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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 December 2012: Shattered Lives in Gaza
10 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into School Near Bethlehem, Attack Students, TeachersIMEMC – Palestinian sources in Taqoua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported that Israeli soldiers broke, Monday, into the village’s High School for Boys, attacked several teachers and students, and left the school later Continue reading
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Obama Plans African Wars By Stephen Lendman
Obama’s war-making appetite exceeds all his predecessors and then some. He’s already waging multiple direct and proxy wars. Continue reading
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Israel’s Doomsday E-1 Settlement. Diabolical Encroachment to Prospective Palestinian State By Nicola Nasser
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has definitely crossed an international red line to vindicate a swift and firm rejection from Israel’s closest allies when he announced plans recently to build a new settlement on a corridor of occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, which will render any prospective Palestinian contiguous state territorially impossible. Continue reading
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Nobel Peace Prize brews hostility as winners renounce EU’s award
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and two other Nobel Peace winners have written to the foundation to protest the decision to award the 2012 prize to the EU. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 29 November 2012: Israel bombed the stadium where disabled athletes train
29 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US Senate Threatens Sanctions Against P.A.IMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the United States Senate threatened to block all funding to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank should the Palestinians decide to sue Israel for war crimes at the International Court. … Continue reading
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Did Britain Try Blackmail to Cripple Palestinians’ UN Bid? By Stuart Littlewood
Ugly rumours are flying that the British government twisted the arm of President Abbas and told him the UK would only support Palestine’s modest upgrade to ‘observer state’ at the UN (to be decided tomorrow, Thursday) if he pledged not to pursue Israeli war criminals through the International Criminal Court. Continue reading
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Gaza Ceasefire: An Early Assessment By Richard Falk
The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of murderous attacks. It is just possible that it will be looked back upon as a turning point in the long struggle between Israel… Continue reading
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International Peace Bureau Requests Swedish Foundation Authority to Stop Paying the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize & to Investigate into the Unlawful Reinterpretation of Nobel's Will
The International Peace Bureau has today requested the Swedish Foundation Authority to stop the payment of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, and urgently investigate the unlawful reinterpretation of Alfred Nobel’s will and testament that has taken place over the last few years. Continue reading
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HLLN: Martelly visits Pope on day embracing genocide & enslavement| In contrast, Algonquin peoples lift indigenous Haiti's defeat of Pope & white settlers at Vertieres
23 November 2012 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Atonement Day Links: Algonquin peoples and their chief welcome all Haitians as their own, lift up indigenous Haiti‘s defeat of the brutal enslavers and rapists at Vertieres Youtube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7Bo4eB8w0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET424-qmk9k and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGbNg4BP7o Continue reading
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The Assads: Washington’s one-time favorite family in Damascus By Wayne MADSEN
Archived declassified files from the Central Intelligence Agency point to successive U.S. administrations supporting Syria’s long-serving President Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar al-Assad, as a bulwark against Arab radicals. Israel also recognized Hafez al-Assad as the “most pragmatic” of all the Arab leaders of his day… Continue reading
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Veterans For Peace Appeals to Israeli Soldiers to Lay Down Their Arms By David Swanson
Israel’s military has in recent days attacked the Gaza strip with drones and F-16s, and has apparently been preparing for a possible ground war. Israel is using weaponry provided by the United States at the expense to U.S. taxpayers of $3 billion per year. Veterans For Peace member Doug Rawlings adresses the following statement to… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS ONLINE BOOKSHOP RECOMMENDATIONS & HOUSMANS PEACE DIARY 2013
20 November 2012 — Housmans The following email includes some of the most popular books from our online shop in 2012, and also has details on this year’s Peace Diary. Our online shop is fully stocked, so if it’s in print you should be able to find it there. Thank you for supporting Housmans, it means Continue reading
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Arabian Sights: Israel A Mad Infected Attack Dog for the Racist Colonial Criminal Barbaric West…Gaza: Here we go again…
It has long been the case that the central enabling fact in Israeli lawlessness and aggression is blind US support, that continues, more than ever, to be the case under the presidency of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner….pretending the US – and the Obama administration – bear no responsibility for what is taking place… Continue reading
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HLLN: Finding the strength on November 18, 2012 – It takes courage Ayisyen. It hurts unbearably Ayisyen Kenbe la, pa lage | FreeHaitiMovement Nov 18. posts and links
18 November 2012 — Ezili Dantò Recommended HLLN Link: Remembering the Battle of Vertierres – Nov 18, 1803 the final Haiti battle defeating European slavery, forced assimilation, the slave trade and colonialism in Haiti. (The Haitian struggle – the greatest David vs. Goliath battle being played out on this planet – http://bit.ly/2vqDXL ) Continue reading
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Israeli Military Assault on Gaza – “Operation Pillar of Defence” – Not “defence” but murder of unarmed civilians By Mairead Maguire
The question on many people lips is; ‘When is the Israel government going to stop this bombing and continual wars and threat of war, against the Palestinians, and its neighbours, admit that there will be no military solution to the Palestinian Occupation, and begin to talk seriously with their enemies, in order to solve the… Continue reading
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Excuse Me While I Vomit By Alan Hart
I imagine I am not the only one who feels the need to vomit (dictionary definition – “to throw up the contents of the stomach through the mouth”) when Israel’s Goebbels justifies the Zionist state’s ferocious and monstrously disproportionate attacks by air and sea on the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, the prison camp which is home… Continue reading
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Gaza: Who Was Commander Ahmed Jabari (1960 – 2012)? By Stephen Lendman
On November 15, thousands in Gaza City residents mourned Jabari’s assassination. Israel murdered him the previous day in cold blood. Score another victory for occupation harshness. Add one to the column of Israeli crimes against humanity. Volumes are needed to list them. Israel lives by the sword of injustice. One day perhaps it will perish… Continue reading
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Bloodbath in Syria By Alexey Pilko
It is now evident that the recent ceasefire was violated Syria by the radical opposition groups. The terrorist’s activities led to numerous victims and, what is unthinkable, the United Nations was unable to condemn them. Continue reading
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“October Surprise”: The Nobel Peace Committee’s “Collective Insanity” By Felicity Arbuthnot
The Former US Secretary of State was awarded his Nobel for “negotiating the Vietnam Peace Accords.” In fact he had been involved in oversight of the secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia (both neutral countries.) In nine years more than two hundred and sixty million bombs were dropped. He had also supported the murderous regimes… Continue reading