Palestinian National Initiative30 June 2009 Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was shocked to hear about the arrests of 21 human rights advocates on board of an aid ship heading to the Gaza Strip, carrying medical supplies, reconstruction materials and children’s toys to alleviate [...]
Jun 30 2009 | Posted in
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http://ingaza.wordpress.com The sea provides no relief today. I sit on a tattered plastic chair at the seaside, close enough that the waves’ mist brushes my face. But there’s no relishing this water. I’m acutely aware of the sewage and pollution in it, and shudder at the sight of kids diving in headfirst. There’s no [...]
Jun 30 2009 | Posted in
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD The most outrageous news in this week’s digest is the Israeli attack on the “Spirit of Humanity” boat in International waters kidnapping human rights activists and confiscating humanitarian supplies bound for Gaza (just happened). This is simple piracy and shows that Israeli leaders have sunk to new lows on the morality scale. Please [...]
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… while world’s medical ethics chief turns blind eye By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture, according to Israeli human rights groups. The Israeli Medical Association (IMA) [...]
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Sami Jamil Jadallah Last week, when Bibi Netanyahu, the pathetic snake charmer of Israel demanded the demilitarization of a future state of Palestine among many of his preconditions, prerequisites, and demands. For agreeing to consider let alone agree to such a state, no one within the Ramallah leadership or among world leaders took Bibi and [...]
Uri Avnery HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Iranian citizens pour into the streets in order to protest against their government! What a wonderful sight! Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz that he envies the Iranians. And indeed, anyone who tries these days to get Israelis in any numbers into the streets could die of envy. It is very [...]
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Stuart LittlewoodReports of prisoner abuse at the US prison at Bagram air force base in Afghanistan come as no surprise. They are just the latest example of the world’s biggest bully behaving badly as usual. As if that weren’t enough, I’m reading how some 83 people, mostly civilians, were killed and over 50 injured in [...]
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Palestine Monitor 27 June 2009 The G-8 and the Middle East Quartet both called on Israel to freeze all settlement construction as a step towards resumption of peace talks. The Quartet includes the United States, Russia, European Union, and the United Nations. They met in the Italian city of Trieste on Friday in an attempt [...]
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Two alliances evolved: the March 14 group (Sunnis and others), with Saudi Arabia and U.S. backing, having 70 seats; and the March 8 group (Shi’a and others), with Iran and Syria backing, having 58 seats. Hassan Nasrallah (Hezbollah), Speaker Nabih Berri (Amal – the original Shi’a political party, now aligned with Hezbollah), and General Michel [...]
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Ramzy Baroud, The Palestine Chronicle The election victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to complicate US President Barack Obama’s new approach to his country’s conflict with Iran. The reason behind the foreseen obstacle is neither the US nor Iran’s refusal to engage in future dialogue but rather Israel’s insistence on a hard-line approach [...]
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