06-22-10 Hamas decries Israeli restrictions but imposes its own siege on secular Arab culture

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Hamas complains about Israel's restrictions, oppression and occupation of the Palestinian people but imposes its own restrictions, oppression and occupation on secular Palestinians banning secular traditions such as dancing, drinking and more.

Israel launches full scale assault and says it was "defending" itself

June 1, 2010 Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's Comic Strip
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Israel launched a massive assault against a flotilla of boats seeking to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and bring food and medicine to the 1.5 million starving Palestinians, and Israel's response from Danny Ayalon, the Deputy Foreign Minister, is Israel was defending itself. It is an amazing demonstration of clever Public Relations spin. Israeli soldiers who stormed the boats with guns and with surprise in international waters, claimed that when they landed on the boat and surprised the passengers with their guns and full battle gear, the civilians on the boat tried to defend themselves, which in Israel's eyes is an act of aggression. Tragic.

Israelis blast New Israel Fund over Goldstone Report of War Crimes by Israel in Gaza Strip

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Extremists on Israel's far right have attacked the New Israel Fund for its ties to pro-israeli organizations that have supported investigating the war crimes charges by by the United Nation's special investigator Richard Goldstone in his report, the Goldstone Report. The extremists have used Nazi-era images to demonize the NIF which supports peace, two-states and an end to violence, and the NIF has come under increasing attacks by Israeli society. The biggest complaint is not that the Goldstone Report's conclusions that some in Israel's military intentionally murdered Palestinian women and children during the brutal and oppressive Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip last year, but rather that they supported the charges that the war crimes should be investigated.

Israel's Barak defends IDF against charges of War Crimes in Gaza Strip

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Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip July 15, 2009
Israel's Ehud Barak rejects overwhelming world conclusion that the Israel Defense Forces are guilty of war crimes and used civilians as human shields during their assaults and killed anyone during rh siege of the Gaza Strip with impunity, resulting in more than 900 civilians killed.

Unpopular US Congresswoman illegally detained by Israel in media blackout

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Shades of Gray -- Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip July 3, 2009

A former US Congresswoman is arrested and detained during an illegal boarding and capture of a civilian ship bringing food and medicine and clothing to the civilians in the Gaza Strip (which Israel said it withdrew from and has no control over, mind you) and the news media blackout on the story is widespread and outrageous. No one controls the U.S. Media. Their just stupid, unprofessional, biased and corrupt, that's all.

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Israel Commits War Crimes? Where are the witnesses?

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Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips April 2, 2009
Israel Commits war crimes? Where are the witnesses? Israel brushed off charges and testimony by its own soldiers as unsubstantiated, after the soldiers were vilified, threatened and denounced as anti-Semites supporting the enemy. They all backed down from the charges, the way the Israeli army backed down from Lebanon, and Hezbollah, twice.

Israeli soldiers killed civilians, but Israeli government rejects facts

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Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips March 24, 2009
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Israeli soldiers report, according to Israeli news media, that they were encouraged to kill civilians including old women, women and children, during the brutal assault on the Gaza Strip.

The soldiers are sporting t-shirts with images of pregnant Arab women with bulls-eyes painted over their enlarged bellies. But Israel's government, to play the reports down, are denying that soldiers ever engaged in war crimes. The tragedy is the refusal of the Israeli people and their supporters to recognize that while some Palestinian groups engaged in terrorism and violence, some Israeli groups and soldiers also engage in terrorism and war crimes, but the Israelis refuse to acknowledge their own criminal acts and prefer to pretend they have done nothing.

ICC addresses war crimes in Sudan, not Palestine. Again!

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Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip March 9, 2009
Opinions on the edge that others are afraid to express

The International Criminal Court indicted Omar al-Bashir in Sudan for "war crimes" int he face of a chorus of international complaints that he is leading the attacks against non-Arabs in Sudan, but the judges ignored and continue to ignore similar alleged conduct in the Israeli Occupied West bank where Arabs are the victims. Lady Justice is Blind. And it is political, too!

Some things never change

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Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip Jan. 20, 2009
The inauguration of Barack Obama, a gift fro the government of Israel
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Barack Obama acts presidential on every issue, except Gaza

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President-elect Barack Obama is addressing every major issue in the United States before officially being sworn in as president Jan. 20. But, when it comes to showing leadership on the Gaza Strip and the carnage there, Obama is saying this country should only have one president at a time. Change? He sure did!
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Who started the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza?

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Who started the war in the Gaza Strip? A ceasefire was arranged by Egypt between Hamas and Israel in June 2008. On Nov. 4, 2008, Israel ground forces attacked Palestinians and destroyed tunnels they claimed were being used to prepare for the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier. (No proof, just their press releases, of course.) Nov. 5, Hamas responds and attacks the Israeli outpost where the Israeli assault started. Israel responds with air assault. Israel air assaults continue through Dec. 19 killing 20 Palestinians in t he period. Hamas declares cease-fire, that they had hoped to renew, ended. Dec. 27, 2008, Israel launches massive air strikes against civilian centers in the Gaza Strip killing 390 by this writing, mostly civilians.

Who broke the cease fire and started this conflict?

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Hamas strikes, Israel strikes back: Terrorism everywhere

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Hamas and Israeli terrorism takes innocent lives on both sides
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Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008
Hamas terrorists strike and kill 2 Israeli civilians with bombs to respond to israeli siege of the Gaza strip and end the imprisonment; Israel responds with massive firepower and kills more than 200 Palestinians and wound more than 300 -- mostly civilians. Terrorism is alive and well on both sides of this conflict.

Hamas lays down the law in the Gaza Strip, 12-08-08

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Hamas Lays Down the Law in the Gaza Strip, 12-08-08
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Hamas intentionally drags its feet on negotiations with Israel

Hamas intentionally drags its feet in negotiations with Israel
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Egyptian brokered truce with Hamas undermines peace and secular Palestinian leadership

Hamas Truce undermines the secular Palestinian leadership and advances terrorism and rejection of peace based on compromise
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