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27 Jul 2010 09:08

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World: Ouch: David Cameron compares Gaza to “prison camp”

  • The situa­tion in Gaza has to change. Human­i­tar­ian goods and people must flow in both direc­tions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.
  • British Prime Minis­ter David Cameron • Using harsh language to describe the situa­tion in the Palestine-occupied area. He also had not-nice-things to say about the flotilla attack. “I have told prime minis­ter [Benjamin] Netanyahu we will expect the Israeli inquiry to be swift, trans­par­ent and rigor­ous,” he said. “Let me also be clear that the situa­tion in Gaza has to change.” source
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06 Jul 2010 11:19

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World: Israeli soldiers are gonna face charges for their conduct in Gaza

  • How bad the 2008 conflict was is up for debate. Inves­ti­ga­tors for the Israeli govern­ment looked into 150 separate incidents of possi­ble miscon­duct during late 2008’s Opera­tion Cast Lead. Allegations include manslaugh­ter and, in one case, using a Pales­tin­ian man as a “human shield.” How many people died in the incident, and how many of those were civil­ians? Depends on who you ask:
  • 1,400 estimated Palestinian deaths, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights; they say most were non-combatant
  • 1,166 estimated Palestinian deaths, according to the Israeli government, which says 60 percent of those were "terror operatives" source
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05 Jul 2010 20:46

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World: Israel (partly) expands the list of things that can go into Gaza

  • <200 number of things that were allowed on the old list
  • 1,000's number of things that are banned on the new list source
  • » Notable omissions: While food and house­hold clean­ing items made the cut, build­ing supplies did not. Lumber, concrete, steel and other supplies neces­sary for Gaza to rebuild its infra­struc­ture did not make the list. Why? Because Israel wants to ensure they can’t build bunkers or rockets. Or, you know, build­ings, roads and basic infrastructure.
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05 Jul 2010 10:12

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World: Does Israel plan to apologize to Turkey for the flotilla incident?

  • NO even though it might cost them diplomatic ties source
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23 Jun 2010 11:14

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World: Who thinks Israel’s flotilla raid was a bad idea? Raise your hand

  • 13 European countries, including Turkey, raised their hands source
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14 Jun 2010 10:36

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World: Not bad: Tony Blair gets stuff done when it comes to Israel

  • Dude got Israel to agree to open up Gaza. Israel was at the point where they needed to do something, though, because the Inter­na­tional Commit­tee for the Red Cross deemed their approach illegal. So, instead of only allow­ing a small number of things through the border, Israel will allow general goods and specif­i­cally block things they don’t want in the country. “Some of these issues, drawing up the negative list, that will take some time,” Blair said. “But we hope very much we can start getting stuff into Gaza.” He’s like a regular Bill Clinton! source
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11 Jun 2010 21:31

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Chatter: Charles Schumer justifies Gaza blockade with straight-wrong facts

  • Yo, Charles, what happened? The New York Senator, who is Jewish, woefully misin­formed a Ortho­dox Union crowd by saying that most Pales­tini­ans don’t support a two-state solution in Israel. Actually, they do. By using this train of thought, he gets to this conclu­sion: “Since the Pales­tini­ans in Gaza elected Hamas, while certainly there should be human­i­tar­ian aid and people not starv­ing to death, to stran­gle them econom­i­cally until they see that’s not the way to go, makes sense.” It’s no Helen Thomas-level gaffe, sure, but what an awful justi­fi­ca­tion. source
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07 Jun 2010 10:42

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World: Israel attacks a bunch of Palestinian divers off of Gaza

  • 4 divers were killed; Israel says they were plotting an attack source
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06 Jun 2010 11:35

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Chatter, World: Israel to UN: We don’t need no stinkin’ international oversight!

  • We are reject­ing an inter­na­tional commis­sion. We are discussing with the Obama admin­is­tra­tion a way in which our inquiry will take place.
  • Israel’s US ambassador, Michael Oren • Regard­ing the country’s response to the UN’s proposal of an inter­na­tional commis­sion to study what happened during the flotilla incident. Why reject the proposal? “Israel is a democ­ra­tic nation,” Oren says. “Israel has the ability and the right to inves­ti­gate itself, not to be inves­ti­gated by any inter­na­tional board.” But we’re guess­ing the inter­na­tional board might have slightly less bias in the situa­tion than Israel might. Just a hunch. source
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05 Jun 2010 11:55

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World: The “Rachel Corrie” Israel/Gaza incident much more subdued

  • We are not afraid.Everyone on the boat is very calm.
  • Nobel Peace Prize laure­ate Mairead Corri­gan Maguire • Aboard the Rachel Corrie, an aid ship headed to Gaza, not long before it was inter­cepted. Unlike the prior flotilla act a week ago, there was no violence this time. In fact, Israeli author­i­ties boarded with the activists’ permis­sion this time. source
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