quiet.
Hamas is believed to have about 1,000 missiles in its arsenal and there is no shortage of fresh volunteers at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “I want to be a resistance fighter to avenge what has been done to my family,” says Yousef, Sabah Abu Halima’s injured 16-year-old son.
“Nobody can guarantee that I will live anyway. The bombs can come back any day. I want to fight and I hope that I can be a member of the armed resistance.”
TIMES ONLINE
janeiro 16, 2009
ISRAEL próximo da SOLUÇÃO FINAL palestina anuncia cessar-fogo "unilateral! ( vários textos, não só em português )
Da Redação/PCS
As forças israelenses atacaram, nesta quinta-feira (15/01), o prédio onde funciona a Reuters, no centro de Gaza. Segundo a agência, um jornalista, da TV Abu Dhabi (Emirados Árabes), que trabalhava no 14º andar do prédio, ficou ferido.
As informações iniciais dão conta de que um míssil ou um foguete teria atingido o 13º andar do prédio, onde funciona uma produtora local. A sucursal da Reuters em Gaza funciona no 12º andar.
A Reuters informa que, antes do ataque, um porta-voz militar israelense conversou com funcionários da agência em Jerusalém para pedir a localização correta da empresa em Gaza. No início da guerra, a empresa tinha a garantia de não se tornar alvo de militares israelenses.
Depois do ataque, um porta-voz militar israelense informou que o ataque foi feito porque havia informações de que militantes do Hamas escondiam-se no prédio da imprensa.
Ainda na quinta, um prédio da ONU, onde se refugiam 700 pessoas, foi bombardeado em Gaza. Três funcionários da ONU ficaram feridos. O governo israelense classificou o ataque de “grande erro”.
O ministério da Saúde, controlado pelo Hamas, informa que ao menos 1.055 palestinos morreram na guerra. Do lado israelense, são 13 mortos – sendo três deles civis.
Federação Internacional de Jornalistas diz que vai investigar ataquesA Federação Internacional de Jornalistas (IFJ) disse nesta quinta (15/01) que pretende “investigar amplamente” o ataque à sede da Reuters em Gaza. A IFJ pede aos meios de comunicação em Gaza que partilhe informações para a investigação.
“Este último ataque contra a imprensa é uma prova irrefutável de que Israel persegue uma estratégia clara de intimidar a mídia do mundo, inclusive deliberadamente matando e ferindo jornalistas, em uma ação contra a informação independente sobre o conflito”, alegou Aidan White, secretário-geral da IFJ.
Com informações da Agência Reuters.
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Tirado do site da Igreja Renovada
Written by Administrator, on 20-Nov-2008
NORBERT LIETH
Em outras oportunidades já salientamos o paralelismo entre o reavivamento do “Maranata!” (“vem, nosso Senhor!”), um novo despertar entre os cristãos quanto à expectativa da iminente volta de Jesus, e o sionismo, o movimento para trazer os judeus da Diáspora (Dispersão) de volta para Eretz Israel (a Terra de Israel). Esses dois importantes processos deram-se quase simultaneamente. A revista “Christen an der Seite Israels” (“Cristãos que apóiam Israel”) publicou uma tabela cronológica do retorno dos judeus à sua antiga pátria:
1838: Em Viena (Áustria) foi fundada “Die Einheit” (“A Unidade”), uma organização judaica secreta destinada a fomentar a emigração dos judeus para a “Palestina”.
1840: Lord Palmerston, o ministro do Exterior britânico, encarrega a embaixada britânica na Turquia de interceder junto ao sultão turco pelo retorno dos judeus à “Palestina”.
1844: O pastor britânico Bradshaw sugere que sejam disponibilizadas consideráveis somas de dinheiro para uma nova colonização da Terra Santa.
1849: O coronel britânico e sionista cristão George Gawler (1796–1869) acompanha o filantropo judeu Sir Moses Montefiore em uma viagem à Terra Santa e convence-o a investir na reconstrução da nação judaica.
1860: Na cidade prussiana de Thorn realiza-se uma conferência judaica. É discutida a possibilidade de fundar uma nação judaica na “Palestina”.
1864: O cristão e sionista suíço Henri Dunant (fundador da Cruz Vermelha) solicita a Napoleão III e a outros chefes de Estado que apóiem o retorno dos judeus à Terra Santa.
1865: Após duas visitas à Terra Santa, o luterano e sionista alemão Dr. C. F. Zimpel publica um “Chamamento a toda a Cristandade e aos Judeus em prol da Libertação de Jerusalém”.
Pouco tempo mais tarde, Zimpel escreve profeticamente: “No final, a emigração para a Palestina será a única salvação para os judeus. Eles serão odiados por todos”.
1874: O filho do cristão sionista George Gawler, John Cox Gawler, dá continuidade à obra de seu pai e torna público um detalhado e prático projeto para a povoação de Eretz Israel (a terra de Israel) pelos judeus.
1875: O cristão sionista Henri Dunant funda em Londres a “Palestine Colonization Society”. Seu alvo: apoiar e facilitar o retorno dos judeus a Israel.
1878: O homem de negócios e missionário americano William Blackstone publica seu livrete “Jesus Vem”, no qual conclama a uma retomada da vida nacional judaica em Sião.
1881: No leste europeu, o movimento religioso-sionista “Hibbat Zion” (“Amor por Sião”) conclama à emigração judaica para a “Palestina”.
1882: O judeu alemão Leo Pinsker escreve seu livro “Auto-Emancipação”, onde apela aos judeus para que iniciem uma “volta nacional para as margens do rio Jordão”.
1882–1904: Mais de 25.000 judeus do leste europeu emigram para Eretz Israel (primeira “aliá” [imigração]).
1884: William Hechler, cristão sionista e pastor da embaixada britânica em Viena, escreve “A Volta dos Judeus à Palestina Segundo os Profetas”. Posteriormente, ele faz amizade com Theodor Herzl, a quem aconselha e aproxima dos líderes europeus.
1896: Theodor Herzl publica seu livro “O Estado Judeu”. A obra é a base do sionismo político e um guia para a fundação do novo Estado de Israel em 1948.
1897: Acontece o primeiro Congresso Sionista na Basiléia (Suíça). O sonho sionista de Herzl apela principalmente aos judeus do leste europeu, que iniciam a dura viagem a Israel. Convidados de honra do Congresso, além dos 159 delegados, foram os proeminentes sionistas cristãos pastor William Hechler, Henri Dunant e o pastor luterano alemão Dr. Johann Leptius.
O movimento religioso “Hibbat Zion” adere à Organização Sionista, de orientação secular.
1898: Após intenso lobby do pastor William Hechler, o imperador alemão Guilherme II foi o primeiro líder europeu a publicar um manifesto de apoio ao sionismo.
1914: Entre 1881 e 1914 mais de 60.000 judeus russos partem para Israel. Outros dois milhões fogem para os EUA e 200.000 vão para a Inglaterra.
1917: O ministro do Exterior britânico Lord Balfour declara que a Grã-Bretanha apóia oficialmente a fundação de um “lar judeu” na “Palestina”.
O presidente americano Woodrow Wilson apóia a “Declaração Balfour”. Ela passa a ser a base jurídica para futuros documentos da Liga das Nações e das Nações Unidas.
A partir de 1919: Primeira onda de emigração de judeus alemães para a “Palestina”.
1936–1939: O oficial britânico cristão Charles Orde Wingate forma tropas de combate judaicas na “Palestina”. Sob sua liderança, elas combatem o terrorismo árabe. Por sua postura sionista, ele é transferido em 1939.
1945, 30 de abril: Suicídio de Hitler.
1945, 9 de maio: Capitulação incondicional da Alemanha. Fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, que dizimou aproximadamente 60 milhões de pessoas.
1948, 14 de maio: Fundação do Estado de Israel com a Declaração de Independência proferida por David Ben Gurion.
1949: Jerusalém torna-se novamente a capital de Israel.
1950: O sionista cristão Pierre von Paaschen publica o “Jewish Calling” (“Clamor Judeu”), onde transcreve o lamento de Raquel da seguinte maneira: “Se Israel morrer, Tua Torá ficará vazia e sem valor. O mundo não será salvo. Se Israel for apagado da face da terra, Tu não serás mais o Santo de Israel”.
1967: Durante a Guerra dos Seis Dias, Israel conquista a Judéia, a Samaria, as colinas de Golan, a Faixa de Gaza e Jerusalém Oriental. Inúmeros lugares sagrados do judaísmo e do cristianismo voltam ao domínio judeu.
A URSS rompe relações diplomáticas com Israel.
A Holanda assume a representação diplomática israelense na União Soviética, tornando-se responsável diante das autoridades pela emigração dos judeus soviéticos para Israel.
1971: Em uma carta dirigida ao jornal “L’Osservatore Romano” do Vaticano, o teólogo católico e sionista cristão John Oesterreicher critica a postura anti-israelense do jornal e da igreja católica: “Enquanto cristãos e muçulmanos usufruíam de liberdade religiosa em Israel sob o domínio jordaniano (1948–1967), os judeus eram privados desse direito. Eles não podiam nem orar junto ao Muro das Lamentações… Não se ouviu protestos dos cristãos contra a destruição de todas as sinagogas na parte oriental de Jerusalém, administrada pela Jordânia.”
1972: A partir desse ano cresce novamente a imigração de cidadãos judeus oriundos da URSS. Na década de 70 chegaram aproximadamente 100.000 judeus russos a Israel.
1989: De outubro de 1989 até o final de 1999, mais de 700.000 judeus russos chegam a Israel.
1998: O jovem Estado de Israel comemora seu 50º ano de existência.
1999: Israel tem mais de 6 milhões de habitantes, dos quais 4,8 milhões são judeus. O forte fluxo de imigrantes judeus do leste europeu se mantém.
Sob o título “Sensacional retorno à Bíblia”, o texto prossegue:
Depois que o imperador Constantino tornou-se cristão no ano 313 e da igreja ter perdido a expectativa de um reino divino… somente com a Reforma voltou-se a pensar no assunto.
Mas apenas no início do século 19 essa questão voltou a despertar maior interesse. Em 1826, cinqüenta teólogos e leigos reuniram-se no sul da Inglaterra para orar intensivamente e estudar a Bíblia… A revista “The Morningwatch” (“A Vigília da Manhã”) começou a ser editada. As mensagens bíblicas do reino messiânico e do lugar de Israel nesse reino foram redescobertas.
Vivemos em um tempo extraordinário, no limiar para a meia-noite. O Senhor quer despertar e santificar Sua Igreja. Em seu comentário sobre o Evangelho de Mateus, Ernst Kruppa escreve:
Certa vez li o Novo Testamento e sublinhei com uma caneta verde todas as passagens que falam da vinda do Senhor. No final da leitura, meu Novo Testamento estava quase todo verde. E eu mesmo pude me certificar de que a maioria das passagens que falam da volta de Jesus vem acompanhada de exortações à santificação diária. Isso deixou muito claro para mim que a volta de Jesus não é uma questão de números e datas, mas de santificação. A Palavra de Deus não nos ordena que façamos cálculos com datas – ela nos ordena que sejamos santos.
Lemos na parábola das dez virgens: “Mas, à meia-noite, ouviu-se um grito: Eis o noivo! Saí ao seu encontro!” (Mt 25.6). Seria extenso demais tratar aqui de todos os impressionantes sinais preparatórios do palco do fim dos tempos, que atualmente apontam para seu clímax. Nos últimos 150-200 anos irrompeu entre os judeus espalhados pelo mundo a idéia de voltarem para sua pátria, e paralelamente a Igreja de Jesus voltou a ter consciência do retorno do Senhor e do arrebatamento. Nesse período, sucederam-se duas guerras mundiais, acompanhadas de outros rumores de guerra (Mt 24.6). Desde o século 19 os terremotos aumentaram drasticamente e, como nunca antes na História, hoje temos os meios para ficar sabendo a respeito da sua ocorrência. Os desenvolvimentos na área da tecnologia sucederam-se em ritmo tão frenético que é quase impossível acompanhá-los. Além disso, os países da Europa estão com muita pressa para consolidar a sua união.
Parece que no século 19 uma roda começou repentinamente a se movimentar, que mais e mais engrenagens se uniram e que tudo passou a girar em velocidade cada vez maior. Maranata! Jesus está voltando! (Norbert Lieth – http://www.chamada.com.br/)
Last update : 20-Nov-2008
AMERICAN FREE PRESS
By Mark Anderson
McAllen, Texas – On Jan. 9, about 150 demonstrators here raised awareness in their community about U.S. policy regarding the brutal Israeli assault against Palestinians in Gaza. Some carried signs of heart-rending images of murdered mothers and children—the kind of images controlled American corporate newspapers would never print in a trillion years. However, the protesters—many of them from the local Muslim community, accompanied by other concerned Americans—know that the American people need to see such pictures if there is ever going to be a lasting, genuine peace in that tumultuous part of the world.
ARTICLE FOLLOWS AFTER VIDEOS
TEXAS PROTESTS SOUND OFF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SfmjlEnYOE&eurl=http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/palestinemassacre
American Free Press covered one in a series of protests by area people who also are getting together at local colleges and other venues to stress the need for peace and how to achieve it. While their weekly demonstrations could have concluded on Jan. 9, the growing turnout has prompted organizers to continue the demonstrations each Friday at a busy street in McAllen, a city of more than 100,000 people in Hidalgo County.
“1-2-3-4 — stop the killing, stop the war!!” the demonstrators loudly chanted, encouraging motorists to honk. Dozens of drivers did so approvingly. As far as one could tell, no one passing the demonstration openly expressed disapproval. Some drivers leaned on their horns to sustain the sound, as heard on an AFP news video posted at AmericanFreePress.net.
Among the demonstrators were young Muslim women, many of whom were dressed in traditional garb. Several of the protesters have relatives in Gaza and are shaken by the actions of Israeli military, which is using tanks, fighters bombers, artillery and ground troops against noncombatants consisting of largely unarmed villagers who, to add terrible insult to horrific injury, are barricaded in Gaza—a place where Palestinians long have been caged as Israel continues its decades-long plan to drive them from what was Palestine into small, highly-surveillanced, heavily-guarded areas such as Gaza and the West Bank.
The Gaza Strip, which borders Egypt, is just over twice the size of Washington D.C. It has 1.5 million people squeezed into it. Its west side faces the Mediterranean Sea, so their backs are against the water. Its electricity and currency come from Israel. About 80 percent of the people live below the poverty level in a place where small textile, agricultural and craft production fuels much of the economy.
Currently in Gaza, the Palestinians are not even allowed to leave what has been called “the world’s largest open-air prison,” nor are medicine and food allowed in since the shooting started in December, according to various world news reports, and confirmed by close observers who communicate with AFP. Shipments of vital necessities actually have been attacked by the Israeli military. Journalists, who have been targeted, sum it up as follows: no vital supplies go in, no sensitive information gets out.
But thanks to the Internet, camera-phones, brave reporters and other means, there is a leak that enables the truth to trickle out to the outside world.
Palestinian-American activist Hesham Tillawi—speaking Jan. 10 on the resumed radio show, When Worlds Collide*, on the Republic Broadcasting Network—told this AFP writer-host that his recent demonstration in Lafeyette, La., also went well, with more than 100 attending and passers-by expressing approval. In Tillawi’s view, the world has never witnessed abject brutality quite like this—with the world’s fourth largest military cowardly hurling heavy explosives at trapped villagers, as if it were engaging an enemy army. And to think, he said, that all that destructive power is in return for rockets fired into Israel by angry or misguided people from the Gaza side. These rockets, according to Tillawi, are makeshift fireworks with a little extra punch.
When this AFP writer was on assignment in San Antonio Jan. 4, the television news flashed death-counts of five or less on the Israeli side and nearly 500 on the Palestinian side, while trying to characterize the one-sided assault as just another “standoff” among many that have happened over the years; sort of like, “Here they go, again.”
One of the Texas demonstrators, Muslim-American Amin Abraham, said Israeli needs to abide by the Geneva Conventions. Beyond that, he expressed an even-handed outlook, saying, “We’re not here to protest one side against another; we’re here to talk justice. We’re not here to support Hamas. We’re here to protest the killing of innocent people. We need the world to stand up for what is right.”
An American demonstrator who preferred not to be named added that many Jewish people here and abroad “would agree with what we’re doing right now.” He added that he is taking part in February programs at South Texas Community College in nearby Weslaco, to continue discussing the situation in Gaza. This protester, focusing on American involvement in this matter, also noted: “This is a demonstration against U.S. policy.”
AFP talked to several protesters and could not find anyone who disagreed with the notion of eliminating U.S. foreign aid to the state of Israel, recognizing that much of that aid translates into U.S. military assistance. That includes protester Hasan Mohammed, a Muslim-American who appears on the above-noted AFP news video.
He did not mince words: “It’s little concentration camps [Gaza, West Bank and several other Palestinian areas]. They have no right to move from one place to another,” he said, adding that while the current assault is terrible, ongoing life in Gaza, a place he has resided in, is quite tragic by itself, as Israeli military and settlers will arrest, assault and sometimes kill any Palestinian who may wander into the wrong zone outside of approved Palestinian areas.
A reliable AFP source now residing somewhere is Gaza informed this newspaper: “There are anti-war demonstrations in Israel like Tel Aviv … the situation is really bad and drastic. Unless you are actually in Gaza, the rest [of the news] is indirect …you know what I mean, but the tragedy of Gaza is that they have not been allowed to move out or go out or something like that … they are a sitting-duck target. Also people—children—have starved to death, too. Maybe the parents died while trying to look for food … or a family member who lost everyone like 19 family members and being the only one left … it is so awful that I really have no words and hope that the bombings will stop if only for the psyche and stress of the people.”
“Transformar o nosso conteúdo acessível ao público internacional por meio de diferentes canais de distribuição tem sido uma prioridade para a Al Jazeera e esse acordo com o Independent faz parte dessa missão”, disse o diretor da emissora Tony Burman.
O diretor-editorial do Independent Jimmy Leach acredita que a parceria, além de oferecer um conteúdo diferenciado para os seus leitores, permite o crescimento da audiência em outros países.
A Al-Jazeera em inglês transmite sua programação para mais de 130 milhões de residências em todo o mundo. Por ser a primeira emissora em inglês baseada no Oriente Médio, ela tem acesso a informações, principalmente no mundo árabe, que os outros veículos não possuem.
1517-1917 A Palestina é parte do Império Otomano
janeiro 13, 2009
Esconderijo do HAMAS descoberto no Brasil!! Exigimos que Israel bombardeie tudo!! AGORA!

Os radicais islâmicos fundamentalistas até construíram uma reprodução em menor escala, mas em outro material e cor, da Kaaba ( veja a semelhança, na última foto deste post )

Aí, Israel, vocês podem soltar as bombas no horário em que todos estiverem assistindo a TV, que vai ser um puta recado para estes radicais nunca mais se meterem com vocês! Transmitido pela maior rede de televisão do Brasil!
janeiro 9, 2009
Hackers iranianos dizem ter fo**dido com o site do Mossad, em solidariedade a Gaza ( em inglês )
A group of Iranian hackers says they have managed to bring down the Israeli secret service’s web site to voice solidarity with Gazans.
Jornalista inglês denuncia mentiras de Israel
Redação – Carta Maior
Em artigo publicado no jornal The Independent, o jornalista inglês radicado no Líbano, Robert Fisk, denuncia as mentiras contadas pelo governo de Israel para tentar justificar as atrocidades cometidas em Gaza (e atrocidades anteriores também).
janeiro 8, 2009
GLOBO MANTÉM EM SEU QUADRO JORNALISTICO EX-SOLDADA DO EXÉRCITO ISRAELENSE!!!
Correspondente da Globonews e do jornal O Globo não esconde seu desprezo pelos palestinos e diz que árabes são “burros” e “mentirosos”
Cloaca News, 07.01.08.
Antes de ser a titular do blog “O outro lado da Terra Santa (o Oriente Médio que você nunca viu)”, abrigado na versão online do jornal O Globo, a carioca Renata Malkes manteve um outro blog, chamado “Balagan”, que – ela mesma esclarece – significa “bagunça” [ Nota do BFI: blog em inglês ]. Se você clicar aqui, verá que ela abandonou o blog, retirando de circulação todo o conteúdo postado. Mas, graças a uma engenhoca chamada Wayback Machine, todas as barbaridades que a jornalista escreveu de 2002 a 2007 ficaram arquivadas, para a sorte dos céticos (clique aqui para comprovar).
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
They caught me! They caught me! They caught me! They finally caught me!!!!!
It was supposed to be (another) interview, but I spent my whole day there. I’m exahusted after a million questions, a million tests and much time just waiting between a blood test here and a psychometric exam there… Ladies and gentleman, I am in! I got accepted into Tzahal – Israel Defense Forces! In a couple of weeks, I’m gonna be a soldier! I am soooooooooo happy I can’t concentrate to tell you how the whole thing happened! (And I don’t want to, in fact. Now in the Army, I’ll keep my mouth quiet about certain things; if you are curious to know about it, I’m sorry. To understand and know about the army, only getting in, I guess! Won’t tell about anything I see and do there, even if I get into an idiot function – that I am already ready to fight against it, if that’s the case).
Anyway… I’ll serve for one year only! It’s a dream coming true! Another one! :)
BLOG DO MELLO, 08.01.09
Hoje, coincidente ou propositalmente (você decide), O Globo dá na página dois um perfil da repórter, Renata Malkes, creditada como colaboradora do Globo em Israel (não seria mais correto “colaboradora de Israel em O Globo”?), mostra como está sendo seu dia-a-dia na cobertura do que o jornal chama de guerra entre Israel e Hamas.
Nenhuma palavra sobre o blog da moça, para que seus leitores tenham ao menos a opção de saber quem lhe passa as informações de lá. Afinal, a moça acharia divertidíssimo um mundo sem árabes, como numa piadinha ( racista, infame ), que reproduzo a seguir, retirada do blog dela:
HAHAHAHAHA! Você não achou graça? EU ACHEI! Foi mandada, em inglês, pelo meu amigo Moshe. Eu tomei a liberdade de traduzir e fazer pequenas modificações.
janeiro 6, 2009
Luzes apagadas em Gaza, blecaute midiático nos EUA
A Anistia Internacional e outras organizações de direitos humanos denunciaram a campanha de bombardeio aéreo de Israel como ilegal, assim como a morte de mais de 300 palestinos desde 27 de dezembro, inclusive muitos civis desarmados que não participavam das hostilidades. Os ataques de Israel em Gaza, uma área densamente habitada, provocaram condenações de vários políticos do mundo e protestos em várias cidades.Texto: Por Deena Guzder*, no blog Muzzle Watch / Postado em 05/01/2009 ás 11:26
"Doze regras de redação da grande mídia quando o assunto é o Oriente Médio", texto anônimo que circula pela Internet
Petição online: Professores repudiam ataque à Universidade Islâmica de Gaza
Redação – Carta Maior
dezembro 29, 2008
Chile: Comunidad palestina protesta frente a la embajada de Israel ( espanhol ). Plus: A versão israelense. Plus II: The Shministim
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Comunidad palestina protesta frente a la embajada de Israel en Santiago
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Embaixada de Israel
27 de dezembro de 2008
Os cidadãos israelenses estão sob ameaças de ataques partindo da Faixa de Gaza diariamente.
Somente esta semana, centenas de míssies e morteiros foram lançados contra alvos civis israelenses incluindo o lançamento de 80 mísseis em um único dia.
Até agora nós temos agido moderadamente. Mas hoje não há outra opção que não seja a operação militar. Nós precisamos proteger nossos cidadãos de ataques através de uma resposta militar contra o terror instaurado na Faixa de Gaza.
Esta é a resposta de nossos direitos básicos de auto-defesa.
Israel deixou Gaza em ordem para criar uma oportunidade de paz. Em retorno, o grupo terrorista Hamas tomou controle de Gaza e está usando seus cidadãos como cobertura, enquanto atacam deliberadamente comunidades israelenses e negam qualquer chance de paz.
Nós temos tentado de tudo para alcançar a calma sem usar a força. Concordamos com a trégua após a intervenção do Egito e ela foi violada pelo Hamas que continuou a atacar Israel, mantiveram preso o soldado israelense Gilad Shalit e continuaram construindo armamentos.
Israel continua a agir na prevenção de crises humanitárias e na diminuição dos danos causados aos civis Palestinos. Infelizmente o Hamas sinicamente abusa de sua população civil e os fazem sofrer com propósitos propagandistas. A responsabilidade dos danos causados aos civis é do Hamas.
O Hamas é uma organização terrorista, apoiada pelo Iran, que não representa os interesses legítimos do povo Palestino, mas uma agenda Islamica radical que insiste a negar a paz para as pessoas daquela região.
Enquanto confronta o Hamas, Israel continua a acreditar na solução de dois Estados e mantém seu comprometimento às negociações com a legitimidade da Autoridade Palestina no contexto do processo de paz, alcançado em Annapolis.
Israel espera o apoio e o entendimento da comunidade internacional enquanto confronta o terror e avança no interesse de todos aqueles que acreditam nas força de paz e co-existência para derminar os interesses daquela região.
MAS:
GAZA CITY: Israeli warplanes continued pounding the Gaza Strip yesterday as the casualty toll in the two-day offensive reached 296 killed and over 900 injured. At least 180 of the injured were in critical condition, Palestinian medical sources said.
Nota nº 724 – 27/12/2008
Situação na Faixa de Gaza
O Governo brasileiro acompanhou com apreensão a intensificação do lançamento de foguetes por milicianos do Hamas contra o sul de Israel e recebeu com grande preocupação a notícia do ataque aéreo israelense à faixa de Gaza na manhã deste sábado, que vitimou mais de 150 pessoas e causou ferimentos em outras 300.
The fact is that there is more to the Gaza Strip than 1.5 million hungry Palestinians, who are supposedly paying the price for Hamas’s militancy, or Israel’s ‘collective punishment’ whichever way the media decide to brand the problem.
More importantly, Gaza’s existence since time immemorial must not be juxtaposed with its proximity to Israel, failure or success in ‘providing’ a tiny Israeli town – itself built on conquered land that was seen only 60 years ago as part of the Gaza province – with its need for security. It’s this very expectation that made the killing and wounding of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza a price worth paying, in the callous eyes of many.
These unrealistic expectations and disregard of important history will continue to be costly, and will only serve the purpose of those interested in swift generalizations.
Yes, Gaza might be economically dead, but its current struggles and tribulations are consistent with a legacy of conquerors, colonialism and foreign occupations, and more, its people’s collective triumph in rising above the tyranny of those invaders.
In relatively recent history, Gaza became a recurring story following the 1948 influx of refugees, who were driven from their homes by Zionist militias or fled for their families’ sake, hoping to return once Palestine was recovered. They settled in Gaza, subsisting in absolute poverty, a situation that continues, more or less, to this day.
The history of Gaza, and the place itself was largely irrelevant, if not revolting from the point of view of the refugees who poured into the Strip mostly from the south of Palestine, for it represented the pinnacle of their loss, humiliation and, at times, despair. It mattered little to the peasant refugees as they fled to Gaza that that they probably walked on the same ancient road that ran along the Palestinian coast when Gaza was once the last metropolis for travellers to Egypt, just before they embarked on an unforgiving desert journey through Sinai.
So what if Gaza was described as the city, as told in the Book of Judges, where Samson performed his famous deed and perished. Christianity was relevant to the refugees insofar as a few of Gaza’s ancient churches provided shelter to the tired bodies escaping snipers, bullets and massacres. Even the strong belief amongst Muslims that Prophet Muhammad’s – peace be upon him – great-grandfather Hashem died on one of his journeys from Makkah to the Levant and was buried in Gaza, was largely sentimental. His shrine in Gaza City was visited by numerous refugees, who kneeled and prayed to God that they, some day soon, would be sent back to their humble existence, and their ways of life from which they have been forcefully estranged.
But Gaza’s history became more relevant to the refugees when it appeared that their temporary journey to the Strip was likely to be extended. Only then the area’s many stories of conquerors, tragedies, triumphs but also sheer goodness, became of essence. A pilgrim to the Holy Land, who passed through Gaza in 570 AD, wrote in Latin, “Gaza is a splendid city, full of pleasant things; the men in it are most honest, distinguished by every generosity, and warm to friends and visitors.”
Gaza’s history became even more relevant when the refugees realized that their violent encounters with Israel were not yet over, and that they needed the moral tenacity to survive what would eventually be viewed as one of most severe humanitarian catastrophes in recent memory. And indeed, there was much history to marvel upon, and from which to extract strength and substantiation.
Conquerors came and went, and Gaza stood where it still stands today. This was the recurring lesson for generations, even millennia. Ancient Egyptians came and went, as did the Hyksos, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Ottomans, the British, and now the Israelis. And through it all, Gaza stood strong and defiant. Neither Alexander the Great’s bloody conquest of 332 BC, nor Alexander Janneus’s brutal attack of 96 BC broke Gaza’s spirit or took away from its eternal grandeur. It always rose again to reach a degree of civilianisation unheard of, as it did in the 5th century AD.
It was in Gaza that the Crusaders surrendered their strategic control of the city to Saladin in 1170, only to open up yet another era of prosperity and growth, occasionally interrupted by conquerors and outsiders with colonial designs, but to no avail.
All the neglected ruins of past civilisations were only reminders that Gaza’s enemies would never prevail, and would, at best, merely register their presence by another neglected structure of concrete and rocks.
Now Gaza is undergoing another phase of hardship and defiance. Its modern conquerors are as unpitying as its ancient ones. True, Gaza is ailing, but standing, it people resourceful and durable as ever, defiant as they have always been, and hell-bent on surviving, for that’s what Gazans do best. And I should know, it’s my hometown.
- Excerpts from this article will appear in Ramzy Baroud’s new book, My Father Was a Freedom Fighter – Gaza: The Untold Story (Pluto Press, London).
-Ramzy Baroud ( http://www.ramzybaroud.net/ ) is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers, journals and anthologies around the world. His latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press, London).
An injured Palestinian prisoner reaches for help after being buried in the rubble of the Hamas security headquarters and prison in Gaza after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike on Sunday. (AP)
The UN Security Council urged an immediate end to all military activities in the Gaza Strip, but Israel brushed it aside and lined up tanks on the border of the coastal strip in apparent preparation for a ground invasion. Tel Aviv also called up reservists.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Jordan’s King Abdallah discussed Israeli hostilities in Gaza and other matters of mutual concern over telephone yesterday.
The Saudi Shoura Council condemned Israel’s savage bombing in Gaza and called for immediate international intervention for the cessation of hostilities.
In one airstrike yesterday, three missiles fired from an American-supplied F-16 fighter jet hit the main security compound known as Al-Sarayya in the center of Gaza City, completely destroying it. The compound included the Gaza Strip’s main prison. Dozens of Palestinian prisoners were seen escaping unharmed while others were trapped under the rubble.
Shortly before targeting Al-Sarayya, the warplanes bombed a medical storage facility in Rafah city and a truck carrying fuel.
On Saturday night, Israeli warplanes carried out 23 airstrikes including one on a mosque located near Al-Shifa Hospital. The warplanes also targeted the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa Television station.
Israel’s Cabinet authorized a call-up of at least 6,500 reserve soldiers, suggesting plans to expand the offensive. Infantry and armored units were already headed to the Gaza border for a possible ground invasion.
Defiant Palestinians kept up the pressure on Israel, firing dozens of rockets and mortars at border communities. Two rockets struck close to the largest city in southern Israel, Ashdod, some 38 km from Gaza, reaching deeper into Israel than ever before.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a fierce rival of Hamas, urged the group to renew a truce with Israel that collapsed last week. After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, he told reporters: “We have warned of this grave danger and said that we should remove all pretexts used by Israel. We all hope to end the aggression and return to the calm. We want to protect Gaza.”
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said a renewal of the truce should be a priority. “There has been a calm and we should work to restore it,” said Aboul Gheit. Deputy Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk dismissed such talk and blasted Egypt for what he said was its attempt to weigh the actions of both sides equally.
“Those who are calling for calm should tell the Zionist enemy to end the aggression,” Abu Marzouk told Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV from the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Egyptian police fired in the air near the Gaza border town of Rafah yesterday to prevent Palestinians entering Egypt after Israel launched airstrikes to destroy tunnels along the tense frontier.
“Dozens of civilians tried to break through the Barahma crossing after Israel launched airstrikes along the Gaza-Egypt border. They were repelled by Egyptian police firing in the air,” the official said. Some Palestinians managed to climb over the border wall into Egypt.
Tensions on the border crossing, Gaza’s only one to bypass Israel, had risen during the day, with Egypt blaming Hamas for not letting wounded Palestinians through and Hamas asking for medical aid to be handed over.
Hamas said it was drawing up lists of the wounded but it was proving difficult to transport them to the border because of the seriousness of their injuries and ongoing Israeli strikes. Several truckloads of aid are also waiting to be allowed into the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security official said.
— With input from agencies









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