How Britain profits from the attack on Gaza. By Ian Dunt The video emerged on Monday. It appears to show a man searching for his family amid the rubble of Gaza, apparently during a ceasefire. He is shot by a sniper. For a while he lies there, moving awkwardly. Then he is shot again. The component parts of the sniper rifle may have been made in the UK.
The military equipment sold to Israel includes parts for sniper rifles and small-arms ammunition, ground-based radar, military aircraft engines and navigation equipment, military communications and unmanned drones. Then-foreign secretary David Miliband told the Commons all future arms-related applications would be assessed "taking into account the recent conflict". Britain even revoked a handful of licenses, all related to parts for an Israeli navy gunboat known as the Saar 4.5 Class Corvette, which was likely used to shell Gaza. The number seems massive, especially given Britain is responsible for just one per cent of Israel's military imports (most come from the US). I am to blame: I shot a rocket back. Israel gives up white phosphorus, because ‘it doesn’t photograph well’
The Senate On Gaza. Wally Pfister is nervous—and with good reason. In a few hours, Pfister, 52, will slip into his best suit and head from his house in the Hollywood Hills to Westwood’s Regency Village Theater for the red-carpet premiere of his new movie, Transcendence. For most filmmakers Pfister’s age, this would be a moment to bask in. A luxurious $100 million budget. A sterling cast led by Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, and Paul Bettany. And a thought-provoking story about a brilliant scientist named Will Caster (Depp) whose heartbroken wife Evelyn (Hall) uploads his brain into a supercomputer after he dies—transforming him into a kind of omnipresent, omnipotent, and possibly malevolent digital god. But Pfister isn’t most filmmakers his age. “This is a very difficult period right now—being in limbo,” he admits.
But Pfister was getting antsy, as usual. We’re sitting in Pfister’s rec room—his man cave, of sorts. Pfister looks exhausted too. Pfister offers me a glass of water. Why? Dissecting IDF propaganda: The numbers behind the rocket attacks. In this brief study, I examine the many numbers cited by the Israeli military relating to Gaza rocket attacks into Israel. To begin, Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead.
However, we are rarely told exactly how many people have been killed by these rocket attacks. Counting the dead Below is a list of all the fatalities of rocket and mortar attacks fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in the entire history of these attacks. Fatalities from rocket and mortar attacks in Israel from the Gaza Strip (Refer to the bottom of the page for notes and sources.) The shaded rows in the table refer to fatalities sustained during Operation Cast Lead (December 27, 2008–January 18, 2009) and Operation Pillar of Cloud (November 14, 2012–). A verrry slow genocide The IDF’s mysterious deaths Wounded by “shock” OmgAdamSaleh: TRUTH!! Don't let the Media... Nous accusons: Mainstream media fails to report on atrocities against Gaza.
While countries across Europe and North America commemorated military casualties of past and present wars on November 11, Israel was targeting civilians. On November 12, waking up to a new week, readers at breakfast were flooded with heart rending accounts of past and current military casualties. There was, however, no or little mention of the fact that the majority of casualties of modern day wars are civilians. There was also hardly any mention on the morning of November 12 of military attacks on Gaza that continued throughout the weekend.
A cursory scan confirms this for Canada's CBC, Globe and Mail, Montreal's Gazette, and the Toronto Star. Equally, for the New York Times and for the BBC. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) report on Sunday November 11, five Palestinian civilians including three children had been killed in the Gaza strip in the previous 72 hours, in addition to two Palestinian security personnel. Hagit Borer, U.K. Antoine Bustros, Canada. Siding with the Powerful: UK Media Coverage of the Assault on Gaza - News Unspun. The BBC News, and particularly the reports from Diplomatic Correspondent Jonathan Marcus, on the ongoing Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip has presented the violence as little more than a defensive policy manoeuvre by Israel, whose government, in Marcus's view, 'clearly wants' another ceasefire. On Wednesday Marcus wrote that the Israeli assassination of Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, the head of the military wing of Hamas, was 'a taste of things to come'.
As with his reporting on Israel's threats towards Iran, Marcus does not point towards the illegalities of such behaviour. Rather this shows, for him, Netanyahu's 'determination to act', his 'initial choice, a return to the policy of targeted killings'. Marcus’s analysis goes on to say that ‘the danger’ of Israel carrying out such attacks is that it ‘could eventually prompt a major Israeli engagement on the ground’. Click to enlarge.
Dispatches - inside Britain's Israel Lobby. Inside Britain's Israel Lobby - Full Documentary. Why doesn't Israeli press office share byline for New York Times' Gaza coverage? A New York Times report on Israel’s assassination of Hamas commander Ahmed al-Jabari in Gaza today (“Israeli strike in Gaza kills the military leader of Hamas”) manages to both completely omit from the story any mention of the mounting civilian deaths in Gaza, and almost exclusively quotes Israeli military and intelligence officials — letting the perpetrators of today’s violence set the narrative. The report by Fares Akram and Isabel Kershner exemplifies the media bias which morphs the reality of the world’s fourth-largest military relentlessly attacking a defenseless, besieged population into a cliché of tit-for-tat violence for which Palestinian resistance groups are responsible. Israeli army only responds, never provokes The New York Times report predictably repeats the false narrative that Israel’s airstrikes were a response to rocket fire from Gaza, ignoring the series of extrajudicial executions that Israel has committed in Gaza during the past month.
Don’t believe the lies.