Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Apartheid, Colonialism, Imperialism, incarceration, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Militarism, Occupied Palestine, Palestine, Palestinian, Political Prisoners, Prison, Racist, Settler-Colonialism, State Terror, Terror, White Supremacy, Zionist
26 June 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel has accused the Israeli security forces of deliberately shackling Palestinian prisoners in a painful and dangerous manner, amounting to a form of torture.
The report, “Shackling as a Form of Torture and Abuse,” based on the evidence of over 500 prisoners, was released in advance of the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims Friday, 26 June.
It follows a report published in May by the UN Committee Against Torture that had criticized the continued mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners by Israel.
The UN report also condemned Israel’s refusal to allow access to a secret detention centre known only as Facility 1391.
The report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) states that Israel’s various security agencies, chiefly the (more…)
Filed under: Global, Middle East, North America | Tags: America, Apartheid, Barack Obama, Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Gaza City, gaza Strip, Hamas, Historic Paliestine, Imperialism, Ismail Haniyeh, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Likud, Militarism, Occupied Palestine, One State, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority, Racism, State Terror, Two-State, US-Israel, West Bank, White Suprmeacy, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist Entity
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25 June 2009
Soruce: Electronic Intifada
When Hamas, unexpectedly, won the 2006 parliamentary elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the message from the one-third of the Palestinian people living in those territories was clear: no more of the “peace process” facade — with its untiring “two-state solution” slogan that never materialized, and no more of the bread crumbs offered to the new inauthentic NGOized, Osloized leadership classes. (In the years since the 1993 Oslo accords, funding NGOs — nongovernmental organizations — has been a major means for foreign governments to influence, co-opt and neutralize Palestinian politics. This process of “Osloization” made some Palestinian organizations more loyal to their funders than to their principles.)
Many of those who voted Hamas into power were not, in fact, supporters of the organization, but rather disgruntled Palestinians looking for change and reform after 13 years of futile, meaningless negotiations that did huge damage to the Palestinian cause and transformed it from a liberation struggle supported by millions all over the world into a (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: anti-semitism, Civilian Casualties, Colonialism, Condoleezza Rice, EZLN, Gaza, gaza Strip, Imperialism, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Government, Israeli Military, Israeli War Crimes, Mexico, Military, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinians, Racism, Racist, Subcomandante MARCOS, United natiosn, US Official, White Supremacy, Zapatistas, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist State, Zionist Terror
30 January 2009
Source: Counterpunch
Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians’ fault, due to their violent nature.
The underground rivers that crisscross the world can change their geography, but they sing the same song.
And the one we hear now is one of war and pain.
Not far from here, in a place called Gaza, in Palestine, in the Middle East, right here next to us, the Israeli government’s heavily trained and armed military continues its march of death and destruction.
The steps it has taken are those of (more…)
Filed under: Middle East, North America | Tags: 1982 Lebanon, Alan Dershowitz, Amal saad-Ghorayeb, Arab States, BDS, Boycott Divestment Sanctions, Camp David, Chechnya, Chechnya War, Cheney, Civilian Population, Civilian Targets, Colonialism, Colonization, Condoleeza Rice, Cynthia McKinnery, Cyprus, Egupt, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Gaza Attack, Gaza City, gaza Strip, Gazans, Greek Government, Hamas, Hamas Leaders, Hamas Rockets, Hizballah, Holy Land, Humanitarian Crisis, IDF, Imperialism, Intifada, Israel, Israel's 2006 Invasion, Israeli Aggression, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Army, Israeli Attack, Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli Foreign Minister, Israeli Violence, Israeli War Crimes, John Holmes, Lebanon, Lebanon War, Mads Gilbert, Mahmoud Abbas, Mordechai Gur, Mustafa Dirani, Nazi Germany, New America Foundation, New York Times, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinians, PLO, Prime Minister Begin, Propaganda, Putin, Racism, Racist, Ron Arad, Ronald Reagan, Rumsfeld, Sabbath, saudi Arabia, Self-Determination, Settler-Colony, Shimon Peres, State Terror, Terrorism, Terrorist, Thomas Friedman, Tzipi Livni, U.S. Military Grants, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, United States, UNRWA, US military Aid, War on Terror, Washington, West Bank, Western Eocnomies, White Supremacy, Yassir Arafat, Zeev schiff, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist Movement, Zionist State, Zionist Terror
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20 January 2009
Source: ZNet
On Saturday December 27, the latest U.S.-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6 months according to the Israeli press. The planning had two components: military and propaganda. It was based on the lessons of Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which was considered to be poorly planned and badly advertised. We may, therefore, be fairly confident that most of what has been done and said was pre-planned and intended.
That surely includes the timing of the assault: shortly before noon, when children were (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: BDS, Boycott Divest Sanction, Fatah, Gaza, gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Racism, Racist, State Terror, Terror, Terrorist State, White Supremacy, Zionist, Zionist State, Zionist Terror, Zionists
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20 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
Common Western political wisdom has it that when Western countries support Israeli military action against Arab countries or the Palestinian people, they do so because they support Israel’s right to defend itself against its enemies.
This has always been established wisdom in Israel itself, even before the colonial settlement was established, wherein its predatory army is ironically named the Israel Defense Forces, not unlike the South African apartheid army, which was also known as the South African Defense Forces. This defensive nomenclature is hardly exclusive to Israel and South Africa, as many countries rushed after World War II to rename their Ministries of “War” as Ministries of “Defense.” Still, Israel’s allegedly defensive actions define every single war the colonial settlement has ever engaged in, even and especially when it starts these wars, which it has done in all cases except in 1973.
Thus the war of 1948 which Zionist militias started against the Palestinian people on 30 November 1947, a day after a Western-controlled United Nations General Assembly issued the Partition Plan, is presented as “defensive,” as was its (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Boycott, Boycott Divest Sanction, Divest Sanction, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Army, Palestine, Racism, White Supremacy, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist Terror
Filed under: "canada", Global, Indigenous, Middle East, North America | Tags: Boycott, Colonialism, Divest, Gaza, Hamas, Imperialism, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Goods, Palestine, Palestinian, Racism, Sanction, Settler-Colonialism, State Terror, White Supremacy, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist Terror
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9 January 2009
Source: The Bullet
As the number of deaths from Israel’s carnage in Gaza mounts, more and more people in Canada are being moved to take action. Of course, the question quickly becomes: “What can I do?” Among the countless petitions, creative actions, protests, media alerts, letter writing campaigns, public statements and fundraising drives, how can we make the biggest collective impact on Israeli policies as people living in Canada? How can we build a movement that respects all of our different experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and understandings and at the same time effectively responds to Palestinian calls for solidarity?
Each contribution to stop the killing immediately helps, but as Naomi Klein has recently pointed out in The Nation magazine, there’s a way of focusing our energies on a campaign that comes directly from Palestine and that directly addresses Israel’s ability to kill with impunity. The fact is that (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: academia, anti-semitism, Apartheid ideology, atrocities, Boycott, Dispossession, Divestment, Ethnic Cleansing, Fatah Movement, Gabi Piterberg, Galilee, Gaza, gaza Strip, Genocide, Hamas, Ilan pappe, Indigenous population, Indigneous, Intifada, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Attack, Israeli crimes, Jewish State, Kadima, Lebanon, Likud, Massacre of gaza, media, Nakba, occupatin, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Palestinian, palestinian children, racial state, racial terror, Racism, Racist, Sanctions, Second Palestinian Intifada, State Terror, The Returns of Zionism, West Bank, Western Media, White Supremacy, Yasser Arafat, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist ideology
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Source: Electronic Intifada
(2 January 2009) — My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice — even louder than the one heard during the criminal attack against Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israel is engulfed once more with righteous fury that translates into destructive policies in the Gaza Strip. This appalling self-justification for the inhumanity and impunity is not just annoying, it is a subject worth dwelling on, if one wants to understand the international immunity for the massacre that rages on in Gaza.
It is based first and foremost on sheer lies transmitted with a newspeak reminiscent of darker days in 1930s Europe. Every half an hour a news bulletin on the radio and television describes the victims of Gaza as terrorists and Israel’s massive killings of them as an act of self-defense. Israel presents itself to its own people as the righteous victim that defends itself against (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: 1948, 1967, Benjamin Netanyahu, Collective Punishment, Colonialism, Dan Gillerman, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Gaza Slaughter, gaza Strip, Ha'aretz, Hamas, IDF, Imperialism, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Kadima, Likud, Massacre, Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, Population Control, Racism, Refugees, Tzipi Livni, White Supremacy, Zionism
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31 December 2008
Source: ZNet
With the Palestinian death toll from Israel’s latest air and naval assault on Gaza passed 350 and steadily climbing (an estimated 1500 more have been wounded), diplomats, advocates and journalists the world over appear prepared to continue facilitating the massacre.
Noting that “success or failure of the media effort can affect the window which the IDF has to fulfill its operational objectives,” the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday quoted former Israeli (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Afghanistan, Arab Regimes, Arab States, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Chechnya, Collective Punishment, Colonial Power, Colonialism, Dispossession, Egypt, Ethic Cleansing, Euro-Supremacy, Fatah, Gaza, gaza Strip, Hamas, Hilary Clinton, Hosani Mubarak, Imperialism, Iraq, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Jerusalem, Jews, Joe Biden, Jordan, Lebanon, Logic, Mahmoud Darwish, Muslim, Muslim World, National Liberation, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Palestinain Liberation Organization, Palestine, Palestinians, Qassem al-Mughrabi, Racism, Shiite Iraqi, Somalia, State Terror, Syria, Tawfiq Jaber, Terrorism, United Nations, White Supremacy, Yemen, Zionism, Zionist
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31 December 2008
Source: Guardian – Comment Is Free
I have spent most of the Bush administration’s tenure reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and other conflicts. I have been published by most major publications. I have been interviewed by most major networks and I have even testified before the senate foreign relations committee. The Bush administration began its tenure with Palestinians being massacred and it ends with Israel committing one of its largest massacres yet in a 60-year history of occupying Palestinian land. Bush’s final visit to the country he chose to occupy ended with (more…)
