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Horrifying PLO report on Israel crimes
Source: Maan (via Press TV)
Israel kills Palestinian civilians on a daily basis |
Israeli forces have killed 52 Palestinians in August, including twelve children and fifteen who were assassinated in targeted killing operations.
The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) department of national relationships also revealed on a Wednesday report that five Palestinians died at military checkpoints, three due to the delay in arriving at hospitals and two were shot dead at the checkpoints.
102 Palestinians were injured during Israeli incursion into Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps, the report stated. 220 were abducted either from their homes or at checkpoints. Nine Palestinian homes were demolished and nineteen were damaged.
The PLO reported that the Israeli forces deliberately assassinated children, such as ten-year-olds Sara and Yayha Abu Ghazal, and twelve year-old Mahmoud Abu Ghazal. The Israeli forces targeted the children with missiles while they played in fields near Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli forces also killed a mentally disabled man; 24-year-old Muhammad Abu Sha’ar, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The report related the increasing suffering of Palestinians in the West Bank that are forced to travel through Israeli checkpoints. Young men were ordered to undress in public at ‘Atara checkpoint, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
Israeli settlers continue to vandalize and destroy Palestinian land and property with the protection of the Israeli forces, particularly in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, the report noted.
(in case anyone wonders, this is a PLO report, whose main faction is Fatah - the big (and only) US and Israeli “ally” among the Palestinians - VS)
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I remember seeing a videotaped presentation by Ali Abunimah of electronicintifada.com on Public Access Television in Austin. Apparently he addressed a student group at UT. Anyway, it turns out that many reputable human rights organizations have documented similar actions in the past.
Actually Ali Abunimah might make an interesting guests for Scott’s show. The guy is a great public speaker & he obviously know a great deal about the region.
…If that’s not bad enough VS? They’ve been doing this kind of thing to the Palestinians and worse with US Grants for 60 Goddamned years…And anyone outside the status of State approved dissenter, who would bring facts to light? Is immediately deemed an “anti-Semite”…I would remind the Israeli’s that Palestinians are Semites as well…Whole region is.
Check out http://www.flashpoint.net
They’re pretty good for coverage of what is going on.
Better then Democracy.now, more hard hitting, and
good news coverage too. Still the leftist crap , but eh.
Whoops,,, http://www.flashpoints.net/
lol
ILan Pappe’s “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” comes out in paperback on September 25th! Check it out gents! It would be cool if Scott and you guys started a book club–Huh?
http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5539766-2911161?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189031311&sr=1-1
Looks like Finkelstein resigned: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295854,00.html
What happened to Finkelstein is a total disgrace for DePaul, for all of US academia and for the entire country. Finkelstein is a world-class scholar and researcher and DePaul simply genuflected to Dershowitz and his goons. Yet another triumph for US Fascism!
Vineyardsaker:
Your much more knowledgeable about this subject than I, but I know Prof. Chomsky has spoken of the courage that Finkelstein showed in taking on “the lobby.” However I understand that they have very different takes on the power relationship between the US and Israel. Finkelstein contends that is is Israel (or more properly the likudniks) that control US Policy while Chomsky says we use Israel as our pit bull to carry out US wishes in the area (ie Israel is a controlled surrogate). Is this analysis correct?
SteveC: they’re both right. It is a symbiotic relationship. Both sides gain from the situation, and both would lose if it was altered, which is why Dershowitz and his ilk skulk around trying to discredit scholars like Finkelstein and Chomsky, and why Dershowitz’s factually inaccurate books continue to be published.
“they’re both right”
It’s the same thing with the run up to the current war and the next.
@SteveC. I have a great deal of respect for Prof. Chomsky, whom I once met in a private meeting, and I can vouch for the fact that he is a kind, honest and totally principled gentleman. However, I disagree with him when he claims that the USA are dominating the US-Israel relationship. As I said to Scott during the show, I have still not really figured out (as in “hard proof”) who is the dog and who is the tail, but since Israel get a lot more out of this relationship (even if it is, in my opinion, now endangered by the Neocons’ policies) and the USA gets only a huge, truly monumental amount of troubles, I think that it is not logical to conclude that US is “wagging” Israel.
@everybody: I very much regret that Finkelstein resigned and reached an agreement with DePaul. I wish he had done a “camp” like Cindy Sheehan did in Crawford in front of these SOB to trash them in front the the world (minus the US, whose corporate media would either ignore, or misrepresent, or drawn this “story”). I understand he needs the money, but he gives them a way out they do not deserve.