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    MOTION FOR COUNCIL MEETING THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2008 (This motion is proposed by Greens and seconded by Labour) Glasgow City Council notes the broad base of support from across the Scottish Political spectrum in support for Mordechai Vanunu. Glasgow City Council further notes that Mordechai Vanunu: • Has made a huge contribution to…

    Christmas 2007: even as Shepherds are displaced, Santa attacked, Christmas pilgrims denied, Bethlehem land stolen; yet Hope Grows By Mazin Qumsiyeh     My uncle’s family managed to visit their hometown (the Shepherd’s field in Palestine) but only for one week over the holidays (my wife last summer was luckier and they gave…

December 11, 2007 Israel’s Palestinians Speak Out Nadim Rouhana The Annapolis peace talks regard me as an interloper in my own land. Israel’s deputy prime minister, Avigdor Lieberman, argues that I should “take [my] bundles and get lost.” Henry Kissinger thinks I ought to be summarily swapped from inside Israel to the would-be Palestinian state.…

Michael Hirsh in Newsweek Dec 20, 2007 A unilateral military strike against Iran is much more likely following the latest intel report about Tehran’s nuke program. Ehud Olmert, like George W. Bush, is trying hard to make it seem that nothing has changed, and that the international diplomatic coalition against Iran is still intact. “The…

AP reports: “The United Nations and human rights groups accuse Israel of dropping about 4 million cluster bomblets during the war. Up to 1 million failed to explode and now endanger civilians in the area. More than 30 people have been killed by cluster bomb and land mine explosions in Lebanon since the 2006 summer…

Israel’s Ethnic Cleansers at Work – All of Palestine/Israel could be classified as an ‘archeological site’ “The best thing about Khirbet Qassa was the grazing land. We had open spaces. Now we’ve become dependent on other people and their land,” said Abdel Halim Nattah, a shepherd in the southern West Bank.   Several weeks earlier…