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    • New York Times Tags : world, israel, gaza, attack, killed Posted: Saturday , Dec 27, 2008 at 0052 hrs
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    Israeli military confirmed they had conducted strikes, saying they targeted ‘terrorist infrastructure’.

    The Israeli PM Ehud Olmert appealed to the Gazans to reject Hamas and the rocket launchers in an interview with the Al Arabiya Arabic satellite television station on Thursday.

    In Israel, the authorities seemed braced for yet more rocket fire from Hamas. The Home Front Command declared a “special situation” in all communities up to 12 miles from the Gaza border, Israel Radio said. Bomb shelters in all those communities have been opened, and residents have been asked not to congregate out of doors and to remain in protected areas, the radio said.

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    Obama's stand on crisis in gazaBy: shahrokh | 29-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward I have contemplated on Mr. Obamas remarks at the start of the Israeli attacks on Ghaza when he was saying that he would have probably done the same as Israelis if his two daughter's lives were endangered by rocket fires. I am quoting Mr. Obama's pre-innaguration meeting with Israelis that was broadcasted by CNN. I have some thing to say about this and that is : Mr. President, I would not kill hundreds of innocent civilians including women and children and destroy structures and livelihoods of an entire city just to protect my two daughters from possible attacks from an enemy. And I personally don't think your two daughters are cute enough to justify your earlier stand on this issue.
    Isreali War CrimeBy: Sahir | 31-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward Israel's bombardment of Gaza bears all the hallmarks of war crimes, In the context of total aerial supremacy, in which one side in a conflict deploys lethal aircraft against opponents with no means of defending themselves, the bombardment bears all the hallmarks of war crimes. The attacks, in retaliation for rockets fired by the Palestinians, would not contribute to the security of Israel, "It is a blight not only on the Middle East, but on the entire world - and particularly world leaders who have consistently failed the people of Palestine and Israel over the past 60 years." More than 270 people were killed in the attacks on Saturday.
    ISRAELI ATTACKS CONDEMNEDBy: NAVEED AHMED AWAN | 31-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward I ASK ONE QUESTION, WHY NOT AMERICA AND OTHER POWERS ARE ABLE TO STOP THE ISRAELI ATTACKS ON GHAZA...THE ANS IS THAT THESE POWERS WATNS TO STRENGTHEN THE POWER OF ISRAEL...THE ROLE OF THE WROLD IS MIGHT IS RIGHT ...THE MUSLIMS MUST BE UNITE AND HELP GHAZA AND ATTACKS GHAZA.
    TerrorBy: Sahir | 29-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward Normative rules are determined by power relations. Those with power determine what is legal and illegal. They besiege the weak in legal prohibitions to prevent the weak from resisting. For the weak to resist is illegal by definition. Concepts like terrorism are invented and used normatively as if a neutral court had produced them, instead of the oppressors. The danger in this excessive use of legality actually undermines legality, diminishing the credibility of international institutions such as the United Nations. It becomes apparent that the powerful, those who make the rules, insist on legality merely to preserve the power relations that serve them or to maintain their occupation and colonialism as in the case of Israel.
    TerrorrismBy: Sahir | 29-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward Terrorism is a normative term and not a descriptive concept. An empty word that means everything and nothing, it is used to describe what the Other does, not what we do. The powerful – whether Israel, America, Russia or China – will always describe their victims' struggle as terrorism, but the destruction of Chechnya, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the slow slaughter of the remaining Palestinians, the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan – with the tens of thousands of civilians it has killed … these will never earn the title of terrorism, though civilians were the target and terrorising them was the purpose
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