tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49099189710570792302024-02-19T05:02:45.615-05:00McLoughlin Post blogMain website http://www.mcloughlinpost.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466665133294642195noreply@blogger.comBlogger643125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909918971057079230.post-46759675678573792382016-03-04T22:52:00.001-05:002016-03-04T22:52:50.509-05:00The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of #AmericanFascism (from @Truthdig)<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_revenge_of_the_lower_classes_and_the_rise_of_american_fascism_20160302#.VtpX825F89s.blogger">The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism (from @Truthdig)</a>: College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now these elites are being made to pay. Their duplicity has brought them—and the rest of us—Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS</strong> as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.</span></div>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a6" name="a6"></a>Article 6.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a7" name="a7"></a>Article 7.</span></h3>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a8" name="a8"></a>Article 8.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a10" name="a10"></a>Article 10.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a16" name="a16"></a>Article 16.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a17" name="a17"></a>Article 17.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a18" name="a18"></a>Article 18.</span></h3>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a19" name="a19"></a>Article 19.</span></h3>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a20" name="a20"></a>Article 20.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a21" name="a21"></a>Article 21.</span></h3>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a22" name="a22"></a>Article 22.</span></h3>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a23" name="a23"></a>Article 23.</span></h3>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a25" name="a25"></a>Article 25.</span></h3>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.</span></li>
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<li style="color: #300906; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7.55000019073486px 7.55000019073486px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="a30" name="a30"></a>Article 30.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;">Ebola spreads in the air - aerosolizes - via coughs and sneezes. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has waffled on this point, publishing and then removing a poster that explains that Ebola is capable of spreading via coughs and sneezes within three feet. Here is a copy of the deleted poster:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">However, is the three-foot rule correct? In an</span><b><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FFLM%2FFLM745%2FS0022112014000883a.pdf&code=c24c33d8149cad916ca4bcf617ba24df" target="_blank">MIT experiment</a>,</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> scientists were able to measure how far aerosolized droplets from coughs and sneezes travel. Written in formal scientific language, I was unable to discern where they indicate that the maximum distance is twenty feet, as cited by others. However, on page 560, the 'dozens of meters' conclusion is plain enough, as is their concern that aerosolized particles travel enough distance that the researchers express their concern that germs might be picked up and transported via ventilation systems.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;">Ebola is an air-borne diseas</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1a1a1a; display: inline; line-height: 14px;">e beyond the splitting of hairs over how far it travels in the air. It has a lethality approaching 100% for those over 45 years of age. Ebola does not require many germs to successfully infect a host and <b><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04778.x/full" target="_blank">there is suspicion it may survive at least for some period of time in sewers; it can linger dried on glass and plastic surfaces for up to three weeks in cool (+4C) conditions</a>. U</b>p to<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-1012-ebola-fever-20141012-story.html#page=1" target="_blank"><b> <span id="goog_1840747555"></span>13% of those infected never develop fever at all. </b></a><span id="goog_1840747556"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span></b></i></span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><i><b><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">'The Great Dictator' -</span></b></i><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> a 1940 </span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">American </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">satirical<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span>political<span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">comedy-drama film</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> starring, written, produced, scored, and directed by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, following the tradition of many of his other films. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">Having been the only </span>Hollywood <span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">filmmaker to continue to make </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Silent film">silent films</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> well into the period of sound films, this was Chaplin's first true </span>talking picture<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> as well as his most commercially successful film.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-trampdict_3-0" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator#cite_note-trampdict-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the time of its first release, the United States was still formally at peace with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Prince_of_Wales_Theatre_2007_4-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator#cite_note-Prince_of_Wales_Theatre_2007-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> condemnation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fascism">fascism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Antisemitism">antisemitism</a>, and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Nazis">Nazis</a>...<span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he would not have made the film had he known about the actual horrors of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Nazi concentration camps">Nazi concentration camps</a><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> at the time.'</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Excerpt from, </span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Turner Classic Movies [TCM.com] </span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #252525;">'</span><a href="http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76858/The-Great-Dictator/articles.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Synopsis</span></b></a><span style="color: #252525;">': </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">'</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A Jewish barber, suffering from amnesia since World War I, finally returns to his home in Tomania to discover the country overrun with anti-Semitic storm troopers under the leadership of Dictator Adenoid Hynkel. The only ghetto inhabitant strong enough to defy the soldiers is a young orphan, Hannah, with whom he falls in love. When the barber joins a resistance leader he had served under in the war, the two are arrested, just as Hynkel is plotting world domination in meetings with rival dictator Napolini of Bacteria. The barber and his friend escape prison as Hynkel is hunting nearby. When an accident separates Hynkel from his party, the prison guards mistake him for the escaped barber and take him into custody. Meanwhile, Hynkel's storm troopers mistake the barber for their leader. After leading the country in a successful invasion, he delivers an international address repudiating Hynkel's dictatorship and spreading the message of peace and liberty.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">At the time of the film's release '...Charlie Chaplin's films were already banned in Nazi Germany because of the erroneous belief that he was Jewish.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #252525;">Note: Frank Miller's TCM.com, 'The Great Dictator' </span><a href="http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76858/The-Great-Dictator/articles.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">page</span></a><span style="color: #252525;"> provides absolutely fascinating background regarding the history of the film. Highly recommended. - DVM</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The role of Adenoid Hynkel, was the first character other than The Little Tramp, that Chaplin had played in two decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is the first movie in which Charlie Chaplin acts in full speaking roles, unlike his earlier silent film work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Chaplin's film, The Great Dictator, pulled no punches in its searing parody of events unfolding in Europe pre-WWII. Other Hollywood producers and directors were pressured to soften the tone of their productions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">'I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">'Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">'The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">'To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">'Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">'In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">Two essentials necessary, for both armies and uprisings, to advance, are arms and cash. The U.S. has just authorized <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29257422" target="_blank"><b>500 milion dollars-worth of training and weapons</b></a> for Syrian rebels and the wisdom of doing so must be questioned.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">Certainly American '</span><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/pnac-moving-to-syria" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;" target="_blank"><b>PNAC</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">' neocons want to keep arming so-called 'good' rebels to help them overthrow Syria's government. The U.S. should not be involved with the attempt at overthrowing Syria's secular regime, and the reasons for wanting to do so must be questioned, as well. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">Why would U.S. interests be keen? Who profits?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">Israel continues to illegally occupy Syrian territory, and has recently put out tenders for </span><a href="http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/22/290340/israel-lets-genie-drill-for-oil-in-golan/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;" target="_blank"><b>oil exploration contracts</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"> on the occupied Golan Heights. (How about Gaza? Does Gaza have natural resources, too? Check - Gaza has a territorial stake in the vast wealth of off-shore natural gas.) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">What seems a fairly predictable eventuality may have come to pass: The <b><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/international/217645-syrian-rebels-isis-agree-to-non-aggression-pact" target="_blank">Syrian rebels reportedly have agreed to a ceasefire with ISIS</a> </b>(also known, variously, as Isil; Is, or Islamic State) circumstances in which you cannot expect arms provided to one will be used to degrade the military capabilities of the other. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">Nevertheless, U.S. pro-war cheerleaders such as U.S. Senator John McCain, assert that they can tell the 'good' guys from the bad in the quest to<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/16/sen_mccain_we_can_make_syria_rebels_strong_and_resilient.html" target="_blank"> <b>pump more </b></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/16/sen_mccain_we_can_make_syria_rebels_strong_and_resilient.html" target="_blank"><b>U.S.-manufactured arms</b> in.</a> Profitable, yes. Potential pots of gold at the ends of various political rainbows, no doubt. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">There are pictures purportedly showing McCain hobnobing with ISIS rebels. Some pundits are rubbing their hands with glee at the karma, that McCain may ultimately find himself charged with the crime of aiding terrorists.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-makes-million-day-selling-oil-analysts/story?id=24814359" target="_blank"><b>Iraq and Syrian oil that ISIS is reportedly selling on the global black market</b></a> also keeps ISIS in arms and other necessary supplies, in addition to Syrian rebel-held American weaponry somehow being added to their arsenals. L<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140626-isis-insurgents-syria-iraq-looting-antiquities-archaeology/" target="_blank"><b>ooting</b></a>,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/12/isis-just-stole-425-million-and-became-the-worlds-richest-terrorist-group/" target="_blank"> <b>including banks</b></a>, keeps their conquest going, too. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">Bombing campaigns are destructive, rather indiscriminate, and they make more enemies. This is not the answer to ISIS so far as western strategic interests are concerned, if we actually are concerned with not stirring a terrorism hornet's nest any further than we have already. Cut off the flow of arms and cash and frustrate supply lines, instead. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">As for beheadings, Saudi Arabia, treated as one of the good guys and part of the ad hoc coalition fighting ISIS, has had something like <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/what-behind-spike-saudi-beheadings-20148247123955103.html" target="_blank"><b>41 beheadings </b></a>as judicial punishments this year alone - the country where the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/twenty-eight-pages" target="_blank"><b>9/11 terrorists came from</b></a>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">So ISIS utilizing the violent propaganda tool of beheading innocent people might be viewed in a wider context. Our own political leaders garner political traction with the ISIS beheadings, as well.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 19px;">Bombing ISIS targets legitimates their propaganda that 'the west' is the enemy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">BY NELSON MANDELA</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">PLO: The Palestine Liberation Organisation </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">(PLO) was created in 1964 with the purpose of </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">advancing the struggle for Palestinian self </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">determination. The PLO is recognised as the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">"sole legitimate representative of the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Palestinian people" by over 100 countries with </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">which it holds diplomatic relations. Like South </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Africa's (now ruling ANC) the PLO was </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">considered by the United States and Israel to be </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">a terrorist organisation until 1991. In 1993 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Israel officially recognised the PLO as the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">representative of the Palestinian people.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">YASSER ARAFAT: Late leader of the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Palestinian people as well as chairman of the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">ABOUT THE VIDEO </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">- 1990 Town Hall Meeting with Nelson </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Mandela on Palestine, Cuba and other issues</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">The above video is from a 1990 town hall </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">formed part Nelson Mandela's first visit to the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">prison.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">A significant part of the town hall meeting </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">sanctions to be applied against Apartheid South </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Africa, his and the ANC's support for the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">well as his close friendship with Yasser Arafat </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">(of Palestine) and Fidel Castro (of Cuba).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">The town hall meeting took place in 1990, long </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">before the world had embraced Nelson </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Mandela as a "giant of justice". However, even </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">then, when it may have been unfashionable and </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">unpopular to support the Palestinians against, </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">what Mandela termed, Israeli "colonialism", </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Mandela stood firm and resolute on his </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">principles and the policies of the ANC - </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Mandela was, after all, conveying the long-</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">standing positions held by the ANC and the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">larger South African liberation movement. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Nelson Mandela supported the Palestinian </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">struggle when it was unfashionable and </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">unpopular, he was a true leader. Hamba Kahle </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i><b>The highest ideal </b></i>espoused in Rabbi Shmuel Bloch's argument, '</span><a href="http://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles//2014/09/10/unity---it's-surreal-and-frightening" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Unity - It's surreal and frightening'</b></span></a><span style="color: #222222;">; [South African Jewish Report, Sept 10, 2014], is cohesiveness of group politics rather than questioning the direction, politics and morality of the group in a personal quest for truth. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Can good be expected to follow from this premise or is such a stance fraught with risk?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The rabbi reports that 'unity became even stronger and tighter' once Israelis learned the tragic fate of the three Jewish youths who were kidnapped in the occupied West Bank when hitchhiking, presumably back to their respective homes, from a settlement religious school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There is an enormous gap the rabbi leaves unexplained regarding how the country went from the crime of the former, to an entire country choosing to wage war: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 'T<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px;">hen the rockets started falling and Operation “Protective Edge” began...The</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px;">entire country supported the government and the army with almost universal approval.'</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Without questioning, we would not know that tensions began to rise not with the abduction and murders of the three Jewish teens in June, but three weeks before, on Nakba Day, May 15th. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beitunia_killings" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The IDF shot and killed two Palestinian teens in cold blood at a demonstration outside of Ofer Prison</span><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> One of the youths was shot in the back. Both were unarmed, it was in broad daylight and there were many witnesses to these events.</span></span><br style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;" /><br style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">After the three Jewish teens went missing, this gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the excuse he needed to ramp up tensions further by instituting what was the equivalent of a Palestinian Kristalnacht in the occupied West Bank on the pretext of searching for the teens. There was a clear purpose in instigating such provocations. In recent days, Palestinian political leadership of rival political parties Hamas and Fatah signaled their intention to reconcile. Unified, Natenyahu et al could no longer claim that they had no 'partner for peace'. Peace means the cessation of further ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestinian land. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Hundreds of West Bank homes were violently broken into in the middle of the night. IDF soldiers caused gratuitous wanton damage to households; stole money and other valuables; viciously beat people; and arrested hundreds without charge - including many in the Hamas party leadership. And with this for background, how things devolved becomes far more clear. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Rabbi Bloch's timeline of events makes absolutely no sense otherwise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Logic</b><br style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;" /><br style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">No logical person would ever accept the premise that oppressing the Other could foster greater prospects for peaceful security for oneself. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">There is no logical correllary between a criminal investigation into the kidnappings and murders of three teenagers versus the ultimate crime of aggressive war on a captive civilian population. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">The 1.8 million people of The Gaza Strip have been suffering under an illegal Israeli military occupation for years. This latest military slaughter caused the deaths of over 500 children alone. Israel's 'Operation Protective Edge' was instigated by Israel, the violence was wanton, the IDF committed many war crimes, Israeli <a href="http://www.jewishisrael.org/outline-solution-israels-gaza-problem-moshe-feiglin/" target="_blank"><b>political leaders</b></a> openly<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39127.htm" target="_blank"> <b>call</b></a> for genocide [or the practical equivalent, as seen in Deputy Minister of Defense, Dany Alon's recent inane, amoral tweet: </span></span><br />
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Israel is demanding a bilateral committee be formed to coordinate inspections of all truck shipments into Gaza. [1]<br />
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Israel continues to maintain the illegal military siege despite understandings to the contrary arrived at during the preliminary ceasefire negotiations, the first phase of which concluded a few days ago.[2]<br />
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The siege of Gaza is now into its seventh year. The siege has destroyed Gaza's economy, the conditions of which are described as being worse than the Great Depression. It has had a particularly devastating effect on the physical health of Gaza's children. They do not get enough to eat. Israel, in addition to cutting <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/59843" target="_blank"><b>calories </b></a>in, at one point even denied in children's shoes, hearing aids and school supplies. What is allowed in seems to depend on the year and the whim of whichever functionary is in charge along with how much attention the world pays.<br />
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Israel has caused immense destruction in Gaza this summer. Israel bombed hospitals, ambulances and schools along with tens of thousands of homes, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless.<br />
<a href="http://imeu.org/article/the-children-of-gaza-a-generation-scarred-under-siege" target="_blank"><b>Israel killed over 2,000 Palestinian people including approximately 500 children. </b></a>As many as 1,500 children have been orphaned. Over 10,000 people have been injured. 1,000 children were severely injured and will suffer lifelong disabilities.<br />
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Many fear that Israel has no intention of honoring the ceasefire agreement. The deal was to open all borders and that is not happening. The last daily report over the weekend I read indicated that 100 truckloads of food were able to get in along with 200 trucks bearing construction supplies.<br />
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Six years ago, the estimated daily shipments of food, fuel, and other goods was in the neighborhood of 500 to 600 trucks per day. The number of truckloads necessary to sustain human life in the face of Gaza's destruction is obviously going to be many more. It will be nothing less than a humanitarian catastrophe if this is not made to happen.<br />
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The water treatment plants were bombed. The sewage treatment plants likewise were bombed. Thus there is not even any clean drinking water to drink. The risk of water-borne disease is a very grave concern.<br />
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Winter will be coming on soon. People are homeless with nowhere to live.<br />
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There is no way to accomplish the impossible demand of inspecting down to the last toothpick every box and bag in every truck without hopelessly clogging up the entry points. <br />
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There are people who hold power and influence over whether or not food, medicine or housing construction materials get in. One, Deputy Minister of Defense, Danny Alon, tweeted days ago that Israel should prevent water and food into Gaza. So even if a sensible plan is laid out between the parties about truck inspections and so forth, robust monitoring to ensure swift and efficient processing at the border crossings will be a must.<br />
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What exactly is the purpose of the siege in the first place? The people of Gaza are refugees who had their homes taken away from them by Israel in 1948. They would like to go home. <br />
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On a positive note, efforts to raise humanitarian funds for Gaza are underway in countries such as Qatar and Turkey.<br />
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[1] <a href="http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/13868-israel-demands-formation-of-bilateral-committee-to-supervise-entry-of-construction-material-to-gaza">Israel demands formation of bilateral committee to supervise entry of construction material to Gaza</a>; MEMO - Middle East Monitor; Monday, September 01, 2014.<br />
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[2] <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=725027&utm_source=digg" target="_blank">Gaza blockade shows no signs of loosening</a>; Maan New Agency, September 2, 2014:<br />
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'...Number of trade trucks <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">entering daily ha[s] remained roughly static at its wartime level of between 200 and 250'</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">'...</span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">the medical need in Gaza [i]s acute.'</span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">"Even before the aggression, there were severe shortages of drugs - 28 percent of essential goods were at zero stock," she said. "Now the situation is critical."</span> ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">'...much of Gaza's infrastructure [is] destroyed, food aid is only a short-term fix - stemming the humanitarian crisis over the longer term requires deals on restricted items such as cement and heavy machinery.'</span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">"You can't bring in bottled water for 500,000 people. You need to repair the water facilities. To do that you need technical equipment. that is the most cost-effective way of giving Gazans clean water," he said.''</span></span><br />
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Comment posted at 8:43 PM, August 31st, 2014.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One has to wonder, exactly when will the WaPo editorial board quit giving solace to Israel's criminal regime and start telling it like it is? The title of this piece, '<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-proposes-taking-more-west-bank-land-for-jewish-settlers/2014/08/31/97260a8a-1bc7-4406-ba57-c6493dfdf865_story.html?wp_login_redirect=0" target="_blank"><b>Israel proposes taking more West Bank land for Jewish settlers</b></a>' [William Booth and Ruth Eglash; Washington Post; August 31, 2014] soft-peddles the horror.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A more accurate title and lead would read something like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">'In a stunning act of betrayal within mere days of a ceasefire agreement, in a move reminiscent of Fascism's darkest days, Israel's hard-right leadership proposes stealing a whopping 1,000 acres of Palestinian land to further displace the native population. The long-term aim is clearly meant to replace the indigenous Palestinian people with Jewish European squatters. This will only further cement the current apartheid system, frustrating the efforts of moderates on both sides working for human rights, security and peace'.</span><br />
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Gaza has suffered massive loss, particularly in the catastrophic numbers of children killed during Operation Protective Edge, Israel's latest and most brutal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. 577 children in Gaza are now deceased, versus Israel's loss of one child.<br />
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And yet a columnist with Haaretz, one Amir Oren (any relation to Michael Oren of the exploding toasters claim?) can still write this:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.612641" target="_blank">'...f<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">or Israel the experience has been more stomach-turning.'</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span>Israel is the one with the greater indigestion?!<br />
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In fact, there is not a straight line of clear analysis in the piece. Logic and ethics seem to bounce around all over the place with no discernable personal conviction apparent, but perhaps this provides a fair representation of attitudes and opinions of the country as a whole.<br />
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There is no 'next time' if Israel does what it should: Lift the siege of Gaza, end the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and permit the right of return to Palestinians forced to flee their homes in 1948.<br />
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Ironically, on the same page as Oren's commentary, an organization advertises that it assists with Holocaust second-generation reparations claims (centerforreparations.org) - dispensing with any notions that too much time has passed for Israel to be obligated by international law to give back anything of what belongs to the Palestinian people.<br />
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August 26, 2014 - by Diane V. McLoughlin<br />
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Mainstream media outlets are reporting that all parties to the current assault on Gaza have agreed today to ceasefire proposals brought forward by Egypt. The blockade will be eased at the crossings controlled by Egypt and Israel to allow humanitarian goods in to Gaza. <br />
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All issues are to be put off for one month at which time negotiations on peace proposals are to begin. <br />
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I will tell you that I had difficulty locating on the internet the actual terms and proposals from Egypt. At time of writing I have been unsuccessful in locating any copies of the text of the ceasefire agreement.*<br />
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*<i>Update: Here is a summary of the proposals: '<a href="http://en.alquds.com/en/stories/1597" target="_blank"><b>What's in the Gaza peace deal</b>?</a>'; Al Quds English; August 27, 2014. </i><br />
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Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is on record stating that Israel will not participate in these planned negotiations unless there is a <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/26/Death-toll-mounts-as-Gaza-war-drags-on.html" target="_blank">"<b>total end to terror attacks"</b></a>. </span>As Israel is notorious for provoking a response and then blaming the other side, anything can happen between now and then.<br />
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On August 24 2014, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs boasted that they permitted <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Peace/Humanitarian/Pages/Israeli-humanitarian-aid-continues-10-Jul-2014.aspx" target="_blank">118 truckloads of humanitarian goods into Gaza</a> </span>that day<span style="color: blue;">.</span><br />
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Minimum daily truck traffic of food and other necessities was <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Gaza_War_(2008-2009)" target="_blank"><b>pegged at 500 back in 2009</b></a>. </span>Obviously this number would have increased during the intervening years leading up to 2014's so-called Operation Protective Edge [<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/4C952C561EFBB208852573090063605C" target="_blank"><b>some idea of potential logistical issues</b></a>, </span>here, although the statistics at link are outdated.]<br />
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Estimates are that it might take as long as 20 years for Gaza to rebuild what Israel destroyed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">East Al Shaaf, Gaza - Operation Protective Edge - via Palestinianism</td></tr>
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Israel and Egypt better calculate into their truce negotiations a month hence that they may need to multiply by a factor of 20 that 118 figure so helpfully supplied - 2,000 or more trucks per day. But who knows? Maybe it's 4,000 trucks per day. The numbers of trucks that will need to pass through the eyes of needles they control into Gaza, while some in Israel will no doubt continue to attempt <a href="http://www.jewishisrael.org/outline-solution-israels-gaza-problem-moshe-feiglin/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>fomenting discord</b></span></a> means the situation will continue to be frought with issues. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Israeli Deputy Minister of Defense, Danny Alon's suggestion on maintaining 'quiet' in Gaza - prevent transfer of food and water; August 20, 2014 - Twitter</td></tr>
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Who will personally take ownership of the task of seeing to it that the people of Gaza will have food to eat, safe water to drink, medicine and medical supplies for the sick and injured along with vital building supplies to repair hospitals, roads, schools and homes? <br />
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Israel and Egypt have caused, through their seven year long siege, followed by so-called 'Operation 'Protective Edge', conditions in which the people of Gaza have no reserves left with which to survive.<br />
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This August 26, 2014, Facebook post, a picture of Gaza resident Mohammed Baroud's empty fridge, illustates the point, well enough: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Food in Gaza - the reality of slow starvation - by Mohammed Baroud; August 26, 2014</td></tr>
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Via Twitter, <b>Mahmoud Zaqout</b>, reports that tens of shops have been completely destroyed. <b>Saberpal</b>'s photographs depict the aftermath of Israel's shelling of the commercial district of Rafah, Gaza, on August 22, 2014.<br />
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With Mr. Zaqout's permission I downloaded, cropped and posted Saberpal's extraordinary photographs.<br />
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- <a href="mailto:contact@mcloughlinpost.com" target="_blank">Diane V. McLoughlin</a>, August 23, 2014<br />
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The best aspect of Gerry Caplan's analysis of the Israel-Palestine conflict is his frank acknowledgement of the oppression and ethnic cleansing that Israel continues to perpetrate against the suffering Palestinian people. It is vitally important to share here that Israel's latest assault on Gaza is an act of genocide - not self-defense!<br />
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The worst aspect of Gerry Caplan's analysis is his sorrowful shrug that the situation in Israel-Palestine is intractable and that nothing can be done about it. While it may be a tough nut to crack, wherever there is oppression and injustice we should not back away from our moral and ethical duty to denounce it while encouraging healing and repair of relations between parties. It is a gentle irony that Mr. Caplan himself does not shy away from the ethical duty to speak, and it seems obvious that he cares. <br />
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So there is what-is on the one hand, while what-should-be stands separate and apart on the other. There is in an immense space in-between that is open to creative and determined and intelligent and dedicated and good people who set themselves to the challenge of changing the parameters of conflict. Such effort is not futile in the furtherance of justice, peace and global stability, even though you will almost certainly not know how your efforts assisted in tipping the scales.<br />
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Some of the ways to apply nonviolent pressure to help bring about peaceful change:<br />
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As with South African Apartheid, ways to encourage Israeli political direction to change include boycotting Israeli goods, divesting from one's investment portfolios of Israeli companies, and to demand ones' own countries sever political ties with Israel - Boycott, Divest, Sanctions - BDS for short. <br />
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<b>- <a href="http://bdsmovement.net/">BDSmovement.net</a> - </b>lots of resources at this website.<br />
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- The<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.buycott.com/campaign/782/long-live-palestine-boycott-israel" target="_blank">'<b>Long live Palestine boycott Israel' buycott app</b></a>' </span>was begun in April. Once Israel launched its latest military assault on Gaza beginning in July, the numbers of new buycott users exploded.<span style="color: blue;"> </span>[over 390,000 users and counting.]<br />
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3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.'<br />
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Let it be known to your government that you believe it would be the right thing to do to cut all military cooperative ties with Israel - no more donations of bullets, bombs, software or intelligence.<br />
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Ban public and private donations that further injustice</h4>
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Render it illegal for private individuals to donate funds to Israeli institutions that further the aims of stealing Palestinian land.<br />
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Ban private business from profiting from oppression</h4>
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Render it illegal for any company to collude with Israel to extract Palestinian-owned natural resources. In the mix is the recent discovery that Gaza owns a vast wealth of natural gas off-shore. <br />
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Ban citizens from enlisting in foreign militaries which enforce oppression</h4>
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Render it illegal for citizens to serve in Israel's military.<br />
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Ban politicians from accepting gifts including trips</h4>
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Render it illegal, if it isn't already, for politicians to accept Israel-funded trips. By all means, politicians ought to travel to Israel to witness what's going on. But only if the investigation includes fact-finding in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, meeting with Palestinian authorities, as well. <br />
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Mr. Caplan's argument is an important one, in that he may have helped to finally open political debate in Canada on Israel that for too long has been censored and suppressed.<br />
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Reponse to, '<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/no-matter-what-leaders-do-there-wont-be-peace-in-the-middle-east/article20083459/" target="_blank">No matter what leaders do, there won't be peace in the Middle East</a>'; Gerald Caplan, <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">African scholar, former NDP national director and regular panelist on CBC’s Power and Politics; </span></span>The Globe and Mail; August 15, 2014.<br />
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August 15 2014; by Diane V. McLoughlin<br />
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Gaza: 459 children killed; 1,962 total fatalities; 226 have been identified as being from armed groups; 9,986 injured including 3,009 children;16,700 homes destroyed or severely damaged; 335,000 people in shelters or doubled-up in homes; 25 schools entirely destroyed or severely damaged [ochaopt.org - <a href="http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_12_08_2014.pdf" target="_blank">Occupied Palestinian Territory Gaza Emergency Situation Report, as of August 12 2014</a> pdf].<br />
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Report: United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA): '<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: DIN; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Humanitarian relief personnel, objects used for relief operations – including UNRWA schools in Gaza used as shelters – are protected under international law. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: DIN; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">'Whilst data on damage to UNRWA installations is according to preliminary information and subject to change based on further verification, particularly in those areas pending unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance, UNRWA estimates that at least<b> 103 installations have been damaged since 8 July 2014, the majority being UNRWA schools. There is also recorded damage to health centers, sanitation and social services facilities, and the UNRWA compound in Gaza City. Some of UNRWA installations were damaged on multiple occasions</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: DIN; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">.' [</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: DIN; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/emergency-reports/gaza-situation-report-37" target="_blank">Gaza Situation Report No. 37 August 15 2014; UNRWA</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: DIN; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: DIN; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> .</span><br />
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Hospitals; ambulances; rescue workers:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Background: Mohammad Al-Abadlah</b>, 32, a paramedic who worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), was killed on 25 July in Qarara by Israeli army gunfire when he was attempting to rescue an injured man stranded in an area controlled by the Israeli military. <b>Hassan Al-Attal</b>, 40, a colleague of Mohammad Al-Abadlah who was with him at the time and witnessed the shooting, told Amnesty International:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“On 25 July, my colleague Mohammad Al-Abadlah and I were tasked with reaching an injured man in Qarara...At one point while driving in the ambulance we were blocked by live electric wires on the road. We informed the Red Cross that the road was blocked and we could not cross. They asked us to try to cross somehow, but we told them we couldn’t. They then called the Israelis and told them about the wires blocking the road and how we were unable to cross. They got back to us saying the army says to get out of the car and cross on foot with our flashlights. So, Mohammad said to me ‘Let’s go, they agreed that we can go walking and collect the case from them directly’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“We got out, we crossed about 10-12 metres and suddenly we were being fired at directly. My colleague screamed and said ‘I’ve been shot’. The shooting continued everywhere, so I could not pull him away or else I too would have got shot and fallen beside him – so I ran and sat in the ambulance. I called the station and told them we had been fired at and Mohammad was injured. The head of the centre came with two ambulances to try and save our colleague. When the colleagues got out to try and take Mohammed, they too were fired at. The head of the centre asked the Red Cross to ask for shooting to stop while we evacuated Mohammad. We brought him but sadly he died...'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Corroborating testimony, by <b>Mohammad Ghazi Al-Hessy</b>, head of the PRCS’s centre in Khan Younis, who received the call to rescue Mohammad and attended to it with his other colleagues, includes this: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“When we received this call from the Red Cross. They said it was Israel that had requested the evacuation of the injured person...'.</span></div>
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[<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/023/2014/en/1ec69cff-ac46-4f35-857c-9670f1632b75/mde150232014en.html" target="_blank">Evidence of medical workers and facilities being targeted by Israeli forces in Gaza</a>; Amnesty International report, August 7 2014];<br />
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Farms and food production facilities: '<span style="background-color: white; color: #003b43; line-height: 18.211200714111328px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The recent fighting has resulted in substantial direct damage to Gaza's 17,000 hectares of croplands as well as much of its agricultural infrastructure, including greenhouses, irrigation systems, animal farms, fodder stocks and fishing boats.'</span></span> [<a href="http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/240924/icode/" target="_blank">Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; August 14 2014</a>];<br />
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Water, electricity and sewage infrastructure - targeted. [<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2014/0724/Under-fire-in-Gaza-and-not-a-drop-to-drink-video" target="_blank">Under fire in Gaza and not a drop to drink</a>; Kristen Chick; Christian Science Monitor; July 24 2014.] <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sharing a few words at the protest in Ottawa, against Israel's latest genocidal assault on Gaza, 'Operation Protective Edge' - editor, Diane V. McLoughlin, of mcloughlinpost.com</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">Gaza is a small, long, narrow strip of land that is walled in on three sides: The Mediterranean Sea, guarded by the Israeli navy; it borders Egypt on one short end; and Israel's high cement walls, armed guard towers and coil upon coil of barbed wire close off the rest - an impoverished, oppressed, walled ghetto. </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">The 1.8 million men, women and children living in Gaza, are refugees from Israel who were forced from their homeland from places like Sderot, Israel, in 1948. The refugees in many instances retain the keys to the doors of their rightful homes. And they have a right, morally as well as in law, to go home. Because they are of the 'wrong' ethnicity, Israel is doing everything in its power to prevent their return. </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">During 'Operation Cast Lead', Isr</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">ael and Hamas each accused the other of committing war crimes. Findings were detailed in the United Nations' document the, <span id="goog_383161845"></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Report" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Goldstone Report</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span id="goog_383161846"></span>,</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">produced after six independent, esteemed judges were tasked with conducting a fact-finding mission to investigate - including, note allegations typically made by Israel of Hamas, that the Israeli military had used Palestinians as </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7960824.stm" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">human shields</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">. Of Israel's well-oiled propaganda machine, volumes will no doubt be written.</span></h4>
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">It is an instructive exercise comparing what it is that Israel chooses to do, what Israel chooses not to do, and Israel's expressions of intent. </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is not 'quiet' for the people of Gaza to be forced to continue under the crushing eight-year military blockade which has destroyed the local economy and has been compared as being worse than the Great Depression for the abject poverty and want. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a farce to propose that Israel will construct for itself a secure quiet by continuing to oppress the Palestinians in Gaza; the occupied West Bank; East Jerusalem; Israel; or the Palestinian refugees scattered in other countries denied the right to come home - we can dispense with that canard. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Muslims do not hate Jews. Jews and Muslims have been neighbors living peacefully side by side with each other in Palestine for millennia before the events of 1948 when Zionist terrorists forced 750,000 Palestinians to run for their lives. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Israel has, in this latest ethnic cleansing exercise in Gaza, bombed thousands of family homes; bombed six United Nations-run children's schools where newly homeless families were sheltered who were ordered to shelter in the UN schools by Israel after Israel bombed their homes. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Israel has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians depopulating a vast swath of Gaza estimated in geographic area to be approximately 44% of the entire Gaza Strip. In short, Israel has been forcing families out in the elements while destroying absolutely <a href="http://graphics.wsj.com/gaza-before-after/?standalone=1" target="_blank">everything</a>. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As of this writing, almost two million people have no drinking <a href="http://gisha.org/updates/3235#.U98LwFkpV9c.twitter" target="_blank">water </a>due to Israel's deliberate targeting of the civilian infrastructure - a war crime. If humanitarian efforts are not able to respond with all haste, the scenario will elevate to status of crime against humanity. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In times of conflict, governments are not always forthcoming with the full truth. Israel is no exception. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">That Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldier Hadar Goldin was ever kidnapped? This particular fiction was used to provide diplomatic cover when breaking the first ceasefire agreement within just a few short hours of its implementation. </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Supporters of this most recent atrocity in Gaza, with whole Palestinian neighborhoods being bombed out of existance, argue that Hamas kidnapped three Jewish teens and murdered them in the West Bank. First, they believe, wrongly, that this would ever justify such a massively violent response which is nonsense. Second, with speed of light acceptance that everything Israel tells them is Gospel Truth, that Hamas had anything to do with it. </span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">After Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, the quiet admission that, no, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/hamas-didnt-kidnap-the-israeli-teens-after-all.html" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;" target="_blank">it appears it was not Hamas, passes by largely unnoticed.</a></span></h4>
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Statistics regarding destruction in Gaza from July 8, 2014 to August 3, 2014: 1,743 Palestinians killed [396 children; 230 women]; 9,100 injured [2,767 children; 1,814 women]; 10,080 houses targeted [1,556 totally destroyed; 8,424 partially]; 24 hospitals and medical clinics partially damaged; 167 schools targeted; 6 universities destroyed; 20 charities destroyed; 118 mosques shelled; total number of internally displaced [rendered homeless]: 450,000; 8 water pumping and sewage stations bombed - 700,000 people now without water. For a complete list, see, <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/politics/politico/8369-statistics-on-the-israeli-offensive-against-gaza" target="_blank">HERE</a> and <a href="http://www.minfo.ps/English/index.php?pagess=main&id=2306&butt=5" target="_blank">HERE</a></h4>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">[1] </span><a href="http://972mag.com/how-europes-jews-lost-their-humanity-in-gaza/94759/?fb_comment_id=fbc_748760915186271_748837901845239_748837901845239#f20140b8cc" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">How Europe's Jews Lost Their Humanity in Gaza</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">; Gilad Isaacs; August 1, 2014, +972 Magazine; </span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">[2] </span><a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/letter-ramallah#" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from Ramallah</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">;</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;"> Ben Ehrenreich, The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 23, 2014;</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Following the Israeli army’s breach of the humanitarian truce on the morning of Friday 1st August 2014 and its incursion into Eastern Rafah and its on-going shelling and deployment of snipers in Gaza, a massacre, which is still on-going, was committed against innocent civilians in Rafah which led to the death of tens of Palestinians. The justification for this massacre was the alleged capture of an Israeli soldier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We, Al-Qassam Brigades, after carrying out an internal investigation, would like to confirm the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Since Friday dawn what happened was that the Israeli forces led an incursion 2 kilometres into Eastern Rafah at night, taking advantage of talks regarding the suggested humanitarian truce. We believe that clashes took place as a result between the enemy and our ambush at the site at the time. The clashes began at 7.00am, before the proposed truce was in effect, while the enemy launched its attack on civilians at 10.00am, blatantly violating the truce in aims of finding a missing soldier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. We have lost contact with our members at the ambush and believe that they have been martyred in the attack and that the missing soldier was killed, that’s on the assumption that he was captured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Al-Qassam Brigades have no knowledge regarding the soldier missing in action or his location or the circumstances of his disappearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. We have notified mediators which arranged the humanitarian ceasefire that we agree to ceasefire on Israeli territories, but for all practical purposes we cannot ceasefire against advancing enemy troops which are on the move all the time as they engage with our forces and<br />that leads to scrimmages.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Cease-fire Announcement in Gaza</span><br /><span class="document_type_-_speaker_writer" style="border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Media Note</span><span class="official_s_bureau" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Office of the Spokesperson</span><span class="location-" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington, DC</span>July 31, 2014<br /><a class="addthis_button_facebook at300b" href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/07/230067.htm#" style="border: 0px; color: #185a9c; cursor: pointer; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; text-decoration: none;" title="Facebook"><span class="at16nc at300bs at15nc at15t_facebook at16t_facebook" style="background: url(http://ct1.addthis.com/static/r07/widget016_top.gif) 0px -272px no-repeat; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 16px;"><span class="at_a11y" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important; top: auto !important; width: 1px !important;">Share on facebook</span></span></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter at300b" href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/07/230067.htm#" style="border: 0px; color: #185a9c; cursor: pointer; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; text-decoration: none;" title="Tweet"><span class="at16nc at300bs at15nc at15t_twitter at16t_twitter" style="background: url(http://ct1.addthis.com/static/r07/widget016_top.gif) 0px -832px no-repeat; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 16px;"><span class="at_a11y" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important; top: auto !important; width: 1px !important;">Share on twitter</span></span></a><iframe data-gapiattached="true" frameborder="0" hspace="0" id="I0_1406846612572" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I0_1406846612572" scrolling="no" src="https://apis.google.com/u/0/_/+1/fastbutton?usegapi=1&annotation=none&size=small&hl=en-US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.state.gov&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.state.gov%2Fr%2Fpa%2Fprs%2Fps%2F2014%2F07%2F230067.htm&gsrc=3p&ic=1&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en.kt-HNFkA3QM.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DAQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Ft%3Dzcms%2Frs%3DAItRSTNhbBubollBiuzvV-ek1BYO1uE4SQ#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh&id=I0_1406846612572&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.state.gov&pfname=&rpctoken=39523906" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 15px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; top: 0px; visibility: visible; width: 24px;" tabindex="0" title="+1" vspace="0" width="100%"></iframe><br /><a addthis:description="" addthis:title="Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Cease-fire Announcement in Gaza" class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" style="border: 0px; color: #185a9c; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Share" border="0" src="http://www.state.gov/images/btn-share.png" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></a><hr class="separator" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20px;" />
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States Secretary of State John Kerry announce that the United Nations Representative in Jerusalem, Special Coordinator Robert Serry, has received assurances that all parties have agreed to an unconditional humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.</h4>
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<br />This humanitarian cease-fire will commence at 8 am local time on Friday, August 1, 2014. It will last for a period of 72 hours unless extended.</h4>
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<br />During this time the forces on the ground will remain in place.<br />We urge all parties to act with restraint until this humanitarian cease-fire begins, and to fully abide by their commitments during the cease-fire.</h4>
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<br />This cease-fire is critical to giving innocent civilians a much-needed reprieve from violence. During this period, civilians in Gaza will receive urgently needed humanitarian relief, and the opportunity to carry out vital functions, including burying the dead, taking care of the injured, and restocking food supplies. Overdue repairs on essential water and energy infrastructure could also continue during this period.</h4>
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<br />Israeli and Palestinian delegations will immediately be going to Cairo for negotiations with the Government of Egypt, at the invitation of Egypt, aimed at reaching a durable cease-fire. The parties will be able to raise all issues of concern in these negotiations.</h4>
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<br />We thank key regional stakeholders for their vital support of this process, and count on a continued collaborative international effort to assist Egypt and the parties reach a durable cease-fire as soon as possible.</h4>
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<span itemprop="name" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b>July 30, 2014 </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>- </b></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Ministry of Health, Gaza, is outraged at the Israeli massacre perpetrated [today] during the so-called humanitarian ceasefire, when F-16s fired missiles into the crowded Shujeiyah market as hundreds took advantage of the lull to buy food and supplies.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">At least 17 people have been killed and 200 injured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">"Not satisfied with exterminating entire families in their own homes; not satisfied with killing people praying in mosques; not satisfied with killing patients, staff and visitors in hospitals; not satisfied with killing ambulance drivers as they retrieve the dead and injured; not satisfied with killing women and children sheltering in UNRWA schools; the Israeli death machine now blatantly attacks a crowded public market DURING a humanitarian ceasefire, in an unrivaled cruel and cynical exercise of savagery and barbarism."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">"The Ministry of Health Gaza condemns this latest atrocity in the strongest possible terms, and considers that any further prevarication by the international community can only be seen as complicity in the increasingly barbaric and clearly genocidal war crimes being visited on the citizenry of Gaza."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">"The Ministry demands immediate international intervention to bring the rogue ‘state’ of Israel under control, and an immediate end to its carnage in Gaza."</span></div>
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