ARC.PEACE has noted with dismay that Israeli architects engage in the design of illegal Jewish settlements on expropriated Palestinian land in the Occupied Territories. These activities are in clear violation of the code of ethics of the International Union of Architects (UIA) which says that “there shall be no attempt to impose solutions of one society on other societies” (article 1:2) and that professionals shall fashion an environment “expressive of the genius of the people abd reflective of the substance of their culture” (article 3).
TAMMUZ, your comments are written with almost feverish speed and desperation. There is such thing as politics and then there is something else, maybe deeper, maybe tinged with a sense of loss in your life. Your earlier posts (not related to middle eastern affairs) in which you muse about your career, your sadness and depression and your attitudes about the field of architecture in general point to this lack of something missing in your life. maybe when you come to terms with this you will find something else to obsess about.
So my fellow Americans will probably be surprised to learn that the U.S. is more or less the only country in the world which has a favorable view of Israel.
Specifically, a 2012 BBC poll found that the U.S. and Nigeria were the only countries of those polled in which the majority of people had favorable views of Israel:
Wasn't much of a cease fire. Sounds like Hamas used he opportunity to launch a bunch of rockets as soon as the sun set. Didn't the propaganda groups you're copying this from tell you that? Or is it not on-message yet to point out this is happening because Hamas doesn't want it to stop? They'll give you something to copy/paste pretty soon.
Sunday July 27, 2014 14:02 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
This list is constantly updated due to the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza since July 8th. The following 859 names have been confirmed.
Woman who lost her family (image by Amnesty International)
We realize the number of slain Palestinians is higher than this. The Ministry of Health has stated that a total of 1,049 Palestinians have been killed, and 6,000 injured as of 14:38 pm Sunday July 27th, but we are still awaiting confirmation of some names.
Mohammad Ramiz Bakr, 11, Gaza beach.related article
Ismail Mahmoud Bakr, 9, Gaza beach. related article
Mohammad Kamel Abdul-Rahman, 30, Sheikh Ejleen, Gaza City
Husam Shamlakh, 23, Sheikh Ejleen, Gaza City
Usama Mahmoud Al-Astal, 6, Khan Younis (died of wounds sustained earlier in attack on mosque)
Hussein Abdul-Nasser al-Astal, 23, Khan Younis
Kawthar al-Astal, 70, Khan Younis
Yasmin al-Astal, 4, Khan Younis
Kamal Mohammad Abu Amer, 38, Khan Younis
Akram Mohammad Abu Amer, 34, Khan Younis (brother of Kamal, injured in same incident, then later same day died of his injuries)
Hamza Raed Thary, 6, Jabalia (was injured a few days ago in the incident in which many, including children, were killed while playing in the sand at the beach in Jabalia)
Abdul-Rahman Ibrahim Khalil as-Sarhi, 37, Gaza City
Killed Tuesday, July 15
Abdullah Mohammad al-Arjani, 19, Khan Younis
Suleiman Abu Louly, 33, Rafah
Saleh Said Dahleez, 20, Rafah
Yasser Eid al-Mahmoum, 18, Rafah
Ismael Fattouh Ismael, 24, Gaza City
Khalil Sh'aafy, Juhr Ed-Deek - Gaza
Sobhi Abdul-hamid Mousa, 77, Khan Younis
Killed Monday, July 14
Adham Abdul-Fattah Abdul-Aal, 27
Hamid Suleiman Abu al-Araj, 60, Deir al-Balah
Abdullah Mahmoud Baraka, 24, Khan Younis
Tamer Salem Qdeih, 37, Khan Younis
Ziad Maher an-Najjar, 17, Khan Younis
Ziad Salem ash-Shawy, 25, Rafah
Mohammad Yasser Hamdan, 24, Gaza
Mohammad Shakib al-Agha, 22, Khan Younis
Ahmed Younis Abu Yousef, 22, Khan Younis
Sara Omar Sheikh al-Eid, 4, Rafah
Omar Ahmad Sheikh al-Eid, 24, Rafah
Jihad Ahmad Sheikh al-Eid, 48, Rafah
Kamal Atef Yousef Abu Taha, 16, Khan Younis
Ismael Nabil Ahmad Abu Hatab, 21, Khan Younis
Boshra Khalil Zorob, 53, Rafah
Atwa Amira al-Amour, 63, Khan Younis
Killed Sunday, July 13
Ezzeddin Bolbol, 25, Rafah
Rami Abu Shanab, 25, Deir al-Balah
Fawziyya Abdul-al, 73, Gaza City
Moayyad al-Araj, 3, Khan Younis*
Husam Ibrahim Najjar, 14, Jabalia
Hijaziyya Hamed al-Hilo, 80, Gaza City
Ruwaida abu Harb Zawayda, 30, central Gaza
Haitham Ashraf Zorob, 21, Rafah
Laila Hassan al-Odaat, 41, al-Maghazi
Hussein Abdul-Qader Mheisin, 19, Gaza
Qassem Talal Hamdan, 23, Beit Hanoun
Maher Thabet abu Mour, 23, Khan Younis - related article
Mohammad Salem Abu Breis, 65, Deir al-Balah
Moussa Shehda Moammer, 60, Khan Younis
Hanadi Hamdi Moammer, 27, Khan Younis
Saddam Mousa Moammer, 23, Khan Younis
Killed Saturday, July 12
Anas Yousef Qandil, 17, Jabalia
Islam Yousef Mohammad Qandil, 27, Jabalia
Mohammad Edrees Abu Sneina, 20, Jabalia
Abdul-Rahim Saleh al-Khatib, 38, Jabalia
Husam Thieb ar-Razayna, 39, Jabalia
Ibrahim Nabil Hamada, 30, at-Tuffah - Gaza City
Hasan Ahmad Abu Ghush, 24, at-Tuffah - Gaza City
Ahmad Mahmoud al-Bal'awy, 26, at-Tuffah - Gaza City
Ali Nabil Basal, 32, at-Tuffah - Gaza City
Mohammad Bassem al-Halaby, 28, western Gaza City
Mohammad Sweity (Abu Askar), 20, western Gaza City
Khawla al-Hawajri, 25, Nuseirat refugee camp
Ola Wishahi, 31, Mabarra association for the disabled in Jabalia
Suha Abu Saade, 38, Mabarra association for the disabled in Jabalia
Mohammad Edrees Abu Sweilem, 20, Jabalia
Rateb Subhi al-Saifi, 22, Sheikh Radwan - Gaza City
Azmi Mahmoud Obeid, 51, Sheikh Radwan - Gaza City
Nidal Mahmoud Abu al-Malsh, 22, Sheikh Radwan - Gaza City
Suleiman Said Obeid, 56, Sheikh Radwan - Gaza City
Mustafa Muhammad Inaya, 58, Sheikh Radwan - Gaza City
Ghassan Ahmad al-Masri, 25, Sheikh Radwan - Gaza City
Rifat Youssef Amer, 36, al-Saftawi
Rifat Syouti, western Gaza City*
Nahedh Naim al-Batsh, 41, Khan Younis
Baha Majed al-Batsh, 28, Khan Younis
Qusai Issam al-Batsh, 12, Khan Younis
Aziza Yousef al-Batsh, 59, Khan Younis
Ahmad Noman al-Batsh, 27, Khan Younis
Mohammad Issam al-Batsh, 17, Khan Younis
Yahia Ala Al-Batsh, 18, Khan Younis
Jalal Majed al-Batsh, 26, Khan Younis
Mahmoud Majed al-Batsh, 22, Khan Younis
Majed Sobhi al-Batsh, Khan Younis
Marwa Majed al-Batsh, 25, Khan Younis
Khaled Majed al-Batsh, 20, Khan Younis
Ibrahim Majed al-Batsh, 18, Khan Younis
Manar Majed al-Batsh, 13, Khan Younis
Amal Hussein al-Batsh, 49, Khan Younis
Anas Ala al-Batsh, 10, Khan Younis
Qusai Ala al-Batsh, 20, Khan Younis
Mohannad Yousef Dheir, 23, Rafah
Shadi Mohammad Zorob, 21, Rafah
Imad Bassam Zorob, 21, Rafah
Mohannad Yousef Dheir, 23, Rafah
Mohammad Arif, 13, eastern Gaza City
Mohammad Ghazi Arif, 35, eastern Gaza City
Ghazi Mustafa Arif, 62, eastern Gaza City
Ahmad Yousef Dalloul, 47, Gaza
Fadi Ya'coub Sukkar, 25, Gaza
Qassem Jaber Odah, 16, Khan Younis
Mohammad Abdullah Sharatha, 53, Jabalia
Mohammad Ahmed Basal, 19, Gaza City
Killed Friday, July 11
Wisam Abdul-Razeq Hasan Ghannam, 31, Rafah
Mahmoud Abdul-Razeq Hasan Ghannam, 28, Rafah
Kifah Shaker Ghannam, 33, Rafah
Ghalia Thieb Ghannam, 57, Rafah
Mohammad Munir Ashour, 26, Rafah
Nour Marwan an-Ajdi, 10, Rafah
Anas Rezeq abu al-Kas, 33, Gaza City (doctor)
Abdullah Mustafa abu Mahrouq, 22, Deir al-Balah
Mahmoud Waloud, 26, Jabalia
Hazem Ba'lousha, Jabalia
Ala Abdul Nabi, Beit Lahia.*
Ahmed Zaher Hamdan, 24, Beit Hanoun
Mohammad Kamel al-Kahlout, 25, Jabalia
Sami Adnan Shaldan, 25, Gaza City
Salem al-Ashhab, 40, Gaza City
Raed Hani Abu Hani, 31, Rafah
Mohammad Rabea Abu- Hmeedan, 65, Jabalia
Shahrman Ismail Abu al-Kas, 42, Al-Bureij
Mazin Mustafa Aslan, 63, Al Bureij
Mohammad Samiri, 24, Deir al-Balah
Rami Abu Mosaed, 23, Deir al-Balah
Saber Sokkar, 80, Gaza City
Hussein Mohammad al-Mamlouk, 47, Gaza City
Nasser Rabah Mohammad Sammama, 49, Gaza City
Abdul-Halim Abdul-Moty Ashra, 54, Deir al-Balah
Sahar Salman Abu Namous, 3, Beit Hanoun
Odai Rafiq Sultan, 27, Jabalia
Joma Atiyya Shallouf, 25, Rafah
Bassam Abul-Rahman Khattab, 6, Deir al-Balah
Killed Thursday, July 10
Mahmoud Lutfi al-Hajj, 58, Khan Younis (father of six killed)
Bassema Abdul-fatteh Mohammad al-Hajj, 48, Khan Younis (mother of six killed)
Asma Mahmoud al-Hajj, 22, Khan Younis
Fatima Mahmoud al-Hajj, 12, Khan Younis
Saad Mahmoud al-Hajj, 17, Khan Younis
Najla Mahmoud al-Hajj, 29, Khan Younis
Tareq Mahmoud al-Hajj, 18, Khan Younis
Omar Mahmoud al-Hajj, 20, Khan Younis
Ayman Adham Yusef al-Hajj,16, northern Gaza.
Baha Abu al-Leil, 35, Gaza City
Suleiman Saleem Mousa al-Astal, 17, Khan Younis
Ahmed Saleem Mousa al-Astal, 24, Khan Younis (Suleiman's brother)
Mousa Mohammed Taher al-Astal, 50, Khan Younis
Ibrahim Khalil Qanan, 24, Khan Younis
Mohammad Khalil Qanan, 26, Khan Younis (Ibrahim's brother)
Ibrahim Sawali, 28, Khan Younis
Hamdi Badea Sawali, 33, Khan Younis
Mohammad al-Aqqad, 24, Khan Younis
Ismael Hassan Abu Jame, 19, Khan Younis
Hussein Odeh Abu Jame, 75, Khan Younis
Abdullah Ramadan Abu Ghazal, 5, Beit Hanoun
Mohammad Ehsan Ferwana, 27, Khan Younis
Salem Qandil, 27, Gaza City
Amer al-Fayyoumi, 30, Gaza City
Raed az-Zourah, 32, Khan Younis
Killed Wednesday, July 9
Hamed Shihab, Journalist - Gaza
Salima al-Arja, 53, Rafah
Miriam Atiya al-Arja, 9, Rafah
Rafiq al-Kafarna, 30
Abdul-Nasser Abu Kweik, 60
Khaled Abu Kweik, 31
Mohammad Mustafa Malika, 18 months
Hana Mohammed Fuad Malaka, 28 (Mohammad's Mother), 27
Hatem Abu Salem, Gaza City
Mohammad Khaled an-Nimra, 22
Sahar Hamdan (al-Masry), 40, Beit Hanoun
Mohammad Ibrahim al-Masry, 14, Beit Hanoun
Amjad Hamdan, 23, Beit Hanoun
Hani Saleh Hamad, 57, Beit Hanoun
Ibrahim Hani Saleh Hamad, 20, Beit Hanoun
Mohammad Khalaf Nawasra, 4, al-Maghazi
Nidal Khalaf Nawasra, 5, al-Maghazi
Salah Awad Nawasra, 24, al-Maghazi. (father of Mohammad and Nidal)
Aesha Najm al-Nawasra, 23, al-Maghazi (mother of Mohammad and Nidal, pregnant in the fourth month)
If you have ever visited a blog or on-line discussion group on the Middle East you have doubtless had the misfortune to run into them.
They are known by the language they use: depraved sexual insults, bile, bigotry, threats, disinformation and character assassination. That’s right: I’m talking about “hasbarats,” Zionist trolls who infect the Internet with hasbara, pro-Israel propaganda. Of course, mainstream media hasbarats have been around for decades, as have “hasbaratchiks,” fifth-columns in foreign governments who subvert national policies to serve Israel. The Internet, though, is the latest, some might say the greatest, propaganda playground, and Israel cannot cope with factual, passionate, well-documented stories that expose its war crimes and unrepentant criminality.
If you’ve come across a hasbarat, on-line or otherwise, you have learned that no amount of reasoned argument or intellectual maturity has any effect. That’s because hasbarats don’t care if they come across as ignorant, obnoxious, nasty or inane. All that matters for them is sabotaging criticism of Israel and support for Muslims. They’re like anti-intellectual stink bombs: designed to cause maximum discomfort but have little if any real power.
The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems.
Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel.
Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government’s line on the Middle East conflict
Various Israeli academic institutions have introduced courses and programs on hasbara— the Hebrew-language term used to describe Israel’s attempts to re-brand its image as its occupation and military aggression makes it increasingly unpopular worldwide.
A new report from the Academic Watch Project shows that instead of promoting critical thought and inquiry, these courses at academic institutions serve to promote the policies of the State of Israel and the whitewashing of its crimes. The Academic Watch Project is a group of Palestinian students at Israeli academic institutions dedicated to exposing discrimination within Israeli academia and its connection with Israel’s military occupation and apartheid policies.
In the immediate aftermath of the Israeli Navy’s massacre of 9 activists on the Mavi Marmara, I began a journalistic process of discrediting wild and fabricated claims by the Israeli Army Spokesman’s Unit about the incident. Around this time, when my blog began receiving unprecedented traffic, several hasbara trolls suddenly occupied my comments section. They have maintained a constant presence ever since, dragging the discussion into the gutter with propagandistic arguments and absurd personal attacks on me and other commenters — there isn’t much else to do when you are defending a country that behaves like Israel does.
Archinect, do you support the death innocents, the deportation of an indigeneous population, mass oppression and persectution? If not, please boycott Israel.
Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past twenty-one days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. That is to be expected in a population of 1.8 million where the number of Hamas members is approximately 15,000. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.
Israel’s propaganda machine, however, insists that these Palestinians wanted to die (“culture of martyrdom”), staged their own death (“telegenically dead”) or were the tragic victims of Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes (“human shielding”). In all instances, the military power is blaming the victims for their own deaths, accusing them of devaluing life and attributing this disregard to cultural bankruptcy. In effect, Israel—along with uncritical mainstream media that unquestionably accept this discourse—dehumanizes Palestinians, deprives them even of their victimhood and legitimizes egregious human rights and legal violations.
Rick + roll, you are a moron. It makes me sick to see people feel the need to pick a side as if this is a football game. Hamas bad Israel good...Israel bad Hamas good. Shut the fuck up already. Israel is killing innocent people and Hamas is attempting to do the same. Both are wrong. The people of both areas deserve better but its clear that the Palestinian people have it far worse. You cannot possibly deny that. Where would you feel more Safe? Since Israel is bigger and stronger than Hamas I would expect them to try and use restraint Their lack of restraint IMO makes them a complete shame to humanity. They also have way more power to broker a peace deal but they are unwilling to do so.
jla-x. it is very likely that this is Rick + roll's job. I'm not joking; I've made a reference here to trolls being employed to pedal Israel's side.
I've asked you to look at the even wider context - why is this going on, what is Gaza, who are the Palestinians, who are the Zionists- but you don't want to, jla-x.
That coming from a troll who only came here after this thread was started. Of course it would want Archinect to go back to its previous state - ie before any criticism of Israel ever surfaced.
Look, I'll be honest. I could give to shits about either side. Go ahead, keep killing each other. Your paranoia is hilarious, I guess that's what all hummus are lie, huh?
actually its a very touching speech and underlines the tragedies that the jews had to suffer at the hands of the nazis and the suffering the palestinians have to suffer at the hands of the israelis. again, i believe the jewish people have been victimized by Zionism - a ethno-nationalistic ideology alien to the jewish religion- after they were victimized by Nazism.
why do the Palestinians have to bear the brunt of the pathological outcomes of European racism?
I'd probably be able to take these right wing muslim extremist groups a little more seriously if they didn't sound so fucking tasty. To start I'd like some Tamil tiger prawns, for my main an al shabab with a side order of Hamas
That's not what you are arguing. To argue for archinect to return to its previous state is one thing, that's a valid argument, but to argue that it's ok to blow up kids so that you can win an argument with the goal of "returning archinect to its original state" is a far more disgusting and anti-intellectual thing to do. I would prefer to make fun of Patrick Schumacher and to talk about how stupid NCARB is, but this forum is not mine or yours. I wish Tammuz would frame this topic in a way more relevant to architecture/urbanism... There are architectural issues in here...I also wish he would look at this issue in a broader more anthropological/sociological way but that's his/her choice.
This is a democratic site and you can start a different thread if you want and out compete this one. Thought us Americans supported free press and democracy. I hate this idea of protectionism and regulation in the practice of architecture and I also hate this idea of protectionism and regulation on archinect.
Come off it, JLA. We both know neither side is in the right. So why even try and have a proper discourse. At the end of the day, there is always going to be single-sided arguments. It's kind of like trying to change a republicans opinions about obama-care.
firstly, jla-x, you;re too nice and you can't see that Rick+roll is playing you. She or he is playing the "both sides are wrong"card to regain your sympathy - because she or he knows where you stand. However, this guy or gal is without doubt pro-Zionist - she or he has proves it elsewhere. But, given the overt evidence of Israel's atrocities that she or he will not be able to justify...she or he resolves to the second best ploy so as to keep on demonizing the Palestinian side in the least/
Now ..about your post...jla-x, unfortunately the repellent incidents happening in Gaza at the hand of Israelis (you can check the civilian statistics yourself...and you can compare it to the Israeli civilian casualties to see who is deliberately targetting civilians) and the unfairness of the overall situation - and the general ignorance of Americans when it comes to the Middle East because of the bias of the media there as well as the support of your own government (yes, your money is complicit in the murder of these kids, i'm sorry to say) - compels me to bring this here and to ask Archinect to boycott Israel.
You might say, but what does this have to do with Archinect and architecture...topically speaking? What do musicians have to do topically with Israel? Artists, scientists, Steven Hawking, Nobel laureates, companies and firms around the world, the RIBA...etc etc? Yet, they boycott.
It is pointless to say that the Boycott Israel movement doesn't belong here because its not topical....the Boycott Israel belongs everywhere - all cultural, professional, business, communal enterprises and organizations as well as at the level of the individual- because this is a humanist peaceful movement to economically, militarily, logistically disable an ongoing genocide. I'm not telling Archinect to launch rockets at Israel for goodness's sake; I'm just inviting it to boycott that racist colony.
And there were a few posts here that touched on how planning policies are being used by that apartheid state of Israel to oppress, incarcerate and eventually eliminate the presence of Palestinians on their homeland.
Tammy, there you go again with the paranoia. No, I'm not any of those guys you think I am. They're probably at home drinking a beer without a care in the world. Why would I want to regain JLA's sympathy( in case you didn't notice my username is rick Troll) I could care less about what he thinks. Like I said I want some good old fashion architecture discussions to happen. I've never had to join because usually a quick search found me the answers I was looking for. Unfortunately, this keeps thread keeps popping back up.
I didn;t say you were the other guys, troll, I said there was an army of trolls. And you seem to be leading at the moment.
now, to jla-x ..."both sides are wrong" is tantamount to saying well, fine they are both morally equally culpable ...so their culpabilities cancel each other out, so whatever......without thinking about whose civilians are getting killed in a proportion of what..i'm guessing here but... 80 Palestinian civilians to 1 Israeli? how about proportion of children? 300 to 0?
saying "both sides are wrong" is tantamount to saying...well, both of their histories are as crappy and murderous as the other's. Is that really true? Did both sides colonize each others lands, have a long list of massacres training behind them, or being undertaken right now or being prepared for in the future? Did both sides starve each other off, turn the other side's water off, routinely assassinate people from the other side? Do they both humilate each other at their respective checkpoints, force each other's pregnant women to give birth htere? Do they both train their dogs to attack the other at the sound of a religious exclamation?
no, both sides are not "both wrong". this is an obfuscating, complicit, morally despicable claim that makes the weight of the feather in terms of guilt equal to the weight of a boulder.
"three or four individuals attacking incessantly (let me not count you in - i give you the credit of a doubt(is that the expression?) don;t just simultaneously withdraw and, at that time, another coincidental emergence of another group which is unusual in Archinect.........Now I'm expecting them to use a mixed technique. To disprove me. It would be the predictable next move."
there you go, another troll. troll no.2, this is the third time you bring this up. after some time, it just stops being effective and just is petty. Archinect, does this not qualify as spamming?
Archinect, please boycott Israel (its about time!)
Archinect, more reason to boycott Israeli architects?
Israeli architects must stop designing illegal settlements
ARC.PEACE has noted with dismay that Israeli architects engage in the design of illegal Jewish settlements on expropriated Palestinian land in the Occupied Territories. These activities are in clear violation of the code of ethics of the International Union of Architects (UIA) which says that “there shall be no attempt to impose solutions of one society on other societies” (article 1:2) and that professionals shall fashion an environment “expressive of the genius of the people abd reflective of the substance of their culture” (article 3).
TAMMUZ, your comments are written with almost feverish speed and desperation. There is such thing as politics and then there is something else, maybe deeper, maybe tinged with a sense of loss in your life. Your earlier posts (not related to middle eastern affairs) in which you muse about your career, your sadness and depression and your attitudes about the field of architecture in general point to this lack of something missing in your life. maybe when you come to terms with this you will find something else to obsess about.
I wish we can embed videos here like with pics, anyway, give this a listen
Boycott Israel - Immortal Technique, Don Martin, Tumi, Eltipo Este, Tonto Noiza (LYRICS)
GraduatedLicensure (source)
So my fellow Americans will probably be surprised to learn that the U.S. is more or less the only country in the world which has a favorable view of Israel.
Specifically, a 2012 BBC poll found that the U.S. and Nigeria were the only countries of those polled in which the majority of people had favorable views of Israel:
Sorry, that was 2012, Nigeria doesn't like Israel either in 2013
Same source as above (ok, only because its so predictable that its funny)
Older, White American Males Are Virtually the Only People In the World Who Unconditionally Support Israel
Even with the United States, there are only certain groups which support Israel.
A new poll by Pew this month shows that it is mainly Americans 50 years or older, males, conservatives and evangelicals who support Israel:
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Wasn't much of a cease fire. Sounds like Hamas used he opportunity to launch a bunch of rockets as soon as the sun set. Didn't the propaganda groups you're copying this from tell you that? Or is it not on-message yet to point out this is happening because Hamas doesn't want it to stop? They'll give you something to copy/paste pretty soon.
List of Palestinians Killed Between 7/8 and 7/27
Sunday July 27, 2014 14:02 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
This list is constantly updated due to the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza since July 8th. The following 859 names have been confirmed.
Woman who lost her family (image by Amnesty International)
We realize the number of slain Palestinians is higher than this. The Ministry of Health has stated that a total of 1,049 Palestinians have been killed, and 6,000 injured as of 14:38 pm Sunday July 27th, but we are still awaiting confirmation of some names.
This site, 'Beyond Numbers', has pictures of many of these victims.
Killed Sunday, July 27
Killed Saturday, July 26
Killed Friday, July 25
Killed Thursday, July 24
Killed Wednesday, July 23
Killed Tuesday, July 22
Killed Monday, July 21
Killed Sunday, July 20
Killed Saturday, July 19
Killed Friday, July 18
Killed Thursday, July 17
Killed Wednesday, July 16
Killed Tuesday, July 15
Killed Monday, July 14
Killed Sunday, July 13
Killed Saturday, July 12
Killed Friday, July 11
Killed Thursday, July 10
Killed Wednesday, July 9
Killed Tuesday, July 8
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Propoganda, you say? :
If you have ever visited a blog or on-line discussion group on the Middle East you have doubtless had the misfortune to run into them.
They are known by the language they use: depraved sexual insults, bile, bigotry, threats, disinformation and character assassination. That’s right: I’m talking about “hasbarats,” Zionist trolls who infect the Internet with hasbara, pro-Israel propaganda. Of course, mainstream media hasbarats have been around for decades, as have “hasbaratchiks,” fifth-columns in foreign governments who subvert national policies to serve Israel. The Internet, though, is the latest, some might say the greatest, propaganda playground, and Israel cannot cope with factual, passionate, well-documented stories that expose its war crimes and unrepentant criminality.
If you’ve come across a hasbarat, on-line or otherwise, you have learned that no amount of reasoned argument or intellectual maturity has any effect. That’s because hasbarats don’t care if they come across as ignorant, obnoxious, nasty or inane. All that matters for them is sabotaging criticism of Israel and support for Muslims. They’re like anti-intellectual stink bombs: designed to cause maximum discomfort but have little if any real power.
mes and unrepentant criminality.
Israel’s Internet War
by JONATHAN COOK
in Nazareth.
The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems.
Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel.
Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government’s line on the Middle East conflict
"Hasbara" courses at Israeli universities exposed in new report
Various Israeli academic institutions have introduced courses and programs on hasbara— the Hebrew-language term used to describe Israel’s attempts to re-brand its image as its occupation and military aggression makes it increasingly unpopular worldwide.
A new report from the Academic Watch Project shows that instead of promoting critical thought and inquiry, these courses at academic institutions serve to promote the policies of the State of Israel and the whitewashing of its crimes. The Academic Watch Project is a group of Palestinian students at Israeli academic institutions dedicated to exposing discrimination within Israeli academia and its connection with Israel’s military occupation and apartheid policies.
Interesting read: Portrait of a Hasbara Troll
Snippet:
In the immediate aftermath of the Israeli Navy’s massacre of 9 activists on the Mavi Marmara, I began a journalistic process of discrediting wild and fabricated claims by the Israeli Army Spokesman’s Unit about the incident. Around this time, when my blog began receiving unprecedented traffic, several hasbara trolls suddenly occupied my comments section. They have maintained a constant presence ever since, dragging the discussion into the gutter with propagandistic arguments and absurd personal attacks on me and other commenters — there isn’t much else to do when you are defending a country that behaves like Israel does.
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Israeli Propaganda and the Politics of Revenge against Gaza
England: Imams and Rabbis lead pro-Palestine march on Al Quds day
Archinect, do you support the death innocents, the deportation of an indigeneous population, mass oppression and persectution? If not, please boycott Israel.
Remember Operaction Cast Lead 2008 as well? 1400 dead and 300 children dead. And still America supports Israel.
Israel began “Operation Cast Lead” on December 27th 2008, which left some 1,400 Palestinians – largely civilians – dead, and wounded more than 5,000. The Israeli Army tried to excuse its attack on the Abuelaish household by claiming its soldiers believed militants were operating from the residence. The Israeli government never issued an apology or any of the promised compensation as a result of their mistake
ABC Manipulates Truth to Fit Pro-Israel Bias | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Professor Mads Gilbert: Suspicion that Gaza is being used to test new weaponry
Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked
Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past twenty-one days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. That is to be expected in a population of 1.8 million where the number of Hamas members is approximately 15,000. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.
Israel’s propaganda machine, however, insists that these Palestinians wanted to die (“culture of martyrdom”), staged their own death (“telegenically dead”) or were the tragic victims of Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes (“human shielding”). In all instances, the military power is blaming the victims for their own deaths, accusing them of devaluing life and attributing this disregard to cultural bankruptcy. In effect, Israel—along with uncritical mainstream media that unquestionably accept this discourse—dehumanizes Palestinians, deprives them even of their victimhood and legitimizes egregious human rights and legal violations.
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Rick + roll, you are a moron. It makes me sick to see people feel the need to pick a side as if this is a football game. Hamas bad Israel good...Israel bad Hamas good. Shut the fuck up already. Israel is killing innocent people and Hamas is attempting to do the same. Both are wrong. The people of both areas deserve better but its clear that the Palestinian people have it far worse. You cannot possibly deny that. Where would you feel more Safe? Since Israel is bigger and stronger than Hamas I would expect them to try and use restraint Their lack of restraint IMO makes them a complete shame to humanity. They also have way more power to broker a peace deal but they are unwilling to do so.
jla-x. it is very likely that this is Rick + roll's job. I'm not joking; I've made a reference here to trolls being employed to pedal Israel's side.
I've asked you to look at the even wider context - why is this going on, what is Gaza, who are the Palestinians, who are the Zionists- but you don't want to, jla-x.
anyway, watch this as well
How am I a moron? I just want archinect to return to its previous state. I'm not the only one who feels that way. Or am I?
That coming from a troll who only came here after this thread was started. Of course it would want Archinect to go back to its previous state - ie before any criticism of Israel ever surfaced.
Look, I'll be honest. I could give to shits about either side. Go ahead, keep killing each other. Your paranoia is hilarious, I guess that's what all hummus are lie, huh?
well, in that case you wouldn't mind me posting
UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
actually its a very touching speech and underlines the tragedies that the jews had to suffer at the hands of the nazis and the suffering the palestinians have to suffer at the hands of the israelis. again, i believe the jewish people have been victimized by Zionism - a ethno-nationalistic ideology alien to the jewish religion- after they were victimized by Nazism.
why do the Palestinians have to bear the brunt of the pathological outcomes of European racism?
I'd probably be able to take these right wing muslim extremist groups a little more seriously if they didn't sound so fucking tasty. To start I'd like some Tamil tiger prawns, for my main an al shabab with a side order of Hamas
That's not what you are arguing. To argue for archinect to return to its previous state is one thing, that's a valid argument, but to argue that it's ok to blow up kids so that you can win an argument with the goal of "returning archinect to its original state" is a far more disgusting and anti-intellectual thing to do. I would prefer to make fun of Patrick Schumacher and to talk about how stupid NCARB is, but this forum is not mine or yours. I wish Tammuz would frame this topic in a way more relevant to architecture/urbanism... There are architectural issues in here...I also wish he would look at this issue in a broader more anthropological/sociological way but that's his/her choice.
This is a democratic site and you can start a different thread if you want and out compete this one. Thought us Americans supported free press and democracy. I hate this idea of protectionism and regulation in the practice of architecture and I also hate this idea of protectionism and regulation on archinect.
Rick, holy shit. These extremist groups are fucking morons and their violent tactics are atrocious but this does not mean that Israel is any better.
Come off it, JLA. We both know neither side is in the right. So why even try and have a proper discourse. At the end of the day, there is always going to be single-sided arguments. It's kind of like trying to change a republicans opinions about obama-care.
firstly, jla-x, you;re too nice and you can't see that Rick+roll is playing you. She or he is playing the "both sides are wrong"card to regain your sympathy - because she or he knows where you stand. However, this guy or gal is without doubt pro-Zionist - she or he has proves it elsewhere. But, given the overt evidence of Israel's atrocities that she or he will not be able to justify...she or he resolves to the second best ploy so as to keep on demonizing the Palestinian side in the least/
Now ..about your post...jla-x, unfortunately the repellent incidents happening in Gaza at the hand of Israelis (you can check the civilian statistics yourself...and you can compare it to the Israeli civilian casualties to see who is deliberately targetting civilians) and the unfairness of the overall situation - and the general ignorance of Americans when it comes to the Middle East because of the bias of the media there as well as the support of your own government (yes, your money is complicit in the murder of these kids, i'm sorry to say) - compels me to bring this here and to ask Archinect to boycott Israel.
You might say, but what does this have to do with Archinect and architecture...topically speaking? What do musicians have to do topically with Israel? Artists, scientists, Steven Hawking, Nobel laureates, companies and firms around the world, the RIBA...etc etc? Yet, they boycott.
It is pointless to say that the Boycott Israel movement doesn't belong here because its not topical....the Boycott Israel belongs everywhere - all cultural, professional, business, communal enterprises and organizations as well as at the level of the individual- because this is a humanist peaceful movement to economically, militarily, logistically disable an ongoing genocide. I'm not telling Archinect to launch rockets at Israel for goodness's sake; I'm just inviting it to boycott that racist colony.
And there were a few posts here that touched on how planning policies are being used by that apartheid state of Israel to oppress, incarcerate and eventually eliminate the presence of Palestinians on their homeland.
Tammy, there you go again with the paranoia. No, I'm not any of those guys you think I am. They're probably at home drinking a beer without a care in the world. Why would I want to regain JLA's sympathy( in case you didn't notice my username is rick Troll) I could care less about what he thinks. Like I said I want some good old fashion architecture discussions to happen. I've never had to join because usually a quick search found me the answers I was looking for. Unfortunately, this keeps thread keeps popping back up.
I didn;t say you were the other guys, troll, I said there was an army of trolls. And you seem to be leading at the moment.
now, to jla-x ..."both sides are wrong" is tantamount to saying well, fine they are both morally equally culpable ...so their culpabilities cancel each other out, so whatever......without thinking about whose civilians are getting killed in a proportion of what..i'm guessing here but... 80 Palestinian civilians to 1 Israeli? how about proportion of children? 300 to 0?
saying "both sides are wrong" is tantamount to saying...well, both of their histories are as crappy and murderous as the other's. Is that really true? Did both sides colonize each others lands, have a long list of massacres training behind them, or being undertaken right now or being prepared for in the future? Did both sides starve each other off, turn the other side's water off, routinely assassinate people from the other side? Do they both humilate each other at their respective checkpoints, force each other's pregnant women to give birth htere? Do they both train their dogs to attack the other at the sound of a religious exclamation?
no, both sides are not "both wrong". this is an obfuscating, complicit, morally despicable claim that makes the weight of the feather in terms of guilt equal to the weight of a boulder.
"three or four individuals attacking incessantly (let me not count you in - i give you the credit of a doubt(is that the expression?) don;t just simultaneously withdraw and, at that time, another coincidental emergence of another group which is unusual in Archinect.........Now I'm expecting them to use a mixed technique. To disprove me. It would be the predictable next move."
You sure hinted at it.
No troll, I didn't make that assumption. I could care less of you're one or the Legion. But what is becoming clear is that you are troll/s.
A great woman whom I have admired for a long time
tammuz, it seems you are sad and confused, maybe even frustrated.
http://archinect.com/forum/thread/64743/my-point-of-view
there you go, another troll. troll no.2, this is the third time you bring this up. after some time, it just stops being effective and just is petty. Archinect, does this not qualify as spamming?
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