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: "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: Egypt, Gaza, gaza Strip, guerilla warfare, Hamas, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, Rafah Crossing, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Syria, Zionism, Zionist
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11 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
While Israel fervently attempts to terrorize the Palestinians into submission in Gaza, many observers have started to wonder why Hizballah has refrained from stepping in militarily to assist its brothers-in-arms, Hamas. Such musings fail to take account of the constraints on Hizballah’s room for action, as well as the circumstances under which Hizballah would ignore such constraints. The question that should be posed is not so much if Hizballah will act, but when.
As things currently stand, Hizballah is not in a position to directly help Hamas militarily by opening a new front with Israel. In the first place, Hizballah and its supporters have only recently recovered from the devastating impact of Israel’s war against them in July 2006. A Hizballah offensive against (more…)
Filed under: North America, South America | Tags: Bolivarian Republic of Venzuela, gaza Strip, Genocide, George W. Bush, Hamas, Hugo Chavez, International Community, Israel, Israeli Ambassador, Israeli War Crimes, Palestine, Palestinian, palestinian children, Palestinians, Unite Nations, Venezuela, Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, War Crimes, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist State
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Source: Ramzy Baroud’s Website
Venezuela’s government expelled Israel’s ambassador and said the country’s leaders should be tried for war crimes after more than 700 Palestinians were killed by fighting in the Gaza Strip. Some personnel at the embassy in Caracas also must leave, Venezuela’s foreign ministry said in a statement. President Hugo Chavez said yesterday that Israel’s fight against Hamas was ‘genocidal’ and had the support of President George W. Bush. ‘If there’s any shame in the world, the president of Israel should be taken to the International Criminal Court along with the president of the United States,’ Chavez said today in comments broadcast by state television. “How much are the Palestinian children suffering?” Following is the full text of the statement:
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela – Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs – Statement
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, on behalf of the Bolivarian government, and as spokesmen of the Venezuelan people, wants to express his deep indignation before the criminal attack Israel perpetrated against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
The Bolivarian government expresses its solidarity to the Palestinian people and raises its voice before the (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: "canada", Ariel Sharon, Collective Punishment, Colonialism, Condoleezza Rice, Defense minister Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, European Union, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Gaza, Ha'aretz, Hamas, Harper Government, Hasbara, Impeerialism, Israel, Israeli Air Force, Israeli Atrocities, Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli Prime Minister, Obama-Biden, Palestine, Palestinian, Quartet, Racism, Settler-Colonialism, Tony Blair, West Bank, White Supremacy, Zionist
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29 December 2008
There is every reason to be outraged. But despite the severity of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, we have little right to act surprised. Whatever else can be said, Israel has made it abundantly clear that until its actions are met with credible international sanctions, it will subject Palestinians (and very likely others in the region) to massive, recurring waves of violence.
This was clear when the Obama-Biden campaign helped to lay the political foundation for this assault. It was clear when, amidst (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Apache Helicopters, Arab Media, Bilin, Collective Punishment, Colonialism, East Jerusalem, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Electronic Intifada, Gaza Massacre, gaza Strip, Ha'aretz, Imperialism, Iraq, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Blockade, John Ging, NATO bombing, Nilin, Ofer Shmerling, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority, Racism, Rafah, Ramallah, Rocket Attacks, Settler-Colonialism, Settlers, State-Terrorism, Tzipi Livni, United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), US-Supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes, West Bank, White Supremacy, Zionist
Palestinians carry the body of a victim of an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 27 December 2008.
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27 December 2008
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world.
A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing at least 195 persons and injuring hundreds more. Many of these locations were police stations located, like police stations the world over, in the middle of civilian areas. The US government was one of the first to offer its support for Israel’s attacks, and others will follow.
Reports said that many of the dead were (more…)
