By Ramzy Baroud • Sep 24th, 2009 at 13:16 •
WRITTEN BY Ramzy Baroud
'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations Fact finding mission. The mission, led by internationally-renowned former South African supreme court justice and chief prosecutor in the international tribunals for Rwanda… Continue
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WRITTEN BY HAITHAM AL KATIB
Shortly after 1:30 am, Israeli forces invaded Bil'in again. They raided the house of Abdullah Mahmoud Aburahma in an attempt to arrest him. However, he was not home at the time. Palestinian and international activists intervened by jumping over the wall into… Continue
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Part 1 of 3 deals with the human shield allegations
Palestinians claim children were used as human shields and hospitals targeted during 23-day conflict
The Guardian has compiled detailed evidence of alleged war crimes committed by Israel during the 23-day offensive against Gaza earlier this year, involving the use of Palestinian children as human shields, the targeting of medics and hospita More..ls, and drone aircraft firing on civilians.
Three Guardian films based on a mon… Continue
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Part 2 deals with the targetting of medics and medical facilities
Palestinians claim children were used as human shields and hospitals targeted during 23-day conflict
Medics and ambulance drivers said they were targeted when they tried to tend to the wounded. Sixteen of them were killed. According to the World Health Organisation, more than half of Gaza's 27 hospitals and 44 clinics were da More..maged by Israeli bombs. Two clinics were destroyed. In one incident, paramedics w… Continue
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Part 3 of 3 deals with the drones targeting civilians
Palestinians claim children were used as human shields and hospitals targeted during 23-day conflict
The Guardian gathered testimony of missile attacks by Israeli drones on clearly distinguishable civilian targets. In one case a family of six was killed when a missile hit the courtyard of their house. Israel has not admitted to the use of More.. drones but military experts say their optical equipment is good enough to clear… Continue
Added by mick on August 23, 2009 at 6:34pm —
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Today at 9:21am
Are you Terrorist? Professor!
Hasan Yahya
After September 11, 2001, I was teaching sociology 333 on Race Relations, at the University for undergraduate students. In my first lecture on the subject, many students looked at me strangely after announcing my name by writing on the green board. My name was different, my skin too, and worse, my language needs too many sessions for students to understand my language which not exactly English, other than it is scholarly talked. Simple… Continue
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Date: 01 / 04 / 2009 Time: 21:58
Gaza – Ma’anReport – Palestinian division has overshadowed events celebrating Al-Quds Capital of Arab Culture 2009; celebrations are disparate, scattered and above all dominated by the factions hosting them.
The siege on Gaza and… Continue
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By Khalid Amayreh • Apr 1st, 2009 at 21:42 •
I have been under fire of late from two diametrically opposite quarters. First, the fanatical, self-worshipping Zionists who think that non-Jewish suffering should never ever be compared with Jewish suffering.
Needless to say, this psyc… Continue
Added by Ayah/Crystal on April 1, 2009 at 4:11pm —
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It’s criminal! But according to this lunatic fringe peace activist – there is no such thing as a ‘good’ Zionist, surely not but did you hear?
An accident happened near the ruins of the former settlement of Nazism during Operation Cast Death. But… Continue
Added by Arlo Silvers on March 27, 2009 at 1:16pm —
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May this Tribunal prevent the crime of silence ¹
... declared Lord Bertrand Russell to defi ne the spirit and the objective of the International War Crimes Tribunal constituted in 1966 to investigate crimes committed in Vietnam and judge them according to international law. Initiated by Lord Russell, Nobel Prize of literature in 1950, and supported by eminent intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, who chaired the Tribunal, Lelio Basso, Guenther Anders, James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, Lazar… Continue
Added by Ayah/Crystal on March 8, 2009 at 1:15pm —
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Sami Jamil Jadallah - The Hell with Israel, Open the Sea Port of Gaza!
By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Mar 6th, 2009 at 19:48 •
www.palestinethinktank.com
The Gaza donor conference concluded a couple of days ago in the Egyptian city of Sharm-El-Sheik and was attended by more than 70 countries, pledging more than $5 Billion, exceeding any and all expectations.… Continue
By Sameh Brill
Homicide, a Zionist holy war: The 22-day sadistic Israeli Assault on Gaza which ended up with flowing rivers of innocent blood of 108 women and 437 children isn't a deviation of the Zio-Nazi mainstream terrorism in the region, The Israel of Operation "Cast Le… Continue
"Has God Changed His Mind?"
By MIKE WHITNEY
Apart from the slaughter of 900 Palestinians and the vast destruction from 14 days of aerial bombardment, the Israeli invasion of Gaza has failed to achieve any of its strategic objectives. The Palestinian resistance is still intact, the rocket-fire has continued, and Hamas is stronger than ever. So, what has been gained? Hamas has withstood the ferocious Israeli assault without knuckling under or making any concessions. They've proved that they are… Continue
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Mohamed Khodr - The Shoe Heard Around the World
By Guest Post • Dec 18th, 2008 at 19:54 • on PTT
"This is a farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
By Mohamed Khodr
An interview with Ali Mallah of the Canadian Arab Federation.
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1579
In recent weeks, major media outlets in Canada have featured numerous news
reports on Hezbollah, outlining that the armed Lebanese political party is
planning military operations in North America. Media reports have been based on
anonymous intelligence sources in the U.S. and Canada.
Major media coverage in Canada was ignited by a T.V. report from the U.S.-based
ABC news network claiming… Continue
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By Reham Alhelsi • Jun 9th, 2008 at 8:0•
A couple of days ago I read an article by Haitham Sabbah entitled Murder at Huwara Checkpoint. It talks about the killing of a 15 year old Palestinian boy by the Israeli soldiers at the Huwara Checkpoint. What drew my attention to the article w… Continue
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