Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2009
Live Press TV footage from Gaza City shows parts of the densely populated strip enveloped by fatal clouds of Israeli white phosphorous.
PressTV
14th January. 2009
The footage taken moments ago by the crew of Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari, present in Gaza City, is further indication of the use of unconventional weapons by Israeli forces in the strip.
White phosphorus, classified as a ‘chemical weapon’ by the US intelligence, is an incendiary material that causes horrific burns, severe injuries or death when it comes in contact with human skin.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2009
Livni confesses: Hamas not defeated
PressTV
14 January, 2009
Livni says Tel Aviv did not wage war on Gaza to defeat Hamas.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni admits that despite 19 days of continued bombardment, Tel Aviv has been unable to destroy Hamas.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2009
Whereas in the war for “democracy” against Nazism you just couldn’t get the US to open a second front, now they’re opening a new one every day.
Telegraph
13th January, 2009
A spokesman for Ukraine’s state gas company Naftogaz said that it had blocked the transit of gas to Europe after it was turned back on because of “unacceptable transit conditions” imposed by the Russian energy giant Gazprom.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2009
Tehran has disbanded a CIA-backed network designed to orchestrate a ‘Velvet Revolution’ in the country, says a senior Iranian official.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2009
The popular lie that the falling pound is increasing UK exports is now exposed before anyone who might actually have believed it.
The UK trade deficit unexpectedly widened to a record in November as the global economic slump hurt demand for British products abroad.
Telegraph
13th January, 2009
The goods-trade gap was £8.3bn, compared with £7.6bn in October, the Office for National Statistics said today. Economists predicted £7.5bn, according to a Bloomberg News survey.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2009
Haaretz
14th January, 2009
My settler colleague, Israel Harel, his community’s champion at rolling his eyes, playing innocent and speaking with a honeyed tongue, is once again grieving and playing the victim. In a column published here last week (“Have we become Sodom?” October 23), he complained that the reason for what he termed destructive criticism of the settlers is hatred. And indeed, Mr. Harel, this time, you’re right: Large segments of Israeli society do indeed hate. But this is not baseless hatred, not hatred for the sake of hatred, to use your words. It is hatred for your enterprise. You have earned this hatred honestly – the only honest thing about your enterprise.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2009
Yahoo
13th January, 2009
One family buried a slain son over his grandfather. Another bundled up the tiny bodies of three young cousins and lowered them into the grave of a long-dead aunt. A man was laid to rest with his brother.
More than two weeks into the Israeli offensive that has killed more than 940 Palestinians, Gazans are struggling to find places to bury their dead. Cemeteries throughout Gaza City that were closed for new burials have now reopened.
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Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2009
Al-Manar TV
13/01/2009 A group of 21 Kuwaiti MPs said on Tuesday that former Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose term expired on January 9, was “not welcome” at a planned Arab economic summit next week in Kuwait City, criticizing his response to the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2009
PressTV
13th January, 2009
Hamas says its fighters have killed at least 12 Israeli soldiers during fierce clashes near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.
The Hamas-run al-Aqsa TV channel reported that the soldiers were killed during fierce gun battles which have been underway in Beit Lahiya since early Tuesday morning.
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Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2009
Al-manar TV
13/01/2009 On the 18th day of “Operation Cast Lead”, the “Invincible army” seems to be sinking more and more in the Gaza quagmire after the Palestinian resistance has confronted it in one of the fiercest battles since the beginning of the ground offensive.
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Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2009
13th January, 2009
BRITISH MPs yesterday lined up to give their strongest condemnation yet of Israel’s actions in Gaza, branding Ehud Olmert’s government “mass murderers” and calling for the country to face sanctions.
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, faced cross-party demands for Israel’s ambassador to be expelled from London and for Britain to recall its representative from Tel Aviv. Read the rest of this entry »
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