GUERRA EN GAZA - PALESTINA LIBRE! - en ingles - Y 2 ARTICULOS EN ESPANIOL AL FINAL:

http://www.channel4.com/news/gaza-israel-killing-salem-shamaly-shujaiya-inside-story

https://www.youtube.com/verify_controversy?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DsBakqLUBWP0%26feature%3Dyoutu.be%26bpctr%3D1408216455

You can shoot' - was Gaza killing a war crime?

On 20 July Salem Shamaly went looking for injured members of his family in Shujaiya, a densely populated suburb in the eastern part of Gaza City.
During his search the 23-year-old, also known as "man in the green shirt", was fatally shot as he strayed into the sights of an apparent Israeli sniper.
Today, a former Israeli soldier has told Channel 4 News he can shed light on what happened.
Eran Efrati left the army in 2008. He is now an activist who has sought to expose Israeli military transgressions.
He told Channel 4 News he has taken testimony from soldiers who were there when Shamaly was shot.
Mr Efratri said: "These soldiers are deciding on a theoretical red line that nobody can pass. You can be killed for crossing this line. There is a video of a man looking for his family. Two soldiers ask if it is ok to shoot him."
He described what happened next: "The sniper is getting into position - he is asking his offcer, three, times 'when can I shoot him?'
"The officer tells them 'wait, wait, we need the man in the green shirt to cross the red line'.

'Revenge attack'

"The third time the officers tell him, 'you can shoot'.
"He shoots two more bullets into his body and kills him."
Mr Efrati confirmed: "I heard this testimony from three soldiers."
He added: "They were completely convinced that what they did was wrong. They were guilty. The man in the green shirt was not any threat to their lives.
"The officer allowed this revenge attack in the middle of Gaza."

Thursday 07 August 2014 Israel

'You can shoot' - was Gaza killing a war crime

Salem Shamaly was shot as he picked through the rubble of Gaza two weeks ago. Channel 4 News reveals the shocking inside story from the Israeli unit on the ground.

On 20 July Salem Shamaly went looking for injured members of his family in Shujaiya, a densely populated suburb in the eastern part of Gaza City.
During his search the 23-year-old, also known as "man in the green shirt", was fatally shot as he strayed into the sights of an apparent Israeli sniper.
Today, a former Israeli soldier has told Channel 4 News he can shed light on what happened.
Eran Efrati left the army in 2008. He is now an activist who has sought to expose Israeli military transgressions.
He told Channel 4 News he has taken testimony from soldiers who were there when Shamaly was shot.
Mr Efratri said: "These soldiers are deciding on a theoretical red line that nobody can pass. You can be killed for crossing this line. There is a video of a man looking for his family. Two soldiers ask if it is ok to shoot him."
He described what happened next: "The sniper is getting into position - he is asking his offcer, three, times 'when can I shoot him?'
"The officer tells them 'wait, wait, we need the man in the green shirt to cross the red line'.

'Revenge attack'

"The third time the officers tell him, 'you can shoot'.
"He shoots two more bullets into his body and kills him."
Mr Efrati confirmed: "I heard this testimony from three soldiers."
He added: "They were completely convinced that what they did was wrong. They were guilty. The man in the green shirt was not any threat to their lives.
"The officer allowed this revenge attack in the middle of Gaza."

'Are you sure you have the whole story?'

Channel 4 News has been unable to independently verify the video or Mr Efrati's claims.
In response, Israeli spokesman Mark Regev said: "I would urge that if anyone has information that is relevant, they come forward... Obviously if there are allegations of misbehaviour by Israeli soldiers, they must be investigated. We can't rely on hearsay from political activists."
When questioned over whether it was appropriate for the army to investigate itself over incidents like this, he responded: "That's what happens in all Nato forces, that's what happens if there are complaints about UK soldiers or French soldiers. Do you expect Israel to be held to a separate standard than anyone else?"
He also said there should be caution over YouTube videos.
"We're not sure we have the whole story. Are you sure you have the whole story?" he added.
The video footage
In the footage which was first released on 21 July, filmed by activists from the International Solidarity Movement, Salem Shamaly, is seen being shot three times. The third bullet kills him.
Earlier on the same day Shujaiya was the scene of a Hamas attack on an Israeli armoured personnel carrier which resulted in the deaths of seven soldiers from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF).

The attack was followed by an intense period of bombardment in the suburb. Building after building was reduced to ruins. Today, residents began returning to their homes. A ceasefire is holding but is due to expire on Friday morning.

http://www.thomaswictor.com/gaza-sniper-video-definitively-debunked/

Fake Gaza sniper video definitively debunked

July 27, 2014 by Thomas Wictor

On July 21, 2014, I wrote a post titled “A fake atrocity video from Gaza,” referring to a hoax that accused an Israeli Defense Forces sniper of shooting a Palestinian civilian three times until he died. The video is entirely bogus. Last night an Irish Twitter user named Voodoo Criminology sent me a link to an
NBSNBC News report that showed more lies in the form of the retrieval and burial of Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly, the sniper’s victim. I wrote a piece titled “Update on phony Gaza sniper video” that pointed out even more fraudulence that I discovered when I watched the original video again. Today I will definitively debunk the fake Gaza sniper video.
First I have to admit that I was extremely angry when I wrote last night’s piece. Today I removed the profanity and a tasteless joke. I’m angry because I can’t deal with irrationality. The most virulent Israel-haters in the world are the Irish. Since I was nearly murdered by the Irish Republican Army in the Regent’s Park bombing of July 20, 1982, it’s hard for me to put up with being lectured on morality by an Irishman.
You know what else? Nobody understands what it’s like to miss a terrorist attack by a couple of minutes. Even worse, nobody wants to understand. They aren’t interested in how it makes you fearful of even going outside your house. The only thing that matters to most people, apparently, is that Israel is defending herself. You wouldn’t believe the pressure I’m under to stop debunking Palestinian fakery. Even people who call themselves my friends disapprove.
My deepest paranoia was that everyone in the world was insane. It sure seems like it now. Maybe I’ll move to Israel. I wouldn’t mind being targeted with rockets and missiles, as long as I lived among the rational.
Anyway, here’s is the definite proof that Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly was not shot by an Israeli sniper on July 20, 2014. I found this proof today, after the Irish Twitter lunatic sent me a message.

The man is irrational, so I won’t insult him. He believes what he believes because he hates Jews. Recently a woman friended me on Facebook for the express purpose of assaulting me. After three e-mail exchanges, she began insulting my viewpoints and demanding that I explain myself. The subject was the deaths of my parents and my traumatic background. What I write presses her buttons, so she had to punish me.
Like Voodoo Criminology, she’s irrational. The late psychiatrist Dr. David Viscott said that the sicker people are, the more generic they become. Those who have idées fixe use a standard “debating” technique, to which Voodoo Criminology and my new Facebook “friend” subjected me: They ignore or distort everything you say, and then they respond with “I’m just _______.”
“I’m just asking questions. I’m just trying to help your investigations. I’m just trying to give you advice.”
The most savage personal attacks always contain sentences that begin with “I’m just.” It’s the “tell” that the person knows they’re out of line but don’t care. Their goal is to inflict damage because you don’t share their sickness. And believe me, they’re sick. They’re generic, which means they’re massively pathological.

Gaza sniper video

To recap from last night, two pieces of evidence show that this video is staged. One is that the shadows change. We go from midday to late afternoon in five seconds. I’ve used red arrows to mark the shadows of a pipe on a concrete pillar.

The image on the right is part of an unedited length of tape that ends with the “shooting” of Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly. As you can see, the image on the left was taken much later. Although the sun is no longer directly overhead, less than five seconds separate the time of day captured in the image on the left and in the image on the right, according to the International Solidarity Movement.
This alone is proof that the video is fake, but there’s much more.
The Palestinians claim that Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly was shot from the alley on the right. However, where he’s lying, he’s out of the line of fire from down the alley.

The image on the left was taken from video shot at a much lower angle than the image on the right. With the steel pot as a reference point, I’ve used a red line and a red “X” to mark the approximate place that Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly would be lying. His position would be blocked by the telephone pole and the wall of the alley itself.
Also, see the green arrow in the photo above? It identifies a piece of rusted metal that you can see in this image, marked with another green arrow.

The picture was taken with a telephoto lens, which compresses distances. Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly is lying far beyond that rusted metal. He’s a least six or seven feet (two meters) from it. The position of that piece of metal confirms that he’s out of the line of fire from the alley, which proves that he wasn’t shot as he lay on the ground. A sniper firing down the alley couldn’t have hit him.
Now I’ll show you where he was when the first “shot” that “hit” him was fired.

These chairs are last seen at 2:17 in the video. Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly is standing beside them, talking.
“There’s something moving; it’s taking its time, strolling in the place, taking its time. A tank or…”
The camera keeps filming, panning to the right. There’s no edit, and nobody moves forward until the first “shot” is fired at Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly. This happens at 2:22.

Since there was no edit, and since nobody moved from where they were at 2:17, we can all agree that Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly was standing beside those chairs when he was shot. That’s what the video evidence shows. Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly is talking, we see the chairs, the camera pans to the right, nobody moves forward, and then the shot is fired.
Well, here’s the location of the chairs.

I’ve marked them with a red arrow. As you can see, they’re nowhere near the alley. The only way an Israeli could’ve hit Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly from the alley would’ve been with a Corner Shot.

But then everyone would’ve seen him, and the photographer and videographer would’ve caught him on film. The International Solidarity Movement and Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly’s family insist that he was killed by a sniper firing down the alley.
It’s not true. The video is self-debunking. It provides the forensic evidence need to prove that it’s fake.
Thank you, Voodoo Criminology, for giving me the impetus to take closer looks at this baseless fraud.

Update

The things you see when you’re looking for something else.
After I posted the photo of the fine rear end above, I realized something: The band of actors actually crossed the alley first, turned around, and then came back and staged the death of Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly (SKSS from now on).
You can tell because they first jumped over the square pillar and pipe.

I’ve marked the pipe with red arrows. Also, SKSS wasn’t with them. The first “gunshot” is heard at :59. And lookee here! This is the screen at :59.

 

Didn’t notice that the first few times around. After that white screen, SKSS has joined the alley-sniper chicken players. Also, there’s an edit at 1:15 that I didn’t catch before.

Since I now had all the components, I was able to make an in-scale collage of SKSS’s tragic non-death scene.

There they are: the alley wall, the telephone pole, the rusted metal thingie, the steel pot, and SKSS. He’s clearly out of the line of fire of a sniper down the alley. Also, now that you can see the wall, it’s obvious that SKSS’s pals could’ve pulled him to safety without endangering themselves. All he had to do was reach out the arm holding the fake-blood container.
The concerned members of the International Solidarity Movement made a couple of refinements to the set. Initially there was lots of rubble where SKSS would lie. So to speak.

They cleared away the big pieces before he went supine. See how flat and comfortably he’s lying? So to speak.

And finally, can you spot the difference between the photo on the left and the one on the right?

Who brought the brightly colored plastic shopping bag stuffed full of goodies? It wasn’t there when our ladyfriend with the nice bottom clambered over the cement pillar earlier. Was it SKSS’s reward for being such a fine corpse?
I now believe that this video was filmed over several days.
What do you think are the odds that the International Solidarity Movement will turn all their video over to the Israeli Defense Forces for analysis?

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LA VIDA y LA MUERTE
Por SALVADOR  SOSTRES - EL MUNDO, ESPAÑA


Son demagogia los cadáveres que se le imputan al ejército de Israel por
 sus labores de defensa de estos días. Primero porque mientras los
Estados civilizados y libres protegen a sus ciudadanos, las tribus
bárbaras los usan de escudos humanos para poder presumir luego de
muertos, que es lo único que saben hacer los palestinos. Lo único que
han hecho durante todo este tiempo.
Por supuesto que la guerra entre Israel y Palestina no es una guerra entre
 iguales.
 Primero porque Israel siempre ha defendido la construcción de un
 Estado para los palestinos, una vez que la seguridad de Israel
 estuviera garantizada por el compromiso pacífico de los palestinos. En
 los textos fundacionales de Hamas no se reclama ni una sola vez el
 Estado palestino y, en cambio, hasta en siete ocasiones se llama a
 acabar con Israel y a lanzar a los judíos al mar.

 No es una guerra entre iguales, pero no porque los israelís tengan
 tanques y los palestinos sólo tengan piedras, sino porque el proyecto
 de Israel es de vida y el de Palestina es de muerte. Sólo hay que ver
 cómo cada comunidad cuida de su tierra. Sólo hay que ver cómo Israel
 protege a sus ciudadanos y Palestina los expone para salir ganadora en
 el recuento de cadáveres.
 Sólo hay que ver cómo
 Israel entierra con recogimiento y con dolor a sus muertos y Palestina
 los exhibe entre fanáticos y tiroteos como si fueran medallas.
 Si Palestina se comprometiera a no atacar nunca más a Israel, Israel no tendría
 ninguna necesidad de defenderse y desocuparía los territorios
 ocupados, y ella misma derribaría el muro -que no es un muro, es un
 biombo- porque ya no tendría que protegerse de los cohetes de los
 terroristas palestinos.


A Palestina no le interesa la paz porque no sabría qué hacer con ella, porque jamás
 alrededor del Islam ha florecido una sociedad democrática, próspera y
 libre. A Palestina no le interesa un Estado porque su única obsesión
 es eliminar Israel. Arafat no era la solución, era el problema.


Los cadáveres son los que los palestinos quieren que haya, la guerra durará mientras Palestina quiera que dure, y mientras Palestina use de carnaza a sus ciudadanos
 no puede quejarse cuando luego consigue sus objetivos. A Israel no se
 le puede negar el derecho de defenderse porque sería negarle su
 derecho a existir.


No es una guerra de religiones, ni de territorios, ni de hermanos que se odian.
 Es una guerra entre vida y muerte, entre la civilización y la selva, entre Occidente y la
 destrucción de Occidente. Es una guerra entre tu estilo de vida libre
 y sus dictaduras terroristas. Es una guerra entre el bien y el mal.
 Israel es un dique de contención contra la barbarie. Y ya que están aguantando por todos nosotros, defendiendo la vida y la libertad, lo mínimo que
 podríamos hacer es idejarles de insultar.

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Si nada de lo que hacemos logra cambiar la opinión que tiene el mundo sobre nosotros, entonces quizás deberíamos comenzar a preocuparnos menos sobre el tema.

por Ezra Aranso

Nuevamente Israel está en guerra. Y nuevamente los daños del conflicto se ven agravados por las ofensas de la tendenciosa prensa mundial y por la sesgada respuesta de la comunidad internacional.

Por lo tanto, nuevamente los israelíes —junto con sus hermanos judíos de todas partes del mundo— se encuentran rechinando sus dientes por la exasperante injusticia de tener que defenderse por estar defendiéndose.

Y la verdad es que es exasperante. Pero hay algo más que me molesta sobre esto; algo que va más allá de la profunda ignorancia de la verdad, de la selección selectiva de hechos y de las impresionantemente torcidas comparaciones; lo que me molesta es algo que me fue muy difícil identificar.

Verán, mi fe en la humanidad siempre me forzó a creer que el sesgo de los medios de comunicación, o al menos la mayor parte de éste, no era producto de un desenfrenado antisemitismo. Quizás estaba siendo inocente, pero creía que este sesgo era un síntoma de la clásica simpatía por el débil, la cual es una debilidad humana sumamente entendible que en algún punto de la historia se había transformado en toda una escuela de periodismo. El más débil no puede hacer daño. Ser fuerte es sinónimo de estar equivocado. Es el mismo sentimiento que afirma que un asesino en serie adolescente no tiene la culpa porque “es sólo un niño”.

Puede que esta debilidad periodística sea entendible —especialmente como una alternativa a la acusación del antisemitismo—, pero implica una desconcertante ironía: ¿Por qué ahora?

Durante diecinueve siglos los judíos fuimos vistos como el más débil. No teníamos tierra, ni ejército, ni gobierno, y ni siquiera teníamos la salvadora gracia de la proximidad geográfica unos de otros. Y durante esa época, fuimos atacados por prácticamente todos los bravucones de la historia. Puedes elegir cualquier imperio; hemos sido perseguidos por todos. Lanza un dardo a un mapa de Europa; caiga donde caiga, probablemente hemos sido expulsados de allí. Pero a pesar de todo, contábamos con el firme y rotundo apoyo de…. nadie.

Ahora, después de casi dos milenios de ser pisoteados continuamente por las naciones del mundo, finalmente —¡finalmente!— hemos logrado salir un poco a flote. Tenemos una pequeña porción de tierra, un gobierno que a veces es funcional y un respetable ejército. Y ahora, la gente ilustrada se levanta y declara: “¿Saben a quién hay que prestarle atención? Al más débil”.

Realmente nos habría sido útil esta actitud en el pasado. Habría sido sumamente útil que los periódicos mostrasen en portada las condiciones del Gueto de Varsovia, o que se hiciera un reportaje especial para la BBC sobre las comunidades que fueron destruidas por las cruzadas, o que el New York Times hablara sobre cuando casi un millón de judíos fueron expulsados de los países árabes a principios del siglo veinte (una desconocida crisis de refugiados del Medio Oriente).

Tenemos mala prensa cuando somos fuertes. Y tenemos mala prensa cuando somos débiles.

Así que tenemos mala prensa cuando somos fuertes. Y tenemos mala prensa cuando somos débiles. Tenemos mala prensa cuando hacemos algo, y tenemos mala prensa cuando no hacemos nada. Es difícil escapar de la conclusión de que no importa qué hagamos, siempre obtendremos como resultado una mala prensa. Si el Estado de Israel lograra enviar con éxito al primer hombre a Marte, la prensa mundial condenaría inmediatamente la acción por “expansionismo territorial” y la ONU rápidamente propondría una solución de dos planetas.

Puede que sea hora de considerar que si nada de lo que hacemos cambia la opinión del mundo sobre nosotros, entonces quizás deberíamos comenzar a preocuparnos menos de la opinión del mundo. Obviamente no por completo, ya que no podemos ignorar de forma absoluta esta injusticia y debemos protestar acordemente. Pero algunos de nosotros nos hemos visto tan consumidos por el enojo con la prensa que a veces parecemos estar más enojados con la BBC que con Hamás.

La rabia que sentimos estos días con la prensa y con la opinión mundial se debe principalmente a un sentimiento de traición; después de todo, queremos creer que el New York Times y la BBC serán fieles a sus valoradas reputaciones periodísticas, especialmente cuando se trata de hablar de las cosas que más nos importan. Es sumamente amargo y molesto ver que los hechos son tergiversados de esa manera por aquellos que se presentan a sí mismos como los guardianes imparciales de la verdad.

La necesidad de alimentar nuestra ira por este sentimiento de traición es entendible, pero al fin y al cabo es fútil. Ningún medio de comunicación va a convencernos de que estamos mal, y es altamente improbable que algo de lo que hagamos cambie la opinión de algún medio de comunicación. Es un callejón sin salida, por lo que enojarnos por esto sólo sirve para distraernos de los verdaderos peligros.

 

Debemos enfocarnos en lo que sabemos que es correcto, independientemente de lo que digan los demás.

Debemos defendernos. Sabemos que es así. Debemos apoyar a nuestras tropas para que tengan éxito en su misión y logren hacer que la tierra sea más segura para nosotros y para nuestros hijos. Eso es lo que importa.

Los enemigos aquí son quienes nos lanzan misiles, no quienes nos envían tweets.