Will this increase or decrease the likelihood of terrorist actions in America, Europe and the rest of the world?

If you were a member of a family murdered in this conflict, would you be seeking revenge?

Should Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert, be tried for war crimes if or when this conflict comes to an end?

What will the price of oil be in 4 weeks time?

Proportionate response?

RAMALLAH The Israeli police released an Israeli settler on Sunday only two hours after detaining him on charges of killing a 15-year-old Palestinian child two months ago.

The police announced that the settler, residing in Yitzhar settlement built on Palestinian land in Nablus district, claimed that he fired at the boy Aysar Al-Zaban after stones were thrown at his car.

The statement said that the settler, 37, said that his car was stoned near Birzeit town in Ramallah district, so he stopped the car and fired at the boy leading to his instant death.

Palestinian sources said that the man chased a group of boys and fired at them at the pretext of throwing stones at his car, killing the child on the spot.

Jewish Rambo

Oh my god

That is off topic. It is in Mogadishu and has to do with al-Qaeda and the Mujahideen and NOT Gaza.

Ya wohl, mein fuhrer !

You're completely off your trolley

17/07/2010 - 02:20 PM
ANKARA
Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Turkish IHH humanitarian relief foundation, has asserted that his organization prepares for more sea and land convoys to break the unjust siege on Gaza Strip, revealing "many surprises" to come in the coming three months.

Meanwhile, the city of Istanbul witnessed meetings for international lawyers from more than 25 countries planning to file lawsuits against the Israeli officials involved in the massacre aboard the Mavi Marmara ship that was carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza Strip in May.

Thought they'd taken you in for psychiatric care.

18/07/2010 - 09:23 AM
BERLIN
A group of Jewish activists in Germany will send an aid ship to the besieged Gaza Strip at the end of July to break the blockade and to express their rejection of Israel's inhuman acts against the Palestinians.

The ship will sail from the Lebanese shores carrying Jews from European countries and the US in addition to German lawmakers and Palestinian activists. Holocaust survivors are reported to be among the participants.

Kate Katzenstein-Leiterer, a member of the executive committee of the European Jews for a Just peace, said the ship will be carrying school supplies, musical instruments, children's clothing and stuff for children that Israel has forbidden as well as fishing boat motors and fishing nets.

Katzenstein-Leiterer pointed out that the aim of this trip is to draw the attention of German politicians to the tragedy created by the Israeli occupation in Gaza and to convey the world Jewry's rejection of Israel's crimes and inhuman policy against the Palestinians.

She added that the ship is also aimed to tell the Palestinians in Gaza that there are Jews who want to bring them something other than bombs and destruction.

The Jewish activist also criticized the deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla aid convoy, describing it as an extension of the crimes Israel has been committing since its inception.

"How could it be possible to talk about easing the siege while there are widespread unemployment, closed factories, 140,000 unemployed workers, high rates of poverty and water pollution, and untreated sewage flowing into the sea,"

crimes, massacre et al are all typical of inflammatory rhetoric, whereas the other side are always heroic, peace-loving, cuddly-bears ... some things never change, including the gullibility of some to believe the rubbish

Boy killed in hit-and-run on Israeli only road, Nablus

http://palsolidarity.org/2008/04/3053/

At approximately 5pm on Monday 7th April, a Palestinian shepherd boy was killed in a hit-and-run incident by an Israeli settler bus near the city of Nablus. The 15 year old boy, Sharif Badjas Ishtayeh, from the nearby village of Salim, was struck by the bus on road 557 an Israeli-only road that connects Huwarra checkpoint with the illegal Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh. Seven of his sheep and one donkey were also killed, as the shepherd attempted to lead them across the road.
Witnesses report that the driver, heading towards the settlement Elon Moreh, hit the boy deliberately, and sped off afterwards, leaving him to die. Indeed, from the location of the bodies, it is evident that the boy and his flock were visible from at least 150 metres away, giving the driver plenty of time to avoid a collision. There is no indication from the evidence on the scene that the driver attempted to slow down at any time before or after the attack.
The identity of the Israeli driver is as yet unknown, as neither driver nor vehicle have been located since the incident.

Distraught Palestinian residents of Salim gathered at the road-side afterwards, by the slain bodies of the sheep. Clashes erupted between locals and Israeli soldiers, resulting in soldiers firing tear gas into the crowd.

The funeral for the boy was held during the night of 7th April, with most of the village turning out to mourn their latest victim of the Israeli occupation.

Israel dumps waste on Palestinians

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201071731516628999.html

Israeli settlements have been dumping untreated waste directly into a sewage canal that runs through the occupied West Bank, affecting Palestinian villages along its banks.

The hazard posed is compounded by the dumping of toxic chemical waste on agricultural land, with villagers reporting a rash of skin diseases and respiratory problems.

The Israeli government has banned plans by the Palestinian Authority to build pipes and pumps to treat and divert wastewater away from the affected villages.

Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports.

ah now there's an top-rate, unbiased, independent thinking news source!

Flourishing Palestinian sex trade exposed in new report
Group says young Palestinian women are being forced to into prostitution in Ramallah and Jerusalem.
By Amira Hass
Tags: Israel news



Young Palestinian women are being forced to into prostitution in brothels, escort services, and private apartments in Ramallah and Jerusalem, including areas inhabited by Jews, according to a report released Wednesday. The Palestinian organization SAWA (All Women Together Today and Tomorrow) published the paper, the first of its kind, urging Palestinian society to break its silence over its sex industry.

The report was compiled with support by UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, which allotted resources for research on the subject. SAWA conducted research and interviews for the study in the beginning of 2008, but for a variety of reasons has only now been published. The report, which is titled "Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Palestinian Women and Girls: Forms of Modern Day Slavery," was released in conjunction with the ?Global 16-day Campaign to Combat Violence Against Women."


The report claims that women are trafficked from different areas of the West Bank, in particular urban areas, as well as from the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Women from Eastern Europe who are sold into the sex trade in Israel are also occasionally brought to the West Bank, where they work in designated apartments. There are a number of legally registered hotels and cleaning companies that offer "double services," which include sexual services for men.

Researchers only spoke with a small number of people for the study, among them several women, cab drivers, lawyers, hotel owners, and Palestinian police investigators, and came away with the impression that trafficking in the Palestinian territories is not run by a sophisticated network. Researchers also spoke with Palestinian women pimps in their 40s and 50s, who themselves are former prostitutes. One of these pimps had a Jerusalem identity card and owned four apartments. She allowed the women working for her to go out freely, but used intimidation to ensure that they would return. She also supplied them with customers from cities inside Israel.

The report notes that like in other places around the world, women are forced into prostitution due to economic hardship, the Palestinian cases brought to their attention mainly stemmed from incidents of sexual violence, and occasionally forced marriage at a young age. Some of the women mentioned in the report are students at institutions of higher education in the West Bank, and some are high school students. In a number of cases that came to the authors' attention via the press, fathers sold their daughters through "back door" marriages, in which an announcement of marriage is made without the involvement of a religious official. When one girl is seen to be married repeatedly in the same way, it is clear that it is a cover for sex trafficking.

Al Jazeera comments
it's all controlled by Israeli pimps who persuade the gullible parents of these innocent girls that the streets of Jerusalem and Rammallah are paved with gold

Bit like telling poles Bradford is

19/07/2010 - 08:43 AM
A Zionist settler ran over a Palestinian child in Al-Khalil city on Sunday evening then sped away in his motorbike causing serious injuries to the 12-year-old child.

Eyewitnesses said that Abdullah Al-Muhtaseb was thought to be killed at first, but later on he was found suffering serious injuries.

They said that the accident occurred near the Ibrahimi Mosque.

Settlers frequently hit Palestinian citizens on the bypass roads in the West Bank due to reckless driving and absolute disregard for safety of Palestinian pedestrians.

as confirmed by Jeruslem Times who continue, that this sort of thing is not only premeditated murder but has reached massacre proportions

ISTANBUL
Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Turkish charitable society IHH, has said that the Israeli army's allegation that it was defending itself during its "terrorist" attack on the Freedom Flotilla was nothing but a big lie.

He said on Monday that the Israeli attack on the flotilla was meant as a revenge step against Turkish premier Recep Erdogan for his anti Israeli occupation policies.

Yildirim revealed that the IHH was planning to take legal action against Israel, adding that he met with lawyers from 23 countries and consulted with them over the issue.

He noted that the volunteers, who were aboard the flotilla, from 36 countries also plan to file lawsuits against Israel.

am i not right (or left?) in thinking that IHH is heavily infiltrated by a (pro-hamas) militant faction?
if so, its credibility as a charity is seriously jeopardised