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Palestine Today 070908

Audio Dept. | 09.07.2008 15:16 | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday July 9th, 2008.

The army attacks peaceful protests across the West Bank and kidnaps at least seven civilians in pre- dawn invasions, these stories and more coming up stay tuned.

The News Cast

Hundreds of Palestinians protested on Wednesday the Israeli illegal wall being built in the West Bank. Protests were reported in Bethlehem, Tulkarem, Qalqilia and Ramallah.

The protests were part of the activities organized by the Popular Committees Against the Wall and Settlements in the West Bank campaign marking the 4th year after the International Court of Justice, in the Hague which deemed the Israeli Wall in the West Bank is illegal on July 9th 2004.

In Na'lin village located near Ramallah, the Israeli army attacked the protest and injured seven protesters, while in Dier Al Ghsoun village near Tulkarem the army showered the civilian protesters with tear gas, at least ten were injured from gas inhalation.

Meanwhile the Israeli army kidnapped on Tuesday at midnight and on Wednesday morning seven Palestinians from different parts of the West Bank accusing them of being on the army wanted list. Two Palestinians were kidnapped near Nablus city while five others were kidnapped from the central city of Ramallah.

Moreover Israeli forces ransacked on Wednesday Nablus city municipality building.
Eye witnesses reported that troops stormed the offices of the municipality.

The Municipality guards reported that the Israeli force confiscated some of the computers; moreover they blew up the accounting room. In addition, the army abused the municipality guards and forced them to stay out of the building.

On Tuesday night a group of Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian villages near Nablus city with homemade shells.

Nablus's district attorney Jamal al Muhesen reported that three shells were launched between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday night at the villages of Burin and Madma, He also added that this wasn’t the first time that those villages had been attacked by settler's missiles.

The office of civil defense in Burin city reported the incident, pointing out that the remains of the shells were found by an Israeli army force that came to the spot and seized them.

Conclusion

Thank you for joining us from occupied Bethlehem. You have been listening to Palestine Today from the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org. This report has been brought to you by Taylor Bray and Ghassan Bannoura.

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09.07.2008 16:45

'Palestine Today' is a zionist propaganda post designed to allow Indymedia to pretend that it covers the news of Israeli atrocities against the humans of palestine, while ensuring that such coverage is as safe and impact free as possible.

1) Note the dry, tedious language. A drone to be ignored even by the most interested parties.

2 )An absolute minimal of critical terms are used (namely 'hostage'). The language is carefully calculated to do Israel as little harm as possible to Israel, while at the same time answering critics who might ask how this differs from mainstream reporting ("hey look, we use the word 'hostage' and the BBC uses the word 'prisoner'").

3) NO LINKS (even if someone would click on the generic headline, 'palestine today', it is essential (ESSENTIAL) that they are not encourage to learn more about the racist holocaust Israel daily inflicts on the humans of palestine.

4) NO IMAGES WHATSOEVER. Only jews are worthy of being humanised. Others (muslims, christians, sensible people of no faith) must be faceless victims so no empathy may occur.

5) NO NAMES. Again, only jews deserve this honour. Everyone else is sludge, built for suffering.

6) The regular, tedious presence of the report must actively discourage other independent news posting. If anyone dares post an alternative report that cannot be hidden, trolls must magically appear complaining loudly about the 'large' number of palestinian stories 'dominating' Indymedia.

The propagandists on Indymedia know their job. Wear down the decent, honest, caring members with constant remourseless pounding. Ensure ever valid criticism has a cheap, vicious answer that thugs can wield sharp as a machete in the forums.

 http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m45557&s1=h1

Here's the story these thugs don't want you to read (with images and names). The same people behind the 'Palestine Today' posts worked to get Uruknet delisted from Google's news service. They demand that as few as possible have knowledge of valid sources of news.

While our kids are taught in school "never again", crimes that even the nazis thought twice about executing are inflicted daily by Israel against the most vunerable people they can find as victims of their vile depraved racist agenda. These same crimes are financed, promoted, and protected by Ed Balls (UK Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families). Old Adolf Hitler himself would certain have got the New Labour joke of having such a disgusting monster in such a post.

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Here is a perfect idea that I promise will never, ever happen on Indymedia UK. Have the people behind Uruknet produce the regular reports detailing the sickening evil that Israel inflicts on our beautiful planet, and its helpless people. Like I said, this will never happen here. The zionists grant the anarchists, animal rights people etc a certain harmless freedom of access, and in return demand that Israel's agents direct the mock opposition reports that appear on Indymedia UK.

This is an 'activist' site, so such reports will never say "Israel is great", or "Israel is just" (think about it- propaganda doesn't work if you laugh at its crude obviousness). Instead, the zionists require that the so-called anti-Israeli reporting turns-off most people with its bland repetition. Then, for those that still care enough to read it, the content must be as harmless as possible.

how about real news


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