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Israel Failed
Wed, 04/22/2009 - 9:21am | mal contends
Update II: Gideon Levy in Haaretz: "The only recognition that is needed now is Israel's recognition of the Palestinians as human beings."
Update: Inside Gaza: The Land of Ghosts
Some wonder if the humanistic dictum of standing with the victims of militarism and racism that - far away from the slaughter of Palestinians and assorted Arabs - animated the creation of Israel lives on today.
But it's not the ravings of foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman or rightwing coalitions that brought this tragedy about.
Update: Inside Gaza: The Land of Ghosts
Some wonder if the humanistic dictum of standing with the victims of militarism and racism that - far away from the slaughter of Palestinians and assorted Arabs - animated the creation of Israel lives on today.
No.
How many corpses of Bassem Ibrahim Abu-Rahma and Rachel Corrie need shatter the lives of their families and communities before we realize that whatever idealism and humanism existed in Israel has vanished as it has become a failed moral state.
But it's not the ravings of foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman or rightwing coalitions that brought this tragedy about.
Tags: Israel Shoots and Kills Peace Activist
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 8:16am | mal contends
When is killing enough killing?
From Robert Fisk in The Independent:
From Robert Fisk in The Independent:
(Peace activist) Tom Hurndall had stayed in Rafah. He was only 21 where – in his mother's words – he lost his life through a single, selfless, human act. 'Tom was shot in the head as he carried a single Palestinian child out of the range of an Israeli army sniper.' Mrs Hurndall asked me to write a preface to Tom's book and this article is his preface, for a brave man who stood alone and showed more courage than most if us dreamed of. Forget tree huggers. Hurndall was one good man and true.Don't know if there are still tickets, by the way, but if you are in Maidson next Tuesday, April 7, check out: Noam Chomsky;. "US Foreign Policy, Israeli Security, & Human Rights" (Event)
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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Black-out of Israel-inflicted Carnage
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 8:48am | mal contends
Here's who you will not see on CBS News, for example, anytime soon as Israel kills innocent Gazan civilians:
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
Will Israel Pirate Human Rights Ship Under Cover of US Campaign
Tue, 10/28/2008 - 7:13am | mal contends
What will Israel do after being embarrassed by human rights workers in August as a similar mission, the SS Dignity, journeys to Gaza to bring needed supplies and break the illegal blockade of Gaza that Israel denies exist?
The 27 unarmed civilians sailing aboard SS Dignity represent 13 different countries. We are doctors, lawyers, teachers, and human rights advocates. We are Christians, Muslims, Jews, and agnostics. ...
This morning, the Free Gaza Movement was informed through the media that the Israeli Navy is threatening to forcibly stop the SS Dignity from entering Gaza tomorrow morning. Israel has not bothered to inform us of a legitimate reason for preventing us from delivering medical supplies, doctors, lawyers, and prominent human rights advocates to the Gaza Strip.
Some militarists, a minority, have seriously suggested that the Israeli Navy kill them. Let's hope more civilized action takes place.
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.
Why Militarism?
Mon, 06/09/2008 - 8:01am | mal contends
This video shot last year is appalling.
Footage showing Irish Noble Peace Prize recipient, Mairead Maguire getting shot by Israeli army who opened fire at peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank village of Bilin on April 20, 2007, following the international conference on popular resistance (April 18-20, 2007). Maguire was shot by a rubber-coated-metal bullet in the leg. Maguire speaks after she received first aid. [Footage by Ana Nogueira]
Thousands of innocent Palestinians getting shot, imprisoned and killed is appalling.
I read Norman G. Finkelstein's preface, an angry challenge to Barack Obama, and then watched the video.
We need more, not less anger at what Israel (with American complicity) has now become, and what we have all become. What a travesty.
American progressives often fret that the Israel-militarism issue will split the Democratic Party, parting the way for radical Neocon dominance of American politics for generations.
But do we add our voices of condemnation and challange Israeli-American aggression and human rights violations, or ought we be silent?