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  • 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 (…)

  • 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...

  • God is With Us
    1 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    God is With Us By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Tom Lehrer, one of the first satirical, political song writers, once penned a song entitled “National Brotherhood Week.” The song went, “Oh, the black folks hate the white folks and the white folks hate the black folks and the Indians hate the Mexicans and everybody hates the Jews." Funny, because it is was so true.
    But then as now, to confound cause and purpose with religion and race discolors the argument and cheapens the (…)

  • Implications of one of the largest one-day slaughter of Palestinians in the 60-year conflict with Israel
    1 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and The Grand Chessboard: 1) Setting The Stage.
    2) Political Status of Gaza.
    3) The Humanitarian Situation in Gaza.
    4) The Significance of Palestine.
    5) The Implications of the Most Recent Events.
    1) Setting The Stage
    The Gaza Strip is “one of the most densely populated tracts of land in the world,” is home to approximately 1.5 million Palestinians, “about 33% of whom live in United Nations-funded refugee camps.”
    “Gaza has the highest (…)

  • Tariq Ali -on Gaza
    31 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    GUARDIAN Tuesday 30 December 2008 08.00 GMT
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/gaza-hamas-palestinians-israel1
    From the ashes of Gaza, Tariq Ali
    In the face of Israel’s latest onslaught, the only option for Palestinian nationalism is to embrace a one-state solution.
    The assault on Gaza, planned over six months and executed with perfect timing, was designed largely, as Neve Gordon has rightly observed, to help the incumbent parties triumph in the forthcoming (…)

  • Video: Baltimore Stages Rally in Solidarity with Gazans
    31 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, Human Rights activists, in Baltimore, MD, staged a demonstration in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally took place at the Memorial Plaza, opposite City Hall.
    Tuesday, Dec. 30th was declared a “National Day of Action: Stop the Massacre of the Palestinians,” with protest rallies taking place across the United States. http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=8871&news_iv_ctrl=1621
    For the (…)