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The Washington Post's Shireen Abu Akleh fairy talenoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 Jun 04:45 AM The Washington Post held its own investigation into Like   Tweet   The Washington Post's Shireen Abu Akleh fairy tale noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 Jun 04:45 AM The Washington Post held its own investigation into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. Its flaws are immediately apparent: "We were very sure there were no armed Palestinians, and no exchange of fire or clashes with the Israelis," said [Ali al-]Samoudi, [an Al Jazeera news channel producer.] Then, the journalists headed up the street, toward the Israeli convoy. "It was totally calm, there was no gunfire at all." Suddenly, there was a barrage of bullets. One struck Samoudi. Another hit and ultimately killed Abu Akleh, as their colleagues scrambled for cover. The shots seemed to come from the military vehicles, Samoudi recalled. In the video that the Washington Post posted, the gunfire volley that causes the reporters to scramble happens at 7:06, buit one can hear gunfire two minutes earlier at 5:02. More importantly, however, is that al-Samoudi contradicts another interview he gave the day of the shooting. After a few minutes, we heard the sound of bullets raining down on us from the side of the occupation soldiers who were on the roofs of the buildings opposite us , amid the screams of Palestinian citizens who...Read More Gunfire from Hamas to evict Gazans from their homes. Did you read about this anywhere? noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Jun 02:30 PM Palestinian site Amad reports: Local sources reported on Thursday afternoon that there was an exchange of fire between Hamas security forces and residents of the Bedouin village area [in Northern Gaza], and that there were a number of casualties. The sources indicated that the Hamas Land Authority demolished homes in the Bedouin village in the northern Gaza Strip. Shooting took place in the Bedouin village at Hamas policemen while they were demolishing a house in the Bedouin village belonging to Tawfiq Abu Hashish. According to the sources, there was intense shooting and a number of injuries, one of them seriously, they were transferred to the Indonesian Hospital. Evicting people from their homes? Demolishing houses? Using gunfire against a violent riot? When Israel is blamed for these things, they are considered the worst human rights abuses in the Middle East. When Hamas does them - there is next to no coverage in Western media. The only reason any Israeli media covered it at all was because some gunfire reached an Israeli community, causing slight...Read More 06/12 Links: False Claims, Discredited Sources: The Initial Report from the UN's Permanent COI Targeting Israel; How the Palestinians were born into the world noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 12 Jun 12:00 PM From Ian: NGO Monitor: False Claims, Discredited Sources: The Initial Report from the UN's Permanent COI Targeting Israel Executive Summary On June 7, 2022, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)'s "Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel" (COI) published its first report. As expected, this initial report perpetuates outright falsehoods, and relies on information provided by terror-linked and anti-Israel NGOs to previous UN bodies. This is consistent with the COI's prejudicial mandate and the bias of commission members. The COI's Fundamental Bias Unlike other commissions of inquiry that present a single report to the HRC, the COI will report twice a year in perpetuity, making it yet another permanent anti-Israel UN institution. The COI seeks to collect evidence that will be provided to the International Criminal Court (ICC), affording NGOs another vehicle to lobby for prosecutions of Israeli officials. The COI's mandate includes an obligation to investigate "root causes" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this regard, it will likely become a platform for NGO claims that the Jewish state is illegitimate and guilty of the crime of "apartheid." The selection process for commissioners was non-transparent, and there is secrecy regarding the identity of the "experts" upon whom the COI is relying...Read More Iran warns that Gulf ties to Israel could cause "instability" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Jun 10:00 AM From Iran's Mehr News: A senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander has issued a stark warning to some neighboring Arab states about giving Israel a foothold in the Persian Gulf. Commander of the IRGC Navy Force Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri has reiterated Iran's longstanding concerns about the growing trend of normalization between Israel and some Persian Gulf's Arab states. Speaking during a surprise visit to a strategic island just a hop from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Iranian general warned that bringing Israel to the Persian Gulf would result in instability in this strategically important region. "Today, there is desirable security in the geographical area of the Persian Gulf thanks to cooperation and synergy among the neighboring countries. [But] if someone for any kind of reason brings the wretched, child-murdering, number-one-enemy Zionist regime to this region, he will destabilize, disturb and create insecurity for both himself and this region," General Tangsiri said in a Saturday visit to the Greater Tunb Island. He added, "We advise our friendly and brotherly neighbors in the Persian Gulf not to establish contact with the Zionist regime [Israel]. Because this will harm the security of the region." The entire article is framed as a friendly warning which is also a threat. After all, what specifically would harm the security of the...Read More Report details systematic rape by Christians and Muslims during the Lebanese civil war. Media almost silent. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Jun 07:00 AM Lebanon's Naharnet reports: The level of torture and sexual violence used by combatants against women and girls during the 15-year civil war in Lebanon shocked investigators, British newspaper The Guardian said. A report by the human rights organization Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) gathered testimonies that detailed horrific experiences of violence, including gang-rape, electrocution and forced nudity used to persecute women and girls – some as young as nine – from opposing communities. An amnesty law passed in Lebanon in 1991 granted immunity for crimes committed against civilians during the war, which has allowed a culture of impunity and lack of accountability to develop, the report noted. The report itself, issued by LAW and UN Women, is horrific to read, with victim and eyewitness accounts of the most disgusting war crimes. Yet the report doesn't say who performed these rapes and murders of women and girls. All it says are "state and non-state actors." One has to read between the lines to understand that only Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian armed forces, Christian and Muslim militias were responsible for these rapes, not the IDF in its forays into Lebanon during the civil war. The report mentions the 1991 amnesty law, and subsequent...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company