From http://www.imemc.org/
Also in Ramallah, troops surrounded a residential building and arrested the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Dr. Nasser Al Deen Al Sha'er, the Minister of Finance Dr. Omar Abdul-Raziq, Minister of Detainees Wasfi Qabha, and Minister of Planning Samir Abu Aisha.
Soldiers also arrested Palestinian Labor Minister Mohammad Al Barghouthi after stopping him at a checkpoint at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah shortly after midnight. He was taken to an unknown location.
Ashraf, the brother of minister Al Barghouthi, said the soldiers blindfolded his brother and took him to an unknown destination.
Al Barghouthi was heading back home with his brother to Kober village, near Ramallah, after conducting a TV interview.
In Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers arrested Legislators Ahmad Atwan, Wa'el Al Hosseiny, and Mohammad Abu Teir after breaking into their homes.
The brother of legislator Wa'el Al Hosseiny told WAFA that Israeli troops detonated an explosive at thedoor of his brothers' house in the Al Dahia area near Jerusalem and violently broke into his house.
Local sources in Jerusalem reported that a huge military force participated in the attack and the new legislators arrested were all taken to unknown locations.
Continuing their raid in the West Bank, troops entered Hebron and arrested Minister of Waqf and Islamic Affairs Nayef Al Rajoub and legislators Khleel Rib'ey, from Yatta village , and Basim Al Za'areer, from Al Samoa'.
Senior Palestinian sources reported that Israeli security forces and soldiers, supported by several military vehicles, broke into the house of Khaled Abu Arafa, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, in Jerusalem and arrested him.
Israeli soldiers also raided Bethlehem, arresting Palestinian Legislative Council member Anwar Zboun. His location is not currently known.
Legislators Khaled Sa'id and Hamas legislative council spokesperson Khaled Suleiman were arrested in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Troops invaded northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, breaking into the homes of Mayor Wajeeh Qawwas and his Deputy, Hashim Al Masry. Both were arrested.
Qawwas was elected a the mayor of Qalqilia while he was imprisoned in Israel. He was only released last month.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers surrounded a hotel in Ramallah where several Hamas legislators and ministers are holed up and calling them to surrender.
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said earlier that day that Israel should halt its attack against the Gaza Strip, adding that the Israeli military escalation “complicates the situation” instead of properly solving the crises of the abducted soldier in the Gaza Strip.
Haniyya added that the American position that supports the declared wide-scale military operation “gives Israel a green light to resume its assault on the Gaza Strip and ignores the suffering of the Palestinian people."
Several Hamas supporters and leaders were also arrested in the arrests.
The arrests are part of the ongoing Israeli attack against the Hamas-led Palestinian government while Israeli troops continue their shelling of the Gaza Strip as part of the “Summer Rain” military offensive ordered by the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.
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ISRAEL/MOSAD
29.06.2006 11:09
JOHN
The racists that say 'jews arrest' but 'muslims abduct'
29.06.2006 14:08
Now this is not normally significant, since the slant and the intent will clearly match in most cases. The exception, of course, is when one is reading articles in the Mass Media, or disguised Mass Media, as here.
The authors of this piece are WELL AWARE of the language trick. However, they are also well aware that their target audience is different from the BBC or The Guardian, so they are more cautious again to disguise their real intent. However, their intent is IDENTICAL to the BBC, ITN, etc etc. If they DON'T use psychological control language, they will actually be hurting their own cause, that of Israel and the racist thugs that support Israel.
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Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said earlier that day that Israel should halt its attack against the Gaza Strip, adding that the Israeli military escalation “complicates the situation” instead of properly solving the crises of the abducted soldier in the Gaza Strip.
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Notice the sickening trick used here? What did Ismail Haniyya actually say? Well the only bit in quotes is "complicates the situation”, but most people, with standard to above average reading comprehension, would actually assume that all the words INCLUDING THE WORD ***ABDUCTED*** were said by Haniyya- the ABSOLUTE intention of the person that wrote this piece.
The KIDNAPPING of a large part of the ELECTED government of Palestine was, of course, co-ordinated by by Blair's twisted racist monster, Jack Straw, who worked tirelessly during his time as Foreign Secretary to have all powerful Palestinian groups declared outlaw throughout the EU. The UN laws that allow people to fight against those that invaded their lands, and rape, torture and murder their people, were TRASHED, when in a racist show of power, Straw joined with his zionist brethren at the heart of the French, German, and other European governments, to declare open season on muslims in ANY MUSLIM LAND targeted for racist extermination by Israel.
The consequence of this? Israel may carry out ANY CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY IN PALESTINE with the complete approval of the EU. Any EU national may commit ANY crime against the people of Iraq, if acting on the side Of Blair and Israel, and be completely immune against prosecution either in Iraq or in the EU.
If you think more clearly, you will understand that Israeli crimes against humanity are to be masked by Israeli supporting crimes against humanity in Iraq. This can be thought of as the 'cult of bloody hands', or the way in which really dangerous gangs of criminals induct new members by having them perform witnessed acts of extreme violence, so that all within the gang are bound together with the blood of the innocent.
For Straw, Mandelson, and Goldsmith, the mass extermination of Muslims by UK forces and political/military support for US forces ensured that they had made the most powerful and influential nation in the EU a very public and very permanent servant of Israel. The reality is, of course, the very opposite, with Blair as the master, not the racist tribe of Israel. The pathetic evil that attaches to those that support Israel provides Blair the easiest of levers with which to control the actions of his proxy forces from the US. The racist zionist political powerbases that ***INFECT*** (and here I use the word as it should be used) EU nations have allowed Blair to take absolute and unchallenged power within the EU.
Blair's very public backing of the most depraved Israeli crimes may seem problematic, but that is a misunderstanding held by those that hate Blair's evil, and are thus highly sensitive to it. Most people experience an understanding through the Mass Media that Blair controls totally. At times like this, the mass media buries the story as much as possible (completely removed from the most racist of BBC news broadcasts, namely the RADIO 1 news segment- ASIDE while most of you will think news on Radio 1 is a contradiction in terms, the psy-ops that goes into this broadcast is extraordianary, and the pay-off, given the size and nature of the audience, is considered magnificent by Blair's people), and when the story can't be buried uses the old "six of one, and half a dozen of the other" trick (ie., both sides as bad as each other). Those news outlets that tend to draw a well informed audience have to appear somewhat outraged at Israeli behaviour, but do so to use the 'steer into the skid' tactic where mock empathy allows the audience to be taken to a much safer position for Israel.
THE CURRENT ACTIONS OF ISRAEL ARE EVIL BEYOND ALL REASON. There is no matter of opinion in this statement. Therefore, when reading ANY report on the current situation, look for how the article treats Israel. Of course, given that Serbia and Apartheid South Africa at their worst had absolute support from the government of this nation, and you will be fooled into thinking there is nothing wrong with excessively 'passive' reporting of the crimes against humanity carried out by certain nations, because that is the journalism you are used to.
I USE A VERY SIMPLE BENCHMARK. If I ***KNOW*** that an article is discussing evil actions, I expect the tone to be anything BUT passive, especially if the person writing the article is aware that the evil actions are never punished or reduced, or if 'our' people or 'allies' are responsible. IN OTHER WORDS THE ARTICLE MUST SEEK TO DO ACTUAL HARM TO THOSE CARRYING OUT ACTS OF EVIL, BY EXPOSING THEIR EVIL FULLY.
Bias of the very worst kind is automatically attributed to those that report evil as if they were talking about the weather.
An article that begins "Israeli Troops Arrest Palestinian Legislators and Ministers" literally sickens me. ISRAELI TERRORISTS TAKE MOST OF THE PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE" would seem mildly acceptable.
Now I pose the usual problem. Indymedia UK wants to 'pretend' to be a certain thing by seeming showing an 'anti' position to recent Israeli actions. However, no-one is going to confuse the official language of this site with, say the words of Dahr Jamail when describing Blair's crimes against humanity in Iraq. Do they consider the changes they made some time back to 'hide' comments like mine until explicitly user requested enough? Or is it time for the "we can't risk it, giveaway or no giveaway, Blair really needs words like this removed" censorship?
twilight
Emotive reporting
29.06.2006 19:38
Humpty Dumpty
Bereft Of Ideas
29.06.2006 20:19
David Harris
the difference between abduct and arrest
30.06.2006 00:11
When the state army goes to a house, takes someone out, or stops them at a checkpoint and drives them away, and holds them in a prison, that's an ARREST.
WIthout even talking about the morality of either of the situations, 'twilight', you're also guilty of the six-of-one bias you were complaining about, if you don't make a difference between the two situations.
Josh
e-mail: osh_josh_bgosh at hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.theairbag,co.uk
...
30.06.2006 01:35
Another Josh
so...
30.06.2006 09:03
Then watch my middle finger ...
Palestinian fighters (militants in the racist lingo - like upperty nigras on the plantation or injuns who don't know their place) conduct a military operation on the soldiers patroling the stranglehold over 1.5 million people and capture one of them ... and this is KIDNAPPING!?!
Any idea what happens to women and children in israeli prisons?
Hint: check out abu ghrab ...
... or tales of torture from the horses mouth:
http://www.inminds.co.uk/khiam-prison.html
And now - even with Palestinians dying by the dozen - the stranglehold tightens.
Even now - with MASSIVE & ILLEGAL COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF A MILLION & A HALF PEOPLE - the whining justifications of those who don't give a shit for ANY lifeforms unless they are stamped with the kosa nostra seal CONTINUES HERE!
Well:
FUCK OFF YOU RACIST SCUM
If you had any compassion and understanding for life, if you had any insight into history and humanity you would know that the human psyche does not allow for tyranny to persist unchallanged. You would realise that the same fate awaits israel that awaited nazi germany.
Thermodynamics works in all aspects of existance - israel can not create a nation - it can only try and convert the one that is already there. As soon as the requisit energy begins to drop off, the more energetically stable Palestine will re-emerge anyway.
Finnaly, just to repeat myself:
FUCK OFF YOU RACIST ZIONIST SCUM.
jackslucid
e-mail: jackslucid@hotmail.com
so ...
30.06.2006 09:07
... then watch my middle finger ...
Palestinian fighters (militants in the racist lingo - like upperty nigras on the plantation or injuns who don't know their place) conduct a military operation on the soldiers patroling the stranglehold over 1.5 million people and capture one of them ... and this is KIDNAPPING!?!
Any idea what happens to women and children in israeli prisons?
Hint: check out abu ghrab ...
... or tales of torture from the horses mouth:
http://www.inminds.co.uk/khiam-prison.html
And now - even with Palestinians dying by the dozen - the stranglehold tightens.
Even now - with MASSIVE & ILLEGAL COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF A MILLION & A HALF PEOPLE - the whining justifications of those who don't give a shit for ANY lifeforms unless they are stamped with the kosa nostra seal CONTINUES HERE!
Well:
FUCK OFF YOU RACIST SCUM
If you had any compassion and understanding for life, if you had any insight into history and humanity you would know that the human psyche does not allow for tyranny to persist unchallanged. You would realise that the same fate awaits israel that awaited nazi germany.
Thermodynamics works in all aspects of existance - israel can not create a nation - it can only try and convert the one that is already there. As soon as the requisit energy begins to drop off, the more energetically stable Palestine will re-emerge anyway.
Finnaly, just to repeat myself:
FUCK OFF YOU RACIST ZIONIST SCUM.
jackslucid
e-mail: jackslucid'hotmail.com
Poor old Jackslucid
30.06.2006 10:56
He He He He He
Let's all pay for Jackslucid and twilight to get married
Biblical Landscapes
30.06.2006 12:13
With such low vermin as you nipping at the heels of every discussion you don't understand, we are fortunate to be spared no more than a few throw away lines of your wit.
Perhaps you should go on a tour to the 'holy land' - I beleive they are building one in hollywood for all armchair theologians and liberal zionists (snigger).
Seems like twilight has [you] flumaxed for a serious reply
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