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Since when, I have to ask myself, has it been acceptable for only one side of a conflict to have weapons? Since when has "self-defense" been defined as the actions of a military superpower against the very people it oppresses and seeks to destroy? How long will we rail against the use of violence by those who are subjected to it repeatedly and in every conceivable form every day of their lives? The struggle for Palestine has gone far beyond a quarrel over land and property rights: M...

There is no word for this latest piece by Dave Kersting but BRILLIANT.  I'm sure you'll all agree when you read it.  (This could be called the "anti-Left-Zionist Manifesto.")...

An American officer came to the home of an Iraqi family. American soldiers had killed the family's young son by mistake. "How much compensation would you accept?" the officer asked. "Ten dead Americans," the father replied....

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Like a mythical fairy, weapons of mass destruction have vanished from Iraq and reappeared in Syria. No doubt once we obliterate Syria and find no weapons, we will be informed how this elusive fairy found its way to Lebanon. After razing Lebanon and finding no trace of our highly evanescent fairy, we will be told of how she was so cruelly kidnapped and taken to Iran. As fairies often tend to be, this nuclear fairy is of course non-existant in the Middle East -- except in one country, Israel......

Pietro Cordone, the Italian diplomat, was travelling to Mosul with his wife, Mirella, when their car approached an American convoy. According to Mr Cordone, a soldier manning a machine gun in the rear vehicle of the convoy appeared to signal to Mr Cordone's driver that he should not attempt to overtake. The driver did not do so but the soldier then fired a single shot at the car, which hit the interpreter who was in the front passenger seat. The incident was only reported because Mr Cordone h...

"There is a familiar principle of advocacy of non-violence: if you want to be taken seriously, stand beside those who will bear the consequences of following your advice. The internationals are living up to that commitment, and for that alone they deserve great respect and admiration." -- Noam Chomsky, preface to Live from Palestine...

I went to one hospital where the mortuary attendant told me that almost 40% of the total dead that come in to their mortuary are killed at U.S. checkpoints by soldiers, either because the cars approached too quickly to the checkpoints or because American troops come under fire and fire back at the civilians in the area without making direct contact with whoever is their aggressor. One occasion recently for example, four days ago a woman and her child were brought dead to the hospital after th...

Now that Ariel Sharon and his Likudist ilk have destroyed the last chance for the two-state solution, the choice now comes down to one of either Israeli Apartheid towards the Palestinian people for perpetuity or one state for all its people in which everyone is equal under the law....

Eminent persons, representing all the regions of the world, bring their stature, expertise and a strong commitment to anti-discrimination and equality issues to the implementation of the Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference in Durban in 2001....