Operation Cast Lead
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Yousef Abudayyeh – Duty as a Community and a People
Today, 3 January, 2008 all indications point to an imminent ground attack. It is likely that it will be intense and focused on specified areas with prescribed goals. Typical of the Zionist leadership, it remains focused on attaining its colonial goals with utter disregard to the popular international outcry that has erupted worldwide and continues… Continue reading
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The obscenity that is the state of Israel By William Bowles
The war, if that’s what it can be called as in reality it’s remote-controlled slaughter, is as much a propaganda war in true Goebellian fashion, a war that is being conducted in the homes of the so-called developed world through the electronic and print media. For without the complicity of our political class and state/corporate… Continue reading
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The Jerusalem Post explains why Israel has gotten such ‘good’ media coverage
This first-hand experience of life under rocket fire may be one of the reasons Israeli diplomats and spokesmen feel Israel is finally getting a hearing in the international media. Continue reading
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Demonstration in support of the people of the Gaza Strip, London 3 January, 2009
An estimated 50,000 people took part. Continue reading
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Amira Hass: Did the IAF bomb a Gazan welding truck or a Hamas Grad transport?
The video shows 15 white figures casually milling between two vehicles. Three long black objects appear between their hands and the white figures lay these objects down on what seems to be a truck. The second vehicle takes off at a certain point and suddenly an explosion sounds and flames cover the screen. An eyewitness… Continue reading
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SS Dignity: We Lived to Tell the Story: Lebanon Rescued Us
What would we have done, stranded out at sea, prohibited from reaching our destination, low on fuel, with a badly damaged boat if Lebanon had not accepted us? Lebanon sent their ships to find us. Lebanon rescued us. Lebanon welcomed us. And we are truly thankful. Continue reading
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Do we live on the same planet? By William Bowles
The destruction of Gaza therefore is the only logical conclusion of the actions of a racist, fundamentalist, fanatical and clearly Fascist state, the so-called ‘chosen people’. Continue reading
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Shiko Behar: NY times: Who Ended the 6 Month Cease-fire in Israel/Palestine?
While the editors of the New York Times assign the blame conveniently and squarely on Hamas, this nevertheless remains a factually erroneous statement contradicting reporting by Israeli newspapers (in both Hebrew and English), British press, Amnesty International and – perhaps curiously enough – November 2008 reporting by the NYT itself. Continue reading
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Action Alert: Twenty-Six Things You Can do to Help Gaza
So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Rafah – report from the ground
Lia Tarachansky spoke to Fida Qishta in Rafah, located in Southern Gaza. Qishta reports one of the first targets of the Israeli bombardment were the tunnels dug by Palestinians under the wall, which separates Rafah in two, half in Palestine and half in Egypt. These tunnels, says Qishta, have been used since the beginning of… Continue reading
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Adam Sheets: The Facts about Israel’s War on Gaza
Since Israel began its strike on Gaza, 4 Israelis and 391 Palestinians have been killed [18]. The White House said that Israel will cease its attack when Hamas has agreed to a truce. Hamas said they are open to any cease-fire propositions. A cease-fire has been proposed, but Israel rejected this offer. Continue reading
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Dennis Rahkonen: The Truth About Those Hamas Rockets
Yes, such rockets exist, but they’re little more than slingshots against Israel’s incredible military might, and they’re used out of desperation by Palestinians who’ve never been accorded the democratic space within which to gain redress of their eminently just grievances. Continue reading
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KHALID AMAYREH: The world must say NO to Jewish Nazism before it’s too late
The genocidal Israeli onslaught against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is strikingly similar to the German blitz in the initial stage of the Second World War. The pretexts are nearly the same and the behaviors of both Nazi and Israeli political and military leadership are nearly identical. Continue reading
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Note from the founder of Action4Palestine in Gaza, Akram Habeeb “Why Would Israel Bomb a University?”
Why would Israel bomb a university? Israel did not only target my university last night. It also bombed mosques, pharmacies and homes. In Jabaliya refugee camp Israeli bombs killed four little girls, sisters from the Balousha family. In Rafah they killed three brothers, aged 6, 12 and 14. They also killed a mother, along with… Continue reading
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The world reacts on the attacks on Gaza – 31 Dec 08
The world condemns Israel’s massacre in Gaza as massive rallies continue worldwide. In Dubai, official New Year Day`s celebrations have been cancelled as a sign of solidarity with people of Gaza. Continue reading
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PCHR: Re: Gross Human Rights Violations and War Crimes in the Gaza Strip
Representing the Palestinian human rights community, we write to you with an urgent request for intervention by the UN Human Rights Council to put an end to the war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as a result of the Israeli occupying forces‘ ongoing attacks on the Gaza… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Eyewitness account of Israeli terror in Gaza
An acrid smell of sulphur fills the air while the sky is shaken by earth-shattering rumbles. My ears are now deaf to the explosions, while my eyes are all out of tears from all the corpses. I stand in front of Al Shifa hospital, Gaza’s main hospital, and we’ve just received Israel’s terrible threat that… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: Oh What a Day! by Cynthia McKinney
When we left from Cyprus, one reporter asked me “are you afraid?” And I had to respond that Malcolm X wasn’t afraid; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wasn’t afraid. But little did I know that just a few hours later, I would be recollecting my life and mentally preparing myself for death. Continue reading
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Medical Aid for Palestine Emergency Appeal for Gaza
MAP has launched an Emergency Appeal for Gaza: our aid workers on the ground desperately need additional funds for emergency burns, surgical and medical kits. Continue reading
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Yvonne Ridley: PIRATES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
“The gunboats gave us no warning. They came up out of the darkness firing flares and flashing huge floodlights into our faces. We were so shocked that at first we didn’t react. We knew we were well within international waters and supposedly safe from attack. They rammed us three times, hitting the side of the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 