Gaza
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Gaza bonanza By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau
bout two months ago, the COGAT officials allowed pumpkins and carrots into Gaza, reversing a ban that had been in place for many months. The entry of “delicacies” such as cherries, kiwi, green almonds, pomegranates and chocolate is expressly prohibited. As is halvah, too, most of the time. Sources involved in COGAT’s work say that… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends Video Update
We think we have a video that you will not forget… a video that is a testament to the grace and bravery of the Palestinians. Continue reading
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Lina Suleiman – State of “Caged” Palestinians
American rhetoric is full of devious political Language. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with Al Jazeera in May 19 confirmed that “the US is going to be pushing for a two-state solution which, by its very name, implies borders that have to be agreed to”. But why the borders should be… Continue reading
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Video: Jordan Flaherty, “Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice through Hip-Hop”
Fifteen Hip-Hop acts from across Palestine performed on Thursday night, and the show was broadcast simultaneously in Gaza City and the West Bank city of Ramallah. Through the use of video conferencing and projection, each city could see and hear the performances happening in the other. Five groups from Gaza participated, and Gazans came in… Continue reading
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Palestine – do the right thing by George Galloway MP
Seasoned activists in the Palestinian cause confirm that there is now a window of opportunity to take this case beyond the ghetto and into the mainstream of political life – in the US and in Britain, which between them bear the heaviest responsibility for the suffering in Palestine: the US as the cashier for Israeli… Continue reading
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Video Free Gaza News 3 June, 2009
Video update, news from Free Gaza Continue reading
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Video: Free Gaza Promo
We are returning to Gaza… and not just once but the boats will be sent all summer Continue reading
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John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”
Video: John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s “Letter from Gaza” Continue reading
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Video: Free Gaza News 27th May 2009
Greta Berlin is asking questions, about Free Gaza summer plans, to Mary Hughes Thompson, one of the co-founders of The Free Gaza Movement Continue reading
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Media Lens 18 May, 2009: Beholden To The Big Powers: Israel, Gaza And The UN
For the corporate media, then, there is no need for forensic analysis of this latest cynical sidelining of the UN, a body set up to promote world peace after all. There has been no rottweiler unearthing of this UN capitulation which, once again, effectively covers up major atrocities committed by Israel with heavy backing from… Continue reading
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On TV: Israeli siege kills baby aged 2
Another Palestinian child died in a very dramatic scene documented on T.V. A baby aged 2 died today from a heart defect made worse by lack of medical care due to the Israeli imposed siege. Continue reading
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Video: WHY YOU SHOULD DEMONSTRATE ON 16 MAY
Every day from 27 December to 19 January this year Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, from the land, sea and air. Nearly 1400 people were killed, 314 of them children, and thousands were wounded. Israel is seeking to justify its actions by broadcasting massive misinformation about the history of Gaza,… Continue reading
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Video: GazaFriends – We are sailing again
We want to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip and pressure the international community to review its sanctions policy and end its support for continued Israeli occupation. Continue reading
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Free Palestine — End Israeli Occupation — End the Arms trade JOIN US TO MAKE THIS THE BIGGEST DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE IN THE UK
Free Palestine — End Israeli Occupation — End the Arms trade JOIN US TO MAKE THIS THE BIGGEST DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE IN THE UK Continue reading
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Iqbal Tamimi – Gaza artists deliver hope out of the womb of destruction
No colours were left in Gaza, no canvas or building material since the tools of arts are like food and medicine and were subjected to the cruel Israeli siege. But Gaza’s artists will never give up, they used destroyed oxygen cylinders, parts of what is left of a bed, remains of destroyed ambulances that were… Continue reading
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George Galloway writes to the Charity Commission
I have become increasingly concerned about the abuse of your powers displayed in your brazenly obvious political double standards. About your attempts, under the guise of regulating British charities, to police the democratic efforts of political activists in Britain in a way never envisaged by parliament. Continue reading
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Palestine: Shooting and Crying – Nothing New Since 1948 … Or is it? Anis Hamadeh
The Jewish state will collapse, like the Aryan state has collapsed, because both have the seed of self-destruction in them. Both are clearly racist, violent and expansionist in nature. This time it hits Arabs and Muslims instead of Jews. Continue reading
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PCHR: Aftermath (7) ‘I know every inch of this land…’
Land Day was launched in 1976, as a commemoration of the deaths of six Palestinian citizens of northern Israel killed by the Israeli military as they demonstrated against expropriation of their land. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Children Of Darkness – Killing ‘Them’ – Part 2
The idea that Israel’s massacre of 1,400 Palestinians was intended to stop rocket attacks is hard to reconcile with the fact that Israel deliberately provoked those attacks when it broke the ceasefire with its November 4, 2008 attack killing six people in Gaza Continue reading
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Shame on us!
Last week, a few innocent kids from the Jenin refugee camp were surreptiously taken to Tel Aviv to “cheer up and take part in peace-promoting activities. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 