Posted on January 9 at 9:17 a.m.

Cut&paste when the readership doesn't read outside of their habitual patterns. If you read what Carter has to say about being there, the most recent 6 months ceasefire which was not violated by Hamas was ended with an Israeli bomb attack beyond their wall in Gazan territory--to destroy what they thought was a tunnel supplying weapons. That's when "rocket" attacks were resumed. The "seven years of rocket attacks" touted by mainstream media that finally got the monster aroused is not an accurate picture. Count the dead.

On Local doctor arrested in Miami during Israeli-Palestinian protest

Posted on January 9 at 6:08 a.m.

Moti Danino sat Monday in a canvas lawn chair on a sandy hilltop on Gaza's border, peering through a pair of binoculars at distant plumes of smoke rising from the besieged territory. The war's peanut gallery -- a string of dusty hilltops close to the border that offer panoramic views across northern Gaza. He is one of dozens of Israelis who have arrived from all over Israel, some with sack lunches and portable radios tuned to the latest reports of the battle raging in front of them. Four teenagers sat on a hill oohing and aahing at the airstrikes. Nadav Zebari, who studies Torah in Jerusalem, was eating a cheese sandwich and sipping a Diet Coke. "I've never watched a war before," he said. A group of police officers nearby took turns snapping pictures of one another with smoking Gaza as a backdrop. The spectators share hilltop space with an army of camera-toting Israeli and foreign journalists, who have so far been banned by the Israeli military from entering Gaza to report on the conflict. Mr. Danino has a personal link to the fighting. His 20-year-old son, Moshe, is a soldier in an infantry unit fighting somewhere below his hilly perch. From the sidelines, he is here to root for his son the soldier, he says, just as he once sat on the sidelines of soccer fields cheering for his son the high-school athlete. On another hilltop overlooking Gaza, Sandra Koubi, a 43-year-old philosophy student, says seeing the violence up close "is a kind of catharsis for me, to get rid of all the anxiety we have inside us after years of rocket fire" from Hamas. Jocelyn Znaty, a stout 60-year-old nurse for Magen David Adom, the Israeli counterpart of the Red Cross, can hardly contain her glee at the site of exploding mortars below in Gaza. "Look at that," she shouts, clapping her hands as four artillery rounds pound the territory in quick succession. "Bravo! Bravo!" Ms. Znaty lives in Sderot, the immigrant community on Gaza's border that has long been a target for rockets fired from Gaza by Palestinian militants. Her daughter lives on Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, an Israeli community even closer to the Gaza Strip. Last year, Gaza-launched rockets struck Ms. Znaty's home twice in a single week. She escaped both attacks unscathed but has a simmering anger for those living on the other side of the Gaza fence. She acknowledges an uncomfortable, self-conscious awareness that she is cheering on a deadly war. Israeli planes, ships and artillery have blasted the small, sealed-off territory for more than a week, killing more than 680 Palestinians and injuring about 3,000. Ten Israelis have been killed, including three civilians, according to U.N. officials.
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Huckleberry says: Human beings _can_ be awful cruel to one another.

On Local doctor arrested in Miami during Israeli-Palestinian protest

Posted on January 8 at 9:28 a.m.

Read also:
_Blood Brothers_. Elias Chacour with David Hazard. Chosen Books, 2003. ISBN 0-8007-9321-8

On Local doctor arrested in Miami during Israeli-Palestinian protest

Posted on January 8 at 9:24 a.m.

See http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...
An Unnecessary War
By Jimmy Carter
Thursday, January 8, 2009; Page A15

On Local doctor arrested in Miami during Israeli-Palestinian protest

Posted on January 8 at 5:33 a.m.

Israel is carrying out these attacks with F-16 fighter jets and missiles provided by U.S. taxpayers. From 2001-2006, the United States transferred to Israel more than $200 million worth of spare parts to fly its fleet of F-16's. In July 2008, the United States gave Israel 186 million gallons of JP-8 aviation jet fuel. Last year, the United States signed a $1.3 billion contract with Raytheon to transfer to Israel thousands of TOW, Hellfire, and 'bunker buster' missiles. Israel's lethal attack on the Gaza Strip could not have happened without the active military and political support of the United States. We need to take action now to protest this attack and demand an immediate cease-fire.

Protest in Orlando: Florida Statewide March For Palestine - Let Gaza Live!
This Saturday, Jan. 10, 1:00pm
Lake Eola Park, Orlando

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On Local doctor arrested in Miami during Israeli-Palestinian protest

Posted on January 8 at 5:28 a.m.

Hamas doesn't "fire missles into Isreal" [sic #8]. The 15 seconds "terror" advertised on U-tube is a wash. The Gaza has no air force, no tanks, no army, no navy. What they have are rockets, akin to 4th of July fireworks. Ten Israelis have been killed by Gazans during this whole action.

Proportionality? There are four strict conditions for "legitimate defense by military force":

* the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
* all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
* there must be serious prospects of success;
* the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

The Israeli bombing of innocent Palestinian civilians is a horrific war crime that punishes a population already suffering from a blockade that has denied it food and medicine for many months -- already causing widespread disease and malnutrition. To this moment, over 600 Palestinians have died, including scores of civilians; thousands have been wounded and have little or no access to medical care. Non-military areas with dense populations have been attacked, including mosques and universities. A ground assault by Israeli forces is now being conducted, an assault that will surely escalate the slaughter of innocent civilians every day. The Bush administration is the enabler of this catastrophe. The US has contributed billions of dollars annually to Israel as well as military equipment and bombs that now fall on Gaza. The alliance between Israel and the US is so intimate that it's using our news agencies to promulgate propaganda that "justifies" the unjustifiable.

All of us should be in the streets with Dr. Atmani! The public should also demand that police learn English before writing reports. It is a citizen's right and duty to object to a government engaged in wrongful actions.

On Local doctor arrested in Miami during Israeli-Palestinian protest

Posted on January 7 at 7:50 a.m.

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall

--Colonel T's & Mr. F.'s theme song.

On Teachers may take financial hit in proposed state budget cuts

Posted on January 5 at 6:02 p.m.

Wow! Mr. Calabrese, I wish you'd recovered sooner and prevented my and my wife's premature retirement. I do hope that you sincerely mean what you say as quoted in this article. Colonel T. has had no real challenger thus far into his reign. If you stick to your guns, you will save us all.

I wish Ms. Curatolo and Mr. Withers had permitted you to change your vote!

Our community needs a leader who will not fold under the spurious accusations of not embracing the noble principles of public service. You are on the right track. May the Force be with you. But don't kiss Martha's shoulder!

On Guest commentary: Richard Calabrese talks about Collier School Board matters

Posted on January 3 at 7:25 a.m.

I think the worst thing about this story is "other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark." Gossip, insinuation, eavesdropping, and snitching are bad things to use for airport security. They're bad things to depend upon any time.

On 9 Muslim passengers kicked off flight to Florida after remark

Posted on January 1 at 7:57 p.m.

Isn't it peculiar that this article's title begins with Lely High?
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The streets are on fire, death in our wake
Cars overturned, bodies are raped
You go on
Preaching religious dogma, while paying for and sanctioning vicious murders.
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What went wrong? Certainly not us.

On Lely High students charged with East Naples murder point fingers at each other