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PressTV Gaza: ‘Israeli tanks can’t break Gaza resistance’
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:12:53 GMT
A Palestinian child looks at the rubble of an Israeli attack in Gaza.
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A top Iranian official says Tel Aviv is suffering from delusions of grandeur, adding that Israeli tanks cannot break the resistance of Gaza.
“Israel thinks it is more powerful than Arab states and other regional countries, while it has no weapon but the weapon of brutality,” said the Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who led the Friday Prayer in Tehran.
Citing that Hamas’s newly-developed home-made rockets are capable of destroying Israeli tanks and hit targets deep in the southern parts of the occupied territories, Rafsanjani said that Israel is covered with fear and enjoys no peace of mind.
Rafsanjani warns Israel against ground incursion.
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The senior cleric described Israel’s attack against the Gaza Strip as a ‘grave mistake’. He also warned against any Israeli ground incursion into the Strip, which he said would be repelled by Palestinian resistance.
Israel’s aerial attacks on the costal sliver have entered their seventh day, leaving over 425 Palestinians dead and 2,180 others wounded.
Resistance fighters have responded to Israel’s airstrikes by firing mortar shells and rockets into Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. Six Israelis have been killed and over a dozen have been injured since Saturday.
Tel Aviv, which used Palestinians’ rocket firing as a pretext to launch the war, later said that the main objective of the military operations is to topple the democratically-elected government of Hamas.
Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip say they fire rockets into Israel in retaliation for the blockade and the daily attacks carried out against them. Tel Aviv imposed a blockade on the strip after the movement took over Gaza in mid-June 2007.
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Hizbollah: Hamas Acquires Rockets Capable of Reaching Dimona
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02/01/2009 The Israeli defense establishment has expressed growing concerns Hamas missiles may pose a threat to its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona, the UK’s London Times reported Friday. The report quoted Israeli officials as saying that Hamas has acquired dozens of Iranian-made Fajr-3 missiles and that the more sophisticated weaponry will bring the nuclear installation in Dimona, some 20 miles east of Beersheba, into its rocket range. Dimona houses Israel’s only nuclear reactor and is believed to be where nuclear warheads are stored. “Operation Case Lead” has seen Hamas capable of shelling the southern cities of Ashdod and Beersheba – 18 and 25 miles away from the Gaza Strip. As for Hamas’ actual capabilities, prior to the onset of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin said that “Hamas’ military wing is ready for a prolonged military conflict with Israel. It has improved it long-range fire capabilities, and may even reach Beersheba.” The extensive bombardment of the southern metropolitan has proven his prediction true.
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Ahmadinejad delivers Xmas message
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:44:04 GMT
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broadcast a Christmas Day message on Britain’s Channel 4 television at 7:15 p.m. GMT.
He congratulated all the followers of Abrahamic faiths, particularly the followers of Jesus Christ, and the people of Britain on the auspicious birth anniversary of Jesus Christ. The following is a translated version of the full text delivered by the Iranian president:
In the name of God the Compassionate the Merciful.
On this anniversary of the birth of Jesus, son of Mary, the word of God, the messenger of mercy. I would like to congratulate the followers of Abrahamic faiths, especially the followers of Jesus Christ, and the people of Britain.
Pope puts stress on ‘gay threat’
Pope Benedict has called for “an ecology of the human being.”
Pope Benedict XVI has said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.
He explained that defending God’s creation is not limited to saving the environment, but also protecting man from self-destruction.
The pope was delivering his end-of-year address to senior Vatican staff.
His words, later released to the media, emphasised his total rejection of gender theory.
Pope Benedict XVI warned that gender theory blurs the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the “self-destruction” of the human race.
Gender theory
Gender theory explores sexual orientation, the roles assigned by society to individuals according to their gender, and how people perceive their biological identity.
If tropical forests deserve our protection, humankind… deserves it no less
Pope Benedict XVI
Gay and transsexual groups, particularly in the United States, promote it as a key to understanding and tolerance, but the pope disagreed.
When the Roman Catholic Church defends God’s Creation, “it does not only defend the earth, water and the air… but (it) also protects man from his own destruction,” the pope said.
“If tropical forests deserve our protection, humankind… deserves it no less,” the 81-year-old pontiff said, calling for “an ecology of the human being.”
It is not “outmoded metaphysics” to urge respect for the “nature of the human being as man and woman,” he told scores of prelates gathered in the Vatican’s sumptuous Clementine Hall.
The Catholic Church opposes gay marriage. It teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are.
‘Rock festival’
The pope uses his traditional end-of-year speech to offer his Christmas greetings and say a few words about what he considers the important issues of the day.
This year, Pope Benedict also deplored the tendency to depict the Catholic church’s World Youth Day, which he attended in Sydney earlier this year, as mere spectacle.
He stressed that the event should not be considered a “variant of modern youth culture, as a kind of ecclesiastical rock festival with the Pope as the star,” but as the fruition of a “long exterior and interior path”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7796663.stm
Haaretz & others Israeli Livni: “No place for Arabs in Israel after a Palestinian state is established”
Livni: “No place for Arabs in Israel after a Palestinian state is established”
Thursday December 11, 2008 23:37
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies 
The Middle East Online reported on Thursday that Israeli Foreign Minister, president-elect of the Kadima party, Tzipi Livni, stated on Thursday that Arabs in Israel will not have any place in the Jewish state after a Palestinian state in established.
The statements of Livni were considered an exposed project for massive transfer of all Palestinians from their homeland.
In a meeting with high school students at a Tel Aviv school, Livni said that “after a Palestinian state in established, we can tell the Arabs ‘you have equal rights in the Jews in Israel, but the national solution for you is in a different place’, the principle here is two states for two peoples”.
The Israeli Army Radio repeated the statements of Livni in its broadcast.
Pal. report: Palestinian Fighters Clash With Israeli Military in Eastern Gaza Dec 11
Palestinian Fighters Clash With Israeli Military in Eastern Gaza
Thursday December 11, 2008 12:01 by Rami Almeghari – IMEMC&Agencies A group of Palestinian fighters clashed, late Wednesday night, with Israeli soldiers near the Johr Eldeik village in eastern Gaza Strip, a press release revealed.
In a joint press statement, emailed to media outlets, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Saraya Alquds brigades of the Islamic Jihad, declared responsibility for an armed clash with an Israeli military force in eastern Gaza yesterday night. The statement read that a group of fighters spotted the Israeli force just close to the border fence with Gaza and then opened fire at it, hitting soldiers directly.
“Such a clash with the Israeli occupation troops is a part of the Palestinian resistance’s ongoing response to the Israeli army attacks on the Palestinian people”, the statement explained. No other sources verified the report. The Gaza-based resistance factions resumed, in November, homemade shell fire into nearby Israeli towns, in response to an Israeli army attack on Gaza that claimed the lives of six Hamas fighters.
The resumption of violence in the region has threatened a six-month Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal that is expected to come to an end by December 19.
India rules out war against Pakistan Presstv
India rules out war against Pakistan
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:43:19 GMT
India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee
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India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee rules out a military action against Pakistan amid tensions over last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai.
“That is no solution,” Mukherjee said Thursday during the parliament session in New Delhi. He was replying to an angry lawmaker who asked why India was not attacking Pakistan after so much proof of its complicity in fomenting trouble in India.
Mukherjee emphasized India expected decisive action from Pakistan to crack down on militants operating on its soil. “We have also pointed out that their denial is not going to resolve the issue,” he said.
His remarks come two weeks after coordinated attacks in Mumbai which the US and Indian intelligence reports have blamed on the Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
India has demanded that Pakistan hand over 40 people it believes were involved in attacks on Indian soil and other serious crimes. It had previously demanded the hand over of 20 suspected militants.
Meanwhile, Islamabad has intensified its crackdown on Lashkar-e-Taiba but says will not hand over any of its citizens to India. It also denies any involvement in the raids that left 171 people dead and 294 wounded.
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry Chief Rehman Malik said Islamabad was still waiting for evidence from India proving Pakistani nationals were involved in the attacks.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78143§ionid=351020402
