Archive for December, 2007
Two-faced
‘Israel will not undermine negotiations toward a final-status agreement, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Jerusalem on Thursday.
“Israel will take no steps that would undermine the ability to reach a final-status agreement or that would delay the negotiations,” Olmert told Abbas during their first meeting since the [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 9 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Ehud Olmert, feckin' liars, occupation, settlement
“Death zones” in Gaza
Here’s Brigadier General (res.) Zvika Fogel, former chief of staff of the IDF Southern Command headquarters in the run-up to the second intifada, describing how the ‘purest army in the world’ crushed Palestinian resistance in Gaza:
‘”One of the means Southern Command adopted in order to avert attacks on Israelis was to declare death zones in [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 4 Comments
Tags: "purity of arms", death zones, occupation, Terrorism
Occupying Christmas
Okay, so yesterday was Christmas and much merriment was had by all. Except, as the media were determined to remind us, by Palestinian Christians suffering persecution by Muslim extremists. While the persecution certainly exists, it is plainly a sideshow to the Israeli occupation, which not only persecutes but kills Palestinians of all religious persuasions. [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 19 Comments
Tags: Christmas, ethnic-cleansing, Gaza, occupation, Scroogism
Merry Xmas, folks!
Filed under: Cool Stuff | 3 Comments
Tags: Anarchy, Christmas, shopdropping
Bombing them free
As the graph above illustrates, the U.S. has been making increasing use of air power in Iraq. It shows that the number of “close air support” (CAS) sorties that dropped munitions in 2007 (up to November) is almost five times the number carried out the previous year.
The same is true in Afghanistan, where the number [...]
Filed under: Iraq, News and politics, US | 3 Comments
Tags: "smart bombs", Afghanistan, occupation, Operation Iraqi Liberation, War
Israeli logic
“Israel’s public security minister warned Saturday that a U.S. intelligence report that said Iran is no longer developing nuclear arms could lead to a regional war that would threaten the Jewish state.”
Whereas if the NIE had proclaimed the existence of an active Iranian nuclear weapons programme…peace in our time! Truly bizarre – this is the [...]
Filed under: Iran, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Quote of the Day, US | 2 Comments
Tags: Loony Watch, "Iran crisis", Avi Dichter, intelligence, maniacs
Politicide in Gaza
Suppose I were to argue that, given Israel’s numerous and gross war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the international community should impose sanctions on Israel of such severity that 80% of the Israeli population would be reduced to reliance upon UN food aid for mere survival, and over 65% of Israeli [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, UK, US | 12 Comments
Tags: collective punishment, Gaza, Human Rights, occupation, politicide, Terrorism
The latest numbers from Iraq: 86% of residents believe the British occupation has had a “negative” effect on Basra.
66% feel security will improve in the short term once control is handed over to Iraqi security forces (rising to 72% in the long term) – only 5% said security would deteriorate following withdrawal. Based on the [...]
Filed under: Iraq, News and politics, UK | 2 Comments
Tags: Basra, occupation, poll
Quote of the Day
“We fully recognise Israel’s right to self-defence but the barrier’s route should be on or behind the green line, and not on occupied territory. Construction of the barrier on Palestinian land is illegal and is particularly damaging around east Jerusalem where it threatens to divide the west bank in two.”
- British Foreign Office Minister Kim [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Quote of the Day, UK | 5 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Kim Howells, wall
Annapolis on the ground
It is almost universally acknowledged that a two-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict will have to involve an independent Palestinian state comprising the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Any attempt to sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank is thus, in effect, an attempt to destroy what little chance remains of [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 8 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Annapolis, East Jerusalem, occupation, wall
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