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Today in Palestine the 26th of march
a summary of the events JEWISH AMERICAN ACTIVIST WAITING FOR COURT HEARING AFTER DEPORTATION ORDER TEMPORARILY FROZEN
Flo was arrested on Sunday March, 14 in the village of Deir Qaddis near Budrus, west of Ramallah while participating in a nonviolent action to prevent Israeli army bulldozers from continuing their work on the Apartheid Wall that will completely encircle Deir Qaddis and eight other villages in an enclave.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/pressreleases/PR_23Mar04_03_10_28BethlehemISMMediaOffice.htm
Palestinian teenager dies of wounds sustained in Rafah army raid
An 18-year-old Palestinian died Tuesday of wounds sustained during an Israeli military air strike in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah on March 17, medics said. Abdullah al-Mughair had been critically wounded by shrapnel in his head, abdomen and chest.
http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?iapinfo+2291
Palestinian killed near Rafah
Israeli soldiers on Tuesday shot dead a Palestinian fighter who "was trying to infiltrate into the Morag settlement south of the Gaza Strip, Radio Israel reported.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=614728
20 Civilians Wounded by IOF in Hebron
Witnesses said that Israeli soldiers indiscriminately opened fire at hundreds of citizens who were participating in the funeral procession of Tareq al-Allami, 31, who was killed yesterday by IOF, in Beit Ummar village of Hebron.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=297
IOF Wounds Civilian, Razes Arable Land
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers opened heavy fire from their watchtowers near Tal al-Sultan area, and wounded a pedestrian. IOF vehicles rolled into the area, demolished a house of Ibraheem al-Semeiry, razed arable land and destroyed a civilian car.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=299
Witnesses: Israeli Gunboats Fire at Gaza
Israeli gunboats off the coast of Gaza fired machine guns toward the coast late Tuesday, witnesses said. There were no reports of damage or casualties. Palestinians said the Israeli gunboats were firing at Palestinian fishing vessels and piers.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=6&u=/ap/20040323/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_gaza
Activist's family launch legal bid
Today, his mother, Jocelyn Hurndall, voiced concerns that an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter over his death may be being used as a scapegoat. The soldier himself is apparently now claiming that he was following orders from above when he fired his gun.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/9793354?source=PA
Yassin Letter Urged Arabs to Resist Israel, U.S.
Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin appealed to Arab leaders to do all they could to help oppose Israel and U.S forces occupying Iraq in a letter written shortly before he was killed by an Israeli missile. Yassin's message, obtained by Reuters Tuesday, was addressed to the upcoming Arab League summit in Tunis.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4635862
Witnesses: Rocket Fired at Israeli Post in Gaza
Palestinian militants fired a rocket at an Israeli army outpost near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, sparking a gun battle with Israeli forces, witnesses said. The target of the rocket was an outpost at the heavily guarded Netzarim settlement...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=1312&e=3&u=/nm/20040323/wl_nm/mideast_explosion_dc_1
Ten new-borns in Gaza named after Ahmed Yassin
Ten babies born shortly after Israel assassinated Hamas Spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin were named after him, the Palestinian al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper said Tuesday.
http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?iapinfo+2293
Rantissi chosen as new Hamas leader after Yassin
The 56-year-old Rantissi, a pediatrician by training, is seen as one of the more hardline members of the movement. He himself survived an Israeli assassination attempt last June, suffering leg, arm and chest wounds in a missile attack on his car in central Gaza City.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=17&u=/afp/20040323/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_hamas_successor_040323181220
UN Security Council to meet on Yassin assassination
The debate will take place after the U.S. foiled an initiative by Algeria to bypass any discussion and move straight to the formulation of a declaration on the assassination. The U.S. instead prevented the release of such a statement, a move that brought about Tuesday's discussion.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/407446.html
Russia urges U.N. statement
Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said Russia would support a statement that "expresses a sharply negative attitude to this extrajudicial decision to kill the Hamas spiritual leader and voices its concern over the effect of these actions on the peace process in the Middle East,"
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/23/yassin.russia.ap/index.html
Vietnam condemns Israel's killing of Hamas leader
A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman says the killing violates international law, undermines regional stability and goes against peace efforts in the region.
http://www.abc.net.au/asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_1072354.htm
Palestinian PM presents condolences to Hamas leaders in Gaza
Qorei also denounced "the odious crime committed by the Israeli government, the government of assassins who have killed this symbol".
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=19&u=/afp/20040323/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_yassin_hamas_pa_040323153515
Fear descends on Jerusalem
At the central bus station, which tens of thousands of travellers use daily, shops and restaurants were empty. Sheli Afriat, 22, a waitress, said: "It's very scary. Everyone knows that sooner or later something is going to happen. If not today, then tomorrow."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9056352%255E663,00.html
U.N. rights body urged to condemn Yassin slaying
The 53 states of the Commission on Human Rights will vote on Wednesday on a resolution strongly condemning the "tragic assassination" of Yassin and "liquidations" and "extra judicial executions" by the Israeli army against Palestinians.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23338181.htm
New Hamas Gaza chief vows revenge
Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, newly named as Hamas chief for the Gaza Strip, vows that the Palestinian militant group will strike Israelis everywhere following Israel's assassination of its spiritual leader.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=481647§ion=news
Thousands protest Yassin assassination in Nazareth
Demonstrators waved black flags, flags with the Islamic Movement emblem and the Palestinian flag. They lauded Yassin and carried banners reading, "[Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon is a terror leader."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/407848.html
Egyptians stage mass protests
Thousands of Egyptians protested here on Tuesday for the second day against Israel's assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, some burning Israeli and US flags and calling for holy war.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1502125,00.html
Killing of Yassin puts US in line of fire, says report
Two demonstrations were held in Iraq against the US-led coalition on Monday and protestors chanted slogans in support of Yassin. Moreover, Hamas has issued a statement demanding the United States take responsibility for the "crime" as many Arab press outlets said US-made missile launchers were used in the killing of Yassin.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/24/content_1380856.htm
Free expression award for nuclear whistleblower
the Index Music award went to Daniel Barenboim and the late Edward Said for their work to found an orchestra of Israeli and Arab musicians. Special Award for Most Courageous Defence of Freedom of Expression to Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower...
http://www.indexonline.org/news/20040322_israel.shtml
Extra security for 7 MKs after officials face 'terror' threats
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin announced Tuesday that security for seven Knesset members has been beefed up after 'terror' groups threatened to target Israeli public officials following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza the day before.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/407906.html
Blood on their hands
The three rocket missiles that were fired yesterday from a US-supplied Israeli helicopter at the break of day, on a procession of 15 Palestinians returning home after dawn prayers in a nearby mosque, may have brought to an end any prospect of peace in the Middle East.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1175640,00.html
Killing of Yassin a turning point
Mr. Alpher adds that the assassination will help Sharon silence the criticisms of those opposed to the withdrawal and dismantling of settlements. "It will make him popular with the Likud rank and file and help him get approval for the disengagement plan. And he knows the Americans will not object to this."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0323/p01s04-wome.htm
U.S. objectives at risk in anti-Israel backlash
Israel's assassination of Palestinian militant leader Ahmed Yassin could imperil U.S. objectives throughout the Middle East, including in Iraq, foreign policy experts and world leaders said Monday.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03-22-diplomacy_x.htm
Middle East Americans on security alert
It was an indication of concern that, in the short term at least, the action had made the region less rather than more safe for Israel and its allies.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079419864963&p=1012571727172
Achille Lauro hijack mastermind gets hero's funeral
Thousands of people swarmed around the silver-coloured casket draped in the Palestinian flag as it made its way through the narrow streets of the al-Yarmouk and Felisteen refugee camps on the outskirts of Damascus...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23615067.htm
Arab reform delayed until 2005, Middle East conflict to top summit agenda
Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa made it clear on Monday that the Middle East conflict now topped the agenda following Israel's assassination of Palestinian Islamist leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20040323/wl_mideast_afp/arab_summit_reform_040323184041
Libya ready to compensate Jewish emigrants: Kadhafi's son
"We're not thinking now of establishing contacts or relations with Israel because it's not on the agenda and no one has requested it of us. But we can in the future open the file of compensation for Jews for their seized funds or assets," he told Qatari newspapers...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20040323/wl_mideast_afp/libya_israel_040323171537
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 723 CHILLING QUOTES BY ZIONISTS ABOUT ZIONISM:
1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy."
Israeli president Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001
2. "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more"....
Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
3. " [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs."
Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
4. "The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls."
Israeli Prime Minister Shamir (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
5. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle."
Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
6. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."
Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.
7. "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed."
Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969
8. "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war."
Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
9. "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"
David Ben Gurion (first Israeli PM, quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
10. "We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves."
Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
11. "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . .. I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.
12. "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours."
Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
13. "We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return... The old will die and the young will forget."
David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.
14. "We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai."
David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
15. "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"
16. "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
17. "We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'"
Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
18. Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters"
Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.
19. "There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument:...the need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary."
Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.
20. "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them."
Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
21. "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."
Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
22. "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment...Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.
23. "I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child’s existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956).... I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do."
Ariel Sharon, current Prime Minister, in an interview with General Ouze Merham, 1956
Well Avi me lad, what have ye got to say this time?
to take a variety of quotes from a variety of sources, all out of context with no contextual explanation whatsoever and assemble them for any purpose you want, to give any impression you want. Moreover, the last quote here is a fabrication.
So what sort of context could they be acceptable in?
...Avi may be right about that last quote - I can find no original source for it. The Israelis are absolute masters at manipulating information, however, so its difficult to know if someone made it up or if the source has been obscured. The arguments against its authenticity that I could find were pretty lame, but without a source it just isn't credible...
OK. Fair enough.
22 CHILLING QUOTES BY ZIONISTS ABOUT ZIONISM.
Like to take a shot at any of the others?
but there is little doubt that the Israelis regard the Palestinian woman and child as more dangerous than the man given the demographic time-bomb they represent for Zionists.
The manifestations of this are that the right of female Muslim Israeli citizen's to marry whom they wish has been severely restricted by a racist law imposed by Sharon the corrupt politician and war-criminal in what amounts to a fertility law used in an effort to curtail the growth of the Israeli Muslim population.
Allied with the death toll among Palestinian children through what amounts a policy of genocide by the Sharon government and their stormtroopers in the West Bank and Gaza, the Israelis seek to keep the Palestinian population in check both politically, physically and numerically.
The latest incidence was the killing of a six year old boy in his own home by the Israeli Occupation Forces on Saturday. Funnily enough they were there to arrest a suspect, strange that they can move in and arrest low-level people with impunity but at the same time "need" to kill political leaders who are not hiding from anybody and are unlikely to offer physical resistance such as Sheikh Yassin??
Of course there is little need to resort to outright murder of Palestinian children when the Israelis physically imprison them in camps under a starvation regieme with attendant problems of malutrition and infant mortality worthy of the worst third-world slums as reported by the UNHCR and Red-Cross since the beginning of the second intifada. For their trouble of course both the UN and the Red-Cross have been subjected to vilification by Sayanim in the worlds media for reporting the truth.
Zionists like Avi seem happy to have Muslims and Palestinians around as long as they can be labeled as terrorists, cockroaches or people of inferior education/culture/religion or other names befitting of untermenschen and it is worth noting that he didn't bother to try and deny the other quotes to this effect which are in the public domain.
It is highly likely that the Sharon "quote" which is quite outrageous in terms of its language (the underlying Zionist-expansionist thrust however appears consistent with the other quotes), is a deliberate plant on the web which gives Zionists and other excusers of genocidal Israeli policies an extra get out of jail free card when other excuses cannot be abused.
Those who intend to publish such material in future should at least google it before posting, in this case it would have immediately turned up this "quote" as a fraud.
Given the convenience of such material and the activities of intelligence in deception all such material should be regarded with deep suspicion. One of the greatest Israeli coups in terms of black-ops was after all the planting of relay transmitters near Tripoli by Mossad’s LAP (LohAma Psicologit—psychological warfare or disinformation section) which could be controlled by Israeli warships off the coast whose "terrorist" communications traffic led to the bombing of Tripoli in 1986 (http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1099/9910022.html).
With this type of background and undoubted Israeli expertise in networking and security it would not be a surprise if many "arab-militant" websites with all manner of content were not part of the information war by Israeli intelligence and Zionist Sayanim where the dividing line between the two is often very blurred. N'est pas Avi???
Given this background this it is hardly surprising that the Palestinians choose not to accept being third-class citizens in their own country, and that the country is regarded as hostile by its neighbours.
If I'm not mistaken Avi used this tactic or using a single quote to attempt to discredit an entire line of reasoning, possibly in relation to the same quote in the past 12 months. Anybody posting such material needs to check its veracity before posting it otherwise you give credibility to lying propagandists like Avi. The nature of this particular quote at the end of a list available on the net seems like a Zionist plant to me, i.e. it was specifically put there by people like AVi to enable corporate liars like Avi to do their dirty work, please dont give him and his kind any help.