Edition 2: No. 89 Freedom and justice for Palestine – an urgent imperative Ranjan Solomon* Martin Luther King once famously said: “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere” The struggle for freedom with justice in Palestine has, perhaps, been the longest – and seemingly endless struggle for human rights and self determination. It remains a blot…
Edition 2: No. 88 Muslim-Christian Solidarity in Palestine Christianity in Palestine: a fading identity? All too often Westerners’ make the rather simplistic conclusion that the presence of Palestinian Christians in The Holy Land is owing to rather rigorous Protestant missionary activity. This approach fails to take into account a very elementary fact- that…
Edition 2: No. 87 Atrocities & Bantustans: The Legacy of Ariel Sharon During more than a half century in the Israeli military and politics, Ariel Sharon became a figure reviled by Palestinians, the Arab world, much of the international community, and even by many Israelis. He was responsible for numerous atrocities and war crimes, including…
Edition 2: No. 86 Is peace possible on Obama’s Watch By Alan Hart The answer to my headline question could be, not necessarily would be, “Yes” IF President Obama was prepared to put America’s own best interests first and use as necessary all the leverage he has to oblige Israel…
Consulate Handcuffed And Racism Cry! Partha Banerjee New York City law enforcement arrested an elite Indian consulate officer, and that too a woman, and allegedly handcuffed and cavity-searched her. And the Indian media blew up in smokes! Even the Indian government, an ardent and sycophant ally of the U.S., said (or attempted to say) stern words…
Edition 2: No. 85 Christmas 2013 -Reflections from Bethlehem ** Apartheid’s rulers in South Africa bit the dust as all oppressors have done always, for this is a moral universe and right and wrong matter. It cannot happen that evil, injustice and oppression can have the last word. No! Ultimately, goodness, justice, freedom and peace—these will…
The Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka ‐ Session II 7th ‐ 10th December 2013 Bremen, Germany The Second Session of the Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka concluded today in Bremen, Germany, with the presentation of its verdict. The panel of eleven judges unanimously found Sri Lanka guilty of the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamil people, and that…
Edition 2: No. 84 Open Christmas letter to Pope Francis on Gaza From Vlacy Vazna Your Holiness In desperation, in December a campaign was launched appealing to you to help release the suffering people of Gaza from the genocidal strangulation of the Israeli seven year blockade. There is no world leader other than yourself…
Edition 2: No. 83 I refuse to take an assault rifle and point it at another human being’I refuse to take an assault rifle and point it at another human being’ Omar Sa’ad, Arab-Israeli conscientious objector . Arab-Israeli Omar Sa’ad refuses to serve in the Israeli army.© Amnesty…
Edition 2: No. 82 Israeli Genocide of Palestinian Olive trees Editor’s note: This article by Dr. Elias Akleh*, a twice-evicted Arab (first in 1948 and again in 1967) analyses the politics of hate contained in the Zionist campaign of uprooting Olive Trees. Akleh refers to the uprooting of Olive trees as an annual ‘terrorist harvest ritual’…
Edition 2: No. 81 When Falsehoods Triumph: Why a Winning Palestinian narrative is Hard to Find By Ramzy Baroud* The work of Israel’s New Historians has been immensely valuable, although one cannot compare the compassion of such historians as Pappe, with the harshness of Morris. The hundreds of other accounts offered by outsiders are also…
Edition 2: No.80 Gaza and the blockade Since 2007 the 1.7 million residents of Gaza, more than half of whom are children, have lived under a tight blockade that places a near complete ban on the movement of people and goods (including medical supplies, construction materials, mechanical parts, fuel, chemicals, raw materials for…
Activists urge World Bank to disinvest from private water companies Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:54 P Author: Stella DawsonMore news from our correspondent WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Civil society groups are pressuring the World Bank to disinvest from private water companies, saying that privatising ownership and management of this natural resource…
Edition 2: No. 80 If this isn’t apartheid, then what is it? We do not need to find identical practices to those prevailing in pre-1994 South Africa in order to determine whether apartheid exists elsewhere. By Ran Greenstein* Partly constructed portion of Israel’s separation wall, in Walaja, December 7, 2010 (Anne Paq/Activestills.org) For a few…
World Health Organization HO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium By Denis Halliday* The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many…
Edition 2: No. 79 Oslo failed, long live Oslo 1994-Novel-Peace-Prize-recipients-Oslo Nobel peace prizes awarded to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin in 1994 for signing the Oslo Accords (Photo: Israeli Government Press Office/Souciant) This September marks the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. The Oslo I Accord represented the…
Edition 2: No. 78 “Israel Wants Peace. Period.” (Just Joking!) By William A. Cook 14 September, 2013 Countercurrents.org “Jerusalem – Israel wants peace. Period. The Jewish people have never held a desire to rule over others and this remains true today. Not only are we ohev shalom [“lovers of peace”], but we are…
European war mongering in Syria- Facts and myths Birds of a feather flock together we were told in our school days! Europe is itching to join the war in Syria. Like the US, Europe also has its strategic interests and is using the so-called, unverified chemical weapon attacks as the pretext. Not a single…
Edition 2: No. 77 As Noose Tightens, Palestinians In Gaza Face Darkest Days By Ali Abunimah Source: Electronicintifada.net Palestinians wait at a gas station in Gaza City on 1 September 2013, as tightening blockade has worsened fuel crisis. (Ashraf Amra / APA images) These tweets by blogger Omar Ghraieb capture the despair many of Gaza’s almost 1.7 million…