by General Leonid Ivashov *
General Leonid Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place. This military man, who lived the events from the inside, offers an analysis which is very different to that of his American colleagues. As he did during the Axis for Peace 2005 conference, he now explains that international terrorism does not exist and that the September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up. What we are seeing is a manipulation… Continue
Added by mick on November 26, 2009 at 12:08pm —
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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
Added by mick on October 27, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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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
Added by mick on October 19, 2009 at 5:45pm —
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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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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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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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(CNN) -- Palestinians on Tuesday urged the United Nations to "punish" Israel as a scathing U.N. report accused the nation of war crimes during its military offensive in Gaza last winter.
But Israel rejected the investigation as one-sided and shameful.
The report accused Israel of committing "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during its military incursion into Gaza from December 27 to January 18.
Richard Goldstone, the South African judge who headed the U.N. inv… Continue
Added by mick on September 29, 2009 at 1:19pm —
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By Paul J. Balles
24 September 2009
Paul J. Balles considers the “lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia” inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel’s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
Israelis and their Zionist supporters in the US are having temper tantrums over the latest UN Human Rights Council report on the attacks in Gaza. Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African war crimes prosecutor, led the investigating… Continue
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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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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
Added by mick on August 23, 2009 at 6:42pm —
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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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GENEVA – DAMASCUS: "Violations of the international humanitarian law during the operation Cast Lead, in particular the targeting of civilian population and wanton destruction of property and religious and cultural objects", will be reported to the United Nations General Assembly by the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.
At the end of a ten-day field mission to three Middle Ea… Continue
Added by mick on August 15, 2009 at 4:26pm —
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“Fool Me Twice” Producer/Director Glen Clancy interviews Bali bombing investigator Robert S. Finnegan on recent and not so recent events surrounding the October 12 2002 bombing that killed over 200 people in Kuta, Bali.