Law and Justice first, Mr Mitchell. Peace comes later.st
STUART LITTLEWOOD
So they sent you to the Holy Land, Mr Mitchell, for talks. So many before you have gone to talk. They failed because polite talk isn’t enough. What will you say about the subjugation of Palestine’s people and Israel’s defilement of this once-lovely place? How will you answer charges that your county, the USofA, is godfather, bankroller, arms supplier and good buddy to the racist thieves and colonizers that have turned it into a powder-keg? Mr Mitc hell, the people you are talking to in Tel Aviv and West Jerusalem are, in the words of a respected British Jewish MP, “a gang of amoral thugs”. The stench of ethnic cleansing is everywhere…
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Non-Violence in Palestine: Timing and Intentions
Ramzy Baroud
…In the midst of this mess, where is the call for Israel to embrace non-violence? Would the media and the world community press the Israelis to embrace non-violence, had they endured such atrocities such as those witnessed in Gaza? And once again, the intentions of the “establishment” come in to question. One has to wonder, if Abu al-Aish would have responded with the resolve of so many grieving parents who vowed to “never leave” to “rebuild” to “resist until victory or death in its pursuit”, would he still be recognized for his efforts to promote peace among Palestinians and Israelis?…
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Torture Memos Said CIA Could Use Insects and Severely Beat Detainee
Jason Leopold
CIA interrogators were given legal authorization to slam an alleged “high-value” detainee’s head against a wall, place insects inside a “confinement box” to induce fear, and force him to remain awake for 11 consecutive days, according to a closely guarded Aug. 1, 2002 legal memo released publicly by the Justice Department for the first time Thursday. The memo, signed by the former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC ), Jay Bybee, was written about a week after Bybee’s office had given the CIA verbal authorization that subjecting the detainee to seven other brutal interrogation methods would not violate torture laws….
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Video: Riz Khan – Gaza’s unending nightmare
AlJazeeraEnglish
Riz speaks with Mahmoud Daher (WHO) in Gaza and Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, who was in Gaza in January to provide medical care, and described what he saw as “nightmarish havoc”. …
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Israeli police violate own ban, pray near Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ma’an news
Israeli police officers in charge of preventing extremist settlers from performing religious rituals near the Al-Aqsa Mosque were seen praying there on Thursday. Settlers had earlier been prevented by Jerusalem police from reaching Lion’s Gate near Al-Aqsa on Thursday, yet the police themselves were later seen praying there. Ma’an’s Jerusalem correspondent reported that police removed their uniforms, put on head coverings, and began to pray in the area sh ortly after preventing settlers from reaching the very same place…
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Obama exonerates CIA torturers
By Patrick Martin
President Barack Obama announced Thursday that CIA agents who engaged in torture of prisoners over the past seven years will not be prosecuted or punished. As the Justice Department released memos documenting in grisly detail the interrogation guidelines set down by the Bush administration, the White House made it clear that neither those who ordered the torture nor those who carried it out would face justice. The four memos released Thursday were written by the Office of L egal Counsel, an arm of the US Department of Justice, in 2002 and 2005. Their release was compelled by a court-established deadline in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)….
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