CNN just announced that Israeli is launching a ground invasion “after ten days of Hamas attacks by land air and sea.” There was no questioning of that quite incredible statement. Talk about the big lie.
In a strange way I prefer this to the continued aerial bombardment, because at least the Palestinians will be able to fight back to some extent. I do hope the Palestinian defenders have a good deal of success against the Israeli tanks. Let us hope the IDF get a bloody nose like they did in Lebanon 2006.
UPDATE
The heroic Israelis have killed a five month old baby with a tank. Hope they are very proud of themselves.
Thanks John. From the petition website,
‘To many, particularly in Europe and North America, calling for companies to withdraw investments from financing or taking part in Israel’s occupation of Palestine sounds completely biased. But it’s not — this is the most potent non-violent strategy to end the ritual violence, ensure Israelis’ security and achieve Palestinian freedom. Israel’s power and wealth dwarfs Palestine, and if it refuses to end its illegal occupation, the world must act to make the cost unbearable.
Dutch pension fund, ABP, invests in Israeli banks that help fund the colonisation of Palestine. Massive banks like Barclays invest in suppliers of Israeli arms and other occupation businesses. British G4S provides extensive security equipment used by the Israeli Defence Force in the occupation. France’s Veolia operates transport for Israeli settlers illegally living on Palestinian lands. Computer giant Hewlett-Packard supplies sophisticated surveillance to control the movement of Palestinians. And Caterpillar provides bulldozers that are used to demolish Palestinian homes and farms.’
Determined and relentless. Have you noticed that the propaganda message has now been switched from ‘rockets’ to ‘terrrrrr tunnels into Israel’?
Breaking news 18 July 2014
Israel may widen Gaza offensive –
Israel prepared to significantly widen ground offensive in Gaza, PM Netanyahu says
More to follow.
When the IDF infantry go in, then it will become as close to a air fight as it will ever get.
Their special forces already got a bloody nose with their commando attack from the sea. I hope that this trend continues.
The world has protested against Israel’s crimes, but the worlds media has hushed that up.
Those that write history will always cast themselves as the great and the good.
Thank god that there is an alternative.
The evil is all interconnected and money is at the root of it all.Israel is propped up by money printed from thin air.Who owns the media and the banks and our Government.Who runs the US ? It will take a revolution to change any of it.
Blessed are the cheesemakers !
The petition link you supplied, JG –
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?sXKedbb
seems to be clicking away nicely. Over 170,000 signatures for divestment from Israel by major finance institutions.
South African signers are prominent, I see. They know better than most what apartheid means.
This is the new spokesperson for the IDF war criminals Peter Lerner, born here and ex resident of the UK until he made aliyah.
http://about.me/ptrlrnr
Note how many international outfits have given Lerner houseroom.
Replacing that motormouth Avital who has moved on to other things. Perhaps she could not stomach her role as mouthpiece for the murderers any longer.
http://www.jta.org/2014/04/01/news-opinion/united-states/avital-leibovich-ex-idf-spokeswoman-named-head-of-ajc-jerusalem-offic
Note how many international outfits have given Lerner houseroom.
There is a special unit for the stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Spokesperson's_Unit How very thorough they are. So like the Nazis/Stasi.
“The Great Goddess, to whom the land of Palestine originally belonged, is always tripping them up and seducing them into folly. Belili, hear earliest name, they spell Belial, meaning Utter Destruction.”
Robert Graves in King Jesus (1946)
Ba’al can’t hear me (what a shame!) but the petition is addressed not only to financial institutions but to the likes of Caterpillar, Veolia, HP and G4S.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/07/gaza-invasion/#comment-467629
Thanks to Craig and to all for info and updates on these war crimes. Nothing to see, move along now, in MSM. Comments? Not a snowflake in hell’s chance.
Hmm … strange … I read about someone hoping for Israelis death, almost as if making that kind of death acceptable, while the death of Palestinians if presented – and, of course, it is – as a tragedy.
Would anyone please be so kind as to explain me how many Israelis have to die in order to have the same value as one Palestinian death, in the eyes of the author ?
Weren’t some Israeli teenagers abducted and killed, not too long ago ?
Who killed them ? I don’t recall of any post about that from Mr Craig Murray, here.
“The heroic Israelis have killed a five month old baby with a tank. Hope they are very proud of themselves”
They are.
They always are,
When you have a serving Israeli Parlimentarian saying Arab women should be killed because they will give birth to snakes.
What do you think Israel cares about the death of a “snake”?
Would anyone please be so kind as to explain me how many Israelis have to die in order to have the same value as one Palestinian death, in the eyes of the author ?
Approximately 0.01, going by figures generated since the Intifada, and assuming the books are currently balanced. At least, that seems to be the IDF’s assumption.
Glad to be of assistance.
Actually, we seem to be a little short at only 240 or so Pals for three settler teenagers. But I’m sure the difference will be made up somehow.
John Goss I am told (having eagerly subscribed to Avaaz some years back) that this petition site is funded by George Soros.
Not in a position to verify, sadly.
Sadder still, sickening/excruciating there just are no words to describe
the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.
Unbelievable and unconscionable,
as now
two Malaysian 777’s ex-Amsterdam have met their demise
Also, I signed the petition to Ban-Ki-Moon to have Bliar removed as envoy to ME.
Somehow, it is obvious to me that the Masters of the UNiverse are the final arbiters for the interests of the NWO
as BRICS faces off with the dying/dead ‘western emperors’.
Blimey:
We shouldn’t be embarrassed about wanting to see a murderous invasion repelled, and I for one am not. The cheering Sderot residents don’t appear to have been mentioned in your post.
Two Israelis have died during this conflict, one soldier today and another one taking food to soldiers at a checkpoint a day or so ago. They called him a civilian but feeding an army is a military support role.
If only Israel had such a good record of avoiding civilian casualties.
Twp
Robert Graves, whom I met, romanticised Europe’s religion of Romantic Love i.e. putting faith in finding the ideal woman, with descriptions of mediterranean landscape, mythology and romantic poetry.
His research and his poetry therefore made him a High Priest of Falsehood. Two world wars were fought entirely for economic/political gain with the false slogans of Romantic Love/Freedom on the one side and Brutality/Control on the other.
A totally false dichotomy. We are being served the same rubbish to this day, and we were served the same rubbish before. The Powers that be hate the moral factor of the religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They don’t want the Criterion of Right / Wrong to exist.
So they create Calvinism, a black-clothed, indiscriminately murderous ( one of my Kurdish family have just been killed by Daish in Kirkuk ) extremism which all intelligent, moral human beings will find abhorrent, in the hope that people will be blown back on the re-bound into Romanticism )( Totalitarianism.
Islam is a religion of recognising the Creator and worshipping Him, establishing the moral laws of Right / Wrong. Nothing could be further from Islam than the many manifestations of Zionist neo-Calvinism.
Those French are at the vanguard of the wave of suppression All in good taste of course!
However an earlier DM article was;
Paris bans pro-Palestinian protest amid tensions
Meanwhile even in the small towns and villages the solidarity with the Palestinians is manifest judging by the numbers of people marching and demonstrating to show their disgust at the inhuman and barbaric behaviour of the land stealing genocidal zionist mad dogs.
However given the frequency of the Cobra meetings will the prime minster call a Cobra meeting, for an emergency in our street; there is five year old girl who has grazed her keen after tripping and falling on the pavement, and I hear Mrs. Wiggins car tyre is punctured!
These Cobra meetings are getting more and more regular for even the tiniest of the reasons, is there an attendance allowance issue?
Babushka, you said it right, with the wisdom of one with the experience of life. This explains just what it is about but I suspect it will not be long before the trolls dub me anti-Israeli. The Zionists control everything. “But people are sarting to learn.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw9EhjyU3JU&list=PLE0b9_k_JR1UcsC9Mhmuj6YpUfAjaH7Cn#t=837
“But people are starting to learn.”
A great revelation from Rabbi Michael Lerner.
“Hamas is “objectively even if not subjectively” the best friend of the Israeli settlers, right-wing Israeli extremists, and the Netanyahu government.“
http://rehmat1.com/2014/07/18/rabbi-lerner-hamas-is-a-friend-of-netanyahu/
Ba’al Zevul (With Gaza) 18 Jul, 2014 – 11:11 am
I’m pleased to see the petition going so well. I think it was around 150,000 when I signed. Keep it going all you who want justice for the Palestinians and others living in Gaza.
@Passerby
The JTA, Tablet magazine and the rest of Israel hasbara media has claimed that hatred toward Jews is on the rise thanks to seven million French Muslims who don’t even have a single member in French parliament. The Jewish Agency for Israel, which is dedicated to bringing European Jews to settle on Arab lands in Israel and the west Bank, has announced that it expects over 5,000 French Jews to immigrate to Israel by the end of this year.
http://rehmat1.com/2014/07/18/report-5000-scared-french-jews-to-arrive-in-israel-in-2014/
Craig – about Israel’s “bloody nose” in 2006 Israel-Hizbullah War – I recommend Alastair Crooke report published at Asia Times on October 13, 2006.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ13Ak01.html
IDF, the worlds greatest ‘Moral’ Army.
Can we refer to the area in question as intelligent people should refer to it? the area in question is Palestine?
Who has the right to give anyone else’s land to another group of people?
Have the Palestinians been shelling their own land, as defined as theirs, under international law and stolen by Israel?
So without further addo, may I present a ‘self’ hating Jew. Of course, had it been a non Jew giving the presentation, they would have been called out for being anti-Semitic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-OylQQ
As of this time petition is at 191,600 signatures.
Mustn’t have anyone seeing what dirty deeds are being committed.
‘Gaza-Israel conflict: Journalists evacuated from Gaza hotel18 July 2014 Last updated at 00:22 BST
International journalists joined Gaza residents in an evacuation after Israeli military warned that its offensive was poised to enter the area.
The BBC’s Lyce Doucet said that before the message was given she heard shell and rocket fire from Israeli and Hamas forces.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28360668
“As of this time petition is at 191,600 signatures.” Would that be this petition Porkfright?
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?sXKedbb
The Middle East peace envoy will be in London on Monday morning to answer questions about the latest developments:
Thanks, but I believe ‘Arrest Blair’ got there first…
http://www.arrestblair.org/blairs-schedule
Persons wishing to bathe in Mr. Tony’s magical aura should always consult that site.
Repeated shelling of al-Wafa hospital continues:
http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=713998
Cheers, Brian. The NBC reporter pulled after the Egyptian/American was caught telling the story keeps journalism in Gaza ‘balanced and fair’.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/nbc-news-ayman-mohyeldin-gaza_n_5596268.html