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Posts Tagged ‘Goldstone’

Donald Corder – Palestinian Cyber Warfare for a Post Imperial America

By Guest Post • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

By Bishop Donald Corder*
Like a moat filled with waters populated by alligators, reptiles and Pro-Israeli lobbyist so are American political leaders separated from following the heart and will of the people. Death of the American soul requires Palestine and the rest of the world to challenge itself, to dig deeply within its own heart [...]



Jeff Gates – Today's Ancient Warfare: Facts vs. Beliefs

By Haitham Sabbah • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Jeff Gates *
In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon.
Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories? Iraqi meetings in Prague with Al Qaeda? Iraqi purchases of yellowcake uranium [...]



Olmert visit sparks Palestine movement at US university

By Guest Post • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Emily Ratner *
On 13 October, Tulane University, an elite university in the southern United States, hosted former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a featured speaker. Forced from office due to corruption charges and under indictment in his own country, Olmert's speaking engagements at respected American universities should at the very least raise questions [...]



Alan Sabrosky – The First Step: Israel Into The Dock

By Guest Post • Oct 21st, 2009 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky *
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Resolution based on the Goldstone Report is a damning condemnation of Israel. The original meaning of being "caught red-handed" was literally being "caught bloody-handed," with the victim's blood on one's own hands. In Gaza, Israel has been caught red-handed in that literal sense, and for [...]



Alan Hart – Israel's right or not to exist – The facts and truth

By Alan Hart • Oct 16th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Alan Hart*
On Monday 12 October, Prime Minister Netanyahu opened the Knesset's winter session by blasting the Goldstone Report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes and vowing that he would never allow Israelis be tried for them. But that was not his main message. It was an appeal, delivered I thought with a measure [...]



Alan Sabrosky – A Profile In Courage: Turkey Takes A Stand For Justice

By Guest Post • Oct 16th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky*
There is always something compelling about a "David and Goliath" confrontation. Most of us prefer winners to losers, and almost everyone feels a thrill when the underdog takes a stand and prevails.
This is the surprising situation now unfolding in the rising drama of the Goldstone Report on Gaza. Goliath — in [...]



Justice This Time Around: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?

By Ramzy Baroud • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY Ramzy Baroud 
'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations Fact finding mission. The mission, led by internationally-renowned [...]



Khalid Amayreh – A Criminal State that MUST be Isolated. Reading the Goldstone Report

By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 19th, 2009 • Category: Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

(art by Carlos Latuff) Israel is unusually furious over the publication this week of the Goldstone commission report which accuses the apartheid regime of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip during the bloody blitz against the coastal Palestinian territory nearly nine months ago. 
Israeli officials and hasbara doctors have been railing against Goldstone, [...]



السلطة تفشل في حشد المجتمع الدولي ضد إسرائيل في أعقاب تقرير غولدستون

By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

بقلم خالد العمايرة

التقريرالمؤلف من 575 صفحة الذي أصدره المحقق الخاص بالعدوان الإسرائيل الإجرامي على قطاع غزة, ريتشارد غولدستون,هذا الأسبوع كان وما يزال فرصة إعلامية جيدة لفضح إسرائيل, هذا الكيان الإجرامي الذي يقتل الأطفال النساء ويهلك الحرث والنسل ويسعى في الأرض فسادا ومن ثم يملأ الدنيا صراخا مدعيا أنه هو الضحية وأنه إنما يفعل ما يفعل [...]