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After Warning of ‘Large and Painful Military Operation,’ Israel Begins Massive Bombing of Gaza

Posted by M. C. on July 23, 2018

It is easy to see where Saudi Arabia learned how to further decimate and impoverish already impoverished countries.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/20/after-warning-large-and-painful-military-operation-israel-begins-massive-bombing

by
Jake Johnson
“Israeli snipers shoot and kill scores of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, including kids, then calls it self-defense. When a Palestinian sniper fires at one Israeli soldier, Israel bombs Gaza with F-16s and preps for all out war.”

Just hours after Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned that Israel is gearing up to launch a “large and painful military operation” in Gaza that would rival Operation Protective Edge—a 2014 assault that killed more than 2,000 Palestinians—the Israeli military carried out “wide-scale” airstrikes across Gaza on Friday following weekly anti-occupation protests along the border fence…

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Violence in Gaza Today Captures the Attention of…No One | The American Conservative

Posted by M. C. on April 6, 2018

That two state solution just around the corner – NOT. Never was.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/violence-in-gaza-today-captures-the-attention-of-no-one/

By GEOFFREY ARONSON

More than 1,400 have been wounded in clashes between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli military. The media has barely noticed…

Gaza today is a prison, bound to its north by Israel and its south and east by Egypt, both of which for their own reasons are conspiring to continue its penury and isolation. To the west lies the Mediterranean, deceptively open but just as impenetrable. In a faraway time Gaza was once an entrepot—a thriving seaport on the Mediterranean linking the west with the Arab heartland to the east. Its location along the hotly contested Mediterranean coast, where an abundance of natural gas has recently been discovered, is a cruel reminder of what Gaza—which the World Bank warns will be uninhabitable by 2020 if current policies continue—could be. Read the rest of this entry »

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