Religious and cultural rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem is a new UN 19 pages report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. It provids shocking -but not surprising- information about the situation.

Excerpt:

Nablus, located 65 kilometres from Jerusalem, is the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank. Its population is predominantly Muslim, [...]

The long awaited final Winograd’s report came out with unsurprising (or surprising? doesn’t make a difference here) conclusions that saved Olmert’s ass and his sick cabinet, however, that’s not what I’m interested in at all. The real interesting part is the relation between Hillary Clinton and Winograd report.

How?

Winograd report states that the Israeli occupation forces [...]

Another analysis about this story from Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. (He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.)

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Extra-Judicial Execution

By Palestinian Center for Human Rights

When we think of crimes against humanity, we must be aware that governments and governmental groups can be more dangerous than individuals in this regard. Governments have the most power to inflict harm and are most likely to be recidivist. This kind of terrorism is the [...]

By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique

Foreword from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose results are now obvious.

How [...]

The international community-spurred by renewed US interest-is gearing up for another major push for peace in the Middle East: President Bush recently dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to garner support for an international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Tony Blair is leading the latest attempt of the Quartet-which includes the UN, the US, [...]

Israeli Violations Documented during the Reporting Period (16 - 22 August 2007)

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)

16 Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

10 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by [...]

(image by Carlos Latuff)

The annual global human rights report was released today by Amnesty International.

Amnesty International accused both Israel and Hezbollah on Wednesday of committing war crimes during the Second Lebanon War last summer, saying both were guilty of indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.

But this is not why I’m writing tonight.

Looking at ISRAEL AND THE [...]

Poll Report on the War on Terrorism

What do American citizens get from their media? How far true is what they see and hear? Who are the good/bad media outlets in U.S. and what is their agenda? What role does the U.S. media play in unveiling/hiding the truth? and what are American citizens missing in their [...]

A multinational poll finds that publics around the world reject the idea that the United States should play the role of preeminent world leader. Most publics say the United States plays the role of world policeman more than it should, fails to take their country’s interests into account and cannot be trusted to act responsibly.

The [...]