Kapal Israel dibenarkan ke pelabuhan kita dan melakukan perdagangan dengan negara ini secara telus? ... Kita cuma bercakap mengenai soal epal dan buah oren yang dihantar untuk kegunaan kita di sini dari negara ketiga. ... sebaliknya kapal Israel sewenang2nya berlayar dan berdagang di negara ini! Bolehkah pula MISC kita memasuki Pelabuhan Haifa di Israel? .
Zim Israel Navigation Company ialah syarikat perkapalan milik Israel. Statusnya lebih kurang macam MISC, syarikat perkapalan nasional kita. (boleh rujuk http://www.zim.co.il ). ..
Kelmarin (7 Jun kapalnya bernama Zim Genova) berlabuh di Pelabuhan Klang membawa kargo-kargo yang besar. ...Selain Zim Genova, kapal2 yang berulang alik ke Pelabuhan Klang ialah Zim USA (didaftarkan di Israel), Zim Kingston, Zim Monaco (pelabuhan terakhir; Pelabuhan Klang 6 hari yang lalu), Zim Dalian dan Zim Lovorno (yg kesemuanya didaftarkan di bbrp buah negara lain).
Zim USA kali terakhir memasuki Pelabuhan Klang sekitar 20 Mei lalu, kira2 tgh hari. Di serombong asapnya, terpampang bendera Israel - tujuh bintang yang dengan megah berlabuh di pelabuhan kita!!
Manakala Newstar Agencies Sdn Bhd beralamat Suite 03-01 Centro no 8, Jln Bt Tiga lama KlANG merupakan Agen untuk SETH SHIPPING CORP. Israel
KAPAL ISRAEL BEBAS BERLABUH DI PELABUHAN KLANG
JUDI DAN YAHUDI: NOSTALGIA TANGKAPAN DEMO ANTI PASUKAN KRIKET ZIONIST
'Yahudi & Judi': Empat pemimpin PAS ditahan
Polis menahan Ketua Pemuda PAS Selangor Hasbullah Ridzwan dan tiga lagi pemimpin akar umbinya di tapak ceramah Pakatan Rakyat di Batu Caves, Selangor.
Hasbullah berkata beliau ditahan kerana enggan bersurai apabila polis mengarahkannya supaya berbuat demikian, ketika berkumpul bersama kira-kira 20 orang yang lain di perkarangan Dewan Kompleks Muhibbah di Taman Bolton.
Turut ditahan dalam kejadian pada kira-kira jam 8 malam tadi ialah ketua pemuda PAS bahagian Gombak Syarhan Humaizi Halim, setiausaha Damanhuri Dol dan ketua penerangannya Afyan Mat Rawi.
Ketiga-tiga orang tersebut ditahan kerana menghalang tugas polis, kata Hasbullah lagi ketika dihubungi lewat malam tadi.
Kesemua mereka dibawa ke ibu pejabat polis daerah Gombak dan dibebaskan pada kira-kira jam 11.50 malam dengan jaminan polis.
Hasbullah mendakwa, ceramah bertema kan 'Yahudi dan Judi' anjuran lajnah penerangan PAS itu pada awalnya dijadualkan diadakan di tempat berkenaan terpaksa dipindahkan ke Stadium Selayang, hampir 10 kilometer daripada tempat itu.
"Polis menutup tempat itu jadi kami terpaksa ambil tempat alternatif ke Stadium Selayang.
"(Polis) kata sebab penganjuran ceramah ini tidak ada permit, dan mereka kata (Dewan Kompleks Muhibbah) itu kawasan terbuka.
"Hakikatnya tempat itu berbumbung dan sememangnya berada dalam kawasan berpagar," kata Hasbullah lagi.
Di stadium berkenaan, ceramah oleh pemimpin kanan Pakatan Rakyat, antaranya oleh Ketua Umum PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Haji Hadi Awang turut disertai peserta flotila pro-Palestin yang diserang tentera Israel baru-baru ini.
Walaupun berlaku pertukaran tempat di saat-saat akhir, hampir 2,000 orang menyertai ceramah tersebut.
Sementara itu menurut Harakahdaily ceramah malam ini dihalang pihak keselamatan dengan alasan dibuat di tempat terbuka.
Versi internet akhbar organ PAS itu melaporkan majlis itu tidak dapat diteruskan di situ kerana pihak penganjur tidak mendapat kuncinya.
Salhan K Ahmad?malaysiakini
PALESTINIAN WITH MALAYSIAN DEGREE AMONGST THOSE AT RAFAH CROSSING
Egypt's promise to keep the Rafah crossing open every day, rather than just sporadically.
Only those with foreign passports or residency, or people requiring medical treatment or accepted at foreign universities are eligible to cross into Egypt.
Hani Ihlayyel has been stuck in Gaza since returning for a summer visit in 2006 after earning a degree in computer engineering from a college in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Anxious Gazans trying to leave blockaded territory
By KARIN LAUB / AP
RAFAH, Gaza Strip – A Palestinian who had to delay graduate school in Malaysia and an elderly man forced to put off eye surgery in Egypt are among thousands anxiously trying to get out of Gaza now that the blockaded territory's gateway to the world has opened just a little.
A Hamas-run passenger terminal on the Gaza side of the border was packed on Tuesday with hundreds of Gazans trying to get clearance just to approach the crossing into Egypt. It was a chaotic scene, with stressed passengers arguing with overwhelmed Hamas border officials.
"Move back!" a Hamas official barked at the crowd from a hand-held microphone. Nearby, a black-clad policeman raised his club threateningly to cut short an argument with a middle-aged man.
Many of Gaza's 1.5 million people have been forced to put their lives on hold during the three years the territory's borders were sealed by Israel and Egypt, following the violent takeover by the Islamic militant Hamas.
Now, following last week's deadly Israeli raid on a blockade-busting flotilla, there is a glimmer of hope the darkest days may be over. In the wake of the assault that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, world leaders have demanded the embargo be lifted or loosened.
Egypt's promise to keep the Rafah crossing open every day, rather than just sporadically, marks the first tangible improvement.
But even that gesture comes with many strings attached.
Only those with foreign passports or residency, or people requiring medical treatment or accepted at foreign universities are eligible to cross into Egypt. It's the same restricted group as in the past, though the steady opening of the terminal over the past week has helped reduce a backlog of thousands.
For some in the crowd on Tuesday, it was the second or third attempt in as many days to get out, with much at stake.
Hani Ihlayyel has been stuck in Gaza since returning for a summer visit in 2006 after earning a degree in computer engineering from a college in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
His plan was to return to Malaysia for graduate school, but instead the blockade forced him to remain in Gaza, where he said he wasted four years with odd jobs, including buying and selling computers. Gaza has several colleges and universities, but many areas of study, like medicine and advanced computer technology, are not available.
Ihlayyel tried several times to leave via Rafah in the past, but could never get all the necessary documents together, including an Egyptian security clearance and a spot on the Hamas-controlled waiting list. With Egypt opening Rafah only a few days every month or so, that list swelled to more than 8,000 by the end of May.
By Tuesday, just over 3,000 Gazans had crossed into Egypt, and Ihlayyel felt he might have a chance. He arrived at the Gaza terminal at 6:30 a.m. and waited for his name to be called to receive a ticket for a seat on a bus taking him to the border crossing.
Three hours later, a Hamas official announced over a loudspeaker that no more tickets would be issued for Tuesday because four buses had already crossed and no more would be accepted by Egypt. Those in the terminal, Ihlayyel among them, were now waiting for tickets to cross Wednesday.
As the oldest of six brothers, Ihlayyel said he feels pressure to succeed and that his future depends on getting out of Gaza. He said his nerves are frayed because the stakes are so high and so much can go wrong.
"I am afraid of Hamas, of Egypt, of everything," he said, clutching a plastic envelope with his travel documents. "I'm scared, actually."
Najwa Asmar and her three children failed to cross Tuesday, their second attempt in two days, but were promised they would get on the first bus Wednesday.
"Of course, I'm disappointed. For the last three days, we didn't get any sleep or rest," Asmar said as her teenage son Mohammed loaded their suitcase onto the roof of a taxi for the 45-minute drive back to Gaza City. Asmar hopes to spend the summer with Egyptian relatives she hasn't seen for years.
Nearby, 77-year-old Adnan Mohanna stood in the sun, waiting for word from Egypt that he was cleared to travel.
Hamas border officials had warned him that a local doctor's note saying he required eye surgery wasn't enough to get him across the border. His Egyptian eye surgeon, who operated on him eight years ago, would have to send word to the Egyptian authorities, he was told.
Mohanna and the others were visibly frustrated, but just shrugged when asked whom they blamed for their predicament, apparently fearful a critical word might jinx their chances of getting out of Gaza.
An Egyptian border official said about 500 Gazans, or seven busloads, are to be allowed to leave every day. Senior Hamas officials are banned from traveling, according to Egyptian officials.
Egypt has cooperated with Israel in enforcing the blockade, in part because it has been fighting homegrown Islamic radicals since the 1990s and feared Hamas' militancy could spill into Egyptian territory. However, Egypt's role in maintaining the blockade has hurt its standing in the Muslim and Arab world.
In recent days, Egypt has tried to shift responsibility for the blockade to Israel. Egypt's renewed promise on Monday to keep the Rafah terminal open came as Vice President Joe Biden met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and called for new ways of dealing with Gaza.
On Tuesday, Israel rebuffed calls led by Turkey for an international inquiry into what caused last week's deadly raid, saying it would conduct its own investigation.
Israel staunchly opposes a complete opening of the Gaza border, fearing that would strengthen Hamas, branded a terror group by the West, and allow the Islamic militants to bring in weapons, including missiles that could hit all over Israel.
However, Israel has suggested it is willing to expand the list of several dozen basic humanitarian items it has permitted into Gaza since 2007, while continuing to ban all exports.
Some in Gaza fear that in the end the international community, led by the U.S., will settle for only cosmetic adjustments.
Iyyad Saraj, a psychiatrist and leading figure among Gaza's independents, said partial solutions, such as a proposal by France to inspect aid ships before they reach Gaza, will only prolong Israeli control of Gaza's gates.
"If there is any kind of courage and leadership and moral standing, now is the moment to end the siege," he said.
WHO DETERMINES WHETHER ONE IS A JEW?
Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? The case began when a 12-year-old boy, an observant Jew whose father is Jewish and whose mother is a Jewish convert, applied to enrol in Jews' Free School. The mother's conversion was not recognized. But a court ruling has voided the admissions policy. It has exposed bitter divisions in Britain’s community of 300,000 or so Jews, pitting members of various Jewish denominations against one another. Read on
Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question
By SARAH LYALL
Published: November 7, 2009
LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself.
David Lightman with his daughter, who was denied admission to the Jews' Free School because her mother's conversion was not recognized. But a court ruling has voided the admissions policy.
On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain. And in addressing issues at the heart of Jewish identity, it has exposed bitter divisions in Britain’s community of 300,000 or so Jews, pitting members of various Jewish denominations against one another.
“This is potentially the biggest case in the British Jewish community’s modern history,” said Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper here. “It speaks directly to the right of the state to intervene in how a religion operates.”
The case began when a 12-year-old boy, an observant Jew whose father is Jewish and whose mother is a Jewish convert, applied to the school, JFS. Founded in 1732 as the Jews’ Free School, it is a centerpiece of North London’s Jewish community. It has around 1,900 students, but it gets far more applicants than it accepts.
Britain has nearly 7,000 publicly financed religious schools, representing Judaism as well as the Church of England, Catholicism and Islam, among others. Under a 2006 law, the schools can in busy years give preference to applicants within their own faiths, using criteria laid down by a designated religious authority.
By many standards, the JFS applicant, identified in court papers as “M,” is Jewish. But not in the eyes of the school, which defines Judaism under the Orthodox definition set out by Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Because M’s mother converted in a progressive, not an Orthodox, synagogue, the school said, she was not a Jew — nor was her son. It turned down his application.
That would have been the end of it. But M’s family sued, saying that the school had discriminated against him. They lost, but the ruling was overturned by the Court of Appeal this summer.
In an explosive decision, the court concluded that basing school admissions on a classic test of Judaism — whether one’s mother is Jewish — was by definition discriminatory. Whether the rationale was “benign or malignant, theological or supremacist,” the court wrote, “makes it no less and no more unlawful.”
The case rested on whether the school’s test of Jewishness was based on religion, which would be legal, or on race or ethnicity, which would not. The court ruled that it was an ethnic test because it concerned the status of M’s mother rather than whether M considered himself Jewish and practiced Judaism.
“The requirement that if a pupil is to qualify for admission his mother must be Jewish, whether by descent or conversion, is a test of ethnicity which contravenes the Race Relations Act,” the court said. It added that while it was fair that Jewish schools should give preference to Jewish children, the admissions criteria must depend not on family ties, but “on faith, however defined.”
The same reasoning would apply to a Christian school that “refused to admit a child on the ground that, albeit practicing Christians, the child’s family were of Jewish origin,” the court said.
The school appealed to the Supreme Court, which is likely to rule sometime before the end of the year.
The case’s importance was driven home by the sheer number of lawyers in the courtroom last week, representing not just M’s family and the school, but also the British government, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, the United Synagogue, the British Humanist Association and the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal ruling threw the school into a panicked scramble to put together a new admissions policy. It introduced a “religious practice test,” in which prospective students amass points for things like going to synagogue and doing charitable work.
That has led to all sorts of awkward practical issues, said Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, because Orthodox Judaism forbids writing or using a computer on the Sabbath. That means that children who go to synagogue can’t “sign in,” but have to use methods like dropping prewritten postcards into boxes.
It is unclear what effect the ruling, if it is upheld, will have on other religious schools. Some Catholic schools, accustomed to using baptism as a baseline admissions criterion, are worried that they will have to adopt similar practice tests.
The case has stirred up long-simmering resentments among the leaders of different Jewish denominations, who, for starters, disagree vehemently on the definition of Jewishness. They also disagree on the issue of whether an Orthodox leader is entitled to speak for the entire community.
“Whatever happens in this case, there must be some resolution sorted out between different denominations,” Mr. Benjamin said in an interview. “That the community has failed to grasp this has had the very unfortunate result of having a judgment foisted on it by a civil court.”
Orthodox Jews, of course, sympathize with the school, saying that observance is no test of Jewishness, and that all that matters is whether one’s mother is Jewish. So little does observance matter, in fact, that “having a ham sandwich on the afternoon of Yom Kippur doesn’t make you less Jewish,” Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, said recently.
Lauren Lesin-Davis, chairman of the board of governors at King David, a Jewish school in Liverpool, told the BBC that the ruling violated more than 5,000 years of Jewish tradition.
“You cannot come in and start telling people how their whole lives should change, that the whole essence of their life and their religion is completely wrong,” she said.
But others are in complete sympathy with M.
“How dare they question our beliefs and our Jewishness?” David Lightman, an observant Jewish father whose daughter was also denied a place at the school because it did not recognize her mother’s conversion, told reporters recently. “I find it offensive and very upsetting.”
Rabbi Danny Rich, chief executive of Liberal Judaism here, said the lower court’s ruling, if upheld, would help make Judaism more inclusive.
“JFS is a state-funded school where my grandfather taught, and it’s selecting applicants on the basis of religious politics,” he said in an interview. “The Orthodox definition of Jewish excludes 40 percent of the Jewish community in this country.”
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND BE-END
On the international front, Israel is involved in psychological warfare with Iran by alleged planning to target Iranian nuclear scientists with letter bombs and poisoned packages and had set off explosions in Iran in the former attempt to undermine Iran's nuclear programmes.
At the home front , Barisan National is trying to wrest the states 
controlled by the Pakatan Rakyat by various means, by crooks, by hitting below the belt, and you name it.
Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran: report
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran to try to delay Tehran's alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, a British newspaper said on Tuesday, quoting a former CIA agent and intelligence experts.
An intelligence source in the Middle East told Reuters last year Israel planned to target Iranian nuclear scientists with letter bombs 
and poisoned packages and had set off explosions in Iran. Analysts offered similar accounts and said such tactics would be credible, but no confirmation has been available.
Some analysts caution that reports of such a "dirty war" may form part of a psychological warfare campaign to unsettle Iran.
The intelligence source told Reuters that Israeli agents were working with Western governments and firms doing business with Tehran, whose Islamist leadership is a sworn enemy of Israel but denies accusations its nuclear program has a military purpose.
Israel's government, widely assumed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, declines all comment on such reports.
"Israel has launched a covert war against Iran as an alternative to direct military strikes against Tehran's nuclear program," Britain's Daily Telegraph said on Tuesday. "It is using hitmen, sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the regime's illicit weapons project, the experts say."
Quoting intelligence experts and an unnamed former CIA agent, the newspaper said Israel's "decapitation" strategy had targeted members of Iran's atomic program, hoping to set back the country's nuclear ambitions without resorting to war.
"SABOTAGE GOING ON"
Meir Javendafar, an Iran expert at Meepas, a Middle East analysis group, told Reuters there were also reports Iran was being sold faulty equipment for its nuclear program, and that there were attempts to disrupt the electricity supply to Natanz, a uranium enrichment facility in central Iran.
"I think there is sabotage going on. It's a logical move and it makes sense in the game that is part of the overall struggle to disrupt Iran's nuclear ambitions," he said.
As evidence of Israel's reported strategy, Iran watchers have pointed to events such as the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a nuclear scientist at the Isfahan uranium plant who died at home from apparent gas poisoning in 2007.
The former CIA agent told the Telegraph: "Disruption is designed to slow progress on the program, done in such a way they don't realize what's happening. The goal is delay, delay, delay until you can come up with some other solution.
"It's a good policy, short of taking them out militarily, which probably carries unacceptable risks."
Asked about the newspaper report, Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, told Reuters: "It is not our practice to comment publicly about these sorts of allegations, not in this situation, not in any situation."
New U.S. President Barack Obama has taken a more diplomatic line with Tehran, quietening former Bush administration talk of a possible military strike against Iranian nuclear assets.
Israeli leaders have been careful not to rule out their military options, though analysts question how far a new Israeli government, still to be formed after last week's parliamentary election, will be prepared to act without Washington's backing.
Javendafar said there were indications several states were attempting to infiltrate Iran to disrupt nuclear development but also suggested much of the reported clandestine activity was more part of a psychological war than an actual one of sabotage.
"Numerous intelligence agencies are trying their best to do this. Not just Israel, but the Americans and many European spy agencies," he said. "If it's true, then it's putting pressure on the Iranian program technically.
"Even if there's no truth to it, it's part of what is a massive psychological war against Iran's nuclear program ... It's ... much more affordable than sabotaging equipment.
By Luke Baker/ LONDON (Reuters)
ISRAEL AND USA : WHAT'S THE CONNECTION
Despite distance, Jews do feel a connection
By HAVIV RETTIG GUR
JPost.com
Amid world Jewry's nail-biting over Iran, rising anti-Semitism and declining affiliation, a new survey of "Jewish attachment" offers much-needed good news.
The study reports strong feelings of connectedness and mutual concern between the world's two largest Jewish communities, in the United States and Israel, each of which accounts for some 40 percent of world Jewry.
"Both populations report substantial ties of family, friendship and communication with Jews in the other country. Israelis, in fact, report more such ties, perhaps [reflecting] the significant number of Israelis who have taken up residence in the US," report sociologists Steven Cohen of Hebrew Union College and Ephraim Ya'ar of Tel Aviv University.
Their complete report will be presented on Tuesday at a panel on Jewish peoplehood chaired by Leonid Nevzlin at the Herzliya Conference taking place at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, this week.
The mutual concern triumphs over a gap of ignorance - "on both subjective [self-evaluated] and objective measures, members of both societies demonstrate low levels of knowledge about the other" - and the lack of any significant expression of these emotions.
"Few American or Israeli Jews engage in activities designed to express and foster strong ties," the report states.
In the best news yet for a Jewish world obsessed with continuity, the researchers report that "contrary to widely held expectations, young self-identified Jews are as engaged with Jewish peoplehood feelings as their elders."
All these factors imply that "the good feelings toward one another can serve as a basis for mutual interaction and education."
The survey, funded by the NADAV Fund, was conducted simultaneously among American and Israeli Jews, incorporating over 1,000 participants in each community.
The "policy takeaway," according to Cohen and Ya'ar, is determining how to capitalize on this good feeling.
"Prior to this research, one might have thought that the major policy challenge is to design programs to strengthen goodwill and good feelings," they write.
Instead, the challenge is "to translate good feelings into real action that will strengthen mutual ties and the bonds of Jewish peoplehood."
Among the report's findings, Israeli Jews reported a slightly higher identification as "Jews".
WAJAH-WAJAH MAUT DAN SYHUDA' DI GAZA
Sekurang-kurangnya 1206 rakyat Palestine telah maut dan syahid termasuk 410 kanak-kanak yang tidak berdosa. Seramai 5,300 lagi telah cedera. Begitulah statistik dari Pegawai Kesihatan Hamas.
SUMMARY LATEST EVENTS IN HAMAS-ISRAEL CONFLICT
Israel infuriated the U.N. Thursday when it shelled the world body's headquarters in Gaza City, where hundreds of Gazans were seeking cover from the fighting among food and supplies meant for refugees. The destruction added to what aid groups say is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and ratcheted up tensions between Israel and the international community even as diplomats indicated progress in cease-fire talks.
Palestinian doctors have said 1,133 Palestinians have been killed since Israel's offensive began and more than 5,000 are wounded.
"Israel is going to retain its right to defend itself anyway, also when it comes to the smuggling of weapons, not only to rockets being fired at Israel," she said.
In parallel, chief Israeli negotiator Amos Gilad arrived in Cairo Friday for talks with Egyptian officials about how to end the fighting in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert summoned top Cabinet ministers and military commanders for consultations after Gilad's return from Egypt late Thursday.
Thursday's intense Israeli military activity in Gaza exacted a steep price from Hamas when Interior Minister Said Siam was killed in an airstrike. Siam was the commander of Hamas security forces including thousands of armed men and was widely feared in Gaza.
Source:Hamas Chief Refuses Israeli Conditions for Gaza Cease-Fire Friday, January 16, 2009
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In Tehran, Ahmadinejad called on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to speak out over "the massacre of your children in Gaza," the official Iranian news agency reported.
Source: HERE
ISRAEL GUNA BOM BUNKER BUSTER UNTUK MUSNAH TEROWONG DI GAZA
Cuba kita bayangkan kerosakan pada harta benda dan trauma kepada penduduk Gaza dari segi fizikal dan mental-emosi setiap kali bom bunker buster digugurkan dan meletup. Seorang penulis di Malaysiakini dan akhbar the Star masing-masing mempersoalkan tindakan rakyat Malaysia yang cuba memboikot produk Israel dan US kerana pada pendapat kedua-dua penulis, HAMAS yang patut dipersalahkan kerana melancarkan roket ke arah jajahan selatan Israel.
Saya cadangkan kedua-dua mereka mengkaji sejarah Palestine dan bagaimana regime Israel tertegak. HAMAS mahukan pintu masuk ke Gaza dibuka dan peruntukan kewangan untuk pentadbiran Gaza dari Pihak Berkuasa Palestine (Palestinian Authority) di bawah Mahmoud Abbas diberikan balik seperti sebelum HAMAS memenangi pilihanraya tahun 2006. HAMAS juga meminta sekatan perdagangan terutama bahanapi ditarik balik.
Tahukah saudara, setiap roket yang dilancarkan ke Israel oleh HAMAS yang hanya mampu merosakkan bangunan, Regime Zionist membalasnya dengan menggugurkan bom dari jet pejuang, tembakan peluru dari laut Mediterranean, serangan darat dalam bentuk tembakan dari kereta kebal dan misil. Kini, regime zionist menggunakan bom fosforus serta bunker buster. Ketika tulisan ini disediakan seramai 971 orang Gazan terbunuh manakala hanya 13 orang tentera regime Israel maut pada hari ke-19 peperangan. Bagaimana pula dengan mereka yang cedera parah serta kerosakan harta benda. Apakah ada hari esok untuk penduduk Gaza.
Bunker-busting bombs hit Gaza
Jan 13 - A Reuters cameraman has filmed dramatic footage of some of the many massive explosions caused by Israeli air strikes in Gaza.
Israeli war planes continue to pound the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
The town is one end of a network of thousands of tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border which have been used for smuggling everything from weapons to livestock into the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes have been using 'bunker-busting' bombs in a bid to collapse the tunnels.
REPORTS BY REUTERS
VIDEO BAGAIMANA BOM BUNKER BUSTER BERTINDAK
KERAJAAN SELANGOR SUMBANG RM SETENGAH JUTA MISI KE GAZA MELALUI YAYASAN AMAL
Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat di bawah pimpinan Tan Sri Khalid hari ini menyerahkan cek bernilai RM setengah juta bagi tujuan membantu mengurangkan penderitaan serta kesengsaraan penduduk Gaza akibat serangan Regime Israel yang kini masuk minggu ketiga melalui misi bantuan kemanusiaan Yayasan Amal Malaysia. Turut serta dalam rombongan tadi antara lain ialah Presiden Yayasan Amal Malaysia sendiri, Cikgu Husin dan ADUN Sijangkang Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi merangkap Pengerusi Yayasan Amal Cawangan Selangor dan Pembantu Exco Pendidikan, Pendidikan Tinggi dan Pembangunan Modal Insan.
Harakah ke Gaza, Yayasan Amal diamanahkan oleh Kerajaan Selangor Menabur Bakti
Julung kalinya, Harakah menyertai misi kemanusiaan ke wilayah yang penuh pergolakan di Gaza,Palestin. Wakil Harakah, Mohd Khalil Abdullah kini sedang berada di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) untuk menaiki pesawat bersama Yayasan Amal Malaysia bagi membuat peninjauan serta memberikan bantuan kemanusiaan kepada mangsa-mangsa kekejaman Israel di Gaza, Palestin.
Pengarah Urusan Harakah, Dato' Kamaruddin Jaffar ketika dihubungi menjelaskan, penyertaan Harakah dalam misi awal ini merupakan satu peluang yang paling berharga, kerana bukan semua media berpeluang berada di Palestin dalam keadaan bergolak ketika ini.
"Ini peluang terbaik Harakah untuk membongkar betapa kejam golongan Zionis yang didalangi Amerika sehinggakan rakyat Palestin hidup dalam penuh kesengsaraan."
"Bukan sahaja misi ini, malah jika ada misi-misi lain yang dianjurkan oleh NGO-NGO atau mana-mana pihak, Harakah sentiasa menghulurkan tangan bagi memberikan bantuan dari segi keperluan tenaga media untuk membuat liputan," jelasnya.
Sementara itu, Ketua Pengarang Kumpulan Harakah, Ahmad Lutfi Othman berharap dengan penyertaan wakil Harakah ini, berita yang tepat terhadap kesengsaraan mangsa dan rakyat Palestin dapat disampaikan.
"Kita mahu membuka minda rakyat,bagaimana realiti sebenar kehidupan dan kesengsaraan yang dilalui di Palestin."
"Diharapkan Harakah dapat mencapai matlamat dan seterusnya membantu anggota misi kemanusiaan yang akan ke Palestin malam ini," jelasnya semasa dihubungi sebentar tadi.
Sementara itu, Mohd Khalil dijangka akan menaiki pesawat jam 10.15 malam nanti dan tiba di Kaherah jam 6.00 pagi serta bertolak pula selama 6 jam untuk berada di sempadan Mesir-Rafah atau dikenali sebagai (Rafah Crossing).
Mohd Khalil semasa dihubungi, memberitahu ketika ini, wakil-wakil media di seluruh dunia serta anggota bantuan yang lain masih menanti di pintu sempadan.
"Ini kerana, pihak kerajaan Mesir masih belum memberikan 'lampu hijau' untuk mereka masuk ke Rafah dan seterusnya menuju ke Gaza yang sedang bergolak," katanya semasa dihubungi Harakahdaily sebentar tadi.
Sumber Harakahdaily
AMANAT, KATA HIKMAH DAN BERNAS MENJELANG PRK 036 UNTUK YANG MAHU BERUBAH
Mantan Presiden UMNO yang keluar parti mengeluarkan amanat:
1.“Dalam keadaan sekarang, dalam keadaan Umno dan Kerajaan dipimpin oleh Datuk Seri Abdullah tidak mungkin orang bukan daripada parti Umno dan orang Cina dan India akan beri kemenangan kepada calon Umno atau Barisan Nasional. Bahkan ahli-ahli Umno yang kecewa dengan pimpinan Dato Seri Abdullah pun tidak akan undi Umno dan Barisan Nasional."
2.“Jika Umno pimpinan Datuk Seri Najib ingin diterima dan disokong oleh rakyat sebagai pengundi, ingin memperolehi kemenangan dalam Pilihanraya Umum ke 13 maka rasuah dalam parti hendaklah dihapuskan. Usaha ini bukanlah mudah tetapi suka atau tidak suka Najib dan pasukannya perlu berusaha sedaya upaya."
3."Jika Umno pimpinan Datuk Seri Najib ingin diterima dan disokong oleh rakyat sebagai pengundi, ingin memperolehi kemenangan dalam Pilihanraya Umum ke 13 maka rasuah dalam parti hendaklah dihapuskan. Usaha ini bukanlah mudah tetapi suka atau tidak suka Najib dan pasukannya perlu berusaha sedaya upaya."
4.“Samada Barisan Nasional menang atau kalah kerajaan Terengganu tak akan berubah. Pada pandangan saya Pas atau Umno pada waktu ini sama sahaja.”
5."Umno pula tak tahu pilih calon. Yang dipilih ialah bekas Setiausaha Politik Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Jelas pilihan calon Umno tidak memperdulikan sentimen rakyat. Dan calon ini pula terkenal sebagai seorang yang sombong, tidak tahu beramah mesra dengan orang."
6.“Dalam pilihan raya kecil ini pengundi Kuala Terengganu berhadapan dengan dilema. Pas pun bukan pilihan yang baik, Umno pun bukan pilihan yang baik. Telan mati Mak, luah mati Pak. Mungkin calon bebas akan dapat undi yang lebih dari sepatutnya.”
7.“Jika tidak, pengundi akan undi siapa sahaja yang menyogok wang kepada mereka dan ini termasuk parti lawan. Umno dan BN mungkin tidak akan dapat memerintah negara ini lagi. Kita sekarang sedang diberi ‘preview’ jenis pemerintahan yang akan didirikan oleh parti-parti lawan.”
Kata-kata hikmah President-elect UMNO 2009:
1. “Kalau salam, tengok muka. Sebab itu saya ingatkan calon kita supaya kalau bersalam bukan hanya di depan pintu, tetapi kalau ada orang dalam rumah dan di dapur, salam semua. Biar pun dia kena salam sehingga 200,000 orang, asalkan kita menang. Ini bukan adab orang bandar, orang elit tetapi adab orang kampung. Itu cara kita berkempen."
2.“Jangan berlagak naik kereta mewah dan jangan berlebihan. Pegang kepada satu prinsip bahawa kita hamba kepada rakyat, itulah anak kunci kepada kejayaan BN. Saya minta pemimpin yang turun padang supaya mesra rakyat”.
3."Saya nak tanya, siapa buat dua masjid setiap tahun, siapa yang bagi wang ehsan pada rakyat, siapa buat ICT di masjid-masjid, siapa buat macam-macam program tadika Islam JQAF, siapa jadi juara keputusan UPSR (Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah) lapan tahun berturut turut, siapa buat lebuh raya, siapa buat universiti Darul Iman."
4."Kita tidak mahu jadi seperti sesetengah negara yang takut untuk menyanggah kuasa besar kerana terima bantuan dari negara-negara besar. Di Malaysia kita menongkah arus, tambah peruntukan untuk projek-projek kerajaan dalam keadaan rakyat di negara besar terpaksa menganggur kerana krisis ekonomi."
5."Jadi saya nak nyatakan kedua-dua program ini, iaitu pagi tadi saya lancar pengundian Projek Kecil Projek Infrastruktur Awam (PIA) dan Projek Infrastruktur Asas (PIAS) daerah Kuala Terengganu Tahun 2009 serta bantuan kepada sekolah agama bantuan kerajaan merupakan sebahagian daripada projek rancangan fiskal,"
Kata-kata bernas Ketua Pergerakan Wanita UMNO
1."Satu pun laporan saya tak terima pasal orang tak suka muka Wan Ahmad Farid. Tu saya pun hairan, bila kita turun ke bawah tak ada orang bercakap. Ini orang bercakap di kedai-kedai kopi rasanya, yang saja ditanamkan idea ni persepsi ni."
2."Jadi ingin saya tegaskan tak usahlah dibangkit cerita calon, calon tak senyum ke calon muka sombong ke, calon muka garang ke, kita bukan nak pilih calon ratu cantik, bukan nak pilih calon ala Shah Rukh Khan, bukan nak pilih jejaka idaman, kita nak pilih calon yang boleh bekerja."
3."Pada penilaian BN, calon kita boleh diamanahkan untuk bertugas dan berkhidmat untuk orang Kuala Terengganu. Kita yakin dia boleh bekerja, kalau tak tauke dia ialah BN, kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan pusat... kalau dia tak bekerja pucuk pimpinan kitalah yang akan ambil tindakan."
4."Pengundi nak benda-benda macam ni lah, dia nak rumah dia dibela, jalan diturap. Sebab walau macam mana senyum meleret pun pembangkang, tak juga buat, macam mana cantik wajah pembangkang dan mesranya mereka masih tak boleh buat jalan ni, tak boleh nak betulkan longkang ni sebab kerajaan negeri adalah kerajaan BN dan kerajaan pusat adalah kerajaan BN."
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Yang anehnya, pihak Dewan perniagaan Israel tidak merasa bersalah di atas pembunuhan dan kekejaman pihak tentera regimenya tetapi menyalahkan dunia luar serta kerajaan asing kerana memboikot barangan Israel, dengan menyebut polisi GATT dan WTO bahawa tiada diskriminasi antara negara anggota serta menyebut artikel 1, 7 dan 10 Perisytiharan Hak Asasi Manusia.
Pada saya sudah cukup jelas perangai Yahudi seperti yang digambarkan dalam Al Quran dan cerita-cerita klasik iaitu kaum Yahudi memang melampaui batas kemanusian, hak orang dia punya, hak dia sudah barang tentu dia punya.
BERITA DARI JURUSALEM POST TENTANG RESOLUSI PBB
Regime Israel dikecam hebat oleh Pengerusi Parti Likud Binyamin Netanyahu kerana gagal menghalang Majlis Keselamatan PBB daripada meluluskan resolusi yang terbaru. Walau bagaimanpun Perdana Menteri Olmert membela Livni dalam mesyuarat kabinet yang mana menurut Olmert, jika tidak kerana Livni, mungkin resolusi yang lebih teruk lagi diluluskan oleh Majlis Keselamatan PBB.
Menurut Livni, beliau telah berjaya melengah-lengahkan keputusan Majlis keselamatan beberapa kali tetapi tiada ruang untuk menghalangnya dari diluluskan .
Dalam perkembangan lain, kumpulan anti- zionist di kalangan penduduk Israel bergelar MERETZ atau "Peace Now" dan Hadash yang berhaluan kiri berdemonstrasi menuntut agar perang di Gaza dihentikan segera kerana ia bertentangan dengan kepentingan Israel serta khuatir akan kehilangan sokongan antarabangsa.
Livni said that from the first night that the IAF bombed Gaza and the Security Council met in a special session, she, Olmert and the Foreign Ministry labored to gain Israel as much time as possible to achieve its goals. She said she did not like the Security Council's decision and she had succeeded in delaying it more than once, but there was no way to prevent it from passing.
Meretz released a statement criticizing the security cabinet's decision on Friday to continue the operation, saying that remaining in the Gaza Strip was against Israel's interests and would result in losses on both sides and the loss of international support.
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PM, Foreign Ministry officials support Foreign Ministry over UN vote
By GIL HOFFMAN AND HERB KEINON
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and senior officials in the Foreign Ministry rallied around Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Sunday, deflecting criticism that she failed in her job by not stopping the passage Thursday of the UN Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, left, along with Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Jerusalem, Sunday
Likud and Labor officials had said earlier Sunday the fact the UN vote had passed without the American veto that has become customary for resolutions seen as harming Israel would be campaign fodder against Kadima's prime ministerial candidate.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Olmert defended Livni, saying that she had warned from the beginning of the likelihood of a UN resolution, and that were it not for her efforts and the efforts of the Foreign Ministry, a more critical resolution would have been passed much sooner.
However a source close to Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said: "It's clear to us that her behavior was unsatisfactory. She is in charge of the diplomatic process. She should have prevented such a decision at the UN, and by failing she caused Israel great damage."
Labor officials said that everyone was doing their part in Operation Cast Lead, including the soldiers, the municipalities in the South and the residents under fire, and that "only our public relations failed a crucial test."
Livni responded to the charges at a Foreign Ministry press conference with German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, saying that anyone who knew anything about diplomacy realized that at a certain point in time the issue would come to the Security Council.
"Anyone who has any understanding of what happens on the diplomatic playing field during any military operation knows that at some stage an agreement is reached similar to the one that was reached at the Security Council," Livni said. "Every time that Israel starts a military operation with all the legitimacy in the world, immediately there is an international effort to lower the flames."
Livni said this was a "regular ritual," and that only because Israel was in the midst of an election campaign were voices raised attacking her for not doing enough. Livni said she would not enter into this political argument.
"There are those who are trying to get political capital out of this, and it is a shame," Livni said. "There is a war here, there is a nation here, and there are interests that need to be guarded."
Livni said that from the first night that the IAF bombed Gaza and the Security Council met in a special session, she, Olmert and the Foreign Ministry labored to gain Israel as much time as possible to achieve its goals. She said she did not like the Security Council's decision and she had succeeded in delaying it more than once, but there was no way to prevent it from passing.
The Likud in return accused Livni of using a press conference with a visiting foreign minister for political propaganda.
"Rather than use such a forum for political slogans in Hebrew for the Israeli public, Livni should have used it to explain in English the positions of Israel about the operation in Gaza to the world," the Likud said in an official statement.
Senior officials in the foreign Ministry deflected criticism that Livni should have been in New York to fight the resolution, saying that she did not want to give the whole process at the UN - which she objected to and lobbied heavily against - legitimacy.
Furthermore, the officials said, had she gone, she would have been criticized for not being in Jerusalem to make critical decisions. "This is what we heard when she went to Paris during the first week of the operation," one official said.
Foreign Minister director general Aaron Abramovich said that while Israel was opposed to the resolution, and would have preferred that it not be passed, there were some elements which were favorable, such as its call for a sustainable and durable cease fire, its call for a mechanism to stop the arms smuggling, and its call for the border crossings to be opened only under Palestinian Authority control.
"This resolution has many positive elements, and it is no wonder that they are very angry with it in Syria, and that Hamas is unhappy with it," he said in an Israel Radio interview.
Diplomatic sources, meanwhile, said that they did not see the US abstention on the vote as a turning point in US policy. Rather, the source said, the abstention reflected a tension regarding Middle East policy between the White House and the State Department that has been in evidence over the last 12 - 18 months.
According to these sources, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice favored voting in favor of the resolution, believing that this would best serve Israel's interests in the Arab world, and that the decision to abstain was taken after Olmert, in the middle of the night, phoned US President George W. Bush and asked for a US veto. Bush refused and instead ordered the US to abstain.
Israeli officials said that while the Security Council resolution is not legally binding on Israel, meaning that there will not be sanctions if it is not honored, it does carry the weight of the international community and has a great deal of significance.
While the Security Council is not expected to take any more action on the matter right now, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to arrive Thursday to push for acceptance of the resolution.
10, 2009 23:30 | Updated Jan 10, 2009 23:46
Peace Now, Meretz hold Left's first anti-war protest
By GIL HOFFMAN/ Jurusalem Post
Peace Now organized the first demonstration of the Zionist Left since Operation Defensive Shield began two weeks ago on Saturday night outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv.
The event marked a change in direction for the organization, which had previously limited itself to calling for a cease-fire via an on-line campaign. Peace Now expressed understanding for the operation when it began, but started calling for a cease-fire six days into the fighting.
"Calls for a cease-fire are not anti-IDF," Peace Now secretary-general Yariv Oppenheimer said at the rally. "We just don't want the soldiers to lose their lives in an operation that should not be continuing. The Left was divided at the start of the fighting. But when the choice is between staying in Gaza for years or leaving now, it is clear what we support."
Some 600 people attended the rally, including many of the anti-Zionist Hadash activists who have been demonstrating against the operation since it began.
The Hadash activists accepted a request from the rally's organizers not to bring the Palestinian flags that had been a part of their demonstrations.
While Hadash MK Dov Khenin and Arab MKs have attended many demonstrations, Saturday night's was the first attended by MKs from Meretz.
"Even though we supported initiating the operation after Hamas broke the cease-fire, now we are saying enough," Meretz head Haim Oron said at the rally. "A cease-fire must be reached now. We must do everything possible to reach a peace agreement under the umbrella of the Arab League. Only an agreement between us and the Palestinians can end terror."
Meretz released a statement criticizing the security cabinet's decision on Friday to continue the operation, saying that remaining in the Gaza Strip was against Israel's interests and would result in losses on both sides and the loss of international support.
DEMO ANTI ISRAEL ANTI SEMITIC DI EROPAH
ADL: Nazi Imagery abound at anti-Israel rallies
Comparisons of Israel’s actions to those of Hitler, signs altering Jewish Star of David into swastika a recurring feature at many rallies across US
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Published: 01.06.09, 21:01 / Israel Jewish Scene
Of all of the recriminations aimed at Israel at scores of demonstrations held across the country in response to its military operation against Hamas, none has been more consistently or emphatically employed than comparisons of Israel to the Nazis, or the situation in Gaza to a “Holocaust", the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday.
According to a statement issued by ADL ( Anti Defamation League), in-your-face comparisons of Israel’s actions to those of Hitler, or signs altering the Jewish Star of David into a swastika, have been a recurring feature at many rallies across the country, including protests held over the past weekend in several major US cities.
Some demonstrations have included expressions of support for Hamas, a US-designated terrorist organization, or for terrorism against Israel in general, ADL said. And some protesters at rallies have spewed inflammatory anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
In New York City’s Times Square, six city blocks were filled Saturday with anti-Israel demonstrators holding signs that read “Israel: The Fourth Reich;” “Holocaust by Holocaust Survivors;” “Stop Israel’s Holocaust;” “Holocaust in Gaza;” and “Stop the Zionist Genocide in Gaza.”
One sign juxtaposed gruesome images of Holocaust victims and Gazans and read, “Nazi Genocide, Israeli Genocide.”
'A deeply cynical perversion of history'
On December 30, demonstrators gathered at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles waving Palestinian flags and holding signs, including ones that read, “Every Israeli committing the genocide in Gaza is a 'Hitler'.”
One sign depicted an image of the Israeli flag with the Star of David replaced by a swastika and above the flag, the words, “Upgrade to Holocaust Version 2.0.”
The same day, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Tampa, Florida carrying signs that compared Israel to Nazi Germany and calling for the dissolution of Israel. One sign declared, “Zionism is Cancer; Radiate it,” and other signs featured the word “Nazi” written over an Israeli flag with a swastika.
“Freedom of speech is not just a right, it is also a responsibility,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director and a Holocaust survivor. “Comparisons of Israel to the Nazis are a deeply cynical perversion of history, an attempt to turn the tragedy that befell the Jewish people into a bludgeon against Israel.
“While we have come to expect to see such and hear this type of inflammatory rhetoric in Arab and Muslim capitals overseas, it is deeply disturbing that it is appearing in anti-Israel demonstrations at home,” said Foxman. “Offensive Holocaust comparisons and the use of Nazi imagery are deeply offensive and have no place in a civil society such as ours.”
Three arrested after London protest becomes unruly; officer knocked out
# Police say 20,000 gathered outside Israeli Embassy in London
# Similar demonstrations take place in other European cities
# 3,000 protest outside temporary residence of U.S. President-elect Obama
Protesters across Europe call for end to Gaza conflict
(CNN) -- Thousands of demonstrators marched through cities across Europe on Saturday, calling for an immediate end to Israel's attacks on Gaza.
A coffee shop was ransacked as Saturday's London protests turned unruly.
Up to 20,000 people were gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in London, England, at the peak of protests there, London Metropolitan Police said.
A police officer was knocked unconscious Saturday night as the protests turned unruly, the police said.
The London crowd dismantled barriers placed in front of the embassy and began pelting officers with sticks, rocks and pieces of the metal barriers, police said. Three people were arrested.
Organizers including the Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign expected more than 100,000 people to join the London march to protest Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza.
Celebrities including musician Annie Lennox and Bianca Jagger, musician Mick Jagger's ex-wife, spoke at a rally before the procession, which went from Hyde Park to the Israeli Embassy in Kensington, West London. Video Watch demonstrators throw bottles, metal at police »
Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, also spoke at the rally, The Times newspaper reported.
During her speech, Booth criticized Blair over his attempts to bring about a resolution to the conflict.
"Tony Blair's only comment regarding the cease-fire has been to say that it can only take place after the tunnels in Gaza are destroyed," The Times quoted her as saying.
"What he is suggesting means that after the massacre, people will have no access to food, kerosene and medicines that came through those tunnels. That is not a cease-fire; that is a slow agonizing death," she said, according to The Times.
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone issued a statement backing the demonstration.
"Every day, we see appalling pictures of children slaughtered by Israeli bombs, missiles and other sophisticated weapons," he said. "Yet with more than 700 dead and thousands more seriously wounded, the international community is allowing Israel to continue its completely disproportionate onslaught accompanied by an Orwellian litany of lies."
Meanwhile, the British Press Association reported that similar demonstrations took place in other British cities, including Newcastle and Edinburgh.
Thousands took part in a rally through the center of Edinburgh calling for an end to the military campaign. About 300 shoes and red paint were thrown toward the U.S. consulate in the Scottish capital, the PA said.
Thousands demonstrated in other European cities, according to local media reports, including Innsbruck, Austria; Paris, France; Milan, Italy; Berlin, Germany; and Oslo, Norway. iReport: Protests in Paris
In Washington, pro-Palestinian activists rallied outside the temporary residence of President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday and called on the incoming leader to stop the violence in Gaza.
About 3,000 people carrying signs and chanting "Free Palestine" flooded Lafayette Park between the White House and the Hay-Adams Hotel, where the president-elect is living with his family.
Carrying a flag and wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh head scarf, Abdel-Kader Elkabil exhorted the president-elect to take action.
"Please, Mr. Obama, do something. We love you. We voted for you," he said. "I'm expecting you to do something. ... You're the only one who can do something."
Asma Mobin-Uddin drove to Washington with a group of 500 activists from Ohio. She said she voted for Obama because she believed he could "make a difference."
"President Obama, look in the eyes of your kids and look in the eyes of the kids in that region," she said at the rally. "Please, stop the violence, stop the hate, stop the occupation."
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Israelis say their Gaza military operation, which started December 27, is targeting rocket-launching sites, Hamas infrastructure and the movement's leaders in an effort to stop militants from sending rockets into southern Israel.
Palestinian medical sources said that more than 800 Palestinians have been killed in the attacks, including 235 children, and about 3,300 people have been wounded. Thirteen Israelis, including 10 soldiers, have died since the operation began.
Videos Of London Demo
Protest in London on 10 January 2009 against the current Gaza offensive by Israel. The demonstration started at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, passed through Bayswater and Kensington, and finished outside the Israeli Embassy.
War in Gaza Make Violence in London 10/09/2009
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of London today in the biggest public protest yet in Britain against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The march began in Hyde Park, where Speakers' Corner was turned into a sea of Palestinian flags and banners condemning Israel, before making its way to Kensington Gardens. There were scuffles outside the Israeli embassy as the march passed by the gates leading to its entrance.
Missiles were thrown at police guarding the way and a number of loud bangs believed to be firecrackers were heard as riot police drew batons and attempted to push the crowd back from the gates.
A number of younger masked demonstrators attempted to climb on to the gates, near Kensingon High Street, and hurled pieces of placards and other items at police lines.
Panic rippled through the crowd, which included young children, and a number of people fell to the ground amid the scuffles.
A Metropolitan police spokesman said: "A group of protesters outside the embassy of Israel started trying to push over the barriers placed there to protect the embassy. Protesters have also attempted to throw barriers and other missiles at police.
"Officers have been deployed in protective equipment as a precautionary measure after coming under attack from a small minority of protesters."
The march began largely peacefully and included many young British Muslims as well as members of political parties. The crowd listened to speakers including trade unionists, representatives of Palestinian exiles, and celebrity campaigners such as Brian Eno and Annie Lennox.
The Stop The War coalition, which organised today's demonstration, said it believed as many as 100,000 people were taking part in the rallies at Hyde Park and in Kensington Park Gardens.
Richard Elborne, from west London, stamped his feet against the cold and explained why he felt it was important to come with his daughter Louise, five, who had made her own placard calling for an end to the violence in Gaza.
"I've been following what has been happening closely and was always against the Israeli invasion but the bombing of this school really brought it home for me and was an escalation too far," he said.
Eaisha Tareen, a physiologist from Colchester who had travelled with members of her family to take part in the demonstration, said: "It is really unbelievable what is happening in Gaza but we are heartened by the solidarity people here are showing.
"We were coming here on the underground and met a Jewish lady who had written a letter to the newspapers condemning the Israeli action and we were really impressed by that. As you can see here today, it is not just Muslims there are people from all parts of British life."
As well as the Stop The War Coalition, the British Muslim Initiative and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign were represented in the crowd.
