If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!CHILLING testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel's Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests [...]
Also tagged Gaza, George Bisharat, Israel, soldiers, Trial, War CrimesCivilians, medics and investigators talk to the Guardian about allegations of war crimes during Israel's 23-day campaign in Gaza.
The first part focuses on the infamous Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles - the dreaded drones - which caused at least 48 deaths in Gaza during the 23-day offensive.
The second part focuses on three teenage brothers who were [...]
169 YEARS before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title "To Edom". The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translation):
"For a thousand years and more / We have had an understanding [...]
The horrific torture of hundreds of people by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank is being funded by British taxpayers.
An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found that the forces responsible get £20million a year from the UK.
The victims – some left maimed – are rounded up for alleged involvement with the militant [...]
Yedioth [Israel Newspaper] Internet
Gaza war summary
Despite widespread praise, B. Michael unimpressed with military’s performance in Gaza
B. Michael
Did the army draw lessons from its past performance? Unclear. The praise being lavished on the IDF still requires verification. This army participated in two wars: In Lebanon it was fired at and it emerged out of [...]
Because it is generally accepted by the so-called "international community" that Hamas is a major threat to Israel, and therefore to world peace and security, France has dispatched a frigate to participate in a new blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Sunday Times reported that United States naval ships hunting pirates in the Gulf of [...]
Also tagged Europe, Gaza, Israel, occupation, Palestine, War CrimesHere is the joke of the day… US envoy to strengthen Abbas
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3662282,00.html
WASHINGTON - The United States' new envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, will be working to secure a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, as part of an attempt to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority. He does not intend to meet [...]
On Saturday December 27, the latest US-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6 months according to the Israeli press. The planning had two components: military and propaganda. It was based on the lessons of Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which was considered to be poorly planned [...]
Also tagged Gaza, Israel, Noam-Chomsky, Palestine, PeaceMark this, Israel!
Millions of our children in Gaza, West Bank, all of occupied Palestine and all over the world, will NOT FORGET and will NOT FORGIVE. When your day comes, remember that you were warned.
And remember, some Palestinians are dead, some are living, but most are not yet born.
Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas's capacity to launch missiles into Israeli towns; that [...]
Also tagged Gaza, henry-siegman, Israel, London review, occupation, PalestineAnother excellent report by Jonathan Miller. Telling the story of destruction and war crimes in Gaza.
It is now clear that Israel's War on Gaza was not about destroying Hamas but punishing the Palestinian people for electing them.
See in the massive scale of the destruction that the Terrorist Jewish State inflicted on the ordinary people of [...]
Channel Four News journalist Johnathan Miller travelled to Gaza where he interviewed civilians sheltering in a UN run school attacked by Israel using white phosphorus munitions.
Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty International investigator said "We've seen Prima Facie that there have been war crimes."
Over the past three weeks Dr Aish reported regularly from Gaza in Hebrew on Israeli television. On the day Israel announced its ceasefire, he is interviewed just after the Israeli army shelled his home, killing his three daughters and two grandsons.
The whole of Israel saw this interview, capturing Israeli barbarism in the desperate cries of [...]
Israel has turned Gaza into a massive prison, and is choosing to prolong the cycle of state terror and prisoner resistance that goes with that, writes Israeli academic Oren Yiftachel
"We have a great opportunity now in Gaza to smash and flatten them…[We] should destroy thousand of houses, tunnels and industries, and kill as many terrorists [...]
