Gaza Strip
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Media Lens Rapid Response Media Alert: The BBC Refuses To Broadcast Gaza Charity Appeal
Despite this carnage, despite the fact that 89% of Gaza’s 1.5 million residents have received no humanitarian aid since Israel began its assault, the Guardian notes that the BBC has refused to broadcast a national humanitarian appeal for Gaza Continue reading
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BBC BLOCKS AID TO GAZA: PROTEST 24 JANUARY BRING DOLLS TO LAY OUTSIDE THE BBC BRING SHOES WITH A MESSAGE FOR GORDON BROWN
If the BBC was not tarnished enough by its coverage of Israel’s attack on Gaza — in the words of Tony Benn, “often looking like a propaganda wing of the Zionist lobby” — its decision yesterday to block an appeal for emergency aid to Gaza would be reason enough for making the BBC a focus… Continue reading
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The Crisis in Gaza: An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
I wish very much that some Palestinian left-wing force could emerge as a real major player on the scene. Continue reading
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PCHR: A Heartfelt Message of Thanks to All Our Friends & Supporters
[I thought I would pass on this email I got today from PCHR as I’m sure many of you have been following events in Gaza and reading their informative press releases. The Ed] Palestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non profit) Press Release Dear Friends and Supporters, Greetings from the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Centre Continue reading
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PCHR: IOF Offensive on the Gaza Strip Makes it Like Earthquake Zone and Claims Civilian Lives and Property
The offensive launched by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on the Gaza Strip, between 27 December and 18 January 2009, has caused total destruction in many parts of the Gaza Strip, making these parts look like earthquake zones. Continue reading
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The Gaza Bombshell By David Rose
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. Continue reading
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Israel's Message to Iran By Shourideh C. Molavi
But Israel’s military attack does not only affect the ‘Palestinian problem’ but has widespread regional implications for any future political or military engagement with Iran. Continue reading
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Petition for the Creation of a Special Tribunal to try Israeli War Criminals
Petition for the Creation of a Special Tribunal to try Israeli War Criminals Continue reading
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VIDEO: Gaza’s destruction revealed
The cessation of fighting in Gaza has allowed the true scale of destruction there to be revealed. Continue reading
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A ‘Police State’ Celebrates by Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Israeli government is stepping up efforts to suppress dissent and crush resistance in the streets. Police have been videotaping the demonstrations and subsequently arresting protesters in large numbers. Continue reading
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Video: We will not go down (Song for Gaza)
Video: We will not go down (Song for Gaza) Continue reading
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PCHR: 23rd Day of Continuous IOF Offensive on the Gaza Strip
PCHR field workers who visited several areas throughout the Gaza Strip, especially Gaza City, the north and the Egyptian border reported as these areas looked as they were struck by a heavy earthquake. Continue reading
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Now why can’t those damn Palestinians just disappear? By William Bowles
Unfortunately for Israel, those damn Palestinians persisted in ‘hanging around’, jammed into refugee camps across the Middle East, ghettoized and relegated to third class people in the land of their birth, Palestine. Continue reading
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Israel Recruits Army Of Bloggers To Troll Anti-War Websites
According to a report in Haaretz, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry is setting up `an army of bloggers` who will `represent` Israel on `anti-Zionist blogs` in English, French, Spanish and German. Continue reading
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Iranian Journalist Interviews musician Gilad Atzmon
The full text of an exclusive interview with Gilad Atzmon in which a variety of topics related to the ongoing slaughter of Gaza, Israeli crimes against humanity and the necessity of holding a trial for the Israeli officials in a just and objective international court is discussed Continue reading
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Name and Shame British Friends of Israel
Redress Information & Analysis names and shames members of Israel’s network of stooges in the British Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties Continue reading
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Video: Inside Story – Gaza diplomacy – 18 Jan 2009 – Part 2
On Friday, an emergency summit took place in Doha to discuss ceasefire prospects for Gaza. In protest against the war on Gaza, Qatar and Mauritania had suspended ties with Israel and urged other states to follow. A second, apparently rival, summit of European and so-called “moderate” Arab leaders also gathered in Sharm El Shaikh. A Continue reading
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Video: Inside Story – Gaza diplomacy – 18 Jan 2009 – Part 1
Video: Mahdi Abdulhadi and Robert Fisk are interviewed on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story. Continue reading
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Statement on Gaza Cease-Fire: Our Work Is Not Over
This weekend, Israel and Hamas agreed separately to a cease-fire and Israel has begun to withdraw its troops from the occupied Gaza Strip. Since December 27, Israel killed more than 1,250 Palestinians, more than half of whom were civilians according to the UN, medical sources, and human rights organizations, and injured more than 5,000. 13 Continue reading
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