Max Blumenthal, Electronic Intifada. December 5, 2010.
The devastating fire has revealed a sad truth: Israel has prioritized offensive military capacity so extensively that it has completely neglected the welfare of its citizens.
'Anyone who does not agree with the government and/or military policy is perceived as a traitor. Democracy is to be feared and freedom of speech has become profanity.'
Men, women and children gathered in the Saturday heat and stayed well into a rainy evening in solidarity with besieged Gaza and the Turkish victims of the IDF.
The IDF said it was authorized to use rubber bullets against Palestinian protesters last month, but X-rays showed a conventional bullet lodged in the skull of one of the victims.
"Abandon the people, leave the people to despair and desperation, and that will make the politics more difficult going forward," says UNRWA Director John Ging.
In his Nobel speech, Obama slipped decades of violent U.S. foreign policy behind the phrase "whatever mistakes we have made," while asserting the morality of U.S. interventions.
The decision to build the houses in Adam, north of Jerusalem, came despite repeated U.S. calls for Israel to halt all settlement activity in order to relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians.
