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's Jerusalem the most closed city in the world today

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Israel insists that Jerusalem is now an Open City as a city occupied by the Israeli military and surrounded by a concrete wall and barbed wire, but since it has come under Israeli occupation since 1967, Jerusalem has become the most closed city in the world. Billions of people, mainly Arabs and Muslims and anyone who is a critic of Israel's brutal occupation and rejection of peace, are banned by the Israeli government from entering the city. Even Palestinians born in the city, Christian and Muslim, are denied the right to pray at their religious shrines and only armed settlers, who train their children to kill Arabs, are allowed free access to the Holy City.
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04-17-10 One man's terror street is another man's freedom fighter street

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One man's terror street is another man's freedom fighter street. Israelis are angry because the Palestinians in Ramallah have named a street after an alleged terrorist who fought against Israel's brutal military occupation and oppression, Yahya Aiyash. Of course, Israelis are hypocrites when it comes to terrorism and are the biggest hypocrites of all when defending their own leaders who used terrorism like the arch terrorist of all time Menachem Begin who murdered 100 civilians in cold blood in 1947 at Deir Yassin to make a point. And then there was his terrorist pal  Yitzhak Shamir, another cold blooded terrorist killer, and his disciple Ariel Sharon, another cold blooded terrorist murderer. And all of them have streets named in their honor all over Israel. I guess it is okay when the terrorists are Israeli.

Protests? Protests/ Protests where?

Bias in the Mainstream News media. Oppression by government troops against civilians in Iran is big news and even President Obama speaks out.

But government oppression against Palestinians by Israel's government is ignored. What is and what isn't news? What the biased mainstream American news media decides is and isn't news.

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06-06-09 Obama offers new beginning in Middle East

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Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip June 6, 2009
President Barack Obama makes a historic speech to the Arab and Muslim World June 4, 2009 and offers a new beginning that is balanced and fair and built on truth, the rule of law and honesty. Much to the chagrin of the Israelis in Israel and in the White House.

Israel's Netanyahu offers a "Fresh Approach" to peace

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Israel's extremist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offers a "fresh approach" to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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.

Netanyahu's policies push Middle East to conflict and more war

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Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips March 1, 2009
Israeli fanatic Benajmin Netanyahu, the angle of death, will soon be Israel's prime minister, opening the door to more destruction, more violence and more hypocrisy from Israel.
Israel's election of the fanatic terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu proves the country does not want peace, but they do want continued conflict, war, destruction and death. Netanyahu and the Israeli government continue to destroy Palestinian civilian homes, expelling them with Apartheid-like speed from Jerusalem and areas of the West Bank, intentionally undermining peace.

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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