The rhetoric of “peace”
Ziyaad Lunat
The Israelis have offered the Palestinians many types of “peace.” Their first attempt to reach out to the Palestinians was in 1948 with an offer of a “racist peace.” Ethnic cleansing was the basis of a “racist peace” where Zionist terrorists drove out two thirds of the Palestinian population from their homes. Its logic was that expulsion would end strife between Zionists and Palestinians (by eliminating one side) enabling the Zionists to enjoy peace in an ethnic Jewish haven…
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Woman Recalls “Horrific” Israeli Detention
KHALED AMAYREH
A Palestinian women freed this weeks after six years in detention on charges of resisting the Israeli military occupation is speaking out against “horrific mistreatment” and “hair-raising episodes” in Israeli jails. “They beat us, they kicked us, they humiliated us. They treated us as if we were animals,” Sherine Sheikh Khalil, 24, told IslamOnline.net in an exclusive interview. “It is really difficult to communicate to you the bestiality and savagery of their beh avior,” added the young activist from the central Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis…
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Punitive house demolitions as “deterrence”
Marian Houk
By the time we arrived in Sur Bahir, a Palestinian village near Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on the afternoon of 7 April, it was calm. At the entrance to the village, in a small traffic circle where three olive trees were planted, there were rocks all over the road, the only sign of what had happened suddenly earlier that day. Everything was all over, but the grief and the anger. At 6am, some 2,000 Israeli border police and special forces and other per sonnel descended on the village to demolish a wing of a house that belonged to the family of a Palestinian construction worker who allegedly went on a rampage while operating a bulldozer last July…
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Anatomy of Bush’s Torture ‘Paradigm’
The prose of the recently leaked report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on torture seems colorless. It is at the same time obscene — almost pornographic. The 41-page ICRC report depicts scenes of prisoners forced to remain naked for long periods, sometimes in the presence of women, often with their hands shackled over their heads in “stress positions” as they are left to soil themselves. The report’s images of sadism also include prisoners slammed against walls, locked in tiny boxes, and strapped to a bench and subjected to the drowning sensation of waterboarding….
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Video: New Guantanamo abuse claim
AlJazeeraEnglish
A detainee at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay is claiming that tear gas was used on him and he was beaten by guards. In a phone call to Al Jazeera, Mohammad al-Qurani said the abuse continued this year, after Barack Obama, the US president, took power and promised to end abuse at the jail. Al Jazeera’s Monica Villamizar reports…
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Video: Excavations deepen Israeli-Palestinian divide
AlJazeeraEnglish
Israeli authorities are digging tunnels under East Jerusalem, as part of its takeover of Palestinian neighbourhoods. Palestinians fear that the very foundations of their lives could be under threat from the tunnels that cut close to the heart of what Muslims call the Haram al-Shareef, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and sacred to both…
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Israel will not cooperate with UN over Gaza war crimes inquiry
Reuters
Israel does not plan to cooperate with a UN agency’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israeli troops and Hamas during fighting in Gaza, an Israeli government official said on Wednesday. Israeli forces launched a 22-day offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in late December with the stated goal of stopping cross-border rockets fired by Palestinian armed groups. According to a Palestinian rights group, 1,417 Palestinians, including 926 civilian s, were killed in the fighting….
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Aid Rots Outside Gaza
Erin Cunningham
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aid intended for the Gaza Strip is piling up in cities across Egypt’s North Sinai region, despite recent calls from the United Nations to ease aid flow restrictions to the embattled territory in the wake of Operation Cast Lead. Food, medicine, blankets, infant food and other supplies for Gaza’s 1.5 million people, coming from governments and non-governmental agencies around the world, are being stored in warehouses, parking lots, stadiums and on airp ort runways across Egypt’s North Sinai governorate…
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