Gaza Strip
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Massacres in Gaza, Demonstrations in the West Bank….
Please forward to media immediately and pick-up the phone and call media outlets immediately to condemn the atrocities being committed in Gaza (Using US taxpayer money and International and Arab Government Acquiescence). Demonstrations are ongoing throughout the West Bank. Continue reading
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AIC Condemns Deadly Attacks on Gaza, Calls for Civil Society Mobilization, International Sanctions
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) condemns today’s deadly attack by the Israeli Air Force on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of (at this moment) over 150 Palestinians. The AIC calls on social movements throughout the world to mobilize against these Israeli war crimes and demands that the international community implement sanctions against… Continue reading
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Israeli Air Strikes Continue To Pound Gaza Strip
This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. Israel launches air strikes on Gaza. At least 195 people are reported to have been killed and more than 200 injured. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1906392 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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International Witnesses speak out from Gaza
At the time of the attacks I was on Omar Mukhtar street and witnessed a last rocket hit the street 150 meters away where crowds had already gathered to try to extract the dead bodies. Ambulances, trucks, cars – anything that can move is bringing injured to the hospitals. Hospitals have had to evacuate sick… Continue reading
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Ali Abunimah: Gaza massacres must spur us to action
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world. Continue reading
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At least 195 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza
Israeli defense minister says Gaza operation will widen as necessary…Israeli air attacks continue as night falls in Gaza…. Palestinian medical sources say Gaza toll has reached 205 people, including many women & children Continue reading
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David Parker: Palestine: the Architecture of Apartheid
According to Weizman, the natural and built features of the landscape function as weapons and ammunition for the conflict. The Occupied Territories have become a series of layers and territories, each manipulated by the Israeli authorities. Borders are porous for Israelis but solid for Palestinians. Checkpoints are a source of humiliation. Continue reading
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Rannie Amiri: Arabs’ Deadly Silence: All Quiet on the Gaza Shore
Although located in the middle of the Arab world and bordering one of its principal and most populous countries, it could very well be in the middle of the ocean, isolated and unbeknownst to anyone. Its residents, if given the choice, may actually prefer this setting than bear witness to the malignant neglect afforded them… Continue reading
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No one’s listening to Gaza’s death throes
What kind of government in the 21st century can deny another people basic human rights — that is, the right to food, water, shelter, security and dignity? Continue reading
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GazaFriends: We Do Not Ask Permission from Israel
The Free Gaza Movement is sending the Dignity on its fifth mission to Gaza with envoys on board from the people of Qatar. The boat also carries journalists, human rights observers, and Palestinians who want to return home and have been prevented from doing so by the Israeli occupation. Continue reading
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Divide and Shock in Palestine By Ewa Jasiewicz
The Palestine Plan follows a typical DFID free-market directive. It opts for the standard blasts of evisceration of public services (already torpedoed by Israeli tanks and fighter jets since the Al Aqsa Intifada), privatisation of assets and resources (Israel has already helped itself to the Western aquifer through annexing a further 20% of the West… Continue reading
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Ilan Pappe: State of Denial: Israel, 1948-2008
The 1948 war’s diplomatic maneuvers and military campaigns are well engraved in Israeli Jewish historiography. What is missing is the chapter on the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Jews in 1948: 500 Palestinian villages and 11 urban neighborhoods were destroyed, 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, and several thousands more were massacred. Why… 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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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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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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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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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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Sameh Habeeb – Gaza: a Dire Life Zone Still Clings to Hope
Afterwards, Israel started a new phase of collective punishment and began more violent prevocational measures against 1.5 million people. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 