Israel
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How daring is the International Criminal Court? By Alexander MEZYAEV
In September the International Criminal Court (ICC) officially reported it had started to preliminarily analyse information about likely inquiries into crimes by the US servicemen in Afghanistan and by Israeli troops in Gaza. The statements stand in stark contrast to the Court’s hitherto pursued policy and therefore merit special attention. Continue reading
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Palestinian Protester to Blair: You are a Terrorist
“You are a terrorist, you are not welcome in the land of Palestine”. A Palestinian from the Hamdan family shouted these words in the face of Tony Blair, Quartet Representative for ‘Peace’ in the Middle East, when he arrived at the Iron Cage at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. A bodyguard of… Continue reading
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PCHR Release English Version of ‘Targeted Civilians: A PCHR Report on the Israeli Military Offensive against the Gaza Strip (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009)’
This report comprehensively documents the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, in which more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed, and over 5,300 injured. The overwhelming majority of those killed and injured were civilians. Attention is also paid to the extensive destruction of civilian object, including homes, and the damage inflicted on industry, agriculture, and the… Continue reading
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Medical Aid for Palestine Annual Review 2008-09
Looking back over the events of the past year one cannot help but focus on the continuing humanitarian disaster in Gaza, exacerbated by the military incursion, which caused so much death and destruction. The timing was extremely poignant for MAP, since it coincided with the start of our 25th anniversary. It is indeed a sad… Continue reading
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Today is the Anniversary of the Maiden Voyage of THE DIGNITY By Greta Berlin
A year ago, our boat, the DIGNITY, made her first voyage to Gaza. She was a beautiful white and silver yacht, donated by people who believed in the Free Gaza movement after our first successful voyage in August. On board were dignitaries such as Mairead Maquire, the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ireland and… Continue reading
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Geo-Strategic Chessboard: War Between India and China? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Since 1947, India has not fully pledged itself to any camp or global pole during the Cold War and as a result was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (N.A.M.). Since the post-Cold War era that position has eroded. New Delhi has been gradually moving away from its traditional position, relationships, and policies in… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS – PART 2
19 October, 2009 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media A Gale Of Spring Air – Barbara Plett And The President On September 24, we wrote to the BBC’s Barbara Plett: Dear Barbara Plett It’s hard to believe your article, ‘Debuts and diatribes at the UN’, was written by a… Continue reading
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Israeli High Court of Justice against Bassam Aramin
On Wednesday we – members of the Combatants for Peace movement, women of Mahsom [Heb. checkpoint] Watch, members of the Forum of Bereaved Families for Peace and writer David Grossman – attended a hearing at the High Court of Justice on the matter of the closing, due to lack of evidence, of the investigatory file… Continue reading
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A NATO for the Middle East? Israel and Frontline Arab States Join Hands By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
After the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq the U.S. and British governments gave up their excuses about bringing democracy to the people of the Middle East and started slowly talking about their strategic interests in the region. Fighting terrorism and bringing democracy were mere pretexts for military assaults. The Anglo-American game plan exposed itself in the summer of 2006… Continue reading
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Is Canada More pro-Israel than the U.S.? By Yves Engler
12 October, 2009 — Electronic Intifada In June, Israel began barring some North Americans with Palestinian-sounding names entry through Ben Gurion Airport. Forced to reroute through a land-border crossing that connects the West Bank with Jordan, their passports were stamped ‘Palestinian Authority only,’ which prevents them from entering Israel proper. The Obama Administration objected to… Continue reading
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Israel’s Religious Right and the Peace Process’ By Nicolas Pelham
What is disturbing about the settlers in Amona is not how distant they are from other Israelis, whether geographically or politically, but how connected. They are national-religious; that is to say, they are devout in their Judaism, but unlike many other religious Jews they believe equally fervently in the secular Zionist project. The national-religious fly… Continue reading
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D'Escoto On Palestine and the UN Part 2
Outgoing General Assembly prez tells niece, after UN inaction on Gaza, “I feel like I’m in a cesspool” Continue reading
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Israel's nukes and Iran: Beneath the hype Pt.3: McGovern & Thielmann on consequences of US silence on Israel’s nuclear weapons
Intelligence experts Ray McGovern and Greg Thielmann respond to a question from the floor on the significance of Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal in the discussion of Iran. McGovern notes that “an unpardonable mistake in US politics is to mention the Israeli arsenal as a motivation for Iran.” Adding that, “by acknowledging the Israeli nukes, one… Continue reading
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‘Through Women’s Eyes: A PCHR Report on the Gender-Specific Impact and Consequences of Operation Cast Lead’
The Israeli offensive claimed the lives of 118 women, and injured at least 825 more. However, although the numbers of victims and casualties illustrate the appalling human toll of this conflict, the true extent of the suffering lies in the day-to-day reality of life in the Gaza Strip following Operation Cast Lead, as civilians struggle… Continue reading
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Video: Walled Horizons – Narrated by Roger Waters (Pink Floyd founding member)
Walled Horizons is narrated by and features Roger Waters (founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd), who visits the Wall in the Palestinian territories and comments on his observations as a musician and a songwriter who has written on walls. The film explores how Palestinians in urban and rural areas have been impacted by… Continue reading
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Israel: Manufacturing Right
For years, Israel dismissed the legal applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the West Bank and Gaza, claiming that they were and are not under occupation but rather “liberated” or at least “disputed” territories. For the most part, this verbal/legal sleight-of-hand did not and has not convinced world civil society. But it joined other… Continue reading
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Tiptoeing between lawsuits: Senior officials stay in Israel
Will someone try to arrest them? Three Israeli lawyers against 1,000 lawsuits from around the world that put senior officials at legal risk for Israel’s defense activities. Such is the situation facing senior Israeli officials traveling abroad recently, from government ministers all the way to IDF officers. Continue reading
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Free Mohammad Othman Now! Rally outside the Israeli Embassy
Israeli occupation forces detained Mohammad Othman on the 22nd of September, 2009. Mohammad was detained while trying to return to the West Bank over the border from Jordan. Mohammad has spent the summer touring Europe, and was returning from his latest trip to Norway. Continue reading
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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Decision of Palestinian Leadership and International Pressure an Insult to the Victims
Yesterday, 2 October 2009, the Palestinian leadership – under heavy international pressure lead by the United States – deferred the draft proposal at the Human Rights Council endorsing all the recommendations of the UN Fact Finding Mission (the Goldstone Report). This deferral denies the Palestinian peoples’ right to an effective judicial remedy and the equal… Continue reading
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Iran’s Nuclear Theater Meant to Divert Attention BY Ramzy Baroud
World events have taken an interesting turn recently, with the Goldstone report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly completely overshadowed by Iran’s revelation of another nuclear facility, according to diplomats in Vienna on September 25. The Iran nuclear threat – although theater is a more suitable term – was highlighted… Continue reading
