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For most of last month, the Gaza Strip was closed to everyone: foreigners, journalists (including CNN), diplomats. During the complete closure, Palestinians trapped inside reported intense Israeli attacks by sea, air and land, killing with impunity. KCUT report from West Bank ISM: 10m29s...

On June 8, 1967 the State of Israel ruthlessly attacked the US ship USS Liberty for over 2 hours in a combined air/sea operation during the Israeli's pre-emptive 1967 rout of the Arabs (this was the year the West Bank was first occupied by Israel). The incident, which cost 34 American lives was hushed up and never investigated by a Israeli occupied US Congress. Bamford's recent book 'Body of Secrets' looks at the incident with new information from the files of National Security Council ...

Take Action This Weekend on Anniversary of the Israeli Occupation...

xx:xx Dennis Bernstein: introduction: International Action Day for Palestine; An International movement to boycott Israeli products; An update on Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu; A mock wall to protest Israel's new Apartheid Wall around Palestine; Young people from the Dahatia Refugee Camp speak out against the occupation; and the Knight Report....

As the twin summits in Sharm Al Sheikh and Aqaba begin, some of us believe that the likelihood of a major breakthrough in the efforts to break the cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence is unrealistic. The likelihood for "peace" is unrealistic without addressing the reality on the ground and issues of justice and human rights violations in the Occupied Territories. In addition, there can be no real peace without the serious implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions such as 19...

While Kucinich doesn't make strong enough statements against the Israeli ethnic cleansing and slow genocide of the Palestinian people, perhaps this is as good as it gets for now. After seeing and hearing him from the audience at a cable TV show in Palo Alto last week, he seems like a very decent man--- let's hope there's room for decent people in our US politics and they get elected....

This same June 24 speech sounded at the time as though it were written by Sharon, and it probably was. It hedged Palestinian aspirations with so many restrictions and caveats that it ended up as a binding guarantee by the U.S. government (as if another one was needed) that at no time in the foreseeable future would the Palestinian national flag be permitted to fly over any real estate more substantial than a few football fields of rubble, denied water and surrounded by freeways restricted to ...

The latest stalling tactic to continue the encirclement and genocide of Palestinians is embodied in the US-sponsored "road map" which is uncritically reported on by almost all major western media sources. The road map only serves to codify the butcherist tactics of the Israeli government, overthrow existing Palestinian powerbases, and create a "final solution" for the region....

Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed Israeli terror....

Members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a non-violent group that attempts to provide protection to Palestinians, have been particularly targeted. In the wake of the death of American ISM member Rachel Corrie and the shootings of Brian Avery and Tom Hurndall, who is still in coma, the Israel military is asking internationals to sign a new declaration that not only relieves the Israeli Government of responsibility for any deaths but also asks the individual signing to confirm th...