Archive for February, 2010
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Despite a slight improvement in the general humanitarian situation, the Gaza Strip remains a disaster area. In fact, in terms of the sheer destruction of homes and infrastructure, the coastal enclave can be compared to quake-stricken Haiti, with the main difference lying in the fact that while the Caribbean island’s ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Heavy rain prevented popular resistance marches scaling the peaks of Bi'lin last week, but up and down the country demonstrators made their feelings known.
BILIN Dozens of protesters suffered teargas inhalation in a demonstration against the Wall and settlements in Bil'in which was joined by Israeli and international activists. Despite the ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Europe's highest court ruled on Thursday that Israeli products manufactured in settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are not exempt from paying EU customs duties. Though nominally a finding on a trade-related matter, the decision has much wider political implications. It would seem like little more than a minor customs dispute ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
By Tim King* (Salem-News.com)
The Washington Times publishes story questioning official account.
Newly released photos of New York on September 11, 2001 by the NY Police Association
The mainstream press is showing interest in a taboo, however glaring subject; the inconsistencies in the Bush White House 9/11 account.
As The Washington Post reports today, ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
On Thursday morning over 250 Palestinian protesters, joined by dozens of Israeli and international activists, braved foul weather conditions to demonstrate in Hebron against the closure of Ash'Shuhada, the street which, since Baruch Goldstein's massacre of 29 worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994 has been progressively “sterilised” by closing ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Prof. Arnold Toynbee, Foreword to the Transformation of Palestine, 1971
"Israel ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
The Only Truth About US Justice is that Justice is in the Service of Empire!
Saturday, February 13, 2010 | Updated February 26, 2010 Turned down by all newspapers, from the New York Times to Pakistan's Dawn and Daily Times.
Yvonne Ridley's anguished opinion 'Truth about US justice' has appeared worldwide including ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Yusif Barakat, who was displaced from his Palestinian home as a child after Israel was established in the 1940s, speaks at a U-M Dearborn event Tuesday about a recent visit to Gaza, currently under siege by the Israeli military. As Barakat spoke, Student Government members in an adjacent room voted ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
A truly outstanding video by Shadi Nassar that shows clips of Tzipi Livni and others, during the Israeli wanton destruction of Gaza known as "Operation Cast Lead". Her words contradict the actions of her government and army.
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
So often a focal point of tensions in the West Bank, this week saw prolonged conflicts in Hebron. Sparked by PM Netanyahou's announcement that the Ibrahimi Mosque would be listed as an Israeli heritage site, compounded by the anniversary of Baruch Goldstein's massacre of 29 Muslim worshippers in the same ...
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