Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’
The West’s War Crimes are Much Greater than Israel’s
YNet | By Shaul Rosenfeld | 30 July 2010 Hypocrisy’s finest hour Revelations of West’s crimes in Afghanistan highlight anti-Israel hypocrisy In an interview with PBS earlier this year, Richard Goldstone was quite amazed by a question regarding the suspicion that he and others may, heaven forbid, adopt a double standard in respect to [...]
Americans funding expanding Israeli occupation (“settlements”)
Der Spiegel | By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Christoph Schult | 23 July 2010 US Cash for Israeli Settlements Making a Mockery of the Moratorium Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have declared a freeze on new settlements, but construction is continuing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlers are receiving [...]
Atrocities in Gaza:Racism a key factor
The Sun (Malaysia) | By K. K. Tan | 15 January 2009 THE barbaric behaviour of the warmongering Zionist regime in Israel in its military operations and treatment of Palestinian civilians in Gaza can best be explained in one word – racism. Let it be clear from the onset that this article is not attacking Jews or Judaism per se and it [...]
Barack in Israel, Hussein in the Muslim World
Asharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 11 July 2010 Hussein? As soon as US President Obama addressed the Israelis in a televised interview with one of the local television stations, the shock hit our region. This is what became clear from the majority of the Arab media coverage, especially after Obama told the Israelis that he understands [...]
Israel fleet raid probe Head threatens to resign
Times of India | APP | 30 June 2010 Head of Israel fleet raid probe threatens to resign: TV report JERUSALEM: The head of an Israeli commission set up to investigate a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla threatened to resign unless the probe is given wider powers, Israeli TV said on Tuesday. Yaakov Tirkel, a retired Supreme [...]
Israel: Rogue Terrrorist State Marching on a Fast Track to Hell
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 29 June 2010 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of United Nations relief operations in Gaza have deplored Israel’s latest attack on a recreational facility for children in Gaza, the second such incident in a month. A group of about 25 armed and masked men attacked and set fire to the facility on [...]
Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination
Ha'aretz | By Henry Siegman | 11 June 2010 If a people who so recently experienced such unspeakable inhumanities cannot understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions are inflicting, what hope is there for the rest of us? Following Israel’s bloody interdiction of the Gaza Flotilla, I called a life-long friend in Israel [...]
Mavi Marmara and the U.S.S. Liberty
Brookings | By Charles K. Ebinger | 15 June 2010 The Attack on the USS Liberty: Lessons for U.S. National Security General Petraeus warned that the stalled Middle East peace process is a direct threat to U.S. interests and prestige in the region and that the lack of progress in Palestine foments anti-Americanism, undermines Arab [...]
Chomsky on the Freedom Flotilla
In These Times | By Noam Chomsky | 8 June 2010 The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime. But the crime is nothing new. For decades, Israel [...]
Hoodbhoy on the Flotilla Massacre
ViewpointOnline | By Pervez Hoodbhoy | 11 June 2010 This article, recovered from Google cache, is not accessible in Pakistan. A revised (sanitised) version appears as The Flotilla Massacre: Why?, and a condensed version has been published as The flotilla killings, in Dawn. Reflections on the Flotilla massacre Israel is responsible for [...]
