PA decision at UN a “betrayal of Gaza victims’ rights”

Press release, various undersigned, 29 September 2010, EI  As members of the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations, we strongly condemn the decision of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to support a UN Human Rights Council resolution that accords further time for ineffective domestic investigations, thus effectively failing to pursue accountability for crimes committed during the [...]

Wake Up, America!

by Philip Giraldi, September 30, 2010, source Let us suppose for a moment that an individual enjoying the full confidence and trust of the United States government was given access to the most secret information possessed by the US military, to include how it would react to an attack by an aggressor armed with nuclear [...]

“Israel” kidnaps about 500 Palestinian children every year and 70,000 Palestinians jailed since intifada

Ansar Al-Asra: “Israel” kidnaps about 500 Palestinian children every year RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Ansar Al-Asra, a human rights organization, reported Thursday that Israel kidnapped about 500 Palestinian prisoners under age 18 every year and there are still 310 of them in its jails. The organization affirmed that Israel invented racist military laws allowing it to arrest [...]

IOA approves confiscation of 66 dunums in Al-Khalil and Zionist settlers call for demolishing mosque in Burin

IOA approves confiscation of 66 dunums in Al-Khalil AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) approved on Wednesday a bill to seize 66 dunums of land in the town of Tafouh, west of the city of Al-Khalil. Local sources said military forces escorted a planning officer from the civil administration as he handed out notices [...]

UN rights council adopts report condemning “Israel” over flotilla massacre

GENEVA, (PIC)– The UN Human Right’s Council voted to back a report issued by one of its fact-finding missions that offers “clear evidence” to prosecute Israel for the deadly attacks on the Freedom Flotilla set to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza late last May. 30 countries voted in favor of the resolution, against the United States [...]

Conference: Toxic munitions used against protesters in O. Jerusalem

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A conference was held by the Silwan defense committee and the Quds Information Center on Wednesday to discuss forming a probe into bombs Israeli soldiers used in crackdowns against Palestinians and other demonstrators during last week’s protests throughout occupied Jerusalem. Protests erupted last week after an Israeli settler shot and killed Palestinian [...]

Statistics show that 120 Jewish settlements expanded during the “freeze”

MEMO, September 29, 2010 Statistics show that 120 Jewish settlements expanded during the “freeze”As the ramifications of the Israeli decision not to extend the moratorium on settlement building are being digested, statistics released by the Land Research Centre show that 120 illegal Jewish settlements were expanded during the 10 months of the supposed “freeze”. The [...]

US fun killer linked to Iraq murders

Press TV A US soldier already facing murder charges for allegedly killing Afghan civilians is also linked to the 2004 deaths of several unarmed Iraqi civilians. The US Army is re-examining a 2004 incident in which Staff Sgt. Calvin R. Gibbs and other soldiers in his unit allegedly fired on an unarmed Iraqi family passing [...]

Sana’a admits US military role in Yemen

Press TV Yemen has acknowledged US military operations in the country, marking the first confirmation from Sana’a regarding Washington’s military role in the Arab nation. Speaking to the Saudi-owned al-Hayat daily, Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kurbi said the United States had carried out attacks on the Yemeni soil in its quest to hunt down [...]

“Israel’s” Political Firewall against the Truth

by George Polley, source  In an article published in the September 6th edition of The Palestine Chronicle (“Imagining Palestinians as Equal”) I began with this quote from novelist Aldous Huxley: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” It is the key to separating [...]

From Scheuer to Blair: You Only Get the Truth From Former Officials

by BOUTHAINA SHAABAN, source Warning us about the Obama administration’s submission to Israeli pressure, in an interview with Lebanon’s OTV, Michael Scheuer, a former senior CIA officer, said: “Three hundred million Americans could wake up tomorrow to discover that a foreign leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, led them to war with Iran, which might lead to war [...]

Freedom Flotilla 2 are you with us?

Special Message from Sinead MacLochlainn, Chair of Derry Friends of Palestine, Irish Ship to Gaza National Committee and member of the ECESG’s Women 4 Gaza committee: There will be many Irish people on the next Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. And as many of you already know, I will be travelling and representing [...]

Hungry in Gaza, More and More

by Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – “Sometimes, for a day or two we don’t even have bread, nor flour to make bread. There’s a store nearby that, when we are truly desperate, lets us take a bag of bread or something simple, on credit. I owe them a lot of money [...]

Between “Israel’s” PM and FM: Who’s Israeli Chief Representative?!

Al Manar 28/09/2010 A “war of words” erupted on Tuesday between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman after the latter told the UN General Assembly that the peace with Palestinians could take decades to cement and outlined controversial proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement.   Netanyahu responded sharply to an earlier [...]

Tough Days Lie Ahead in Lebanon and Ninth Resignation Puts STL In Suspicion Circle

Tough Days Lie Ahead in Lebanon by Mohamad Shmaysani, Al Manar 29/09/2010 Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem stressed the Special Tribunal of Lebanon (STL) “has been irredeemably politicized,” and that Damascus has received word that members of Hezbollah were soon to be formally charged with the murder case of former PM martyr Rafiq Hariri. Moallem [...]