Israel strikes Gaza, kill Hamas leader Ahmad al-Jabari

[Abu'Aaminah]

Israel’s assault on Gaza: the lie of who started it exposed
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Israel has again attacked Gaza. In its aerial and ground assault that began on Saturday, November 10th, at least 7 Palestinians have been killed, 5 of them civilians, 3 of whom were children. Up to 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded.
As in every vicious military offensive Israel carries out in Gaza, the dominant narrative is that it is a response to rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel. This is how it’s being reported in the US, and this is how virtually every American understands it.

And it’s a lie.

It’s true that on Saturday, prior to the expanded Israeli bombardment, the military wing of the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine shot an anti-tank missile at an Israeli Defense Forces vehicle near the Gaza border, wounding four Israeli soldiers. But what prompted the firing of the anti-tank missile?

First, on Monday, November 5th, Israeli forces shot and killed 23 year old Ahmad Nabhani when he “approached the border fence with Israel.” According to at least one account, Nabhani was mentally challenged.

Then, on Thursday, November 8th, the Israeli Occupation Forces – eight tanks and four bulldozers, to be exact – invaded southern Gaza, shooting and killing a 13-year old boy. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (via):

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 16:30 on Thursday, as a result of the indiscriminate shooting by IOF military vehicles that had moved into the ‘Abassan village, 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa was seriously wounded by a bullet to the abdomen. At the time he was shot, Ahmed had been playing football with his friends in front of his family’s house, located nearly 1,200 meters away from the area where the IOF were present.

So, even if honest observers brush to the side the cruel and inhumane Israeli blockade on Gaza and refuse to let it influence the equation of exactly which side started this flare up of violence, it is clear Israel started this latest clash. And in response to the response, Israel has waged a harsh, disproportionate military assault.

This would be a simple thing to understand if, for example, Western media bothered to ask the other side what happened. Palestinian news media immediately reported that the anti-tank missile Israel was supposedly responding to was admitted to by the Popular Resistance Committees, who described it as “revenge” for preceding Israeli violence on Gaza. But that basic task of honest journalism is apparently out of the question.

Every single Israeli incursion or attack on Gaza is accompanied by the same narrative: Israel fairly responded to unprovoked Palestinian rocket fire. The last major war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in December ’08-January ’09, also carried this narrative. Israel committed war crimes in that one-sided conflict, targeting and killing hundreds of civilians, using indiscriminate weapons, and intentionally destroying civilian infrastructure. It has become an accepted fact – even among critics of Israel – that the offensive was a response to Hamas rocket fire. The rocket fire did indeed occur immediately before the assault, but it was in response to Israel’s breaking of the six-month cease-fire, which even Israeli officials in WikiLeaks cables admitted Hamas had kept to.

Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza: The Lie of Who Started It « Antiwar.com Blog

[abuhannah]

Should be clear to all by now that this was clearly planned,the shpeel that has been doing the rounds on the news channels has got people asking the Zionists what the real play is here...Even when I was watching this 20 something London lad from The IDF he was just repeating almost word for word what I heard another Zionist say..Netanyahu has an election coming up will he go to war to stay in power,of course he will...Remember this is the same shill who said to bomb a whole village in Afghanistan to kill one mujahid is a price worth paying,this was in 2001-2.Muslim or Jew the man don't give a damn who dies..

[TheUmmahStridesForward]

Some good interview responses to Israeli's bombardment of Gaza..

Uncovered reporters coming up

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[TheUmmahStridesForward]

[Perseveranze]

Asalaamu Alaikum,

[Pro-Human]

If I was Mursi, I would send egyptian army to Ghaza and retaliate in case Israel does attack.

Do you think Egypt would win this conflict?

[abu hadeed]

Lol how can you trust the Egyptian army there are probably Israeli generals running them.I dont trust any Muslim conventional force.

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[Abu'Aaminah]

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