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Canada’s New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Vancouver-Kingsway, recently gave what must be taken as the NDP’s position on the Iraeli attacks upon Gaza...
"AND PALESTINIANS MUST ALSO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST ISRAEL!"
a bearded man, with an umbrella in one hand and a Palestinian flag in the other shouted "Shame on you! Shame! Shame!" Davies abruptly surrendered the microphone and a female voice thundered from the loudspeaker, "ISRAEL IS WAGING WAR ON THE PALESTINIANS! OUR (…)

A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening? 14 01 2009 Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times. Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter. The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical. Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay that left residents in that area heading in to winter with less than usual, and you have the makings (…)

The president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel’s killings of Palestinians in its Gaza offensive as "genocide".
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann also told Al Jazeera he had never believed that the UN Security Council would be able to stop the violence in Gaza and that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, had practically told the UN to "mind their own business" by continuing the offensive.
"The number of victims in Gaza is increasing by the day... The situation is untenable. (…)

by Sharon Dolev
14.01.09
Please allow me to steal a few minutes of your time, and share my feelings.
In the last few days, a small group has been demonstrating in the entrance of an Air Force base in Tel Aviv. The reason we stand there is that this is the place most air force fighters use to fly to their bases around Israel.
We hold signs calling on them to refuse orders to bomb civilians and children. This is one of many demonstrations against the war held by Israelis and taking (…)

W. said goodbye to us last night, in an appearance that was surely notable for most Americans mainly because of the annoyance that he delayed by fifteen minutes their prime time shows like Gray’s Anatomy and Eleventh Hour.
The Bard reminds us that we cannot attribute the dominance of the unworthy ruler to fate, or the stars. If we diminish ourselves and make ourselves underlings and give up our birthright as free citizens, bowing down to a would-be emperor, then we ourselves must accept (…)

The Israeli Gaza Atrocity and Palestinian Genocide continues - with 1,100 Gazans killed and 5,100 wounded in response to ZERO (0) Israelis killed by Gaza rockets in the previous year.
The World MUST arrest, arraign, try and punish prosecute ALL racist Apartheid Israeli war criminals (both civilian and military) involved in this and other Apartheid Israeli war crimes.
This is what outstanding Jewish American law professor and President of the US National Lawyers Guild, Marjorie Cohn, has (…)

I’m for peace
Sir, - After reading Yoram Dori’s "An open letter to Annie Lennox" (January 11) I felt despair and anguish at the manner in which the awful war in Gaza is being used to divide the rest of the world between "pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian‚" instead of "pro-peace‚ or pro-war."
In my mind, the only distinction that matters right now, as Palestinian and Israeli lives are being lost and endangered by this violent conflict, is whether you support war or peace. I join hands with (…)

PHR-Israel and 9 human rights organizations warn of a clear and present danger to the lives and well-being of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza 14 Jan 2009
PHR-Israel and 9 human rights organizations held a press conference today, Wednesday, 14.1.09, raising a heavy suspicion of grave violations of international humanitarian law by military forces. After the end of the hostilities, claim the organizations, the time will come for the investigation of this matter, and accountability (…)

Among the signatories some very well-known artists, musicians and writers such as Dror Burstein, Ala Hlehel, Yitzhak Laor, Yehudith Levin, Avi Mograbi, Michal Naaman, Salman Natour, Judd Neeman, Aharon Shabtay, and Arik Shapira (Israel Prize Laureate) - and university professors such as Yossef Grodginski, Uri Hadar, Hannan Hever, Orly Lubin, Adi Ophir, Yehuda Shenhav and Eyal Weitzman. The petition was presented by the initiators to the embassies in Israel.
5 January 2009
Your Excellency, (…)