December 29, 2008
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GazaFriends: The DIGNITY has left for Gaza
The Dignity has left Cyprus & should arrive in Gaza tomorrow around 10am (local). Watch here for updates and check the website, www.freegaza.org as well. Israel has declared Gaza a ‘closed military zone’, making sure no one can witness the atrocities. Our boat is going to challenge that closure. Continue reading
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Aeyal Gross’s Gaza notes – On Gaza’s (non-existent) health system
The health system in Gaza is in a state of collapse – A medical supplies store was bombarded today – Referrals to medical care outside the Gaza strip are suspended Continue reading
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No place to run, no place to hide By William Bowles
It is directly because of ‘journalism’ like Bowen’s that we have no understanding of our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ situation, where, according to Bowen resistance to Israeli slaughter comes not from a proud people defending what’s left of their homeland but from religious fanatics. Continue reading
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Norman Solomon: A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
Even if you set aside the magnitude of Israel’s violations of the Geneva conventions and the long terrible history of its methodical collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, consider the vastly disproportionate carnage in the conflict. Continue reading
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Mohamed Khodr – The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza: The Sacrificial Lamb to Israeli-American-Arab Interests
As of this writing 284 Palestinians have been murdered, over 700 injured (many in critical condition); most are innocent civilians living in the most densely populated area in the world—Gaza. This is the highest one day total of dead and injured by Israel’s terrorism since its founding in 1948. Continue reading
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Haaretz: Israel destroys Islamic University in Gaza
Calling the Islamic University a “key center of Hamas power” to justify its destruction is like calling the Hebrew University a key center of Israeli power and, by that, justifying blowing it up! Continue reading
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Dignity Leaves on Emergency Mission
More than two-hundred, maybe three-hundred people have died in Gaza under the shelling of Israeli military jets. Hundreds are injured. This Sunday, the killing activities have continued. The wall between Gaza and Egypt has now been torn down by Gazans, according to international Human Rights observers witnessing and documenting the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Millions… Continue reading
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Dignity Leaves for Gaza: Challenges World to “Stop this Madness!”
There is a time when silence is complicity and inaction is unacceptable. On Saturday, December 27, Israel began Operation “Cast Lead,” a military onslaught against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip that has – so far – massacred more than three-hundred men, women, and children, and seriously injured over a thousand. Continue reading
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Gaza’s Guernica
Please take up this statement and promote it wherever you can — in newspapers, professional and trade union journals, on internet sites. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 