Archive for June, 2009
Living in graves
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Tags: Gaza, house demolitions
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I haven’t posted anything on the situation in Iran, twitters and delicious links aside, but if you haven’t caught them already these articles are must-reads:
Iran, Gucci anti-imperialism and movement anti-intellectuals, Jews sans frontieres
Why the Islamic Republic has survived, MERIP
A question of solidarity, Lenin’s Tomb
Preliminary Analysis of the Voting Figures in [...]
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Tags: Iran, left, Noam Chomsky, Obama, protests, solidarity
Daily humiliations
What was that phrase Obama used? The “daily humiliations — large and small — that come with occupation“.
[Ha'aretz] ‘Border Policemen have filmed themselves abusing and humiliating Palestinians in videos they have posted on YouTube over the past year.
In one clip uploaded to the video sharing website an Arab youth is [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 9 Comments
Tags: border police, IDF, occupation, Racism
Life under occupation
‘In the course of the past few years, Palestinian children from two small villages in south Hebron, who walk every day to the elementary school in At Tuwani village, have faced regular harassment by Israeli settlers, including being verbally abused, physically assaulted, chased and having stones thrown at them. Though the Israeli authorities have failed [...]
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Tags: children, Hebron, IDF, occupation, settlers
‘We, United Nations and non-governmental humanitarian organisations, express deepening concern over Israel’s continued blockade of the Gaza Strip which has now been in force for two years..
These indiscriminate sanctions are affecting the entire 1.5 million population of Gaza and ordinary women, children and the elderly are the first victims.
The amount of [...]
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Tags: blockade, CARE, collective punishment, Gaza, Oxfam, siege, UNRWA
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh today declared that Hamas is “prepared to accept a state in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967″. He continued:
“We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital…
“If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 5 Comments
Tags: Binyamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Khaled Mesha'al, Ismail Haniyeh
Still torturing children
A Defence for Children International report published earlier this week contains the testimonies of 33 children subjected to abuse by Israeli soldiers.
The report finds that,
‘illegally obtained confessions are routinely used as evidence in the military courts to convict around 700 Palestinian children every year. And the most common charge against these [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Torture | 2 Comments
Tags: abuse, administrative detention, children, Defence for Children International, IDF, Torture
Free Ezra Nawi
Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most courageous human rights activists.
His crime? He tried to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region.
Nawi, a Jewish Israeli of [...]
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Tags: Activism, Ezra Nawi, house demolitions
Obama’s ‘bold’ vision
So here I am back in the UK, bleary-eyed and smelling like I’ve been travelling for three months. Curious, I switch on the computer to see what the you’ve all been up to in my absence: shocking revelations that MPs can sometimes be a bit crooked have England in revolt, another mortal threat to national security [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, US | 13 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Binyamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Hamas, settlements
Clinging on in Gaza
There’s lots to say about the Obama speech (though a lot less than has already been said about it), but for now, a reminder of the context.
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The reason why the al-Attar family and thousands of others are still living in tents is that the billions of donor aid intended for reconstruction [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 7 Comments
Tags: blockade, collective punishment, Gaza, John Ging, Oxfam, siege
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