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END THE SAVAGE ISRAELI ASSAULT ON GAZA After a week long air, naval and artillery attack on the besieged population of Gaza, Israel then initiated a ground attack. This was done with the complicity of the Bush administration that had failed to achieve any progress toward peace during its eight years in office. Israel’s savage military assault had worsened the humanitarian catastrophe that was created by Israel’s long siege of the territory. Medicines and other essential supplies were in extremely short supply. In the cold of winter, under merciless bombardment, Palestinians were suffering from lack of food, heat, electricity and...
by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb In hindsight, Kristallnacht signaled what was to come: the rounding up and extermination of European Jewry. Most of the world did not intervene and worse, chose to block Jewish efforts to escape. As people either collaborated with or chose to ignore the implications of each step along the path toward genocide, the Germans carried out their plans with impunity and in public. German civilians either explicitly or tacitly supported a regime of incredible brutality. They stood by while Jewish neighbors and friends were rounded up and killed. Acts of collective nonviolent resistance like the one pursued...
BY: AVIGAIL ABARBANEL Please watch the documentary ‘Children of Gaza’ by Jezza Neumann here. Then please visit http://childrenofgazafund.org/ to make a donation to help Amal who has been living with shrapnel in her brain since Israel’s attack just over a year ago. A couple of nights ago I watched the documentary ‘Children of Gaza’ on Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’. The film was made by the award winning documentary maker Jezza Neumann. Since then I can’t get the face of Amal, one of the four children featured in the film, out of my head. Amal was wounded during Israel’s attack on Gaza just...
BY: ANAIT BRUTIAN Almost two weeks after Israel’s attack on the humanitarian aid ships bound for Gaza, there still remain a lot of questions. This is partly due to the fact that while the deadly assault unfolded in open seas, the journalists and observers on board the ships were prevented from sending accurate reports of the brutal massacre that left nine people dead and many injured. President Obama, in a joint press conference with Mahmoud Abbas, supported the idea of initiating an investigation that “met international standards”: “We saw the tragedy with the flotillas, something that I think has drawn...
BY: MOHAMED KHODR The Final Turkel Commission Report July 4, 2010 Submitted To: The Most Honorable Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu In response to the world’s outrage (except the U.S.) against Israel’s May 31st murderous attack on peace activists aboard the “Free Gaza Flotilla” delivering humanitarian aid to besieged Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu and his Cabinet on Monday, June 14, 2010 voted in favor of creating an internal commission called the “Independent Public Commission” that includes three Israelis and two foreign observers to investigate the legality and circumstances of the IDF’s raid on the Flotilla that led to the death...
BY: STEVEN LENDMAN The Flotilla attack was a well-planned act of premeditated murder in international waters, the Netanyahu government (on June 14) announcing an inquiry commission this writer discussed in a same-day article. It explained the planned whitewash of a grievous crime against humanity, one Israel mustn’t be allowed to get away with despite it being minor by comparison with far greater ones, Cast Lead most prominent recently. The internal commission is illegitimate, even with international observers (chosen for supporting Israel), nonetheless endorsed by the White House, its paymaster/partner in crime, colluding in the coverup. Called an Independent Public Commission,...
Flouting international demands for an independent investigation of its deadly attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formed an internal commission composed of three Israelis and two, non-voting international observers. The commission chair, retired Israeli Supreme Court justice Jacob Turkel, expressed his hope that the panel would finish its work as “quickly” as possible. And Netanyahu has promised that the “Gaza flotilla probe will show the world Israel acted lawfully.” Both comments leave many observers wondering how seriously the findings of a quick, internal investigation with a seemingly pre-determined outcome can be...
BY: STUART LITTLEWOOD “We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as a false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation” – The Jerusalem Declaration Not all Jews are Zionists. Many reject the Zionist project and fight against it. So why on earth would a non-Jew wish to be one? Indeed, how could a genuine Christian seriously consider becoming a Zionist? It has puzzled me for a long time. The two ideas are incompatible, are they not? So consider for a moment Anglican Friends of Israel, as an example. Their stated aims include: To support the people of...
Turkey and the Neocons By: Stephen M. Walt It couldn’t be more predictable. Back when Israel and Turkey were strategic allies with extensive military-to-military ties, prominent neoconservatives were vocal defenders of the Turkish government and groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and AIPAC encouraged Congress not to pass resolutions that would have labeled what happened to the Armenians at the hands of the Turks during World War I a “genocide.” (The “Armenian lobby” is no slouch, but it’s no match for AIPAC and its allies in the Israel lobby). The fact that the ADL was in effect protecting another country...