The American Ship They Just Couldn’t Sink
A Photographic Essay of Israel’s Treachery The USS Liberty, June 8, 1967
INCOG MAN
…In this stark color photo, Napalm (to burn alive the bridge crew), Zuni rockets, machine gun and cannon fire damage is easily seen. The Israeli’s first attack priority was on the communications antennas and bridge — to stop any revealing maydays. Only by the crewman using a jury-rigged spare antenna, managed to save the entire crew from a watery grave — the Israelis must have intercept ed their calls for help to the US Sixth fleet and, once realizing the jig was up, called off the rest of the attack….
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Video: Gaza: The destitute and the forgotten
Inigo Gilmore, Guy Grandjean, Michael Tait and Mustafa Khalili, Guardian
Nearly six months since the devastating war in Gaza, Palestinians are still living amid the rubble. Despite stirring talk of reconstruction efforts, little has changed. Inigo Gilmore visits the devastated neighbourhoods to see how families are coping. The al-Attar family, in this video, were first visited by the Guardian’s Clancy Chassay three months ago…
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“In the name of God, go!”
But discredited Brown clings to power by his finger-nails
Stuart Littlewood
What does it take for Britain’s Zionist prime minister, Gordon Brown, to get the message? Having been deeply humiliated in the Euro elections and local government elections, he hangs on by his finger-nails. He simply will not do the decent thing and stand down. The verdict of the people was clear enough. They’ve had enough of Brown and his ghastly crew. Oliver Cromwell said it for us, when dismissing Parliament back in 1653, with an elegance that’s sadly lacking today: “Ye sordid prostitutes… you have sat here too long for the good you do. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” But the charmless Brown refuses the revolver on the silver tray. He will not do us the courtesy of retiring to the library and blowing his brains out. This is the same Gordon Brown who has presided over the ruination of our economy and the impoverishment of us all. The same Gordon Brown on whose watch parliamentary sleaze has blossomed into a national scandal, undermining the British political system and making us a laughing stock. This is the same Gordon Brown who voted enthusiastically for the Iraq war…
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Diaspora Palestinians, Act Now Before it is Too Late!
Sami Jamil Jadallah, Palestine Documentation Center
If no actions are taken and taken soon, the Diaspora Palestinians all without exception would have forfeited their inalienable rights to qualified and professional representations in the final peace negotiations that will take place soon between the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority Israel and the United States. I understand and know there are many Diaspora organizations out there working fo r Palestinians rights and the “Rights of Return”, such as “Alawda” and “US Committee to End the Occupation” among others, and I also understand and know there are no Diaspora Palestinian organizations working on the “legal” representations of Diaspora Palestinians outside the realm of the Palestine Liberation Organization…
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Impressions from Ze Lebanon…
Layla Anwar, Uncensored Arabwomanblues
Was watching a couple of videos from Al-Jazeera English, called the Arab Street. The 30.05.09 two parts series were devoted to Ze Lebanon. The information was a little outdated since it dealt mainly with the elections but not only… It interviewed some Beirutis in the Hamra Street area. Young and old, AUB students and more “ordinary” people… And there is something I cannot shake off every time I watch anything pertaining to Beirut – a very annoying, irritating feeling that lingers on well after the “show” is over. And the cue lies in that word “the show”. I find a big majority of the Lebanese as the most show off people I have ever encountered…It is really, really bad. A social disease which I call Ze Lebanese “show”…
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Why “Obscene”? Those Who Bury the Dead Know Why
Arthur Silber
Yesterday, I began a consideration of Obama’s Cairo speech. I characterized that address as “obscene” in its overall perspective and in many of its particulars, in addition to which, as I noted, the speech was replete with distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies. One of the major reasons for my choice of the word “obscene” might be expressed in a different way, and it concerns the vast chasm separating Obama’s words and the realities of American forei gn policy on the ground. Obama has already made indisputably clear that he has no intention of altering those realities in any significant way; to the contrary, he is fully committed to expanding America’s imperial agenda…
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Of Crime and Complicity
By Mike Severson
… Barak Obama has spoken of racism in the United States. Has he spoken about the racism that is Israel? Has he spoken about the prisons that house countless Palestinians, held without habeus corpus? Has he spoken about those tortured, those assassinated? Does he even know about Rachel Corrie or others like her? Has he addressed the millions of refugees from Iraq, the ruination of that country and the lies which the United States used to wage that war, including the manipulation an d prodding done by Israel and its Zionist minions, in the media, the government and their organizations which actively promoted that war?…
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Israel forces Palestinian citizen to demolish his own home in O. Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center
The Israeli occupation authroity forced on Tuesday a Palestinian citizen called Mohamed Ghosheh to demolish his home located in Souk Khan Al-Zeit in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem. Palestinian local sources said that a large number of Israeli municipal civil servants escorted by Israeli policemen came to the area and threatened to fine Ghosheh around 25,000 dollars if he did not demolish his house himself. The IOA claimed that the house was unlicensed and built illegally in the area…
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Israeli prosecutor drops charges against settler who was filmed firing at a Palestinian family
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
The Israeli Prosecution stated Monday that it is dropping all charges against an extremist Israeli settler, who shot two Palestinians at close range during an evacuation of an illegal settlement outpost in December of 2008. The shooting was captured on tape. The extremist settler, Ze’ev Braude, 51, is from the Keryat Arba’ illegal settlement in Hebron. Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the settle r turned himself in to the Israeli police last week after he knew that he was caught on film by an activist of the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem…
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New York Times on Guantánamo: A willing conduit for the military-intelligence apparatus
By Bill Van Auken
After more than two weeks of controversy, the New York Times has been forced to publicly backpedal on its May 21 story, headlined “1 in 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds.” This began last Friday with a terse three-paragraph “Editor’s Note” published in the corrections column and was followed in the Sunday edition with a column by the paper’s public editor, Clark Hoyt, entitled “What Happened to Skepticism?” T he original story, written by the Times Pentagon correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller, was based on a leaked (and subsequently released) Pentagon report, which claimed that 14 percent of the 534 detainees transferred out of the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba had, in Bumiller’s words, “returned to terrorism or militant activity.”…
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Hundreds call for Erez to open, siege to end
Eva Bartlett, In Gaza
Upwards of 300 Palestinians, with a number of international supporters, rallied at the road to the Erez crossing in northern Gaza on Wednesday morning, calling for the crossing to be opened and an end to the 3 year long siege, in place since shortly after Hamas was elected in early 2006 and escalated dramatically following June 2007, when Hamas gained control of the Gaza Strip. Women were a strong presence in the demonstration, as were elderly, and childre n. A number of ill and disabled Palestinians highlighted the importance of the crossings being opened. Nearly 340 Palestinians have died as a result of denied medical care, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Amidst the crowd of demonstrators, 5 year old Mohammed Nasser el Ghneim, a child with multiple ailments needing medical care outside. “He doesn’t see well, cannot hear, cannot speak, doesn’t walk yet, and has heart problems,” said his mother, imploring for outside help for her son…
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Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops
Children among Palestinian detainees abused during West Bank operation, according to soldiers’ confessions
By Ben Lynfield in Hares, West Bank
Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops in Hares village on 26 March. The testimonies have been seen by The Independent and are expected to add fuel to the controversy over recent remarks by Colonel Itai Virob, commander of Kfir Brigade, in which he said violence against detained Palestinians was justified in order to accomplish missions…
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Hamas requests direct talks with Obama
PressTV
Hamas calls on US President Barack Obama to hold direct talks with the movement, describing respect for democracy as essential for the Middle East peace process. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau, said on Monday that the Obama administration should respect that there will be no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without Hamas….
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ARDF Salutes IR for Choosing Sheikh Dhari
Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI/HEYET)
The Arab Revolutionary Democratic Forum issued statement saluting the Iraqi resistance for the selection of Sheikh Harith al-Dhari as their representative. The statement said: “the unity of the Iraqi resistance of which dialogue the Forum demands since the start of the resistance to the occupation and good choice of speaker and negotiator for their name, is indication of the growing awareness of the military struggle and resistan ce, and the confidence enjoyed by people of all sects, political affiliations and party…
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41 European parliamentarians enter Gaza to observe destruction
Ma’an News
Forty-one European Parliamentarians representing 15 countries headed by vice-president of the European Parliament Luisa Morgantini arrived in the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon via Rafah to continue dialogue with the people of the besieged area. In April Morgantini spoke at the Bil’in Non-Violence Conference, and participated in the weekly anti-wall demonstration in the village. She has also lead efforts to bring European lawmakers together with Hamas members, and fostered dialogue between sides. A British effort saw a videoconference between MPs and Hamas leader in exile Khalid Mash’al, and several other mid-level meetings have been held…
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