Sunday, March 22, 2009

Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings

Insomniac: wars create monsters - Israel has many monsters.
If this isn't enough evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing policy, I don't know what is.






http://www.haber27.com/news_detail.php?id=25187
20 Mart 2009 Cuma 17:06

The Israeli army is at the centre of a second controversy over the moral conduct of its soldiers in as many days.

The revelations centre on t-shirt designs made for soldiers that make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children and include images of dead babies and destroyed mosques.

The t-shirts were printed for Israeli soldiers at the end of periods of deployment or training courses and were discovered by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

One, printed for a platoon of Israeli snipers depicts an armed Palestinian pregnant women caught in the crosshairs of a rifle, with the disturbing caption in English: "1 shot 2 kills".

Another depicts a child carrying a gun also in the centre of a target.

"The smaller, the harder," read the words on the t-shirt.

According to a soldier interviewed by the newspaper, the message has a double meaning: "It's a kid, so you've got a little more of a problem, morally and also the target is smaller."

Another shows an Israeli soldier blowing up a mosque and reads "Only God forgives".

Above a ninja figure, yet another shirt bears the slogan "Won't chill until I confirm a kill".

The revelations, coming so soon after Israel's offensive in Gaza in which hundreds of civilians were killed - many of them women and children - are causing outrage.

Perhaps the most shocking design shows a Palestinian mother weeping next to her dead baby's grave, also in the crosshairs of a rifle.

It suggests it would have been better if the child had never been born, with the slogan "Better use Durex".

The controversy follows more revelations by other soldiers about abuses and the shooting of civilians during Israel's offensive during the Gaza offensive.

Ex-soldier and campaigner with Breaking The Silence, Michael Maniken, told Sky News Online this week's revelations suggest a pattern of immoral conduct in the army.

"The army keeps on saying we're talking about a few rotten apples but it seems the army doesn't understand there's a norm in this kind of action," he explained.

"We're hearing about this time and time again and the army seems disconnected from reality."

A spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) told Sky News Online, the t-shirts were printed on the private initiative of the soldiers and their designs "are not in accordance with IDF values and are simply tasteless. This type of humour is unacceptable and should be condemned

Babar Ahmad wins damages (please continue to appeal for his release)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Gaza Fact Sheets in stock now!

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Monday, March 16, 2009

Anti-Israel protest staged at Sweden tennis match

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5261R220090307

MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Anti-Israeli protesters clashed with riot police outside an Israeli-Swedish Davis Cup tennis match in Sweden on Saturday, but did not break through police lines.

Due to security concerns, the three-day match is being played in an empty stadium in this southwestern port city, which has a large immigrant population.

Several hundred left-wing militants carrying banners saying "Turn left, smash right," and "Boycott Israel" joined a peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstration by about 6,000 people.

About 200 of the militants began pelting police with stones, fireworks and paint bombs, Reuters witnesses said, while organizers of the official demonstration shouted at the masked protesters not to use violence against the authorities.

Police said they arrested eight protesters and detained more than 100, most of whom were released after identity checks.

Malmo, which is Sweden's third largest city and is ruled by a left-of-center coalition, was heavily criticized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and by Israeli players for its decision to close the stadium to the public.

Around 1,000 police officers have cordoned off a large area around the stadium to prevent protesters from getting in.

Sweden took a 2-1 lead over Israel on Saturday when Robert Lindstedt and Simon Aspelin won the doubles match over Andy Ram and Amir Hadad. The best-of-five tie will be wrapped up on Sunday.

Tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors have been heightened by a three-week Israeli offensive in the Gaza strip which began on December 27 and killed about 1,300 Palestinians and 14 Israelis.

(Additional reporting by Oliver Grassman; Reporting by Kim McLaughlin; Editing by Charles Dick)

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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Campaign to boycott Israeli products in 50 West Bank towns

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=36289

Date: 07 / 03 / 2009 Time: 13:52
[Ma'anImages]
Nablus – Ma'an – Palestinian activists will launch a boycott campaign in the coming days targeting Israeli products in 50 villages in the northern West Bank.

The chair of the Popular Committees in Nablus, Khalid Mansour, told Ma'an that according to official statistics, Palestinians consume 2.6 billion shekels worth of Israeli goods each year. According to official Palestinian statistics, 28 percent of this money goes towards the purchase of Israeli cement.

Palestinians consume 30 million shekels worth of medicines produced in Israel every year, and 10 million worth of gold manufactured in Israel.

Mansour explained that subcommittees will be formed in each of the 50 villages in order to monitor the boycott and speak about the campaign in schools.

"We know change will go slowly, but we are determined to imitate what Gandhi did in India when he boycotted English salt," Mansour said.

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Academics blast Science Museum’s Israel Day

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23656652-details/Academics+blast+Science+Museum+s+Israel+Day/article.do


Mark Prigg, Science Correspondent

03.03.09 THE Science Museum was today accused of promoting Israeli universities whose research was used in the military campaign in Gaza.

More than 400 academics, a Nobel laureate and the former chairman of the Commons science select committee urged the museum to cancel workshops due to be held this week that showcase Israeli scientific achievements for children.

They accuse the London museum of promoting scientists and universities “complicit in the Israeli occupation and in the policies and weaponry recently deployed to such disastrous effect in Gaza”, and vowed to picket the event if it goes ahead.

The Israel Day of Science seminars highlight the work of seven universities. Forty professors and politicians are among the signatories who want the workshops cancelled. They include Jonathan Rosenhead from the London School of Economics, who is leading the protest, Steven Rose from the Open University and architect and historian Charles Jencks.

The Zionist Federation is running the seminars at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry today and at the Science Museum on Thursday. The federation's chairman, Andrew Balcombe, said the events were educational and non-political.

The Science Museum said in a statement: “Scientists speaking at the event include a marine biologist, a physicist who works on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, a nanotechnology expert, a water scientist and a geneticist.”

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Help Keep Rachel Corrie's Memory Alive

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