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RABBI BLASTS ANTISEMITIC NYU ADMINISTRATION
written by Avi Abelow October 19, 2023
From Rabbi Eliach to NYU admissions in response to their email.
Their letter said:
“Dear Yotav,
This month, we’re exploring how Early Decision works ahead of the NYU’s November 1 EDI deadline, offering advice on what applicants should ask their college admissions reps, and more!”
Rabbi Eliach’s response:
“You sent me an email inviting my Orthodox Zionist Jewish students to apply early decision to NYU. Really?
Let me get to the point. You have too many faculty members and students who support Islamo – Nazi Hamas and Islamic Jihad Terror organizations. The slogans: Free Palestine, and From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free all means one thing: GENOCIDE. Real Genocide of my People. Not imagined Genocide like the one that the protesters say happened or is happening to the Arabs of Gaza or the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. Since 1967 their populations have quadrupled.
What happened in the Israeli towns across the border from HAMAS controlled Gaza on October 7 2023, was a Pogrom, a mini Holocaust. 1300 of my people were butchered, raped, beheaded, burnt alive, tortured because they were Jews. To me and Millions of Jews like me in Israel and the rest of the world, the rules of the game have changed.
The Lunatic Left and the Islamo – Nazis at NYU and other “institutions of higher learning”, think its “progressive” “revolutionary” to support the genocide of the Jewish Nation, especially in our homeland.
The fact that some of these students or teachers may have been born Jewish is no different than the Jews who collaborated with the Nazis. Their “Jewishness” is irrelevant to me and millions of my fellow Jews.
This game is over, it’s done. It’s not 1943 – 1944 our enemies will not throw us into ovens or slaughter us. We had no state or Army then. We do now. With God’s help the IDF and the rest of Israel’s Security forces, will send a very clear and loud message to all the Jew Haters: The rules of the game have changed. It’s 2023, and there will be a heavy price to pay for what the Islamo Nazis did on October 7th.
Your professors and students can chant that you want to throw us into ovens or the sea. I know: Free Speech. I guess all your “progressive” ideas of “Hate Speech” and “Microaggressions” dont apply to Jews. Not surprised. But we are not worried or scared. We are just enlightened. Our eyes are open. You really expect us to send our sons and daughters to your school? So they can go back in time, say 1943 Germany. So they can be threatened and told that they should be burned, gassed, shot, raped, tortured? Really? And we should pay for the privilege of exposing our children to what you believe is “Education”. Think again. NYU and other schools like you deserve your Lunatic Left and Islamo Nazi professors and students. Enjoy each other’s company. You will probably be pleased when NYU will eventually be Judenrein – German for Jew Free. I think we will make it happen. Oh yes, our money will leave with us as well. But, I bet you will find many wealthy Leftists and Islamo Nazis to contribute to your endowments.
Sincerely
Yotav Eliach – yes the name is Hebrew and Israeli. Does that constitute a microaggression?”
Palestinians look at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
DENVER,Colo.-Citizens climb the steps to the capitol building to protest Israel's military operation against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on August 9, 2014. Israel dropped more than 20,000 pounds of explosives on Gaza over a period of seven weeks. 2,200 people died during the conflict, the majority of which were civilians in Gaza. More than half a million Palestinians are said to be displaced as a result of the conflict.
Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
Palestinians look at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
Palestinians look at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
Palestinians look at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
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REVEALED: THE ISRAELI SPIES WRITING AMERICA’S NEWS
by Alan Macleod
MPN.news, October 16, 2024
"One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak." So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military "successes," its author Barak Ravid (b. 1980) notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (1962-2024) and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (1960-2024), and the pager attack against Lebanon.
The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are "not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach 'de-escalation through escalation.'" Users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning. But what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy – or at least he was until recently. Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200, and as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the Israeli Defense Forces group.
Unit 8200 is Israel's largest and perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage and terror operations, including the recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top U.S. media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country's actions.
White House Insider
Barak Ravid (b. 1980) has quickly become one of the most influential individuals in the Capitol Hill press corps. In April, he won the prestigious White House Press Correspondents' Award [The Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence] "for overall excellence in White House coverage"—one of the highest awards in American journalism. Judges were impressed by what they described as his "deep, almost intimate levels of sourcing in the U.S. and abroad" and picked out six articles as exemplary pieces of journalism.
Most of these stories consisted of simply printing anonymous White House or Israeli government sources, making them look good, and distancing President Biden from the horrors of the Israeli attack on Palestine. As such, there was functionally no difference between these and White House press releases. For example, one story the judges picked out was titled "Scoop: Biden tells Bibi 3-day fighting pause could help secure release of some hostages," and presented the 46th President of the United States as a dedicated humanitarian hellbent on reducing suffering. Another described how "frustrated" Biden was becoming with Netanyahu and the Israeli government.
Protestors had called on reporters to snub the event in solidarity with their fallen counterparts in Gaza (which, at the time of writing, comes to at least 128 journalists). Not only was there no boycott of the event, but organizers gave their highest award to an Israeli intelligence official-turned-reporter who has earned a reputation as perhaps the most dutiful stenographer of power in Washington.
Ravid was personally presented with the award by President Biden, who embraced him like a brother. That a known (former) Israeli spy could hug Biden in such a manner speaks volumes about not only the intimate relationship between the United States and Israel but about the extent to which establishment media holds power to account.
It was a moving and special night that I never imagined even in my wildest dreams. It wouldn't have been possible without my editors at @axios who made my stories better, my sources who trusted me, my family that came with me to Washington, and you, the readers. Thank you
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) April 28, 2024
Ravid has made a name for himself by uncritically printing flattering information given to him by either the U.S. or Israeli government and passing it off as a scoop. In April, he wrote that "President Biden laid out an ultimatum to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in their call on Thursday: If Israel doesn't change course in Gaza, 'we won't be able to support you,'" and that he was "making his strongest push for an end to the fighting in Gaza in six months of war, and warning for the first time that U.S. policy on the war will depend on Israel's adherence to his demands," which included "an immediate ceasefire." In July, he repeated anonymous sources that told him that Netanyahu and Israel are striving for "a diplomatic solution" – another highly dubious claim.
Other articles by Ravid following the same pattern include:
- Scoop: Biden tells Bibi he's not in it for a year of war in Gaza
- Scoop: White House cancels meeting, scolds Netanyahu in protest over video
- Biden "running out" of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days
- Biden-Bibi clash escalates as U.S. accused of undermining Israeli government
- Biden and Bibi "red lines" for Rafah put them on a collision course
- Biden on hot mic: Told Bibi we needed "come to Jesus" meeting on Gaza
- Scoop: White House loses trust in Israeli government as Middle East spirals
- Israeli minister lambasted at White House about Gaza and war strategy
- Scoop: Biden told Bibi U.S. won't support an Israeli counterattack on Iran
This relentless whitewashing of the Biden administration has drawn widespread mockery online.
"AXIOS EXCLUSIVE: After selling Netanyahu millions of dollars worth of weapons, Biden played —loudly — Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood.' 'Everyone could hear it,' a source close to Biden says," tweeted X user David Grossman. "Continuing to hand over big piles of cash and weapons, but shaking my head so everyone knows i sort of disagree with it," quipped comedian Hussein Kesvani, in response to Ravid's latest article suggesting that Biden has become "increasingly distrustful" of the Israeli government.
Throughout this supposed split between the U.S. and Israel, the Biden administration has continued to voice enthusiastic support for Israeli offensives, block ceasefire resolutions and Palestinian statehood at the U.N., and has sent $18 billion worth of weapons to Israel in the past 12 months. Thus, no matter how questionable these Axios reports are, they serve a vital role for Washington, allowing the Biden administration to distance itself from what international bodies have labeled a genocide. Ravid's function has been to manufacture consent for the government among elite liberal audiences who read Axios, allowing them to continue to believe that the U.S. is an honest broker for peace in West Asia rather than a key enabler of Israel.
Ravid does not hide his open disdain for Palestinians. In September, he retweeted a post that stated:
”That’s the PaliNazi way…they pocket concessions without giving anything in return and then use those concessions as the baseline for the next round of negotiations. PaliNazis don’t know how to tell the truth.”
Less than one week later, he promoted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's highly dubious claim that Israeli Defense Forces had found a picture of the children al-Qassam Brigades leader Mohammed Sinwar celebrating in front of a huge picture of planes hitting the World Trade Center. Gallant stated that they had found this picture – clearly trying to falsely associate Palestinians with 9/11 – in a tunnel "where the Sinwar brothers were hiding like rats."
this is amazing. Barak Ravid, who is considered by the Western media class to be the greatest most objective neutral "journalist" on the ongoing Gaza genocide even though he served in Israeli military intelligence and constantly launders Israeli propaganda, is now openly…
— ☀️ (@zei_squirrel) September 6, 2024
An Infamous Spy Agency
Founded in 1952, Unit 8200 is the Israeli military's largest and most controversial division.
Responsible for covert operations, spying, surveillance and cyberwarfare, since October 7, 2023, the group has been at the forefront of the world's attention. It is widely identified as the organization behind the infamous pager attack on Lebanon, which left at least nine dead and around 3,000 people injured. While many in Israel (and Ravid himself) hailed the operation as a success, it was condemned worldwide as an egregious act of terrorism, including by ex-CIA director Leon Panetta (b. 1938).
Unit 8200 has also constructed an artificial intelligence-powered kill list for Gaza, suggesting tens of thousands of individuals (including women and children) for assassination. This software was the primary targeting mechanism the IDF used in the early months of its attack on the densely populated strip.
- Peter Thiel: From Gaza AI War Criminal To White House Puppet Master
Described as Israel's Harvard, Unit 8200 is one of the most prestigious institutions in the country. The selection process is highly competitive; parents spend fortunes on science and math classes for their children, hoping they will be picked for service there, unlocking a lucrative career in Israel's burgeoning hi-tech sector.
It also serves as the centerpiece of Israel's futuristic repressive state apparatus. Using gigantic amounts of data compiled on Palestinians by tracking their every move through face recognition cameras monitoring their calls, messages, emails and personal data, Unit 8200 has created a dystopian dragnet that it uses to surveil, harass and suppress Palestinians.
Unit 8200 compiles dossiers on every Palestinian, including their medical history, sex lives and search histories, so that this information can be used for extortion or blackmail later. If, for example, an individual is cheating on their spouse, desperately needs a medical operation, or is secretly homosexual, this can be used as leverage to turn civilians into informants and spies for Israel. One former Unit 8200 operative Flickr: Explore! that as part of his training, he was assigned to memorize different Arabic words for "gay" so that he could listen out for them in conversations.
Unit 8200 operatives have gone on to create some of the world's most downloaded apps and many of the most infamous spying programs, including Pegasus. Pegasus was used to surveil dozens of political leaders around the world, including France's Emmanuel Macron, South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa, and Pakistan's Imran Khan.
The Israeli government authorized the sale of Pegasus to the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as some of the most authoritarian governments on the planet. This included Saudi Arabia, who used the software to surveil Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018) before he was assassinated by Saudi agents in Türkiye.
A recent MintPress News investigation found that a large proportion of the worldwide VPN market is owned and operated by an Israeli company headed and co-founded by a Unit 8200 alumnus.
- Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN
In 2014, 43 Unit 8200 reservists penned a joint statement declaring that they were no longer willing to serve in the unit on account of its unethical practices, which included making no distinction between ordinary Palestinian citizens and terrorists. The letter also noted that their intelligence was passed on to powerful local politicians, who used it as they saw fit.
This public statement left Ravid bristling with anger at his co-workers. In the wake of the scandal, Ravid went on Israeli Army radio to attack the whistleblowers. Ravid said that to oppose the occupation of Palestine was to oppose Israel itself, as the occupation is a fundamental "part" of Israel. "If the problem is really the occupation," he said, "then your taxes are also a problem — they fund the soldier at the checkpoint, the education system… and 8200 is a great spin."
Leaving aside Ravid's comments, the question arises: is it really acceptable that members from a group designed to infiltrate, surveil and target foreign populations, that has produced many of the planet's most dangerous and invasive spying technology, and is widely to be behind sophisticated international terror attacks, are writing Americans' news about Israel and Palestine? What would the reaction be if senior figures in U.S. media were outed as intelligence officers for Hezbollah, Hamas, or Russia's F.S.B.?
News About Israel, Brought to You by Israel
Ravid is far from the only influential journalist in America with deep ties to the Israeli state, however. Shachar Peled spent three years as an officer in Unit 8200, leading a team of analysts in surveillance, intelligence and cyberwarfare. She also served as a technology analyst for the Israeli intelligence service, Shin Bet. In 2017, she was hired as a producer and writer by CNN and spent three years putting together segments for Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour's shows. Google later hired her to become their Senior Media Specialist.
Another Unit 8200 agent who went on to work for CNN is Tal Heinrich. Heinrich spent three years as a Unit 8200 agent. Between 2014 and 2017, she was the field and news desk producer for CNN's notoriously pro-Israel Jerusalem Bureau, where she was one of the principal journalists shaping America's understanding of Operation Protective Edge, Israel's bombardment of Gaza that killed more than 2,000 people and left hundreds of thousands displaced. Heinrich later left CNN and is now the official spokesperson of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
CNN's penchant for hiring Israeli state figures continues to this day. Tamar Michaelis, for example, currently works for the network, producing much of its Israel/Palestine content. This is despite having previously Flickr: Explore! as an official IDF spokesperson in the Israeli Defense Forces.
The New York Times, meanwhile, hired Flickr: Explore!, which claimed that Hamas fighters systematically sexually violated Israelis on October 7. Times staff themselves revolted over the lack of evidence and fact-checking in the piece.
Multiple New York Times employees, including star columnist David Brooks (b. 1961), have had children serving in the IDF; even as they report or offer opinions on the region, the Times never disclosed these glaring conflicts of interest to its readers. Nor has it disclosed that it purchased a Jerusalem house for its bureau chief that was stolen from the family of Palestinian intellectual Ghada Karmi (b. 1939) in 1948.
MintPress News interviewed Karmi last year about her latest book and Israeli attempts to silence her. Former New York Times Magazine writer and current editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg (b. 1965) (an American) dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania to volunteer as an IDF prison guard during the first Palestinian Intifada (uprising). In his memoirs, Goldberg revealed that, while serving in the IDF, he helped cover up the abuse of Palestinian prisoners.
Social media companies, too, are filled with former Unit 8200 agents. A 2022 MintPress study found no fewer than 99 former Unit 8200 operatives working for Google.
- Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Facebook also employs dozens of ex-spooks from the controversial unit. This includes Emi Palmor (b. 1966), who sits on Meta's oversight board. This 21-person panel ultimately decides the direction of Facebook, Instagram and Meta's other offerings, adjudicating on what content to allow, promote, and what to suppress. Meta has been formally condemned for its systematic suppression of Palestinian voices across its platforms by Human Rights Watch, which documented over 1,000 instances of overt anti-Palestinian censorship in October and November 2023 alone. A measure of this bias is highlighted by the fact that, at one point, Instagram automatically inserted the word "terrorist" into the profiles of users who called themselves Palestinian.
Despite the widespread claims by U.S. politicians that it is a hotbed of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic racism, TikTok also employs many former Unit 8200 agents in key positions in its organization. For example, in 2021, it hired Asaf Hochman as its global head of product strategy and operations. Before joining TikTok, Hochman spent over five years as an Israeli spook. He now works for Meta.
Top Down Pro-Israel Censorship
When it comes to the Israeli attack on its neighbors, corporate media has consistently displayed a pro-Israel bias. The New York Times, for example, regularly Flickr: Explore! of the paper's coverage found that words like "slaughter," "massacre," and "horrific" appear 22 times more frequently when discussing Israeli deaths than Palestinian ones, despite the gigantic disparity in the number of people killed on both sides.
Meanwhile, in a story about how Israeli soldiers shot 335 bullets at a car containing a Palestinian child and then shot the rescue workers who came to save her, CNN printed the headline "Five-year-old Palestinian girl found dead after being trapped in car with dead relatives" – a title that could be interpreted that her death was a tragic accident.
This sort of reporting does not happen by accident. In fact, it comes straight from the top. A leaked New York Times Flickr: Explore! from November revealed that company management explicitly instructed its reporters not to use words such as "genocide," "slaughter," and "ethnic cleansing" when discussing Israel's actions. Times' staff must refrain from using words like "refugee camp," "occupied territory," or even "Palestine" in their reporting, making it almost impossible to convey some of the most basic facts to their audience.
CNN staff are under similar pressure. Last October, new C.E.O. Mark Thompson (b. 1957) sent out a memo to all staff instructing them to make sure that Hamas (and not Israel) is presented as responsible for the violence, that they must always use the moniker "Hamas-controlled" when discussing the Gaza Health Ministry and their civilian death figures, and barring them from any reporting of Hamas' viewpoint, which its senior director of news standards and practices told staff was "not newsworthy" and amounted to "inflammatory rhetoric and propaganda."
Both the Times and CNN have fired multiple journalists over their opposition to Israeli actions or support for Palestinian liberation. In November, the Times' Jazmine Hughes (b. 1991) was forced out after she signed an open letter opposing genocide in Palestine. The newspaper terminated Hosam Salem's contract the previous year after a pressure campaign from pro-Israel group Honest Reporting. And CNN anchor Marc Lamont Hill (b. 1978) was abruptly fired in 2018 for calling for Palestinian liberation in a speech at the United Nations.
Large organizations like Axios, CNN and the New York Times obviously know who they are hiring. These are some of the most sought-after jobs in journalism, and hundreds of applicants are likely applying for each position. The fact that these organizations choose to select Israeli spies above everybody else raises serious questions about their journalistic credibility and their purpose.
Hiring agents from Unit 8200 to produce American news should be as unthinkable as employing Hamas or Hezbollah fighters as reporters. Yet former Israeli spooks are entrusted with informing the American public about their country's ongoing offensives against Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Syria. What does this say about the credibility and biases of our media?
Since Israel could not continue to prosecute this war without American aid, the battle for the American mind is as important as actions on the ground. And as the propaganda war wages, the lines between journalist and fighter blur. The fact that many of the top journalists supplying us with news about Israel/Palestine are literally former Israeli intelligence agents only underlines this.
Feature photo | Illustration by MintPress News
Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and Common Dreams.
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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - DECEMBER 27: Palestinians inspect the presidential building; the office of president Mahomoud Abbas (which is now under Hamas control), after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike on December 27, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza. Israel's air force fired about 30 missiles at targets along the Gaza Strip on Saturday, destroying several Hamas police compounds, killing more than 155 people and wounding hundreds. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
This picture shows the destroyed rooftop of the media complex that houses the offices of Hamas-run Al Aqsa television and radio after it was targeted in an Israeli strike in central Gaza City early on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israeli aircraft, tanks and navy gunboats pounded symbols of Hamas control in Gaza City in the heaviest night of bombardment in three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Israel and Hamas complete 2nd day of swaps after tense delay, as Gaza cease-fire holds
BY JALAL BWAITEL, NAJIB JOBAIN, JOSEF FEDERMAN, SAMY MAGDY AND BASSEM MROUE ASSOCIATED PRESS - 11/25/23 10:24 PM ET
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A Red Cross vehicle carrying Israeli hostages drives by at the Gaza Strip crossing into Egypt in Rafah on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
AL BIREH, West Bank (AP) — Hamas militants on Saturday released 17 hostages, including 13 Israelis, from captivity in the Gaza Strip, while Israel freed 39 Palestinian prisoners in the latest stage of a four-day cease-fire.
The late-night exchange was held up for several hours after Hamas accused Israel of violating the agreement. The delay underscored the fragility of the cease-fire, which has halted a war that has shocked and shaken Israel, caused widespread destruction across the Gaza Strip, and threatened to unleash wider fighting across the region.
The war erupted on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants in Gaza burst across the border into southern Israel, killing at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting some 240 others, including, women, children and older people. Israel immediately declared war, carrying out weeks of airstrikes and a ground offensive that have left over 13,300 Palestinians dead, according to health authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory. Roughly two-thirds of those killed in Gaza have been women and minors.
The cease-fire, brokered by Qatar and the United States, is the first extended break in fighting since the war began. Overall, Hamas is to release at least 50 Israeli hostages, and Israel 150 Palestinian prisoners. All are women and minors.
Israel has said the truce can be extended by an extra day for every additional 10 hostages freed, but has vowed to quickly resume its offensive and complete its goals of returning all hostages and destroying Hamas’ military and governing capabilities.
The plight of the hostages has gripped the Israeli public’s attention. Thousands of people gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday in solidarity with the hostages and their families. Many accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not doing enough to bring the hostages home. The releases have triggered mixed emotions: happiness, coupled with angst over the scores of hostages who remain in captivity.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early Sunday that it had received a new list of hostages slated to be released later in the day in the third of four scheduled swaps.
In the West Bank, hundreds of people burst into wild celebrations for a second night as a busload of Palestinian prisoners arrived early Sunday. Teenage boys released in the deal were carried on the shoulders of well-wishers in the main square of the town of Al Bireh. But the mood of celebration was dampened by scenes of destruction and suffering in Gaza.
The start of the pause brought quiet for 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, who are reeling from relentless Israeli bombardment that has killed thousands, driven three-quarters of the population from their homes and leveled residential areas. Rocket fire from Gaza militants into Israel also went silent.
War-weary Palestinians in northern Gaza, where the offensive has been focused, returned to the streets, crunching over rubble between shattered buildings and at times digging through it with bare hands.
At the Indonesian hospital in Jabaliya, besieged by the Israeli military earlier this month, bodies lay in the courtyard and outside the main gate.
For Emad Abu Hajer, a resident of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza City area, the pause meant he could again search through the remains of his home, which was flattened in an Israeli attack last week.
He found the bodies of a cousin and nephew, bringing the death toll in the attack to 19. His sister and two other relatives are still missing.
“We want to find them and bury them in dignity,” he said.
The United Nations said the pause enabled it to scale up the delivery of food, water, and medicine to the largest volume since the resumption of aid convoys on Oct. 21. It was also able to deliver 129,000 liters (about 35,000 gallons) of fuel — just over 10% of the daily pre-war volume — as well as cooking gas, a first since the war began.
In the southern city of Khan Younis, a long line of people with containers waited outside a filling station. Hossam Fayad lamented that the pause in fighting was only for four days.
“I wish it could be extended until people’s conditions improved,” he said.
For the first time in over a month, aid reached northern Gaza. The Palestinian Red Crescent said 61 trucks carrying food, water and medical supplies headed there on Saturday, the largest aid convoy to reach the area yet. The U.N. said it and the Palestinian Red Crescent were also able to evacuate 40 patients and family members from a hospital in Gaza City to a hospital in Khan Younis.JOY AND EXPECTATION
The last-minute delay created a tense standoff on the second day of what’s meant to be a four-day cease-fire. By nightfall, when hostages had been expected to emerge from Gaza, Hamas alleged that aid deliveries permitted by Israel fell short of what was promised and that not enough was reaching hard-hit northern Gaza. Hamas also said not enough longtime prisoners were freed in the first swap on Friday.
But Egypt, Qatar and Hamas itself later said the obstacles had been overcome.
Shortly before midnight, Hamas released the hostages — 13 Israelis and four Thais. The Israelis were turned over to Egypt and then transferred to Israel, where they were taken to hospitals to be reunited with their families.
Hamas released a video showing the hostages appearing shaken but mostly in good physical condition as masked militants led them to Red Cross vehicles headed out of Gaza. Some of the hostages waved goodbye to the militants. One girl was on crutches and wore a cast on her left foot as she was escorted away.
The Israeli hostages included seven children and six women, Netanyahu’s office announced. Most were from Kibbutz Be’eri, a community Hamas militants ravaged during their Oct. 7 cross-border attack. The children ranged in age from 3 to 16, and the women ranged from 18 to 67.
It was a bittersweet moment for the residents of Be’eri, who have been living in a Dead Sea hotel since their community was overrun. A kibbutz spokesperson said all the released hostages either had a family member killed in the Oct. 7 rampage or had left a loved one in captivity in Gaza.
The mother of one of the released hostages, 12-year-old Hila Rotem, remained in captivity, the spokesperson said. Another, Emily Hand, is a girl whose father believed her to be dead for weeks before finding out she was held as a hostage.
At their hotel, kibbutz residents gathered in a function room, cheering in excitement as they saw the first images of their loved ones being released on television.A HERO’S WELCOME
Some of the Palestinian prisoners were released in east Jerusalem, while the bulk returned home to a hero’s welcome in the occupied West Bank.
Among those released was Nurhan Awad, who was 17 in 2016 when she was sentenced to 13 1/2 years in jail for attempting to stab an Israeli soldier with a pair of scissors.
In Jerusalem, Israeli troops evicted journalists who gathered outside the home of Israa Jaabis, who had been imprisoned since 2015 after being convicted of carrying out a bombing attack that wounded an Israeli police officer, and left Jaabis with severe burns on her face and hands.
Jaabis later told reporters at her home that she is “ashamed to be happy at a time when Palestine is injured.”
In Al Bireh, the teenage boys were paraded through the main square where they waved Palestinian flags as well as green banners of Hamas and yellow banners of the Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas. “May God make them strong. May God be with the Qassam Brigades,” said one of the boys, referring to Hamas’ military wing.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, an advocacy group, Israel is holding 7,200 Palestinians, including about 2,000 arrested since the start of the war.
The war in Gaza has been accompanied by a surge in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Late Saturday, Palestinian health authorities said four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, hours after another raid in the same area killed the local governor’s 25-year-old son.
A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was also killed by Israeli fire near the city of Ramallah. The Israeli army, which frequently conducts military raids aimed at local militant groups, did not immediately comment.
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Magdy reported from Cairo and Mroue from Beirut. Federman and Associated Press writers Isabel DeBre and Julia Frankel reported from Jerusalem.
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This picture shows the destroyed rooftop of the media complex that houses the offices of Hamas-run Al Aqsa television and radio after it was targeted in an Israeli strike in central Gaza City early on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israeli aircraft, tanks and navy gunboats pounded symbols of Hamas control in Gaza City in the heaviest night of bombardment in three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. Photo by Ashraf Amra
This picture shows the destroyed rooftop of the media complex that houses the offices of Hamas-run Al Aqsa television and radio after it was targeted in an Israeli strike in central Gaza City early on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israeli aircraft, tanks and navy gunboats pounded symbols of Hamas control in Gaza City in the heaviest night of bombardment in three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. Photo by Ashraf Amra
these dead American soldiers messed with hamas strenth by patrolling a hamas controlled street. hamas threw their corpses out and now they rot and are food for palestinian vultures
This picture shows the destroyed rooftop of the media complex that houses the offices of Hamas-run Al Aqsa television and radio after it was targeted in an Israeli strike in central Gaza City early on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israeli aircraft, tanks and navy gunboats pounded symbols of Hamas control in Gaza City in the heaviest night of bombardment in three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. Photo by Ashraf Amra
At an army base outside Tel Aviv, soldiers sit in front of screens glued to scrolling colored computer code, keyboards ready to deflect attacks.
They’re Israel’s cyber defense team in training. They are the uniformed men and women learning how to stalk hackers and pounce on virtual enemies as the state shields everything from ministry websites to the systems running the Tel Aviv stock market.
“To become one of the leading countries in cyber security, we have to act quickly to ensure that everyone will understand Israel is on its way to becoming a leading cyber-nation,” said Rami Efrati, head of the civilian division of the National Cyber Bureau, in an interview at the year-old agency this month. “Cyber security can be a national growth engine.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been channeling resources to fight the intensifying subterranean war being waged through fiber optic cables between Israel and its enemies.
Two months ago, civilian computer technicians sat in front of a bank of screens in a Jerusalem government building deflecting millions of attempted attacks on Israeli government websites as the country’s air force struck the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and rockets hit Israel’s towns and cities.
The National Cyber Bureau gave 50 million shekels to education projects and 80 million shekels to start-up companies working in computer security.
Last month Prime Minister Netanyahu, at the inauguration of a civilian high school program run by the bureau, congratulated the chosen students as the country’s “future interceptors.” There are now 150 students in training and that number will multiply this year. They are taught by university students who have already served in the army intelligence corps.
The concept in Israel is that war still means dodging through a battlefield, but there is this new dimension developing at full speed. Another student noted that in the virtual war, the assailant has the element of surprise, which means “you have to think like he does, out-of-the box.”
The nation of Israel is under constant attack by those who would destroy her. The enemy does not seem to realize that Israel is a protected people. Let us continue to pray for the peace and protection of Jerusalem (Psalm122:6). Advanced technology and innovations are nothing new to Israel. They have been blessed with the ability to think and survive.
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This picture shows the destroyed rooftop of the media complex that houses the offices of Hamas-run Al Aqsa television and radio after it was targeted in an Israeli strike in central Gaza City early on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israeli aircraft, tanks and navy gunboats pounded symbols of Hamas control in Gaza City in the heaviest night of bombardment in three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Smoke rises from a building that was hit with an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israel struck symbols of Hamas' control of Gaza and the strip's only power plant on Tuesday, escalating its military campaign against the Islamic militant group with the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Following the attacks on Rafah, Egyptian army declared that it's moving in to destroy tunnels between Egypt and Gaza. On a visit to Rafah, however, it is obvious that little has been achieved in that aspect. Thousands of tunnels continue to operate, sending goods and people to circumvent border restrictions imposed against the Hamas-controlled territory by Israel and Egypt.
Smoke rises from a building that was hit with an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israel struck symbols of Hamas' control of Gaza and the strip's only power plant on Tuesday, escalating its military campaign against the Islamic militant group with the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Smoke rises from a building that was hit with an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israel struck symbols of Hamas' control of Gaza and the strip's only power plant on Tuesday, escalating its military campaign against the Islamic militant group with the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Damaged Hamas prime minister's office is seen following Israeli strikes in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israeli aircraft, tanks and navy gunboats pounded symbols of Hamas control in Gaza City in the heaviest night of bombardment in three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. The strikes early Tuesday hit the home of the top Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, as well as government offices and the headquarters of the Hamas satellite TV station. Photo by Ashraf Amra
A Hamas fighter stands guard in front of a picture of the late President Yasser Arafat, inside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' headquarters in Gaza June 16, 2007. Hundreds of Fatah loyalists fled Hamas-controlled Gaza by land and sea on Saturday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prepared to swear in a new government in the West Bank that will bring an end to a U.S.-led aid embargo. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)
IDF Major General Tal Russo quoted New York Yankee baseball Hall of Famer today in an interview with Israeli reporters. No, he did not say, “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” What he did say, referring to the latest escalation of terrorist attacks in Gaza, was “It’s not over till it’s over.”
He also warned that “It is not in the other side’s best interest to enter into another round of escalation at this stage.” He added that “We are in an interesting time period in which we are ready to face any challenge in this region and in general.”
General Russo was referring to the increase in attacks on Israel, especially multiple rocket attacks, in recent days. At least seven rockets were fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza into Israel Tuesday evening. No injuries were reported.
Last night, the IAF struck back with an attack on a known terrorist site in Gaza. The IAF reported that it had struck its intended target.
When we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, we might consider praying as Asa did in II Chronicles 14:11, “LORD, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you.” We are simply praying for peace for the Chosen People of God so that they may dwell quietly in the land God gave to them or wherever else they may be. Thank you for praying with us for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122:6)
And don’t believe everything that Hamas says about Israel. As Yogi Berra would say, “Half the lies they tell aren’t true.”
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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP- DECEMBER 27: Palestinians inspect the rubble of the presidential building, the office of president Mahmoud Abbas which is now under Hamas control, after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike on December 27, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza. Israel's air force fired about 30 missiles at targets along the Gaza Strip on Saturday, destroying several Hamas police compounds, killing more than 200 people and wounding hundreds. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
GAZA - JANUARY 02: (ISRAEL OUT) Palestinian Qassam rockets are seen as they are launched from Hamas-controlled Gaza on January 02, 2009. Israel continues to reinforce its troops amid talks of an internationally-brokered ceasefire.(Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) Original Filename: GYI0056421723.jpg
Nablus :Palestinians confront Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against Israeli military action in Gaza, near the West Bank town of Nablus, Monday, July 14, 2014. Israel began its campaign against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza last Tuesday, saying it was responding to heavy rocket fire from the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. AP/PTI(AP7_14_2014_000273B)
A Palestinian, detained during an Israeli military operation in Gaza, is blindfolded by an Israeli soldier near Kfar Aza, just outside the northern Gaza Strip, March 2, 2008. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended peace negotiations with Israel on Sunday, demanding it end a Gaza offensive that has killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.Israel said it was acting in self-defence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to curb constant cross-border rocket attacks by militants and threatened to intensify its ground and air campaign despite allegations it was using excessive force. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (ISRAEL)
Senior Hamas leaders Mahmoud al-Zahar (L), Saeed Seyam (C) and Khalil al-Hayya wait at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip before crossing into Egypt October 7, 2008. Hamas leaders will hold talks in Cairo on Wednesday on proposals to end the schism with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group by reshaping the way the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip is governed.
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
This bus stop has been armoured with bullet proof glass and concrete walls but one of the thousands of little metal balls that make up the Qassam rockets fired from Hamas controlled Gaza strip has shattered this window.
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Israeli emergency personnel evacuate an injured man, who later died, from the scene of a rocket attack in the southern city of Ashkelon December 29, 2008. Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip for a third day on Monday and militants launched a fatal rocket attack on Israel in defiance of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians. In Ashkelon, a rocket launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip killed one person, the second such fatality in Israel since Saturday, when it began its strongest assault against Palestinian militants in decades. REUTERS/Yoav Weiss (ISRAEL)
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Israeli medics evacuate an injured man, who later died, from the scene of a rocket attack in the southern city of Ashkelon December 29, 2008. Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip for a third day on Monday and militants launched a fatal rocket attack on Israel in defiance of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians. In Ashkelon, a rocket launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip killed one person, the second such fatality in Israel since Saturday, when it began its strongest assault against Palestinian militants in decades. REUTERS/Yoav Weiss (ISRAEL)
An Israeli tank is seen near the border outside the central Gaza Strip July 2, 2009. An Israeli shell fired into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian teenage girl on Thursday, hospital workers said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said there had been clashes between soldiers and Palestinian militants near a border crossing in the area. Military officials said troops had fired mortars during the fighting. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY)
Israeli soldiers look out from atop a tank near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip November 16, 2008. An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and two rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled territory hit Israel as a five-month-old ceasefire continued to unravel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)
Israeli soldiers look out from atop a tank near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip November 16, 2008. An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and two rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled territory hit Israel as a five-month-old ceasefire continued to unravel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)
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On The Fourth Martyrdom Day Of Yasser Arafat and JNUSU.
Join Saluting The Heroic Struggle Of Palestinian People.
11.11.07.
Public Meeting Palestinian Struggle Today: Hopes And.
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Speaker Achin Vanaik Delhi University.
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Sutlej Mess 11 Nov(Tonight) 9.30pm.
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Palestine After Arafat: The Liberation Struggle Continues In the Face of Colonial Divide and Rule.
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It is now 3 years since the death of legendary Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. In the 2006 elections, support for Fatah gave way to the more.
radical Hamas which won a landslide electoral victory. But this elected government has been under attack from US imperialism and from Israel,.
which have taken the opportunity to split the Palestinian resistance and pit the Hamas government against the Palestinian President Mahmoud.
Abbas. Today, the West Bank is controlled by the Abbas while the Gaza Strip is under Hamas control; and Israel's policy is that of isolating and.
incarcerating the people of the Gaza Strip in the hope of turning the people against the Hamas..
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The Gaza Strip is the largest concentration camp in the world today, with nearly a million and a half helpless Palestinians imprisoned exactly.
as the Nazis imprisoned 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto, surrounding it with a high wall. The Gaza concentration camp is surrounded with.
a wall, as well as electric fences and watch towers manned by Gestapo-like trigger-happy Jewish soldiers who shoot first and ask questions later..
Palestinian children there are reduced to living on bread and tea. Instead of accepting the urgency of this situation, the United Nations Relief and.
Work Agency (UNRWA) seems to be conniving and colluding with Israel to keep the unfolding Gaza tragedy as silent as possible..
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Even so called `liberal' opinion in the West today tries to brand the Hamas as `terrorist' and therefore deny it legitimacy while claiming to support.
the Palestinian cause. But the fact is that support for Palestine today can only mean a firm insistence on the supremacy of the Palestinian.
resistance above anything else - and supporting the resistance in agreement with its democratically chosen leaders, without presuming.
to dictate who those elected leaders should be..
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There are many who harp on the Oslo Agreement as a solution to the Palestinian issue. What they fail to recognize is that the Oslo Agreement.
was a half-way house - that created a Palestinian Authority, a quasi-state, without completing the process of real liberation of Palestine. Usually,.
when a national liberation movement reaches its goal, the change takes place in one move. In Palestine, an entirely different situation was creat-.
ed: a Palestinian authority with state-like trappings was indeed set up, but the occupation did not end. There was therefore a sharp contradiction.
between the need to go on with the struggle and the need to strengthen the Authority as a quasi-state. Arafat succeeded with great difficulty in.
balancing the two contrary needs. With the death of Arafat, the unifying authority disappeared, and all the internal contradictions burst into the open..
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India's ties with the colonial Israel are a blot on its claim of support for the Palestinian cause; and this is an issue on which the entire.
spectrum of ruling forces is silent. In a seminar on "Palestine: 1967 and After" organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) and the.
mission of the League of Arab States (LAS) in New Delhi on June 22, the major speakers like the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for West.
Asia and the Middle East Peace Process, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, the Director General of the ICWA and the newly - appointed ambassador.
to the United Arab Emirates, Talmiz Ahmad, and even CPI(M) MP Sitaram Yechury remained silent on the factor of the Indian - Israeli ties. Ever.
since Narsimha Rao govt formally recognized Israel in 1992, India by now has grown into Israel's second largest trading partner in Asia.
after Hong Kong and Israel is now India's second largest supplier of military equipment after Russia. There are innumerable instances.
of close defence ties of Israel with India. And it is not the BJP-NDA Government alone to blame for this closeness with Israel. Way back in.
September 1950 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru granted Israel de jure recognition. A few months later, Israel opened a trade office in Bombay.
which gradually became a consular mission, and the first Israeli consul took over in June 1953; in early 1952, Nehru expressed his willingness to.
establish diplomatic relations. Another Congress leader, Rajiv Gandhi (1984-89), initiated a few direct and indirect contacts with Israel..
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For us in India, support for Palestine must begin with a robust resistance of the Indian Government's dealings with the colonial.
occupier state Israel - and whole-hearetd support for the resistance struggle of the Palestinian people, as well as oposition to the attacks.
on its elected leadership..
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Rally Against the State-Sponsored Carnage in Nandigram.
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"Nandigram has become a slaughter house with blood being shed every day. CPI(M) might be at the helm of affairs.
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but the state still belongs to the people of Bengal," - filmmaker Aparna Sen's words echo the determined voices of de-.
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mocracy within W Bengal which are out on the streets against the bloody `recapture' attempts by the CPI(M) cadre protected.
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by the police..
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At least two people - a middle-aged villager, Sheikh Rizaul, and a woman Shymali Manna, are the latest to be massacred in.
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Nandigram. While many more who have been butchered remain unidentified as Nandigram remains cut off from the rest of.
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the world as the CPI(M) cadre have a free hand for their reign of terror..
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JNUSU calls upon JNU students to Join Citizen's Protest.
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In a shameful development this afternoon, police brutally at West Bengal Resident Commissioner's O ce,.
lathicharged a large protest gathering at Nandann theatre Near Shivaji Stadium, 12 Nov 1.00pm.
of artists, filmakers, poets and intellectuals which included.
Aparna Sen, Rituporno Ghosh, Sankaha Ghosh and many.
others and at least 70 people have been arrested..
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Sandeep Singh Shephalika Shekhar Pallavi Deka Md Mobeen Alam.
President, JNUSU Vice- President ,JNUSU Gen. Secy.,JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
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Palestinians wait to cross into Egypt from Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip August 30, 2008. Egypt opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, allowing hundreds of people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory, Palestinian officials said. .
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ISRAEL GAZA BORDER - JAN. 2, 2009: Palestinian Qassam rockets are seen as they are launched from Hamas-controlled Gaza on January 02, 2009. Israel continues to reinforce its troops amid talks of an internationally-brokered ceasefire.
Moyal explains his exasperation with the Israeli government's inability to protect Sderot citizens from the constant barrage of Kassam rockets fired from neighboring Hamas controlled territory.
A pall of smoke rises after an explosion from an Israeli missile strike on the Hamas controlled Islamic University in Gaza City, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. Israel's overwhelming air campaign against the Gaza Strip inched closer to the territory's Hamas rulers as the assault entered its third day Monday, as missiles struck a house next to the Hamas premier's home and destroyed symbols of the Islamic movement's power. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Israeli soldiers look out from atop a tank near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip November 16, 2008. An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and two rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled territory hit Israel as a five-month-old ceasefire continued to unravel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)