Netanyahu’s no’s
Marcy Newman, body on the line
1. No to al Quds “Netanyahu’s remarks have sabotaged all initiatives, paralysed all efforts being made and challenges the Palestinian, Arab and American positions,” said Nabil Abu Rdainah, noting Mr Netanyahu’s demand that Jerusalem be the undivided capital of Israel and that Palestinian refugees not be allowed into Israel. 2. no to refugees right of returnNetanyahu also said the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and he declared that the solu tion of the Palestinian refugee problem must be “outside Israel.” 3. no to stopping the expansion of colonies Israel would not accept any situation in which it was forced to exist beside a “terrorist” state. Every withdrawal from settlement territories would contribute to such “terror”, said Netanyahu. He stressed that Palestinians must accept Israel as a Jewish state. 4. no to the right of Palestinians to defend themselves or resist foreign colonists occupying their land..
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Afghan gov’t: No control in 5 districts in Helmand
AP
The governor of Afghanistan’s most violent province said Sunday that the government controls only eight of its 13 districts. Helmand Gov. Gulab Mangal said the government has no control in three districts at the northern end of the province and two in the south. He said he hopes Afghan and NATO security forces can implement the rule of law in those regions in coming weeks. Thousands of U.S. Marines arrived in Helmand last month to help British forces already stationed there to battle militants and extend the government’s reach…
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Four residents wounded by Israeli fire in southern Gaza
Rami Almeghari – IMEMC
Four Palestinian residents were reportedly injured early on Sunday after Israeli warplanes rocketed the Albarazil neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Medical sources said that the Abu Yousef Alnajjar hospital received four injuries from the border area of Rafah after midnight. Witnesses confirmed that the Israeli shelling targeted a number of underground tunnels, used by Palestinians to bring in food supplies and commodities from nearby Egypt…
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Ahmadinejad: Clashes over election ’not important’
ap
Protesters set fires and smashed store windows Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities. Anti-riot police lashed back and the regime blocked Internet sites used to rally the pro-reform campaign. Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest — the worst in a decade in Tehran — as “not important.” He said Friday’s vote was “real and free” and insisted the results showing his landslide vi ctory were fair and legitimate. Along Tehran’s Vali Asr street — where activists supporting rival candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi held a huge pre-election rally last week — tens of thousands marched in support of Ahmadinejad, waving Iranian flags and shouting his name…
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The truth behind Depleted Uranium (DU) Contamination and its usage
Peter Eyre
So what now with Gaza? We have the UN War Crimes Investigation Team currently underway but what will they find? What will they choose not to find? What will be the final outcome? Could it again be a denial by the IDF that they did not use DU? Could it be a denial that the US did not export such weapons to Israel? And finally I believe that Israel itself is producing or modifying such weapons at its own nuclear facility. Is anyone brave enough to ask them to reveal their nuclear capability and exactly what is going on in such places as the Negev Desert Facility? The UN like its predecessor, The League of Nations, is extremely weak and vulnerable to the powers that control it i.e. The Security Council…
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Obama’s Cairo Speech: A Rhetorical Shift in US Imperialism
Deepa Kumar
…Yet behind this liberal veneer of promoting “better understanding” and “mutual respect” is a report that in no way, shape or form attempts to “change course” on U.S. foreign policy objectives. Instead, it simply urges the use of more subtle and diplomatic means to achieve these aims. It states that the U.S. should engage Iran while insisting that it conform to non-proliferation standards; create a path for a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine; p romote political reconciliation in Iraq and specify the U.S.’s long term goal; and renew an international commitment to stem the resurgence of extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In short, it promotes the goals of U.S. imperialism, but through means that mark a shift from the arrogant and unilateralist ways of the Bush regime…
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Iran elections: Mousavi lodges legal appeal against Ahmadinejad victory
Ian Black and Saeed Kamali Dehghan in Tehran and Haroon Siddique
The defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi today launched a formal appeal against the election result as his supporters took to the streets of the capital again, raising the prospect of more violent clashes. Mousavi, who claimed his defeat by the hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was manipulated, said in a statement on his website that he had appealed to the ruling guard ian council to overturn the result, and urged his supporters to continue protests “in a peaceful and legal way”…
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Four residents wounded by Israeli fire in southern Gaza
Rami Almeghari – IMEMC
Four Palestinian residents were reportedly injured early on Sunday after Israeli warplanes rocketed the Albarazil neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Medical sources said that the Abu Yousef Alnajjar hospital received four injuries from the border area of Rafah after midnight. Witnesses confirmed that the Israeli shelling targeted a number of underground tunnels, used by Palestinians to bring in food supplies and commodities from nearby Egypt…
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Official: Free Gaza Movement to send two aid ships to Gaza
Xinhua
The United States-based Free Gaza Movement will dispatch two aid boats to the Gaza Strip from Cyprus, a Palestinian official said Sunday. The ships will sail from Larnaca port on theMediterranean on June 25 and the voyage will take about 30 hours before docking at a Gaza fishing port, said Amjad al-Shawa, coordinator of Palestinian NGO network in Gaza city. The ships, with Western journalists, human rights and peace activists on board, will also carry symb olic amounts of concrete, iron and medical supplies that are in urgent need in Gaza due to a two-year-old Israeli blockade, al-Shawa added…
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Twitter Users Shame CNN For Not Covering Iran Elections, Riots
Dolores M Bernal
Twitter users were posting “#CNNfail” on thousands of tweets Saturday night saying that their coverage of important news like the Iranian elections were downplayed by the cable network. Here are some of those tweets: clickmomukhamo: OMG! Major developments in Iran yet CNN isn’t breaking into Larry King who’s interviewing some bikers! #cnnfail. lifeonqueen: CNN is screwing the pooch on this one – top story on web is Six Flags bankruptcy not Iran. Way to miss history CNN #CNNfail …
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Former US President Carter: Gazans “are literally starving”
Ma’an News
Former US President Jimmy Carter on Sunday condemned Israel’s “maltreatment of the people in Gaza, who are literally starving and have no hope at this time.” “According to the UN 41,000 of their homes are either severely damaged or destroyed. And for five months they haven’t gotten a single sack of cement, or single sheet of plaster. They’re being treated like savages,” Carter said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz…
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Afghan president congratulates Iran’s Ahmadinejad
AFP
Afghan President Hamid Karzai telephoned his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday to congratulate him on his victory in disputed presidential elections, a statement from his office said. While world powers and key backers of the Kabul administration like Britain and the United States have reacted cautiously, Karzai labelled Ahmadinejad’s win “a suitable selection”. “President Hamid Karzai congratulated Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the phone on his re-election as the president of Iran,” the statement said…
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Haaretz: Ahmadinejad win actually preferable for Israel
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent
…. And in this case, paradoxically, it seems that from Israel’s point of view the victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually preferable. Not only because “better the devil you know,” but because the victory of the pro-reform candidate will paste an attractive mask on the face of Iranian nuclear ambitions….
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The Other Apartheid State
By Ronnie Kasrils – Cape Town, South Africa
May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1961 that “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel like South Africa, is an apartheid state” (Rand Daily Mail, 23 November 1961). Those were not the words of Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu or Ruth First, but were uttered by none other than the architect of apartheid itself, racist Prime Minister, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd. H e was irked by the criticism of apartheid policy and Harold Macmillan’s “Winds of Change” speech and the growing international outcry following the Sharpeville massacre, in contrast to the West’s unconditional support for Zionist Israel…
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Hamas, Fatah agree to prisoner swap
Ma’an News
Ma’an – Hamas and Fatah agreed on Sunday to free political prisoners on both sides after Reconciliation Committees held meetings in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Senior Fatah leader in Gaza Ibrahim Abu An-Naja announced that both movements agreed to trade prisoner lists in preparation to release them. The agreement comes on the two-year anniversary of Hamas’ takeover of Gaza and three weeks before another formal round of unity talks…
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Jewish settlers assault Palestinian farmers, IOF troops kidnap foreign activist
Palestinian Information Center
Jewish settlers on Saturday assaulted Palestinian farmers and foreign sympathizers in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, severely beating them, local sources reported. They added that the farmers were trying to reach their fields adjacent to Beit Ayan settlement when the settlers attacked them under the very eyes of the Israeli occupation forces, who provided protection for the settlers. The IOF soldiers ki dnapped Fahad Salibi, 55, after the settlers beat him up along with an American woman who came to assist the farmers…
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President Chávez Congratulates Ahmadinejad on His Reelection
VTV – MONTHLY REVIEW
| The head of state emphasized that the victory of his Iranian counterpart represents the sentiments of the Iranian people and their commitment to building a new world. He conveyed the messages of congratulations sent by the other leaders of the Petrocaribe member states… |
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