Settlement construction nearly doubled this year

26Aug08

The “peace process”:
“More than 2,600 housing units are under construction in West Bank settlements, including units in more than 1,000 new buildings, Peace Now contends in its semi-annual report.
Basing its conclusions on aerial photographs and field visits, the organization says that slightly more than half of the new structures are going up east of the [...]

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Tags: "peace process", Annapolis, occupation, settlements, West Bank

Mea Culpa

23Aug08

My God! I’ve, I’ve… been so wrong… all these years… General Sharon, I’m sorry! I’m sorry!

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Tags: "a literal human baby bomb", From Time Immemorial, Joan Peters

“A free hand to kill”

22Aug08

As you may recall, the brains heading up the British Israel Communications and Research Centre claimed in a recent(ish) letter to the Guardian that the death of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana (pictured) was “accidental” (see my response here). Shana was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza earlier this year when a tank crew fired [...]

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Tags: "purity of arms", Fadel Shana, Human Rights, IDF, impunity, journalists, Nil'in

Mustafa Barghouti on the Annapolis fraud

09Aug08

Steve Clemons of The Washington Note recently interviewed Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, about the reality of the much-vaunted ‘Annapolis process‘:

Barghouti: “Annapolis represented a hope for many people, but what happened since Annapolis is really shocking. Since Annapolis, the rate at which Israeli settlements expand in the [...]

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Tags: "peace process", Annapolis, Mustafa Barghouti, occupation, settlements, settlers

Chris Morris visits CERN

08Aug08

Chris Morris visits the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, which is due for launch in 32 days:

“We have been subject to a powerful charisma. Cern combines deeply mystical particle theory with a gorblimey cock-in-the-turbo Clarksonism. UPG pops up from under the table like a meerkat. “Hey – reckon I could get Madonna to fuck a [...]

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Tags: CERN, Chris Morris, LHC, physics

Supporting occupation – Gordon Brown in Israel

01Aug08

Whoever scheduled Gordon Brown’s recent visit to Israel is surely out of a job. Brown’s dreary, etiolated performance – appropriate for a political corpse – was rendered even flatter by its proximity to Barack Obama’s headline-hogging whirlwind tour of Europe and the Middle East. Despite the differences in style, however, both politicians took to the [...]

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Tags: "peace process", Arms Trade, collective punishment, European Union, Fatah, Gordon Brown, Hamas, International & Foreign Policy, Israel, occupation, Terrorism, wall, West Bank