Window Into Palestine

UN Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:40:00 +0000

A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was favorably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming...

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Palestinian Women Suffer as “Israel” Violates CEDAW

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:00 +0000

by Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Nov 5, 2009 (IPS) – Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This is in flagrant violation of Israel’s obligations as a signatory to the UN...

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Michigan woman imprisoned by Israel fallowing settler take over of Palestinian home

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Imprisoned American citizen and Michigan resident Ahlam Mohsen to be deported to the US after being arrested in a Palestinian home taken over by Israeli settlers in Occupied East Jerusalem. Ahlam was a guest of the al-Kurd family when on the morning of 3 November 2009 Israeli settlers burst in and...

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PFLP: U.S. is not a mediator but an enemy of the Palestinian people

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:34:00 +0000

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on November 3, 2009 that the Palestinian Authority, and all Palestinian parties, must immediately end any and all illusions about the United States or its president, Barack Obama, and instead reject its "negotiations" based on surrender and...

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Give up on Obama, Disband the Palestinian Authority

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:00 +0000

By Sami Jamil Jadallah WRITTEN BY Sami Jamil Jadallah The issue of continuing and expanding Jewish settlements came back to haunt the Palestinian leadership that negotiated Oslo and continued to negotiate with Israel for the last 16 years while Israeli continued to build and...

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Why Does AIPAC Spy on Americans?

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:29:00 +0000

by Grant Smith, According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Steven J. Rosen will be allowed to move ahead with his civil defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosen and fellow AIPAC employee Keith Weissman were indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act in...

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Jewish directors challenge Israel

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:28:00 +0000

By Sakhr al-Makhadi at the London Film Festival Eyes Wide Open, a love story between two Orthodox Jewish men, provoked anger at its screening A series of controversial Israeli...

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Zionism's Jewish Enemy

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0000

Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian. Like all Israelis, Ilan was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism’s version of the history of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It wasn’t until he went to England to continue...

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Michigan woman imprisoned by Israel fallowing settler take over of Palestinian home

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:21:00 +0000

My Picks of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:26:00 +0000

Picks of the day from Sami Joseph Zionism's Jewish Enemy Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian. Like all Israelis, Ilan was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism’s version of the history of the making and sustaining of the...

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Clinton tells Abbas: either you budge to Israel, or else

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:24:00 +0000

By Khalid Amayreh The latest visit by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to Occupied Palestine seems to have effectively terminated whatever hopes the Palestinians and other Arabs may have pinned on the Obama administration to adopt an evenhanded approach...

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Eleven Organizations Demand that The New York Mets Cancel Citi Field Fundraiser for Israeli Settlers

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:22:00 +0000

Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East www.adalahny.org Eleven Organizations Demand that Mets Cancel Citi Field Fundraiser for Israeli Settlers Media Contact: info@adalahny.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, November 4, 2009 – Eleven organizations from the US,...

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Harper's extremism is showing

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:11:00 +0000

Another excellent article from Linda McQuaig on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political extremism. Published in the Toronto Star, and by Rabble.ca. Ed Corrigan By Linda McQuaigIf, as polls suggest, Stephen Harper is poised to win a majority, it's largely due to the media notion that...

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Israeli Confessions

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:02:00 +0000

If one wants to know why and how the conflict started in Palestine more than 60 years ago, the "confessions" of Israeli and Zionist leaders should make it very clear. 700,000 Palestinians (more than half of the Palestinian population at the time) were expelled in 1948. More than 600 towns and...

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ADC Thanks 36 House Representatives who Opposed H.RES 867

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:59:00 +0000

Washington, D.C. | November 4, 2009 | Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted 344-36 in support of the remarkably biased H. Res. 867 which called on the President and the Secretary of State to unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the ...

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The fall of a wall and the rise of another

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:53:00 +0000

It happens that today the world is celebrating the fall of Berlin-wall 20 years ago . Incidentally , it is also the 30th. anniversary of the occupation by militant-students of the USA Embassy in Tehran . Nowadays the Berlin wall became part of history while the Palestine-wall became the latest...

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Time for Britain to make amends for crimes against Palestine

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:52:00 +0000

By Stuart Littlewood As Palestinians mark the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration, Stuart Littlewood argues that it is time for Britain to make amends for its central role in creating one of the world’s worse injustices, the implanting of the State of Israel on to Palestine and...

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Italy convicts CIA agents of kidnap -- Great precedent!

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:41:00 +0000

CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric. The agents were accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, from Milan and sending him to...

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Israeli War Crimes

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:38:00 +0000

A site that was emailed to me today that with photos highlights Israeli War Crimes. http://www.israeli-war-crimes.org/

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Israeli authorities force Palestinians to demolish their own homes

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:31:00 +0000

What would you do if someone demolished your home and sent you the bill to pay for the demolition costs? By Iqbal Tamimi We are used to seeing the Israeli authorities demolish Palestinian homes, but what you do not know that Palestinians are forced to demolish their own homes by their own hands....

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Bonaparte Blair & Co by Gilad Atzmon

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:22:00 +0000

Gilad Atzmon Gordon brown urged European Socialist leaders last week to appoint Tony Blair as the European President. “Get real”, he told them, “This is a unique opportunity to get a strong progressive politician to be the...

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Shot after photographing the Gaza Sea

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:22:00 +0000

On 4 October, Ashraf Abu Suleiman, a 16-year-old from Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, went to the northwest coast town of Sudaniya to visit an ill school friend. Ashraf Abu Suleiman (Eva Bartlett) The teen then went to the sea, where he...

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Ashkenazi: “Next Battle Likely In Gaza”

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:19:00 +0000

Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, stated Tuesday that he believes a new war in Gaza is nearing, and that the army is readying to target Qassam launching pads, located in densely populating areas in the Gaza Strip. Full Story >>

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US House of Representatives condemns Goldstone Report

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:17:00 +0000

YNET The US House of Representatives has condemned the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. The resolution, which defined the report as "one-sided and distorted" was supported by a wide majority of 334 delegates against 36 who opposed it. Twenty-two delegates...

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Israel presses campaign against UN Gaza report

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:14:00 +0000

AFP, JERUSALEM — Israel on Wednesday pressed its campaign against a UN report on the Gaza war that accused it of war crimes as the General Assembly prepared to vote on a non-binding resolution on the inquiry. "There is nothing more cynical than this report, which comes from countries known for...

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