Palestine Monitor 29 September 2009 Israeli government legal advisers have urged Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to leave London immediately to avoid facing arrest for war crimes committed during Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year. British lawyers, acting on behalf of Palestinian families, have filed a suit in Westminster seeking an international arrest warrant [...]
By Sonja Karkar - Melbourne, Australia Women for Palestine, Australians for Palestine The sounds of “yes we can” still ring in our ears, Mr President, but we have yet to see the changes we can believe in. That was evident when you backed down to Israel on a settlement freeze in the West Bank and East [...]
Sep 30 2009 | Posted in
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By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel’s attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door. The 40-year-old actor and theatre director is [...]
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By Stuart Littlewood Knowing that Iran won’t surrender its right to civil nuclear power, the schemers in Tel Aviv and Washington were bound to mount a hysterical campaign to scare the rest of the world into believing this would bring terror to our own streets. And at the United Nations we saw the [...]
By Stephen Lendman Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization Israel’s 130 West Bank settlements are illegal under international law, including Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that states: “Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power [...]
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Palestine Monitor 28 September 2009 Following the historic summit at the UN, everybody can apparently relax – Peace looks as far away as ever. Pictures say a thousand words and are often more honest. The image of Presidents Obama and Abbas with Prime Minister Netanyahu following the – at first down-played and then hyped up [...]
Palestine Monitor 28 September 2009 Erekat: “Providing a police escort for settlers who are against peace at all costs, and whose presence is deliberately designed to provoke a reaction, are not the actions of someone who is committed to peace, but of someone who will go to extraordinary lengths to scuttle all hopes of peace. [...]
By Sonia Nettnin Haiku: September 28, 2000 Remember this day Fire, he enclosed esplanades Hearts cry Holy Land
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By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Demands from Israel’s chief commander this month that all Israeli citizens should be required to perform national service has turned the spotlight on a rarely discussed group of soldiers: members of Israel’s Palestinian minority. Though no official statistics are available, an estimated 3,000 of Israel’s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens [...]
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By Sonia Nettnin Haiku: Between Obama’s Israel-Palestine Lines Speak settlements grow Children dig sands water wells US money flows
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