Gaza Blast Kills 3 Israeli Soldiers, Wounds 30, Al-Jazeera Says
By Edward DeMarco

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Three Israeli soldiers have been killed and 30 wounded in a booby-trapped house in Gaza, al-Jazeera reported, citing unidentified sources.

The house was blown up in the incident, al-Jazeera reported.
Last Updated: January 5, 2009 16:18 EST

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'Friendly' fire kills Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza
Article from: Agence France-Presse
Adel Zanoun in Gaza City

January 06, 2009 12:55pm

THREE Israeli soldiers were killed and 24 wounded in northern Gaza when they were accidentally hit by Israeli tank fire.

An army spokesman said the soldiers were from the army's elite Golani Brigade.

Venezuela’s Chavez Scraps U.S. Heating Oil Program (Update2)
By Steven Bodzin

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, under pressure to maintain domestic social programs as his country’s oil income falls, ended a three-year-old program that provided heating oil to low-income households in the U.S.

Citgo Petroleum, the U.S. refining unit of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, is suspending deliveries of the oil “until further notice,” Joseph P. Kennedy II, president of Citizens Energy Corp., said today on his company’s Web site. Boston-based Citizens Energy handled logistics for Citgo’s program and will keep providing below-market-rate oil to some customers, he said.

Outraged at Gaza, Arabs vent anger at governments
04 Jan 2009 17:23:57 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Tom Perry

BEIRUT, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip has inflamed sentiment across the Arab world against governments seen as doing little or nothing to stop the onslaught.

Many critics have gone further still, accusing some states of collaborating in the attack on the Palestinian enclave. From Cairo to Riyadh, the offensive illustrated the gulf between the policies of Arab rulers and the feelings of their citizens.

"Saudi Arabia and Egypt, both U.S. allies, have friendly ties with the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah faction was routed in fighting with Hamas in Gaza in 2007."

I don't have much influence, but I am making an effort at Yahoo forums. I have quite a few, besides the ones shown below. I used to be brain-blind about Israel,too. I use my own graphics for impact, so they include a lot of info. I am currently using a graphic from rense. com, because it says so much. I don't know if it is really allowable, so it may not get to stay. I am ashamed of the lack of US Christian voices, but I know they are as generally brain-washed by US Zionist-dominated media as are US Jews themselves by their own media. Be glad, those who have been freed from gov/edu/media/church/synagogue propaganda bondage. Everyone is vulnerable to being seduced by slick, and continual mis-representation. And "they" never stop the attack!

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Obama’s deadly silence
By Congress Check in Uncategorized on January 2nd, 2009
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
January 2, 2009

“I would like to ask President-elect Obama to say something please about the humanitarian crisis that is being experienced right now by the people of Gaza.” Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney made her plea after disembarking from the badly damaged SS Dignity that had limped to the Lebanese port of Tyre while taking on water.

The small boat, carrying McKinney, the Green Party’s recent presidential candidate, other volunteers, and several tons of donated medical supplies, had been trying to reach the coast of Gaza when it was rammed by an Israeli gunboat in international waters.

JINSA Accuses Iran of Facilitating Rocket Attacks on Israel
* Monday December 29, 2008, 4:23 pm EST

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs today accused Iran of facilitating Hamas rocket attacks on Israel.

“The role of Iran in the training and buildup of the Hamas arsenal has been regrettably overlooked by the world’s media and many of its political leaders,” said Tom Neumann, executive director of the Institute.

“Hamas’s rocket attacks have become longer range and more lethal as a result of Iranian assistance and training,” he said.

No country can remain on the sidelines while its towns and villages are subject to daily barrages of rockets, Neumann said. “Israel’s military response to the attacks came only after it had exhausted all other means.”

Consecutive Statements of the Free Palestine Alliance
A Tribute to Our Youth:
FPA Statement 5 on the Gaza Strip Massacre
December 31, 2008

This is the fifth in a series of statements the FPA is issuing daily on the ongoing Gaza massacre that has entered its fifth day. As of the time of writing this statement, at least 394 Palestinians have been murdered and more than 2,000 have been injured. The number of killed and injured continues to rise as the Zionist Israeli army persists in its savagery and more people are uncovered from under destroyed homes and neighborhoods.

The intense bombardment has been indiscriminate, targeting homes, markets, schools, neighborhoods, places of worship, along with administrative offices and government centers. Lest it is forgotten, these bombs are raining on the roofs and streets of a starved and besieged people, whose only lifeline and access to the world have been mere hand-made tunnels that have now been completely destroyed.

THE MENTALITY OF THE OBAMA VOTER
By Lynn Stuter
December 23, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

"Sadly, this is the mentality of too many of the black people who voted for Barack Hussein Obama. This individual truly believes that Barack Hussein Obama is going to punish white people in the name of black people; it is very apparent this is why he voted for Obama."
"Obama was just elected based on color and personality. He promised CHANGE. Do you know what change? He never spelled that out. Do you know what our country will be like when he is done? He never spelled that out.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
PA leader 'begged' Israel to hit Hamas
To world, however, Abbas condemns Gaza strikes as 'barbaric,' 'unnecessary'
Posted: December 27, 2008
6:32 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JAFFA, Israel – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his office today slammed as "barbaric" and "unnecessary" Israel's air strikes in Gaza, but according to top diplomatic sources in Jerusalem, Abbas for months now has been petitioning Israel to launch a massive military raid against his Hamas rivals in Gaza.