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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GAZA IS ABOUT TO BE WIPED OFF THE MAP.......

…. and not a word about the situation on any major news site today. Has AIPAC got all of them tied up in their pocket? Has it officially come to a point where it is treason to criticise Israel and their genocidal policies?

Desert Peace

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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IS THE MIDDLE EAST ABOUT TO BLOW?

The situation in the Middle East has become extremely volatile over the last few days what with the Israelis killing Palestinians by the score in the Gaza and the US provocatively placing their warships just outside of territorial waters off Lebanon. After months of festering, the Israelis and the US seem set to bring the entire Middle East to a head with the ultimate endgame being the final confrontation between Iran and the US and Israel.

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Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait have all ordered their nationals to leave Lebanon within the next 48 (now 36) hours. WRH

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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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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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Iraqis: 'US the biggest producer of terror'

"The Americans occupied our country and put our men in prisons," Dhafir al-Rubaiee, an officer from Iraq's previous army told IPS. "The majority of these prisoners have been arrested for nothing other than for being Sunni. Every one of these prisoners has a family, and these families now have reason to hate Americans."

Others blame the lack of security and the destroyed infrastructure for the increasing anti-US sentiment.

"The lack of security is a direct result of the occupation," resident Abu Ali told IPS. "The Americans crossed thousands of miles to destroy our home and kill our men. They are the reason for all our disasters."

Another resident, speaking on condition of anonymity added, "We lived in need during the period of the Saddam government, but we were safe. We were compelled to work sometimes 20 hours a day to earn our living, but we were happy to see our children and relatives together." US forces, he said, have ended all that.

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Gaza Outages Expand After Fuel Cutbacks

Even before the latest cutback, which came as winter was setting in, blackouts in Gaza were common because Israeli military strikes have knocked out electrical transformers.

"The Israeli policy is not against Hamas, it is against us, the ordinary people," said Hassan Akram, owner of a grocery in Gaza City. "We are the only losers. Now it’s cold and there’s no electricity."

Reem Abu Ali, a teacher and 38-year-old mother of four, stopped by the grocery to buy candles.

"My children have exams. How will they study? How are we going to warm our houses? If the border opens, I might leave Gaza forever. This is no place to live," she said.

Uruknet

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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