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AMMAN — What is happening in Gaza is “a Palestinian appeal to the entire world, calling for an end to occupation, destruction and killing perpetrated against a people seeking freedom, security and dignity”, according to His Majesty King Abdullah. In an interview with Al Ghad Arabic daily, the King described the latest aggression on Gaza as “the bloodiest and most devastating in terms of casualties, especially among women, children and the elderly”. “Entire families have been massacred,” he said in the interview, conducted by Al Ghad Editor-in-Chief Jumana Ghunaimat (see full text of interview). “We will continue to use Jordan’s...

Gaza on brink of war as Hamas rockets slam Israel by Staff Writers Gaza City, Palestinian Territories July 07, 2014 Hamas militants in Gaza fired "dozens" of rockets into southern Israel late Monday, the Islamist movement said after six of its men were killed in air strikes. The bombardment was confirmed by the Israeli army which said militants had launched "a few dozen rockets" within a short period of time. At least four were intercepted over Netivot by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, while another 16 struck the area around the southern city of Beersheva, some 40 kilometres (25 miles)...

Israel Pounds Gaza as Diplomacy Intensifies Voice of America-5 hours ago Israel accuses Palestinian militants of using civilians areas in Gaza to hide weapons and rocket launching sites. It says Hamas is targeting ...http://www.voanews.com/content/israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-stretch-into-sixth-day/1548665.htmlTerrorists Use Children’s Playground as Cover for Rocket Attacks on ... American Center for Law and Justice (blog)-Nov 16, 2012http://aclj.org/israel/terrorist-use-children-playground-cover-rocket-attack-israelHere’s what really happened in the past couple of days The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. (blog)-Nov 15, 2012 The terrorists controlling Gaza are hiding inside schools and hospitals, and are using civilians as targets, which makes civilians casualties ...http://www.jewishjournal.com/israelife/item/heres_what_really_happened_in_the_past_couple_of_daysGazans scramble as punishing ground war looms USA...

Completely aside from the individual lies and nonsense—for example, counting Hamas police and hundreds of men whose obituaries praised them for being brave militia fighters as civilians—this report is a disaster for human rights and peace. It will legitimate one of the world’s most war-provoking, repressive regimes and validate a strategy that uses civilian suffering and war crimes as central features.

Yesterday UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon fell into the customary lack of moral clarity which has made the UN famous. He traveled to the Middle East to visit the Gaza War Zone. He started at Gaza to "express solidarity with Palestinian suffering." His declaration showed a lack of backbone to lead. You see, in Gaza it was all Israel's fault, but when he spoke in Israel Hamas shared the blame, almost of a duplication of the Palestinian strategy of saying one thing in Arabic, another in English. The list of things he neglected to mention in Gaza was incredible....

You Can Help the War Effort, Even from Home: Go to a Rally, Pray, Learn Torah, Do a Kind Deed, Give up a Vacation, Send a Package, Send Yourself When Operation Cast Lead initially began, many Jewish leaders delayed holding pro-Israel rallies and demonstrations, afraid it would appear as "triumphalism" in the wake of Palestinian defeats. But as pro-Hamas voices became more strident, many decided it was time to hold events stressing Israel’s desire for peace. The type of events were as varied as people holding them. There were noisy demonstrations, representing not only public support for Israel but coalition-building...

The MSM is busily showing video clips of the damage in Gaza many of them falsified. Palestinian Media Watch has reported this example: A Palestinian journalist has complained that the media and others are manipulating the images going out to the world "A mother of one of the martyrs stood by the door of the intensive care unit while crying... relatives and those around her were telling her what she should say to the television cameras: 'Say your son [before he died] prayed and went out.' Another tells her: 'Curse the Arab leaders'... The journalists [in the hospitals] are going...