- Maria
Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel
Part V: 2001
29 mrt 2002
Abed Al-Basit Muhammad Qasim Auda
Background:
Abed Al-Baset was born on March 29, 1977 in Tulkarem. He has seven brothers and sisters. As a result of the bad economic conditions of his family , he left his school and worked with his father and support the family that was suffering from a bad economic situation. He was a "munshid" (singer) in a band singing Islamic lyrics.
Wanted!
After the arrest of Nehad Abu Keshik (a member of Abed Al-Basit's cell) in 2001, Auda was known to the occupation forces as someone who is prepared to carry out a martyrdom operation. Nonetheless, Auda succeeded in evading occupation security measures till the time came for him to carry out his mission.
Martyrdom:
In response to the wanton death of civilians in the Palestinian cities , Abed Al-Basit infiltrated into the Netanya, formerly the village of Um Khalid, in March 2002.
One eye witness described him, saying, "I saw him walking in the hotel and I don't know how he entered blown-up hotel among the visitors?"
Abed Al-Basit looked like a young man wearing a long, black coat, with long hair and yellow glasses. He was walking inside the hotel with his hands in his pockets, exhibiting full relaxation. After a few minutes, an explosion occurred, killing 20 and injuring 145.
7 mei 2002
Mohammed Moammar
Background:
Oh, our martyrs we congratulate you, you are the symbol of the nation ,you know how much did you truly love your land that you went ahead and carried the weapons began shelling the Zionist forces and giving them the hardest lessons.
Our talk today about Mohammad who broke the Zionist barriers to execute a martyrdom operation inside the Zionist entity and he did not run behind the slogans and statements, rather than he chose the life of martyrdom.
Early life:
Mohammad Moammar was born in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the town of Zarqa, in 03rd of May, 1974. Mohammed liked Palestinian a lot that he used to talk about the martyrdom operations to his parents. He didn't forget his hometown in Palestine where he along with his family were exiled by the Zionist forces which occupied it in 1948.
Mohammed grew up in a family which is renowned for its good , righteousness deeds and good treatment, his father voted on the ethics of education and guidance of Islam and Koran. His compassionate mother gave him the good deeds and she taught him to love Palestine.
Mohammed's relatives said in an interview with Al-Qassam website, " Mohammad was holding concerns and issues of the Islamic nation in general and the worries of the Palestinian people in particular committing with issues of the great nation. They added, "Mohammed was interested in sports that he won several championships in bodybuilding and weightlifting, and he was a man of genuine with all his stances and he had no any kind of concern or fear, you would find all images of manhood and courage in this young man.
Religious commitment:
He liked the Islam as an idea and system of life, he had been aware for many years that the Islamic thought is derived from a holy book.
Mohammed's relatives stressed that Mohammed used to pray at the mosque, that he was convinced that by this action which is the road to Paradise.
Speaking about jihad:
Mohammed had been talking about the jihad and Mujahedeen inside Palestine and the suffering of the Palestinian people who is under injustice occupation, which usurped their land and many Palestinians have been displaced and exiled from their homes. Mohamed was always speaking about Palestine and the occupied territories in 1948 and he certainly knew that this right which has taken by force can't be restored only by force and jihad.
My mother, be patient:
"It was the last phone call between him and his mother that he had been talking with a very simple way saying to her be patient mother", that was the last call between him from Palestine with his mother in Jordan.
His relatives noted that after his disappearance of ten days, "We began searching and investigating about his place, where we were watching the operation on television and we were feeling that it was the person who carried out the operation, but we do not have certainty, for more than three years or two we were looking for him in all detainees in prisons and friends.
They continued that his relatives don't think that Mohamed will implement a martyrdom operation in the occupied territories.
Mohammed in the holly land:
Mohammed relatives said that Mohammed's father went to the Saudi Arabia to make the pilgrimage tasks and he felt that Mohammed was martyred for the sake of Allah.
Mohammed's father described his son great jihad and the martyrdom operation which killed several Zionist settlers. His father added that all his family are proud of him.
We are with Al Qassam:
Mohammed's relatives addressed Al Qassam Brigades saying that we would support the Palestinian people against the Zionist entity and they said the Palestinian people should be united altogether to face the Zionist entity and the Americans.
Martyrdom:
He went out on Tuesday 7th of May, 2002 penetrating all the security barriers and fortifications and he entered a club for a Zionist gambling, carrying a suitcase bomb and Mohammed detonated it in the place. 20 Zionist settlers were killed and 60 others were wounded in the operation.
Al Qassam Brigades had been keeping secret for the announcement of the operation since it occurred in May 2002, where the Brigades said that it was due to security reasons. Al Qassam spokesman said in an exclusive address to Al Qassam website, "The Al Qassam Brigades have not announced several operations due to security reasons.
11 juni 2002
Mahdi Hamid Akel
Background:
Mahdi Hamid Akel was born on May 7th, 1980 in Al-Bureij camp for a Palestinian family expelled from Yafa city in 1948. He studied in his camp's schools, then he joined the Islamic university of Gaza to study business management.
Mahdi was very kind with his parents, brothers, friends and others. He used to help everyone around him, and he was concerned about his parents please and satisfaction. He was visiting his relatives regularly, and he used to advise anyone he meets. Mahdi was active in the field of student work; he participated in most of the activities of the Islamic bloc and the student council in the IUG.
Hamas member:
Abu Osama joined Hamas movement in 2001, and participated actively in most of the actions held by the movement. As soon as Al-Aqsa Intifada had started, Mahdi joined Al-Qassam Brigades and participated in firing Zionist settlements and addressing the Zionist incursions. He was arrested by the PA after being accused with monitoring Zionist jeep. In 2001, he asked his leaders to perform a martyrdom operation.
Martyrdom:
The last week was different in his life; he seemed like someone leaving this life. On June 11th, 2002, Mahdi performed a martyrdom operation on 'Kesufeem' settlement's road. He shot at a motorcade of Zionist settlers' cars killing some and injuring others. Mahdi martyred in this operation. - 3 juli 2002
Mamoun Qadous
Ma'moun loved Jihad and sought martyrdom. He adhered to the Quran and dead with a copy in his hands. He was born in the village of Oraq Borin in the north of Nablus in December 24, 1981. He finished his primary schooling in the village, and completed the preparatory school in the village of Tal Al-Qariba. The bad economic conditions prevented him from university study. And so, he worked as a painter with his father to support their family.
At the beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada, Ma'moun was active in resisting occupation forces. For him Al-Qassam Brigades was the way to Jihad and Martyrdom.
On June 29, 2002, a group of Al-Qassam men prepared to ambush a group of Zionist settlers from the settlement of Emmanuel. At the allotted time, the operation was carried out, killing 11 Zionist settlers and injuring 20 others. The operation was a heavy blow to the justification of building Annexation Wall to secure settlers' lives.
Al-Qassam Brigades proved in this operation that such a Wall could not end the resistance, and that the occupation is the problem that should be ended.
As was done in every operation against the occupation forces or the setters, the occupation forces attacked the Palestinian cities to kill more civilians claiming that they are responsible for the attack.
The group that conducted the operation was in the Nablus when the occupation forces attacked the city. A huge number of tanks and jeeps stormed the city, and many Palestinian civilians were injured.
The group clashed with the occupation forces and killed two Zionist soldiers; one of them an officer. On July 3, 2002, Ma'moun and his brothers fought to the end. It was a great day of martyrdom. Ma'moun and his brothers, Anan Dalhoom and Belal A’bed were killed. Ma'moun died holding a copy of the Quran in his hand. - 6 nov 2002
Ismail Ashour Breis 22
Name: Ismail Ashour Breis
Nickname: Abu Moa’th
Birth date: 1980
Martyrdom date: 6 November 2002
Residence: Khan Younis refugee camp
Hometown: Hamama village
Background
Ismail was born in 1980 to a respected family known for its strong Islamic tradition. The family was uprooted from the village of Hamama in occupied Palestine in 1948 and lived afterwards in the refugee camp in Khan Younis. The family home was less than 150 meters from the Zionist settlement of Gani Tal. Ismail had 5 brothers and two sisters. Ismail was a member of the Rahma (mercy) mosque in Khan Younis. A skilled construction worker, he took part in the expansion of the mosque. In addition, he was a skilled fisherman.
Ismail was a Hamas member. He was known for his dedication, which nominated him to carryout a mission against the occupation.
Martyrdom
On the morning of 6 November 2002, Ismail performed the Fajr (pre-dawn) prayer and intended to fast the remainder of the day. He was with his mother and asked her to pray for him. He told her that this was the last day they would see him. After his martyrdom, his mother said, “May Allah bestow His mercy on him. He was the kindest of sons to his mother.”
His brother Omar and the other colleagues in the mosque say that Ismail conducted himself normally. Nobody noticed anything strange about Ismail.
Shortly afterwards, Ismail infiltrated the Zionist settlement called “Rafah Yam” and exchanged fire with settlers and soldiers. Two were killed and another two were injured according occupation sources.
Ismail’s operation and many others before and after it were a clear message to the occupation that there is no room for them in Gaza or in Palestine.
Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel
Part VI: 2002
Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel
Part IX: 2005-
Maria 18 juni 2005
Suicide, number 1 killer in the Israeli army
Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel
Part X: 2006
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Maria 3 jan 2007
Mona Salha 22
One killed six injured in renewed clashes between Palestinian security forces in Jabalia
One Palestinian young woman was killed and six men injured in renewed clashes between Palestinian factions in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza strip on Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian sources reported.
Eyewitnesses reported that a gunfight erupted in the refugee camp between the executive force of the Palestinian ministry of interior and members of the Palestinian Preventative Security forces.
Medical sources said that Mona Salha, 22, was hit by a live round in the head, and was moved to Kamal Adwan hospital were she was pronounced dead shortly after.
According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), the gunfight started when officers from the executive force stopped the car of Mohamed Ghareb, a high ranking officer in the Palestinian Preventative security forces, two of his body guards were forced into a car and were kidnapped while his car was sat on fire. The source added that other members of the executive force who were guarding the house of Parliament member, Ismael Al-Ashqar also were involved in the kidnapping.
Clashes erupted later near the houses of Col. Ghareb. Six were injured, three from each group.
These clashes broke the cease fire deal reached between the two groups few days ago. Meanwhile, Palestinian official sources reported that the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh, accepted an invitation by King Abdullah II of Jordan to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman in bid to ease the tension between the two rival parties in Palestine.
3 jan 2007
Osama Shami
Anwar Najjar
Two killed and one critically wounded in Khan Younis clashes
Palestinian sources reported that two members of the preventative security forces were killed and another one was critically wounded in clashes between Palestinian security forces in Khan Younis northern Gaza strip on Wednesday evening.
Medical sources identified the two killed as Osama Shami and Anwar Najjar, while the injured as Osamah Nassar.
Local sources in Khan Younis stated that the three were in front of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis city when they were shot at by executive forces troops who killed two and critically injured one.
With those two killed the number of Palestinians killed by the infighting reaches four in Wednesday afternoon.
4 jan 2007
Mo'taz Al Tawil 40
Five Palestinians killed due to infighting Wednesday in Gaza strip
Five Palestinians, including one woman, were killed due to the infighting between Hamas and Fatah affiliated forces in the Gaza strip on Wednesday evening.
Three officers from the Preventative Security forces, a Fatah affiliated force, were killed when they were shot at while at the entrance of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian security sources reported on Wednesday morning that a group of masked gunmen injured and kidnapped a Palestinian security officer in the city of Khan Younis. Eyewitnesses reported that the gunmen opened fire on Mo'taz Al Tawil, 40, an officer working with the Palestinian Preventative Security Forces, while he was leaving a mosque in Khan Younis at dawn. He was shot and injured before he was forced into a vehicle that fled the scene.
Later on Wednesday evening the Preventative Security Forces reported that when they received information stating where Al Tawil was being held, a rescue team moved to the location. Upon arrival gunmen opened fire at the rescue teem and injured two officers.
A vehicle that belongs to the Preventative Security Forces moved the injured to the nearby Nasser hospital which was shot at by the Ministry of Interior Executive Force, a Hamas affiliated force, killing the three and injuring others. Islam Sahwan, a spokesperson for the executive force, denied these accusations by the Preventative Security Forces and said that the force had nothing to do with either the kidnapping or the killing of the three officers.
Mona Salha, 22, a bystander, was shot and killed during clashes in Khan Younis on Wednesday evening after sustaining a direct hit in the head. Another nine were injured, medical sources reported
According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), the clashes started when officers from the executive force stopped the car of Mohamed Ghareb, a high ranking officer in the Palestinian Preventative Security Forces. Two of his body guards were kidnapped while Ghareb's car was set on fire. The source added that other members of the executive force who were guarding the house of Parliament member Ismael Al-Ashqar were also involved in the kidnapping. Clashes erupted later near the house of Col. Ghareb. One was killed and nine were injured, three from each group and three bystanders.
Elsewhere in the Gaza strip a group of unknown gunmen opened fire and killed a member of Al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah movement, in Beit Lahiyia town in the northern part of the Strip on Wednesday afternoon.
Dr. Mou'awiah Hassanin, the director of the emergency department in the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Ala Abu Al Nasser, 22, was admitted to the Kamal Adawan hospital in Beit Lahiyia where he was pronounced dead due to a fatal gunshot wound to his head. Eyewitnesses said that Al Nasser was on top of his friend's house when he was targeted by a group of masked gunmen who shot him and fled the scene.
With those five killed on Wednesday the number of Palestinians killed due to infighting between the two rival parties Hamas and Fatah have now reached to 11.
http://www.imemc.org/article/23514 - 4 jan 2007
Essam Sbaih , 26
Ayman al-Subuh, 26
Fateh leader, three others, killed in Jabalia infighting; six total on Thursday
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday evening that Mohammed Ghayeb, a Fateh leader, was assassinated in his home by members of the Executive Force formed by Hamas, in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Three other people were killed in the shelling of Ghayeb’s house, including two of his staff and a bystander.
Earlier Thursday, Ayman al-Subuh, 26, a member of Hamas’ Executive Force, was killed in a firefight between the Executive Force and supporters of the rival Fateh party, and a bystander was reportedly also killed.
A total of eighteen people were injured in Thursday’s clashes, according to hospital sources.
Just before Mohammed Ghayeb was assassinated by the shelling of his home Thursday evening, he issued a plea for help on Palestine TV, saying, ''They are killers,'' he said of the Hamas gunmen. ''They are targeting the house, children are dying, they are bleeding. For God's sake, send an ambulance, we want an ambulance, somebody move.''
Members of the Fateh party accused the Hamas force of targeting Ghayeb and preventing anyone not supportive of the Hamas party from entering the area as they besieged the 45-year old man in his home.
Hamas, for their part, accused Ghayeb of harboring Fateh gunmen and refusing to surrender the gunmen, who they say had taken refuge in his home.
updated from:
One Palestinian Resident Killed, Ten others Injured During Infighting in Gaza
Rami Almeghari-IMEMC&Agencies
Update: 2007-01-04 17:52:25
One Palestinian resident was killed Thursday and at least 10 others were wounded during internal clashes in various parts of the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Moa’wiya Abu Hasaneen, head of emergency department of the Alshifa hospital of Gaza confirmed that Essam Sbaih , 26, was killed and four others were wounded in the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya.
Abu Hasaneen said also that six others were wounded in the city of Deir Elbalah, in the central Gaza Strip, two of whom were moderately injured.
Witnesses in Beit Lahia said that Sbaih was killed near the house of senior preventative security officer Mohammad Ghareeb in the town of Jabalya.
Speaking to Palestine TV, Mohammad Gharib said “ what have I done, why?, is my house an Israeli settlement?; they are now shooting at my house and my children”.
Local sources in central Gaza Strip reported that six Palestinian mourners were also injured during the funeral procession of three preventive security officers who were killed yesterday during infighting in Khan Younis city
Witnesses said that members of the interior ministry executive force fired on the funeral procession, leading to the injury of six mourners.
The Palestinian national and Islamic factions have issued a statement, calling on conflicting parties to save Palestinian blood and point their guns at the Israeli occupation instead.
Internal clashes resumed a couple of days ago in northern Beit Lahiya city, resulting in the killing of five Palestinian residents including a woman. Infighting resumed just two weeks after all Palestinian factions, mainly Fatah and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire, to foil a possible civil war.
http://www.imemc.org/article/23529 8 oct 2012, 23:56 , Respect -
Maria 5 jan 2007
Wa'el Ghareeb, 35
Palestinian man dies of wounds he sustained Thursday, "cautious calm" prevails in Gaza strip
One Palestinian man died on Friday morning due to wounds sustained during Thursday's clashes in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip between armed groups of the two rival parties Fatah and Hamas.
Dr. Mou'awiah Hassanin, director of the emergency department in the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Wa'el Ghareeb, 35 died in the Shifa hospital. Ghareeb was admitted to the hospital after being hit with a live round in the head during the clashes in Jabalia camp on Thursday evening.
On Thursday, six Palestinians have been killed as clashes between the rival Hamas and Fatah movements renewed in the Gaza Strip, Ghareeb death have raised the death toll in the clashes which erupted following Abbas’ call for early election few weeks ago to 13.
In the meantime the Gaza Strip witnessed on Friday morning "cautious calm", as it was described by local and Arab media sources after the meeting that was held between the Palestinian President Mahmod Abbas and the Palestinian Prime Minister Isma'il Haniyeh on Friday at dawn, the meeting was held in the presidential residency compound in Gaza city.
Abbas and Haniyeh agreed to immediately withdraw all armed groups, mainly the Fatah affiliated Preventative Security and the Hamas affiliate Executive Force from the streets, and allowing the Palestinian Police to assume control over the Gaza Strip.
They also agreed to form and investigation committee and to reactivate the National Security Council.
Earlier this week, an agreement mediated by both Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to release those who have been abducted from the two parties after factional clashes erupted in the earlier in the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia north of the Gaza Strip during which five at least were injured twenty others were abducted. These clashes came two weeks after a fragile cease fire agreement between the two movements that claimed the lives of several residents including three children.
8 oct 2012, 23:56 , Respect -
Maria 21 mrt 2007
Hassan Abu Al-Nada 2
Two-year-old killed in renewed factional violence
25 dec 2011
An American past in an Israeli future for an ever present and brutal occupation
American Presidents: Romancing A Stone
Happy Christmas Mr President or may I call you Barack this Yule Tide? As you know
"Christmas is the day that holds all time together" (Alexander Smith)
certainly as you rustle through your Christmas stocking and wrestle with your conscience perhaps to find as you dig deep in both and past 'hegemonic imperatives' an olive twig or a so-called 'peace process'? Perhaps not. But as you dig, can you hear the whispers?
No. They are not the whispers from the Presidents of Christmas past, we will come to them; no? You are not listening attentively Mr President; that's because you've been genuflecting on the Christmas message of that other great statesman Prime Minister Netanyahu,
"we are living in a time of great uncertainty and instability in the Middle East and Israel, throughout this instability, remains a beacon of religious freedom and pluralism."
Wow. On what rock is Israel built and how Netanyahu bestrides it as America holds it, for "As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser" (Plato). And which is which?
No Mr President the whispers are coming from the stones of Palestine and Israel and they do "cry out" for past Presidents have remained quiet behind lofty rhetoric and where are they now?
"It was [is] the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."(Dickens).
You're a "keen student of history" Mr President what about the human condition and the children lost to a sordid history created by Israel and paid for by American tax dollars? Below are some of their names, the stone told me to tell you their names. God Bless you and God Bless America. Which way are you going?
Remember these Children Mr President:
"Yael Ohana, 11, of Hamra settlement, killed by Palestinian gunfire while in her home. 6 February 2002."
"Fadi Tayseer al-Azazi, 16, of Rafaha, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling to his chest. 6 February 2002."
A- "Total Israeli Deaths since September 2002," 125 children."
B- "Total Palestinian Deaths since September 2002," 1470 children.
The Stoned
The American stone cast, that gave rise to the ripples that became the waves that is the American Israeli tsunami that engulfs Palestine today, was even in the beginning unusually dense, in the sense obtuse. Quarried and romanced in the USA this stone was to be formed, scuffed then ruthlessly scored by matchless Zionist discontent and ambition, tossed, retrieved, polished and tossed again by successive American Presidents into the same murky American Zionist Israeli foreign policy sea.
The rising waves, Israeli aggression and ambition, supported by Zionist America and Presidential weakness, merciless waves beating against the blameless lives of countless Palestinian children past and present and their valiant resistance through the lengthening shadows and dark hours of a brutal occupation as the international community crept decade after supine decade to rectify this grave and ongoing crime against humanity with all the energy of a sloth on diazepam.
American Presidential rhetoric the becoming edict that led to endless Israeli atrocities "unlawful Israeli behaviour [supported by US Aid] that start[ed] out as "facts" have over time been transformed into "conditions", or in the words of the American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
"subsequent developments"
that are treated [unlawfully] as essentially irreversible.
" Moreover, "USAID and American taxpayers [are] financing, and thereby further entrenching, the Israeli de facto annexation of the West Bank." (Richard Falk, UNHRC, 16th Session, Agenda Item 7, A/HRC/16/72, 10 January 2011), and the ruinous blockade and the deaths of Palestinian children.
For these two states America and Israel have been / are up to no good; are, in this criminality together, up to their necks
"because everything that Israel does is done up to the limits that the United States supports and authorizes. So it's U.S. Israeli atrocities." (Noam Chomsky, Power And Terror).
America and Israel justifying, "represent[ing] the institutionalization of a system of power in which justice is inoperative and its perversion hidden in clouds of rhetoric and obfuscation." and where,
"The rule of law implicitly applies only to others." (Edward S. Herman and David Peterson)
Successive American and Israeli Administrations, each, an apostate to the other: "See!" he said to all the people "This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the lord has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God." Joshua 24:27.
All the Presidents then
President John Adams, his mind high on effulgent heroic, saw conquest, envisioning Mordeca Manue Noah in 1819 "Marching with them [the Israelites] into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the Dominion of it". An "independent nation" thought John Quincy Adams, because, they deserved declared Abraham Lincoln a "leg up". All saw the stone that would be a rock and declared it an American good. And the die and the dying in the stone were cast.
Time then, wrapped around the stone, ran through it, became beloved in an American Hegemonic Zionist dream warping space and time, imprisoning Palestinians in a boxed 'continuum'. An American red hot wax seal legitimising the continuum making it 'official' in 1948 as the Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the stealing bit by bit of 'Mandated Palestine' had begun and in ferocious fashion. The Israeli aggression rewarded with a hundred thousand US dollars in 1949 and Israel's aggression rewarded with billions of dollars in 2011.
The Children of Palestine in 1948 were standing in an American Israeli wind tunnel they are standing in it today. And as we come back from the future and indeed as we move from the past to the present, we see the pernicious results of successive Presidential and illegal leg ups the art of hubris and a continuum of failure. Here then an American Presidential Israeli nightmare and the subtitles of the Palestinian river of suffering that runs through it:
A- "14th November 2011, Israeli aircraft attacked a small naval post building in North Gaza district. As a result, one police officer was killed and ten persons were injured, including one woman and six police officers."
B- "In 2009 in North Gaza, Gaza, Dair El Balah, Khan Younis, and Rafah, 1061 Palestinians lost their lives to Israeli aggression. In the Gaza strip in that same year, 323 children and 104 women were killed by the occupying forces." [2]
Remember this Child Mr President:
"Basel Muhammad Nafe abu-Edwan, 14 killed by an unexploded IDF ordinance while he and his brother were herding sheep near their home." Died 27th January 2011. [3]
The stone was picked up and skimmed across the surface of the brimming Zionist sea by the deft wrist of Woodrow Wilson 3rd of March 1919 in reaction to the Balfour Declaration, the text of which was presented to him for approval before publication,
"The allied nations with fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundation of a Jewish commonwealth."
Then President Warren G. Harding grabbed the stone from the Zionist air stating,
"The Hebrew people restored to their historic national home,"
would enter a "new and yet greater phase of their contribution to the advance of humanity."
A- "Number of houses demolished in Gaza strip, since the beginning of the intifada until the end 2009.
-- North Gaza, houses 5399, residents, 54900.
-- Gaza houses, 7060, residents,73149.
-- Dair El Balah, houses 1004, residents, 8925.
-- Khan Younis, houses, 1596, residents, 12247.
-- Rafah, houses, 3774, residents, 32284.
-- Total houses 18833, Total residents, 181505."
B- "The number of damaged water wells.
-- North Gaza, 120.
-- Gaza, 154.
-- Dair El Balah, 62.
-- Khan Younis, 23.
-- Rafah, 14.
-- Total, 373."
C- "2008 Women and children killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
-- Children, 107,
-- women, 23." [4]
Remember this child Mr President:
"Muhammad Jaber hassan Adila Said, 15, of osreen, near Nablus, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest." January 2004.
"Shiran Ismail Abdullah abu-Shawareb 11, of Nuserat refugee camp, Gaza died of heart problems at Nasr paediatric Hospital in Gaza, which lacked necessary equipment, after Israel denied her entry for medical treatment. Doctors had requested transfer to an Israeli hospital on Dec. 27 [2010] On Jan. 10, believing permission for a transfer had been granted, Shiran's father took her to the Erez checkpoint where Israel again denied her entry." Died 15th January 2008.
The stone retrieved by Coolidge was polished with expressed
"sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."
then caressed in short sighted rhetoric by President Hoover who as other Presidents before and after him couldn't see around histories sharp corner or dint want to saying 1932,
"I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices."
A- "Number of damaged industrial establishments by IOF's, in
-- 2006 19,
-- 2005 7,
-- 2004 86,
-- 2003 77."
B- "Number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza strip;
-- 2006 531,
-- 2005 99,
-- 2004 646,
-- 2003 398."
C- "Number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza strip (women, children)
-- 2006 children 115, women 34,
-- 2005 children 32, women 1,
-- 2004 children 156, women 10,
-- 2003 children 81, women 17."
Remember this child Mr President:
Franklin Roosevelt viewed the stone empathetically, could feel its vital pulse, perhaps he had a pet name for the stone perhaps it was ineluctable? Or was it inexorable he had in mind as he sat to write to Senator Tydings on October 19, 1938 as The Nakba loomed.
"I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country."
A- "Number of Palestinians killed by Israel occupying forces in the Gaza Strip,
-- 2003 North Gaza 89,
-- Gaza 118,
-- Dair El Balah 75,
-- Khan Younis 42,
-- Rafah 72."
B- "Palestinians killed by Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza strip (women children)
2002 children 94,
women 25,
2001 children 69,
women 4,
2000 children 38
women 0."
Remember this child Mr President:
"Muhammad Jamal Muhammad al-Durrah, 12 of Burejj refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest as his father tried to protect him during a demonstration at Netzarim Junction."
Then shining with Zionist zeal, it was to morph into a rock in 1948 enfolded in to Israel's emboldened clenched fist, and as the British looked the other way, smashed Palestine leaving Palestinians between it and a hard place, supported by intellectuals with nothing in their heads but the propaganda they were fed, and a Presidential endorsement. Eleven minutes after Israel's proclamation of independence President Harry Truman declared,
"I had faith in Israel before it was established; I have faith in it now." He further said in 1952 "I believe it has a glorious future before it- not just another sovereign nation, but an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."
"The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers".(Catherine Cook)
Remember these children Mr President:
"Ophir Rahum, 16, of Ashkelon, killed by Palestinian gunfire in al-Birah after being led to believe he was meeting an internet acquaintance, 17th January 2001."
"Omar Farouq Khaled 11,of al-Bireh, died of head wounds sustained Jan.7 2001 from IDF gunfire during a demonstration."
And after 1948, a Presidential stream of consciousness compounding the problem for Palestine with unquestioning and ever increasing aid for Israel's gluttony, her voracious appetite to oppress and appropriate, and kill those who would thwart her:
Eisenhower: "our forces saved the remnant of the Jewish People of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn Israel.
Kennedy: "Israel was not created to disappear- Israel will endure and flourish."
Nixon: "The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between parties and agreement can only be achieved only through negotiations between them. The United States will not impose the terms of peace. [But] The United States is prepared to supply military equipment necessary to support the efforts of friendly governments, like Israel's to defend the safety of their people."
Carter: "a few days ago in a conversation with about 30 members of the House of Representatives, I said that I would rather commit suicide than hurt Israel."
President Regan: Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbours that they recognize those facts."
Bush Sr: "The friendship, the alliance between the United States and Israel is strong and solid, built upon a foundation of shared democratic values."
Clinton: "The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all it has accomplished."
And President George W. Bush: "Israel is a small country that has lived under threat throughout its existence. At the first meeting of my National Security Council, I told them a top foreign policy priority is the safety and security of Israel."
Remember this child Mr President:
"Sara Abdul-Azim Abdul-Haq Hasan, 18 months, of Sarah, near Salfit, killed by Israeli settler gunfire to her head while riding with her father in a car. 1st October 2000."
And last but not the least short sighted lacking historical memory, also will as did the others President Barack Hussein Obama: "The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies and that opportunities should be available to all. Throughout its own extraordinary history, Israel has given life to that promise."
Remember this child Mr President:
"Haitham Ahmad Mustafa Maruf, 13 of Beit Lahiya, Gaza, died in Shifa Hospital, Gaza, of wounds sustained from an IDF drone attack while working on his family farm 29 August 2011."
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