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Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions
By Stephen Lendman

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The latest report from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) indicates the following: 101 documented deaths since February 27, including 49 unarmed civilians. They include 25 children and five women. In addition, more than 250 people have been injured, mostly unarmed civilians, and many injuries are serious. Further, there’s been widespread destruction of homes, other buildings and property throughout Gaza

The Time For Worldwide Boycott Is Now
By Omar Barghouti

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On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a “holocaust,” telling Israeli Army Radio: “The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves.”

Holocaust Ok, Gaza!
By Marwan Asmar

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At last Israelis are coming out of their military-chauvinistic closet and having no qualms about using such words as the Holocaust to describe what they are doing or want to do to the Palestinians

Israel Keeping True To Its Racist Words
By Rami Almeghari

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Following Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai’s Friday warning that the Gaza Strip faces “a holocaust” if homemade rocket fire continues, Vilnai’s aides rushed to downplay the remarks, claiming the minister did not mean a holocaust exactly

Abbas Needs A Miracle
By Ramzy Baroud

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Time is running out for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Although both men are still committed to their risky venture of marginalising Hamas at any cost, the latter’s obduracy and recent events in Gaza point to the inescapable conclusion — the undertaking was doomed from the start

“A Culture Of Death And Destruction”
By Emily Spence

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Each and every one of us needs to critically examine the ways that we go about our lives and make adjustments as needed. If we do not, we will have not only put our own generation in peril, but will have condemned future ones — humans, other animals and plants alike — to be at risk for never existing at all. Since there would be no one to take any responsibility at that point, it is up to us to take full responsibility for our actions right away. Without any equivocations what so ever, let us begin now

ICC Complaint Over Australia And Aboriginal, Iraqi, Afghan And Climate Genocides
By Dr Gideon Polya

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A complaint filed to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court over Australian involvement in the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Genocide

Academic Freedom? Not For Arabs In Israel
By Jonathan Cook

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In the strange world of Israeli academia, an Arab college lecturer is being dismissed from his job because he refused to declare his “respect for the uniform of the Israeli army”. The bizarre demand was made of Nizar Hassan, director of several award-winning films, after he criticised a Jewish student who arrived in his film studies class at Sapir College in the Negev for wearing his uniform and carrying a gun

Stop Calling Me A Jew!
By Remi Kanazi

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Barack Obama and the Politics of Xenophobia

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