Israeli Tourism Adverts Wipe Palestine From the Map – Take action now!
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)
Posters have recently appeared in London Underground tube stations advertising Israel as a tourist destination. The map on the advert depicts Israel as incorporating the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights (see photo below). Please write to London Underground, the Advertising Standards Agency and CBS Outdoors – the company which manages the poster sites – asking for the removal of these posters, which deliberately deny the existence of Palestine. Contact details are at the bottom of this email. A draft letter is included below. You can use this letter as it is, or take the information from it to write your own…
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Video: 12 yo girl shot by Israeli Occupation Forces – Ni’lin May 15 2009
ISMPalestine
12 year old girl shot in her arm by the Israeli forces while being in her home. The film also shows how the red crescent team are attacked by the border police during the demonstration…
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The American War on Wana
Peter Chamberlin
… We have forced our war that we wage in the name of vengeance, out of our sense of righteous indignation, for an attack that killed thousands of innocent civilians, blamed on an ill-defined enemy, offering no evidence of their guilt, killing over one million innocent civilians and turning five times that amount into refugees in the process. Now, our new president, the one elected on a promise to “change” (one of those changes being the salvation of the first war in Afghanistan, by winding-down the second war in Iraq), is the latest facilitator of the Empire’s plans, a marionette, dancing to the “New World Order blues,” as he “song and dances” us around these first two wars and into a third unwinnable war in Pakistan…
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Most Jerusalem Arab children ‘live in poverty’
by Patrick Moser Patrick Moser
Three in four of Jerusalem’s Arab children live in poverty, a civic rights group said on Tuesday, partly blaming Israeli “discrimination” aimed at securing a Jewish majority in the city. A total of 74 percent of Arab children in Jerusalem live below the poverty line, as compared with 47.7 percent of the Jewish children in the city, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said. It said 66.8 percent of families in predominantly Arab eas t Jerusalem live in poverty as compared with 23.3 percent of the city’s Jewish families, but that only 22 percent of the population receives social services…
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Losing Pakistan
Sic Semper Tyrannis
The tragedy now unfolding in Pakistan is occurring due the pursuit of shortsighted policies by the United States as well as the Pakistan government and military. The US has pressured Pakistan into engaging in brutal military operations in Bajaur and Swat, with no regard for how this would affect its own vital interests in the region. The Pakistani rulers (bedazzled by the glitter of all those promised billions) have meekly complied in waging war on parts of their own people, again with no thought to the likely outcome for them and their country. The main impact of this has been to the civilian population, some million and a half of whom have been displaced (with many killed and maimed, although no figures for these are yet available). Incidentally, what Pakistan is doing is little different from what Sudan did in Darfur and what the Sri Lankan government is now doing – fighting an insurgency with minimal or no regard for civilians in the area. This got Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir indicted as a war criminal, while the Sri Lankan government is the object of widespread condemnation in the West…
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Blackwater guards shoot civilians in Afghanistan
Ed Brayton
Four guards employed by Blackwater (now renamed Xe), a company founded by Michigan native Erik Prince, have sparked yet another international incident by opening fire on a vehicle full of Afghani civilians after a car accident in Kabul, Afghanistan…
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Video: US signals shift in ties with Israel
AljaeeraEnglish
For decades, the United States has stood up for Israel, vetoing UN resolutions against it and sending billions of dollars in aid. But as Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s new prime minister, begins his visit to Washington, there are signs that the US alliance with Israel may be changing. Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports…
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Obama and Netanyahu differ in talks
Aljaeera.net
Israel’s prime minister has refused to commit to an independent Palestinian state during talks with Barack Obama, the US president, at the White House. Binyamin Netanyahu told Obama that he wanted the Palestinians to govern themselves, but steered clear of explicitly endorsing the two-state solution set out in the so-called “road map”. He said that Israel was “ready” to resume negotiations with the Palestinians, which stalled during the 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip, but he attached conditions to any new process.
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One Day in Iraq – Six years after the Invasion
ANTIIMPERIALIST MEDIA
The reports from Monday 18/05-2009 do not include all the Statements from the Iraqi Resistance. However, they give a good view about what the situation looks like, more than six years after the most powerfull army of the world invaded the small country…
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