Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked

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by Ras Radio on July 29, 2014 at 5:50 pm
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Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here’s what you need to know about these talking points and more. The Nation Noura Erakat July 25, 2014 Smoke from an Israeli strike rises over the Gaza Strip. (AP, Hatem Moussa) 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 Read More [...]
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Santa Ana PD Caught on Camera, Brutalizing a Man….Again

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by Ras Radio on July 29, 2014 at 4:28 pm
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The Free Thought Project Cassandra Rules July 28, 2014 No strangers to brutality, Santa Ana PD have been up to no good yet again; and like before- its been captured on video. Surveillance footage from June 20th shows vicious officers savagely beating 27 year old Edgar Vargas Arzate as he is held face down on the ground, having been chased and surrendered, for suspicion of burglary. In the video, we see the young man put his hands up and lay down on the ground before being attacked and punched by an officer in the back repeatedly, as more officers rush over to hold him down, and another bully cop beats his legs with a baton. “He (the officer) started hitting him hard, with anger, Read More [...]
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Pennsylvania Cops Single Out Man with Camera, Ordering him Away from Police Abuse Incident

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by Ras Radio on July 29, 2014 at 3:58 pm
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photographyisnotacrime.comBy Carlos Miller Police in Pennsylvania singled out a man video recording them after they body slammed a drunk man to the sidewalk, ordering him to walk away, accusing him of impeding the sidewalk, while not batting an eye for countless other people walking through their scene. If anybody was impeding the sidewalk, it was the Harrisburg Police Department, who not only body slammed the man to the sidewalk, but then crowded around his motionless, handcuffed body waiting for paramedics to tend to his wounds. The cops then impeded on the man’s right to record the scene by forcing him to walk away. The video doesn’t capture the initial body slam, but Read More [...]
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It Turns Out Hamas May Not Have Kidnapped and Killed the 3 Israeli Teens After All [Updated]

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by Ras Radio on July 29, 2014 at 3:51 pm
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NYMag.com By Katie Zavadski Photo: Mohamed Farag/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesWhen the bodies of three Israeli teenagers, kidnapped in the West Bank, were found late last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mince words. "Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay," he said, initiating a campaign that eventually escalated into the present conflict in the region. But now, Israeli officials admit the kidnappings were not Hamas's handiwork after all. (Update: The comments from the Israeli spokesperson in question indicate that the group thought to be responsible, a "lone cell," may not have been under direct orders from Hamas's leadership, but was loosely affiliated Read More [...]
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Governments from Around the World Admit They Carry Out False Flag Terror

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by Ras Radio on July 29, 2014 at 1:01 pm
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July 7, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog Painting by Anthony Freda Governments from around the world admit they carry out false flag terror: A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Read More [...]
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