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Egypt Proposes Cease-Fire; Israel Attacks Gaza School

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Posted on Jan 6, 2009
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Palestinian medics carry the body of a child, who according to Palestinian medical sources was killed in Israeli forces’ operations in Gaza. An Israeli bombardment hit outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, and Palestinian medics said at least 34 people died as a result.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak presented a cease-fire proposal Tuesday that would buy time to negotiate a long-term agreement. Israel continued its offensive in Gaza, meanwhile, shelling a United Nations school. At least 30 people, children among them, were killed by the attack, which Israel said was aimed at militants.


BBC:

At least 30 people were killed and 55 injured when Israeli artillery shells landed outside a United Nations-run school in Gaza, UN officials have said.

A number of children were among those who died when the al-Fakhura school in the Jabaliya refugee camp was hit, doctors at nearby hospitals said.

Israel said its soldiers had come under fire from militants inside the school.

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By Folktruther, January 9 at 5:22 pm #

Israel is not only attacking UN schools and facilities, it is attacking, and killing UN aid workers distributiing food and medicine.  This is done to increase the effectiveness of the starvation blockade, which has reached the point that Palesitians are literally starving to death, especially children. The attack on the UN has forced the UN to stop delivering food, the only food source in the blockade.

The political purpose is to decrease the Palestinian population, to make their expulsion easier when the time comes.  A sigificant fraction of the Israeli power structure now favors ethnic cleansing and has led an iincreasing fraction of the population to endorse it.  The TD ziofascists endorse it under the guise of a two-state solution.

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By cyrena, January 9 at 10:19 am #

•  “…Certainly if you want to kill all the Muslim traitors to the cause you probably want to kill the Jews all over the world. After all, they are the real problem, right? And in fact lists of Jews to be assassinated are being drawn up by Muslims in places like Belgium and Great Britain. And in fact some prominant Muslims would like to bring that sort of thing to the US…”

Ozark Michael,

Can you VERIFY any of this? It sounds very rhetorical OM, like you just heard it from somewhere and decided to repeat it.

So, I guess I don’t believe you. There is NOTHING to indicate that ANYBODY “wants to kill Jews all over the world” and nobody said they were the ‘real problem’. There are approximately 7 million people living in Israel, and while the majority of them are obviously Jews, they don’t ALL believe that the genocide of the Palestinian population is the answer to the security issues.
The same can be said of American Jews and Jews of other nations around the globe. There are dozens of Jews, in dozens of Jewish Organizations working themselves to the frazzle to address what they know themselves to be Crimes Against Humanity, perpetrated by the Israelis against the Palestinians, and this has been on going for decades!!

So, please stop with all of the standard bullshit drama. That was a UNITED NATIONS SCHOOL that Israel blasted, and there were NO MILITANTS there! Stop believing all the bullshit, and read and find this stuff out for yourself Ozark Mike!!

Arafat is DEAD, and has been for a long time. This isn’t about Arafat, so why did you even bring him up? This is about Israel using their last chance to destroy whatever they can of the Palestinians while they still have their ‘protection’ in the White House. Israel knows damn well that they won’t be able to continue these crimes with a new Administration, just like they know that the new Admins hands are completely tied until after Jan 20th.

Don’t be so gullible and ready to believe the extremists here or anywhere else. Check the history OM, it’s just not that difficult to put together.

Do you see any photos of militants hiding in hospital basements or schools? Do you have even a CLUE to the set-up on the ground there, to even know if this is possible? NO!!

Did you follow any of the links to actually read the article? Apparently not. It’s actually pretty informative, since it’s at least from the BBC, as opposed to US or Israeli press. That doesn’t make it a WHOLE LOT better, but if you read the article, you’ll hear from the UN guy who doesn’t have any reason to lie. (That’s ALL the Israelis do).

Now go read the stuff for Christ’s sake.

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By OzarkMichael, January 7 at 4:13 pm #

Qouted from one of the Truthdiggers: “The liberation of Palestine must go first over his filthy corpse and the corps of most other sell-out Arab despots working as servants and puppets of the American-Zionist complex of evil.”

I had some doubts about what israel was doing. It is evil to kill anyone. Reading the above and much of what is written here makes me reconsider my doubts.

Certainly if you want to kill all the Muslim traitors to the cause you probably want to kill the Jews all over the world. After all, they are the real problem, right? And in fact lists of Jews to be assassinated are being drawn up by Muslims in places like Belgium and Great Britain. And in fact some prominant Muslims would like to bring that sort of thing to the US.

i oppose this. I would go to some trouble to prevent it from happening in the US. If that makes me Islamophobic so be it. 

The end result of what you Truthdiggers have written here is enough to banish any reservations I had about what israel is doing in Gaza. Instead I wonder if Israel made a mistake by ever engaging in dialogue with Arafat. They should never have allowed any steps towards autonomy.

Down with Hamas for hiding in the basements of hospital and schools. 
Down with Hamas for HOPING to kill children in Israel with their rockets and even hoping to get their own hamas children killed in Gaza.

Israel wants no children killed anywhere, Hamas would gladly sacrifice them all. That alone should tell you something.

The UN spends almost 1/2 its time talking about and upbraiding Israel. Is Israel really such a mighty empire? No, it is tiny.

Is Israel really where evil is so prevalent in the world? No, there are far worse regimes, many of them in muslim countries. I propose that there is more evil in gaza itself than in Israel. i hear that the latest UN proposal mentions israel repeatedly but makes no mention of Hamas.

I reject this mainstream media and UN hypocrisy. If that makes me a Zionist controlled American so be it. i dont even know any jewish people but so be it.

Even if everyone in the world joins in sympathy with the Hamas terrorists, i will not be swayed but rather strengthened. I would rather stand with the Jews and share their fate than support the Islamic supremicists who now use both terror and the UN to advance their empire.

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By Fadel Abdallah, January 7 at 2:36 pm #

Hosni Mubarak working for peace?!

This fucken bloody sell-out is a major part of the problem. He sold his soul, his people and all his fellow Arabs and Muslims for a few billion dollars from the Zionist-controlled America. So whenever he is involved in any thing, you can be sure he is on the side of evil!

The liberation of Palestine must go first over his filthy corpse and the corps of most other sell-out Arab despots working as servants and puppets of the American-Zionist complex of evil.

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By Purple Girl, January 7 at 11:40 am #

Israeli is not a ‘sovereign’ nation, they are a parasite on American foreign Policy for nearly 60 yrs.
Pray Tell What has Israel done for US in return for our Protection, Our Funding and our weaponry?Nothing, except step aside when the Punch is thrown by their enemies.I have no Doubt WE will suffer for this genocide, this ‘shooting fish in a Barrel’Israeli free for all. It will be OUR embassies and Tourist who will pay the ultimate cost..AGAIN!
Israel has no resources, no products, no Influence, Just Brick & Mortar of Unsubstantiated ‘Holy’ sites.
Israel has not been a Friend to Americans, they have been the cause of our heartaches for decades. consider the reaction which will come in Afghanistan & Iraq…How many more of OUR kids will be targeted becasue of the israeli slaughter in Gaza. How many of OUR embassies and nationals will be the focus of retribution. Hell Of a ‘Friend’! should we face another ‘terrorist’ anywhere, lets Hold Legally Responsible all those who allowed this Delusion of Invinciblity by Israel.So Bush it is not just the 30 children or the 600 civilians, or even the 10 Israeli’s Blood you will have upon your hands, but EVERYONE who will ultimatley be caught in the cross fire of this never ending war throughout the world, Esp US citizens for decades to come.Bush just assured the ‘Crisis in the Middle East’ and ‘Terrorist Attack’ will remain in the headlines for generation to come.Amazing that after millenia of slaughering each other has not exposed the truth that killing each other has not solved anything. Apparently being considered a ‘crusader’ carries more Public Accolades than being a servant to Gods commandments. Not only ‘thous Shall Not kill’, But also Idoltry..Thats all those Brick & Mortar ‘holy’ sites represent…Idol worship, No different than the Cow! I’m pretty sure Moses, Jesus and Mohammad would have condemned such acts of Granduer and sacrifics in the name of Books and buildings.

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By abdo, January 7 at 3:35 am #

betraying the palestinian cause is a fatal sin in Egyptian history. Mobarak is trying to save his neck by trying to ride the waves of cease fire policy. I believe his rotten role came to an end.

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By Robert, January 7 at 1:57 am #

OBAMA’S DELIBERATE SILENCE IS PUZZLING !

If the 600 plus Palestinian civilian casualties (women, men, children)who were massacred by Israel’s brutal IDF which we have witnessed today & previous days from various news sources were Israeli civilian casualties,...WOULD OBAMA REMAIN SILENT?

WOULD HIS ZIONIST ADVISERS & AIPAC’S CONTROLLED MSM ALLOW HIM TO REMAIN SILENT WHEN IT COMES TO ISRAELI/JEWISH CIVILIAN CASUALTIES?

I just wonder what lies & zionist advice is Condi,  Hiliary, Rhambo & Axlerod are giving Obama.

From the way things look…it looks like they have muffled Obama mouth!

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By nestoffour, January 7 at 1:20 am #

I am utterly ashamed and disgusted of belonging to the human race.

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By Howard, January 7 at 12:59 am #

Hamas cannot govern. Harmful to the whole world.  Let Egypt take them back and rule over them. Be responsible for them, feed them, etc.  The gazans are mainly egyptians anyway.  Then the security of Israel would be ok finally, and peace could get started properly.

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By Folktruther, January 7 at 12:39 am #

The best thing that could happen for the Palestinians, and people of the world, is for the Eygpian people to overthrow the Mubarak regime, which is on the Amerian payroll.  An Egptian student once explained to me that the long thin population along the nile made the secret police of Eygpt very effective.  It was hard to understand what he meant.

If the Muslim people get indignant enough to overthrow the puppets that the West funds to oppress the people, the Palestinian sacrifice would not have been in vain, becaue they could then support the Palestinians.

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By Bboy56, January 6 at 11:50 pm #
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There needs to be outrage in the US about this, not just the other nations. This is unacceptable.

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By niloroth, January 6 at 11:06 pm #

So hamas uses the children at the school as human shields against the isrealis, and when the isrealis fire back, they get the flack?

I don’t really have much vested interest in either side of this conflict, but the reporting and comments on this site are so biased it is amazing.

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By omop, January 6 at 9:59 pm #

As GWB regurgitates, “Israel has the right to defend itself”, and as echoed by Obama, ” I would attack anyone that shoots missiles at my daughters”.

Selected photos of children in Gaza.

  http://portail.islamboutique.fr/gaza2008/

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By eileen fleming, January 6 at 8:25 pm #

Israel will LOSE due to BAD PR: The TRUTH


Doctor Decries Israeli Attacks


“This is all out war on a civilian population”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6ojm62qwA

Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population.


e http://www.wearewideawake.org

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By troublesum, January 6 at 8:05 pm #

Who can justify the killing of infants and children?  The blood on the hands of the Israeli leaders will never be cleansed.

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By skulz fontaine, January 6 at 7:53 pm #

In other news, Israel continued being offensive and their war crimes mounted. The Israeli politburo needs an afternoon with Mr. Guillotine.

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