Archive for: January, 2009

Turkish Prime Minister storms out of Economic Forum, criticizes Israel

Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The Turkish Prime Minister stormed out of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, after criticizing Israel’s attack on Gaza in a debate with the Israeli President. Erdogan challenges moderator at debate in Davos   The moderator of the debate, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, allowed a lengthy speech by the [...]

‘Israeli Envoy: Attack on Gaza a ‘Preintroduction’ to Attack on Iran’

By Jason Ditz ∙ AntiWar News ∙ January 30, 2009 After ordering a cameraman to turn off his camera, Israeli Ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem engaged in a very frank discussion about the recent Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, calling it “a preintroduction” to an attack on Iran that Israel apparently expects within the [...]

The BBC’s warped impartiality

Stuart Littlewood, Jan 31, 2009   The BBC wouldn’t help the Gaza Appeal because doing so might jeopardise the public’s confidence in the BBC’s impartiality.   That’s laughable. Everyone I know has written several times to the BBC complaining about its glaring lack of impartiality when reporting the Palestine-Israel conflict. Some feel obliged to protest [...]

Sundance Channel Premiere of LEILA KHALED: HIJACKER

Women Make Movies (www.wmm.com) is so pleased that our award-winning release, LEILA KHALED: HIGHJACKER, will be making its national broadcast premiere on Sundance Channel on February 2, at 9 PM. In 1969, Leila Khaled, an attractive 24-year-old Palestinian, made headlines as the first woman to hijack an airplane. A year later, after six operations to [...]

Settlement data implicates Israeli government

Commentary by William J Martin, Jan 30 2009 The information leaked to the group shows that in three out of every four settlements in the West Bank at least some of the construction was completed without proper permits, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported. The daily said the database showed that, in more than 30 settlements, extensive construction of buildings [...]

AP can’t stop lying for Israel

Detain This Blog Spot, Jan 29 2009 If lies about Israel’s enemies published these last few days by “the world’s largest and most trusted source of independent news and information.” Here’s a lie you will see in every AP report about Israel’s invasion and carpet-bombing of Gaza — a supremely criminal aggression which was meant [...]

…and now the Mitchell fantasy

Khaled Amayreh It is really difficult to take seriously those who think that the new American envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, has a real chance of getting Israel, the Nazi-like entity, to end its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, and therefore achieve a just and lasting peace [...]

Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 04/2009 (22- 28 January 2009)

Palestine Center for Human Rights, Jan 29, 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip

We will sail again Announcement from the Free Gaza movement

Free Gaza Movement, 27th January 2009 After talking to our partners in Gaza, many of our donors and discussing the situation in Gaza, we are announcing our next trip to Gaza during the week of March 2, 2009. We hope to bring in a cargo ship loaded with building supplies and medical equipment plus take [...]

How to Kill a Palestinian

Dr. Elias Akleh Commenting on the latest Israeli one-directional onslaught against the Palestinians of Gaza Strip, the Israeli 10th TV channel has disclosed that the Israeli genocidal forces had used half of its air force and had launched at least 2500 air raids against Gaza Strip. The television military correspondent stated that the Israeli warplanes [...]

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