Israeli soldiers’ revelations from Gaza

Israeli soldiers involved in the attacks on Gaza at the start of this year claim that they were ordered to fire, regardless of the risk to civilians. Israel banned journalists from its invasion of Gaza in December and January, making it hard to verify allegations of indiscriminate firing, the use of phosphorous bombs, and forcing [...]

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Noam Chomsky: season of travesties – freedom and democracy in mid-2009

Noam Chomsky’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.
The election in Lebanon was greeted with euphoria. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that he is [...]

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What ethics? Julia Gillard’s unquestioning love for Israel

There’s nothing clean about the business of politics, and certainly ethics play no part part in it – unless they can be exploited for personal gain. Julia Gillard, this slow-speaking nasty piece of Labor conservatism, camouflaging as deputy prime minister of Australia (hard to believe she’s been a student activist once representing the political left), [...]

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While Obama sweet-talks and does nothing another young child dies in Israel’s concentration camp called Gaza

Smile On The Face Of The Tiger
Jun 11, 2009 By John Pilger
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At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu’rob, and he was suffering from a lung [...]

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Israeli war crimes allegations: what the law says

Rules on who can be targeted and how in warfare derive from customary law and international treaties and regulations
Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 March 2009 14.00 GMT
Article history
The use of drones, targeting of medical staff and facilities and use of human [...]

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Shocking evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza

These three Guardian videos provide shocking evidence for what has been alleged hundreds of times: that the Israeli army commits barbaric war crimes; even its own soldiers have admitted it recently – some of them even gloating about it. It is clear that [...]

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Palestine: street art

A mural in Gaza City commemorating Palestinian prisoners day (Eóin Murray)

A mural in Gaza that depicts scenes of horror and despair intimately wrapped up in the issue of the occupation and that of prisoners (Eóin Murray)
These murals most likely aren’t new, but they nevertheless seem to evoke very similar impressions and feelings arising when looking [...]

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IDF ceased long ago being ‘most moral army in the world’

By Gideon Levy
Hareetz
What shock, what consternation. Haaretz revealed grave accounts by officers and soldiers describing the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians during the war in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman was quick to respond that the IDF had no prior or supporting information about the events in question, the defense minister was quick to [...]

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Bombed mosques and dead Palestinian babies are featured on Israeli Defense Force troops’ clothes

By Uri Blau
Hareetz

The office at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv handles a constant stream of customers, many of them soldiers in uniform, who come to order custom clothing featuring their unit’s insignia, usually accompanied by a slogan and drawing of their choosing. Elsewhere on the premises, the sketches are turned into plates [...]

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Gaza war crime claims gather pace as more troops speak out

Peter Beaumont
The Observer, Sunday 22 March 2009
Fresh allegations have come to light that gung-ho leadership inculcated a culture of disregard for Palestinian casualties

Israeli soldiers stand together at a military staging area before moving towards the northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters
An investigation by a group of former Israeli soldiers has uncovered new evidence of the [...]

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On the dangers and suffering caused by Israel’s self-righteousness

The State That Tolerates No Criticism: How Israel Gives Jews a Bad Name
Mar 16, 2009 By Saul Landau
Saul Landau’s ZSpace Page/ ZSpace
Most Jews I know get little pleasure from the existence of Israel; just the opposite. They feel disgusted by the behavior of their tribal kin toward Palestinians. This antipathy doesn’t concern Israel’s right to [...]

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Postmodernism in Israeli warfare

I don’t think these postmodernist theorists had warfare on their mind when developing their constructs. Nevertheless, Weizman’s article (posted in Interactivist Info Exchange) shows once again the brutality and cold-bloodedness of Israel’s military strategies and, I guess, of modern warfare in general.
“The Art of War: Deleuze, Guattari, Debord and the Israeli Defense Force”
Eyal Weizman
The Israeli [...]

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Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist

Image by Falcon EyE via Flickr

With Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu tipped to win the Israel elections and ethnic cleanser Avigdor Lieberman said to become his most powerful coalition partner, it could well be that the Nazi State of Israel will reopen the gates of its war on the Palestinian people living in Gaza. I feel it’s [...]

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Jewish tunnels in the Warsaw Ghetto

When the Jews dug tunnels to smuggle food and weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto, it was an act of justified resistance. When the Palestinians dig tunnels to smuggle food and weapons into the Gaza Ghetto, it is terrorism.

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Warsaw Ghetto 1941, Gaza 2008

A short and succinct letter to the editor in the Sydney Morning Herald puts things into perspective; Israel is committing slow genocide and ethnic cleansing:

Nearly 70 years ago, in a small eastern European city, an oppressed and occupied people were under siege, living under atrocious and brutal conditions, lacking food, medicine, electricity, water, and slowly [...]

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Obama on Israel-Palestine – By Noam Chomsky

Image by Falcon EyE via Flickr

Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously – both what he says, and what he omits. Particularly significant is his first substantive statement on foreign affairs, on January 22, [...]

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Video: Turkish Prime Minister storms out of Davos accusing Israel of murder

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At least some international politician has the guts to stand up to the nazi-like Israeli government. This BBC video clip shows the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaving a Davos meeting under protest after having not having been given the [...]

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A voice of justice: Udi Aloni replies to Noa on Gaza fanaticism

I’ve found this letter on YNetNews. The Israeli-American film director, writer, visual artist and activist Udi Aloni, creator of the 2006 film Forgiveness (Mechilot, winner of the Woodstock Film Festival Audience Award), replies to  an open letter by Israeli singer Noa (Achinoam Nini), in which she asked Palestinians in Gaza and the diaspora to relinquish ’fanaticism’. If the majority of blinded Israeli’s could see the world through Aloni’s [...]

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Amnesty International on the Gazan war and possible war crimes prosecutions

The following is an exclusive Press TV interview with Philip Luther, a spokesman for human rights group Amnesty International, on the possible ways to prosecute the war criminals of the Gaza war.
Press TV: Your fact-finding team arrived in Gaza not long before Israel unilaterally declared a ceasefire and the team has been talking to the survivors [...]

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Israel braces for war crime charges

Israel prepares to respond to possible war crimes charges after its soldiers admitted to having used chemical weapons against Gazans. 
Israeli government sources revealed on Friday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had tasked an inter-ministerial team to clear Tel Aviv of possible war crimes charges relating to its three-week-long assault on Gaza. Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedman [...]

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