War crimes aren’t war crimes when carried out by principled Zionists (according to Israeli law): The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal action against senior officers who were involved in the firing of cluster bombs into populated areas in southern Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War, the Military Advocate General said Monday. Brigadier General…
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War crimes revealed
Dr. Eyad Sarraj is a psychiatrist and human rights activist who lives in the Gaza Strip. He told a group of Israeli peace activists last week in Tel Aviv the real situation in the Israeli-isolated territory: Local water is undrinkable. Israel does not let in bottled water. Nor does Israel allow the importation of water…
Home-truths ignored by Washington
Dr. Ahmad Yousuf, Hamas Senior Political Advisor, in a letter to Condoleezza Rice: On a personal note we found it amusing that a black person empathizes with Israeli deaths on the one hand and Palestinian segregation on the other if media reports are accurate. It is a military occupation, Ms. Rice. Their citizens face insecurity…
More than shady translations
Jewish groups caught out distorting Hamas statements to suggest the Islamic group hates Jews and the presence of Jews in Palestine? We shouldn’t be surprised.
The ethical choice
Morality still exists in Israel: Over 10,000 posters warning of a power outage were plastered over residential doors and public locations in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa by left wing activists in protest of the government’s decision to cut-back the power supply to the Gaza Strip. Dozens of activists participated in the overnight operation which…
The region has changed
Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khalid Mish’al, November 5, Damascus: The United States today is not the same as it was 10 years ago. Israel today is a different Israel than that of 10 years ago. The forces of resistance and opposition today are different than those of 10 years ago. The awareness of the people…
The growing power of resistance
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, November 11: The group of reservist paratroopers returned all astir: Hamas fought like an army. The comrades of Sergeant-Major (Res.) Ehud Efrati, who fell in a battle in Gaza about two weeks ago, told Amos Harel that “in all parameters, we are facing an army, not gangs.” The soldiers of the Israel…
Girl, come over here
Who said Hamas doesn’t like that funky music, white boy? Hamas militants have launched a new weapon in their struggle with Israel: a troupe of honey-voiced singers known as Protectors of the Homeland. Wearing crisply pressed fatigues in urban camouflage blue, the six band members gather each day to practise in an old office within…
The media threat within
AlJazeera English reports on the increasingly difficult situation for journalists in Gaza. Though at the moment it appears to be Hamas, and not Israel, causing the troubles: