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Did you know that the Israeli farmer who shot Arab “intruder” 3 times in back, freed to “home arrest”?

Did you know that Netanyahu uses the words that push US war buttons: “Iran and Holocaust.” Netanyahu knows which strategists and PR people to use to give him the right words (with a little help and $ from his Neocon pals), the right strategy, to push America’s congressional and emotional buttons. Once ousted for corruption, he is coming back. There hasn’t been an Israeli Prime Minister in years who was NOT ousted for corruption. No big deal. (And who could possibly be behind the corruption investigations of Olmert?)

Did you know that Yad Vashem head says “Settler Abuse of Palestinians Recalls pre WWII Anti Semitism!”

Did you know that Israeli army admits that the 44 barriers it said it removed, did not actually exist!!!

Did you know that there is a large rise in number of rapes, date rape drugs in Israeli Terrorist Army? If it’s good enough for the President of the country, it’s good enough for the troops.

Courageous Israeli settlers confront dangerous Palestinian terrorist.

Did you know that Israeli army shoots 17 year old in leg and lets him bleed to death?

Did you know that a multi-party committee of MPs is pressing for sanctions over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians? Time to get serious about Israel…

Did you know the “list of prohibitions” in Palestinian Life? Forbidden in Palestine under a whole, long list of Israeli prohibitions:

Standing prohibitions
* Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are forbidden to stay in the West Bank.
* Palestinians are forbidden to enter East Jerusalem.
* West Bank Palestinians are forbidden to enter the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing.
* Palestinians are forbidden to enter the Jordan Valley.
* Palestinians are forbidden to enter villages, lands, towns and neighborhoods along the “seam line” between the separation fence and the Green Line (some 10 percent of the West Bank).
* Palestinians who are not residents of the villages Beit Furik and Beit Dajan in the Nablus area, and Ramadin, south of Hebron, are forbidden entry.
* Palestinians are forbidden to enter the settlements’ area (even if their lands are inside the settlements’ built area).
* Palestinians are forbidden to enter Nablus in a vehicle.
* Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are forbidden to enter area A (Palestinian towns in the West Bank).
* Gaza Strip residents are forbidden to enter the West Bank via the Allenby crossing.
* Palestinians are forbidden to travel abroad via Ben-Gurion Airport.
* Children under age 16 are forbidden to leave Nablus without an original birth certificate and parental escort.
* Palestinians with permits to enter Israel are forbidden to enter through the crossings used by Israelis and tourists.
* Gaza residents are forbidden to establish residency in the West Bank.
* West Bank residents are forbidden to establish residency in the Jordan valley, seam line communities or the villages of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan.
* Palestinians are forbidden to transfer merchandise and cargo through internal West Bank checkpoints.

Periodic prohibitions
* Residents of certain parts of the West Bank are forbidden to travel to the rest of the West Bank.
* People of a certain age group - mainly men from the age of 16 to 30, 35 or 40 - are forbidden to leave the areas where they reside (usually Nablus and other cities in the northern West Bank).
* Private cars may not pass the Swahara-Abu Dis checkpoint (which separates the northern and southern West Bank). This was cancelled for the first time two weeks ago under the easing of restrictions.

Read the complete list here.

Here is a leaked Israeli document gives frightening glimpse of apartheid!

Oh. My. GOD! “Worldwide… Jews have decreasing interest in Israel“.

Truth time: Sanctions on Hamas have backfired on Israel & no “Palestinian State”!

“The accomplishments of this policy resemble those of the international sanctions policy imposed on Iraq: It has not deposed the Hamas government, Qassam rockets continued to land in Israel and it did not serve as an alternative for the need for IDF action. Even worse, the Palestinians’ effort to extricate themselves from the sanctions has given new power brokers - Syria and Iran - a basis of support in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

“….But unlike other sanction regimes, Israel is setting conditions but not promising anything in return. Thus, even if Haniyeh starts wearing a skullcap and Khaled Meshal begins humming Hatikva, and even if Abbas makes it mandatory to teach the heroic story of Masada in Palestinian schools, Israel does not want and is unable to propose a diplomatic alternative that would lead to the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state. It does not want to - because any such proposal would mean a withdrawal from most of the territories and the dismantling of most of the settlements.

Did you hear of Israelis shameful treatment of Holocaust survivors? It will be a crime to deny Holocaust, but not to lie to begin a war, or occupy another land Hypocrites! On the way to more killing of innocent people, to pushing the world into a war against Iran, which it cannot be denied DOES NOT HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!! Israel pushed the world through a resolution that make it a worldwide crime to deny the Holocaust, that’s fine. However, Israel EXPLOITS the Holocaust and all who died in it in a shameful and disgraceful way, and while it is easy to respect the dead, it KEEPS LIVING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN POVERTY!!! - Zionist are selfish, self centered people with no morals, no ethics, no compunction about the shooting of children in the head, leaving a million cluster bombs in Lebanon, or exploiting the death of millions. FIRST, ISRAEL SHOULD LEARN TO RESPECT THE HOLOCAUST; THEN IT CAN ASK OTHERS TO DO SO!!!

Did you know that Israel will move the apartheid fence to include 1,500 settlers, leaving 20,000 Palestinians in between? They moved the Wall five kilometers eastward from the “Green Line” (which is supposed to be the borders between Palestine and Israel) in the area of Modi’in Ilit, in order to take in the settlements of Nili and Na’aleh. The new route will create two Palestinian enclaves containing about 20,000 people. Nili and Na’aleh together have some 1,500 residents.

Israel and Reality: Did you know that Olmert thinks Israel was “victorious” in Lebanon?

Did you know that Egypt has charged 3 Israelis, Egyptian with spying for Israel? (is spying a part of the peace treaty?) Badawi said the Israelis had recruited Attar while he was living in Turkey in August 2001, and had assisted him in obtaining a residency permit in Canada under a fake name and found him work in a bank.

Did you know that six Israeli defense ministry officials confess to taking bribes from contractors?

What Israel’s “Right to Exist” Means to Palestinians? “What Israel, within what borders, is involved? Is it the 55 percent of historical Palestine recommended for a Jewish state by the UN General Assembly in 1947? The 78 percent of historical Palestine occupied by the Zionist movement in 1948 and now viewed by most of the world as “Israel” or “Israel proper”? The 100 percent of historical Palestine occupied by Israel since June 1967 and shown as “Israel” (without any “Green Line”) on maps in Israeli schoolbooks? I would like to hear what Condi, Merkel or Solana, Hillary, some of the others have to say about this. How about you Mr. Blaschke? Or is the answer only, whatever Israel wants, we don’t want to go into details???

Did you know that under the cover of the sound of explosions in Gaza and Olmert’s nice words to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the Kadima-Labor government is proceeding with a settlement strategy that explains why the minister of strategic affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, is so quiet. (For the freedom Israel has to build new settlements, new Jewish only roads, work on destroying the Al Aqsa Mosque - which Israel would like to collapse, so it can build a third Temple on the site - we can give great thanks the paid for Democratic Congressional men and women like Debbie Stabenow, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, and an endless number of others, who talk peace but vote occupation, war, and anything Israel wants.)

Shhh! Israel quietly razes 6 houses in Negev, leaving 70 of Bedouins homeless.

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Did you know that Germany presses EU partners to impose a radical law and order package (& leaked docs)? The EU faces a damaging split over moves led by Germany to impose a radical law and order package. If enacted into European legislation, it would allow armed police to operate with impunity outside their home countries, privatised armed ’sky marshals’ on civilian flights and a wide range of joint operations against alleged illegal migrants. The Observer has obtained confidential documents showing that Germany also wants to permit undercover officers working with criminal gangs to roam unrestricted across European borders.

Did you know that Kurnaz made new allegations of torture and human-rights abuses in the US coalition’s jail in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was held. Members of the German parliament who heard his testimony said they were shaken by the Turkish citizen’s claims. The German-born Turkish citizen was held at Guantánamo for almost five years.

The German Foreign Minister is under pressure now in terror inquiry. US wanted to release innocent Kurnaz in 2002, Germans said keep him there, tried to create false evidence in 2005. Kurnaz served 3 more years in Gitmo, all knew he was innocent!

These pictures say more than all the blah blah about what the war on terror is accomplishing. Photo: AP (Kurnaz BEFORE Gitmo, left. After Gitmo, right)

Did you know that Germany has issued 13 arrest warrents, including US operatives, in el Masri Rendition Case?

Did you know that a Canadian Human Rights Group is opposing freedom of speech when it comes to debate Israel? decision approving a request by two Toronto high school teachers to have a union debate on whether to condemn Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has come under fire by human rights groups. The motion was brought by English teacher and Jewish activist Jason Kuninr. It was approved by the Toronto district of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, and is being opposed by B’nai Brith and the Jewish Defence League. Another successful choking off of free speech.

Did you know that Barack Obama, the rookie Senator from Illinois is going to run for president while assuring us that he supports the troops in Iraq? He’s made it quite clear he won’t bring them home. He favor surgical missile strikes on Iran and Pakistan. He knows that pissing off the (pro-Israel) lobby is not the way to the top and last but not least, he even embraced Israel’s brutal bombings of Lebanon last summer.

Did you know that Bill Clinton lied to get Barak elected? Tells Jewish voters why they need his wife!

Did you know that Clinton voted FOR, continuing sales, but Israel probably misused US cluster bombs? In a country run by the Israel lobby, MAY is as far as anyone dares to go: “The New York Times reported on its Internet site Saturday evening that the report will say Israel may have violated agreements with the United States by its use of American-supplied cluster munitions during last year’s war in Lebanon.”

Did you know that Hillary Clinton: “Iran Is a Threat to Israel!” (so we know how SHE will vote!! War, war ,war!)

Did you know that Shell defies US pressure and signed £5 billion Iranian gas deal?

Did you know that Iran clock is ticking? Bush preparing war with Iran!

Did you know that Mossad killed Iran nuclear physicist couple of weeks ago? Professor Ardashir Hosseinpour, a world authority on electromagnetism, was until recently working on uranium enrichment at the facility in Isfahan, one of the central processing sites in Iran’s nuclear program.

Investigators: Millions in Iraq Aid Wasted (by THIS efficient Administration?) Only millions??? Come on, these people deal in BIG money…. could it have been billions?

Wait… Did you know that U.S. sent $12 billion in cash to Iraq and watched it vanish? In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tons, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover. Cash payments were made from the back of a pickup truck, and cash was stored in unguarded sacks in Iraqi ministry offices. One official was given $6.75 million in cash, and was ordered to spend it in one week before the interim Iraqi government took control of Iraqi funds.”The minutes from a May 2004 CPA meeting reveal “a single disbursement of $500m in security funding labelled merely ‘TBD’, meaning ‘to be determined’.

Did you know that Exxon earned $39,5 billion in 2006 (BEFORE new Iraq contract…)?

Did you know that 1,990 Iraqi civilians were killed in January 2007, 3 times as many as January 2006? Health Ministry official said. Counts kept by other groups, including the U.N., have listed far higher numbers.

Did you know that the “First US officer since Vietnam” goes on trial for speaking out against war in Iraq? (Robin has a lot of details about this case in her blog). Lieutenant Ehren Watada, 28, argues that to serve in Iraq would betray his conscience and his duties as an officer. “It would be a violation of my oath because this war to me is illegal in the sense that it was waged in deception, and it was also in violation of international law. Officers and leaders have that responsibility to speak out for the enlisted and certainly when we do so it comes with more consequences, which is what a leader should do. A leader can’t just go with the crowd.”

Did you know that British military viewed cockpit tape in 2003. Said it didn’t exist. Oooops. The American gov’t lied to the people, the British government lied to the people, the German government lied to the people… This is government BY the people???

“The news of official British involvement in the US inquiry conflicts with earlier Ministry of Defence claims that a cockpit recording of the attack did not exist. It also raises questions over why British officials involved in the US military inquiry acquiesced in the official conclusion that the pilots were not to blame. After the Sun published the transcript of the cockpit recording yesterday, the US agreed for the video to be used in the Oxfordshire coroner’s inquest being conducted into L/Cpl Hull’s death.”

Hat tip to my friend, Editerette, for most of the links above!

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