war crimes
GOD Promised Me Your Land, Your Corneas, and Your Bones
The cat is finally out of the bag and now Israel has admitted to harvesting Palestinian organs…when Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper featured an opinion piece by freelance journalist Donald Bostrom about the same subject four months earlier, the Israelis went ballistic and reached into their “name-calling” drawers and surprise…surprise, they called Sweden anti-sematic. The story [...]
Un-Merry Christmas for me! What is going on?
Guest Post by Nahida Izzat, an exiled Palestinian Un-Merry Christmas for me! What is going on? “Hello is this the Christmas Help Line?” “Yes… good afternoon and merry Christmas Angela speaking How can I help you? Are you feeling lonely today?” “Absolutely, awfully lonely And I have a serious problem Grave one without a doubt [...]
Justice delayed is justice denied
Yesterday, 2 October 2009, the Palestinian leadership – under heavy
international pressure lead by the United States – deferred the draft
proposal at the Human Rights Council endorsing all the recommendations
of the UN Fact Finding Mission (the Goldstone Report).
Through the Eyes of 5000 Children
Guest Post By Yasmeen J El Khoudary, a fan of KABOBfest and a student at the American University in Cairo. Yasmeen did some volunteer work in Gaza this summer. For the first time in almost two years, I was fortunate enough to spend this summer in Gaza with my family. I was even more fortunate [...]
War in Darfur Over? But what about George Clooney?
“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.”
@SriLankans Your Civil War Is Not Quite Over
That’s it folks. Terrorism is over. Peace has come. Freedom has won. The terrorists have lost. God sends His salaams. According to the Sri Lankan government, and various news sources, the 26 year long civil war between the state and the militant Tamil separatist group the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) has come to [...]
Palestinian Childhood
A slide show in the Guardian about the young victims of Gaza…
Walzer Wakes Up and Smells the White Phosphorous
In a stunning reversal after years of pro-Israel apologia in the pages of Dissent, the renowned philosopher Michael Walzer, finally declared as unjust the vicious Israeli bombardment of Gaza, in which civilians were essentially confined into an open air prison as Israeli rained death upon them. Walzer famously articulated one of the leading philosophical formulas [...]
Morality can be a tad subjective…
Disturbed at the wild allegations leveled against its conduct during its recent assault on Gaza, the IDF has moved swiftly to regain its title as the World’s Most Moral Army™. During the 22 days of the onslaught, the Israeli army was accused of using white phosphorous on Palestinian civilians, leveling entire neighborhoods, shelling schools, hospitals, [...]
Guardian Films Releases Gaza War Crimes Series
Guardian Films, the documentary arm of the Guardian Newspaper, released a series of films about alleged war crimes committed by Israel during the 23-day offensive against Gaza earlier this year. The films focus on three separate cases of alleged war crimes; The use of Palestinian children as human shields. The systematic targeting of medics and [...]
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