GAZA, (PIC)-- Gaza prime minister Ismail Haneyya has described as “arrogant” the speech delivered by Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations.

He said in a terse statement on Saturday that Netanyahu’s speech was a “desperate” attempt to change the Israeli occupation into a “victim” and to defend the Gaza blockade. Netanyahu’s address would not affect the growing international sympathy with the Palestinian people and their just cause, the premier concluded. In an earlier statement, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that Netanyahu’s speech was full of lies and tried to twist facts. He told the PIC that focusing on captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was an attempt to ignore the fact that 7000 Palestinians were held captives by the Israeli occupation. Abu Zuhri said that Shalit would return to his family when the Palestinian prisoners return to their families.

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Disturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in Afghanistan is being shown to frontline British soldiers in "Kill TV nights" designed to boost morale, a television documentary will reveal. - The discovery of the practice comes in the wake of the damning verdict of the Baha Mousa inquiry into the conduct of some in the military. It casts fresh questions over the conduct of soldiers deployed abroad and has provoked a furious response from peace campaigners. Andrew Burgin from Stop the War last night described it as the "ultimate degradation of British troops", comparing it to the desensitisation to death of US soldiers in the final stages of the Vietnam War. The footage, seen by The Independent on Sunday, shows ground troops at the British headquarters in Helmand province, Camp Bastion, gathered for a get-together said to be called "Kill TV night". Described as an effort to boost morale among soldiers, it shows an Apache helicopter commander admitting possible errors of judgement and warning colleagues not to disclose what they have seen. "This is not for discussion with anybody else; keep it quiet about what you see up here," he says in the film. "It's not because we've done anything wrong. But we might have done."

An Afghan employed by the US government killed one American and wounded another in an attack on a CIA office in Kabul, officials said today. - The shooting on Sunday evening — the third high-profile attack in the past two weeks in the Afghan capital — is the latest in a growing number of attacks this year by Afghans working for international forces. Some assailants have turned out to be Taliban sleeper agents, while others have been motivated by private grievances. Gunfire was first heard sometime after 8pm local time around the former Ariana Hotel, a building that ex-US intelligence officials said is the CIA station in Kabul. The spy agency occupied the heavily secured building just blocks from the Afghan presidential palace in late 2001 after the US-led invasion that toppled the Taliban. The US Embassy said an Afghan employee of the complex shot dead an American citizen and wounded another before being killed. "The motivation for the attack is still under investigation," the embassy said in a statement.

[Editor's Comment:] Somehow the motivation for the US attack upon Afghanistan is never questioned. (No, it wasn't bin Laden.) And this "investigation" is going nowhere of course. There's no mystery here. We all know what motivated the attack. - Ten years of American terrorism, torture & occupation. Thousands & thousands of civilian dead. The message is clear as day: End the occupation and get out!

Millions dead and injured, the untold story, horrible truths. Apologies for the bad internet connection.

United States drones have reportedly struck three districts in southern Somalia, killing dozens of civilians and wounding scores of others. - The attacks took place on Sunday against the Hoosingow, Diif, and Taabto districts near the southern city of Afmadow, a Press TV correspondent reported. Local elder Ahmed Kulmiye said hundreds of frightened families had started fleeing the area. Two similar US-operated aircraft also reportedly crashed inside and along the coastline of the southern Kismayu port city, which is located some 500 kilometers to the south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Government officials described one of the aircraft as a spy drone and the other a destroyer. Drone attacks in Somalia make the lawless state the sixth country where the US military has used remote-controlled aircraft to conduct such lethal strikes. The United States has also employed drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen to launch aerial bombings.

Turkish Cypriot President Derviş Eroğlu on Saturday submitted a four-item proposal to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to resolve the spat with Greek Cyprus over drilling in the eastern Mediterranean. - The proposal starts with a bid for both sides to simultaneously suspend oil and gas exploration, a move that seemed to show Turkey’s reluctance to start drilling work in Mediterranean. In the first item of the new proposal submitted to Ban, Eroğlu made an offer to the Greek side to “suspend the oil and natural gas exploration simultaneously until a comprehensive solution is found to the Cyprus problem.”

AWIP: Gas discoveries draw Israel and Cyprus closer together

● Tripoli. NATO-mercenaries naval base in Tripoli was destroyed today when Libyan mujaheeds have placed 7 c16 bombs earlier today. Hard figh today the tribes Tarhouna were entered in Tripoli and killed many NATO-mercenaries.
● Sebha. Last night 64 rats were killed 200 wounded and 7 captured. Arab socialistic party BAAS with chief commander Izat Ibrahim Al-Duri join Libyan army and Libyan people in National Liberation War against NATO-mercenaries occupation.
● On Tripoli harbour have exploded big military supply ship full of weapons and ammunition from France. The big fire raged all harbour. In Town hard fight. Libyan mujaheeds and Libyan volunteers massive attack NATO-mercenaries in many areas.
● In Sirte NATO bombing everything possible, homes, hospitals, schools, especially in the west area of town.
Info on 25.9.2011. Sirte is controlling Libyan army and Libyan moujaheeds. Last attack of NATO-mercenaries fail.

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[Video 1][Video 2] They are killing black people in Libya. They are killing them in the street, they are killing them in hospitals, they are killing them in transit camps, they are killing them in their houses. - They are not killing any old African. They are killing black Africans, the dark, sub-Saharan Africans. Skin tone, the darkness of one's skin, has become for many blacks in Libya the difference between prison and freedom, death and life. The rebels who gunned for the toppling of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi have for the past six months been killing anyone who looks dark. Given that there are between a million and two million black Africans in Libya, a slow and under-reported massacre is unfolding in that country. No one is saying anything.

Samuel Dowell: Blacks in Libya Still Targeted by anti-Gaddafi Forces

Backed by the US and European governments that have spearheaded the military intervention into Libya, transnational corporations are now scrambling to secure lucrative oil deals, construction contracts, export opportunities and other profit-making openings in the war-ravaged North African state. - The New York Times last Thursday reported that the returned US ambassador to Libya, Gene Cretz, had briefed reporters following a ceremonial flag-raising at the reopened embassy in Tripoli. Cretz explained that about a week after the so-called rebel fighters had won control of the Libyan capital, he participated in a State Department conference call involving executives from about 150 American companies interested in the new opportunities created by the NATO-led bombardment. “We know that oil is the jewel in the crown of Libyan natural resources,” Cretz reportedly later explained to journalists

Our country is bankrupt. It’s not bankrupt in 30 years or five years. It’s bankrupt today. Want proof? Look at President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget. It showed a massive fiscal gap over the next 75 years, the closure of which requires immediate tax increases, spending cuts, or some combination totaling 8 percent of gross domestic product. To put 8 percent of GDP in perspective, this year’s employee and employer payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare will amount to just 5 percent of GDP.

Thousands of Pakistanis have held an anti-US rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, slamming the American government for what they called its intervention in Pakistan's internal affairs, Press TV reports. - The activists of Pakistan's largest religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, on Sunday called for an end to unauthorized US drone attacks in the country's tribal regions that have left many civilians dead. Anti-American sentiment ran high in Pakistan as more people from different walks of life came to join the rally, chanting slogans against the US and the incumbent Pakistani government which they held responsible for the current unrest and instability across the country.

PressTV: US senator threatens Pakistan with war

[22 September 2011] - Today, DCI-Palestine submitted a second report to the UN on the situation facing Palestinian children detained in occupied East Jerusalem. This follows DCI-Palestine's submission on 19 July 2011 of 45 cases relating to the detention of Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank, under the Israeli military court system. The Report covers a six month period between January and June 2011, during which time DCI-Palestine represented 118 children and collected 16 sworn affidavits. In 80 percent of the cases the children were accused of throwing stones.

Stephen Lendman: Oppressing Palestinian Children in the West Bank

Gilad Atzmon: I occasionally read the London JC: it provides a glimpse into Zionist paranoia, and it also depicts a true image of the ‘Nuevo Ghetto’ mentality. Today, a week ahead of the publication of my new book The Wandering Who, the JC seems to be desperate to mount pressure on Professor John Mearsheimer, the highly respected academic who warmly endorsed my book.

Gilad atzmon's Blog: Goldberg vs. Mearsheimer - It seems as if the Zio-cons on both sides of the pond are now in a state of panic -- In an obviously orchestrated attack, the Zionist mouthpiece The Jewish Chronicle of London, the Islamophobic Award winning ‘Harry’s Place’ and the ex-Israeli concentration camp guard Jeffrey Goldberg, all launched a typical Hasbara smear & intimidation campaign, in which they labeled both Professor Mearsheimer and myself anti Semites. I was also called a ‘neo Nazi’, a ‘Hitler apologist,’ a ‘Holocaust denier’ and a ‘hatemonger’.

Stephen M. Walt: Mearsheimer responds to Goldberg's latest smear

DeCarlo revealed to American Free Press hidden details about the events of 9-11 that mainstream media venues should have uncovered 10 years ago, if not for their near-total blackout of meaningful coverage where Israel is concerned.

Although not scheduled to work that day, DeCarlo reported anyway and “was posted on the highway” to prevent traffic from entering New York City. He continued: “The van was coming off the [N.J.] Turnpike trying to get on Route 3. Traffic was rolling at two miles an hour, so we got in front of the van on foot, weapons drawn, and stopped it.”

DeCarlo then described what happened after the spies were dragged from their van. “When we removed them, one of the guys that was rather chatty said: ‘We’re not your enemy, we’re your friend. Our enemies are your enemies,’” DeCarlo said. “At that point they said they were from Israel. They kept saying, ‘Hey, we’re on your side.’” “We brought them over to the New Jersey State Police holding cells in the Meadowlands Stadium, and that’s the last I saw of them,” he said. Shortly after that, the FBI reportedly took over. The five Israelis were held for 10 weeks, but were eventually deported to Israel on charges of immigration violations. In November 2001, they appeared on an Israeli TV talk show discussing how they were in the U.S. “to document the event.”

Dozens of armed Israeli settlers put up Israeli flags and posters on main and bypass roads close to Jewish settlements in the southern part of the West Bank, calling for slaughtering Arabs and Palestinians. - Racist posters were also placed along the Jerusalem-Hebron road, and around all settlements extending from the southern part of Bethlehem district to the northern part of Hebron. Some of the posters read “We Will Slaughter All Arabs”, “This is the land of our fathers and forefathers”, and dozens of similar racist posters. The settlers also camped in Palestinian farmlands and orchards south of Bethlehem, and preventing the residents from reaching their own lands. Settlers living in the city of Hebron also hung Israeli flags and racist posters threatening to kill the Palestinians and calling for their expulsion.

JERUSALEM — A survey by an Israeli think tank published on Sunday said while most of the country's Jews deny claims of discrimination against its Arab citizens, one third view them as outside Israeli society. "The data show that at present the Arab population feels discriminated against to a great extent, while a majority of the Jewish population rejects the allegation," the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) said in its annual survey. - It said that asked if they considered "Arab citizens of Israel" as "part of Israeli society," 67.9 percent of Jewish respondents and 86.1 percent of Arabs answered in the affirmative. It said that 77.6 percent of Arabs interviewed felt "discriminated against compared with Jewish citizens," but 52.5 percent of Jews disagreed. Israeli Arabs, who make up nearly 20 percent of the population, are Palestinians who remained in the Jewish state following the 1948 war that attended its creation, along with their descendants. While they are guaranteed full equality under Israeli law they say that in practice they are short-changed in job opportunities, education and public funding, among other areas.

Staged protests, walkouts and media lies do not deter the message. Excerpts below from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Sept. 22, 2011 speech at the UN. Full transcript ..... Video

The former prime minister operates a “Byzantine” network of businesses and charities, The Sunday Telegraph reports, brokering deals for major banks and other heavy-hitters throughout the Middle East and in Africa, even as he retains statesman-like status in attempts to broker peace in the region. Blair's business activities reportedly earn him more than 7 million pounds per year. Blair has “financially enriched himself more than any ex-Prime Minister ever,” Dispatches notes in its advance of their broadcast. The show will take a particular focus at Blair's dual responsibilities as both the official envoy of the Quartet attempting to broker Middle East peace, and as head of Tony Blair Associates, which is doing business, with little disclosure, throughout the same region.