Archive for January, 2009
ITV, Channel 4 and Five have now agreed to broadcast the appeal on Monday night, while Sky is considering its position. Today’s protest against the siege began outside the BBC building in London – lenin and Ellis have pics and footage.
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Media, Videos | 8 Comments
Tags: aid, BBC, Disaster Emergency Committee, humanitarian, protest, Tony Benn
BBC backs the siege
With Gaza facing a dire humanitarian crisis, the Disaster Emergency Committee, an umbrella organisation of 13 leading UK aid agencies, launched a campaign to raise funds for Palestinians in need.
Violating an agreement going back to 1963, the BBC has refused to broadcast the appeal. Under the agreement this means that no TV channel will carry [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Media | 5 Comments
Tags: aid, BBC, Cast Lead, Disaster Emergency Committee, Gaza, humanitarian, siege
Chomsky and Finkelstein on Gaza
Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein on the invasion of Gaza. Read ‘em.
Chomsky’s is a write-up of a talk he gave on January 13, which you can watch below:
You can watch the [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 7 Comments
Tags: "peace offensives", Cast Lead, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein
I’d rather have Sharon
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 1 Comment
Tags: Tzipi Livni
Thwarting Palestinian moderation
After putting the exclamation point on its murderous rampage by shelling yet another hospital and bombing yet another UN school where people were sheltering, killing a mother and her young son, Israel last night announced a unilateral “ceasefire” in Gaza, having secured promises of American and British (via) help to stop the arms smuggling into [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 4 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Cast Lead, ceasefire, Gaza, Hamas, Lebanon, truce, two-state
Assaf explains:
“Dr. Ezz-El-Din Abu El-Eish (I hope I am transliterating correctly) is a Palestinian gynecologist from Beit Lahiya, in the NE corner of the Gaza Strip. He works at Israel’s largest hospital, Tel Hashomer near Tel Aviv.
This impressive and peaceful man has been stranded at home during the war. Israel’s Channel [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 9 Comments
Tags: Cast Lead, children, Gaza, war crimes
Sir Gerald Kaufman
This is very impressive:
Earlier this week he addressed the Foreign Secretary in similar terms:
“In congratulating my right hon. Friend on steering resolution 1860 through the United Nations Security Council, may I ask him what the international reaction would be if Hamas had slaughtered nearly 900 Israelis and subjected nearly 1.5 million [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, UK, Videos | 6 Comments
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Gerald Kaufman, Holocaust, parliament, war crimes
Today Israel shelled the main UN compound in Gaza City with white phosphorus. It shelled the Al Quds Hospital – also reportedly with white phosphorus – along with a Palestine Red Crescent Society warehouse filled with relief items, which was set ablaze. PRCS volunteers who attempted to put out the fire were shot at by [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 2 Comments
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, hospitals, UN, war crimes, white phosphorus
“What I think we need to do is to reach a situation in which we do not allow Hamas to govern,” Mr. Ramon said on Channel One. “That is the most important thing.”
- Vice Premer Haim Ramon; January 4.
“The goal of the operation is to topple Hamas … We will stop firing immediately if someone [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 10 Comments
Tags: "purity of arms", Cast Lead, collective punishment, Dahiya doctrine, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Haim Ramon, IDF, Tzipi Livni, war crimes
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