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    Actually this is good news, Iran was going to try and turn the population of Egypt against the government for stopping their aid ship heading for Gaza...

    anything that will stop their global expansion and taking over other nations governments right now is a good thing...

    but then again... Iran just started building up their military to 20 Million soldiers...

    1/10th are suicide bombers...

    Trainloads of Iranian military personnel have been seen in route through Turkey to Syria, sources confirm they are traveling with weapons...


    TICK... Tick... tick...
    Iran cancels plan to send ship to Gaza

    Quote TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian lawmaker says the country's plan to send a blockade-busting ship from Iran to Gaza has been canceled.

    The semiofficial ISNA news agency quotes Mahmoud Ahmadi Bighash as saying Saturday the Iranian delegation will instead try to sail from Lebanon. He cited Israeli "restrictions" for the cancellation.
    I guess we know the soldiers heading to syria have joined with Hezbollah...

    makes it easy to understand why Turkey stopped military flights by Israel over their country today...

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    UN blasts Israel's destruction plan

    A UN human rights expert says that Israel's plan to destroy several Palestinian homes in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) would violate the international law.

    "International law does not allow Israel to bulldoze Palestinians homes to make space for the Mayor's project to build a garden, or anything else," UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories Richard Falk said in a statement.



    He made the remarks on Tuesday after Israeli municipal authorities ratified a move last week to destroy 22 homes to make room for construction of a park and a public complex.

    The plan will need additional ratification, which could take months, according to Israeli officials.

    The site, called al-Bustan, is a section of the larger neighborhood of Silwan, which is home to some 50,000 Palestinians and 70 Jewish families.

    Palestinians say the project is another attempt by Tel Aviv to cement its claim to all of al-Quds, adding that it is impossible for Palestinians to obtain building permits.

    Israel captured East al-Quds from Jordan in the 1967 Six-day War. Tel Aviv's annexation remains unrecognized by the international community.

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    No envoy before Israel apology: Turkey

    Turkey says the strain in its diplomatic ties with Israel will not heal unless it formally apologizes for the killing of Turkish nationals aboard a Gaza aid convoy.

    Nine Turkish citizens, including a Turkish-American teenager, were killed in the May 31 attack by Israeli navy commandos on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while the civilian aid convoy was in international waters.

    The move drew strong condemnation from the international community and prompted several countries to summon Israeli ambassadors while an enraged Turkey recalled its envoy from Tel Aviv.

    Ankara will not appoint a new ambassador to Israel unless the Israeli regime formally apologizes for the death of the Turkish citizens, The New York Times quoted a senior official in Turkey's Foreign Ministry as saying on Tuesday.

    The Turkish government is also demanding compensation for the relatives of the Flotilla attack victims and an independent commission to investigate Israel's use of violence against the fleet which tried to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

    In an interview to American television on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel must apologize for its blockade of the Gaza Strip as well as compensate the people of Gaza as a precondition for Ankara to mediate possible peace talks between Israel and Syria in the future.

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    Israeli forces storm Ramleh prison hospital

    RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- An elite Israeli special forces unit called Masada stormed the Ramleh hospital prison and assaulted sick prisoners and damaged their property, the Ahrar Center for prisoners’ and human rights studies said.

    Director of the Ahrar Center Fouad Al-Khafsh said that the special forces brutally stormed the prison on Tuesday, June 22. He explained that the prisoners described what happened inside the prison as a "tsunami" in reference to the violence and barbarism which the unit used during the break-in.

    The prisoners stated in a letter to the center, "The intrusion occurred under the pretext of looking and searching for prohibited items, as they broke wheelchairs and caused a tsunami in the section."

    In addition, the Zionist forces penalized prisoners with financial fines and closed up the section, preventing sick captives from leaving their rooms, which exacerbated their suffering and placed their lives in danger.

    In their letter, prisoners appealed to the Palestinian government and human rights organizations to stand with them in their increased suffering.

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    Gazan kids suffer from malnutrition

    A Palestinian report says more than half of the children in the Gaza Strip suffer from malnutrition due to the ongoing Israeli siege of the impoverished region.

    The Palestinian Medical Relief Association conducted the study on the situation of children in Gaza, saying that 52 percent of the young Palestinians suffer from malnutrition, and severe vitamin deficiency.

    According to the study, a significant number of the children also suffer from infections in their respiratory systems, International Middle East Media Center reported.

    The statement came during a ceremony marking the end of the first phase of a project meant to evaluate the psychological conditions of children in the Gaza Strip. The joint project is conducted with the cooperation of a humanitarian society in Italy.

    It also said that the ongoing Israeli invasions, bombardment and attacks, especially in border areas, has a direct impact on the health and psychological conditions of Gaza children who are the main target of Israeli operations against the Hamas-led governmnet in the coastal enclave.

    Close to 1,400 Palestinians -- mostly women and children -- died during Israel's 22-day onslaught against the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2009.

    Dozens of seriously ill patients are facing imminent death as medical centers in Gaza run out of medical supplies which Israeli authorities are refusing to allow into the territory.

    Israel's prolonged blockade on Gaza has inflcited seruios blows upon the economy of the territory where some 1.5 million Palestinians are on the verge of a humanitarian crisis.

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    Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza‎

    Israeli aircraft have fired five rockets at the Gaza Strip, striking three targets, witnesses and Palestinian security officials say.

    Israeli F-16 aircraft fired two rockets at a airport in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah early Thursday.

    The rockets hit the Yasser Arafat Airport, which is currently not in service, in southern Gaza. The same airport was also hit in February.

    Another strike targeted an official Hamas base in the center of the coastal strip. There are no reports of casualties in either of the attacks.

    Over the past three years, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians in airstrikes targeting civilian and official buildings.

    Three other rockets were fired on areas belonging to Hamas' armed-wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, including underground tunnels used by Gaza residents to bring in essential commodities banned by the Israeli government, dpa quoted Palestinian security officials as saying.

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    'Israel licensed to destroy with impunity' 'Israel licensed to destroy with impunity'

    Amid "illegal" Israeli plans to destroy Palestinian homes, a former US congresswoman says Tel Aviv has "impunity" for the aggressive efforts of the pro-Israel lobby in the US.

    "The United States and Europe give Israel impunity," Cynthia McKinney said in an interview with Press TV.

    The remarks came after Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, slammed Tel Aviv's plan to demolish some 20 Palestinian homes in the Silwan neighborhood of East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

    Israel says the homes should be flattened as part of "the King's Garden project" -- a park and a public complex.

    Falk, however, argues that the move is illegal. "International law does not allow Israel to bulldoze Palestinians homes to make space for the Mayor's project to build a garden, or anything else."

    Branding the move illegal under international law, he has also criticized Tel Aviv's plans to revoke the residence permits of four Palestinians, arguing that their forcible transfer to the occupied West Bank could constitute a war crime.


    Tel Aviv plans to destroy 20 more homes in occupied Palestinian lands to build a park and a public complex

    McKinney, who lost her seat in the House of Representatives after criticizing Israel in public, says to fight the regime's impunity a "counter lobby" must be established in the United States.

    "If we had one United States Senator, with conscience and commitment as well as courage, who would stand up to the other members of Congress, who pow-pow and bow to the Israeli lobby… we would then begin to have the kind of accountability that people are looking for," she said.

    The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), considered the most powerful and connected lobbying group in Washington, has been subject to controversy in the past as well.

    According to University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt from the Harvard University, AIPAC is a "de facto agent for a foreign government," whose "success is due to its ability to reward legislators and congressional candidates who support its agenda, and to punish those who challenge it."

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    Israeli boycott batters Turkish hotel prices

    The Turkish economy has lost at least $400 million as Israelis have cancelled tens of thousands of reservations in the wake of the Gaza flotilla affair.
    By TheMarker Staff


    Now would be a good time to take a Turkish vacation: The Israeli boycott is having an impact and the price of hotel rooms in the country has plummeted, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported this week.

    The Turkish economy has lost at least $400 million as Israelis canceled tens of thousands of reservations after the Gaza-flotilla affair worsened the rift between the two countries.

    About a month ago, Israeli naval commandos took over a protest ship bound for Gaza.
    Turkey resort

    In the violent confrontation, several Turkish activists brandishing weapons including axes and metal rods were killed.

    Feeling the pinch, Turkish travel agencies have pointed a finger at the government. One, Levantin Tour, has lost NIS 8.6 million, its owners reported.

    The company had planned to bring 17,000 Israeli tourists to Turkey this year, but so far has brought over only 200 and has to pay hotels $1.1 million due to canceled reservations.

    Other travel agencies have even gone bankrupt, said Levantin's owner, Levent Guner.

    The dearth of Israeli tourists has pushed down hotel prices, too. Rooms that would rent for NIS 170 a night are now going for NIS 100 in resort towns such as Bodrum and Marmaris, the paper reported.

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    Default Re: Israel Reportedly Attacks Palestinian Aid Flotilla

    This thread is no longer about the topic and is nothing more than a Palestinian propaganda machine. There have been brutal attacks and act of terrorism done by both sides with the Palestinians specifically targeting women and children. Why has that not been pasted?

    There is a new thread now, titled Update on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that hopefully will show both sides and be informative.

    This thread is closed due to losing its relevance and and the overzealousness of the copy/paste crew.

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