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Russell Tribunal on Palestine coming soon

By Guest Post • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Human Rights, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War

The recent war waged by the Israeli government and the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip, already under a blockade, underlines the particular responsibility of the United States and of the European Union in the perpetuation of the injustice done to the Palestinian people, deprived of its fundamental rights.
It is important to mobilize the international [...]



Statement of Support for Mohammad Bakri, Director of "Jenin Jenin"

By Guest Post • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY ANTOINE RAFFOUL
BACKGROUND:
In April 2002, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield by invading the Palestinian
refugee camp of Jenin, south of Nazareth. In this operation which lasted about 8 days and followed a suicide bomb attack on the Israeli town of Netanya. Israel deployed 30,000 reserve soldiers against a camp population of 33,000 refugees. It sealed [...]



Israeli Soldier Chased a Kindergarten Girl

By Kawther Salam • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

20 December 2009, by: Johann Funk, she is the vision of innocence, peering up into the dull eyes of a soldier towering over her.  She can only be four or five years old.  Black slacks with a green striped short skirt fanning out beneath her short black jacket indicate that she is a kindergarten student.  [...]



AshkeNazi threatens Gaza with another “little holocaust”

By Khalid Amayreh • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH
There seems to be a perfect conformity between Gabi Ashkenazi and his last name. The Israeli chief of staff is considered one of the main Israeli  war criminals responsible for the virtual genocide against the Gaza Strip during the past winter. On his murderous hands, he carries tons of innocent blood, including [...]



Israel Persecutes Israeli Arab MK

By Kawther Salam • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

The Israeli Public Prosecution in the Magistrate's Court of Tel Aviv – Jaffa imposed a serious indictment against the Israeli MK (member of the Knesset), Mohammad Barakeh, a Hadash representative. The court accused Barakeh of assaulting police and soldiers on four different occasions over a period of two years since 2005. The indictment was signed [...]



Palestinian Protester to Blair: You are a Terrorist

By Kawther Salam • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

“You are a terrorist, you are not welcome in the land of Palestine”. A Palestinian from the Hamdan family shouted these words in the face of Tony Blair, Quartet Representative for “Peace” in the Middle East, when he arrived at the Iron Cage at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. A bodyguard of [...]



Brenda Heard – Challenging the Dahiya Doctrine

By Guest Post • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Even up until the mass killing, the Samouni family still clung naively to the notion that their working relationship with the IDF would protect them. Haaretz reports that “on January 4, under orders from the army, Salah Samouni and the rest of the family left their home, which had been turned into a military position, and moved to the other, the home of Wael [Samouni], located on the southern side of the street. The fact that it was the soldiers who had relocated them, had seen the faces of the children and the older women, and the fact that the soldiers were positioned in locations surrounding the house just tens of meters away, instilled in the family a certain amount of confidence – despite the IDF fire from the air, from the sea and from the land, despite the hunger and the thirst.”

And then the IDF shelled that home, killing 21 of the Samouni family. Their usefulness had expired.

The Samouni’s had not thrown stones at Israeli tanks and had not waved angry fists at Israeli soldiers. Instead, they had worked dutifully for the Jewish population and had learned its language. But they were not spared. They were not spared because they had not themselves been Jewish. They were not spared because “peaceful co-existence” is merely a phrase bandied about by politicians seeking camouflage.



Sami Jamil Jadallah – Is Palestinian and Arab blood cheap? Yes. It is cheap when spilled by Israel and its cheaper when spilled by Arabs.

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

It is written in the Torah if any one cares to read and know: “Destroy all the land, beat down their pillars and break their statues and waste all of their high places, cleansing the land and dwelling in it for I have given it to you for your possession” Numbers 33:52,53. “ And they [...]



Flashback: Homo IDF Officer Rapes Teenager, Everybody Tries to Cover Up

By Kawther Salam • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner

In Palestine, under the Israeli occupation and the boundless criminal practices of the IDF, every unimaginable and never heard of horror is possible, while outside, most people never know or even  imagines these things to be possible. In Palestine it is not enough to steal the land, to build colonies for Jewish squatters, an apartheid [...]



Israeli Army Terrorizes Teenagers inside a School

By Kawther Salam • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Austria/ Palestine/ Occupied Territories:
At around 11AM, Fuad Mahmoud Nayef Turkman, aged 17, was killed before the eyes of his brother, relatives and colleagues inside the schoolyard of the “Izz al-Din al-Qassam” school in Yabad, after an Israeli military jeep broke into the school shooting tear gas and then proceeded to deliberately run over one of [...]