SPDF: Israeli defense minister promises to kill more civilians and threatens to nuke Iran

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-defense-minister-promises-kill-more-civilians-and-threatens-nuke-iran

***** SPDF: Why right-wing Christians are actively promoting genocide A leading Evangelical magazine is calling for the destruction of Islam. It's not the outlier we might like to think

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/why_right_wing_christians_are_actively_promoting_genocide_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

***** SPDF. Med Update. Houston, we have a problem.

At about 10:30 today they started me on normal solid foods. A normal, tasty breakfast. A normal, tasty lunch. A normal, tasty dinner. Since ending the hunger strike 2 weeks ago tomorrow I was extremely careful to be wise and informed regarding the process of gently enabling my body to switch from consuming itself to being able to consume food. In addition to the years of experience that I have with this, I did additional reading, and was sure that I was heading the advice quite well. And yet, as some of you know, whether related to the hunger strike or not, my body has been quite a disaster as it relates to my stomach and gastrointestinal tract since Saturday morning about 10 days ago. Friday night when the medical team inserted an NG tube in my nose was 8 days of four bouts of ever-increasing intense abdominal pain clearly a consequence of partial and then finally total bowel obstruction. Since Friday night, 6 days ago now the medical team has had me on IV fluids until about 2 days ago, then 2 days of clear liquids, and beginning this morning solid food. Their intention was to give my bowel the opportunity to totally totally totally decompress and our hope, our expectation, was that upon eating food as I begin this morning the problem would not reappear.

Well, it has totally reappeared. Despite being three times more careful than ever, eating extremely slowly, one meal over 2 hours, chewing extremely carefully and slowly, consuming plenty of liquids, avoiding high roughage food, taking great care to never reach the point of feeling full ... I have the same distension, the same early low level of pain, as has been characteristic of the prior four bouts beginning about 10 days ago.

My wonderful young nurse that has been with me most of the days called the medical team to inform them about 45 minutes ago and they are due to come examine me soon.

This is distressing, I admit it. And it is totally nothing in the scheme of things, Palestine, environmental Armageddon, the end of democracy.....

Yes, it is a great blessing that it is happening here at the hospital, and the medical team, surely they are due credit for keeping me this additional night in the event that there was something to see. Well, show number 5 has begun.

***** SPDF: WOW WOW WOW. SO THAT'S IT ABOUT CREATURES LIKE ME! HUH.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2015/05/04/shades-of-sensitivity/

SPDF: Malevolence can be the only possible motive for creating sonic booms over Gaza at the very time aid agencies, medics and other humanitarian aid workers are engaged in the monumental attempt to alleviate suffering in the blockaded territory.

http://chat2gaza.com/2015/05/01/gaza-a-living-nightmare-for-its-children/

SPDF: Israel's explanation for killing two journalists in Gaza? Palestinians aren't journalists, they're 'targets'

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/israels-explanation-for-killing-two-journalists-in-gaza-palestinians-arent-journalists-theyre-targets

SPDF Day 52-12: 'Indiscriminate' Killing in Gaza Was Top-Down War Plan, say Israeli Veterans | Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/04/indiscriminate-killing-gaza-was-top-down-war-plan-say-israeli-veterans

SPDF: Robert Reich: The Trans Pacific Partnership is a corporate hijacking

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/05/robert_reich_the_trans_pacific_partnership_is_trickle_down_economics_by_another_name_partner/

***** SPDF: Godly Jewish High schoolers riding Jerusalem's light rail speak only Arabic to focus attention on incidents in which people were attacked because of the language they spoke.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4653796,00.html?preview=true

***** SPDF: Max Blumenthal. As the Palestinians do today, Spanish Jews resisted oppression in tunnels and, exiled, clutched their keys

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/05/resisted-oppression-clutched

***** SPDF Download and open a report called "This is How We Fought in Gaza: Soldiers' testimonies and photographs from Operation 'Protective Edge' (2014)."

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.655059

***** SPDF: HA'ARETZ Whatever your politics, you should know this: These soldiers and the people of Breaking the Silence are Israeli patriots. They are advocating for Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.655059

***** SPDF Washington Post: New report details how Israeli soldiers killed civilians in Gaza: “There were no rules”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/05/04/israeli-soldiers-reveal-this-is-how-we-fought-in-gaza/

SPDF: chris Hedges, the liberal elite, Clinton led, betrayal of the American workers. video. 4 minutes.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Whah4cPYaLo

SPDF: Israeli Soldiers: “Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians In Gaza” “I think, deep inside, it bothered me a little. But after three weeks in Gaza, when you’re firing at everything that moves, and even things that don’t move, at a psychotic pace, you don’t really … good and bad get a little mixed up and your morality starts to get lost and you lose your compass. And it becomes like a computer game. Really, really cool and real.”

http://www.mintpressnews.com/israeli-soldiers-army-deliberately-targeted-civilians-in-gaza/205287/

SPDF: Israeli Soldiers Admit to Shooting Palestinians for ‘Fun’ in Gaza War

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150505/1021711335.html#ixzz3ZDKIbB6o

SPDF: 'Indiscriminate' Killing in Gaza Was Top-Down War Plan, say Israeli Veterans

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/04/indiscriminate-killing-gaza-was-top-down-war-plan-say-israeli-veterans

SPDF Day 52-11: Israeli soldiers describe 'losing their sense of morality' during the Gaza conflict Soldiers who took part in last year's Gaza conflict tell Breaking the Silence, an NGO run by former Israeli soldiers, that they were told "If you shoot someone in Gaza, it's cool, no big deal"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/gaza/11580539/Israeli-soldiers-describe-losing-their-sense-of-morality-during-the-Gaza-conflict.html

SPDF Day 52-11: Gunning for destruction in Gaza: ‘You want to see people in pieces’ 36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer’s Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.

http://972mag.com/gunning-for-destruction-in-gaza-you-want-to-see-people-in-pieces/106293/

SPDF Day 52-10: Full effort is full success, said Gandhi. The difference between the current outlook, future as hell, & a future worth living, is whether or not .......

Full effort is full success, said Gandhi. The difference between the current outlook, future as hell, & a future worth living, is whether or not 1, 2, 4, 8... people like you begin to truly live that out as did Gandhi, as did Martin Luther King jr., as did hundreds or thousands of '60's civil rights activists, as does Malala.... Currently, the epitaph on the human species will read millions paid lip service to full commitment and devotion, and virtually no one actually lived it. I judge no person. But I judge behavior, starting with my own, and unless and until we hold ourselves to the standard of the likes of Gandhi, King, Malala... There is no hope. When some of us do, & I would have no way of knowing whether you are, or are not, then we begin to create the possibility of some hope. Be well friend