Do we live on the same planet? By William Bowles

January 2, 20091 Comment

2 January 2009

Apparently not, well not if you listen/watch the BBC or read the corporate press, not that creating a world that doesn’t actually exist is anything new, it’s just that the actions of Fascist Israel has stretched our credulity to its limits, thus the media have been forced to stretch their lies to the limit.

You have to ask yourselves how the hell do they get away with it?

The answer is simple: it’s racism, pure and simple. Palestinians are less than human, thus eliminating them is as easy as eliminating vermin, and the actions of Fascist Israel are backed up with their words; Palestinians are “vermin”, “cockroaches”, “Palestine is finished” and so it goes.
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Shiko Behar: NY times: Who Ended the 6 Month Cease-fire in Israel/Palestine?

January 2, 20092 Comments

1 January, 2009

On December 30, 2008 the New York Times published its first editorial on the recent bombings of Gaza. The editors open their text with the following claim: “Hamas must bear responsibility for ending a six-month cease-fire this month with a barrage of rocket attacks into Israeli territory.”

www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30tue1.html?ref=opinion

While the editors assign the blame conveniently and squarely on Hamas, this nevertheless remains a factually erroneous statement contradicting reporting by Israeli newspapers (in both Hebrew and English), British press, Amnesty International and – perhaps curiously enough – November 2008 reporting by the NYT itself.

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Action Alert: Twenty-Six Things You Can do to Help Gaza

January 2, 2009Leave a comment

2 January, 2009 02:30 AM CST

So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian areas issued a statement that “The Israeli air-strikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.”
Twenty-six things to do to bring peace with justice:
(1) First get the facts and then disseminate them. Here are some basic background information:
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