January 2009
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Video Message to Israel: here are your victims in Gaza
Video Message to Israel: here are your victims in Gaza Continue reading
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‘Spirit of Humanity’ Leaves for Gaza
The ongoing Israeli massacre severely and massively violates international humanitarian law defined by the Geneva Conventions, especially the obligations of an Occupying Power and the requirements of the laws of war. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: ‘The Ceasefire’ – by Ewa Jasiewicz, reporting from Gaza
Last night was a quiet one in Jabaliya. ‘Only’ six homes bombed into the ground, the Market, again, maybe four lightly injured people – shrapnel to the face injuries – and no martyrs. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: In Gaza, Hippocrates is Dead By Vittorio Arrigoni
Seven doctors and voluntary nurses have been killed from the start of the bombing campaign, and about ten ambulances were shot at by the Israeli artillery. The survivors are shaking with fear, but refuse to take a step back. Continue reading
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Kole Kilibarda: Solidarity with Palestine: Crisis Responses and Movement Building
‘What can I do?’ Among the countless petitions, creative actions, protests, media alerts, letter writing campaigns, public statements and fundraising drives, how can we make the biggest collective impact on Israeli policies Continue reading
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Oakland Ross Israeli peace activists face crackdown
Since the launch of the Gaza offensive two weeks ago, at least 500 Israeli peace activists have been arrested and jailed, all but a few of them Arab Israelis. At least 200 are still behind bars. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Civilian casualties escalate in Gaza
Wounded Palestinians pour into overrun hospitals on the 10th day of Israel’s offensive Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Russia Ukraine gas dispute
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1955827 Russia cut off the natural gas it sends to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday when a payment dispute escalated. Russia claims Ukraine siphoned off gas for its own use. Ukraine denies this. Russia stopped all natural gas supplies to Ukraine on 1 January, but kept supplies flowing to Europe through Ukraine’s pipelines until Wednesday, Continue reading
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Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict? Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel’s Subversion of the ‘Peace Process’ by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The current outbreak of violence cannot be understood without analysing the asymmetries in military violence between the two parties Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon interviewed by “Eleftherotypia” (Greek Sunday Paper)
Being under the spell of a modern evil apparatus we are afraid that telling the truth would reflect badly on us. We are shattered by our own realizations. We are becoming a self-sufficient subservient censoring machine. Against our will we are becoming collaborators of Zionism. Hence we shouldn’t be surprised if the grave fate awaiting… Continue reading
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Francis Boyle – The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
Since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987, the world has seen those heinous war crimes inflicted every day by Israel against the Palestinian people living in occupied Palestine: e.g., willful killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army and by Israel’s illegal paramilitary settlers. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: FREE GAZA TO ISRAEL: “WE ARE COMING IN ON TUESDAY”
The Free Gaza Movement ship, “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,” will leave Larnaca Port at 12:00 noon, Monday, 12 January, on an emergency mission to besieged Gaza. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Vittorio Arrigoni’s eyewitness account from hell
All that’s needed for a modest, yet dignified existence in Gaza comes from Egypt, and arrives on the shops’ shelves through the tunnels. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Will cheap oil compromise Venezuela
Miguel Tinker Salas explains to The Real News that Venezuela had planned ahead for the price drop, by stocking up on US dollars. Continue reading
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100,000 March Against the Gaza Holocaust!
Demonstration in London 100,000 March Against Gaza Holocaust Continue reading
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Tariq Al-Maeena: Aiding and abetting a holocaust
Cambridge Dictionary defines holocaust as “a very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people” — a situation that is currently in full force against Palestinians in Gaza. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Civilian casualties rise to 85% of the dead in Gaza -Jennifer Loewenstein; Beirut, Hamra; 1.10.09. 2:30am
Mezan Center for Human Rights (known for the care it takes not to overstate the numbers and for its strict verification policies) estimates that the number of civilian casualties is approximately 85%. Continue reading
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Conditioning Gaza: preparing to deploy international forces in Palestine? By Hani Asfour
he ultimate goal of the Gaza invasion is to create the conditions to introduce international troops into Palestine. Part of the purpose is to prop up the regime of President Mahmoud Abbas and allow the Palestinian leader to extend his mandate across all of Palestine. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Take some kittens, put them in a box, and jump on the box Vittorio Arrigoni
Take some kittens, some tender little moggies in a box”, said Jamal, a surgeon at the Al Shifa, Gaza’s main hospital, while a nurse actually placed a couple of blood-stained cardboard boxes in front of us. “Seal up the box, then jump on it with all your weight and might, until you feel their little… Continue reading
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Day 14 – Gaza Update from Palestine Solidarity Committee
There is less than 24 hours to go before the PSC’s next national demonstration. From all the information we have been receiving in the office over the last week it is clear to us that tomorrow will see the largest ever demonstration in support of the people of Palestine. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 