That's the one.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0609/1224272124900.html
This one is true.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0609/1224272124900.html
This one is true.
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It's an actual demonstration, the potatoes aren't from the store. It was some Muslim anti Israeli league of Doom that brought in their own trolleys and tried to make a scene, they did it in M+S as well. Also the Police are Traffic Police who, funnily enough can't deal with public/private order offences :eyebrows:
And I was just expressing my disappointment that Associated Press was not accurate.
Seems it's on a Satirical new stie as well.
Israeli policeman killed in West Bank shooting
An Israeli policeman has died of injuries sustained in an attack in the West Bank.
Israeli police officials said the attack, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, was carried out by Palestinian gunmen.
Two Israeli policeman were injured in the attack. No Palestinian group has said it was behind the shooting.
Attacks on Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have fallen sharply in recent years.
The Israeli press reported that the attack appeared to be an ambush in which gunmen fired on a police vehicle as it travelled on road 60, north of Hebron.
Settler leaders criticised the Israeli government, saying the attack was a result of the easing of restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has reported that the number of manned checkpoints in the West Bank has fallen from 63 to 44 over the last year. Eighteen of these are said to be in the Hebron area.
Violence in the West Bank has fallen in recent years, although last month Jewish settlers shot dead a Palestinian 16-year-old after rocks were thrown at their car near Ramallah.
The last fatal attack on an Israeli in the West Bank was in February when a Palestinian policeman stabbed to death a soldier in the central West Bank, the Reuters news agency reported.
In March 2009, two policemen were killed in a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, settling close to 500,000 Jews in more than 100 settlements. There are about 2.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10308466.stm
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Resistants are back to the West Bank
An Israeli policeman has died of injuries sustained in an attack in the West Bank.
Israeli police officials said the attack, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, was carried out by Palestinian gunmen.
Two Israeli policeman were injured in the attack. No Palestinian group has said it was behind the shooting.
Attacks on Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have fallen sharply in recent years.
The Israeli press reported that the attack appeared to be an ambush in which gunmen fired on a police vehicle as it travelled on road 60, north of Hebron.
Settler leaders criticised the Israeli government, saying the attack was a result of the easing of restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has reported that the number of manned checkpoints in the West Bank has fallen from 63 to 44 over the last year. Eighteen of these are said to be in the Hebron area.
Violence in the West Bank has fallen in recent years, although last month Jewish settlers shot dead a Palestinian 16-year-old after rocks were thrown at their car near Ramallah.
The last fatal attack on an Israeli in the West Bank was in February when a Palestinian policeman stabbed to death a soldier in the central West Bank, the Reuters news agency reported.
In March 2009, two policemen were killed in a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, settling close to 500,000 Jews in more than 100 settlements. There are about 2.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10308466.stm
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Resistants are back to the West Bank
Irish to expel Israeli diplomat over Hamas killing
The Irish Republic is to expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the killing of a Hamas official in Dubai.
Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said an investigation had proved that eight Irish passports used in the operation were forgeries.
Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in a Dubai hotel in January.
Dubai police have said they are 99% sure Israeli agents were involved, though Israel says there is no proof.
Mr Martin said in a statement that Israel had been "requested to withdraw a designated member of staff of its embassy" and that he expected the request would "be quickly acceded to".
"The misuse of Irish passports by a state with which Ireland enjoys friendly, if sometimes frank, bilateral relations is clearly unacceptable and requires a firm response," he said.
In Jerusalem, foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the Israeli government regretted the Irish decision, which he said was "not in line with the importance of our relationship with the Irish government".
'No denial'
Forged British, French, Australian, and German passports were also used in the Dubai operation.
The UK and Australia have already expelled Israeli nationals over the forgeries.
Mr Martin said the Irish had co-operated closely with British and Australian authorities in their investigation of the killing.
He cited "the inescapable conclusion that an Israeli government agency was responsible for the misuse and, most likely, the manufacture of the forged Irish passports associated with the murder of Mr Mabhouh".
Irish authorities had asked for Israeli help in their investigation, he said, but such efforts had "yielded no response and no denial of Israeli involvement".
Six of the eight fake passports used the numbers of existing Irish passport holders, while the other two contained invented numbers conforming to the Irish format, the foreign ministry said.
Mr Martin said those whose passport numbers had been used had been issued with new passports and that he was confident this would allow them "to travel free from any suspicion".
"As I have stated from the outset, my priority throughout this affair has been to ensure the security of the innocent Irish citizens affected and to protect the integrity of the Irish passport," he said.
Last week it emerged that authorities in Poland arrested a suspected Israeli agent in connection with Mr Mabhouh's death.
Germany is seeking his extradition over a forged German passport used by one of the killers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10319210.stm
The Irish Republic is to expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the killing of a Hamas official in Dubai.
Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said an investigation had proved that eight Irish passports used in the operation were forgeries.
Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in a Dubai hotel in January.
Dubai police have said they are 99% sure Israeli agents were involved, though Israel says there is no proof.
Mr Martin said in a statement that Israel had been "requested to withdraw a designated member of staff of its embassy" and that he expected the request would "be quickly acceded to".
"The misuse of Irish passports by a state with which Ireland enjoys friendly, if sometimes frank, bilateral relations is clearly unacceptable and requires a firm response," he said.
In Jerusalem, foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the Israeli government regretted the Irish decision, which he said was "not in line with the importance of our relationship with the Irish government".
'No denial'
Forged British, French, Australian, and German passports were also used in the Dubai operation.
The UK and Australia have already expelled Israeli nationals over the forgeries.
Mr Martin said the Irish had co-operated closely with British and Australian authorities in their investigation of the killing.
He cited "the inescapable conclusion that an Israeli government agency was responsible for the misuse and, most likely, the manufacture of the forged Irish passports associated with the murder of Mr Mabhouh".
Irish authorities had asked for Israeli help in their investigation, he said, but such efforts had "yielded no response and no denial of Israeli involvement".
Six of the eight fake passports used the numbers of existing Irish passport holders, while the other two contained invented numbers conforming to the Irish format, the foreign ministry said.
Mr Martin said those whose passport numbers had been used had been issued with new passports and that he was confident this would allow them "to travel free from any suspicion".
"As I have stated from the outset, my priority throughout this affair has been to ensure the security of the innocent Irish citizens affected and to protect the integrity of the Irish passport," he said.
Last week it emerged that authorities in Poland arrested a suspected Israeli agent in connection with Mr Mabhouh's death.
Germany is seeking his extradition over a forged German passport used by one of the killers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10319210.stm
By George Polley
You live in a home your family has lived in for generations. On the edge of the village you own a plot of land on which you raise olives and grow vegetables to feed your family. You remember your grandfather working that land, and smile. He was a good man who loved his family and you miss him.
One day you return from your olive grove carrying a sack filled with olives that your wife will press. You have saved out a couple dozen of the best for your wife and children to eat in the evening, before retiring for the night. As you turn the corner and start toward your home you notice the family gathered in front of it with all of their belongings surrounding them. They are weeping. Nearby is a contingent of soldiers holding guns.
“What is going on?” you shout. One of the men tells you to shut up. Walking up to you, he takes the sack of olives and tosses them to one of his compatriots. The ones in your hand he eats.
“Get in the truck!” he orders as his companions herd your family towards a large dun-colored truck in which a few of your neighbors are huddled. Pointing his gun at you he prods you into the truck beside your wife, who is beyond weeping.
In a few moments the truck starts up and you are rolling through the countryside toward a destination you know nothing of, except by reputation, which is not good.
This could be Germany, Poland, Italy, France or Austria during Hitler’s massive eradication campaign against Europe’s Jews, but it is not. Hitler called it “the final solution” of Europe’s “Jewish problem”. It was one of history’s most hideous crimes against humanity.
The scene described above did not happen in Europe. It happened in Palestine. According to UNRWA statistics, over 700,000 Palestinians were forced to flee or were removed from their homes in 1947-48. Ethnic cleansing also took place in 1967 when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza and 350,000 were forced out, expelled or left because of fear. Since then a form of slow ethnic cleansing occurs whenever Palestinian neighborhoods, villages and farms are claimed for Jewish settlers who want them, no questions asked and no apologies offered.
Picture yourself in that situation, a refugee in a land that has been yours for generations. Suddenly you are a nonperson, a nonentity, a stigma. What would it be like for you to experience this? How does it happen that for over 60 years this same scene has been repeated time after time, its perpetrators allowed to get away with it? A stranger in your own land, you walk past what used to be your property and your great-great-grandfather’s property. Someone else is living there, someone who one day claimed it as theirs, though they are the first in their family to live in or anywhere near it.
You look around you and wherever you see your people, you see poverty and chaos. It makes you angry. But if you express your anger, especially if you fight back in any way, those who have power attack you with every weapon at their disposal. You have lost family members in attacks, some of them children.
Year in and year out you are promised a land and homes of your own, but the promise always contains the following lie: others are allowed to occupy your land for themselves as you are pushed farther and farther to the periphery. Your crime? You are not one of them.
I have to ask: How is this permitted to go on for over sixty-two years while so-called moral nations do nothing? They do nothing because those who persecute you are more useful to them than you are. Isn’t that the way it seems? They claim to be for human rights, but their actions have belied their words from the beginning. Who can trust them? I, for one, no longer do.
Is this, then, Israel’s “Final Solution” to what they see as “the Palestinian problem”? Have they taken a page from Hitler’s playbook and adapted it to their situation, leaving you their perpetual victim because you are not one of them? If it looks like it and feels like it, then perhaps we need to begin calling it for what it is – the malignant offspring of Hitler’s horror used by the people who were its first victims.
And we need to tell Barack Obama to either give George Mitchell some real teeth, or bring him home. We are all on to the charade.
- George Polley is a retired psychiatric social worker and writer. Originally from Seattle, WA (USA), he lives and writes in Sapporo, Japan. Recent books are: “The Old Man and the Monkey” and “Grandfather and the Raven”, from Night Publishing (UK).
PalestineChronicle
You live in a home your family has lived in for generations. On the edge of the village you own a plot of land on which you raise olives and grow vegetables to feed your family. You remember your grandfather working that land, and smile. He was a good man who loved his family and you miss him.
One day you return from your olive grove carrying a sack filled with olives that your wife will press. You have saved out a couple dozen of the best for your wife and children to eat in the evening, before retiring for the night. As you turn the corner and start toward your home you notice the family gathered in front of it with all of their belongings surrounding them. They are weeping. Nearby is a contingent of soldiers holding guns.
“What is going on?” you shout. One of the men tells you to shut up. Walking up to you, he takes the sack of olives and tosses them to one of his compatriots. The ones in your hand he eats.
“Get in the truck!” he orders as his companions herd your family towards a large dun-colored truck in which a few of your neighbors are huddled. Pointing his gun at you he prods you into the truck beside your wife, who is beyond weeping.
In a few moments the truck starts up and you are rolling through the countryside toward a destination you know nothing of, except by reputation, which is not good.
This could be Germany, Poland, Italy, France or Austria during Hitler’s massive eradication campaign against Europe’s Jews, but it is not. Hitler called it “the final solution” of Europe’s “Jewish problem”. It was one of history’s most hideous crimes against humanity.
The scene described above did not happen in Europe. It happened in Palestine. According to UNRWA statistics, over 700,000 Palestinians were forced to flee or were removed from their homes in 1947-48. Ethnic cleansing also took place in 1967 when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza and 350,000 were forced out, expelled or left because of fear. Since then a form of slow ethnic cleansing occurs whenever Palestinian neighborhoods, villages and farms are claimed for Jewish settlers who want them, no questions asked and no apologies offered.
Picture yourself in that situation, a refugee in a land that has been yours for generations. Suddenly you are a nonperson, a nonentity, a stigma. What would it be like for you to experience this? How does it happen that for over 60 years this same scene has been repeated time after time, its perpetrators allowed to get away with it? A stranger in your own land, you walk past what used to be your property and your great-great-grandfather’s property. Someone else is living there, someone who one day claimed it as theirs, though they are the first in their family to live in or anywhere near it.
You look around you and wherever you see your people, you see poverty and chaos. It makes you angry. But if you express your anger, especially if you fight back in any way, those who have power attack you with every weapon at their disposal. You have lost family members in attacks, some of them children.
Year in and year out you are promised a land and homes of your own, but the promise always contains the following lie: others are allowed to occupy your land for themselves as you are pushed farther and farther to the periphery. Your crime? You are not one of them.
I have to ask: How is this permitted to go on for over sixty-two years while so-called moral nations do nothing? They do nothing because those who persecute you are more useful to them than you are. Isn’t that the way it seems? They claim to be for human rights, but their actions have belied their words from the beginning. Who can trust them? I, for one, no longer do.
Is this, then, Israel’s “Final Solution” to what they see as “the Palestinian problem”? Have they taken a page from Hitler’s playbook and adapted it to their situation, leaving you their perpetual victim because you are not one of them? If it looks like it and feels like it, then perhaps we need to begin calling it for what it is – the malignant offspring of Hitler’s horror used by the people who were its first victims.
And we need to tell Barack Obama to either give George Mitchell some real teeth, or bring him home. We are all on to the charade.
- George Polley is a retired psychiatric social worker and writer. Originally from Seattle, WA (USA), he lives and writes in Sapporo, Japan. Recent books are: “The Old Man and the Monkey” and “Grandfather and the Raven”, from Night Publishing (UK).
PalestineChronicle