Resistance to Israeli occupation – a right?
Palestinians are a people under occupation who has the right to self-determination under the UN Charter.
The use of force as part of resisting occupation in the Palestinian case is therefore derived from the international legitimacy to recourse to armed struggle in order to obtain the right to self-determination.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21559.htm
“…it is essential if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression that human rights should be protected by the rule of law.” (preamble) – Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,297,997"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,219
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$583,688,115,579
See the cost in your community
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The Deaths Of Another Five Children Bring Toll In Gaza to 318.
2 Minute Al Jazeera Video Report
Israel Pounds Gaza For a Third Consecutive day.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21567.htm
‘Gaza strike is not against Hamas, it’s against all Palestinians’
By Amira Hass
“This assault is not against Hamas. It’s against all of us, the entire nation. And no Palestinian will consent to having his people and his homeland destroyed in this way.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21563.htm
To Be In Gaza Is To Be Trapped
By Peter Beaumont
Ironically, one of Israel’s experiments involved assisting in the creation of Hamas, which had its roots in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, to counter the power of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation. Israel has been determined to push Hamas ever closer to all-out war since insisting that even though it won free and fair Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, its right to govern could not be treated as legitimate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21565.htm
US Veto Blocks UN Anti-Israel Resolution
By Press TV
Washington once again used its veto powers on Sunday to block a resolution calling for an end to the massive ongoing Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21562.htm
Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History are Ignored
By Robert Fisk
The Bush administration, not to mention the pusillanimous reaction of Gordon Brown, reaffirm for Arabs what they have known for decades: however they struggle against their antagonists, the West will take Israel’s side. As usual, the bloodbath was the fault of the Arabs – who, as we all know, only understand force.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21570.htm
Anarchy In The UK
(and the birth of SGS – STOP GAZA SLAUGHTER)
By Yvonne Ridley
THE murderous military campaign which has been unleashed by Israel has provoked people across the world to demonstrate, rally and protest in their hundreds of thousands.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21569.htm
May We No Longer Be Silent
By Paul Craig Roberts
“How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal?” Pinter’s question can also be asked of Israel. Israel has been in violation of international law since 1967, protected by the United States’ veto of UN Resolutions condemning Israel for its violent, inhumane, barbaric, and illegal acts.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21566.htm
Ron Paul: No Such Thing as an Independent Israel
By Jihan Hafiz
I don’t think there is such a thing as an independent Israel doing anything, because I think no matter what they do its our money, its our weapons, and their not going to do it without us approving it and if they get into trouble we’re going to bail them out, so there is no separation between the two.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21560.htm
Arab World Losing Tolerance For Indifferent Leaders
By Roshan Muhammed Salih
When people feel there is no justice in the world and no legitimate outlet for their justified frustration, things tend to boil over. And that’s what happened at a huge anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstration in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21561.htm
Resistance to Israeli occupation – a right?
Palestinians are a people under occupation who has the right to self-determination under the UN Charter.
The use of force as part of resisting occupation in the Palestinian case is therefore derived from the international legitimacy to recourse to armed struggle in order to obtain the right to self-determination.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21559.htm
More Than 300 Killed As Israel Continues Attacks On Gaza City:
Bombs rained down on the center of Hamas power just after midnight in Gaza City.Witnesses say at least six separate times, Israeli warplanes attacked the Islamic University and the Gaza government compound
www.keyc.com/node/15357
Gaza: where civilians become targets:
Israel’s spokespersons may constantly repeat that these attacks are “targeted”, but targeted attacks don’t kill this many civilians. They don’t destroy and cause chaos and panic in entirely residential areas. If we accept – by silence or without questioning – that anything and everyone can be defined as “terrorist infrastructure”, then we are designating all civilians in Gaza as being targets.
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Is this man a traitor to the Palestinian resistance movement?
Abbas blames Hamas for bloodshed:
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has blamed Hamas for triggering Israel’s deadly raids on Gaza, by not extending a six-month truce with the Jewish state
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/12/2008122813459308175.html
In response to Gaza raids, Hamas threatens to assassinate Livni, Barak:
He also threatened that Hamas would go after senior Palestinian Authority officials in the West Bank, as well as “those in the Arab world who have conspired against us,” – an apparent reference to Egypt.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050681.html
It’s time for a third intifada, say West Bank youths:
It may not be the start of the third intifada invoked by Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’s leader in exile, but the simmering hatred was unmistakable.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/
middle_east/article5409321.ece
‘Israeli air strikes represent massive violations of international law’:
The Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Convention, both in regard to the obligations of an occupying power and in the requirements of the laws of war.
www.russiatoday.com/news/news/35373
‘Israeli leaders must be summoned’:
Iran’s President says it is necessary to make a complaint as soon as possible in international courts against the officials of the Israel regime.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=79810§ionid=351020101
Israel uses new US-supplied smart bomb:
The Israel Air Force used a new bunker-buster missile that it received recently from the United States in strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday.
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China calls for immediate halt to Gaza attacks:
China said it is shocked by Israel’s attack on Gaza and has called for an immediate halt to the military campaign that has killed nearly 300 people.
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Britain slams ‘unacceptable’ loss of life in Gaza:
Asked if the Israeli attacks could be justified, Miliband told BBC radio: “I think that any innocent loss of life is unacceptable and in this case there have been massive casualties, some of them civilians and some of them children.
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Senior Islamic Jihad commander killed in Israeli strike on Gaza:
Four Islamic Jihad members, including senior commander Ziad Abu-Tir, were killed Monday afternoon in an Israel Air Force strike in the southern Gaza Strip.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050912.html
Israeli killed as barrage of Palestinian rockets pound west Negev:
One Israeli was killed and fourteen others were wounded by a Palestinian Grad missile which exploded near a construction site in the coastal town of Ashkelon
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050925.html
‘Hamas chief of staff may be dead’:
Conflicting reports emerged Sunday regarding the fate of top Hamas military commander Ahmed Ja’abri, who may have been killed in one of the hundreds of Israeli air strikes against Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
tinyurl.com/axqwgc
Nasrallah slams Arab, Zionist collaboration:
Hezbollah Secretary General condemns the Israeli massacre of Gazans and points to the role of certain Arab regimes in conspiring with Israel.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=79814§ionid=351020203
Hezbollah fighters placed on alert:
“I have asked the brothers in the resistance in the south specifically to be present, on alert and cautious because we are facing a criminal enemy and we don’t know the magnitude of the conspiracies,” Nasrallah said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/12/2008122820055314434.html
U.S. Soldier Occupation Force Killed in Baghdad’s Sadr City:
A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City on Sunday, and an Iraqi was killed when a suicide bomber riding a bicycle blew himself up amid a mass rally against Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza.
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US Special Forces Execution: Video Report:
A killing in Iraq puts a spotlight on U.S. special operations. Was it an accident or something more? CNN’s Michael Ware reports
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21568.htm
A Disturbing Night in Iraq: Witnessing the Abuse of ‘Insurgent’ Prisoners:
U.S. contractors, bound to no legal accountability, are continuing to administer highly questionable treatment of prisoners in Iraq. This is an eyewitness account.
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Afghanistan Suicide Bombings Kill 5:
A suicide car bomber struck a governor’s compound north of the Afghan capital on Monday while U.S. troops were inside, officials said. The blast killed two Afghan civilians and wounded two American soldiers.
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Pakistan, India troop strength, deployments:
Following are estimates of military strength of Pakistan and India, as well as some information about where troops are believed to be deployed:
in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-37219720081229?rpc=401&
Rebels kill 4 border guards in southeastern Iran:
Rebels from Jundallah armed group, believed to have links to al-Qaida, have killed four members of the security forces in southeastern Iran near the border with Pakistan, Iran’s state news agency said.
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Suicide attack kills two police officers in Iran: report:
Reportedly, the Jundullah (Soldiers of God) Sunni rebel group, headed by Abdolmalek Rigi, has been responsible for the deadly operation
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/29/content_10577567.htm
Ugandan rebels killed 189 villagers – UN:
Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed 189 people during three days of raids on villages in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo last week, a United Nations agency said on Monday, citing local officials.
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Five Killed In Central Somalia Fighting – Witnesses:
At least five people were killed and eight wounded Monday in fresh clashes between Somalia’s hardline Shebab militia and fighters from another religious group, witnesses said.
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Islamists seize Somali towns:
A moderate Islamist group captured two towns in central Somalia on Sunday from al-Shabaab, a hardline militia on the United States’ list of terrorist groups, residents and Islamists said.
tinyurl.com/8nvouc
Rebels force Somalia leader to quit:
The president of Somalia’s UN-backed government resigned saying he had lost control to Islamic rebels and could not fulfil his duties after four years.
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IMF economist warns of “Great Depression”:
The top economist at the International Monetary Fund, Olivier Blanchard, warned earlier this week that continued declines in consumer spending would set off a global depression. “Consumer and business confidence indexes have never fallen so far since they began. The coming months will be very bad,” he told the French newspaper Le Monde, as reported by Agence France-Presse.
wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/econ-d27.shtml
Holiday Sales Drop to Force Bankruptcies, Closing:
U.S. retailers face a wave of store closings, bankruptcies and takeovers starting next month as holiday sales are shaping up to be the worst in 40 years.
tinyurl.com/8yqfom
Cash-strapped states cut juvenile justice programs:
State budget cuts are forcing some of the nation’s youngest criminals out of counseling programs and group homes and into juvenile prisons in what critics contend is a shortsighted move that will eventually lead to more crime and higher costs.
tinyurl.com/7pamt3
Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks:
Minnesota is deep in the hole financially, but the state still owns a premier golf resort, a sprawling amateur sports complex, a big airport, a major zoo and land holdings the size of the Central American country of Belize.
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