Human Rights

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America’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

by William A. Cook January 4, 2012

“Violence begets violence, hatred begets hatred, terrorism begets terrorism,” so rings the prophetic knell of the Reverend Wright to his congregation one of whom happened to be our current President Barack Obama. Would that he had listened, for if any man was ever elected to the office of President to change the world, this was the man and he has failed.

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What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?

by Amira Hass December 19, 2011

Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it?

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Is Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid?

by Richard Falk December 6, 2011

The recent finding of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) that the state of Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid in relation to the Palestine people should be taken with the utmost seriousness by all those who affirm human solidarity and care about making visible the long ordeal of a suffering and vulnerable people. The finding is conspicuously ignored by Israel and the United States, as well as by most media and by the United Nations.

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Ongoing Israeli Human Rights Abuses and Self-Proclaimed Democracy

by Stephen Lendman October 16, 2011

Israel is a modern day Sparta, a regional killing machine. Israel is democratic in name only, affording rights solely to higher income and wealthy Jews. It can mobilize over 600,000 combatants in 72 hours, equipped with nuclear and other state-of-the-art weapons.

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Palestinians Protest Israeli Prison Hell

by Stephen Lendman October 7, 2011

Security prisoners are punitively isolated for extended periods. Administrative detainees are held indefinitely without charges or trial. Children are treated like adults.

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Show Your Solidarity for Palestinian Prisoners

by Haitham Sabbah October 7, 2011

Palestinian prisoners are continuously subject to lengthy solitary confinements, sudden night raids and torture. The prisoners’ hunger strike was called to protest the solitary confinement of some prisoners, including Marwan Barghouti.

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Muslims are our fellow Americans [video/pledge]

by Haitham Sabbah September 4, 2011

They are part of the national fabric that holds our country together. They contribute to America in many ways, and deserve the same respect as any of us. Take the pledge.

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Israel’s Operation Summer Seeds

by Stephen Lendman September 1, 2011

Ahead of the General Assembly’s likely granting Palestine statehood recognition and full de jure UN membership in September or early October, Israel is preparing its army and arming settlers for disruptive protests.

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From Arab Spring to jobless summers

by Paul J. Balles August 16, 2011

Few young people consider what effect their protests will have. Little heed gets paid by these youthful protesters to the cost of their revolutionary zeal. They blithely ignore the disaster their activities have caused to their national economies.

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US Congress loves being lied to about the Israel-Palestine conflict…

by Stuart Littlewood July 17, 2011

Stuart Littlewood reminds Israel’s stooges and other ignoramuses in the US Congress of a few basic facts about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict – the sheer injustice suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of Israel and its US supporter – and concludes: “There is only one thing worse than being lied to, Congress. And that’s acting on a lie.”

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US Independence Day reflections

by Paul J. Balles July 10, 2011

Paul J. Balles reflects on the US Independence Day and asks: if, as the American Declaration of Independence says, “all men are created equal”, then why do Americans act as if that fundamental principle applies only to citizens of the USA?

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Saudi Women Drive Again as European Union Offers Support

by SR Editor June 23, 2011

More Saudi Arabian women drove their cars in the streets of capital Riyadh Wednesday, continuing a campaign – largely rooted in social media – to push the kingdom into overturning a ban on female drivers. At the same time, one of the European Union’s top diplomats sent a long-requested message of support for their campaign.

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Children and War

by SR Editor June 16, 2011

How you feels about the USA torturing and killing children in places like Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. These are the active places the US is bombing, but what about the children that were held or are being held in places like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Abu Ghraib in Iraq or Bagram AFB in Afghanistan? Why are the “people of the world” standing by and watching the US destroy civilization as it murders and tortures children?

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Israel Is Going to the Dogs

by SR Editor June 15, 2011

Israel has followed in the footsteps of the United States, using dogs to terrify Palestinian workers trying to get into Israel to find jobs. Victims of the dog attacks are not security suspects, but rather day laborers. Are occupation soldiers using Palestinian workers as guinea pigs, trying out the dogs in preparation for use on the upcoming flotilla to Gaza?

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Lawfare: Israeli-AIPAC attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

by SR Editor June 13, 2011

Instead of direct military “warfare,” the Israel, AIPAC and the Shurat HaDin Law Center, are using lawsuits filed against insurance and satellite telephone companies that may sell equipment to the flotilla organizers and against citizen activist groups that have raised funds to purchase ships as strategies to attempt to stop the flotilla.

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