Intifada-Palestine

Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian.

Like all Israelis, Ilan was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism’s version of the history of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It wasn’t until he went to England to continue his academic studies that he had access to documentation which [...]

By Alan Hart

As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives voted, on Tuesday 3 November, by 344 votes to 36, to urge the Obama administration to oppose endorsement of the Goldstone Report. But for those who are interested in truth and justice, not to mention democracy, the highlight of what passed for debate was the two-minute [...]

International pressure is mounting on Israel to end the occupation. More than 1,000 filmmakers, actors, and writers recently called for a protest of the Toronto Film Festival?s spotlight on Tel-Aviv. You can read the Toronto Declaration here. Meanwhile an international boycott is growing. Neve Gordon, in a recent editorial, explains why it is time to boycott Israel. Since then he has received harsh criticism from within Israel but also a great deal of support. He says that The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanct

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In his first interview after being released from prison last week, former congressman James Traficant speaks out about the strangle hold that the
Pro Israel Lobby has over Washington DC. The interview took place last night with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren.


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By: Hashem Said
 

 
The Blunt Truth
I am Israel. I came to a land without a people for a people without a land. Those people who happened to be here, had no right to be here and my people showed them they had to leave or die, razing 480 Palestinian villages to the ground, erasing their history.
I am [...]

By: Mohammed Khatib

11 September 2009
A few weeks ago, in the dead of night, dozens of Israeli soldiers with
painted faces burst violently into my home. If only they had knocked,
I would have opened the door. They arrested me. My wife, Lamia, was
left alone with our four children. My youngest, 3-year-old Khaled,
woke up to the image [...]

Charlie Sheen addresses the President about 9/11 in a special video message, shortly after releasing his “20 Minutes with the President,” specifically addressing 20 key points that need to be answered by a truly independent investigation.
Sheen’s message is a call to action, not only for President Obama to address the pertinent issues, but for activists [...]

By: Alan Sabrosky*


The attacks on September 11, 2001 have been a defining moment for America. Although the losses were not great in terms of urban slaughter during WWII, the political and psychological impact on Americans of a concerted and visible attack in America were enormous — indeed, it is an interesting “coincidence” that the attacks [...]

By: Tim King
Salem-News.com
Political Perspective

Americans are uncomfortable with the notion of raising questions over 9/11, but it may be more unpatriotic not to question the clear and established pattern of lying by the Bush White House.
The man behind the 9/11 statement controversy in Washington D.C., Anthony “Van” Jones, has nobody in the world to apologize [...]

Editor’s note: A must-watch video on the mechanisms of domination that Israel imposes on the Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza and which it exports to governments
around the world.
An interesting interview with the international coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) Jimmy Johnson speaking about the extension of Israel’s matrix [...]

By: Ayman Quader



Gaza City, Sept. 2, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) – Everyday in the news, I hear about the suffering of the Gaza fishermen – one was killed, others wounded, and the Israelis are firing on still others. And I wanted to shed a light on their pain.
I went to the main Gaza port. [...]

By: DIAA HADID and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH
Associated Press Writers
Guardian investigation uncovers evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike on a smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt killed three Palestinians inside and wounded seven on Tuesday in the deadliest Israeli attack on the volatile border area [...]

Edited By: Elias Farhud



This week The Global Elders travelled throughout Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Their visit comes at a time of renewed hope that an historic peace agreement can be reached.
The leaders feel that it is more important than ever to listen to the concerns of all sides
and to offer their support [...]

By: Paul Woodward,


War in Context, August 25, 2009
Organ trafficking accounts for around 10 per cent of the nearly 70,000 kidney transplants performed worldwide annually, although as many as 15,000 kidneys could be trafficked each year…
Trafficked organs are either sold domestically, or exported to be transplanted into patients from the US, Europe, the United [...]

Donald’s article created an international furore over his documented allegations of Israeli soldiers killing Palestinians for their organs.
As suggested by the Swedish report, the repetitiveness of this behavior pattern demands an international investigation. This investigation should include a key component not noted here but clearly relevant when identifying the motive for this operation:

Were the [...]