Monday, January 19, 2009

War in Gaza - PHOTOS and VIDEOS

ISRAEL UNDER FIRE
-- View these photos portraying southern Israel under rocket fire: http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4511363/k.8999/Photo_Gallery.htm and http://www.flickr.com/photos/israelnewsphotosdotcom/
-- Video: Inside a Gaza rocket lab: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/how-homemade-ro.html
-- Aish / Hasbara’s video showing missiles from Gaza: http://sderot.aish.com/SderotPetitions/MissilesFromGaza.php
-- Photos showing the anxiety of living under constant Red Alerts in Southern Israel. Credit: Edi Israel.
http://www.israelnewsphotos.com/
-- Videos: Scenes during and after Hamas missile attacks on southern Israeli towns: http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnAk1pTCew, and http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=panic02-V&ak=null, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-R5WmL0w-0&feature=channel_page
-- This video, from Aish HaTorah, illustrates how in Sderot, you have 15 seconds to run for cover once you hear the “Red Alert.” You can also add your name to a petition and send a message of support to the people of Sderot: http://sderot.aish.com/SderotPetitions/15Seconds.php

NATURE OF HAMAS

-- Video of Hamas in their own words: http://www.memritv.org/video.html
-- This Hamas video celebrates the targeting of Israeli civilians and includes captions such as "Let them taste violent death," "Send them to Hell! Tear them to pieces!":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5L5of2rPM
-- Flyer/poster of Hamas’s war crimes:
http://www.standwithus.org/SIGNS/pdfs/Gaza%20flyer.pdf
-- In this video interview Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas leader, speaks out against Hamas and about his decision to convert to Christianity:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html and http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3016344&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html
-- How do you think this child at 1:15 into the video, who cannot possibly be more than 4 years old, learned that he wanted “to kill the Jews”? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGbP55HGi8
-- Read also: The truth about Hamas’s mission, Andrea Levin, Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/17/the_truth_about_hamass_mission/

HAMAS USE OF HUMAN SHIELDS (more under RESOURCES section)

-- In this video Hamas representative Fathi Hamad explains Hamas’s ideology to use civilians as human shields for its fighters: "Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters . . . as if they were saying: We desire death as you desire life." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs
-- See this news flash on Palestinian television, which states, “Following a threatened airstrike – Hamas calls upon all Gaza children to gather near the house of Abu Hatal in the A-Shouqaf quarter, in order to form a human shield”:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=1915991&ak=null
-- View out-takes of Al-Alarabiya TV's Hannan al-Masri learning of a Hamas missile being fired from the ground floor of the Gaza TV complex housing the Al-Arabiya Studio (for English, turn on CC captions):
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=JY50cktUKbA
-- The IDF released video that it says shows a school and zoo, booby-trapped by Hamas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G-3saZDDkM
-- IDF footage of Hamas rockets and weaponry found inside a Gaza mosque:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=misgad+amlach+V&ak=null
-- View footage of Hamas firing rockets from a mosque:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165_JS4t0SE
-- Last year, terrorists fired rockets at Israel from a school in Gaza: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI
-- Old footage of Palestinian fighters using an ambulance as a troop-carrier: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=116_1231063776
-- Video of Hamas arms caches hidden in civilian homes, mosques, and schools: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZMvOPfCvs
-- Video regarding Hamas’s use of civilians as shields:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null
-- Power Point presentation, showing how the IDF limits harm to civilians, whereas Hamas intentionally puts civilians in harm’s way:
http://www.honestreporting.com/a/IDF-%20Limiting%20Harm%20to%20Civilians%20(13.1).ppt

MISUSE OF HUMANITARIAN AID

-- Video of military uniforms allegedly being smuggled into Gaza for Hamas in humanitarian aid shipments: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=LCOxIHGk-l0&feature=PlayList&p=1A034E2467846BD5&index=32
-- Read also: Hamas raids aid trucks, sells supplies, Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424932109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Read also: UN: Hamas seized food and blankets from needy Gazans, AP / Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061426.html
-- Read also reports of Hamas and Fatah accusing each other of stealing humanitarian aid: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292920527&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Video from the Israeli Embassy about humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=AidCoridor-v&ak=null

VIDEOS: DEFENDING ISRAEL

-- NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg defends Israel: http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/01/05/1002001/bloomberg-on-cnn
-- Former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp eloquently defends Israel’s actions in Gaza: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw
-- UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer debunks the “disproportional” accusation to the United Nations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh5vjejNpRU

PROTESTERS TELL ISRAEL: 'GO BACK TO T
HE OVEN’
-- Footage from a recent anti-Israel rally in Florida. NOTE: Strong language, viewer discretion advised. Pay attention to the words and signs of these protestors: “Your mother’s a whore” (1:48), “F--- yourself” (1:51), “Nuke Israel” (1:54), “Go to hell” (2:14), “Go back to the ovens!” (3:25): http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2008/12/31/1001928/protester-to-israel-go-back-to-the-oven
-- More footage from dueling pro- and anti-Israel rallies, in Los Angeles. NOTE: Strong language, viewer discretion advised. You will see Hamas and Hezbollah flags and you will hear ugly chants: “Long Live Hitler” (4:37), “Put the Jews in the Ovens” (4:49), “Jews are fossil fuel” (4:55), and “F--- the Jews” (5:03):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpMbUliY3Ao
-- Hamas flags were on full display at this San Francisco demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxAVjDuCav4&NR=1
-- And see more photos and videos from pro-Hamas rallies in San Francisco: http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/
-- Nazi imagery was used in reference to Israel at recent Canadian demonstrations, and in Toronto one protestor reportedly yelled, "Jewish child, you're going to f---ing die":
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/15/1002274/incitement-to-hatred-at-canadian-demonstrations
-- At this “peaceful” demonstration of flag burning in Montreal, protesters shouted (subtitles), “Palestine is ours, the Jews are our dogs” (4:05).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UWPeK-uydk
-- At Pro-Palestinian rallies in Amsterdam, protesters shouted, "Hamas, Hamas, put the Jews to the gas":
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/15/1002290/dutch-justice-minister-to-investigate-pro-palestinian-rallies and watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024231.php
-- See more of the “globalization of the intifada,” from London and elsewhere, at: http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=230%20
-- Read: Yes, it’s anti-Semitism, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/07/yes_its_anti_semitism/
-- Read also: Giving voice to anti-Semitism, Frank Furedi, Australian: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24913868-7583,00.html
- Read also: Diminishing the Holocaust, Irwin Cotler, Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Diminishing+Holocaust/1238075/story.html -- Read also: Using the Holocaust to Attack the Jews, Walter Reich, Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002770.html
-- See more Nazi and Holocaust imagery used by anti-Israel protestors at: http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/anti_israel_demonstrations_hamas.htm

IDF ACTIONS IN GAZA

-- Videos from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Israeli Air Force strikes on Grad rocket launchers: http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4859139/k.CE7/Videos_from_the_Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs.htm
-- Footage of an IAF strike on a truck being loaded with rockets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG0CzM_Frvc&feature=channel_page
-- The IDF has opened a YouTube channel, displaying footage of Gaza bombing raids:
http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk
-- Israeli pilot talks about the Gaza conflict:
http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=7219726001&l=5983747001
-- Photos From Israel That You Won’t See On The News : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilana-teitelbaum/photos-from-israel-that-y_b_155256.html

PHOTOS: INSIDE THE GAZA TUNNELS
-- Interesting photos of the Gaza smuggling tunnels:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/pics-inside-the.html

VIDEO: MEDICAL COLLABORATION

-- Amid Gaza violence, Israeli and Palestinian doctors work together to save a baby’s life: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqm5tzIwIQ
-- See also – Save A Child’s Heart: http://www.saveachildsheart.org/

FLYER/POSTER: ISRAEL’S BATTLE

Download these posters from the ADL, regarding Israel’s fight against Hamas: http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/Why_is_Israel_Fighting_Back.pdf and http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_NewYork.pdf (New York) and http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_Boston.pdf (Boston) and http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_Chicago.pdf (Chicago)

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