January 2009
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Birth Pangs of a New Palestine by Mouin Rabbani
Two issues rise head and shoulders above the rest: the urgency of beginning the process of reversing Israel’s impunity in its dealings with the Palestinian people, and the equally dire need to address the fundamental issue of occupation, without which ceasefires, sieges and code-named calamities like Operation Cast Lead would be unnecessary. Continue reading
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Israel’s Next War: Today the Gaza Strip, Tomorrow Lebanon? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
In the Middle East, it is widely believed that the war against Gaza is an extension of the 2006 war against Lebanon. Without question, the war in the Gaza Strip is a part of the same conflict. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Vittorio Arrigoni: Dante’s Hell is Alive and Well in Gaza
The cleaners are permanently busy wiping away the blood dripping copiously from the stretchers constantly carrying in the massacred bodies. Iyad Mutawwaq was walking in the street when a bomb tore open a building not far from him. He and other passers-by rushed over to try and bring some aid when a second bomb was… Continue reading
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History Repeating itself
Two images from a must see collection compiled by Norman Finkelstein, Nazis on the left, Israelis on the right. Continue reading
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PCHR: Weekly Report 8-14 January, 2009: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Have Continued Their War on the Gaza for the 3rd Consecutive Week under International Silence Continue reading
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Video: Gazan Doctor’s children killed while he is speaking to Israeli TV
Video: Gazan Doctor’s children killed while he is speaking to Israeli TV Continue reading
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PCHR: 19th Day of Continuous IOF Attacks Across the Gaza Strip
As the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their indiscriminate attacks across the Gaza Strip for the nineteenth consecutive day, the number of Palestinian civilian deaths continues to rise. Continue reading
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Petition: Growing outrage at the killings in Gaza
This remarkable petition in today’s Guardian makes me wonder when American academics and literary figures will have the courage and decency to do the same. How many wars must we witness before our intellectuals will say enough? Continue reading
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Press Release — Calling to Prevent War Crimes is Not Breaking the Law
The request of the extreme right wing organization “Legal Forum for the Land of Israel” to the Attorney-General of Israel, to prosecute Attorney Shamai Leibowitz for the appeal to soldiers to disrupt and prevent war crimes is cynical, malicious and devoid of any legal basis. Continue reading
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By VIJAY PRASHAD: An African-American in Gaza
Israeli contempt for the United Nations begins in the 1940s and continues to this day. Continue reading
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Jonathan Cook: Israeli assault injures 1.5 million Gazans
This week the death toll in Gaza passed the 1,000 mark, after three weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks. But surprisingly, no one has reported an even more appalling statistic: that there are some 1.5 million injured Palestinians in Gaza. Continue reading
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Israel’s righteous fury and its victims in Gaza By Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada
But the lies and distorted representations are not the worst part of it. It is the direct attack on the last vestiges of humanity and dignity of the Palestinian people that is most enraging. The Palestinians in Israel have shown their solidarity with the people of Gaza and are now branded as a fifth column… Continue reading
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Gaza-bound medical supplies hijacked by Israel
Our buses arrived in Ashkelon, where the buses were stopped by hysterical police forces who stopped us from continuing. Continue reading
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Video: Rafah Today
Video: Gaza under fire Continue reading
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A burnt offering By William Bowles
Far from being the death knell of the Palestinian struggle for their national rights, I contend that this may well spell the end of Zionism. Continue reading
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The Israeli War on the Gaza Strip: “The Birth Pangs of a New Palestine/Middle East” By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
What is taking place in the Palestinian Territories is related to what is taking place across the Middle East and Central Asia, from Lebanon to Iraq and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan, as part of a broader geo-strategic objective. Continue reading
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PCHR: In Gaza All Of Our Humanity Is At Stake
Since December 27, 2008, the IOF have killed at least 983 Palestinians in Gaza. 85% of the victims are civilians, and 35% of them are children. In addition, more than four thousand Palestinians in Gaza have been maimed and injured by IOF. Continue reading
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Gaza: The Tip of an Iceberg By Francis Clark-Lowes
This is part of an intentional war on the part of Israel, and, moreover, it clearly coincides with the international legal definition of genocide. Continue reading
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PCHR 15 January, 2009: Testimony 2 – Gaza Ambulance Drivers Risk Life and Limb to Evacuate Civilians to Safety
“I have not been to my home for days now, and I can’t believe the situation we are facing. Ninety percent of the injured victims we try to rescue have already lost legs or arms, or both.” Continue reading
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Gaza Is a Concentration Camp By Ellen Cantarow
Gaza is an immense concentration camp — 1.5 million people squeezed into 140 square miles hemmed in on all sides by 25-foot-high walls separated by a vast expanse of bulldozed earth. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 