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Kristen Ess: 4,200 Palestinians On Hunger Strike
Several Palestinian journalists have been advised that Israeli Defense Minister Moufaz has put the Israeli army on alert. He is reportedly telling them to be ready for one of the biggest IOF attacks on Palestinians yet, as he predicts the Palestinian end of the cease-fire will not last through the month of September. He is seemingly unconcerned that the Israeli end of the cease-fire has failed to begin.
An 11 year-old girl remains hospitalized after Israeli soldiers shot her in the Gaza S...
Posted: Sun, Aug 3, 2003 3:59pm PDT
Who Forged the Letters that Sucked Us into War? Israel, Yellowcake and the Media
The left incriminated that the reason Bush couldn't stop salivating over the prospect of invading Iraq was for its oil: ah yes, greedy Republicans, Texas oil magnates, Halliburton, insider wheeling and dealing. Sounds good, but was there anyone opining that the real reason we invaded Iraq was to keep Israel as the sole nuclear power in the Middle East? The discussion never moved in that direction. And it did not move there probably because the issue was never put on the table....
Posted: Sat, Aug 2, 2003 7:30pm PDT
Robert Fisk, July 31, 2003: Iraq isn't working
There is a veneer of normality about life in the new Iraq. But America's failure to deliver on its promises has triggered a spiral of murderous anarchy that threatens to become an epic tragedy...
Posted: Sat, Aug 2, 2003 7:09pm PDT
Occupied peoples have a right to resist: ISM's response to charges of supporting terrorism
Many of us have paid a price for our commitment. James Deleplain, 74, sustained a broken rib and punctured lung after settlers beat him during the olive harvest. Tom Hurndall, 21, was shot in the head while moving children out of harm's way from an Israeli sniper. Brian Avery, 24, had his face blown off by an Israeli armored personnel carrier. And, of course, Rachel Corrie, 23, was run over by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier while attempting to protect the home of a Palestinian physi...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 5:28pm PDT
AUDIO: Robert Fisk talks about Iraqi civilian deaths and the attempt to silence Arab media
Wednesday, July 30, 2003...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 1:27pm PDT
John Pilger: The War on Truth. The US media's suppression of the civilian toll in Iraq
This is unmentionable here in America. The tens of thousands of Iraqi dead and maimed do not exist. When I interviewed Douglas Feith, number three to Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, he shook his head and lectured me on the "precision" of American weapons...Like the American-driven, medieval-type siege that destroyed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives over 12 years, there is no knowledge of this in America: therefore it did not happen. The Iraqis are, at best, unpeople; at worst, ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 1:09pm PDT
Review: James Longley's "Gaza Strip" (2002)
After watching Gaza Strip, a documentary made by a citizen of the country that bears primary responsibility for the continuation of the conflict, what condemns us most is that they don't hate us. The lack of rancor evident in the Palestinians seen through Longley's lens is a powerful word of peace spoken by a people whose oppressors have invested much to falsely represent as violent and uncompromising....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2003 1:15am PDT
Racist contempt for Arabs and Iraqis set the stage for the latest massacre by US troops
Alerted by the gunfire, the neighbours faced this spectacle in total dismay. "Ya Haram!", whispers Laraba, a neighbour in her forties, drying her tears with the old scarf she was wearing on her head. "Why have these damned soldiers done this? These were good people, a Christian family held in esteem in all the neighbourhood. In 30 years, nobody ever held a complaint against them. Ya habibi ya Tamer! What have these criminals done to you ?" "He wouldn't have killed a f...
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2003 1:04am PDT
Kurt Nimmo: Christian Zionists show lack of compassion for the Palestinian tragedy
"Christian Zionism offers an uncritical endorsement of the Israeli political right and at the same time shows an inexcusable lack of compassion for the Palestinian tragedy," writes Stephen Sizer. "In doing so it has legitimized their oppression in the name of God."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 1:52pm PDT
Robert Fisk, July 30, 2003: Paul Wolfowitz tries to muzzle Al Jazeera and other Arab media
It seems that showing Iraqi (or Palestinian) casualties is considered "incitement to violence." Showing Israeli victims over and over or victims of 9-11 apparently is not....
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 1:14pm PDT
Robert Fisk (July 29, 2003): American agents are blamed for raid that became a massacre
Fadi Barash, an unemployed car mechanic, told The Independent yesterday how his relative Mazen Elyas was shot in the head by US troops as he drove towards them on his way to church [Mansur is a Christian neighborhood] with his mother Tamantin and brother Thamir. "Mazen was killed - his brain was blown out - but his mother and Thamir were wounded," he said. "The Americans took them away in some kind of pick-up and didn't tell anyone where they went. Mr Barash appealed yesterday,...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 5:57pm PDT
Ali Abunimah responds to NPR's Linda Gradstein on the Apartheid Wall
The Apartheid Wall (which dwarfs the Berlin Wall) is also another major land grab for Israel. It surrounds and steals a great deal of the Palestinians' water resources. It will cost over $2 Billion dollars (that's Billion not Million) and as usual will be financed courtesy of us (US taxpayers)....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 3:55pm PDT
A Report from Syria: Attitudes and opinions of the people there
From Bosra in the south to Aleppo in the North, I saw a rich agriculture: wheat, fruit, olives and vegetables. I saw Bedouins and Christians of several varieties living alongside Muslims of different stripes. I even met a Jewish antique dealer who returned to Damascus because I like it here better than Brooklyn. He can go to Israel but says he's happy in the place where he was born and grew up and feels no fear or discrimination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 10:59pm PDT
Rupert Murdoch and William Kristol: Using the Press to Advance Israel’s Interests
Murdoch’s close relationship with Sharon and heavy investment in Israel led former Times Africa correspondent Sam Kiley to resign his position. “The Times foreign editor and other middle managers flew into hysterical terror every time a pro-Israel lobbying group wrote in with a quibble or complaint,” Kiley said, “and then usually took [the lobby’s] side against their own correspondent...No pro-Israel lobbyist ever dreamed of having such power over a great national newspaper.” After one conver...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 10:28pm PDT
AUDIO: Scott Lipscomb of IraqBodycount.org on why the 8000 dead figure is conservative
Thursday July 24, 2003...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 8:13pm PDT
Robert Fisk: 28 July 2003 Report. US troops turn botched Saddam raid into a massacre
It appears the killings started as the troops were searching the building and as motorists approached the barbed wire which the soldiers had placed without warning across the road. Witnesses said the first car contained at least two men. "The second contained two children about 10, their mother and their father who had been wounded in the Iran-Iraq war he was a cripple," a local shopkeeper told me. "They all died. The man's legs were cut in half by the bullets," he added...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 4:20pm PDT
Kristen Ess: The Stage is Set for Ethnic Cleansing
Throughout this time the IOF is destroying hundreds of dunams of agricultural land. The Gaza Strip was a fertile area, with Palestinian farmers growing produce for internal consumption and for the residents of Jericho in the southern West Bank. But after destroying most of the farmland over the past year and confiscating much of it for Israeli settlements, there is little produce in the last month found inside the Gaza Strip, and what the residents of Jericho must now rely on comes from Israe...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 11:46am PDT
FLASHPOINTS: Anne Gwynne and Phyllis Bennis on the Occupied Territories. Ed Rosenthal
Friday July 25, 2003...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 2:29am PDT
Robert Fisk in Baghdad. July 26 and 27 reports
For this is not an army of liberation but an army of occupation, already deeply mired in a wilderness of ideology dreamt up by the sinister friends of the US Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld - those who would "liberate" Iraq and create democracy as America changed the map of the Middle East, and help Israel into the bargain....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 11:19pm PDT
Robert Fisk: What Iraqis will think about the photos of Uday and Qusay
The Americans peppered their car with bullets. The vehicle burst into flames. And the Americans just left. For half an hour, the car blazed out of control. Whether the Iraqi occupants had already died of their wounds or were burnt alive, no one knows....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 9:40am PDT