Archive for May, 2008
This is a laughable attempt at macho jingoism from the Royal Marines. “I will come from the sea”? “Pain is my best friend”? Very impressive, darling.
All that business about dying for his “brothers” is simply a cynical attempt to exploit people’s natural feelings of solidarity towards each other and turn them [...]
Filed under: UK, Videos | 20 Comments
Tags: propaganda, Royal Marines, terrarists, Terrorism, War
“We tend to believe abroad that Palestine is nowadays almost completely deserted, an uncultivated wilderness, and anyone can come there and buy as much land as his heart desires. But in reality this is not the case. It is difficult to find anywhere in the country Arab land which lies fallow…
“The Arab, like all Semites, [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Quote of the Day | 4 Comments
Tags: Ahad Ha'am, colonialism, zionism
Amnesty International’s 2008 annual human rights report has just been published. I haven’t the time to do a proper post on it at the moment, but it is viewable online here. For now, here is a summary of the section on Israel/Palestine.
The report describes the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories as “dire”, [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Torture | 10 Comments
Tags: Amnesty International, Gaza, Human Rights, occupation
Norman Finkelstein spoke yesterday to Glenn Greenwald about, among other things, his recent arrest in and deportation from Israel en route to visit friends in the occupied West Bank. Listen here:
(the audio quality is poor, but you can still make it out).
Greenwald’s accompanying article is also worth a read. It includes, for the masochistic among [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 3 Comments
Tags: Glenn Greenwald, Norman Finkelstein, occupation, Right of Return
The “only democracy in the Middle East” once again resorts to force in order to silence dissent:
“[T]he American academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested and ordered deported from Israel. Finkelstein arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today on his way to the Occupied Territories. He was immediately detained and told he is banned from Israel for [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 19 Comments
Tags: "security", academic freedom, Norman Finkelstein
Presumably Bernard Kouchner is an “appeaser” now…
‘France Discloses ‘Contacts’ With Hamas
France has had contacts with the leaders of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas “for several months,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday.
“We must be able to talk if we want to play a role,” Kouchner said in a radio interview. “These are not relations, [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 1 Comment
Tags: APPEASEMENT!!1!, Bernard Kouchner, France, Hamas
Apartheid Israel
We fought apartheid; we see no reason to celebrate it in Israel now!
We, South Africans who faced the might of unjust and brutal apartheid machinery in South Africa and fought against it with all our strength, with the objective to live in a just, democratic society, refuse today to celebrate the existence of an Apartheid [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian | 1 Comment
Tags: apartheid, Human Rights, occupation, solidarity, South Africa
A video published by B’Tselem shows an unarmed teenage protestor being shot with a rubber bullet at close range by an IDF soldier. The incident occurred in March during one of the weekly demonstrations against the annexation wall in Bil’in.
‘The youth was shot in his thigh by an officer while attending [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Videos | 4 Comments
Tags: "purity of arms", annexation wall, B'Tselem, Bil'in, Human Rights, IDF, occupation
In an interview today about the cyclone in Burma, Foreign Secretary David Miliband assured viewers that British aid would be channeled through “organisations like Save the Children, who rightly have a very high reputation.”
Save the Children is indeed a reputable organisation, but Miliband’s respect for it seems to be rather selective. Earlier this year Save [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, UK | 3 Comments
Tags: Burma, children, David Miliband, Gaza, International & Foreign Policy, siege, Unpeople
Chomsky on the Israel Lobby
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, US, Videos | 2 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Chomsky, Israel Lobby
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