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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Changing laws for “Israel”?!

It has been reported that Spain may change some of its judicial laws to prevent the prosecution of Israelis. Are the Israelis lying as their habit? Because I can’t believe what some European rulers are doing to protect “Israel”. Why?! What it is about “Israel” that makes them do that? You can’t protect genocide makers, [...]

Peres’s Propaganda and Gaza Panel’s Biased Moderator

Any good panel moderator knows that maintaining the integrity of debates involves allowing equal time and consistently and impartially applying rules to speakers. That debate in which Turkish PM Erdoğan walked out involved deliberately unequal times for speakers (see my calculations of actual speaking times in parentheses below for each panel member, and video of [...]

The siege of Gaza after the war

By Carlos Latuff The Palestinians in Gaza have suffered every crime imaginable from killing their children, to destroying their homes, their orchards and farm lands, basically leaving them nothing after a long siege before the war. Yet the Israelis and their allies are not finished with the Palestinians and are still continuing their onslaught with [...]

Video: “Israel” faces calls for Gaza war crimes probe

Amnesty International investigators conducting house-to-house searches in Gaza (Something is wrong with youtube, none of the embedded videos show anywhere so I’m resorting to just linking it) Click to watch video

A statue dedicated to the man who threw shoes at Bush

Many Iraqis considered it poetic justice when a journalist tossed his shoes at President George W. Bush last month. Now the bizarre attack has spawned a real life work of art. A sofa-sized statue of the shoe was unveiled Thursday in Tikrit…Baghdad-based artist Laith al-Amari described the fiberglass-and-copper work as a tribute to the pride [...]

Egyptian company supplied the Israeli army with food during war on Gaza

  CAIRO, (PIC)– An Egyptian newspaper revealed that an Egyptian company supplied IOF troops with food through the Owja crossing during the war on Gaza while the Rafah crossing was closed in the face of relief supplies to Palestinians. Al-Osbo’ weekly said that regular convoys of lorries carried the food supplies from the Sadat city [...]

Erdogan walks out of Davos

  By Umayah Jiha- Al Rayah newspaper-Qatar What times we live in when the Arab population hails for a Turkish PM (Erdogan) and a Venezuelan president (Chavez) as well as others for expressing their viewpoints rather than their own officials. Indeed what times! Well, you can criticize Turkey over a number of issues: the Armenians, Cyprus, [...]

Jews in LA protest the siege on Gaza and close down Israeli consulate

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Killing Palestinians Doesn’t Count:Fact-Checking the Ceasefire Breaches

{Israeli war ministry: Any Palestinian response attack on the Israeli attack we will answer with a harsher attack} By Hamid Najib-Al Itihad newspaper-UAE By ALISON WEIR On January 27th media headlines trumpeted that Palestinians had broken the latest cease-fire: a bomb had killed one Israeli soldier and injured two or three. Virtually every media outlet [...]

Muslim Green Guide to Reducing Climate Change booklet: Amr Khaled

Well, I thought about a change in my posts because my blog is not a political one but I’ve been blogging mainly about Gaza for the past month as my contribution to aiding the people of Gaza no matter how small it is. Getting back to my attitude for positive change, the following is an [...]

Gazan children denied treatment abroad

Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: January 28. 2009 JERUSALEM // For four days running, an ambulance has driven 15-year-old Amira Ghirim from Shifa Hospital in Gaza to the Rafah border in the hope that she will be allowed to cross into Egypt and then on to France, where she has been promised emergency surgery. [...]

“Behind the bloodbath in Gaza”

{Giant: Arab conscience, knife: Gaza massacre, Arab official to US: Oh… the giant is awake what are we supposed to do now?!!!} by Khaled Qatta’-Syria In his article “Behind the bloodbath in Gaza” , Norman Finkelstein looks more into the reasons that started the war: to return “Israel’s” deterrence power and removing Hamas from the equation. [...]

“Israel” used flechettes against Gaza civilians

Monday, January 26: The Israeli army’s use of white phosphorus in densely populated civilian areas of Gaza has captured much of the world’s media interest. However, the Israeli forces also used a variety of other weapons against civilian residential built-up areas throughout the Gaza Strip in the three-week conflict that began on 27 December. Among [...]

A look into the mindset of the Israeli army

A few things have been emerging that gives us some insight into the nature of the soldiers who were capable of committing genocide in Gaza and many massacres before it. Army rabbi ‘gave out hate leaflet to troops’ By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem Tuesday, 27 January 2009 The Israeli army’s chief rabbinate gave soldiers preparing [...]

Report: Israeli weapons via East Anglia?

Were some of the weapons used in Gaza shipped to Israel from the Lakenheath US Air force base? We know that was the case with the cluster bombs used in Lebanon in 2006 and it’s something the British government has no control over. Alex Thomson goes to Suffolk to investigate. Click to watch video Source

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