Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza

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The Palestinian minister of the interior, whom the occupation forces killed with an F16 missile grew up in Shati', born there in 1953. There was a sort of quiet in Gaza city today, but Hanan Al-Masri reported on Al-Arabiyya that there was shelling by occupation forces in Shaj'iyya, east Gaza City which is a very famous area from the first intifada. She got reports of further occupation forces shelling in Khan Younis, where the famous Mamluke city center is and which has many popular supporters of Hamas.





BBC is saying that Hamas has rejected the cease fire, but they are just picking on a speech by Khaled Meshal at the Doha meeting. Hamas has agreed to the Egyptian - French proposal. Livni is in the US with Rice, rushing there after the "mistake" the occupation forces made yesterday of bombing the UN warehouse and burning alll the supplies while Bi Moon was there. Below is a good response to a prof in Beersheba who "explained" on the New York Times why Israelis are united behind the actions of the occupying forces. Also, below that is a comment I made that was published in the comments blog of this professor. IN RESPONSE TO THE STRANGE WAY ISRAELIS ARE UNITED BEHIND THE BOMBING: Here is a good comment to a Beersheba Professors article in the NEW York times explaining how frightened Israelis are by the rockets. 1. An absolutely ridiculous essay. You whine about the terror of hearing rockets everyday, while ignoring the reason why Hamas sends those rockets. Hamas knows that rockets will never “defeat” Israel. The point is to remind Israelis that there is a destitute Palestinian population that has no chance of improving its lot as long as Israel continues to strangle it economically. How convenient is it for you to forget the root causes of this: - no trade allowed with the outside world - constant power shutdowns - constant land grabs (including the wall built on Palestinian land) - arbitrary imprisonment and killings with no legal proceedings (Israel is police, judge and jury) Lets look at the reality of the situation, this is really very similar to other historical eras. For years South Africa maintained the same policy as Israel - boxing in the indigent population while maintaining that it was necessary to contain terrorists. In Nazi Germany the same thing was done in the ghettos. Yes these comparisons are ugly, but they hold true if looked at objectively. Its time to hold Israel accountable for its actions. All necessary humanitarian aid to Palestinians should be deducted directly from aid now given to Israel. A trade embargo should be imposed on Israel also, It makes no sense for the US and the world to continue to subsidize this insanity. Once Israel also feels the pain of economic isolation it too will decide that such policies will never be productive. And here’s mine on Jan15th at 10am 1. The Occupying Forces are running the war very carefully on the ground so as to continually allow Hamas to fire rockets at Bersheeba and Ashkelon. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the rockets are fired from the fields as close as possible to the Israeli border, that is to say OUTSIDE the poplulation centers. Yet the Israeli Air force and apache helicopters are striking targets all over the Gaza strip, and, even today, in the south west part of Gaza city, the elegant area just south of the French Cultural Center and the British Council. For days, they have demolished houses in Jabalia and Beit Lahia, but totally ignored the fields between Jabalia and the Erez crossing. So the rockets keep coming. I believe that that is the strategy of the high ups in the Israeli establishment. They need the rockets to keep coming in order to keep Israeli public opinion on their side, while they carry out a massive destruction and bloodletting of the various parts of the Gaza strip. Nor does it take a rocket scientist to see that with all the high tech stuff available in Israel, some teenager couldn’t have invented a rocket that would intercept a Qassam in mid flight. But, oh no. The Israeli government wouldn’t want to do such a simple thing to protect its citizens!! “Israel has to teach the Palestinians a lesson.” — 3011