Palestine: Terrorists to Serve As Obama’s Bodyguards

Does Obama want McCain to win this badly? Rove would be out of a job in this election because Obama is writing the script for the “attack ad” for them.

Why is John Kerry going around saying Tar Baby?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnfvzgmXHs

o is a dangerous, power hungry thug,
I have a hard time believing that meeting in private with Prince Abdullah and being surrounded by would be suicide bombers or at least those who protect and give safe harbor to same is fine and dandy with the State Department.
He needs to be recalled and the Super Delegates need to walk away en masse from this skanky flim flam man.

This is completely unacceptable, from Obama, Bush and anyone else. Good God Almighty, what has the United States come to? We used to be an example to follow. No wonder some countries hate us-our government is full of a bunch of hypocrites.

All I can say is the superdelegates need to do their damn job or it is pointless to have them.

Congratulations, Larry. Your site is now using World Net Daily as a source for information. If No Quarter hadn’t yet jumped the shark, it sure as hell has now.

Tell me something… would you have accepted the work of a CIA analyst that used WND as a source? Would you have accepted the same from a graduate student writing an article? The answer is no, right?

So why are you allowing crap like this to be posted on your blog???

VIDEO LINK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqiQ_rfz_k

This is a slap in the face to the people who this organization has killed….using them as body guards?

Shame on OBAMA.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade for Dummies:

In October 2005, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia announced a plan to begin disarming the brigade by setting up training camps and incorporating its members into the Palestinian security forces.

In July 2007, the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority reached an agreement that included amnesty for 178 brigade members on the condition that they end all anti-Israeli attacks and join forces in the battle against Hamas in Gaza. Not all of the released members complied. Despite some progress on the deal, the Palestinian Authority requested that additional prisoners be released from Israeli prisons, but the Israeli government has been reluctant to comply.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/9127/

Published on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by Haaretz
Israel Fears Scathing US Report On Its West Bank Policies

by Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff

The United States security coordinator for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, retired general James Jones, is preparing an extremely critical report of Israel’s policies in the territories and its attitude toward the Palestinian Authority’s security services.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/22/10519/print/

It’s Called Apartheid and it creates more terrorists every day:

Roadblocks Cripple West Bank Economy
Mel Frykberg

HEBRON, West Bank, Jul 22 (IPS) – The Israeli military has erected three additional roadblocks, further blocking vehicular access on the road between the south Hebron village of At-Tuwani and the commercial hub of Yatta in the southern West Bank.

The West Bank is the Palestinian area west of the Jordan river, much of it under Israeli control.

Besides being the main economic hub for the region, Yatta is also the principal provider of critical services such as hospitals, secondary schools and public administration offices.

Yatta is a town of just under 45,000 people situated 8km south of Hebron, which is 30km south of Jerusalem in the southern West Bank.

Several communities in the South Hebron Hills continue to be cut off from basic supplies. This is particularly problematic as the road is the main artery for the supply of water to these areas which are currently experiencing a severe drought.

According to Palestinian residents of the area, roadblocks have doubled the commercial price of water. A UN worker reported that roadblocks here will increase the cost of transporting essential water aid by 30 percent.

These are amongst a number of new roadblocks and checkpoints that have been erected in the West Bank despite promises by the Israeli government to ease access and travel restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied territory.

The World Bank released a report earlier in the year stating that Israel’s closure system was a leading cause for the Palestinians’ economic woes and that if there was no ease on these restrictions the Palestinian economy would continue to rapidly decline despite the 7.4 billion dollars in aid pledged at the international donors conference in Paris at the beginning of the year.

The Israeli Justice Ministry responded to the World Bank report claiming that, “on occasion, access to certain roads is restricted in the face of a real security threat. However, as soon as such a threat no longer exists, such restrictions are lifted.”

But Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem accused the ministry of skewing the facts.

“In reality, over 300 kilometres of roads in the West Bank are either partially or completely restricted from the use of Palestinians, on a permanent basis, regardless of any specific threat,” it says.

In addition to the damage that these restrictions cause to the economy, they have also affected the ability of Palestinians to receive medical treatment as ambulances have often been delayed for hours at checkpoints or been forced to turn back even with critically ill patients. Women have been forced to give birth at checkpoints while other patients have died at the roadblocks.

Dr Bassen Abu Mahdi, medical director of primary healthcare for the Salfit district in the northern West Bank, told IPS that patients awaiting emergency medical treatment at Salfit Hospital were being delayed for hours at the three big checkpoints in the district.

“Another problem facing motorists and pedestrians trying to cross the checkpoints is the threat of being accidentally shot at night by nervous Israeli soldiers,” said Abu Mahdi. “This has happened before. To avoid this problem people delay seeking urgent treatment during the night and postpone it until morning, when time is of the essence.”

The Israelis claim that these roadblocks and restrictions are necessary for their security but critics argue that they constitute collective punishment on the Palestinian population, and are aimed primarily at protecting Israeli settlers and settlements in the Palestinian territories.

“This is destroying the livelihoods of Palestinians, the economy, agriculture, education and health situation,” says Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian peace negotiator.

An annual report in January of this year to the UN human rights committee by the former special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, John Dugard, stated that a picture was emerging of a West Bank divided into three areas — north, central and south.

This has limited the ability of Palestinians to move freely around the West Bank for social, medical, business or educational purposes, as the West Bank is now practically divided into three cantons. The Nablus district in the north of the West Bank is for example practically encircled by the Israeli army, and only those with the necessary documentation can exit and enter the city.

“Movement is easier inside these areas, but travel between them is hampered by a combination of checkpoints and other physical obstacles,” the report said.

It said the roadblocks had helped create a system of roads limited to Israeli use, while funnelling Palestinian motorists onto alternative routes where movement is restricted.

“The new physical obstacles have further limited access to land, markets, services and social relations,” added the report.

The report also cited a new Israeli permit system limiting Palestinian access to the West Bank’s Jordan Valley, where many farmers own land. Farmers are struggling to reach their fields and ship their produce to markets, while rural communities have been isolated from cities because of the travel difficulties.

In April Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Israel had removed 61 of the more than 500 roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank “to make life easier for the Palestinians.”

This followed promises made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the Annapolis, Maryland, peace talks towards the end of last year, to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the number of roadblocks in the West Bank would be significantly reduced.

However, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in May that the number of West Bank closure obstacles had risen from 566 to 607 from September last year to the end of April this year.

According to OCHA, six of the roadblocks on Barak’s list of 61 were left in place. Another 11 simply never existed. A close examination of the 44 roadblocks which existed and were removed revealed that most of them had no implications whatsoever for Palestinians’ freedom of movement. Only five of these 44 obstacles were classified by the UN as “significant” for Palestinians living in the area.

OCHA further explained that some of the checkpoints had been abandoned years ago. Others had been erected by Israeli Defence Forces that day, only to be removed later the same day while still counted in the tally of checkpoints allegedly removed.

According to the humanitarian organisation some of the roadblocks removed were situated in the middle of fields and therefore had little impact on movement and access. (END/2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43268

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Published on Monday, July 21, 2008 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Gaza on Brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe

by Bill Dienst

This August, a group of 40 international human rights activists from 15 countries, including Palestinians and Israelis, will attempt to sail directly from the island of Cyprus into the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza. I will participate as the ship’s doctor. Two ships, provided by an organization called the Free Gaza Movement, will challenge Israel’s policy of imprisoning 1.4 million Palestinians within the Gaza Strip.

Gaza stands on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe, with its population confined in a crowded area to which land, sea and air entry are all controlled by the Israeli military. Israel claims Gaza is no longer occupied, yet it denies the vast majority of the population access to jobs, travel, visitors, commerce, education, medical care and basic necessities.

Since last fall, in a form of collective punishment of Gaza’s entire civilian population, Israel has tightened the screws on the territory by restricting the importation of food, fuel and medicine. This cutoff has resulted in a desperate situation, as Gazans are unable to pump water, run hospital equipment or even process sewage, which is now being dumped into the Mediterranean by the millions of gallons.

In my work as a physician, I have visited Gaza numerous times since 1985, collaborating with local health care organizations. My colleagues in Gaza report current conditions are extremely dangerous to the physical and mental health of most of the population, especially children.

The Israeli government also abuses the civilian population of Gaza in much more violent ways than through the slow misery of siege. I witnessed one example of such treatment two years ago in the town of Beit Hanoun, when a weeklong incursion by the Israeli army resulted in the deaths of more than 85 people. More than 300 were seriously wounded. I subsequently visited the graves of 16 members of the Al Athamna family, who had all been buried hastily in the sand in the foreboding presence of Israeli tanks.

The desperate situation in Gaza is not a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. This disaster is man-made, born of Israel’s desire to make Gazans as miserable, and therefore submissive, as possible. The rest of the world does not have to ignore this situation, but many of those who have used the phrase “never again,” fall silent when a new atrocity against Palestinians is under way.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/21/10494/

OMG!!!!

Why isn’t this in the media, and why isn’t our own current government speaking out about this? Incredible.

Obama has nothing to fear from his friends in Palestine. The security force is just for show.

Or perhaps we’re just fed up with the official press corps, better known as Barack Obama Junior High.

When CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times and on and on……… stop campaigning for Obama and become truth seeking journalists, we might not need alternative sources of information. I find myself spending a lot of time digging through the internet in order to stay informed. Most people are too busy making a living and raising families not realizing they are getting bombarded with propaganda by the MSM.
Without free and fair press there is no democracy period.

Haha the best is when there are front page posts with things like “Hannity says [insert insane talking point here]” or “Just on Fox News…”

But these are Democrats…riiiight.