Netanyahu, Lieberman Struck `Secret Deal’ on Settlement Expansion Haaretz (Israel) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073771.html Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a secret deal with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman for highly contentious construction on West Bank land known as E1, Army Radio reported Wednesday. A source close to the negotiations between the pair told Army Radio that [...]
US Army Confirms Israeli Nukes; Israeli Aid At Stake Bryant Jordan The Army has let slip one of the worst-kept secrets in the world — that Israel has the bomb. Officially, the United States has a policy of “ambiguity” regarding Israel’s nuclear capability. Essentially, it has played a game by which it neither [...]
Israeli Attack On Sudan Killed At Least 39 U.S. Officials Say Israel Struck in Sudan By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Mr. Rabie said by telephone from Khartoum, the capital, that “more than 100 people” had been killed in the air raid. He said the trucks that were bombed were not [...]
Olmert “We operate in many places near and far”. Hints at Sudan operation Mystery over Sudan ‘air strike’ Page last updated at 18:23 GMT, Thursday, 26 March 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7966627.stm A Sudanese government minister has confirmed reports of an air raid in eastern Sudan earlier this year. The minister, Mabrook Mubarak [...]
Wake up, Christians, or lose the Holy Land Stuart Littlewood …The Holy Land is at the very centre of the Christian Church’s teachings. It is Christianity’s raison d’être. The Catholic Church at least keeps a considerable presence there, serving Christian and Muslim alike, and resists as best it can Israel’s continual encroachments on [...]
Cancer: NATO’s time bomb in the Balkans Russia Today Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the three-month NATO bombing campaign of the former Yugoslavia – and a decade later, the wounds of the war are still felt. Throughout the areas which have been affected by NATO bombings, hundreds of people [...]
UN: Israel broke six-month truce in Gaza: A new UN report exposes a bit of misinformation peddled by the US and Israel and shatters the Zionist illusion that the Gaza war was legal. http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=89480§ionid=351020202 === Gazan family cut to pieces: Report: A new report details the gory killing of a family [...]
White washing ethnic cleansing Marcy Newman, Body on the line Ethan Bronner, the tool of the Israeli terrorist regime, who writes propaganda pieces supporting their terrorism for the New York Times, did a profile on the Israeli terrorist mayor of al quds the other day. Hhere is how bronner characterized the massive land confiscation [...]
The Lobby Falters By John Mearsheimer When pro-Israel forces clashed with a major political figure in the past, that person usually backed off. Jimmy Carter, who was smeared by the lobby after he published Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, was the first prominent American to stand his ground and fight back. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22278.htm === [...]
Video: Israeli war crimes in Gaza AlJazeera.net A group of former Israeli soldiers say they have new evidence of potential war crimes committed by the Israeli army during the war on Gaza. These are not the first allegations of war crimes levelled at the Israeli military and the claims have sparked a bitter [...]
Israel’s War Crimes Richard Falk http://mondediplo.com/2009/03/03warcrimes For the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948 the government is facing serious allegations of war crimes from respected public figures throughout the world … The realities of geopolitics are built around double standards when it comes to war crimes. It is one thing to proceed [...]
Israeli Soldiers Relate Killings of Palestinians Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLJ974036 Israel’s military was rocked on Thursday by Gaza war veterans’ accounts of the killing of civilians and allegations that deep contempt for Palestinians pervaded its ranks. The soldiers, alumni of a military academy, gathered last month to discuss their experiences in the 22-day Israeli offensive that ended [...]
Afghanistan and Iraq: War Crimes Against Children ascribed to former President Bush Sherwood Ross … The best kept secret of the Bush’s war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international agreements. Yet both Congress and the media have strangely failed [...]
Year 7. Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues Exactly six years ago, in a dark delivery room, obstetricians and midwives gathered around a tattered mattress covered with torn sheets while rats and roaches scurried past, on the edges of its forgotten walls… Exactly six years ago, her screams of agony were heard, the midwives rushed [...]
Israel’s right not to be criticised Amira Howeidy Fresh from its bloody war on Gaza, Israel is actively pressuring the international community to boycott the Durban Review Conference due to convene in Geneva, Switzerland between 20 and 24 April to evaluate progress towards the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial [...]
Our South Africa Moment Has Arrived Omar Barghouti As Israel shifts steadily to the fanatic, racist right, as the latest parliamentary election results have shown, Palestinians under its control are increasingly being brutalized by its escalating colonial and apartheid policies, designed to push them out of their homeland to make a self-fulfilling prophecy [...]
Email to Albert, Soldz, Chomsky, Pilger, Herman and many others Gabriele Zamparini I’d just like to send my congratulations to ZNet for once again publishing rubbish on the very important issue of Iraq so-called “casualties” since the US led the supreme international crime against that defenseless country. Amazing we still call that “war”, isn’t [...]
Rotted From the Head: High Crimes and Continuity in the American Imperium Chris Floyd …As we all know, the Obama Administration is now fighting strenuously in court to uphold this cynical Bush strategy (and others) to cover up high crimes — capital crimes — by the leaders of the government. Obama has offered [...]
Intifada: A third chapter By Ramzy Baroud Though the dust has settled in Gaza, the rubble from the untold number of demolished buildings, homes and mosques is far from being cleared away. Graves continue to receive victims, young and old alike, from Israel’s most recent offensive. And in the midst of this, with [...]
Saturday morning in At Tur: more home demolitions Kristen Ess It is cold in East Jerusalem’s eastern neighborhood of At Tur Sahel this morning. The rain came last night: weather here is as predictable as home demolitions. “They’re taking the whole thing, the entire neighborhood,” says a man who is unshaven and tired [...]