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Month: July 2010
Out of a Military Strike a Humanitarian Gesture
By Dallas Darling As reporters walked through pools of blood and decapitated body parts on marble floors, they found the remains of an elderly merchant still in his nightclothes. Children, buried in rubble and crushed […]
Israel’s New ‘Video Game’ Executions
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill terrorists. Played by: young […]
Israel OKs New Settlements in al-Quds
Despite calls for a permanent freeze on Israel’s West Bank settlement activity, more units receive construction approval in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The Israeli building and planning committee in al-Quds endorsed the expansion on […]
Morocco ‘May Nab Top Israeli Officials’
Top Israeli officials might be arrested if they come to Morocco due to Tel Aviv’s 2008 attack against Gaza, according to a legal bid launched by a group of lawyers. "The complaint is against Israeli […]
Israel Tells Army to Make Haste Slowly
Amid lingering condemnations over the May 31 Flotilla attack, Israel’s foreign ministry has advised the army not to stop a new Gaza-bound aid ship in international waters. The ministry called on the armed forces on […]
Is Israel a Normal Country?
(Critique of an article with the same title in Toronto’s Globe and Mail by Ian Buruma) By John Chuckman This article starts with a brave question, and I think for most people the answer is […]
Signing the World’s Death Warrant?
By Stuart Littlewood – London I went cold, very cold, when I read in Haaretz that ‘the US has reportedly pledged to sell Israel… nuclear technology and other supplies, despite the fact that Israel is […]
Afghanistan: The Beginning of the Endgame?
By Deepak Tripathi The British government’s decision to withdraw troops from Sangin in Helmand province marks a watershed in the relentless conflict in Afghanistan. The military mission has been very costly for the United Kingdom, […]
Flotilla Attack Seriously Flawed: Probe
Israel’s military probe into the May 31 attack on a Gaza aid convoy has found Israeli forces guilty of serious errors in preparing and carrying out the deadly takeover. The army’s probe commission led by […]
Israel Navy on Alert over Libyan Ship
Israeli navy is on high alert as a Libyan aid ship heads for the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s naval blockade on the impoverished coastal sliver. The navy is tracking the ship and has put […]
Israel under Spell of Nasrallah Words
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speeches have swayed Israeli public opinion, making him the first Arab leader to affect Israelis in decades, a study indicates. The finding came in a study by the chief intelligence […]
Witch-hunt Begins in Israeli Schools and Colleges
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Hundreds of Israeli college professors have signed a petition accusing the education minister of endangering academic freedoms after he threatened to “punish” any lecturer or institution that supports a boycott of […]
What’s Normal under Occupation?
By Kara Newhouse – The West Bank, Palestine ‘For 122 days I heard the voices of tortured people, the shouting of tortured people, the crying of tortured people. The first days in that time, I […]
Israel’s Outrageous Settlement Enterprise
By Stephen Lendman B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, addressed it in its July 2010 report titled, ‘By Hook and By Crook: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank’, ahead of a July 6 meeting […]
Presbyterians Urge US to End Israel Aid
Presbyterian leaders have supported a proposal that calls for an end to US aid to Israel unless Tel Aviv stops its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian land. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, […]
Israel Warns Gaza-bound Libyan Aid Ship
Israel has issued a warning against a Libyan aid ship en route to the Gaza Strip as part of its bid to hinder pro-Palestinian relief efforts. Tel Aviv says allowing the ship to go ahead […]
PA Chief Sets Conditions for Direct Talks
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas calls for progress in proximity peace talks before any direct negotiations with Israel can begin. Speaking in Ramallah on Saturday, Abbas said that indirect negotiations, which have been under […]
Hezbollah Senses Intl. Conspiracy
Hezbollah Senses Intl. Conspiracy Hezbollah says the recent provocations by Israel and UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon are part of an "international move" against the resistance movement. Resistance sources said on Saturday there was a […]
BDS to Israel: Abide by International Law
By Neve Gordon – Israel There is a considerable amount of misunderstanding about the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions). As John Berger explained a while back, BDS is not a principle but a strategy; it […]
Obama’s Collapse
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The spectacle of an American sucking up to an Israeli Prime Minister is familiar but no less sickening every time it happens. Not since Eisenhower has an American president had […]
Two Sit-Ins in Jerusalem
By Uri Avnery At this moment, two sit-ins are taking place in Jerusalem, two kilometers apart. In West Jerusalem, the Shalit family is sitting in a protest tent in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, […]
A Black-Palestinian Liberation Theology?
By Dallas Darling When President Barack Hussein Obama reiterated that the Israeli blockade of Gaza was unsustainable, and when he announced an economic aid package worth millions of dollars for the beleaguered Palestinians, I asked […]
Ralph Nader Recommends
By Ralph Nader Summer time is reading time. Here are ten suggested new books: 1. Toxic Talk (Thomas Dunne Books) by Bill Press, the liberal talk show host, unloads in his words, on “how the […]
Palestinian Displacement in East Jerusalem
By Stephen Lendman The UN General Assembly’s 1947 Resolution 181 internationalized Jerusalem as a separate body (a corpus separatum), administered by a UN Trustee Council, a policy still binding but not followed. Nor have other […]
Netanyahu Says Ready for Direct Talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is ready for direct peace talks if the Palestinians drop their precondition for a full freeze of settlement activities. While visiting the United States, Netanyahu said Wednesday that […]
America and Israel’s Show Must Go On
By James Gundun, Washington D.C. Credit them this skill – they’re good performers. Not great. Great is convincing. But a good performer abides by the cardinal rule of show business. The show must go on […]
UN Wants Israel to Ease Siege on Gaza
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has joined international voices of opposition to the Israeli siege of Gaza, calling on Tel Aviv to change its strategy toward the impoverished strip. Ban made the remarks at a […]
Israel Asks US to Boost Weapons Supply
Tel Aviv has asked Washington to increase its weapons capability in the Middle East as part of efforts for Israel to have a strategic advantage over its Arab neighbors. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who […]
Lebanon Wins When Palestinians Granted Right to Work
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut ‘These are humanitarian, social and ethical duties, and the Lebanese state must assume the responsibility of providing them to our Palestinian brothers and sisters. Lebanon will not dodge these duties, […]