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  • Israeli ship attacks international solidarity boat crew off Gaza coast
    18 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I am writing this exactly twelve hours after I was attacked by an Israeli warship, off the Gaza coast.
    As a member of the Civil Peace Service, I board the Oliva boat around twice a week to monitor Gazan fishermen’s human rights. But today, it wasn’t just the fishermen who were targeted.
    We approached a cluster of hasaka fishing boats that were being attacked with water cannons at midday on July 13. As we got closer all I could focus on was the officer manning the machine gun, covered (…)

  • Gaza-bound ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists sets sail from Greece
    18 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN – On Saturday evening a Gaza-bound boat left Greek territorial waters. Its 10 participants regard themselves as representatives of the entire abortive flotilla to Gaza, and are determined to exhaust all possibilities in order to reach their destination, or at least carry out the symbolic act of protesting the blockade. They are well aware of the Lilliputian dimensions of their venture, compared with the massive impact organizers had initially planned to (…)

  • A flotilla to stop deaths in the Mediterranean
    18 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hundreds of thousands of people fled Libya since the crisis began in February 2011. As of June 14, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), one million refugees had left the country ; more than 500,000 heading off to Tunisia, more than 300,000 to Egypt and 70,000 to Niger.
    Every day, refugees arrive in Tunisia to stay in already overpopulated camps [1]. The majority are nationals from Sub-Saharan African countries themselves in conflict like Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea (…)

  • AFGHANISTAN: NATO RAID KILLED 6 CIVIIAN
    15 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Afghan officials say NATO raid killed 6 civilians Men in the crowd carried the bodies of the dead on their shoulders
    By Amir Shah - Associated Press,Heidi Vogt
    Government officials in eastern Afghanistan accused NATO troops on Thursday of killing six civilians in an overnight raid, and more than 1,000 people poured into the streets in anger.
    The military alliance said the joint patrol with Afghan forces in Khost province killed six fighters from a militant group allied with the Taliban (…)

  • Uri Avnery: When imagined memory replaces the real in Israel
    11 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Uri Avnery
    People see elderly, nonviolent human rights activists as dangerous provocateurs because the government and the media tell them so.
    For several weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: 10 little boats trying to reach Gaza. These vessels are carrying a dangerous gang of vicious terrorists, in the form of elderly veterans of peace campaigns.
    Benjamin Netanyahu has affirmed our unshakable (…)

  • Wikimania 2011 Sponsored by Israeli-Government Company that “Develops East Jerusalem”
    7 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikimedia community to be held in the Israeli city of Haifa this August, is to be partially sponsored by the East Jerusalem Development Company (EJDC), an Israeli government-owned company responsible for “the development and operation of tourist sites in eastern and greater Jerusalem.”
    Source : The Alternative Information Center
    Tuesday, 28 June 2011 06:26 Nikki Hodgson for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
    EJDC projects, including (…)

  • Statement of Support for the Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla
    5 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    We, Israeli organizations, Jews and Arabs, full-heartedly support Freedom Flotilla, aim of sailing to the Port of Gaza with the proclaimed goals of breaking through the sea and land siege and blockade of Gaza, which is a manifestation of a continuing occupation by Israel. We condemn the campaign of slander which the government of Israel is waging against the flotilla and those who take part in it. There is a very real reason to worry that such lies might be designed by the government as a (…)

  • Israel to charge Palestinians for bulldozing their homes
    1 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And what next? Israel to charge Palestinians for killing them?
    A Committee of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) passed a first draft of a law that will require that Palestinians whose homes are destroyed by Israeli forces pay the Israeli government for the demolition costs :
    http://www.imemc.org/article/61573
    Followed shortly by Israel to charge Flotilla for making them attack and sink the ships.
    Hypocrisy know no bounds when it comes to Israel

  • It’s Official: China Is The "Mystery" Daily Buyer Of Billions Of Euros
    30 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tyler Durden 06/29/2011
    Over the past two weeks, we have been suggesting, tongue in cheekily, that despite the relentless desires of everyone to sell the EUR, it has continued to drift higher, due to some inexplicable force with bottomless pockets, which, after some deductive logic, we assumed was China. It turns out we were correct. Naturally, figuring out what China does with its $3 trillion in foreign reserves is sometimes more complex than brain surgery (except what it does every (…)

  • OH LOVELY: Residents Near Fukushima Are Pissing Radioactive Urine
    29 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    You could be, too.
    (San Francisco) - Business Insider’s Joe Weisenthal reported Jun 26, 2011:
    “Newsflash: The radioactive crisis near Fukushima isn’t getting any better.
    This has been something we discussed in the last few weeks, but now there are some new disturbing details.
    From Japan Times:
    More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it (…)