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Sameh Habeeb - Gaza conflict is a proxy war: From Gaza to Rome, part 2

By Sameh A. Habeeb • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: Education, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

These words will not be describing my tour in Italy. Rather, I need a lot of time to write, but unfortunately I don't possess that time. I will be trying to shorten the adventurous political tour in Italy in my diaries that I have started to write.
After the presentation in Perugia City, I moved on [...]



Falastin quote

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Falastin, Quotes

According to the Convention of the Rights of the Child, to which Israel is a signatory, a child is every human being under the age of 18 years. However, Palestinian children from the age of 16 years are considered adults under Israeli military regulations governing the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In violation of both the UN [...]



Hebron is a ghost town where joggers carry automatic rifles

By Guest Post • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Human Rights, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

WRITTEN BY IAN JACK
For the settlers, subsidies and tax breaks have become as important a motive as Deuteronomy
At Birzeit University in Ramallah last week a young woman student in a headscarf asked how it was that Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and Nobel laureate, could agree to visit and speak in Israel. Hadn't Gordimer [...]



Thinking quote

By Mary Rizzo • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740-1792) On Freedom of the Press and its Limits, 1787.



AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Palestine

Medical concern
ISRAEL/OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES/EGYPT
Nufuz Husni (f), aged 44
Muhammad al-Hurani (m), aged 25
Rami Al-Arouqi (m), aged 29
Karima Abu Dalal (f), aged 34
Rami al-Masri (m), aged 25
Sameer Taleb (m), aged 47
And at least nine others (five men and four women) with cancer
The Israeli authorities are preventing critically ill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from leaving in order [...]



The Right to Self-Determination: a fake exercise in universalism

By Gilad Atzmon • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Human Rights, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

In the picture, a visual explanation of Jewish Self-Determination
The right to self-determination is a luxurious approach at conservation of power reserved for the rich, strong and privileged. Since Zionists hold the reigns on international political power through their influence in important positions as well as the military might to maintain their ‘right to self-determination’, any [...]



Dealing with Death and Destruction in Lebanon

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Middle East Issues, War

Two witnesses give their testimonies at the Bruxelles Tribunal for Lebanon, Salam Daher and Dr Hayder Decmak
(in the photo, Salam Daher and one of the victims of the Qana Massacre)
Salam Daher has been a relief worker in Southern Lebanon since 1985, practically his entire adult life. He has seen his share of misery and catastrophe, [...]



A Global Massacre Against Gaza

By Adel Samara • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

source Kanaan Online (thanks to Nadia Hasan for the forward)
Note: I certainly need help in answering the following two questions:
� What is going on in the mind of a Palestinian infant in the last moments of his or her life when a US/Israeli rocket strikes him/her?
� What do Israeli military leaders tell their pilot when [...]



Reunite Georgette Harb with her kidnapped family

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 29th, 2007 • Category: Action Alert, Grassroots Activism, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine

Trouble is Double for Georgette Harb Bring Georgette her afflicted family!
Palestinians have consistently lived through the traumas of home destruction, nearly all families have its martyrs from life under occupation these last 60 years. The existing siege only helps them to relive the negative experiences all over again and Georgette is no exception.
A simple modest [...]



10 Reasons Why the Save Darfur Campaign is a PR Scam

By Guest Post • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Human Rights, War

Ten Reasons Why "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa
by Bruce Dixon
Global Research, December 12, 2007
blackagendareport.com - 2007-11-27
The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the [...]