war crimes
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23 Days of War, 928 Days of Closure: Life One Year after Israel’s Latest Offensive on the Gaza Strip
Today, 23 December 2009, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) release 23 Days of War, 928 Days of Closure: Life One Year after Israel’s Latest Offensive on the Gaza Strip, 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009. This report is released in order to highlight the reality of life in the occupied Gaza Strip,… Continue reading
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Gaza aid convoy awaits Egypt nod By Lawrence Smallman
An aid convoy that has travelled over 3500km to deliver vital medical and food supplies to the Gaza Strip is currently stranded because of Egypt’s refusal to grant it easy passage. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina Gaza convoy has received a grand welcome at the Jaber crossing in Jordan!!!
Activists on Tuesday gave a grand welcome to a humanitarian aid convoy en route to Gaza to mark the first anniversary of Israel’s offensive on the coastal enclave. Some 200 trucks entered the Kingdom through the Jaber border crossing yesterday afternoon, and were greeted by professional association and opposition activists. Continue reading
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William A. Cook – A Christmas Remembrance
“The white civilized man (is) the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.” — (Herman Melville, 1840s) That understanding of the civilized white man struck me with its absoluteness, its certainty, its expressive force the moment I opened my file of little four year old Kaukab Al Dayah, whose tender face rests on… Continue reading
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Two successful convoys spur flood of humanitarian assistance!
The first Viva Palestina convoy made the journey in March this year, travelling by land to Italy where it crossed the Mediterranean by ferry to Greece. From there it made its way through Turkey, Syria, Jordan, finally entering Gaza at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt. The current convoy, dubbed “Return to Gaza,” will take… Continue reading
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Allies suspected of war crimes should not be above the law By Greg Barns
The British government’s actions in seeking to elevate Israeli officials above the UK war crimes law is breathtaking given the UN commissioned Goldstone Report’s detailed findings about the breaches of the law by Israeli and Palestinian forces in that tragic conflict, which left more than 1300 Palestinians dead. No one, irrespective of who they are… Continue reading
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Sir Geoffrey Bindman: Livni has no right to claim immunity from prosecution
It is not at all surprising that the Israeli government is outraged at the attempt – initially successful – to obtain an arrest warrant in Britain against their former foreign minister Tzipi Livni. But their characterisation of it as a “diplomatic offence” is wide of the mark. Those who come to Britain are subject to… Continue reading
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Re Tzipi Livni: Attention foreign secretary David Miliband
I wish to urge you to resist the Israeli government’s claims of immunity from universal jurisdiction regarding its war crimes against the Palestinian people. As a Jew concerned about the human rights of everyone, regardless of ethnicity or faith, I find suggestions that Israel should be held to lower standards than other perpetrators of war… Continue reading
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Get the war criminals arrested now By Khalid Amayreh
The recent arrest warrant issued in London for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is more than justified. This woman, along with two other Israeli leaders, Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, stood at the helm of the Israeli government that ordered, supervised and charted the genocidal onslaught against the Gaza Strip this time last year. Continue reading
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URGENT ACTION: Following arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, British government ‘urgently’ looking at changing the law – CONTACT YOUR MP NOW!
Following the news that Tipi Livni, who served as Foreign Minister in the Israeli government that planned and executed Israel’s brutal bombing and massacre in Gaza, faced arrest if she entered Britain, tell the government there must be no impunity for Israeli war criminals. Continue reading
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A Million Hits on Gaza – A Promotional Film about Gaza Launches New Book’s Worldwide Awareness Campaign
The short film, carrying the name of the book, is being released on YouTube, in both English and Arabic versions. The film will also be broadcast on a number of TV stations around the world. The filmmakers and book author are calling on readers and activists around the world to ensure the widest possible dissemination of Gaza’s… Continue reading
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Aid will arrive in the Gaza Strip on 27 December
British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the Gaza Strip on 27 December, according to the de facto government’s director of the anti-siege committee, Hamdi Sha’ath. Continue reading
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Sameh Brill – VIDEO: Looking at the Gaza War (if they let us): for “End the Siege on Gaza”
Sameh Brill is back! And he’s produced the first of a new series of videos for the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza. In this video we see news clips, but mostly… we see those who tell us that we weren’t allowed access to see ANYTHING. Those people include Richard Falk, George Galloway,… Continue reading
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Seminar to introduce the first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Considering Israel’s repeated breaches of International law and the suffering of the Palestinian people for more than 60 years, a new Russell Tribunal is being put in place on the lines of what was started by Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and others with the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam in the 1960s. Basing itself on the… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: Together we can make this next voyage happen
The situation in Gaza is as bad today as it was the day the bombs stopped falling in January. The Gaza Strip is still sealed; homes, businesses, hospitals, schools and mosques still lie in rubble; and fundamental supplies are in severe shortage, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of basic goods such as fuel,… Continue reading
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Blair War Crimes Foundation calls on U.K. Attorney General to indict Tony Blair for war crimes in Iraq
It is necessary to make leaders hesitate before indulging in “the paramount war crime” to quote the judges of Nuremberg, of “unprovoked aggression against a defenceless country”. Unless leaders fear that they might be tried for their war crimes, we will live in an increasingly violent world, where The Geneva Conventions are treated as a… Continue reading
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Adam Shapiro speaks about Gaza’s suffering from Israel
7 November, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3857356 more about “Adam Shapiro speaks about Gaza’s suff…“, posted with vodpod Adam Shapiro is an American co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Continue reading
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Daniel Machover: No Safe Haven for Suspected War Criminals
London – The Jerusalem Post recently quoted Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the US, as lamenting the “tactical” problem of Israel being unable to defend itself without facing prosecution. He added that “no one in Israel buys” that the Israeli military targeted civilians during Operation Cast Lead last winter.” It goes not just against all… Continue reading
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WHO’S AFRAID OF RICHARD GOLDSTONE? By Ronnie Kasrils
Where the Gaza atrocity of 2009 has changed things is that a turning point has been reached in the history of Israel’s persecution of the Palestinians. World opinion has been aroused against Israel as never before. In fact things can never be the same again and that is why Zionists like Goldstein are so vicious… Continue reading
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Locked in: Life in Gaza – 19 Oct 09 – Part 2
Video Part 2: Munzer al-Dayyeh is a 40-year-old mechanic living in Gaza. And while the effects of war and ongoing siege may be good for his business, he can’t manage to secure medical treatment for his disabled … Continue reading
The New Dark Age 