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  • Video: Rabbi Feldman Labels Zionism an “Illegitimate Political Movement”
    3 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, Human Rights activists staged a demonstration and march, in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally began at the Israeli Embassy. One of the speakers was Orthodox Rabbi Dovid Feldman. He is associated with “Jews United Against Zionism,” and is a member of “Neturei Karta International.” For background, please see, http://www.nkusa.org/. In his remarks, Rabbi Feldman was sharply critical of the (…)

  • Video: Protest at Israeli Embassy, in D.C., in Solidarity with Gazans
    3 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, Human Rights activists staged a demonstration and march, in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally began at the Israeli Embassy. The activists then marched on to the Egyptian Embassy a few blocks away to stage a demonstration at that site. That part of the protest wasn’t covered by this presenter.
    Emergency demonstrations on this issue are continuing to take place across the United States. For (…)

  • Video: Brian Becker: The Occupation of Gaza is a War Crime
    3 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, Human Rights activists staged a demonstration and march, in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally began at the Israeli Embassy. Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, was one of the featured speakers at the rally. The activists then marched on to the Egyptian Embassy a few blocks away to stage a demonstration at that site. That part of the protest wasn’t covered by this (…)

  • Annie Lennox, Alexei Sayle, Bianca Jagger, Ken Livingston and George Galloway: Stop Gaza Slaughter
    3 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The pair joined a panel of public figures, which also included Ken Livingstone, Bianca Jagger and George Galloway, in a news conference demanding that Israel stop its ’siege’.
    An almost tearful Annie Lennox described the sadness she felt when she watched news of the Israeli strikes on Gaza - attacks which Israel says were in response to rocket fire by Hamas and its allies.
    "I was thinking as a mother and as a human being - how was this going to be a solution to peace?" she said.
    "How (…)

  • The Real Goal of the Slaughter in Gaza
    2 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ever since Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections nearly three years ago, the story in Israel has been that a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was imminent. But even when public pressure mounted for a decisive blow against Hamas, the government backed off from a frontal assault. Now the world waits for Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to send in the tanks and troops as the logic of this operation is pushing inexorably towards a ground war. Nonetheless, officials have (…)

  • Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
    2 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
    By VALUR GUNNARSSON – 1 day ago
    REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A nationally televised meeting between Iceland’s prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air Wednesday night when angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
    For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland’s political parties have met every New Year’s Eve over champagne and spiced herring to talk about the year ahead on Iceland’s Channel 2 television.
    But (…)

  • We must adjust our distorted image of Hamas
    2 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by William Sieghart
    Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners felt safer since Hamas had taken over the Government? Indeed we did, we told them. Without doubt the past 18 months had seen a comparative calm on the streets of Gaza; no gunmen on the streets, no more kidnappings. They smiled with great pride and waved us goodbye.
    Less than a week later (…)

  • Cynthia McKinney in Boat Rammed by Israeli Warship, Over International Waters
    1 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL_B4vSaYGw&NR=1

  • On the Israeli offensive in Gaza that began on 27 December 2008: Two differing perspectives
    1 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1959
    On 29 December 2008, I attended a peace rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was fortunate enough to find two people willing to talk about their perspectives on the Israeli offensive in Gaza that began two days earlier. My thanks to both interviewees.
    What follows are their perspectives:
    Further information on a peaceful resolution at: Jews for a Just Peace.
    http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1959

  • Canada’s Globe and Mail: War-Mongering on Afghanistan
    1 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Globe and Mail, Canada’s ’newspaper of record’ is making a campaign for the country’s political elite to once again defy public sentiment and extend the Canadian Armed Forces’ intervention in Afghanistan beyond the current deadline of December 2011". Sadly assisting in this terrible project is Canada’s ostensible ’left’ party the NDP...
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/d...