Iran is manipulating the oil market

Iran buys oil stocks. Then they fire some missiles and oil price goes up. Then it comes up the launch was a fake but they already sold their stocks.

A senior US officer said Iran didn’t fire long-range missiles, as it had claimed on Wednesday. The photos were doctored. However, the Iranians aren’t stupid enough to publish a doctored picture, they did it on purpose to relieve the international pressure. It doesn’t matter to them whether their missiles can actually fly, as long as they can control the oil price. If Iran wants to attack Israel they have much better means: Hezbollah and Hamas.

2 Sudanese shot dead on Egypt-Israel border

Egyptian police shot dead two Africans, one a seven-year-old girl, in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday as they tried to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security official said.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVNKGkhM22M_yGgGlN3Gts_nqa9A

Palestinians break the ceasefire

At least two rockets landed today in Sderot. Islamic Jihad took responsibility and said it’s a revenge for the killing of two of its members in the West Bank, which is not part of the truce.

This is not a surprise, Hamas PM said earlier that they’re not responsible for other terrorist organizations’ activities, and they will continue smuggling arms into Gaza.

I wonder whether there’s a document both sides signed, because each side tells almost opposite things about the agreement. And which of all the Palestinian terror organizations signed it? Was it just Hamas, in a bid to portray itself as the sole ruler of Gaza and to fool the enemy?

BBC: London summit on Jewish refugees

Jewish groups from around the world are meeting in London to highlight the plight of Jews who left their homes in Arab nations after Israel was founded.

The amount of Jews that emigrated from Arab lands is equal to the number of Arabs who emigrated from Israel. While Jewish refugees were accepted as equals in then poor and war-torn Israeli society, rich Arab kings placed the Arab refugees in camps and started calling them Palestinians. This is the root of the conflict, the creation of a people that are united only by hatred and mistreatment by other peoples.

Jews are united by a similar force, and look how successful we are. But fear is not the only thing that unites us. There’s also a unique religion, consolidated societies, Jewish values and traditions. No matter how much the Arab world will mistreat the Palestinian refugees, they won’t become as successful as Jews in the near future. Only the survival of centuries of persecution can make a people as strong as Jews. I wish the Palestinians to have a better future.

Log of humanitarian assistance reveals that there’s no “Gaza siege”

Total Supplies to Gaza, according to the Unit of Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (link), from June 16, 2007 to June 15, 2008: 24,375 trucks; 579,491 tons. That’s about 1kg/day per capita. So was Jimmy Carter’s “starvation” speech based on reality? You should also count Hamas attacks on the border crossings in the above log.

If people in Gaza suffered from hunger, would they have a fertility rate of 5.5? No matter how much aid they get, they make more children than they can sustain and then BBC writes “Nai’ma can no longer afford to feed her 10 children“.

They should acknowledge that they are getting their food and focus on what they are not getting: permits to go abroad, permits to visit Israeli hospitals, work permits in Israel, import and export of other goods, etc. They will always be dependent on Israel for most of their import and export (they grow great strawberries), and they should not try to besiege themselves by attacking the crossings.

Hamas and its likes are creating the appearance of a humanitarian crisis on purpose.

Hamas and Fatah are working together to create a humanitarian crisis in Gaza

In one hour on Tuesday morning, members of the Hamas military wing fired 20 mortar rounds towards a border crossing used to pump fuel into Gaza.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7445725.stm

Remember the truck bomb at Erez humanitarian crossing? Fatah claimed responsibility for the attempted truck bomb attack on Erez. The bomber was a 23 year old man from Jabalya refugee camp. These camps are an abomination, why do Palestinians keep Palestinians in refugee camps? PA should spend their budget on improving people’s lives rather than buying more weapons from rich smugglers.

Do the Palestinian leaders want peace? Do they want the humanitarian help they receive? I know that their people want both, but their leaders are determined they don’t get anything, all in order to make the people fight a useless and desperate war against Israel.

BBC bias example #1

Since many people claim that BBC favors Israel I’ll post some examples to show the opposite.
Here’s one:
Two dead in Gaza-Israel attacks
Main Middle East page text: A Palestinian girl is killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza launched after militants killed a civilian on an Israeli farm, medics say
This is impartial as far as I can judge, both sides’ actions are clearly cited. What’s omitted is why each side did what they did.

Inside the article, a bold text says A young Palestinian girl has been killed by an Israeli shell in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said.. No mention of Israeli casualties. They are mentioned later (reminds me of “small text at the bottom” in advertisements). There’s an explanation of the IDF attack however: it targeted the area from where the mortar shelling took place. By the way, Palestinians fired 3 mortars on the same area – a factory – and the workers didn’t have an alarm to warn them.

The most important news that BBC conveniently forgot to post, is that Hamas took responsibility for the fatal shelling.
Also no mention of Kassam rocket attack a week ago that wounded some people.
No mention of Ban Ki-Moon condemning Palestinians and Israelis. He should only condemn Israel if he wants someone to hear him.

Update: Gaza family wasn’t killed by Israeli fire

Here’s a footage shot by Israeli drone during the attack:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3538733,00.html
Too bad the attack had to take place in dense residential area. Why can’t Hamas attack Israeli forces when they’re still outside the city? Hamas attacks IDF inside the city, and Hamas fighters carry big bombs, so they endanger their own people.

Moral Dilemmas Regarding Israel-Gaza Border Crossings

BBC: Israel’s dilemma over sick Gazans

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7375439.stm
Sick Gazans treatment in Israeli hospital near Gaza is under attack by terrorists’ rockets and mortars. I understand that Erez border crossing can be thought of as a legitimate target – Israeli soldiers are guarding it and a soldier is a legitimate target in a war. Although if I were a Palestinian I would choose other targets, because Erez is used to transfer humanitarian aid. But why would Palestinians launch rockets on a hospital that treats Palestinians? Sometimes it seems that there are a few hard-line terrorists there that have no remorse to their own people, and they’ll do virtually anything to kill Israelis.

Reminds me of this case where a Palestinian girl tried to blow up a hospital where she was treated, because she had severe burns that prevented her from marrying and having a happy life: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eiIjaeq2ePY

4 Children Die in Gaza fighting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7370502.stm

This is very sad. I don’t understand why things like that continue to happen. Our army tries its best to avoid civilian casualties, yet they fail time after time. IAF uses precision guided rockets with low explosion power, you can see in their site just how accurate these rockets are. There’s little chance they missed the militants and struck the house. Ynet says they hit the militants but there was a secondary explosion of the ammo they carried. This is very unfortunate, Hamas should keep explosives away from civilians.