Basra: Echoes of Vietnam Conn Hallinan in Foreign Policy in Focus Rather than as an assault on “criminal militias,” virtually every independent observer saw the attack as an effort by Maliki and the Americans to take control of Basra’s oil resources preliminary to turning them over to private oil conglomerates. Standing in the way of…
Palestinian BDS National Committee Salutes the Canadian Union of Postal Workers on their Historic Decision to Boycott the Israeli Apartheid Regime 18 April 2008 The BDS National Committee (BNC), comprising over 200 Palestinian civil society organizations and including all major Palestinian workers’ unions, salutes the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) for their decision to…
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“All your rulings belong in the trashcan. We are not afraid of you. We will continue to live in our homeland,” Cheerleading genocide, Khalid Amyreh in Al Ahram With spectacular fanfare and a plethora of highlighted events, Israel is planning to celebrate its 60th birthday on 18 May 2008. The centrepiece ceremony is expected to…
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…the bulldozer commenced its evil work, I noted what I often see at demolitions: police and soldiers standing around laughing among themselves, eating sandwiches, swapping the latest sports news. “It was another of those routine tragedies that are never publicized. At eight in the morning we at ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) received…
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Jewish settlers poison Palestinian lands with weekly sewage assaults with Israeli Government support
Beitar Illit settlers release sewage on Palestinian Wadi Fuqeen village farmlands By Redress Information & Analysis 19 April 2008 The authorities in the illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, which is built on stolen Palestinian land, regularly open their sewage tanks on to the farmlands of the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, ruining crops, contaminating…
Testimonies from Hebron: Soldiers choke, beat Palestinians Soldiers serving in Hebron testify to violent acts unleashed by troops, settlers on Palestinian residents. Four testimonies below [from] a pamphlet over 100 pages long, which tells the stories of dozens of soldiers who have served in Hebron over the last few years. To read the pamphlet…