Archive for March, 2007
According to documents recently released to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, the British government ignored its own chief scientific advisor in its dismissal of The Lancet report (.pdf). After the publication of study, conducted by the John Hopkins School of Public Health, which estimated that the invasion and occupation of Iraq had [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Media, News and politics, UK | 22 Comments
Tags: The Lancet
‘A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah’s military capability. Mr Bolton said an early ceasefire would have [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Lebanon, News and politics, US | 12 Comments
Tags: War
Disturbing Diagnosis
‘The Winograd Committee investigating the Second Lebanon War released on Thursday the transcripts of three testimonies heard by the panel. In one of them, a member of the committee, Major General (res.) Menahem Einan, notes that Israel’s policy of restraint along the northern border in the years before the war contributed to the erosion of [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Lebanon, News and politics | 4 Comments
Tags: War
The Boycott Continues
The EU earlier this week affirmed that it would continue to uphold its boycott of the Palestinian national unity government. EU Foreign Policy chief Javier Solana explained, “I have to say that this government does not comply fully with the [Quartet] principles”. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said,
“I’m not going to try to interpret [...]
Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, UK, US | 3 Comments
Tags: boycott, International & Foreign Policy
A recent House of Commons debate yielded a few interesting comments from the Prime Minister vis-à-vis the Israel/Palestine conflict (or, more accurately, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land). When asked by Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind to clarify the government’s position on the Palestinian national unity government, Blair responded:
“The position certainly has not changed at all. [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, UK | 11 Comments
Tags: International Law, Tony Blair
Four Years Of Hell
Four years ago today, a Coalition of states led by the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq. In doing so, they committed the “supreme international crime”, for which Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg. As a consequence of this crime and the subsequent occupation, approximately one million Iraqis have died (it is difficult [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Media, News and politics, UK, US | 12 Comments
Tags: Democracy, International & Foreign Policy, War
A Jewish And Democratic State?
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has sent a letter to the editor of a publication by Balad – a predominantly Arab political party – stating that it will combat the activity of any group seeking to undermine or “harm” Israel’s “Jewish or democratic character”, even if that activity was carried out [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 2 Comments
Tags: Democracy, Equality, Free Speech
A brief follow-up to my post on the Iraqi resistance here.
The Pentagon today presented a progress report, Stability and Security in Iraq (.pdf), to Congress. It basically concluded what we already knew: that the number of attacks in Iraq is at an unprecedented level, and that the majority of the violence in Iraq is [...]
Filed under: Iraq, News and politics, US | 7 Comments
Tags: International & Foreign Policy, occupation, resistance, War
Sileas Hijacked
Sileas, the excellent blog of Izzy, a Palestinian woman living in Jordan, has apparently been hijacked by a Zionist hacker, evidently too afraid of an eloquent blogger writing about the suffering and injustice the Palestinians endure day after day.
It’s good to see the blogosphere showing solidarity with Sileas and against the completely unacceptable attempt to [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: Free Speech
This evening, despite the opposition of a majority of the public and a significant number of Labour MPs, Parliament voted to renew the Trident nuclear missile system, giving a big ‘fuck you’ to international law and the principle of non-proliferation.
409 MPs supported the government’s proposal; 161 opposed it. There were 95 Labour rebels.
Despite the sizeable [...]
Filed under: News and politics, UK, WMD | 4 Comments
Tags: Democracy, International & Foreign Policy, International Law, Trident
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