Poor people used to live in slums. Now the ‘economically disadvantaged’ occupy ‘substandard housing’ in the inner-cities. And a lot of them are broke. They don’t have ‘negative cash-flow’, they’re broke. Because many of them were fired. In other words, management wanted to ‘curtail redundancies in the human resources area’, and so many workers are no longer ‘viable members of the workforce’.
Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It’s as simple as that.
The CIA doesn’t kill anybody, they ‘neutralize’ people, or they ‘depopulate an area’. The government doesn’t lie, it engages in ‘disinformation’. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something called ‘sunshine units’. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. The Contra killers were known as ‘freedom fighters’. Well if crime fighters fight crime and firefighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
George Carlin, Euphemistic Language (via kabinessence)
I didn’t know Carlin talked about Israel-Palestine. Respect through the roof.
(via stay-human)Five-year-old Khaled Jaber attempts to prevent Israeli border police from arresting his father, Fadel Jaber. A police spokesperson cited Jaber’s attempts to prevent Israel from dismantling an irrigation system set up to “steal” water from an Israeli settlement in the area. The UN confirms Israeli settlements have been responsible for accommodating most of the West Bank’s water resources via force and intimidation. These water resources are essential for irrigating Palestinian crops and sustaining livestock in the region. However, any water pipes constructed in the area are exclusively for the use of Israeli military outposts and illegal settlements, forcing Palestinians to buy even their potable water at outrageous prices from nearby towns. As a result, many farmers have tapped into Israeli pipes in order to use water that legally belongs to Palestine for irrigating the crops which serve as their only livelihood. This was exactly the dilemma faced by Fadel Jaber when he resisted Israel’s forcible dismantlement of his irrigation system. Although the situation of children forced to watch their parents - most often their fathers, who may be the family’s only source of income - arrested and illegally held by Israel is well-documented, Israel’s police spokesperson accused the Jaber family of staging their son’s reaction and deemed it a “cynical use” of a child.
Designed by: Michal Vexler
Source: Machsom Watch: Invisible prisoners [Hebrew, PDF]
An editorial from Haaretz explains how Israel is destroying the water reserves of Palestinians in the West Bank as part of an intentional policy to ethnically cleanse the occupied territories “and thus make it easier to annex these areas to Israel.”
Since the beginning of the year, Israel has destroyed 35 rainwater cisterns used by Palestinian communities, 20 of them in the area of Hebron and the southern Hebron Hills. In 2011, Israel destroyed 15 cisterns, and in the preceding 18 months, 29…Usually, the communities whose cisterns were destroyed are a short distance from settlements and unauthorized outposts that enjoy a regular water supply. At the same opportunity the Civil Administration almost always destroys Palestinian tents, animal pens and food storage facilities.
…Leaving Palestinian communities disconnected from infrastructure, declaring large areas as firing zones and destroying cisterns are part of an intentional policy since the early 1970s. Its goal is to leave as few Palestinians as possible in the majority of the West Bank (today’s Area C, under Israeli civil and military control), to expedite Jewish settlement and thus make it easier to annex these areas to Israel.
The European Union opposes Israel’s policies in Area C, which the EU believes sabotages the two-state solution. It also bases its position on international law, which prohibits the demolition of structures that would leave a protected population without food and water and result in their forced dislocation. Basic moral principles, as well as avoiding another head-on collision with our friends, requires that Israel cease and desist from destroying cisterns that are essential for the existence of dozens of Palestinian communities.
Deliberately depriving the civilian population of food and water is only one part of the Israeli strategy to smoke out the Palestinian people: the rate at which Israel is demolishing Palestinian homes and building up Israeli settlements in their place is greater now than ever before. This is the type of cruel policy that has been unilaterally supported by the United States for decades, and is currently being abetted by unprecedented rates of US economic, military and diplomatic aid.
We also checked it with the professional’s utility…
Where’s the original photographer? What’s his name?Oh God do you idiots ever give up?
You must not understand how programs like FourMatch work, do you? For starters, as it mentions in the product description, it simply checks the file for its EXIF data, which is data that is typically stored within an image, containing information such as the make and model of the camera that took it, the time/date it was taken, and GPS location, if the camera supports it.
FourMatch then runs this information through its database, which contains a large amount of the typical results of an EXIF scan, as well as various algorithms to account for variations in software used to store and import the photo.
This FourMatch scan of your proves absolutely nothing at all, other than the fact that the image does not contain any EXIF data. You’ll probably throw in the accusation of “WHY DOESN’T IT CONTAIN ANY DATA IF IT’S A REAL IMAGE?!?!” Well, for starters, EXIF data is EASILY lost unless certain precautions are taken to ensure that it remains intact when processing photos into photo libraries. In this case, this image has been going around since at least 2007, being posted on Image Forums, News Sites, Facebook, etc. When posted to any one of these medias, the EXIF data within the image is no longer preserved, and is lost. “Oh, that’s bullshit!” Well, here’s proof. The following link contains an image of mine that I took on my computer just several weeks ago, scanned through FourMatch, which tells me the image is fake:
How can this image be fake, when I personally took it and uploaded it straight to the internet right after, without even storing it in any software beforehand? Because a large majority of websites do not store EXIF data for uploaded photos, and programs like FourMatch work best ONLY on photos which are still in their ORIGINAL JPEG form [as subsequent copies lose their information] or have been stored on a website that keeps its EXIF data.
So please, continue to spread your false propaganda and playing all your readers for fools, Eretzyisrael. The only fools here are those running your pathetic excuse of a tumblr.
One final note, look at where the eyes of the bystanders are pointed:
One to the boys face, the other to his leg about to kick the woman. Or were they doctored as well?
A boy harvests grapes in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. The ongoing Israeli blockade has not only crippled Gazan sources of revenue by preventing exports - essential to an economy based on agriculture, fishing, and cement-making - but generated a multitude of other problems in the region. Operation Cast Lead left almost half of all arable land unfit for crop production, a crisis which cannot be remedied due to Israeli restrictions on machinery and construction material. Additionally, inability to repair infrastructure or expand available housing has led to pollution generated by overpopulation and inefficient waste management, contaminating Gaza’s limited water resources. As a result, the Gaza Strip is no longer self-sufficient in food production and rising food prices force families to spend around 60% of their monthly budget on provisions, exacerbating a crisis that - at its peak - has left 80% of the region dependent on humanitarian aid for survival.
Photo Source: The Electronic Intifada
Israeli security forces raided the offices of three NGOs in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank before dawn on Tuesday in what Palestinian workers in those offices say was a retaliatory move following a recent vote at the United Nations.
Al-Jazeera reports:
Entering before dawn on Tuesday, troops wrenched open the doors of the Women’s Union, the Palestinian NGO Network and Addameer, an advocate for Palestinians in Israeli jails.
The raids were the first of their kind in a Palestinian city since the West Bank government won an initiative at the United Nations General Assembly on November 29 which recognized a de facto Palestinian state.
“This comes in the context of the UN’s decision,” Allam Jarrar of the Palestinian NGO Network told reporters on Tuesday morning, “boycott Israel” leaflets strewn on the floor of the raided office.
“This a message by the Israelis to the Palestinians, saying that when they take decisions or form patriotic organizations to seek their freedom, the occupation will use aggression to try and stop us,” he said.
A statement put out by the group Addameer, which works to secure rights for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, condemned the raid, calling it an “attack on human rights and civil society organizations,” and describing it as an “attempt to cripple solidarity with the prisoners movement.”
According to the group’s statement:
At 3 am this morning, 11 December 2012, the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights office was raided by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Four laptops, one hard disk and a video camera were taken among other materials. The IOF destroyed the office; desks, ransacked filing cabinets and files and scattered files around the office. At this moment, we are not clear as to what has been confiscated, but in the coming days we will know more about the level of destruction and damage. This is the first raid by the IOF since 2002, when the Addameer office was raided during the invasion of Ramallah.
Agence France-Presse adds:
The Israeli military said it was checking reports of the raids, which Addameer said also targeted the Ramallah offices of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees and the Palestinian NGO Network. […]
Although the West Bank city of Ramallah nominally falls under full Palestinian administrative and security control, Israeli forces regularly carry out raids in the city and its surroundings.
Rabbis against zionism NYC
this is from sunday protest, hate the fact that youtube eats 50% of the quality :/
powerful speech btw !
eb? EB? what happened to your url haha
Look at this fucking map. #Israel #Palestine #depressingshit

