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Free Gaza Movement Seeks Help
Wed, 05/06/2009 - 7:11am | mal contends
Note: After a lifetime of fighting bigotry I have been called anti-Semite and Jew Hater (at Daily Kos yesterday). Such is the mindset of those dedicated to war and militarism. Stand up for innocent Palestinian families and you are a "Jew hater". [See The Politics of Anti-Semitism for a discussion of this repulsive tactic.]
An effective voice against Israeli militarism is the Free Gaza Movement, a "human rights group that in August 2008 sent the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years ... (raising) international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip ... ."
Of course, militarists seeing Palestinians as less-than-human have said the effort to ship aid to starving families is inherently anti-Semitic or sympathetic to terrorists, yada, yada.
It's a lie. Support the Free Gaza Movement.
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NYT: Israeli Troops' 'Thirst for Blood in Gaza'
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:14pm | mal contends
Ethan Bronner has what should be a blockbuster in the NYT, excerpted below.
[Shot below shows Israeli humanism at work, an all too typical photo from the Gaza Strip.]
How long are we going to support this hyper militarism and continuing war crime? What will Obama do?
[Shot below shows Israeli humanism at work, an all too typical photo from the Gaza Strip.]
How long are we going to support this hyper militarism and continuing war crime? What will Obama do?
Noam Chomsky;. "US Foreign Policy, Israeli Security, & Human Rights"
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:19am | mal contends
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Noam Chomsky; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Assessing the role of US Foreign Policy, Israeli Security, & Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”
Orpheum Theater; 216 State Street; 7:30pm
Israel's Horror Show
Wed, 02/11/2009 - 10:34am | mal contends
A Palestinian schoolgirl inspects her classroom which was burnt during Israel's offensive, at UNRWA's (UN Relief and Works Agency) primary school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 24, 2009. Some 200,000 Gaza children returned to school for the first time since Israel's offensive, many having lost family members, their home and their sense of security. The main UNRWA centre and several schools were destroyed by Israeli bombing during the 22-day war. [By Olivier Laban-Mattei/AFP/Getty Images.]
From former neocon Andrew Sullivan, no less.
From former neocon Andrew Sullivan, no less.
Blind support of militarism, Israeli or otherwise, is wrong
Sun, 01/11/2009 - 11:44am | mal contends
Update: Rights group: Israel uses white phosphorus in Gaza
Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:41 PM EST
The Associated Press
By JASON KEYSER Associated Press Writer
Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:41 PM EST
The Associated Press
By JASON KEYSER Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) — Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their faces and bodies.
This is what Rep. Baldwin and others are supporting. It's wrong, period.
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Breaking Siege Under Israeli Fire
Mon, 12/29/2008 - 10:12am | mal contends
Personally, I can no longer regard Israel as a moral entity; it has lost its status as a state dedicated to humanism, veering into savagery in its worst attacks in decades. The only question is: Will we remain silent?
The sick irony of history bares its bizarre head as we head into the new year.
As Israel continues its strikes in Gaza enraging the Arab street, the Free Gaza movement is breaking the Israeli siege in another voyage of the Dignity ship to draw world attention to "Israel's draconian policies on the civilians of Gaza."
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday 29th December 2008
As Israel continues its strikes in Gaza enraging the Arab street, the Free Gaza movement is breaking the Israeli siege in another voyage of the Dignity ship to draw world attention to "Israel's draconian policies on the civilians of Gaza."
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday 29th December 2008
On The View From Egypt, Part Two, Or, If You Can't Beat 'Em, Lock 'Em Up
Sat, 11/15/2008 - 5:44pm | fake consultant
Joe the Biden famously warned us that the new President will be tested by a foreign policy challenge--and most of us assumed that challenge would come from somewhere like Pakistan, Afghanistan...or Russia.
New developments in the Middle East are suggesting that the challenge might come from an entirely different direction.
It’s quite a story we’ve been telling--and today’s installment involves massive electoral manipulation, intimidation, imprisonment... and a recanting witness who dies in his jail cell.
Hop on board the international train, Gentle Reader, and we’ll see what we can learn about a country that is hardly an enemy...that is, in fact, such an ally that they have been willing to torture for us.
As the title notes, this is Part Two of a larger story, so let’s recap:
The Arab Republic of Egypt has been ruled by various versions of one political party more or less forever. That political party is today known as the National Democratic Party (NDP); and at its head is Egypt’s President (since 1981), Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt’s Constitution is written so as to ensure the perpetual dominance of the NDP.
On The View From Egypt, Part One, Or, How Professionals Rig Elections
Fri, 10/03/2008 - 9:16am | fake consultant
It has been but a few hours since Sarah Palin took the stage to have a conversation with Joe Biden, and of course the Nation has a ton of questions.
What will happen now?
How will we view all this in a few days?
How will it affect McCain and Obama?
I don’t know...and I’m not even going to try to figure it out right this minute.
Instead, we’re going to take a trip halfway across the world to a country that has been essential to understanding the Middle Eastern story, has been at the center of international conflicts time and time again...and has lessons to teach us that, if we learn them well, could make us a much smarter “Foreign Policy Nation” than we are today.
The country? Egypt.
So grab your virtual passport...and after we arrive, there are a few people I want you to meet.
What will happen now?
How will we view all this in a few days?
How will it affect McCain and Obama?
I don’t know...and I’m not even going to try to figure it out right this minute.
Instead, we’re going to take a trip halfway across the world to a country that has been essential to understanding the Middle Eastern story, has been at the center of international conflicts time and time again...and has lessons to teach us that, if we learn them well, could make us a much smarter “Foreign Policy Nation” than we are today.
The country? Egypt.
So grab your virtual passport...and after we arrive, there are a few people I want you to meet.
US-Israel Crimes in Gaza
Wed, 08/06/2008 - 8:09am | mal contends
Update: Watch Death in Gaza. [Thank you, The Proletariat.]
It's way past time for silence on this issue from the progressive community.
One rarely reads of the US-supported Israeli atrocities committed in Gaza and the occupied territories. I mean what's Gaza, and are Palestinians really human beings?
They are. And what's being done to the Palestinians is an obscenity, a bloody siege described in a widely-distributed pamphlet at a 2002 demonstration as a "macabre saga of violence and methodical repression (Islamic Circle of North America)". It's unclear that if the violence and repression were to be featured on broadcast TV what the reaction would be.