By Adam Horowitz · December 23, 2009
Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a leader of the weekly nonviolent protests in Bil’n, has finally been charged after being arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Israeli military. Abu Rahmah’s arrest has been part on an ongoing Israeli campaign against Palestinian nonviolent resistence leaders. The charges against him could not be more creative. From a Popular Struggle Coordination Committee press release:
Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’… Continue
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Israel has threatened another massive war against the Gaza Strip as the impoverished enclave continues to suffer in the aftermath of the devastating January offensive.
Israeli planes have been dropping thousands of leaflets across Gaza, warning Pal… Continue
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http://pathofmostresistance.org/
A recent video released by Israels Channel 2 has confirmed what many had long suspected, that Israelis had secretly harvested dead Palestinians organs without consent. Continue
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Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order t… Continue
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Israel’s Impunity For War Crimes
By Ghali Hassan
05 December, 2009
Countercurrents.org
Does the death of a Palestinian worth the same as that of a Jew? For six decades, Israeli Jewish leaders with utter impunity have been killing defenceless Palestinians and justifying their crimes as “self-defence” of Israel and all Jews. Absolving the Israeli regime of culpability of war crimes has always been a U.S.-Western ritual. The message is: Jews are above the law and killing Palestinians is Israelis… Continue
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Renewed call for UNGA to act under Resolution 377
Statement of the BRussells Tribunal committee (09 Jan 2009)
1)The UN Security Council has failed to stop massive Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
2)Urgent action by the UN General Assembly is warranted and possible.
3) Israeli impunity must be ended by the collective action of the world community
After almost two weeks of impotence, during which an estimated 790 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, including 230 children, a further 1080… Continue
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Soldiers who took part in Israel's 2008 war on Gaza have spoken out on what they say really happened during the 22-day offensive. Israel has rejected charges that it could be guilty of war crimes.
Now the activist group Breaking the Silence has published soldiers' testimonies saying crimes were committed, and even encouraged.
Israeli Soldiers Admit to War Crimes in Gaza testimonies UN charges Mark Regev spokesman covenant of God violence Judaism temple Solomon Islam Christiani… Continue
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By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah
There seems to be a perfect conformity between Gabi Ashkenazi and his last name. The Israeli chief of staff is considered one of the main Israeli war criminals responsible for the virtual genocide against the Gaza Strip during the past winter. O… Continue
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Richard Goldstone, the jurist who authored a UN report accusing Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity during its war on Gaza, has challenged the US to justify its claims that his findings are flawed and biased.
Goldstone told Al Jazeera on Thursday that he had not heard from the ad… Continue
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SUBJECT: TELL CONGRESS TO RESPECT US AND INTERNATIONAL LAW!
Emergency – Call Congress Now
The US Congress is a considering a bipartisan resolution which would officially reject the findings of Judge Goldstone’s report on the Gaza war and call on President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton to use the US veto to prevent a vote on the report in the United Nations Security Council. A vote on the bill, House Resolution 867, is expected by this coming weekend.
It is urgent that you call both you… Continue
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A Palestinian human rights advocate claims the Zionist Occupation Forces buried some Palestinians alive during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.
This being reported from the Palestinian Information Centre:
Palestinian human rights activist Nashaat Al-Wahidi, revealed Monday that th… Continue
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Ahmad Sa'adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, is one of over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails. These political prisoners, men, women and children, are activists, organizers and politica… Continue
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States cannot die. They simply don't have life, they don't have souls. They are just organizations that in an ideal world would take care of administrative issues and would submit to the basic sovereignty of its citizens. Yet, in a sense, states reflect the life of its citizens, if the citizens die, the sta… Continue
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Gaza, October 17, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - Thabet El Masri, is the Director of the Intensive Care Unit at the Shifa Hospital, a public institution in the Gaza Strip. He replies here to the questions of Silvia Cattori about the recent increase in the number of babies being born with birth defects. Gaza Isr… Continue
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Netanyahu vows never to let Israelis be tried for war crimes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he would never allow any of the Israel's leaders or soldiers to be put on trial for war crimes.
Netanyahu opened his fiery speech at the inauguration of the Knesset's winter session by blasting the Goldstone Commission's report sponsored by the United Nations, that accused Israel of committing war crimes during its war against militants in the Gaza Strip last year.… Continue
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By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a request to the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged Israeli crimes during last winter’s Gaza war.
Shalom Kital, an aide to defence minister Ehud Barak, said today that Israel will not release a share of the radio spectrum that has long been sought by the Palestinian Authority to enable the launch of a… Continue
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1,400 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during Operation Cast Lead. This is a huge war crimes and it can't go away. We have witnessed the tragic event from our computer screens...
Now, Israel is recurring to threats to make the charges go away...
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Published Monday 28/09/2009 (updated) 30/09/2009 15:48
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel is threatening to withhold permission for a second Palestinian cellular… Continue
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Published today (updated) 29/09/2009 19:56
Judge Richard Goldstone during his mission to GazaBethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – A lack of accountability for war crimes committed in the Middle East is undermining any hope for peace in the region, Justice Richard Goldstone, told the UN Hman Rights Council Tuesday.
"A culture of impunity in the region has existed for too long," Goldstone, the author of the report, a former UN war crimes prosecutor and Jewish South African, told the UN Human Rights Coun… Continue
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