Special Forces may have sparked assault

Special Forces may have sparked assault

HTM schendt Geneefse Conventie

DEN HAAG - De Haagse vervoerder HTM schendt internationale afspraken door Israël te helpen met de aanleg van een lightrailverbinding door het bezette Oost-Jeruzalem. Dat vindt SP-Kamerlid Van Bommel.

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Palestijnen:camera als zelfverdediging tegen gewelddadige kolonisten

"Ik hou de camera altijd bij me. Dat is het enige wat de kolonisten er van weerhoud met stenen te gooien of mijn winkel binnen te dringen"

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Carter: Gaza residents 'starving to death'

'For every Israeli killed,' says Carter, 'between 30 to 40 Palestinians are killed because of the extreme military capability of Israel'

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Deadly violence in Tibet as Buddhist monks lead protests

The Tibetan capital Lhasa erupted in deadly violence Friday as security forces used gunfire to quell the biggest protests against Chinese rule in two decades, officials and rights groups said.

The protests, which spread outside Tibet into other areas of China, came amid a growing international campaign by Tibetans to challenge Beijing's rule of the Himalayan region ahead of the Olympic Games in August.

Several people lost their lives and many others were injured in Lhasa on Friday, an official at the city's medical emergency centre told AFP, with Radio Free Asia reporting at least two people had been killed by Chinese bullets.

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OLMERT’S WORD IS AS GOOD AS BUSH’S

The settlements ARE expanding, Olmert lied AGAIN…. worst part is NO ONE GIVES A DAMN! Not the Americans, Not the EU, Not the UN…. Palestine (whatever is left of it) stands alone once again….

BUT…. best to be silent or you might be called an anti Semite… Israel does what it wants, when it wants, where it wants…. It has been for 60 years and has no intention to stop now.

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Navo-troepen in actie bij grensposten Kosovo

NAVO-troepen zijn naar de grens tussen Kosovo en Servië gestuurd om grensposten te verdedigen. De politie in Kosovo riep de hulp van de NAVO in, nadat vanuit Servië twee posten waren aangevallen.

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Independence in the Brave New World Order- NATO's Kosovo Colony

DIANA JOHNSTONE

February 18, 2008

Across this last weekend, the Western propaganda machine was working overtime, celebrating the latest NATO miracle: the transformation of Serbian Kosovo into Albanian Kosova. A shameless land grab by the United States, which used the Kosovo problem to install an enormous military base (Camp Bondsteel) on other people's strategically located land, is transformed by the power of the media into an edifying legend of "national liberation".

For the unhappy few who know the complicated truth about Kosovo, the words of Aldous Huxley seem most appropriate: "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall drive you mad."

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CAN A DEMOCRACY BE RACIST?

Israel is far from the democracy it claims to be... the reality is, Israel is a racist state and as long as it remains one there will be no democracy. No one is free unless we all are.

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Gaza teen crushed to death by israeli bulldozer

A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Thursday after being run over by an Israeli army bulldozer during a military incursion in the Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses said.

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Omstreden VN-conferentie in Brussel gaat door

Ondanks protesten van europarlementariërs en Israël begint donderdag in Brussel een VN-conferentie over de rechten van Palestijnen. Het officiële onderwerp van de conferentie is het bereiken van vrede tussen de Palestijnen en Israël.

Israël ziet de organiserende VN-commissie als uitvloeisel van de resolutie uit 1975 van de Algemene Vergadering die zionisme gelijkstelde aan racisme. De resolutie werd in 1991 ingetrokken.

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Palestijnse kinderen gedood bij tankbeschieting

Twee Palestijnse kinderen zijn woensdag omgekomen en een is zwaargewond geraakt bij een Israëlische tankbeschieting op het stadje Beit Lahiya in het noorden van de Gazastrook.

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