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What Would Jesus Do in Gaza?--Newsweek--What
would Jesus do in the Holy Land today. The narrow confines of
Gaza, Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria are places where God's love
was long ago supplanted by war for land and ill will among men.
It has been a year now since the bloody and fruitless Israeli
effort to crush Hamas in what amounts to
a massive prison for a million people.
Peacemakers in the Middle East are rarely blessed, and often
reviled; just ask special envoy George Mitchell. And the truth
rarely sets anyone free, as proved most recently by the
fact-filled
United Nations report by South African
Judge Richard Goldstone, which was dissed by
Washington and dismissed by Israel.
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Egyptian Authorities Bar Gaza Freedom March
Using the pretext of escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt
border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has informed organizers of
the Gaza Freedom March that the Rafah border will be closed over
the coming weeks, into January. Organizers are calling for
pressure on the Egyptian government to let the march pass into
Gaza. Click here. |
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The Next War on Gaza--Haaretz
Prime Minister Netanyahu's brother-in-law, Hagai Ben Artzi,
confronted the father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
as he awaited a decision by senior ministers on a deal to secure
the release of his son. "I hope that we will be able to release
Gilad during the next war in Gaza," he said. Noam Shalit asked
him when: "Either in two months, or in six months."
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Gaza March Spotlight on Civilian Suffering--IPS.com
More than 50,000 people are expected to
take to the streets of Gaza on Dec. 31 for a mass march designed
to send a message to the United States, a key supporter of
Israel's army, that the situation in Gaza violates international
human rights laws. Organisers say the main catalyst for the
mobilisation was the Goldstone Report.
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Gazan families living in tents |
Politics Hamper Gaza Recon- struction--Al-Jazeera--At
the Sharm El Sheikh conference on reconstruction in March,
international donors pledged almost $4.5bn in aid, chiefly to
rebuild Gaza....control over these funds immediately sparked
disputes between Hamas and Fatah...The disputes have delayed
delivery of the funds.
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Footnotes in Gaza
Adam Horowitz in
Mondoweiss--As we approach the one year anniversary of Israel’s
attack on Gaza, we are proud to be able to share with you an
exclusive peek at Joe Sacco’s new book
Footnotes in Gaza .
Rather than focus on the current phase of the conflict, the book
deals with an often forgotten, or unknown, event – the massacre
of 111 Palestinians by Israeli forces in the Gaza towns of Rafah
and Khan Younis in 1956. While these southern Gazan towns are
currently in the news as the Gaza Freedom March and Viva
Palestina convoy try to enter Rafah from Egypt, Sacco’s book
takes us back to 1948 and 1956 to show us how we arrived at the
point we are today.... as we turn our eyes towards Gaza on
this solemn anniversary, let us remember everything that came
before it. Click here.
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Carter helps rebuild homes in Thailand |
Gaza Must Be Rebuilt
Now Jimmy Carter in the UK Guardian--It is
generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in
the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion
within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in
renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no
Arab or Islamic nation will accept any comprehensive agreement
while Israel retains control of East Jerusalem.
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Six Palestinians Killed in Nablus--BBC
News--The Israeli raid began in the early hours of the morning
and lasted for several hours....there had not been a raid like
this in Nablus for about 18 months...The violence came a day
before the first anniversary of the Gaza war that killed some
1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.
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Palestinians Kill Israeli Civilian in Nablus--B'Tselem--Over
the past nine years, Palestinian terror attacks perpetrated in
Israel and in the Occupied Territories have killed hundreds and
injured thousands of Israeli civilians...Attacks aimed at
civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal. Intentional killing
of civilians is a grave breach of international humanitarian law
and is considered a war crime that can never be justified,
whatever the circumstances may be.
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Local Activists Targeted in Occupied
Territories--Amnesty International--Scores
of activists, (Israeli, Palestinian and
international) involved in peaceful protests have been picked up
by Israeli authorities in the past several months. Many are
held at length with no charge being made while still being
interrogated, others have been
put under
administrative detention and
others are brought up on
charges. Click
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Who Are the Settlers and What Do They Want?--Israeli
Policy Forum--The settlements, as a whole, have been sponsored
and constructed by various Israeli governments. Almost all of
the settlements have an extensive infrastructure of roads and
electricity that can only have been accomplished by numerous
Israeli governments. Click
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America Stop Sucking Up to Israel--Haaretz--Before
no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and
plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a
different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and
threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in
Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from
occupied territory in Kuwait? But Israel the occupier, the
stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world
by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives
different treatment.
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Israel Planning Seven Settlement Neighborhoods
in Jerusalem--IMEMC News--The plan was put forth
regardless of the stances of the American government regarding
settlement activities and their negative impacts on the peace
process. The seven plans for settlement construction are:
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Beat the War Drum Again: Israel Wants Iran
Next--"Same Song, Different Verse" by Philip Giraldi
The American people, barely coping with nearly 20% in actual as
opposed to statistical unemployment, a broken health care
system, a skyrocketing federal deficit, and a collapse in home
values really don’t need another war, but another war is what
they are going to get. Blame the usual players in Congress and
the mainstream media for a lot of it, but the case being made
that Iran is a threat to the remainder of the world is largely
being cranked up by Israel and its yapping poodles loosely
described as the Israel lobby.
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World's Least Powerful Man--Paul
Craig Roberts--It didn't take the Israel Lobby very long to
bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against
further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian
land. Obama discovered that a mere American president is
powerless when confronted by the Israel Lobby...the United
States simply is not allowed a Middle East policy separate from
Israel's...click here. |
The doyen of international justice |
The U.S. Does Not Have to Blindly Protect
Israel--Justice Richard Goldstone--When Shimon Peres
accused Justice Goldstone of being "a small
man, devoid of any sense of justice", he responded with " no one
likes to be accused of committing serious war crimes". Justice
Goldstone asked that, rather than blindly support Israel, the
U.S. "furnish reasons" for its criticisms."...The time has come
for Israel to look at the allegations not only of the killing
and injuring of so many civilians but also the collective
punishment meted out to the people of Gaza by the substantial
destruction of the infrastructure."
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Harvard professor Stephen Walt |
Why the U.S. Will Not Cut Aid to Israel--Stephen
M. Walt
Harvard professor and co-author of the "Israel Lobby" opines
that Israel will get what it wants: control of the West Bank and
de-facto control of the Gaza Strip. "The sun is now setting on
the "two-state solution" -- if it is not already well below the
horizon -- and pretty soon everyone will have to admit that they
are sitting around in the dark and pretending they see
daylight." Netanyahu and his gang are intransigent, Obama is
powerless against the Congress, and legislators are caught in
the vice-grip of the Israel Lobby. Don't look for a J-Street
turnaround too soon.
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Two courageous men: Goldstone & Moyers |
Goldstone-Moyers: Being Jewish No Reason to
Treat Israel Exceptionally--James M. Wall
An absolutely brilliant interview. Anyone who saw it or reads it
will have to take pause if they refused to admit the outrageous
injustices perpetrated upon a people who are kept in open-air
kennel. There is bad karma coming to all who support this
oppression.
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Click here to view interview |
Uri Avnery |
Israel's Options to Goldstone
Uri Avnery--3 term Knesset member
"The Goldstone report has an impact on the world because it
is precise and targeted: a specific operation, for which
specific persons are responsible...
According to a Chinese saying, if someone in the street
tells you that you are drunk, you can laugh. If a second person
tells you that you are drunk, start to think about it. If a
third one tells you the same, go home and sleep it off.
Our political and military leadership has already encountered
the third, fourth and fifth person. All of them say that they
must investigate what happened in the “Molten Lead” operation."
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Now Bibi, shake hands with Mahmoud--and come out
fighting! |
Netanyahu: Goldstone Report Distorted--Josef
Friedman AP
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli
leaders or soldiers to stand trial on
war crimes charges
over their actions during last winter's military offensive in
the Gaza Strip,
furiously denouncing a U.N. report in a
keynote address
to parliament.
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Boycott's and Divestments-The Link
Americans for Middle East Understanding have focused on a few
companies in their treatise of Boycotts and Divestment including
Motorola, Caterpillar, Burger King, Ahava Cosmetics and Veolia
Transport. There is also additional discussion and information
on B&D that is interesting and useful.
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Gaza Water Supply Near Collapse--Mel
Frykberg--IPS
The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that
Gaza's access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at
any time. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says outbreaks of
disease could be triggered as a consequence..."Gaza's
underground water system is in danger of collapse after recent
conflict compounded by years of overuse and contamination. An
outbreak of Hepatitis A and parasitic infections could occur at
any time," Mahmoed Daher from WHO in Gaza told IPS. "Already the
number of people, especially children, suffering from diarrhoea
has risen dramaticall. We have noticed an increase in people
suffering from kidney diseases from water contaminated with
toxins, as well as babies born with an unnatural blue tinge."
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Dismantling the Matrix of Control--Jeff
Halper--Middle East Online Report--A MUST READ ARTICLE
"Now, at this critical juncture, as the two-state solution for
the Israeli-Palestinian impasse disappears under the weight of
Israeli settlements, there is a great imponderable: Is President
Barack Obama genuinely serious about reaching such a solution or
is he merely going through the motions familiar from previous
administrations...Obama’s only hope of breaking through the wall
of Israeli and Democratic Party resistance is to articulate an
approach to peace based on clear and accepted principles
anchored in human rights and justice and then framed in terms of
US interests. "
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CPWJ
Spring 2010 Speakers Series
Ben White
March 1,2, 4
A 2005 graduate of Cambridge University, Ben White
co-organized the “Just Peace 60 Joint Declaration by
Christian Leaders on Israel’s 60th Anniversary”. His
book, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide is
described by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “A very strong
and clear voice that does not shun from exposing in
full, and in a most accessible manner, the essence of
Zionism and Israeli policies in Palestine.”
Anna Baltzer
April 9-15
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, a
former Fulbright scholar, and granddaughter of Holocaust
refugees. Baltzer has appeared on television more than
100 times, including an appearance on The Jon Stewart
Show, and has lectured extensively at universities,
schools, churches, mosques, and synagogues with her
acclaimed presentation, "Life in Occupied Palestine:
Eyewitness Stories & Photos." She has published a booked
entitled Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American
Woman in the Occupied Territories.
Mark
Braverman
May 14-17
Grandson of a fifth generation Palestinian Jew,
Braverman was raised in the United States and reared in
the Jewish tradition, studying Bible, Hebrew literature,
and Jewish history. Transformed by a 2006 visit to the
Holy Land, Braverman has since his return devoted
himself full time to writing and speaking about the
Israel-Palestine conflict. He is author of Fatal
Embrace: Christians, Jews and the Search for Peace in
the Holy Land and is a cofounder and Executive
Director of Friends of Tent of Nations North America.
Further details
forthcoming.
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The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer
Stephen Walt
London Review of Books
For the past several decades, and especially since the
Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern
policy has been its relationship with Israel. The
combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related
effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has
inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only
US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This
situation has no equal in American political history. Why
has the US been willing to set aside its own security and
that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests
of another state? One might assume that the bond between the
two countries was based on shared strategic interests or
compelling moral imperatives, but neither explanation can
account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic
support that the US provides.
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How Israel brought Gaza to the
brink of humanitarian catastrophe
Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim
served in the Israeli army and has never
questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless
assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions.
"The only way to make sense
of
Israel's senseless war
in
Gaza is through
understanding the historical context. Establishing the
state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental
injustice to the Palestinians. British officials
bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the
infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John Troutbeck wrote
to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the
Americans were responsible for the creation of a
gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of
leaders". I used to think that this judgment was too
harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the people of
Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this
assault, have reopened the question."
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