The old lie that palestine was dry desert waiting for a people is just that–a lie. This clip for all people to see the Beauty of the Palestinian People before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered and made into refugees by the State of Israe.
Music Joaquin Rodrigo, lyrics Helmut Lotti, sung by Lotti
All Photos (b&w) [...]
BBC
Some Palestinians only get 20 litres of water a day, Amnesty says
Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.
In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
It says that in Gaza, Israel’s blockade has [...]
Were War Crimes Committed in Gaza?
(Photo by Robin Holland)
This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with Justice Richard Goldstone, a respected figure in international law who headed the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into Israel and Hamas’ actions during military operations in Gaza that began last December.
While the resulting ‘Goldstone Report’ concluded that [...]
U.S. Berated for Shielding Israel on Gaza Killings
By Thalif Deen
October 15, 2009 – -UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 (IPS) – A U.S. decision to stall Security Council action against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for war crimes during the 22-day conflict in Gaza last December has come under heavy fire both from inside and [...]
IDF soldier arrested for beating Palestinian man
By Amira Hass
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of beating a Palestinian resident during a nighttime raid in the West Bank village of Bil’in, Israeli activists against the separation fence said.The soldier was remanded by a military tribunal until Monday. The IDF Spokesman’s [...]
Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi,though he has his faults, has done something no other Middle Eastern nation has done since the Gaza war – He called for an emergency UN meeting over the Goldstone report of the Gaza war of 08-09 and the United Nations security council has granted Libya the request. This breakthrough comes only [...]
Israeli highschoolers choose jail over occupation army service
Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada – October 6, 2009
Refuseniks Maya Wind and Netta Mishly. (whywerefuse.org)
As US-made Hellfire missiles and white phosphorus rained down on the entrapped people of the Gaza Strip earlier this year, a number of “refuseniks,” [...]
Detention of young Palestinian children up 74%
Defence for Children International
October 6, 2009
[Ramallah, 6 October 2009] DCI – According to the latest figures compiled by DCI-Palestine from sources including the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and temporary Israeli army detention facilities, the number of Palestinian children detained [...]
The Goldstone report has been denounced in Israeli and ignored by the U.S. press, unless you count the NY Daily News, which called it a “blood libel against Israel.”
By Roane Carey, The Nation. Posted September 26, 2009.
The recently released UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission on the December-January Gaza conflict, released on the [...]
A Video Which Israel Does Not Want You See
Image taken at Qalandiya checkpoint.September 27, 2009
This piece of video was filmed at the Qalandiya Israeli military checkpoint directly before the entrance of the a small ghetto where the so-called Palestinian Authority has their headquarters, where the house and the office of the Palestinian [...]
By: Daniel Mandel
Source: Front Page Magazine
September 24, 2009
Time to end the fraud that the ball lies in Israel’s court.
One of the responses I sometimes receive after publishing articles and delivering speeches pouring cold water on the prospects of current diplomatic efforts to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace is: ‘What should Israel/the West be [...]
Death in the Samouni compound
By Amira Hass
Palestinian boys kneel over the bodies of Issa, left, Ahmed, center, and Mohamed Samouni, right.
September 24, 2009
The Samouni family of Gaza has, to its great misfortune, become one of the best-known families in the world, one that is identified more [...]
USA: The unfair negotiator
Ma’an News
September 19, 2009 – Ma’an
To many longtime observers of the question of Palestine it is incredible that the United States continues to insert itself as the interlocutor between Palestinians and Israel. Even more incredible is that some Palestinians appear to accept this [...]
Homeless in New Orleans…prisoners in Gaza
Marcy Newman, body on the line
August 30, 2009
jordan flaherty, who is one of my favorite journalists has covered, and continues to cover, the man-made disaster that is new orleans after hurricane katrina has a new article marking the four year anniversary, [...]
Archbishop Tutu: “Arabs paying the price of Germany’s crimes”
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
August 28, 2009
In an Interview with Haaretz newspaper, Archbishop Desmond Tutu stated that Israel must learn from the Holocaust that it cannot gain security thought fences, walls and guns.
Archbishop Tutu was commenting of statement made [...]
August 23, 2009
Gaza / PNN – With the academic year about to begin, the Gaza Strip is falling short on schools.
During the major Israeli attacks of late December and January, many schools were destroyed or partially destroyed. They have not been repaired or rebuilt because reconstruction materials are still banned under the siege.
Palestinian [...]
By Gilad Atzmon • Aug 19th, 2009In the photo, The IDF’s Chief Rabbi, OC Chaplaincy Brig. Gen. Avichai Ronzki and OC Medical Corps Brig. Gen. Nachman Ash both signed up for an organ donation card during a ceremony in the Kirya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv. One wonders if they are aware that, if the claims are true, their very own [...]
High Tech Weaponry used in Gaza: Radiation contamination by Depleted Uranium
Global Research, August 14, 2009
by Peter Eyre
I am a Middle East Consultant living in the UK and would like all people living in or near areas of conflict to understand the High Tech Weaponry used by many military establishments worldwide, especially the US [...]
U.S. settlers in the West Bank
U.S. kids aren’t going to Israel just to live on a kibbutz these days—some of these are willing to take on the Israeli military in the West Bank
Matt McAlleste
August 14, 2009
Like the assassinated Brooklyn-born rabbi Meir Kahane, the man some in Kfar Tapuach consider their spiritual leader, [...]
Is Israel guilty of piracy? Watch the video and decide for yourself how many international and maritime laws Israel has broken. The Israeli navy hijacked the Spirit of Humanity in international waters. The Israeli government hijacks Palestinian fishing boats, in Palestinian territorial waters, kidnaps the fishermen, and sends its military out to shoot to wound [...]
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