Road trip Gaza!

From AIPAC: Anti-Arab video made by a Jerusalem Post editor
It seems the Jerusalem Post ’s Deputy Managing Editor, Caroline Glick, doesn’t have much real work to do, since she has produced her second Racist video in two weeks. [The first being 'We Con the World,' making light of nine dead Activists on the Gaza aid Flotilla.] AIPAC has generously distributed this one for her to U.S. Journalists. H/T M.J. Rosenberg from Media Matters for America , a self-described former operative for the American Israel Political Action Committee, the...

Israel drafting new list of goods banned from Gaza
Jerusalem (AP) - Israel pledged Sunday it will immediately allow all goods into Gaza except weapons and other items deemed to have a Military use under its decision to ease its three-year-old Blockade of the Palestinian territory. The list of banned goods replaces an old list of allowed items that permitted only basic humanitarian supplies for the 1.5 million Gazans. Under the new system, the government said practically all non-military items can enter Gaza freely. "From now on, there is a...

Israel to allow more 'civilian' goods into Gaza

Israel drafting new list of goods banned from Gaza
Jerusalem (AP) - Israel pledged Sunday it will immediately allow all goods into Gaza except weapons and other items deemed to have a Military use under its decision to ease its three-year-old Blockade of the Palestinian territory. The list of banned goods replaces an old list of allowed items that permitted only basic humanitarian supplies for the 1.5 million Gazans. Under the new system, the government said practically all non-military items can enter Gaza freely. "From now on, there is a...

The Story Behind Israel's Gaza Blockade
THE KEREM SHALOM CROSSING - The White House on Thursday called Israel's decision to ease the flow of goods into the Gaza Strip "a step in the right direction." Israel offered the olive branch to the Palestinians in the face of growing international pressure. Although recent media reports have suggested no Humanitarian Aid is getting to Gaza, Israeli authorities say that's not the case. Click play for more on the Gaza Blockade with CBN News Jerusalem Correspondent Julie Stahl, following Chris...

Israel unveils procedures to ease Gaza blockade
Jerusalem, June 20 (Reuters) - Israel announced new procedures on Sunday to ease its land Blockade on the Gaza Strip, saying it would start allowing in all goods except for weapons and materials that can be used to make them. A statement from the Prime Minister’s office said Israel would “as quickly as possible””publish a list of banned goods, and that all items not on the list would be allowed into the Palestinian territory, which is run by the Hamas Islamist...

Hamas brands Israel decision to ease Gaza blockade as 'deception'
Senior cabinet ministers on Sunday approved steps toward easing Israel's land Blockade of the Gaza Strip, days after Jerusalem had issued a non-binding declaration supporting such a move. The decision drew praise from the White House and criticism from the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip, who called it "deception" and said that the Blockade must be lifted entirely. A Palestinian man sells scavenged goods at the Jabalya market in Gaza.

Canceled West Bank vote affirms Fatah decline
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, center, Talks to the media while standing between Hamas cabinet Minister Bassem Naim, right, and Fatah leader in Gaza Zakaria Agha, right, upon his arrival in Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, southern of Gaza Strip, Sunday June 13, 2010. The Arab World's top diplomat made an unprecedented tour of Hamas-ruled Gaza on Sunday as part of a growing international push to end a 3-year-old Israeli Blockade of the territory. Moussa's visit was the first...

On board the Mavi Marmara
Posted by Scott at 9:13 AM Ynetnews reports reports that Israel's Foreign Ministry has released an illuminating new video filmed on board the Mavi Marmara before the IDF's interception of the ship. The footage was found among the possessions of one of the Flotilla's passengers and shows Bulent Yildirim, leader of the IHH group that organized the Flotilla to the Gaza Strip, speaking to the passengers on board. Islam seems to have something to do with the mission to break Israel's Blockade of...

Netanyahu: 'Israel Plans to Ease Blockade of Gaza' to Specified Items
Three weeks after the Gaza-flotilla incident and following an Israeli Security Cabinet meeting, "Israel plans to ease its Blockade of Gaza," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this morning, to just specified Military items. From CNN: "Israel has decided to enable the flow of all civilian goods into the Gaza Strip. From today, there is a green light approval for all goods to enter into Gaza except for Military items and materials that can strengthen Hamas' Military machine ... Netanyahu...

Netanyahu: 'Israel Plans to Ease Blockade of Gaza' to Specified Items
Three weeks after the Gaza-flotilla incident and following an Israeli Security Cabinet meeting, "Israel plans to ease its Blockade of Gaza," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this morning, to just specified Military items. From CNN: "Israel has decided to enable the flow of all civilian goods into the Gaza Strip. From today, there is a green light approval for all goods to enter into Gaza except for Military items and materials that can strengthen Hamas' Military machine ... Netanyahu...

Israel to Scale Back Gaza Blockade
CNN reports : Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel plans to ease its Blockade of Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday following an Israeli Security Cabinet meeting, a step welcomed by the United States and Middle East Envoy Tony Blair. "Israel has decided to enable the flow of all civilian goods into the Gaza Strip. From today, there is a green light approval for all goods to enter into Gaza except for Military items and materials that can strengthen Hamas' Military machine," a source...

Turkey looks east and makes waves
Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey — Turkey has long been a map of possibility — its eastern fringes touching Iraq and its western borders brushing Europe, a place where the music of Beethoven played amid the call to prayer. This predominantly Muslim nation is a member of NATO and a Candidate, although an unwelcome one, to join the European Union. But Turkey is peering East, dispatching Financial brokers, pistachio merchants and Diplomats across a restless region that is both looking...

Israel to allow aid in to Gaza
Israel announced plans to allow civilian supplies into Gaza, bowing to intense pressure following the bungled Raid on an Activist Flotilla seeking to break the Blockade three weeks ago.

Lebanese Muslim women and dhimmi Christian women plan Fraud Flotilla 2.0 aboard the "Maryam"
That would be Maryam as in Mary, the mother of Jesus. Clearly, the Christian women have not considered what Islamic law would do to their freedom to openly proclaim Mary as "Mother of God." Or Theotokos , or Regina Coeli -- all very, very haram , when it is blasphemous in Islam to imply that Allah has a son, and Islamic law makes Blasphemy a matter of severe punishment. Indeed, the Christians here are making themselves pawns for Propaganda on behalf of a group that would demand from them...

Protesters prevent unloading of Israeli ship
(06-20) 12:35 PDT OAKLAND -- Hundreds of demonstrators, gathering at the Port of Oakland before dawn, prevented the unloading of an Israeli cargo ship. The demonstrators, demanding an end to Israel's Blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at Berth 58, where a ship from Israel's Zim shipping line is scheduled to dock later today. The day shift of longshoremen agreed not to cross the picket line. International pressure to end the Gaza closure has increased since Israeli commandos stormed a...

Lebanon to Bar Aid Ships from Gaza
With the Israeli government promising to treat any Aid Ships coming from Lebanon as “Terrorists” and threatening to hold the Lebanese government “responsible” for any Ships that attempted to reach the Gaza Strip with Humanitarian Aid, Beirut appears to have blinked first, with reports saying that they will now block the Ships from leaving. Incredibly enough the Lebanese government will argue that sending Aid Ships to the Gaza Strip is illegal because it is illegal to...

Israel's partial easing of Gaza blockade dismissed as inadequate
Israel 's decision today to allow a partial easing of the Blockade of Gaza was given a cool response by the international community, while Palestinians demanded the Blockade be lifted completely. Aid agencies condemned it as inadequate. The move, triggered by anger over Israel's bloody interception of the Gaza "freedom Flotilla," is expected to end restrictions on food and some other consumer items entering the coastal territory. But there was no relief for urgently needed construction...

Obama, Netanyahu to meet July 6 to discuss Gaza blockade
Washington (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday hailed Israel's easing of its land Blockade of Gaza and said President Barack Obama would discuss "additional steps" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Washington visit on July 6. Politics   |   Barack Obama "We believe that the implementation of the policy announced by the government of Israel today should improve life for the people of Gaza, and we will continue to support that effort going forward,"...

Easing The Blockade
The ultimate victory for the Mavi Marmara : Israel has decided to ease the Blockade of Gaza , shifting its policy closer toward what supporters of the Blockade said it was always supposed to accomplish, preventing Hamas from stockpiling weapons. We’ll have to wait to see how much so-called ‘dual use’ material — stuff that could have both civilian or Military application — Israel will actually continue to exclude before we can really determine whether the...

How I was summoned to the Knesset
Those who demand that I prepare Students for recruitment should know that my duty is also to tell them that they would enter a territory which was occupied 43 years ago, in which Human Rights are being shamefully violated on a daily basis by means of our Military superiority. In the future, these Children will have to account for themselves, and they will ask if their School has revealed to them the terrible secret called occupation. Yes, occupation. An occupation, not a liberation, not...

Friedman: Middle Easterners are scheming, except Israel
Tom Friedman, now in Istanbul, goes from describing as insane a Conspiracy Theory that on its face is plausible-- the shocking possibility that the enemy of Israel's new enemy is Israel's friend-- to mounting his own (mildly interesting) Theory of why Erdogan used the Flotilla as a radical Raid on Israel. Moreover, Erdogan has evolved from just railing against Israel’s attacks on Hamas in Gaza to spouting Conspiracy theories — like the insane notion that Israel is backing the P.K.K....

ISRAEL EASES GAZA BLOCKADE - REMAINS FIRM ON WEAPONS BAN
a shop in northern Gaza Strip June 8, 2010 Israel’s new policy will allow an inflow of construction material into the Gaza Strip for projects approved by the Palestinian Authority or under the auspices of international supervision, including schools, health facilities, water, and other basic infrastructure. The change in policy is also aimed at improving economic activity in the coastal territory, said the PMO. The new policy was also to allow Humanitarian Aid to be brought into Gaza in...

The Jihad Flotillas: Melding Propaganda with Violence
After the Israeli action against the Turkish Jihad Flotilla aroused more international condemnation of Israel, Iran is now sending two of its own Islamic Jihad Flotillas " Moetillas " to Gaza. The war Ship convoy (which the media affectionately has called a "humanitarian Flotilla" while the "aid workers" set out to slice and dice the Jews) operated by Jihad gangs from thug countries is the new way to wage war in the twenty-first century, if you're not

Obama's ratings ebb in Muslim world
Reporting from Washington — Confidence in President Obama among the World's Muslims is slipping, according to a poll of global attitudes that also found widespread concern that the United States remains a go-it-alone nation even under the new Administration. The survey, by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project , found support for Obama strong in most nations, even as his Rating at home has slipped. But in five of seven Muslim-majority nations that were polled, he slipped...