Palestine
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Gaza escalation: There was another way By Dahlia Scheindlin
As if the heartache over the escalation and its appalling predictability isn’t enough, as if the pain of watching whole communities cower under rockets while planning the next decade of psychotherapy for children isn’t enough, as if fresh Israeli and Palestinian deaths isn’t enough, the IDF sent the following message on its Twitter feed: Continue reading
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Video: Israel's Deadly 'Monopoly of Force' in Gaza By grtv
Eric Draitser, a geopolitical analyst for Stop Imperialism.com, thinks Israel’s actions are disproportionate, and the violence will spill over beyond Gaza’s borders. He sees the attack as fitting in with the pre-election campaign to influence Israel’s general election. Continue reading
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Video: Israel’s Deadly ‘Monopoly of Force’ in Gaza By grtv
Eric Draitser, a geopolitical analyst for Stop Imperialism.com, thinks Israel’s actions are disproportionate, and the violence will spill over beyond Gaza’s borders. He sees the attack as fitting in with the pre-election campaign to influence Israel’s general election. Continue reading
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Gaza Under Attack – Protest
In protest at Israel’s latest escalation of violence against Palestinians whom they have blockaded in the Gaza Strip, local Palestine Solidarity Campaign groups, together with many other organisations are organising protests up and down the country. Continue reading
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Anonymous warns Israel: ‘No one cuts Gaza internet on our watch!’
The hacktivist group Anonymous is angry at Israel, and not just for launching deadly airstrikes on Gaza. Members say the Israeli government “crossed a line in the sand” when it threatened to sever internet and other telecommunications in Gaza. Continue reading
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Video: Israel Escalates Assault On Gaza Strip after Assassination Of Top Hamas Commander
Jihan Hafiz reports on the on-going military action in Gaza Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: IOF Attacks Gaza Again
On November 14, 2012, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) unleashed another massacre in Gaza. In just one day, 15 Palestinians were killed, most of them women and children. Dozens were injured, homes destroyed and the hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed with the wounded. Israel and its apologists say this is a war, but the people… Continue reading
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Leader of Hamas’ Armed Wing and His Bodyguard Extra-Judicially Executed-Death Toll in Rises to 13, Including Two Children and a Woman…
Since Wednesday evening, 14 November 2012, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated military attacks on the Gaza Strip. They first extra-judicially executed the leader of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) and his bodyguard. This attack was followed by a series of aerial, ground and sea attacks on civilian and paramilitary targets… Continue reading
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Video: Hamas says now in ‘open war’ with Israel, promises ‘gates of hell’
Hamas says that it is now in a state of “open war” indefinitely with Israel after the killing of the Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari by an Israeli airstrike. Continue reading
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Video: Hamas says now in 'open war' with Israel, promises 'gates of hell'
Hamas says that it is now in a state of “open war” indefinitely with Israel after the killing of the Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari by an Israeli airstrike. Continue reading
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The Sabra-Chatila massacre: Thirty years on By Franklin Lamb
Authors, photo-chroniclers and historians of the 1982 massacre, Mya Shone and Ralph Schoenman, replied to a recent New York Times article on the massacre by reminding us this week that “Haaretz recounted on September 26, 1982 the high level planning that preceded the invasion in service to “the long term objective aimed at the expulsion… Continue reading
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Putting Palestine On The Agenda: At The Russell Tribunal In New York By Danny Schechter
Today, the Russell Tribunal focusing on “the complicity and responsibility of various, national and international and corporate acts and the perpetuation of Israel’s impunity under international law.’ It seeks to provide a platform for “international personalities who advocate for an end to Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinian rights.” Continue reading
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TIFF: Cultural Starwars By Eric Walberg
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival highlights the new direction in filmmaking: Iran is the enemy du jour, but at the same time it is not longer kosher to praise everything Israel does, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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PCHR: Occupied Lives: No justice for my son’s death
On Tuesday, 16 August 2011, Saad al-Majdalawi, a 17-year-old mentally disabled boy, died when he was targeted with live fire by Israel’s forces positioned on the border between Nusseirat, in the central part of the Gaza Strip, and Israel. Saad was unarmed and posed no threat to Israeli soldiers when he was shot and killed. Continue reading
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Israeli-US Script: Divide Syria, Divide the Rest By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
What is happening in Syria is a sign of things to come for the region. Regime change is not the sole goal of the US and its allies in Syria. Dividing the Syrian Arab Republic is the end goal of Washington in Syria. Continue reading
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Video: Miko Peled on One State
Miko Peled talks about the possibility of a one-state solution to the crisis that confronts Israel. Continue reading
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