Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
by Stephen Lendman
Independent investigations and convincing testimonies, on both sides, provide compelling evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. It’s time to hold the guilty accountable. In February, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights showed conclusively how Israel violated core international law principles by indiscriminately attacking civilians in spite of IDF claims such instances were justified. Amnesty International accused Israel of war crimes and called on t he UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo…
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Gaza Refugees “Perpetual” suffering
Palestine Return Center
Palestine Return Center (PRC) expresses deep anxiety over the conditions of Palestinians in Gaza, especially refugees who are the majority. A harsh siege followed by a deadly war has destroyed the lives of people there. PRC calls for a prompt intervention to ease the refugees’ conditions in Gaza until long term solution is implemented. The PRC has been calling for a resolution to the ongoing problem of refugees. The Refugees of Gaza as well as abroad demand that their basic human rights, right of return, and self determination which is recognized by UN resolution 194 and International law…
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Art exhibit illustrates horrors of Iraq occupation
Bernadette Steward
Upon entering The Station Museum of Contemporary Art on the edge of the city’s downtown to view the exhibition “Iraqi Artists in Exile,” I was hit with the questions “How do we justify the destruction of a country and her people? What do we say?” This wonderful museum is renowned for its thought provoking exhibitions. This phenomenal exhibition has not been placed at any other museum in the United States due to its controversial nature. The exhibition e vokes feelings of what oppressed people around the world are experiencing. The first piece you see upon entering is a man disrobed with his hands bound and his head completely covered by a bag, and he is sitting in a very vulnerable position. This sculpture symbolizes the subjugation of the Iraqi people under the occupation…
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Jailed leader Marwan Barghouthi chides Hamas, Fatah for failing to unite
Ma’an news
Jailed Palestinian lawmaker and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi criticized Palestinian factions for failing to reach an agreement to end nearly two years of political division on Wednesday. In an interview marking his 7th year in Israeli prisons, Barghouthi said he was “saddened and irritated” at the failure of Fatah, Hamas, and the other factions to unite. After failing to achieve a breakthrough during several rounds of meetings, Hamas and Fatah negotiators suspended talks in early April and now plan to resume talks at the end of the month…
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Marwan Bargouthi most trusted politician
Dave Thompson, IMEMC
According to an opinion poll conducted in the Palestinian territories at the end of March, Marwan Bargouthi commands the most trust within the Palestinian population. Despite his imprisonment by the Israelis, the Fateh leader Bargouthi is trusted by more people than both current President Mahmood Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas.In the poll carried out by the Ramallah-based Near East Consulting respondents were asked whether they would put their trust i n Bargouthi or Abbas – 56% favoured the former and 44% the latter. When compared to Haniyeh, trust in Bargouthi rose to 69%. The poll also shows that the main Palestinian political factions continue to lose the trust of the electorate. Currently 47% of Palestinians do not trust any faction – a sharp increase on previous months. Trust in Fateh stands at 34% and in Hamas 12%. ..
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Report: 700 patients waiting for Rafah crossing to open
Ghassan Bannoura
At least 700 Palestinian patients are waiting for the opening of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip so they can access medical treatment, according to the department responsible for border crossings. The department report, issued on Wednesday, said that many of those waiting are people who were injured during the Israeli Cast lead offensive on Gaza…
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Hamas leader Mashal holds talks with British MPs
Ma’an news
Top Hamas leader Khalid Mashal met with a delegation of British lawmakers in his office in Damascus on Tuesday in a sign of Europe’s increasing willingness to open communication with the Islamic movement. The MPs were led by Roger Godsiff, a member of the Labour Party. Sources present in the meeting said the British MPs expressed the view that peace cannot be achieved without including Hamas in the peace process. The lawmakers also expressed support for the Pales tinians in the wake of the Israeli offensive on Gaza and the ongoing siege of that territory…
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Interview: Naeim Giladi – Author of the Jews of Iraq 11-07-94
Palestine Video
“Naeim Giladi (Hebrew: נעים גלעדי) (born 1929, Iraq, as Naeim Khalaschi) is an Anti-Zionist, and author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis entitled The Jews of Iraq… While living in Israel, his views of Zionism changed. He writes that, he “was disillusioned personally, disillusioned at the institutionalized racism, disillusioned at what I was begin ning to learn about Zionism’s cruelties. The principal interest Israel had in Jews from Islamic countries was as a supply of cheap labor, especially for the farm work that was beneath the urbanized Eastern European Jews. Ben Gurion needed the “Oriental” Jews to farm the thousands of acres of land left by Palestinians who were driven out by Israeli forces in 1948″….
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Palestinian prisoners in detetion by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq
Gaza; Peace n’ Freedom
The Palestinian newspaper al-Hourriah has released a report with 17 names of Palestinians, identified as prisoners held by the U.S. occupation authorities in Iraq. The majority of the seventeen are held at the Boca prison near Basrah, whilst the location of others in unknown. Overall, it has been difficult for Palestinian organizations to assess the human rights violations against the Palestinian community in Iraq due to the prevail ing situation there. The newspaper has also released a list of names of Palestinians held by Iraqi authorities…
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The Politics of Faith
By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH
…I innocuously came upon a travel advertisement on MSN entitled “Journeys of Faith.” The writer, who generously provided the readers with an attractive slide show of the aforementioned destinations, had narrowed down the world’s 13 most significant destinations for the most faithful. Of course, upon seeing this, I thought, no doubt, my beautiful country would certainly occupy at least four or five of these. How could it not? They don’t call it the holy land for nothing. As I clicked my way through the slideshow, I was taken to exotic destinations in France, Mexico, India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. What? No Jerusalem? No Nazareth or Bethlehem? It couldn’t be. Then, somewhere wedged between Mecca and Lourdes, France was Jerusalem. Ahh, of course, the slide that came along with it could be no other, could it? This was MSN. Religious Jews praying at the Western Wall, piles of Torahs on a table behind them. The text did not make me feel any better…
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Urgent action for Palestinian school children
CPT
Of utmost concern for CPT and Operation Dove is the safe travel of Palestinian school children who walk from the nearby villages of Tuba and Magaher-al-Abeed to At-Tuwani’s elementary school. These school children face a treacherous daily walk past the illegal Israeli settlement of Ma’on and the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on. For years, armed adult settlers have attacked, threatened and harassed the children along the path from Tuba to Tuwani. In 2004 the Knesset recommen ded that the Israeli military provide the children with an armed escort. However, since settlers constructed a gate across the road one year ago, the escort soldiers have refused to walk with the children far enough to ensure their safety…
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