December 2008
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Gaza Attack: Please sign petition
We have started a 1000 letter campaign to the U.S. Foreign Affairs committee, a phone/fax/email campaign to the Egyptian embassy, White House and various other political leaders. Continue reading
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Ha’aretz: Pro-Palestinian activists say Navy fired on protest boat off Gaza shore
An Israel Navy ship clashed on Tuesday with a small boat carrying international activists with aid destined for Gaza, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Israeli Navy attacks and wounds Dignity in International Waters
On Tuesday, December 30, at 5 a.m., several Israeli gunboats intercepted the Dignity as she was heading on a mission of mercy to Gaza. One gunboat rammed into the boat on the port bow side, heavily damaging her. The reports from the passengers and journalists on board is that she is taking on water and… Continue reading
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SS Dignity badly damaged by Israeli Navy fire
The boat is badly damaged, and it is, in fact, heading toward Lebanon Continue reading
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News Update from Gaza: Day 3
Victims toll of Israeli military operation reached 350 while wounded up to 1500 people. Continue reading
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URGENT! Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship! TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, is being attacked by the Israeli Navy in international waters. The Dignity has been surrounded by at least half-a-dozen Israeli warships. They are firing live ammunition around the Dignity, and one of the warships has rammed the civilian craft causing an… Continue reading
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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
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Barak Ravid: Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about
Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. According to the sources, Barak maintained that although the lull would allow Hamas to prepare for a showdown with… Continue reading
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Emergency Alert: Take Action to End Israeli Attacks on Gaza
While the scope of civilian casualties in today’s attacks is not yet clear, it is unmistakable that Israel carried out these attacks with F16 fighter jets and missiles provided by the taxpayers of this country. Continue reading
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Gaza today: ‘This is only the beginning’ By Ewa Jasiewicz
Over 220 people have been killed and over 400 injured through attacks that shocked the strip in the space 15 minutes. Hospitals are overloaded and unable to cope. These attacks come on top of existing conditions of humanitarian crisis: a lack of medicines, bread, flour, gas, electricity, fuel and freedom of movement. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter Special Report – Slaughter In Gaza
Aggregation of news stories and videos of the attack on the Gaza Strip by Israeli jets. Continue reading
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December: The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
There can be no two-state solution; there can be no one-state solution. There can be no solution without the revolutionary overthrow of the Israeli state. Attempts at Israel’s simple destruction are worse than fruitless; they are necessary to its very existence. The transition then from resistance to revolution requires the socialist rejection of Arab nationalism… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 