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: 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…)
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5 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli aggression against Gaza and the participation of the Egyptian regime in the isolation of its population. Last Wednesday, the state responded with a major crackdown in which tens of protestors and journalists were assaulted and arrested.
Around the Arab world, the Egyptian regime has been a target of severe criticism for its continuing role in the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip and its silence in the face of intense Israeli bombardment of the enclave. Last Tuesday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak responded to the criticism by announcing in a televised speech that the Rafah border crossing will remain closed until the Palestinian Authority led by president Mahmoud Abbas regains control of the Gaza strip — a statement that only strengthened the impression that Mubarak approves of the (more…)
