US policies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and elsewhere, the attention given to round numbers is wholly illogical. The drones flying over Afghanistan and Pakistan, loaded with killing technology, care little for numbers, including the number of lives they destroy daily. Did Gazans starve less when we examined Obamas (pro-Israel) legacy after 100 days of his presidency? Where they better off one year from his election victory or one year from his inauguration? How about 273 days from his ascendancy to the White House? Was that a particularly chaotic day in Baghdads streets? Do soldiers take a break from killing on even days, and resume the slaughter on odd ones? Full article here: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17575Today, 07:31:51 Flag Like Reply Delete Edit Moderate Amilcar To: All, Israels war on protest Army used to deport activists against the Wall by Jonathan Cook Global Research, February 12, 2010 The Israeli courts ordered the release this week of two foreign women arrested by the army in the West Bank in what human-rights lawyers warn has become a wide-ranging clampdown by Israel on non-violent protest from international, Israeli and Palestinian activists. The arrest of the two women during a nighttime raid on the Palestinian city of Ramallah has highlighted a new tactic by Israeli officials: using immigration police to try to deport foreign supporters of the Palestinian cause. A Czech woman was deported last month after she was seized from Ramallah by a special unit known as Oz, originally established to arrest migrant labourers working illegally inside Israel. Human rights lawyers say Israels new offensive is intended to undermine a joint non-violent struggle by international activists and Palestinian villagers challenging a land grab by Israel as it builds the separation wall on farmland in the West Bank. In what Israels daily Haaretz newspaper recently called a war on protest, Israeli security forces have launched a series of raids in the West Bank over the past two months to detain Palestinian community leaders organising protests against the wall. Israel knows that the non-violence struggle is spreading and that its a powerful weapon against the occupation, said Neta Golan, an Israeli activist based in Ramallah. Israel has no answer to it, which is why the security forces are panicking and have started making lots of arrests. The detention this week of Ariadna Marti, 25, of Spain, and Bridgette Chappell, 22, of Australia, suggests a revival of a long-running cat-and-mouse struggle between Israel and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group of activists who have joined Palestinians in non-violently opposing the Israeli occupation. Full Article Here: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17576 Today, 07:27:49 Flag Like Reply Delete Edit Moderate Amilcar To All: Weeping for Gaza David Halpin reaches out to the people of Gaza by Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research, February 12, 2010 "Israel could and would not, have engaged in the level of wholesale destruction ... without the support of the outgoing Bush Administration and acquiescence of the incoming Obama" one, comments Halpin, adding "and not without full UK and EU support." (see www.tiny.cc/IHzUG) Full article here: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17570 Today, 07:24:47 Flag Like Reply Delete Edit Moderate