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Posted By dissent 7 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsRising poverty, unemployment and food insecurity in Gaza, compounded by the recent 23-day Israeli offensive, have increased the threat of child malnutrition, say UN agencies, health ministry officials and healthcare NGOs in Gaza.
UN World Health Organization (WHO) officials are concerned by the warning signs, including rising malnutrition indicators - like increased cases of stunting, wasting and underweight children - and continuing high rates of anaemia among children and pregnant women.
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engineer7 months, 2 weeks ago
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This is the Palestinians' and Hamas's fault. If they decided to make peace rather than try to annihilate Israel, they would have all they needed. Hamas should also not steal the donations from other countries like blankets and food. there is no excuse except the Palestinians and Hamas!!
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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i know you don't, but i believe -- as does much of the world, except for a minority who insist that israel can do no wrong even in the face of overwhelming evidence -- that israel's blockade may just have something to do with it. go figure
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CaptainLucid7 months, 2 weeks ago
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If muslims wanted palestinians to live decently they would send aid across the border with Egypt. Arabs don't want palestinians to live decent lives. Arabs want palestinians to kill Israelis and know that the more misery they keep the palestinians in the more will become suicide bombers.
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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the border between egypt and gaza is closed. only one truck has been permitted to pass through since israel ceased its massacre. just now it has been opened to allow humanitarian aid in. but only for two days. the only alternative for the gazans are the tunnels which israel bombs daily
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if you are saying that egyptians don't want to help the palestinians, you are wrong. support on every arab street is strong. the egyptian government is another matter. it thinks it better not to incur the ire and wrath of israel and its imperial patron -- us. it's lost such wars before. if you are saying that other arab countries should help the palestinians, you are well aware that they do. you also know that we call them terrorists
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Well engineer, interesting how your religious racism makes you an accomplice to totalitarian crimes against humanity. Perhaps you should give up zionism and become a jew.
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The History and"Morals"of Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine
I arrived in Israel 40 years ago. It took me many years to understand that the very existence of my country, as it is today, is based on an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The project started many years ago. Its seed can be traced to the basic fallacy of the Zionist movement, which set out to establish a Jewish-national state in a location already inhabited by another nation. Under these conditions, one has, at most, a moral right to strive for a bi-national state; establishing a national state implies, more or less by definition, ethnic cleansing of the previous inhabitants....
Among the common mantras provided to the Israelis to justify the above is the following:...
But the main mantra drummed into the conscience of an Israeli citizen from kindergarten, is that in 1948 "it was either them or us", "Arabs would have thrown us into the sea if we did not establish a Jewish majority state with a strong army", etc..... I together with most of my compatriots believed for years that 1967 was in fact a moment of existential danger for Israel. Until I stumbled upon some telling quotes, uttered by our very own leaders [4]: ....
Believe me, these Jewish-Israeli mainstreamers are not natural-born monsters. They just do not know any better. Alas, I used to be one of them. Then one day I stumbled, more or less by chance, into the West Bank with a group of activists. I acquired some Palestinian friends and finally understood the criminality of the treatment of the Palestinians by my country. And I learned to ignore the daily portion of preposterous propaganda which is provided to my compatriots by the media in lieu of "news"....
...For the sake of both nations living in this country, this outrage must be stopped. It must be stopped by pressure from outside, because at present within Israel there are no significant political forces to oppose it. Please do something, my friends, and do it urgently. And kindly ignore the endless "negotiations" between our government and the powerless Palestinian Authority, they are just a cover for more ethnic cleansing. If you do not believe me, come and see the massive settlement construction in East Jerusalem and West Bank. And the walls of the Palestinian ghettos.
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Stop lying to Americans. And engineer, the zionist policy of ethnic cleansing by starvation has about 60 years of continuity by now.
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Israel's Blockade of Gaza - Ethnic cleansing by Starvation
The latest tightening of Israel’s chokehold on Gaza – ending all supplies into the Strip for more than a week – has produced immediate and shocking consequences for Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants.
The refusal to allow in fuel has forced the shutting down of Gaza’s only power station, creating a blackout that pushed Palestinians bearing candles on to the streets in protest last week. A water and sanitation crisis are expected to follow.
And on Thursday, the United Nations announced it had run out of the food essentials it supplies to 750,000 desperately needy Gazans. “This has become a blockade against the United Nations itself,” a spokesman said.
In a further blow, Israel’s large Bank Hapoalim said it would refuse all transactions with Gaza by the end of the month, effectively imposing a financial blockade on an economy dependent on the Israeli shekel. Other banks are planning to follow suit, forced into a corner by Israel’s declaration in Sept 2007 of Gaza as an “enemy entity”.
There are likely to be few witnesses to Gaza’s descent into a dark and hungry winter. In the past week, all journalists were refused access to Gaza, as were a group of senior European diplomats. Days earlier, dozens of academics and doctors due to attend a conference to assess the damage done to Gazans’ mental health were also turned back....
... In truth, however, the growing catastrophe being unleashed on Gaza is only indirectly related to Hamas’s rise to power and the rocket attacks.
Of more concern to Israel is what each of these developments represents: a refusal on the part of Gazans to abandon their resistance to Israel’s continuing occupation. Both provide Israel with a pretext for casting aside the protections offered to Gaza’s civilians under international law to make them submit.
With embarrassing timing, the Israeli media revealed at the weekend that one of the first acts of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister elected in 2006, was to send a message to the Bush White House offering a long-term truce in return for an end to Israeli occupation. His offer was not even acknowledged....
In fact, Israel’s desire to seal off Gaza and terrorise its civilian population predates even Hamas’s election victory. It can be dated to Ariel Sharon’s disengagement of summer 2005, when Fatah’s rule of the PA was unchallenged...
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/11/18/israel39...-
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Edmar147 months, 2 weeks ago
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The liar is you, and you and we know it. Let the Gazans make peace. That's all it takes. But, that would take an intelligent person to understand that fact. The Gazans seem to have plenty of people just like you Hyperbola who just don't have that necessary intelligence to see what is needed to improve their situation. Continue with the lies, deceit, hate Hyperbola, and nothing is going to change. Just simple peace will make all of the difference, but no one in Gaza seems even remotely willing to try that simple gesture. What fools.
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AnteUp7 months, 2 weeks ago
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I am CONTINUALLY amazed that the ONLY place these stories
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are covered is ONLINE!
Has anyone heard of the plight of our fellow American,
Tristan Anderson, on the news? Has the news mentioned that
Israel refuses to cooperate with the U.N. investigation on
the type of warfare used in Gaza? Have they EVEN covered the
testimony of soldiers in the IDF about what took place in
Gaza? If it is not complimentary.........it will NOT be
heard on our American airwaves!
Is any other nation - including the U.S. - granted such
secrecy? Not that I know of - and my question is......WHY??-
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Welcome to the USSR. Our media are at least as effective as the Soviet media in propagating only state propaganda. Newspapers like the Washington Post are no different than Pravda at the height of the USSR.
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On-line news and opinion is now American samizdat - the only place where truth about our military empire and corrupt oligarchies can be found.-
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Edmar147 months, 2 weeks ago
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It's amazing how much Hyperbola hates. She hates Israel, she hates the country that she lives in, she seems to hate just about everything. It must be very depressing to have to live with such hate. Yes, mental illness is a disease. It would seem to us all that the only place where truth about our military empire and corrupt oligarchies can be found is from Hyperbola. Of course, she has the fastest Google as well.
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AnteUp7 months, 2 weeks ago
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You say Hyperbola "hates" - well, so do I - and just what do I hate?
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I hate the fact that my network and cable news must be SCRUBBED
of any story that might possibly be construed as negative regarding
Israel .............it's people OR it's policies.
This is AMERICA!
We print any number of stories critical of our own government.......
.....why can't we be allowed to hear various sides to a story concerning Israel?
The sad reality is you should check out the Israeli, or other online or
international media - because you WILL NOT find it here!
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Edmar147 months, 2 weeks ago
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AntiUP, I'm continually amazed that you believe everything that you read online. I have a suggestion for you. Go over to the Gaza Strip and get the truth for yourself. I'm sure that you will have about 10 minutes time to collect your information before you're found dead in some street. Then at least, you will have the truth, although you won't be able to relay that truth to anybody. I would also suggest that you talk to the IDF soldiers that the news claims made those allegations. I think that you might find a very different story if you speak to the horse's mouth. News reporting today has lost all credibility. The Walter Cronkites and Dan Rathers don't exist anymore. Believe what you want. The first amendment gives you the right to be stupid as well as misinformed.
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AnteUp7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Edmar14 -
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I think YOU are confused as to which end of the horse you are getting YOUR info from!
You suggest: "Go over to the Gaza Strip and get the truth for yourself. I'm sure that you will have about 10 minutes time to collect your information before you're found dead in some street. "
I believe that is EXACTLY what people like Thom Hurndall and Tristan Anderson
and Hedy Epstein WERE doing before they were either killed - maimed or cavity
searched by...........ta-dum!.............Israeli forces.
The real truth of the matter is you can always find a more honest discussion
on these subjects - where?...................in Israel! As I have said - it is NOT allowed
here. Why is that? Doesn't it bother you at all??
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Palestine is isn't going anywhere. Neither is Israel."
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one imprisons the other with the full weight and power of the world's largest military industrial complex behind it. but sure, let's pull them both up by the scruff of the neck and scold them equally, if it makes the indecision easier for our consciences to bear-
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Edmar147 months, 2 weeks ago
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Exactly who are they imprisoned? The wall was built to keep the Gazans out of Israel, plain and simple. Israel is under no obligation to let one person from Gaza set one foot on Israeli soil. Every country in the world protects it's borders and restricts movement from non citizens across their borders. Israel doesn't have to let anything cross into Gaza across Israeli territory. There is absolutely no international law which requires Israel to do anything for Gaza. Israel left Gaza and Gaza has it's own government. It is up to that government to provide for it's people. Maybe making peace would be the proper step to take to provide a corridor through Israel by which goods and people can travel. But, as long as Hamas is irresponsible as a government and holds to it's covenant of destroying Israel, Israel has no obligation to let anything pass into Gaza through Israel. Sovereign countries have the sovereign right to control their borders and what crosses those borders. Now, grow up and accept the fact that until the Palestinians make peace, they make their own bed.
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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edmar we've been over this a thousand times....
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fact: israel has complete control over what goes in or out of gaza, under or over gaza. whether it be by land, sea or air. yes, even gaza's airspace belongs to israel's f16s and apache helicopters.
knowing this, all the usual pro-israel talking points that you rehash repeatedly amount to absolutely nothing if not absolute nonsense. it's a whitewash. so please, cut the crap
israel is doing a great deal for gaza. it is starving it to death. and going to great lengths to achieve it, including another berlin-style wall built at enormous expense.
this is not israel protecting itself. this is genocide.
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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if you think each side must pull ITSELF up...... then how about we stop our pandering and mollycoddling of israel and let it stand on its own feet?
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here's where we start....
the cessation of $3 billion/year in "aid" - 70% of our foreign aid - to israel that then spends that $3 billion/year on our military hardware. israel is a first world country. it can do just fine without the largest slice of our handout pie. i've had pro-israelers here scoff at that $3 billion is if it were chump change
the cessation of $30 billion worth of free military hardware. latest installment having arrived only 2 weeks ago while gaza starves. a consequence of israel's direct from the dark ages medieval siege. israel is one of the world's largest military hardware producers. they need our donations...... for what?
the cessation of our vetoes on all un resolutions and sanctions against israel thus consistently undermining the democratic authority of the un. israel screams victim then brags about how tough they are. easy to say with us in the way. let them come out from behind and fight their own fights without all the handouts, freebies and loaded dice we roll for them.
how's that for starters?
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reallypsst7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Why doesn't Iran,Egypt,Syria or the oil wealthy nations help and send food and aid,they can give support to militants but wont feed the Palestinians or they don't give a dam about these people unless their killing for them,and don't tell me Israel wont allow it,am sure the UN can screen the aid with Israel and make sure its food and medical supplies. Can someone give me a sensible reply !
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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do you have google?
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"Israel turns back Libyan ship bound for Gaza with aid
By Reuters
The Israel Navy on Monday turned away a Libyan ship heading to Gaza with 3,000 tons of humanitarian aid, ending the most high-profile effort yet to break a blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.
The Al Marwa was approaching the Gaza coast when it was stopped by an Israel Navy vessel. The navy vessel ordered the Libyan ship via radio contact to turn back, said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, adding that no force was used.
In Gaza's small port, spectators, journalists and dozens of porters had assembled to await the arrival of the Libyan ship.
It was not immediately clear where the Libyan ship was now headed. If unable to unload the cargo in Gaza, the ship would return to Libya, said a senior Libyan government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the ship's journey with the press.
"The Israeli warships are making it difficult for the ship to reach the Gaza coast, in spite of the fact that this is a civilian ship, sent to help Palestinians during the siege," the official said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1042587.html-
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Syrian aid convoy heading to Gaza
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Monday April 13, 2009 23:18author
Hamdi Shaath, head of the governmental committee in charge of welcoming delegates in Gaza, reported on Monday that an aid convoy, presented by the Syrian people in aid to Gaza, left Syria on Monday in an attempt to make it into Gaza."
http://www.imemc.org/article/59927-
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Israel turns back 250 tons of truckloads of food
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4/16/2009 6:17:00 PM
CAIRO, April 16 (KUNA) -- Israeli troops manning the land Al-Ojah checkpoint in Central Sinai sent back 13 truckloads of 250 tons of flour dispatched by the Egyptian Red Crescent to Gaza Strip on Thursday.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/Arti...-
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Israel blocks pasta shipment to Gaza, and tensions boil
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
JERUSALEM — For more than seven weeks, the international aid group Mercy Corps has been trying to send 90 tons of macaroni to the isolated Gaza Strip as part of a global campaign to help the 1.4 million Palestinians there rebuild their lives after Israel's recent devastating 22-day military operation.
Israel, which controls most of what goes into and out of Gaza, has said no repeatedly."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/62797.html-
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Concern grows over Gaza aid
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By Tobias Buck in Jerusalem
Published: April 21 2009 00:57 | Last updated: April 21 2009 00:57
The European Commission has raised fresh concerns over Israel’s continuing closure of the Gaza Strip, which it says is preventing European humanitarian aid worth more than €34m from reaching the Palestinian territory."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c3c075c4-2dc5-11de-9eba-00...-
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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there's plenty more, reallypsst.
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hopefully you're getting the picture now that all the stuttering mumbling excuses in the world that try to deflect blame either back onto the palestinians or other arab states come to nothing when the bottom line to it all, the key and primary source of this crisis, is very straightforward and staggeringly obvious....
israel's blockade
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