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  Biden’s timid Gaza intervention won’t count for much  During  the Israeli bombardment of Beirut in August 1982, President   Ronald Reagan   phoned  Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to express his “shock” and “outrage” at Israeli  airstrikes and artillery fire on the Lebanese capital, demanding that they be stopped  immediately. He said that Israeli actions were causing “needless destruction and bloodshed”  and had halted   US -led negotiations to bring about an end to the crisis. Reagan made his call from the Oval Office with his senior cabinet members nearby and reportedly shouted at Begin when he at first failed to promise to bring an end to the bombing and shelling. In the prime minister’s office in  Israel , Begin is said to have quailed at Reagan’s fury and agreed that the attacks would cease immediately. Compare Reagan’s anger and demand for immediate action with President  Biden ’s timid request for an Israel- Gaz...

                                    Seventh day of Israeli military aggression on Ghaza (this is a press information from the algerian newspaper EL WATAN) Yesterday at dawn, F-16 fighter jets carried out the biggest massacre of this fierce military campaign, bombing 5 buildings containing dozens of apartments in the Elrimal district, in downtown Ghaza, no away from Al Shifa hospital. 37 martyrs, including 12 women and 11 children, in addition to about 50 wounded, mostly women and children, were pulled from under the rubble. But a large number of people are still buried and the hope of finding them alive is almost nil. In this context, Civil Protection in the Palestinian enclave, which has been blockaded by the occupation for fifteen years, complains about the lack of adequate equipment that can help save more human lives. The Directorate of Civil Protection has appealed for help to neighboring...

                             GAZA: A CRIME OF WAR The images went around the world on Saturday. The director of Al-Jazeera denounced a "war crime" and an attempt to "silence the media" after the Israeli army on Saturday bombed the building housing the Qatari television station and 'other media, as the Associated Press. Since Monday, Israel has been bombarding the Palestinian enclave controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas, which is launching rockets at the Jewish state in retaliation for the violent crackdown on Palestinian protesters in East Jerusalem at the end of last week and on Monday. "Blatant violation of human rights" In Gaza, an overpopulated territory under Israeli blockade, the Palestinian authorities have reported 145 dead, including 41 children, and some 1,100 injured in the bombings. "The destruction of the offices of Al-Jazeera and those of other media in the Al-Jalaa tower in Gaza is a flagrant ...

                             PALESTINE, IN THE HEART OF THE ARAB WORLD Israel has once again massively bombed Gaza, causing more than a hundred deaths, including children and the elderly. Israel claims that its bombardments respond to rocket fire by the HAMAS movement. But what is the truth? The Israeli police and security forces illegally entered the AlAqsa compound in Al Qods (Jerusalem) on May 10, violating the third holiest place in Islam. In September 2000, the second intifada was unleashed when the bellicose Ariel Sharon, head of the Israeli opposition, escorted by hundreds of policemen, entered the AlAqsa esplanade even knowing that such a provocation would unleash the anger of the Palestinians. The esplanade shows that deep down the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is of a religious nature. Before launching rockets, HAMAS had demanded that Israel withdraw its forces from AlAqsa without this ultimatum being he...

                                      GAZA: ISRAEL KILLING PALESTINIANS Who gives evidence of terrorist acts? If we accuse HAMAS, we have to accuse ISRAEL, which has practiced a policy of terror towards the Palestinian population since the first Arab-Israeli war in 1967. The origin of this latest wave of violence, in which the damage in GAZA is infinitely greater than that produced in ISRAEL by the launch of rockets (it is not possible to compare them with the massive bombardments on Gaza) the origin, we say, is located in the violation of the Al-Aqsa compound (the third holiest place for Muslims) by the Israeli police and security forces. This has been the trigger for this new wave of violence. And it is Israel that has caused it by entering the compound of the holy mosque. This is what international opinion should not forget. And what the Western press always inclined to excuse Israel would ...

                     Israel's Terror Policy in Al Aqsa HUNDREDS of people have been injured as Palestinians clashed with Israeli cops as they stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Violence erupted for a third night in a row with many were struck by rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas ahead of a planned Jewish nationalist march. At least 220 were injured when security forces charged Al-Aqsa, claiming that Palestinians had thrown fireworks and rocks at them. More than a dozen tear gas canisters and stun grenades landed in the Al-Aqsa mosque, Islams third holiest site, according to Associated Press. Some 153 who were hospitalised, Palestinian medics said. Four of the injured were in serious condition. Police said nine officers were hurt too. Shocking video shared on social media also showed the moment a driver rammed into a group of people near the Lions' Gate as clashes continued at the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusa...