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israelfacts:

On this day in 2004: British student Tom Hurndall dies from his wounds after being shot directly in the head by an Israeli sniper for attempting to carry Palestinian children out of the line of fire

Hurndall was unarmed and wearing the internationally recognized peaceworker’s fluorescent orange jacket. He was struck down on 11 April 2003 and never regained consciousness. He died nine months later at a London hospital on 13 January 2004.

The sniper who pulled the trigger, an award-winning marksman whose rifle had telescopic sight, admitted that a policy of shooting at unarmed civilians existed at the time.

(Photos: Tom Hurndall Foundation)

israelfacts:

On This Day in 2009: When Palestinian children returned to school for the first day of classes since Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza ended, not all pupils showed up. Some students had to be excused for not attending after being killed by the Israeli army during its three-week bombing campaign of the besieged strip.

Over 300 Palestinian children were killed in ‘Operation Cast Lead’ — between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009 — which took the lives of over 1,400 Palestinians in total.

Signs replaced the once-occupied seats at al-Fakhura School in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza; names of victims written under the word in red: ‘Martyr’, 24 January, 2009.

(Photo: Anja Niedringhaus / AP)

socialistexan:

farhaaan:

The Palestine they don’t want you to see

Israel and the American media want you to believe that Palestinians are fanatics; existing only for Israel’s destruction. They want you to believe Palestinians hate Jews and Christians and all other ‘infidels’, that they’re all strapped around in bombs, wearing suicide costumes, ready to die. The Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich even openly said that Palestinians are ‘terrorists’.

This is the Palestine they don’t want you to see, that they never show you. The top picture shows Palestinians working on a huge Christmas tree in Bethlehem’s Manger Square, in Palestine. Yes, that is a mosque right next to it. The bottom picture was taken today, 15th December 2011, showing a Palestinian boy scout marching band playing during the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Manger Square, outside the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in Palestine. [Getty/Reuters]

Oh look, it’s an anti-Israel terror tree!

And boy scout marching band? Don’t you mean anti-capitalist down-with-America Jihad band?

It makes me sad that most likely this is how Fox and the other bought media will spin this.

"We were to have made a $60m payment to Unesco in November and we will not be making that payment."

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State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists in Washington that the United States is cancelling funding for the UN cultural body Unesco after it voted to grant full membership to the Palestinians. Membership dues paid by the US account for about a fifth of the organisation’s annual budget. (source)

We’re such assholes about this statehood thing.

ADDING: It’s because of a law passed in the 90’s that says we can’t fund any UN body that recognizes Palestine’s statehood. Fuck everything.

(via sexartandpolitics)

what the fuck. 

pyotra:

haralambros

Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel protesting in front of the Israeli Consulate in London, 1973.