“If war is a conflict whereby today you attack and then go back home and stay until three, four, five months and come back… If that is a definition of war then there is a war in Darfur.”
A copy of a summary of the United Nations Report about Israel’s attacks on UN facilities during its three-week offensive in Gaza earlier this year has been posted online finally. It found the IDF attacks”involved varying degrees of negligence or recklessness.” The Israeli military did not take adequate steps to ensure the safety of UN [...]
The recent release of four Lebanese generals held without charge for almost four years has drawn mixed reactions from the country’s leaders. The ruling coalition has grudgingly accepted the international court’s decision, and held it up as an example of objectivity and fairness. Members of the opposition welcomed the release of the generals, but many took it [...]
Sorry, we’re at the wrong conference…thought it was a pro-racism event. Following on Kalash’s post… The orgasmic outrage against Ahmedinejad’s speech is a farce. The diplomats who walked out and boycotted the conference are the same who propagated lies and based invasions on them. Even worse, they come from countries enriched by and built on [...]
IAEA Chief El Baradei breaks it down for you clowns. The Washington Post published Sunday an interview with Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is the top U.N. nuclear proliferation official, and one of the most respected Arab officials in the world (which is not saying much). The interview [...]
Today, international journalists are finally inside of Gaza, listening to those who are still pulling decomposed bodies from the rubble. Yesterday, CNN played Obama and the party in DC all day. Tomorrow, we will all be watching Obama’s inauguration on the news. We are no longer told the stories of Gaza, such as the story [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMs0nai4JQ]When you read that Israelis are united behind the current bombardment of Gaza, please listen to these voices and consider. Amira Hass – History did not begin with the Qassams. Physicans for Human Rights-Israel – Protests in solidarity with Gaza, and warns of “a clear and present danger to the lives and well-being of tens [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shared the story of the mysterious American abstention from the UN resolution it led the negotiations on. Last week, as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to vote yes on Security Council resolution 1860, she received a call from President George W. Bush ordering her to abstain. Olmert explained [...]
Israelis don’t kill Palestinians, errant mortars do. When Israeli troops hit a United Nations building last Tuesday, killing upwards of 40 Palestinians, Israel’s spin machine went into full gear. In the subsequent week, it churned out pretty much every form of deniability possible — incurring the protest and wrath of UN personnel who were there. [...]
Jews sans frontieres which calls itself an “anti-zionist blog browsing the media,” has posted the following regarding the UN Security Council Resolution on Gaza: Recalling that Israel reiterated its commitment to not build gas chambers and not burn Palestinians in ovens Recalling that Israel is a country governed by white people elected with lots of [...]