White Phosphorus Bombs, a Legacy of Suffering (VIDEO)
By Yousef Al-Helou for Salem-News.com
During Israel’s 3-week long offensive on Gaza launched on December 27th, the Israeli army used internationally banned weapons according to foreign military and medical experts. American made white phosphorus shells were used in populated areas across the Gaza strip, home to about 1.5 million people. Nafez Abu Shaban, head of burns department at Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical center, has treated dozens of patients who suffer ed sever burns, he is keeping a piece of phosphorus covered under sand in jar to prevent it from exposing to oxygen..
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Profiting from the Slaughter of Innocents in Iraq: Exposé on Canada’s Iraq War Profiteers at CANSEC Arms Show
Richard Sanders
The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT), a Canadian anti-war network based in Ottawa, has published a detailed report exposing Canadian corporate complicity in the Iraq War. This report highlights Canadian war industry exports for 39 varieties of war planes deployed in the invasion and occupation of Iraq since March 2003. COAT’s report lists 130 Canadian military companies and provides hundre ds of internet links on the key products and services they have provided for many of the world’s deadliest weapons systems used in Iraq…
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PFLP slams Fateh and Hamas for their inability to achieve reconciliation
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) slammed on Thursday Fateh and Hamas movements for failing to achieve reconciliation, and demanded the two factions achieve a deal that ends the internal rifts and restores unity. The PFLP’s statement came in a speech by Qasim Hassanen, a political leader of the front, who addressed thousands of Palestinians marching in Gaza for unity, and said that Hamas and Fateh must ach ieve a deal in their ongoing Cairo talks… Hassanen added that “there is no winner in internal conflicts”, and that Palestine needs unity and struggle against the occupation, not rifts and internal divisions…
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The False Darfur ‘Genocide’ Numbers
Moon of Alabama
Headlined In Defense of Genocide the neoconned WaPo editors condemn the Arab league for hosting Sudan’s President Bashir while at the same time accusing Israel of war-crimes. The polemic includes this sentence T]he United Nations has reported more than 300,000 civilian deaths in Darfur as a result of the genocidal campaign sponsored by Mr. Bashir. There are three false claims in this one sentence. As these false claims are often repeated from the far right to the interventionist left, let me try to dispel them once and for all.< 1. The number of 300,000 is false. 2. The UN did not ‘report’ that number. 3. There was no genocide in Darfur. The 300,000 number is simply taken from hot air…
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Gaza Aid Prevented by U.S.
By Pål Hellesnes, Translated By Lars Erik Schou
The United States (U.S.) Patriot Act is preventing Save The Children Norway from rebuilding schools in Gaza. The organization is in despair. “We are allowed to distribute emergency rations, such as food and water, but systematic relief efforts and rebuilding is blocked”, according to Bjørn Lindgren, Save The Children’s regional director for Europe and the Middle East, in a Klassekampen interview. “It is a terrible policy that keeps us from helping children.”..
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“Tell me who the real terrorist is?” – premisses of martyrdom
Palestine Monitor
Abu Mahmoud Harb is a father of 9 boys and 4 girls living since 1967 in Balata refugee camp, close to Nablus in the West Bank. He is around 75 years old and has seen everything that happened in the recent Palestinian history, from the Nakba in 1948 to the Gaza attack and massacre in December 2008 and January 2009. His own story, and the one of his family, perfectly illustrates the life and the suffering of the Palestinian refugees in the West Bank….
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Iraqi Shoes Revisited: A Pair of Narratives
Ramzy Baroud
It’s remarkable how some in the media can cleverly manipulate a story by avoiding its essence and focusing on marginal details. The chucking of a pair of shoes at former President George W. Bush by an Iraqi journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi during a Baghdad press conference, on December 14, 2008 is a case in point. Most Arab and Muslim media – and other media around the world, save mainstream western media – framed al-Zaidi’s deed within its proper context, that of a ho rrific, genocidal war, bloody and humiliating occupation and the colonial hubris of a superpower that gave itself the right and ‘moral’ justification to devastate a sovereign nation for the sake of oil, Israel and the desire for sheer hegemony…
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Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: As US arms shipment reaches Israel, President Obama urged to halt further exports
Amnesty International (AI)
The new delivery to Israel of a massive consignment of US munitions, revealed by Amnesty International today, throws into question whether President Obama will act to prevent the US fuelling further Israeli attacks against civilians that may amount to war crimes, as were perpetrated in Gaza. According to new information received by Amnesty International, the Wehr Elbe, a Ger man cargo ship which had been chartered and controlled by US Military Sealift Command, docked and unloaded its cargo of reportedly over 300 containers at the Israeli port of Ashdod, just 40 km north of Gaza by road. The German ship left the USA for Israel on 20 December, one week before the start of Israeli attacks on Gaza, carrying 989 containers of munitions, each of them 20 feet long with a total estimated net weight of 14,000 tons…
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Gaza Aftermath (6) “I know every inch of this land…”
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
As farmer Jamal al-Bassyuni plucked a stalk of ripening wheat, a posse of young men danced in his field. The dancers were flanked by a lively crowd, many of them women wearing the traditional Palestinian embroidered thob dress. Despite the nearby rubble of destroyed houses, and tracts of land laid to waste by bulldozers and tanks, the mood was defiantly sunny. Local farmers and their supporters were celebrating Palestinian La nd Day. Land Day was launched in 1976, as a commemoration of the deaths of six Palestinian citizens of northern Israel killed by the Israeli military as they demonstrated against expropriation of their land. It has become an important symbolic day of action across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, highlighting the plight faced by farmers like Jamal Bassyuni and his family, who live in Izbat Beit Hanoun on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip…
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American NLG Lawyers Release New Findings that Israel Violated International Law, US Domestic Law in Gaza
National Lawyers Guild
New York – Israel violated international law by targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, misusing weapons, deliberately denying medical care to the wounded and attacking medical personnel, the National Lawyers Guild Delegation to Gaza said today upon releasing a 37 page report containing new evidence on the facts surrounding Israel’s 22 day military offensive in Gaza…
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Boycotting Israel must become the top priority for anyone struggling for Palestinian rights today
PNN
March 30, 2009 marks Land Day, the day on which Palestinians celebrate their rootedness to their land, and their struggle to resist dispossession. It is also the first Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Day of Action as decreed by the 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. A press conference held by the Palestinian National Boycott Committee (BNC) in Ramallah featured speakers reporting on the growing impac t of BDS, and called upon all national and international forces to actively take up this tool to realize long-denied Palestinian national rights…
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Lieberman: Israel Not Bound by Annapolis Commitments
Netanyahu Govt to Distance Itself From US-Sponsored Peace Talks
Jason Ditz
Already off to a provocative start in his first major statement since assuming office, Israel’s controversial Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared Israel to no longer be bound by the peace commitments made at the 2007 Annapolis Conference. The declaration underscored the policy of the new government, which was later confirmed by other sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Net anyahu – the Israeli government intends to distance itself from the US-sponsored peace initiatives and the talks regarding Palestinian statehood are all but dead…
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Israeli settlers take over house in Jerusalem’s Old City
Ma’an news
Dozens of Israeli settlers backed by police took over a Palestinian house in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday morning. Ma’an’s correspondent observed settlers raiding the house of Naser Jaber, in the As-Sa’diyeh neighborhood of the Old City. A scuffle took place between the owner and the settlers before police intervened, allowing the settlers to take control of the house and sending the owner away. Israeli police then imposed a neighborhood lockdown , prohibiting residents from entering or leaving their homes. Several youth were seized during ensuing clashes in the tense half hour between the arrival of the settlers and the total closure of the area…
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