Blue Herald

 This is so wrong……..
Seven Palestinian scholars may lose their prized Fulbright scholarships to attend American universities because Israel won’t let them out of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians are clearly angry at Israel for its refusal to let them leave, but they are also annoyed at the United States for being unable to influence its Mideast [...]

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*More than 80% of population rely on humanitarian aid
*Unemployment about 40%
*No running water for 25-30% of Gazans
Gaza’s humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups.
They include Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid.
They criticise Israel’s blockade on Gaza as [...]

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Again, whatever they do is A-ok.
Israel’s military killed at least 60 Palestinians yesterday - almost half of them civilians, including four children - in its most violent assault on the Gaza Strip since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power last June.
The latest deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed since a rocket [...]

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says it was a failure. Put Condi in charge of anything other than her daily workout and it’s bound for failure.
Arab commentators on Wednesday dismissed the relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian talks as a U.S.’staged media event unlikely to lead to Middle East peace.
Some argued that U.S. President George W. [...]

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From CounterPunch:
By SONJA KARKAR
No one seems to hear the cries from Gaza enough to act, despite the reports that talk about imminent economic collapse, dangerous food shortages, total aid dependency and impending humanitarian disaster. Neither the cries nor the reports appear in the headlines or news alerts in our mainstream media. And, while [...]

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As her father disconnects the plastic tube from her throat, six-year-old Maria Aman’s face contorts as though she has been pushed through an air-lock in space. Hamdi, her father, has 50 seconds to clean her breathing tube before she runs out of air.
Paralysed from the neck down, Maria cannot breathe without a special ventilator. [...]

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Long overdue…….
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
In recent years, conservative evangelicals who claim a Biblical mandate to protect Israel have built a bulwark of support for the Jewish nation - sending donations, denouncing its critics and urging it not to evacuate settlements or forfeit territory.
Now more than 30 evangelical leaders are stepping forward to say these efforts [...]

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Sound familiar? Gee, did Cheney take his cue from them? And isn’t it ironic that a country with many citizens who were tortured by Nazis would now think it’s ok to torture Palestinians? What’s wrong with that picture???
By Aviram Zino
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) on Wednesday slammed thee [...]

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by Mike Whitney
When Hamas gunmen stormed the Fatah security compounds in Gaza last week they found huge supplies of American-made weaponry including 7,400 M-16 assault rifles, dozens of mounted machine guns, rocket launchers, 7 armored military jeeps, 800,000 rounds of bullets and 18 US-made armored personnel carriers. They also discovered something far more valuable— CIA [...]

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Oh what a shock, eh?
By Uri Blau
At least 25 percent of the structures built by Israelis in the West Bank’s Area C (full Israeli control) were constructed on private Arab-owned land, an internal report by the Civil Administration found.
According to the report, only 0.5 percent of the illegal structures were [...]

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