Palestine
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Mustafa Barghouti – Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood
Israel cannot and would not act against the will of its economic allies in Europe or its military allies in the US. Israel may be pulling the trigger ending hundreds, perhaps even thousands of lives this week, but it is the apathy of the world and the inhumane tolerance of Palestinian suffering which allows this… Continue reading
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PCHR: 251 Palestinians, Mostly Civilians, Including 20 Children and 9 Women, Killed and 584 Others, Including 130 Children and 28 Women, Wounded
PCHR believes that this declared war target Palestinian civilians and their property, and statements of Israeli political and military officials herald a humanitarian catastrophe and a persistent war at all levels. Continue reading
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Gaza Emergency Appeal from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
Since the beginning of attacks in Gaza three days ago, over 300 people have been reported dead, more than 1000 wounded, and many hundreds more are in need of immediate medical attention. With a medical system already on the verge of collapse as a result of the ongoing closure, 1.4 million civilians are in desperate… Continue reading
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Take Action – (USA) Palestinians in Gaza are bleeding
Write letters to members of Congress and the State Department, demonstrate at the White House and Israeli Embassies and consulates, write letters to the editor and op-eds for every news outlet, call radio talk shows, protest the U.S. representatives at the UN and their protection of Israeli crimes. Continue reading
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Dan Freeman-Maloy: Israeli Slaughter, International Culpability
There is every reason to be outraged. But despite the severity of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, we have little right to act surprised. Whatever else can be said, Israel has made it abundantly clear that until its actions are met with credible international sanctions, it will subject Palestinians (and very likely others in the region)… Continue reading
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Gaza media blackout
The blockade of Gaza has now been extended to the media In this week’s News Divide we turn our attention to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which has now been extended to the media, creating a news blackout that has severely restricted the reporting of the suffering in Gaza to the outside world. In the… Continue reading
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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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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 