January 26, 2009 Issue Unanimous Consent When Israel acts, Congress applauds. No debate required. By Glenn Greenwald In most of the world, the Israeli attack on Gaza is viewed as an intensely controversial act and, more commonly, an excessive, unjustifiable, and brutal assault on a trapped civilian population. But not in the [...]
Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile Israel deliberately forgets its history An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East by Schlomo Sand Every Israeli knows that he or she is the direct and [...]
Lives buried under the rubble in Gaza PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Three weeks after the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, 16-year-old Maysa al-Louh sits stoically on the pile of sand that consumes half her home in Beit Lahiya. Under the sand, churned up by Israeli bulldozers during incursions into [...]
Lobbyists Whistle Up Cordesman to “Prove” Israel Waged a Clean War in Gaza The Cleanser NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza massacre.( He reaches the remarkable conclusion that “Israel did not violate the laws of [...]
Da: iristulip Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Justivying Israeli War Crimes – from a member of the National Lawyer’s Guild who went to Gaza Data: 19 febbraio 2009 20:11:16 GMT+01:00 A: gazafriends, FG-MediaList, noreply Justifying Israeli War Crimes By: Reem Salahi Having left Gaza now, I am trying to come to terms with what [...]
Report: “Israeli Amy kidnapped 7600 children since 2000, 246 remain behind bars” Saed Bannoura – IMEM Palestinian Researcher, specialized in detainees’ affairs, Awni Farawna, stated that the Israeli army kidnapped 7600 Palestinian children, males and females, since the year 2000; 246 children are still behind bars. At least 200 of the kidnapped children were [...]
Gaza Convoy – A Movement Of The Streets “We Come In Peace. We Will Not Be Stopped” By George Galloway and By Yvonne Ridley A convoy of more than 110 vehicles has snaked its way out of London for Gaza to deliver more than £1m worth of aid, including ambulances and a fire engine. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22028.htm [...]
In Britain, Students Angered by Gaza Revive Sit-Ins The Guardian (Britain) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/14/gaza-student-protests A new wave of student activism sparked by events in Gaza has seen dozens of university buildings occupied in Britain, with some of the UK’s top educational establishments agreeing to set up scholarships for Palestinians or disinvest in arms companies linked to Israel. [...]
Da: iristulip Oggetto: [GazaFriends] The level of shooting on fishermen is like an open war. Data: 18 febbraio 2009 1:40:52 GMT+01:00 A: FG-MediaList, noreply, gazafriends Gazan coast becoming a ‘no-go’ zone 16th February, 2009 On Saturday 14th February, 23 year-old Rafiq abu Reala was shot by Israeli naval forces whilst fishing in [...]
Da: iristulip Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Fantastic video from Free Gaza supporter Data: 16 febbraio 2009 0:03:12 GMT+01:00 A: FG-Discussions, gazafriends Watch this video from Paola, one of our wonderful supporters…. then watch for our announcements about upcoming trips to Gaza beginning in March. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0ANuw5u6M – Greta Berlin Media Team Free Gaza Movement www.freegaza.org [...]
Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted January 28, 2009. What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same “children of Israel” described in the Old Testament? And what if most [...]
Israelis are living high on US expense account — Michael Backman JAN 17 — There’s a memorable scene in the Stephen Spielberg film “Munich”. After the 1972 Munich Olympic Games killings of Israeli athletes, Prime Minister Golda Meir tells confidants she wants to show the plotters that killing Jews “is expensive”. She then organises [...]
No Ceasefire or Respite in Gaza A Psychological & Humanitarian Disaster By Yazeed Kamaldien Although the “ceasefire” is technically announced, Gazans who were not killed, are not only coping with no food, water, and electricity- as before the Israeli onslaught, but are now also having to cope with denied access to healthcare, denied access to [...]
Did Israel test new weapons in Gaza? Russia Today The Palestinian Authority is calling for an international investigation of the weapons used by Israel during its three-week assault on Gaza. There are claims so-called DIME bombs were dropped from drone aircraft. This kind of bomb is designed to produce an intense explosion in a small [...]
Out of Africa… Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues …Actually to be more precise, this new “film” did not start in Kenya, but in Egypt. They say Egypt is the gate between Africa and the Arab world…so I guess it makes sense that it all starts there… This “film” starts with Abu Omar, kidnapped from [...]
Former Gitmo Guard Tells All Scott Horton, Harper’s Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. “The stuff I did [...]
“The Lancet” reveals horrendous Israeli war crimes Dr Gideon Polya The horrendous mortality and morbidity statistics revealed by the paper “The Wounds of Gaza”, just published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet are truly shocking – 1,350 killed (60% children) and 5,450 severely wounded (40% children) in reprisals for zero (0) Israeli deaths from [...]
The Second Nakba Reem Salahi History repeats itself. With the key to her demolished home around her neck, the middle-aged Palestinian woman standing before me had escaped the first Nakba (meaning ‘Day of Catastrophe’ marking the exodus of Palestinians from their homes with the creation of the State of Israel) of 1948 only to live [...]
Public meeting: Two doctors’ eyewitness account of war on Gaza, Mon 16 Feb @ 7pm Islington Friends of Yibna Eye Witnesses and the authors of “The Wounds of Gaza”, published in the Lancet last week, Dr Ang Swee Chai and Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, will speak at our next IFY meeting at Islington Town Hall, [...]
Israel’s Rationale for Murder: No One Is Innocent M. Junaid Levesque-Alam …It is time to consider an obvious alternative to the official line: Israel did not “accidentally” kill hundreds of Palestinian civilians while “targeting” Hamas for launching aimless rockets. Rather, Israel purposely targeted all Palestinians because it wanted to teach them a severe lesson for not being [...]