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PM heads to Washington, under threat of Palestinian statehood declaration

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid, Natasha Mozgovaya - Nov. 08 (News) - Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council.

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Mahmoud Abbas Threatens to Step Down in Light of Ongoing Israeli Colonization of West Bank

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he wants to stand down and he declines to run in the upcoming Palestine Authority elections. The decision came in the wake of the US failure to convince the Israelis to halt colonization of the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem. It also followed a series of embarrassing flip-flops by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who praised hard line right wing PM Netanyahu for his efforts in favor of the peace process. Even for a diplomatic statement, this tack is is a little embarrassing in its obsequiousness toward Netanyahu, who has undermined the peace process at every turn and rejects out of hand the US demand that he freeze settlements. Reactions of Arab allies of the US were sharp.

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Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli attacks?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - By Lawrence Wright - Nov. 04 (Special Report) - rom the Israeli perspective, at least, the Gaza problem was supposed to have been solved in August, 2005, when Ariel Sharon, then the Prime Minister, closed down the Jewish settlements on the Strip and withdrew Israeli forces. The international community and the Israeli left wing applauded the move. But, almost immediately, mortar and rocket attacks from the Strip multiplied. Five months later, Hamas won its parliament victory. Ari Shavit, a prominent columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, told me recently in Jerusalem, “We dismantled the settlements, and then we sat back and said, ‘Let’s have a new beginning.’ What we got was rockets and Gilad Shalit. People became very angry, and Shalit becomes an icon of that frustration.”

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House repudiates U.N. report on Gaza war

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Nov. 03 (News) - The House on Tuesday condemned a U.N. report that accuses Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes in the Gaza Strip last winter as "irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy." ......... Thirteen Israelis and more than 1,000 Palestinians were killed during the Dec. 27-Jan. 18 conflict.

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Thirsty Gaza

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Heather Sharp - Oct. 27 (News Report) - Gaza's aquifer and only natural freshwater source is "in danger of collapse," the UN is warning. Engineers have long been battling to keep the densely populated strip's water and sewage system limping along. But in September the UN Environment Programme warned that damage to the underground aquifer - due to the Israeli and Egyptian blockade, conflict, and years of overuse and underinvestment - could take centuries to reverse if it is not halted now.

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Al Jazeera English - Middle East - UN delay on Gaza report condemned

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Aljazeera - Oct. 04 (News Report) - New York Daily News. UN delay on Gaza report condemned. Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have condemned the decision by the UN to defer voting on the Goldstone report, that highlighted war crimes by Israel and Hamas during the formers' offensive on the territory in December. ...

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Arabisto: Countering Benjamin Netanyahou's Orwellian Spin at the UN

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

arabisto.com - By Eileen Fleming - Sep. 29 (News Analysis) - In defense and support of freedom of the press, conscience and speech; this article should be read which counters every point Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spun at the UN on September 24, 2009.

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UN Inquiry Finds Israel "Punished and Terrorized" Palestinian Civilians, Committed War Crimes During Gaza Assault

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Norman Finkelstein - Sep. 16 (News Report) - A United Nations fact-finding mission has found Israel “punished and terrorized” civilians in its three-week assault on Gaza earlier this year and cited strong evidence that Israeli forces committed “grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions. More than 1,400 Palestinians—about a third of them women and children—were killed in the assault.

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Gazans welcome UN war crimes report

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ben Hubbard - Sep. 16 (News Report) - GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Gazans who lost loved ones during Israel’s winter offensive against Hamas militants said Wednesday they’re taking some solace from a U.N. report that accuses both sides of committing war crimes, but they’re skeptical anyone will be brought to justice.

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Gaza water supplies in danger of ‘collapse,’ U.N. says

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Sep. 15 (News) - “The underground water supplies, upon which 1.5 million Palestinians depend for agriculture and drinking water, are in danger of collapse,” the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said in a statement accompanying a new report.

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Israel and the West Bank: Prepare to freeze

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Sep. 10 (News Analysis) - THE Israeli government’s approval this week of 455 new housing units in the West Bank settlements was announced with a wink and a nod, and seems to have elicited winks and nods all round. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is expected soon to agree, reluctantly and under American pressure, to a temporary freeze on settlement building, and the new homes are widely seen as an act of face-saving political expediency on his part.

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VIVA PALESTINA ARRIVES IN GAZA--speech by George Galloway!

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

dignity.ning.com - Jul. 15 (News) - (Video report)

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Rabbis start fast for Gaza

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - Jul. 10 (News) - An ad hoc group of rabbis is organizing a monthly communal fast to protest Israel's actions in Gaza.

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UN Probe Into Gaza Conflict

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Erin Cunningham - Jun. 29 (News Report) - In a tearful and gruesome testimony, Salah Al-Samouni spoke of the two days of Israeli helicopter attacks in the Zaytoun area of Gaza that claimed 29 members of his family on Jan. 5 and 6. "They hit us, they hit us with Apaches," Mr. Samouni told United Nations war crimes investigators in Gaza City on Sunday. "I found my 2-year-old daughter, she was dead.... Why?"

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Hamas Letter to Obama

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - By Dr. Ahmed Yousef - Jun. 08 (News Report) - We in the Hamas Government are committed to pursuing a just resolution to the conflict not in contradiction with the international community and enlightened opinion as expressed in the International Court of Justice, the United Nations General Assembly, and leading human rights organizations. We are prepared to engage all parties on the basis of mutual respect and without preconditions.

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Netanyahu: If Israel doesn't take out Iranian threat, no one will

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - May. 26 (News Report) - Netanyahu added that he reached understandings Obama, among them that the most important goal for both countries is preventing Iran from attaining a nuclear military capability. Netanyahu told Likud members that Israel received a number of key pieces of defense aid from the Americans.

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Shortages Stymie Rebuilding Efforts in Gaza

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Every day, Israel allows 80 to 100 truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gaza, but that does not include building supplies. The United Nations is calling on Israel to allow vital reconstruction materials like cement into Gaza. But Israel is resisting the appeal, citing the continuing security threat from militants.

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The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Apr. 10 (News Analysis) - A war of words between the Egyptian government and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has escalated after Egypt's public prosecutor recently ordered 49 people held for plotting attacks on behalf of Hezbollah be kept in custody for an additional 15 days.

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Land of Ruins: A Special Report on Gaza's Economy

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Anjali Kamat - Apr. 06 (Special Report) - Anjali Kamat files a report on the state of the Gazan economy, where unemployment and poverty rates are among the highest in the world. Despite international pledges of over $5.2 billion to rebuild Gaza, in the four months since Israel’s assault the siege has not been lifted and only one truck carrying cement and other construction materials has been allowed entry into the Gaza Strip.

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Noam Chomsky on US Expansion of Afghan Occupation, the Uses of NATO, and What Obama Should Do in Israel-Palestine

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman - Apr. 03 (News Analysis) - We’re now approaching the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification of Germany, first steps in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, the alleged reason for NATO’s existence was to protect the West against a Russian assault. You can believe what you like about the reason, but that was the reason. By 1989, that reason was gone. So, why is there NATO?

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IDF ends Gaza probe, says misconduct claims are 'rumors'

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Anshel Pfeffer, Amos Harel, - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Physicians for Human Rights and others issued a statement Monday saying "the speedy closing of the investigation immediately raises suspicions that [it] was merely the army's attempt to wipe its hands of all blame for illegal activity..." The groups said the allegations should be investigated by a non-partisan body.

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New J Street poll: American Jews want U.S. engagement in peace process

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

blogs.jta.org - By Eric Fingerhut - Mar. 23 (Poll) - J Street has a new poll out which finds that American Jews back strong U.S. involvement in reaching a Middle East peace ageement, negative feelings toward Avigdor Lieberman and a split regarding military action in Iran.

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Gaza war crime claims gather pace as more troops speak out

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Peter Beaumont - Mar. 22 (News Report) - An investigation by a group of former Israeli soldiers has uncovered new evidence of the military's conduct during the assault on Gaza two months ago. According to the group Breaking the Silence, the witness statements of the 15 soldiers who have come forward to describe their concerns over Operation Cast Lead appear to corroborate claims of random killings and vandalism carried out during the operation made by a separate group of anonymous servicemen during a seminar at a military college. Although Breaking the Silence's report is not due to be published for several months, the testimony it has received already suggests widespread abuses stemming from orders originating with the Israeli military chain of command.

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Israeli Troops Admit Gaza Abuses

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Phyllis Bennis - Mar. 22 (News Analysis) - A furor has arisen over new admissions from Israeli soldiers that they operated with loose rules of engagement in shooting targets, including civilians, inside Gaza during the recent war there.

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Soldier says rabbis pushed "religious war" in Gaza

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Mar. 21 (News Report) - Rabbis in the Israeli army told battlefield troops in January's Gaza offensive they were fighting a "religious war" against gentiles... "Their message was very clear: we are the Jewish people, we came to this land by a miracle, God brought us back to this land and now we need to fight to expel the gentiles who are interfering with our conquest of this holy land," he said.

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