Arresting Gandhi – “Violent Clashes” and the Arrest of Abdullah Abu Rahma

He’s a Palestinian man, and he has one of those very Muslim-sounding names with “Abu” in it (it means “father of”). Any time his name is mentioned in the media it tends to be quickly lined up with phrases like “violent clashes.” If the article is more than one paragraph long then somehow or other the topic of suicide bombing will make its way into the discussion. And the Israelis have charged him with weapons possession and have arrested him (the weapons are an assortment of used bullets and tear gas canisters that have been fired at Abdullah and his family, but no matter). Many readers will by then have decided by then that it’s all pretty scary and complicated and they’d best move on.

Israel will remain in Jerusalem & the West Bank for eternity – Benjamin Netanyahu

and they say these devils want peace…

“Our message is clear: We are planting here, we will stay here, we will build here, this place will be an inseparable part of the state of Israel for eternity,” Netanyahu proclaimed at a tree-planting ceremony celebrating the Jewish arbor day at a settlement just south of Jerusalem.
“We are here and we will stay here and build here as part of sovereign Jerusalem,” he said.

Tzipi Livni – Israeli war criminal almost arrested in London

Tzipi Livni - Israeli war criminal

Guardian: Israel hit back at Britain today over the arrest warrant issued for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes, warning that until the matter was resolved senior officials would not be visiting the UK.

The Israeli Terror by David Rovics

 

I was in Olympia, Washington driving towards Evergreen State College when I got a phone call from someone in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. An Evergreen graduate named Rachel Corrie had been killed a few days before by an Israeli soldier in an armored bulldozer, and someone with an Australian accent on my cell phone named Tom was wondering whether it was OK for the International Solidarity Movement to use the lyrics to a song I had just written about the incident on their website. Rachel’s murder was followed quickly by the murder of a British ISM activist named Tom Hurndall.

Palestinians Knock Down Part of West Bank Separation Wall Again

In the West Bank, Palestinian activists marked the Berlin Wall anniversary by knocking down part of the Israeli separation wall for the second time in a week.

Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall: “Today is the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall. That’s why we in the Popular Committees campaigned all around Palestine for the destruction of this [West Bank] wall. The campaign is called ‘We Are Going to Jerusalem,’ to arrive at Jerusalem, the holy city, which is important to the Palestinian people, who are prevented from entering it. This is the beginning of our activities, which we are doing to express our hold on our land and our refusal of this wall of torture and humiliation.”

The Goldstone Report – Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (PDF)

UN Fact Finding Mission finds strong evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Gaza conflict; calls for end to impunity
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Appointment of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer sexually assaulted by Israeli govt thugs

Democracy Now! Meanwhile a prominent Palestinian journalist has been hospitalized after being strip-searched and assaulted by Israeli officials at a border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank. The journalist, Mohammed Omer, was on his way back to Gaza after visiting London where he won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for journalism. Omer is the Gaza correspondent for the Inter Press Service and has been a guest on Democracy Now. According to Omer, Shin Bet officials interrogated him, pointed an M16 gun at his face then forcibly removed all of his clothing. Then officials pinned him to the floor and searched every cavity of his body. He began vomiting and fainted. He was then dragged on the floor with his head banging on the ground. He woke up in a Palestinian hospital

Hadel Alfnere murdered by Israelis in Khan Younis

Palestinian Girl Killed in Israeli Attack

In Israel and the Occupied Territories, a ten-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. The girl, Hadel Alfnere, died when an Israeli tank round hit her home in Khan Younis. Two members of her family were wounded. Israel says it was attacking Palestinian militants who were firing rockets into Israel.

This Week In Palestine: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba

Summary: This is a weekly 45-minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom from Israel’s brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland.

Nakba is still alive in every Palestinian refugee camp

Saifeedan Anmousa, Columbia University student: “The Nakba is not a historic event that happened sixty years ago, and this is why we’re commemorating it. This is not just about talking about the history, this is about the reality that is going on today. The Nakba is still alive in every Palestinian refugee camp around the Arab world, in every checkpoint in the West Bank, with every bomb that is thrown into Gaza and with every child that is murdered in the West Bank.”

Jimmy Carter brings Eli Yishai’s message to Khaled Meshaal

18/04/2008 Former US president Jimmy Carter is due in the Syrian capital Friday for talks with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal. Carter is expected to meet with Meshaal in the afternoon and deliver him a message from Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai who would like to meet with Hamas leader, Israeli Haaretz daily reported. Before meeting with Meshaal, Carter is said to hold talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.