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Netanyahu, Lieberman Struck `Secret Deal’ on Settlement Expansion 
Haaretz (Israel)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073771.html 
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a secret deal with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman for highly contentious construction on West Bank land known as E1, Army Radio reported Wednesday. A source close to the negotiations between the pair told Army Radio that the plan had been [...]

US Army Confirms Israeli Nukes; Israeli Aid At Stake 
Bryant Jordan

The Army has let slip one of the worst-kept secrets in the world — that Israel has the bomb. Officially, the United States has a policy of “ambiguity” regarding Israel’s nuclear capability. Essentially, it has played a game by which it neither acknowledges nor denies that [...]

Israeli Attack On Sudan Killed At Least 39
 
U.S. Officials Say Israel Struck in Sudan
 
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
 
Mr. Rabie said by telephone from Khartoum, the capital, that “more than 100 people” had been killed in the air raid. He said the trucks that were bombed were not carrying weapons. “I’ve heard this allegation, [...]

Olmert “We operate in many places near and far”. Hints at Sudan operation
 
Mystery over Sudan ‘air strike’
 
Page last updated at 18:23 GMT, Thursday, 26 March 2009
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7966627.stm
 
A Sudanese government minister has confirmed reports of an air raid in eastern Sudan earlier this year.
 
The minister, Mabrook Mubarak Saleem, told an Arabic news channel that many people had [...]

Wake up, Christians, or lose the Holy Land 
Stuart Littlewood

…The Holy Land is at the very centre of the Christian Church’s teachings. It is Christianity’s raison d’être. The Catholic Church at least keeps a considerable presence there, serving Christian and Muslim alike, and resists as best it can Israel’s continual encroachments on its freedom. The dozen [...]

Cancer: NATO’s time bomb in the Balkans 
Russia Today

Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the three-month NATO bombing campaign of the former Yugoslavia – and a decade later, the wounds of the war are still felt. Throughout the areas which have been affected by NATO bombings, hundreds of people are dying of cancer. [...]

UN: Israel broke six-month truce in Gaza:
 

A new UN report exposes a bit of misinformation peddled by the US and Israel and shatters the Zionist illusion that the Gaza war was legal.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=89480&sectionid=351020202
 
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Gazan family cut to pieces: Report:
 
A new report details the gory killing of a family by Israeli unmanned drones, which can allegedly differentiate civilians [...]

White washing ethnic cleansing 
Marcy Newman, Body on the line

Ethan Bronner, the tool of the Israeli terrorist regime, who writes propaganda pieces supporting their terrorism for the New York Times, did a profile on the Israeli terrorist mayor of al quds the other day. Hhere is how bronner characterized the massive land confiscation creating new Palestinian [...]

The Lobby Falters
 
By John Mearsheimer
 
When pro-Israel forces clashed with a major political figure in the past, that person usually backed off. Jimmy Carter, who was smeared by the lobby after he published Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, was the first prominent American to stand his ground and fight back. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22278.htm
 
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Bush versus Galloway: Who is a Threat to [...]

Video: Israeli war crimes in Gaza 
AlJazeera.net

A group of former Israeli soldiers say they have new evidence of potential war crimes committed by the Israeli army during the war on Gaza. These are not the first allegations of war crimes levelled at the Israeli military and the claims have sparked a bitter debate within Israel’s defence [...]

Israel’s War Crimes 
Richard Falk
http://mondediplo.com/2009/03/03warcrimes 
For the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948 the government is facing serious allegations of war crimes from respected public figures throughout the world … The realities of geopolitics are built around double standards when it comes to war crimes. It is one thing to proceed against Saddam Hussein [...]

Israeli Soldiers Relate Killings of Palestinians 
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLJ974036 
Israel’s military was rocked on Thursday by Gaza war veterans’ accounts of the killing of civilians and allegations that deep contempt for Palestinians pervaded its ranks. The soldiers, alumni of a military academy, gathered last month to discuss their experiences in the 22-day Israeli offensive that ended in January, a [...]

Afghanistan and Iraq: War Crimes Against Children ascribed to former President Bush 
Sherwood Ross

… The best kept secret of the Bush’s war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international agreements. Yet both Congress and the media have strangely failed to identify the [...]

Year 7. 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

Exactly six years ago, in a dark delivery room, obstetricians and midwives gathered around a tattered mattress covered with torn sheets while rats and roaches scurried past, on the edges of its forgotten walls… Exactly six years ago, her screams of agony were heard, the midwives rushed with no [...]

Israel’s right not to be criticised 
Amira Howeidy

Fresh from its bloody war on Gaza, Israel is actively pressuring the international community to boycott the Durban Review Conference due to convene in Geneva, Switzerland between 20 and 24 April to evaluate progress towards the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related [...]

Our South Africa Moment Has Arrived 
Omar Barghouti

As Israel shifts steadily to the fanatic, racist right, as the latest parliamentary election results have shown, Palestinians under its control are increasingly being brutalized by its escalating colonial and apartheid policies, designed to push them out of their homeland to make a self-fulfilling prophecy out of the old [...]

Email to Albert, Soldz, Chomsky, Pilger, Herman and many others 
Gabriele Zamparini

I’d just like to send my congratulations to ZNet for once again publishing rubbish on the very important issue of Iraq so-called “casualties” since the US led the supreme international crime against that defenseless country. Amazing we still call that “war”, isn’t it? Anyway, this [...]

Rotted From the Head: High Crimes and Continuity in the American Imperium 
Chris Floyd

…As we all know, the Obama Administration is now fighting strenuously in court to uphold this cynical Bush strategy (and others) to cover up high crimes — capital crimes — by the leaders of the government. Obama has offered the excuse that he [...]

Intifada: A third chapter 
By Ramzy Baroud

Though the dust has settled in Gaza, the rubble from the untold number of demolished buildings, homes and mosques is far from being cleared away. Graves continue to receive victims, young and old alike, from Israel’s most recent offensive. And in the midst of this, with the hopes of some [...]

Saturday morning in At Tur: more home demolitions 
Kristen Ess

It is cold in East Jerusalem’s eastern neighborhood of At Tur Sahel this morning. The rain came last night: weather here is as predictable as home demolitions. “They’re taking the whole thing, the entire neighborhood,” says a man who is unshaven and tired on Saturday morning, nine [...]

Video: Sheikh of National Unity calls for peace in Gaza 
AlJazeeraEnglish

While the leaders of the various Palestinian factions are in Cairo discussing a unity government – one Gazan has taken it upon himself to heal the rifts. Yasser Meheissen, known as the Sheikh of National Unity, has collected 270 thousand signatures, urging factions to unite under [...]

Sentences… 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

…They sentenced him to Life, they sentenced him to Death…they cry out. Sentences… Who is the judge and who is the guilty one ? Does it have any meaning today ? When the judge is the guilty one and the culprit is the innocent…what do sentences mean anymore ? Lately [...]

Constraining Palestinian Resistance: Some Political and Economic Attempts 
Dina Jadallah-Taschler

…Acknowledging these facts would go a long way in dealing with the reality of the Palestinian situation. In dealing with the multitudinous and multiplying constraints confronting the Palestinians, one would hope (probably in vain!) that Palestinian leaders of both Fateh and Hamas would notice that, despite the [...]

Israel Bans Gaza Toilet Papers, Soap 
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies

European and American officials are protesting its blocking of humanitarian aid, including harmless goods such as cheeses, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and toilet papers, from the sealed off Gaza Strip. “We’re certainly asking the Israelis questions about this,” a US official told Reuters on Wednesday, March 11. Aid [...]

Toward a Policy of Death
The Structure of Israel’s Occupation 
LUDWIG WATZAL

Israel has used Gaza as a free fire zone for 22 days and nights. Inevitably, the question arises how could Israel’s occupation become so brutal taking into account the country’s claim of being a “benign occupation power”. Neve Gordon’s book asks exactly that question. Did it [...]

ACLU demands Obama administration release prisoner abuse photos 
Jeremy Gantz

Like most Americans, you’ve probably seen the infamous Iraqi prisoner abuse photographs. The American Civil Liberties Union wants you to be able to see more, and is demanding that the Obama administration release additional photos depicting abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]

Ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem 
Marcy Newman writing from occupied East Jerusalem, Live from Palestine

Last week when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held a press conference in Ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas, whose term as Palestinian Authority president officially expired on 9 January, a Washington Post reporter questioned her about the 143 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem [...]

Finally — Lone, Lost, Weeping, Wailing, Dead, Willows… 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

… Do you see that Arab walking down the street, ever so swiftly like some shadow ? We raped her… Do you see that Sunni Rafidha, Nawasib hiding in the alley way ? We tortured her… Do you see that corpse floating, dreaming [...]

Photo Gallery 
Butchery in Gaza 
Kawther Salam

This album contains images which have been kindly provided to me by Dr. Mouneer Deeb, who entered Gaza together with some other surgeons from Europe during the last Israeli butchery, “Operation Cast Lead”, in January 2009, to help the local doctors. The pictures are part of what he lived through during [...]

On International Woman’s Day Al Mezan Center Congratulates Palestinian Women and Calls on Women around the World to Strengthen their Solidarity with the National Struggle of Palestinian Women 
Al Mezan Center For Human Rights

Today, Sunday 8 March, marks International Women’s Day. This international occasion comes at a time when Palestinian women are confronting the most severe [...]

Palestinians are the Priority: an open statement of commitment to the Palestinian Solidarity Cause 
Mary Rizzo

There are individuals within the Palestinian solidarity movement seeking to create divisions by:
* deliberately shifting focus away from Israel’s war crimes and its supremacist Zionist ideology;
* imposing unilateral agendas by presenting both sides as victims;
* sabotaging service to the just cause [...]

On American crimes & the International Criminal Court 
Body on the Line

…in addition to multi-national, u.s.-based corporations and military involvement in sudan, what i think is really important about snow’s writing is his unpacking of the so-called “save darfur” movement, a movement that in the u.s. is largely controlled by zionists who enjoy altering the reality [...]

Israeli military readying for second “harsh attack” on Gaza 
Ma’an news

Ma’an – The Israeli military is preparing a “harsh attack on Gaza,” in response to homemade rockets that are continuously fired into Israel by Palestinian fighters, multiple Israeli news sources reported on Friday. “The army is preparing to carry out a huge and harsh attack at [...]

Gaza Aftermath (4) 
Hammad’s death barely made the news 
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

On the 14 of February 2009, almost a month after Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza, thirteen year old Hammad Silmiya was grazing his sheep and goats in northeast Gaza, about 500 metres from the border with Israel. An Israeli military [...]

The Fifth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week March 1 – 8, 2009 
Israeli Apartheid Week

Mark your calendars – the 5th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week will take place across the globe from March 1-8, 2009! First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. [...]

Choosing Atrocity: Israel, America and the Strangling of Gaza 
Chris Floyd

…Here again, I will pay Barack Obama much more respect than many of his followers do. I don’t believe that he looked at the attack on Gaza, felt to his very soul that it was an horrific atrocity, but then refused to denounce it out of [...]

Comrade Fahoum: Boycott of anti-racism conference proves Obama is just new face for US imperialism 
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Comrade Marwan Fahoum, “Abu Sami,” member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on March 2, 2009 that the decision of the new U.S. administration to boycott the [...]

Expelling Jerusalem’s Palestinians, One House at a Time 
By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH

There are some people whose faces betray the difficulties they have encountered throughout their lives. Salah Shweiki is one of them. Sitting under the large tent set up in Silwan’s Bustan Quarter, seeking warmth from the wood burning in an old wheelbarrow, Shweiki emanates [...]

Paper – Israeli Military Attacks on the Civilian Police Force and Government Buildings and Institutions of Hamas in Gaza 
By Fatmeh El-‘Ajou – Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

This paper will examine the legality of the recent Israeli military attack on members of the civilian police force and the bombing of government [...]

Viva Palestina Update
15.30 (GMT) Monday 9th March 2009
GROWN MEN CRYING…THE SIEGE IS BROKEN…
ON THE DAY THE PROPHET WAS BORN
And they entered side by side like heroes, some on foot some in their vehicles, tears, smiles, hugs, flowers. It was historic, it was legendary. Gaza we are here. We have fulfilled the promise – Viva Palestina! [...]

Sen. Whitehouse Prepares the Nation for Torture Horrors

By Buhdydharma

Senator Whitehouse is on both the Intelligence Committee and the Judiciary Committee. Thus he perhaps more than anyone else has access to ALL of the available information on the Bush Torture Network. Including the remaining pictures and videotapes from Abu Ghraib that were concealed from the public [...]

Israeli Sacrilege Angers Muslims, Christians 
By Khalid Amayreh, IOL Correspondent

Muslim and Christian leaders across the occupied Palestinian lands are shocked with repeated Israeli insults of the prophets and religious sanctities. “I don’t really know when Jews will start to respect the religious sensitivities of non-Jews,” the Chief religious judge of Palestine, Dr. Taysir Tamimi, told IslamOnline.net [...]

Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Erasing the Palestinians of Gaza by film maker, Alberto Arce
Da:   iristulip
Data: 26 febbraio 2009 14:33:27 GMT+01:00
A:   FG-MediaList, gazafriends
 
This is a trailer from a production that Alberto Arce has filmed and directed. He was on the last voyage of the DIGNITY that got into Gaza, [...]

Oggetto: [GazaFriends] New link for video of snipers shooting at Palestinians and Internationals
Da:   iristulip
Data: 26 febbraio 2009 14:05:57 GMT+01:00
A:   FG-MediaList, gazafriends
 
Here is the link from the posted story yesterday. The internationals in Gaza, Eva, OJ and Andrew were not able to upload it, and the electricity was [...]

U.S. Government: Refreshing our memories and remembering their lies 
Arturo Rosales, Axis of Logic

… Somehow, people want to believe that the lies of the Bush era have ended with the advent of Barack Obama. This time around, Obama’s Democrat Administration promises: * to close Guatanamo, only to send these prisoners of war to other prisons and [...]

Sniping at the elderly in Khoza’a 
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

…”We haven’t been back to this land for about 2 months,” Mohammed Suleiman Abu Arjela, Walid’s father, explained. Indeed, at the end of November, 2008, he’d stood by his cowshed hoping to work the land that day, explaining that his farm had been twice devastated [First, [...]

NATIONAL DIALOUGE TO SAVE A PALESTINIAN NATION 
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice

…In Cairo reconciliation meetings between the two largest Palestinian political factions which began on Thursday did not have an immediate break trough. It is expected that by the end of March the long awaited Palestinian consensus will be settled. Both Hamas and Fatah has agreed to recover [...]

Tracking Down Gaza War’s Deadly, Mysterious Cubes 
David Hambling

An unidentified weapon packed with strange “cube shaped shrapnel” killed or wounded civilians in the recent Gaza war, according to a new report from Amnesty International. Amnesty’s report on weapons used by both sides in Gaza finds much to condemn. The group is particularly hard on the U.S., [...]

Gaza, Dresden, Hamburg: Legality of targeting civilians? 
By Kamal Dib

…But is there evidence that international law was applied and perpetrators of war crimes were brought to justice? Facts since World War II, and up to the attack on Gaza in 2009, confirm that civilians were and are still “legitimate” targets, in wars and conflicts where the [...]

Not Authorized ! 
Layla Anwar, Uncensored Arabwomanblues

…America’s track record in contemporary history is one of the worst known to mankind…but that is okay, because America like Israel is above the law. Never mind that America has obliterated a whole nation -Iraq and killed one million of its people in 5 years. Never mind that it stole, [...]