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Gaza’s Guernica
Please take up this statement and promote it wherever you can — in newspapers, professional and trade union journals, on internet sites. Continue reading
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Barak Ravid: Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about
Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. According to the sources, Barak maintained that although the lull would allow Hamas to prepare for a showdown with… Continue reading
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Emergency Alert: Take Action to End Israeli Attacks on Gaza
While the scope of civilian casualties in today’s attacks is not yet clear, it is unmistakable that Israel carried out these attacks with F16 fighter jets and missiles provided by the taxpayers of this country. Continue reading
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Gaza today: ‘This is only the beginning’ By Ewa Jasiewicz
Over 220 people have been killed and over 400 injured through attacks that shocked the strip in the space 15 minutes. Hospitals are overloaded and unable to cope. These attacks come on top of existing conditions of humanitarian crisis: a lack of medicines, bread, flour, gas, electricity, fuel and freedom of movement. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter Special Report – Slaughter In Gaza
Aggregation of news stories and videos of the attack on the Gaza Strip by Israeli jets. Continue reading
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December: The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
There can be no two-state solution; there can be no one-state solution. There can be no solution without the revolutionary overthrow of the Israeli state. Attempts at Israel’s simple destruction are worse than fruitless; they are necessary to its very existence. The transition then from resistance to revolution requires the socialist rejection of Arab nationalism… Continue reading
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“Stop the Massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel Now!”
Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when the first Israeli military strikes started. Continue reading
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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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ACTION ALERT- Urgent call for Action on upgrade of the EU- Israel Association Agreement
24 December, 2008 CST *** KINDLY REPRINT AND SPREAD WIDELY *** The recent postponement of the vote in the European Parliament on the extension of existing EU programmes with Israel has been attributed to the great mass of letters received by MEPs, MPs and Ministers, showing the growing influence of civil society on attitudes towards… 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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“Even to Live in a Cave Has Been Denied Us”: The Story of Abed al-Fattah Abed Rabbo
The ordeals of tens of families in Walajah started when the Jerusalem Municipality illegally annexed part of the village to be inside its borders in the beginning 1980s. More than 25 homes have been demolished since, and yet others are under orders of demolition. Most of these cases are still pending in the Israeli court… 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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December 18th, what happened
Yesterday, December 18th, was the Shministim Day of Action in Israel. Even as Tamar Katz remained in solitary confinement, the Shministim were thrilled. They told us they had not seen this much media coverage in Israel of young refusers in years. 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
The New Dark Age 