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Abbas thanked the Iraqi government for its treatment of the Palestinians
CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, NYTimes
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, visited Iraq for the first time since the American invasion in 2003, meeting with Iraqi leaders on Sunday to garner support for the Palestinian leadership and Iraq’s Palestinian community… Saddam Hussein awarded special privileges to Palestinians in Iraq, including free homes in middle-class neighborhoods and secure government jobs, to bolster his reputation as a leader of the Arabs and a fighter against Western oppression. But Iraq’s Palestinians, who numbered about 60,000 in 2003, faced bloody reprisals at the hands of Shiite militias after Mr. Hussein’s downfall. Now there are about 11,000 Palestinians in Iraq… Nevertheless, saying that the government had taken steps to address their problems, Mr. Abbas thanked the Iraqi leadership for its treatment of the Palestinians. “The Iraqi government considers them as part of the Iraqi people and part of the government’s concern and a part of Iraqi security,” he said. “We are sure they are in safe hands.”…
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Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe ( Full Text)
Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen , The Open Chemical Physics Journal
We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reporte d in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the res idue following the ignition of these peculi! ar red/g ray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic…
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Naim: IOF used 10 new weapons in its war on Gaza
Palestinian Information Center
Dr. Basem Naim, the PA health minister, has affirmed that the Israeli occupation forces had used ten new kinds of weapons in the war on Gaza along with internationally banned arms. Naim, in an interview with the PIC on Sunday, said that the excessive use of force on the part of the IOF had led to the killing of 1,450 Palestinians mostly civilians while 6,000 others were wounded half of them women and children. He pointed out that the IOF used three million tons of ammunition in the war on Gaza at an average of two tons for each citizen in the Strip, adding that it was proven that the IOF used internationally banned weapons such as poisonous gases and white phosphorus….
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Video: Ambulance evacuates Palestinian martyrs after hours
kaxlan
IOF fires shells towards ambulance, prevents transfer of injured Palestinian fighters to hospital. Early in the morning of Saturday 4th of April, 2 Palestinian resistance fighters (Mohamed Hamayda 23, Jammel Gofa, 26) were wounded near the Green Line, east of Jabalya. Ambulance of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society made a first attempt to reach the 2 injured Palestinians a little bit after 7 a.m. when, according to medical sources, they were still alive. But the Palestinian paramedics were prevented to accomplish their humanitarian mission, by heavy Israeli shelling. Firing against civilians and ambulances and preventing injured people from having medical treatment are serious violations of the International Humanitarian Law….
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Institution: IOF destroyed archaeological buildings during the aggression on Gaza
The Palestine Telegraph
The Jerusalem institution stated the Israeli offensive army devastated four historic buildings belonging to the Islamic, Ottoman, British and Egyptian historical periods during the recent aggression on Gaza. In a press release issued Wednesday the 1rst of April 2009 the Institutude said the governor’s mansion was also destroyed. The Governors mansion is a masterpeice of architectural tableau built during the reign of Egypt in the fifties. During the historical periods it stood as witness to history until adpopted by Yasser Arafat for government use…
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2 Palestinian children shot by Israeli terrorists (on the day of the Palestinian child)
Marcy Newman, Body on the line
today is the day of the Palestinian child. A statement from defense of children international is below… Palestinian children are especially under attack… Here is news about israeli terrorists murdering a Palestinian girl (yesterday) in 1948 Palestine: Relatives of a 15-year-old Bedouin girl shot dead by Israeli forces on Saturday denied reports she opened fire on a military post before she was kill ed, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “It couldn’t be. The police [are] lying and exaggerating. Maybe she was there to make a complaint and got mixed-up,” said Ali Al-Nabari, a cousin of the girl accused of attacking a southern Israeli military post on Saturday.…
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The South Africa Moment in Palestine
Justin Podur interviews Omar Barghouti
By Omar Barghouti and Justin Podur
…Justin Podur (JP): Perhaps we should start with an outline of the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), and the demands of the call. Omar Barghouti (OB): The BDS call is based on an analysis that the oppression of Palestinians has three basic forms. First, the occupation and colonization of those lands occupied since 1967. Second, the denial of the right of return to Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced in 1948 and since. Third, the system of racial discrimination against the indigenous Palestinian citizens of Israel. The demand is to end these injustices: to end the occupation of the lands occupied in 1967, to allow the right of return to Palestinian refugees, and to end the apartheid system against Palestinian citizens of Israel…
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Barbaric Israel
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
A nation that has violated “every norm of civilized behavior and international law” since its founding in 1948 is held virtually blameless by the U.S. corporate media – Israel sycophants of the lowest order. “Now members of the Israeli Defense Force themselves are coming forward to admit that they committed war crimes” – but the U.S. press is censoring their confessions! Even when Israeli soldiers openly testify to committing “murder” in Gaza, as report ed by the Israeli press, the U.S. corporate media “keeps the people of this country ignorant” of the crimes against humanity bankrolled by American taxpayers…
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PFLP: World must boycott the criminal government of Netanyahu
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement on April 1, 2009, rejecting the Netanyahu government as a government of terror, war and ethnic cleansing and calling upon the international community to boycott Israel and its government. The PFLP statement noted that this government, like the Zionist state of Israel altogether, is based on the absolute repudiation of Palestinian rights to self-det ermination, return and an independent Palestinian state. The statement continued that this government should be rejected by all as incompatible with human rights and international law and is a government of a culture of crime…
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Israeli high court rules in favor of further home demolitions in Jerusalemsa
Saed Bannoura – IMEM
Just a few days after ruling to force Palestinian homeowner Darwish Hijazi off his land to allow Israeli expansion in his home and property, the Israeli high court has issued a ruling on the cases of two more families who challenged the Israeli demolition orders placed on their homes. The demolition orders are part of a larger Israeli settlement plan, which the Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem and the city planners have called the ‘E1 Plan’, to tear down thousands of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem to make way for Disney-like theme parks based on biblical themes…
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Abbas praises Iraq on first post-Saddam visit
Benjamin Morgan, AFP
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas praised Iraq on Sunday for supporting his people, without making mention of reports of human rights abuses against them by religious extremists in the war-torn country. Before the war, about 34,000 Palestinians lived in Iraq, where they enjoyed a privileged status under Saddam. But they have since become victims of numerous attacks, especially at the hands of Shiite militias. The United Nations says the number of Palestinian s living in Iraq has more than halved, falling to 15,000, in the past six years. “We thank the Iraqi government for taking care of our people here,” the Palestinian president said at a joint news conference with his Iraqi counterpart…”Palestinians in Iraq have been forcibly evicted, arbitrarily arrested, abusively detained, publicly slandered, kidnapped and killed,” said a UN report on refugees in Iraq in April 2008….
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Motorola drops bomb fuse unit following boycott campaign
Press release, The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
Motorola has sold a controversial unit that produced bomb fuses and other equipment for the Israeli military, according to the Israeli financial newspaper Globes. The sale rids Motorola of some activities that had made it the target of a growing boycott in the US and worldwide. No explanation was offered in the media reports for the sale by Motorola Israel — a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola — of i ts unit called Government Electronics Department (GED) to the Israeli company Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd…
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