war crime
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Gaza Is a Concentration Camp By Ellen Cantarow
Gaza is an immense concentration camp — 1.5 million people squeezed into 140 square miles hemmed in on all sides by 25-foot-high walls separated by a vast expanse of bulldozed earth. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Still Breathing, A Report from Gaza By Caoimhe Butterly
The morgues of Gaza’s hospitals are over-flowing. The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Continue reading
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Second Generation Warfare Bungles In Gaza Part Two by William S. Lind
One Israeli party, Likud, is so oblivious to Fourth Generation War that its proposed grand strategy for Israel, largely written by American neoconservatives, calls for the destruction of every Arab state. Continue reading
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David Wiebe: ‘We are All Palestinian’: Gaza, the War, and Global Solidarity
In both the United States and around the world, then, we are witnessing the emergence of a global movement of solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Continue reading
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Even dead Palestinans are enemies By Vittorio Arrigoni
For a few days now, even funerals have become targets of the Israeli air force, as if the murdered Palestinians deserved an additional punishment in death as well. Continue reading
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PCHR: IOF Continue Attacks Across the Gaza Strip for the 18th Consecutive Day
In violation of international human rights and humanitarian law, and amid international silence, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) are continuing their indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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GAZA HOSPITALS UNDER ATTACK 15 January, 2009
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) have just had confirmation from our hospital emergency aid coordinators that both Al Wafa Hospital, in the eastern part of Gaza City, and Al Fata (also known as Al Wia’m) Hospital, in Tal El Hawa, west of Gaza City, have both been bombed by the Israeli military. Continue reading
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“British Jews Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel”
The main crime of Hamas is not terrorism but its refusal to accept becoming a pawn in the hands of the Israeli occupation regime in Palestine. Continue reading
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Yousef Abuddayeh – A Free Palestine Has Never Been Closer!
Composed of the US, the Zionist Israeli polity, and various Arab regimes, this tripartite axis of colonial and neo-colonial conquest is now facing a dead-end spanning geopolitics, demographics, and economy. Continue reading
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Kawther Salam – Warning: Israel Plans to Strike Gaza Hospitals
Israeli MP and leader Avigdor Liberman stated that “Gaza has to be erased from the map by nuclear bombs, like what Americans used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Continue reading
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Harry Feldman: Have your cake
The way the media have been reporting on this, you’d think it went without saying why Israel is entitled to exploit a ceasefire to prepare for its next onslaught and Hamas is not. Continue reading
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Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza: A message from the sky
The Israeli are sticking “Work in progress signs door to door, before razing whole neighbourhoods to the ground, and forever dashing the hopes of a life for the present and future. Continue reading
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Israelis Rain ‘Phosphorous Bombs’ Over Gaza – by Mel Frykberg
‘There is no doubt that Israel is using phosphorous bombs over Gaza. Israel is flagrantly violating the Fourth Geneva Convention,’ says Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza. Continue reading
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Strike on Gaza school ‘kills 30’
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1940005 At least 30 people were killed and 55 injured when Israeli artillery shells landed outside a United Nations-run school in Gaza, UN officials have said. A number of children were among those who died when the al-Fakhura school in the Jabaliya refugee camp took a direct hit, doctors at nearby hospitals said. People inside… Continue reading
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Israel’s own Holocaust (and the US’s, and ours) By William Bowles
For it is simple, the Palestinians have been made the sacrificial lambs of the imperial lust for land and power and the BBC (and not just the BBC but virtually the entire Western media) is a willing, indeed complicit participant in disguising what is undoubtedly a war crime of horrific dimensions. Continue reading
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Horrific Unconventional Weapons used against The People of Gaza – Interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert By Akram al-Sattari
This report confirms that these attacks are quite deliberately directed against civilians, using new unconventional weapons. Continue reading
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Mohamed Khodr – The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza: The Sacrificial Lamb to Israeli-American-Arab Interests
As of this writing 284 Palestinians have been murdered, over 700 injured (many in critical condition); most are innocent civilians living in the most densely populated area in the world—Gaza. This is the highest one day total of dead and injured by Israel’s terrorism since its founding in 1948. Continue reading
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Palestine: Collectively Punished by Israel and Collectively Punished by the media By William Bowles
22 January 2008 “No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted upon the population on account of the acts of individuals for which they cannot be regarded as jointly and severally responsible.” — Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907, Article 50″ Continue reading
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Fallujah – Where is the outrage? The story the mainstream media won’t tell you By William Bowles
Although reported by a handful media outlets at the time, the mainstream media took the official US denials at face value — that there had been no use of the illegal white phosphorus weapons on the inhabitants of Fallujah in December 2004. However the newly released movie (35 mb) from Italy’s RAI News 24 television… Continue reading
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From Word Play to Gun Play:The legitimacy of the state’s right to rule By William Bowles
Many on the ‘left’ may dismiss the arguments surrounding the ‘legal’ basis that underpins the obviously (to me and most of the planet) illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq as no more than a lot of hot air and obfuscation, preferring to take the ‘political’ road to judgement. But it is the ability of the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 