Get up, stand up for Palestinian Rights on May Day and Every Day
Reham Alhelsi
…On the 1st of May we remember Zionist massacres committed against Palestinian labourers. We remember the massacre of Oyoun Qara (Rishon Lezion), when on 20.5.1990 an Israeli soldier lined up some 100 Palestinian labourers who were on their way to work, and in cold blood killed 7 of them with a sub-machine gun. As with all massacres committed by individual Israelis, the Israeli government rushed to declare the soldier deranged. Ami Popper, th e IOF soldier, had come upon the group of Palestinians, asked them to in kneel down in 3 lines, and after checking their IDs and making sure they were Arabs he started shooting randomly at them. Their only fault was that they were Palestinians. They had lost their homes and everything else they owned in 1948, and were made refugees by the Zionist state. And as the tragedy of the Nakba continued, the suffering of these people knew no end. For, in order to feed their children, they were forced to work like slaves for those who made refugees out of them. The photos of the massacre show the extent of hate and brutality of the IOF soldier: young and elderly, drowning in pools of blood, their lunch packages scattered around them…
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Children as Unlamented Victims of Bush’s War Crimes
Michael Haas
Torture has received the most attention among the many war crimes of the Bush administration. But those who support Bush’s pursuit of the “war on terror” have not been impressed by recriminations over torture. Worse than torture are the murders of at least 50 prisoners in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo, but again the hard-hearted are unimpressed when those whom they perceive as terrorists receive illegal extrajudicial capital punishment. The case fo r abusing children, however, is more difficult to support. The best kept secret of the Bush’s war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international agreements. Yet both Congress and the media have strangely failed to identify the very existence of child prisoners as a war crime…
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Palestinians in Europe to commemorate the 61 anniversary of Nakba “Catastrophe”
Palestine Return Center PRC
After 61 years of the Palestinian Nakba. Palestinians still adhere to their rights and legacy which was intended to be destroyed in the past decades but never it never happened. Palestinian communities, institutions and associations all over European countries are preparing for the 7th Europe Conference in Milan, Italy by the 2nd of May 2009. A broad spectrum of leaders, Palestinian public figures and delegations wi ll attend the conference. This year conference is entitled; “Right of return is nonnegotiable and will not be relinquished”. The message of the conference is to show the determination and adherence of all rights especially the right of return and independency. Thousands of Palestinian refugees and residents living in Europe are expected to attend…
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Nobody Could Have Predicted (Part IV)
Lawrence of Cyberia
…that forcibly establishing a Jewish state in Palestine against the wishes of its pre-existing non-Jewish majority – a state which would be surrounded by 200 million Arabs and one billion Muslims who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the plight of the pre-existing population, and which would require for its continuing existence the repeated involvement of those Western powers who engineered its creation in the first place – would turn out to be a source of perpet ual grievance and escalating instability that threatens regional war involving the countries of the entire Mid East and far beyond…
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Palestine’s Holocaust museum
By Dania Yousef in Ni’lin, occupied West Bank. Aljazeera.net
In a small anonymous home in the West Bank, a Palestinian academic has set up a project which is almost unheard of in the Occupied Territories. Hassan Musa is the curator of a museum exhibition dedicated to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe. The cracked white walls of this makeshift museum in the village of Ni’lin are covered from floor to ceiling with images of people forced out of their homes, tortured, imprisoned, starved and murdere d. In addition to the pictures depicting the Nazi brutality against Jews in Europe, there are also images of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the violence in Palestine since. On one wall, there is a picture of a scared Jewish boy holding up his hands as Nazi soldiers look on; the caption reads: “Make your final account with Hitler and the Nazi Germans, not with the Palestinians.” On an adjacent wall there are photos of dead children, demolished homes and women screaming during the Israeli war on Gaza in January…
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Iraqi women suffer regular domestic violence-UN
Reuters
The vast majority of Iraqi women face domestic violence on a regular basis and many commit suicide because of it, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Iraq and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan should take measures to stop violence against women, including honour killings and genital mutilation, the UN mission in Iraq, known as UNAMI, said in a regular report on human rights. “The sensitivity of Iraqi communities to issues concerning women is such that familie s are frequently not reporting to the authorities incidents of violence against women,” it said…
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Abdul-Qader: “Israel issued orders to demolish constructions belonging to East Jerusalem Church”
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
Hatim Abdul-Qader, Jerusalem Affairs advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister, stated on Wednesday at night that the Jerusalem Municipality issued orders to demolish constructions that are located in historical churches and monasteries in the Old City of Jerusalem. Abdul-Qader stated that some Christian leaders in Jerusalem asked him to intervene and stop an Israeli order to demolish two floors built on top of the Armenian Church in the Old City…
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Israel threatens to bloc EU from peace process if criticism of Netanyahu’s government continues
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
An official at the Israeli Foreign Ministry warned that Israel would block the European Union from participating in the Middle East peace process with the Palestinians if the EU does not stop its criticism of Israel. Israel online daily, Haaretz, reported that Israel is mainly targeting Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU’s External Affairs Commissioner, who called on the EU to not to upgrade its ties with Israel d ue to its Middle East peace process policies. Haaretz added that Israel already informed a number of European ambassadors on its position. The first two ambassadors who were informed were French ambassador, Jean-Michel Casa, and Britain’s ambassador, Tom Phillips…
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Tunnels Become a Lifeline
Erin Cunningham
Pick-up trucks speed westward on the Barth highway that flanks the Israeli border in Egypt’s North Sinai region, stacked high with cartons of petrol. They are headed “for Gaza”, the Bedouin residents of Barth village say – through the tunnels that burrow under the Egypt-Gaza border and are filling Gaza’s aid gap in the aftermath of Israel’s deadly assault on the territory. The hundreds of subterranean passages that have fuelled Gaza’s economy since its borders were hermetically se aled by Israel and Egypt in 2007 were one of the primary targets of Israel’s three-week Operation Cast Lead…
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Lacking cement, Gaza government seeks to transform rubble into new buildings
Ma’an News
The de facto government in Gaza is investigating whether the rubble of bombed buildings can be ground up and re-constituted into a cement substitute that can be used in reconstruction. Minister of Public Works and Housing Yousef Al-Mansi said the Hamas-run government will build a mosque, a school and a clinic using this method as a trial run. Later, the ministry will expand its projects to include mud construction and other techniques. “We are capable of constructing such simple structures adequately,” said Al-Mansi, pointing out that architects and engineers still need to work out the fine details of the buildings, including windows, doors, electricity and sanitation…
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Two Elderly Palestinian Farmers Brutally Attacked by Israeli Settlers in the Southern West Bank
Palestine Solidarity Project
On April 26th, 2009 at 1:15pm, Israeli settlers beat two elderly Palestinian farmers with stones and sticks while they were working their lands close to Bet Ayn settlement, located in the southern West Bank. The attack occurred shortly after Israeli soldiers, having observed the two farmers, left the area. They did not reappear even after the attack. Both farmers are from the village of Beit Ommar, with lands in Saffa, close to the illegal Israeli settlement. Abdullah Soleiby, aged 80, sustained two hair-line fractures and received ten stitches to the top of his head after three settlers held him down and repeatedly smashed his head with stones. His brother, Hamad Soleiby, aged 72, was also beaten though he managed to put his brother on the back of a donkey and take him to the village, where he was briefly treated before being transferred to the hospital in Hebron…
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Palestine – History in Pictures
ANTIIMPERIALIST MEDIA
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