Palestine
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GazaFriends: ‘Free Gaza’ Ship Leaves Today to Break Through Israeli Blockade for the Fourth Time
The Free Gaza Movement announced today that it would send a delegation from Cyprus to Gaza aboard their blockade-busting ship, the Dignity, at 11pm, Monday, 8 December. Continue reading
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Ilan Pappe: State of Denial: Israel, 1948-2008
As long as the moral lesson is not learned, the state of Israel will continue to exist as a hostile enclave at the heart of the Arab world. It would remain the last reminder of the colonialist past that complicates not only Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians, but with the Arab world as a whole. Continue reading
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MIR: West Bank Stories
6 December, 2008 Warning.This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. Palestinians brace themselves for more attacks by extremist Israeli settlers. Will the Israeli government be able to contain the violence? And can Palestinians win in Israeli courts? Answers to these questions… Continue reading
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Eileen Fleming: GazaFriends – Kidnapped at Gunpoint and Deported by Israeli Forces: And She Will Return
On November 18, 2008, Darlene Wallach of California was kidnapped at gunpoint by Israeli forces and deported to New York City on Thanksgiving Day. She arrived without money, passport, cell phone, warm winter clothes and had no way of contacting her family and friends in California, London, or Cyprus. Continue reading
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Kathleen and Bill Christison – Will You Continue to Ignore Gaza’s Suffering, Mr Obama?
Right now, the circumstances could not be more inhumane. Right now, the paramount Palestinian crisis is in Gaza, where Israel – with active political and ongoing financial backing from the United States – is blockading a tiny, horribly overcrowded piece of land and consciously depriving its 1.5 million people of all of the essentials of… Continue reading
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Israeli Terrorist Settler Shooting Palestinians in Hebron
Footage filmed by Jamal Abu-Sa’ifan, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, documenting a terrorist Israeli settler shooting two members of his family. The event occurs following the eviction settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied in Hebron. Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se’ifan family, and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his handgun at… Continue reading
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Blowing Away Palestinians with Remote Control Guns
The Israel Defense Forces has found a way to target Gaza Strip terrorists from kilometers away, with just three pushes of a button. It may look like a video game, but it’s actually a new system called “The Seer Shoots,” which has entered operation in recent days on the Gaza Strip border. Continue reading
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Journalist Amira Haas Arrested entering Israel
Hass, the child of Holocaust survivors, became the first and only Israeli journalist to be ever based in Gaza, moving there in 1993 to live and work. Today, she is still the only Israeli journalist to based in the Occupied Palestinian Territories moving to Ramallah in 1997. Continue reading
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Kobi Ben Simon: God’s Little Acre
Israel inside the Green Line may be the new frontier for extremist Zionist settlement. Apparently, the West Bank settlement project is considered secure enough to move on to more challenging pastures. As the Rabbi himself notes in the article, “we had carried out a great project in the settlements for the past 30 years, but… Continue reading
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Sonja Karkar: Gaza`s Death Throes
What kind of government seals a heavily populated territory of 1.5 million people so that no person can enter or leave without permission, fishermen cannot fish in their own waters, and world food aid cannot be delivered to the starving population? Continue reading
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Uri Blau: Targeted Assassinations – a License to kill
Malaisha was a target for assassination. His fate had been decided several months earlier, in the office of then head of Central Command, Yair Naveh. As far as the public was concerned, on the other hand, the last declared assassination carried out by the IDF in the West Bank took place in August 2006; at… Continue reading
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Gaza: Beyond the blockade
Sameh Habeeb reports on the humanitarian crisis taking place inside Gaza’s sealed borders http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1812244 more about “Gaza: Beyond the blockade“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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EILEEN FLEMING: The Ongoing Nakba and Vanunu
Vanunu has been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize annually since 1986 for his courage and truth telling, by providing the photographic eveidence that warned the world that Israel had already manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads in 1985. Continue reading
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Akram Awad – The Siege on Gaza: We Share the Blame
As an international community, we all share the responsibility for the ongoing brutal siege on Gaza, and not until we utilise all possible means of peaceful and nonviolent resistance shall we hope for a close end of that siege. Continue reading
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Gaza: Siege report for the past 20 days
Popular Committee Against Siege PCAS issues a comprehensives report on the latest of siege outcomes which hit all life aspects. The crisis came up strongly as Israel completely closed crossings, banned food stuff, fuel shipments and all products into Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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In besieged Gaza, Journal of a voyage by Gideon Spiro : A call for civil disobedience
When Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, called me and asked me to join the sea-voyage of the humanitarian delegation from Larnaca (Cyprus) to Gaza to break the Israeli closure and to bring medicine to the besieged city, I answered positively without hesitation. Continue reading
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Blockade plunges Gaza Strip into darkness
Israel’s defence minister has said the border crossing between Israel and the Gaza strip will stay closed, putting the life of Gazans at risk as they feel the pinch of the blockade. Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros reports from the impoverished strip where shortages are threatening those who are already most vulnerable. Continue reading
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Abu Kamel of the al-Kurd family has died two weeks after Israel forcibly evicted him from his home of 52 years
Abu Kamel of the Al-Kurd family, died two weeks after he was taken immediately to hospital following the night-time invasion and forcible eviction from his home of 52 years by Israeli forces. Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon in Valencia – And the Bush Burned
The concert, an hour and a half of intense musical emotions, was based on four themes taken from two important albums of the group, MusiK (2004) and Refuge (2007), in which Atzmon articulated and developed a line of reasoning and discourse that is explicitly dedicated to describing through chromatic scales the current Iraqi tragedy undertaken… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 