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

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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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Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Seized by Israel

Interview with Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish solidarity activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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On June 30, an unarmed boat, named “Spirit of Humanity,” carrying 21 international peace activists was seized in international waters by the Israeli Navy, as it attempted to sail from Cypress to Gaza with relief supplies and messages of solidarity for Palestinians living [...]

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To the question of “natural growth” of Israeli settlements

Israeli settlement construction, including “natural growth” makes an advancement of two-state solutionimpossible, and Israel knows that – which is why they continue with the settlments’ expansion. So far they already have annexed 50% of the Westbank; their aim therefore can only be to incorporate the whole of this Palestinian land into [...]

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Israel, selling lies and barbarism to a world that doesn’t ask question anymore

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually you will believe it” …
The Israeli Regime has been selling nothing but lies and delusions, and after decades of repeating them, the world has stopped questioning. Intelligence, wisdom, justice and compassion have been almost [...]

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Palestine: What it’s all about (Never Before Campaign)

A truly moving video by the ‘Never Before Campaign’: in the midst of the struggle, and the dust of battle, many people still don’t realize what this is all about … it is not only about land and rights …

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Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech simply rhetorical

There was nothing new in Netanyahu’s speech, as many commentators have pointed out. When Netanyahu talks about ‘two free people’ he means the kind of racist homeland model that South Africa had under its apartheid regime. It was just a reheating of the same old disgustingly tasting soup, disgusting to those naively hoping for peace, [...]

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American Christians fund illegal Jewish settlers

… and therefore support illegal land grabs, racism, oppression, murder and ethnic cleansing. And all in the name of their god and his supposed son, who in theory loved all people. If Christians actually would live up to their beliefs, they would support the Palestinians – just as Jesus is said to have taken sides [...]

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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 Terrorism and the Talmud

Quite a shocking video. It demonstrates the insanity sometimes embedded in religious books and the deadly effects it can have when believers deal with so-called non-believers. And while at first sight it seems hard to believe that there actually are Jews who would follow such inhumane and barbaric teachings, the small [...]

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Nonviolence in the Middle East: Obama’s Cairo Speech

Obama, in his recent Cairo speech, called on the Palestinians to renounce armed struggle and instead embrace non-violence. Starhawk, a prominent voice in modern Wiccan spirituality, questions Obama’s credentials to make such call and lays bare the injustices and terror inflicted on the Palestinians by Israel. While I’m not sharing Starhawk’s overall rosy view of [...]

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Obama gives unwavering support to Israel despite move to the political right in Israel

… and Palestinian land has shrunk even further in the last nine years
Netanyahu At The White House: Not Yet Change We Can Believe In
By Bennis, Phyllis
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Overall, yesterday’s White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has to be seen as a draw. As former [...]

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Ethnic Cleansing in East Jerusalem is Not a Paranoid Worry… It’s Happening Now

Two houses demolished by Israel in East Jerusalem
By Fletcher Jr., Bill
Bill Fletcher Jr.’s ZSpace Page
Join ZSpace The Israeli government often reminds me of a dog I once owned. My dog was forbidden to enter into the living room. Nevertheless, she would creep into the living room, usually moving a few inches at a time in [...]

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Video: How Israel steals Palestinian land

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The video speaks for itself, even though it luckily only shows a ‘good day’ of Palestinian life in the occupied territories.

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Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of indiscriminate phosphorus use in Gaza

[Is there one reason not to utterly despise Israel, given the cold-blooded hatred and racism that drives its policy of extermination of the Palestinian people? This is the exact same fascist attitude that motivated Hitler's 'Vernichtungspolitik' or 'Endloesung' against European Jews. In this regard there is no difference at all between the Jewish State of [...]

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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
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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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Can ongoing oppression and continuing illegal compulsory disappropriation of Palestinian land by Israel lead to a third Intifada?

‘A third Intifada .. could provide the platform for the Palestinians to reclaim their unity.’
By Ramzy Baroud
The Palestine Chronicle

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 [...]

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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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