Tuesday 6 January 2009: This brutality will never break our will to be free For six months we in Hamas observed the ceasefire. Israel broke it repeatedly from the start http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-hamas?commentpage=1 • Khalid Mish'al is the head of the Hamas political bureau Death toll in Gaza passes 700, including 220 children: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24886725-5005961,00.html 8 Human Rights Groups: Israel intentionally targeting Ambulances & preventing medics from helping wounded: http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3652515,00.html Red Cross: Israel orders whole extended family (women & children too) to gather in a single house, then intentionally bombs the house killing 70. While some survived and were in desperate need of medical care, Israeli bulldozers aware of this, ignored and continued to demolish surrounding houses: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4162193/Gaza-medics-describe-horror-of-strike-which-killed-70.html UN says Israel has admitted that it's bombing of UN Girls School killing 46 innocent civilians was baseless and claims about it fabricated after UN picked multiple holes in Israel's justification. Israel deliberately attacked the school knowing what it was. War crime prosecution possible: http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/07/un-israel-admits-claims-about-attacked-school-baseless/ The Catholic Church stands up and calls Gaza a big concentration camp: http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/07/israel-outraged-as-vatican-official-calls-for-peace-talks/ US Army Helping Israeli's via Egypt on Egyptian side of Rafah Border to Gaza: Operation began weeks ago: http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/07/are-us-troops-helping-in-israels-war-on-gaza/ Egyptian Army officers threaten coup against Mubarak for helping Israel: http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=94703 To Summarise the above, Independent headlines with "Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask": http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html He says: "Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead – almost all civilians, most of them children and women – in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon; the 1,700 Palestinian civilian dead in the Sabra-Chatila massacre; the 1996 Qana massacre of 106 Lebanese civilian refugees, more than half of them children, at a UN base; the massacre of the Marwahin refugees who were ordered from their homes by the Israelis in 2006 then slaughtered by an Israeli helicopter crew; the 1,000 dead of that same 2006 bombardment and Lebanese invasion, almost all of them civilians?" Not to mention the 1948 ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians!! He continues: "What is amazing is that so many Western leaders, so many presidents and prime ministers and, I fear, so many editors and journalists, bought the old lie; that Israelis take such great care to avoid civilian casualties" While John Pilger, the famous documentary maker and newspaper journalist writes about how people deny the drawn out Palestinian Holocaust, showing that "Ethnic Cleansing" was the official word used for Israel's policy in official documents with the aim of wiping out or severely degrading Palestinian existence in Palestine: Holocaust Denied: The lying silence of those who know: http://www.antiwar.com/pilger/?articleid=14015
