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DESCRIPTION:ALL OUT FOR GAZA!\nMonday\nNOVEMBER 19\n4:30PM @ Israeli Consulate\n456 
 Montgomery Street\nSan Francisco\n-----------------------\nKeep the 
 pressure on!  Let's make sure the people of Palestine know that we stand 
 shoulder to shoulder with them in their struggle against the colonial state 
 of Israel.\n \nOver 500 people marched and took over the streets of San 
 Francisco on Friday evening to stand against US support of Israel!  \n 
 \nJoin us again on Monday as we make our voices loud and clear: \n \nSTOP 
 the War on Gaza!\nStand Against the US Support of Israel!\nSupport the 
 People of Palestine!\n \nOrganized by activists in the Bay Area Arab 
 community, allies and supporters of Palestine.  \nCo-Sponsors: AROC, MECA, 
 PYM, SJP, AMP, GUPS, Al-Awda, ANSWER, IJAN, ISO\n \n                        
      Israel Provoked the War\n\n\n\nIsrael says the Iron Dome system has 
 shot down some 250 of 500 rockets fired toward the country this week, most 
 in southern Israel near Gaza.\n\nSaturday's interception was the first time 
 Iron Dome has been deployed in Tel Aviv. The battery was a new upgraded 
 version that was only activated on Saturday, two months ahead of schedule, 
 the Defense Ministry said.\n\nThis "smoking gun" above should tell us that 
 Israel started their preparations for this war two months ago and wasn't in 
 response to some spontaneous firing of rockets out of the blue from Gaza 
 for no apparent reason.\n\nIf, as our State Department tells us that Israel 
 has the right to defend themselves, why do they not also state the same for 
 the Palestinians?\n\nCoupled with the report that follows, we see a pattern 
 of lies perpetrated by the Israeli government and our own propaganda 
 machine, our world renowned Corporate Enabling Media:\n\nIt’s true that 
 on Saturday, prior to the expanded Israeli bombardment, the military wing 
 of the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine shot an anti-tank 
 missile at an Israeli Defense Forces vehicle near the Gaza border, wounding 
 four Israeli soldiers. But what prompted the firing of the anti-tank 
 missile?\n\nFirst, on Monday, November 5th, Israeli forces shot and killed 
 23 year old Ahmad Nabhani when he “approached the border fence with 
 Israel.” According to at least one account, Nabhani was mentally 
 challenged.\n\nThen, on Thursday, November 8th, the Israeli Occupation 
 Forces – eight tanks and four bulldozers, to be exact – invaded 
 southern Gaza, shooting and killing a 13-year old boy. Palestinian Centre 
 for Human Rights (via):\n\nAccording to investigations conducted by PCHR, 
 at approximately 16:30 on Thursday, as a result of the indiscriminate 
 shooting by IOF military vehicles that had moved into the ‘Abassan 
 village, 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa was seriously wounded by 
 a bullet to the abdomen. At the time he was shot, Ahmed had been playing 
 football with his friends in front of his family’s house, located nearly 
 1,200 meters away from the area where the IOF were present.\n\nSo, even if 
 honest observers brush to the side the cruel and inhumane Israeli blockade 
 on Gaza and refuse to let it influence the equation of exactly which side 
 started this flare up of violence, it is clear Israel started this latest 
 clash. And in response to the response, Israel has waged a harsh, 
 disproportionate military assault.\n\nThis would be a simple thing to 
 understand if, for example, Western media bothered to ask the other side 
 what happened. Palestinian news media immediately reported that the 
 anti-tank missile Israel was supposedly responding to was admitted to by 
 the Popular Resistance Committees, who described it as “revenge” for 
 preceding Israeli violence on Gaza. But that basic task of honest 
 journalism is apparently out of the question.\n\nEvery single Israeli 
 incursion or attack on Gaza is accompanied by the same narrative: Israel 
 fairly responded to unprovoked Palestinian rocket fire. The last major war 
 on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in December ’08-January ’09, also carried 
 this narrative. Israel committed war crimes in that one-sided conflict, 
 targeting and killing hundreds of civilians, using indiscriminate weapons, 
 and intentionally destroying civilian infrastructure. It has become an 
 accepted fact – even among critics of Israel – that the offensive was a 
 response to Hamas rocket fire. The rocket fire did indeed occur immediately 
 before the assault, but it was in response to Israel’s breaking of the 
 six-month cease-fire, which even Israeli officials in WikiLeaks cables 
 admitted Hamas had kept to.\n__._,_.___\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/18/18725948.php
SUMMARY:All Out for Gaza!
LOCATION:Israeli Consulate\n456 Montgomery Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/18/18725948.php
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