Who said brutally occupying another people is a barrier to global acceptance? An exclusive club of the world’s most developed countries is poised to admit Israel as a member even though, a confidential internal document indicates, doing so will amount to endorsing Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories. Israel has been told that…
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What are we doing to babies in Gaza?
An email from an employee of the Tuesday’s Child NGO: According to the Bethlehem maternity hospital, premature neonatal mortality over 26 weeks, 37 percent in Gaza in comparison to 1.4 percent in Bethlehem. Shocking, a genocide in itself.
Building a home in Gaza is no easy task
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: Building the “perfect home” is a dream shared by many people, especially if you are one of the tenants of the 3,500 homes that were destroyed or of the 56,000 homes that were damaged in last year’s military operation in the Gaza Strip. This week, we’ve pulled together some…
Who would be trying to destabilise Gaza (Fatah, Israel or the US?)
This is published in the Jerusalem Post, so accuracy cannot be guaranteed, but interesting news: Ahmed Ja’abri, commander of Hamas’ armed wing, Izaddin al-Kassam, recently sent an urgent letter to Hamas leader in Damascus Khaled Masha’al, warning that the situation in the Gaza Strip was “deteriorating,” and that Hamas has started losing control over the…
If America turns on Israel, they’ll always have Micronesia
The National notes Israel’s growing isolation in the UN (of course, Washington’s tight backing is often all that matters): Two unrelated diplomatic upsets have underlined growing impatience with the behaviour of the Israeli government among western countries that are traditionally supportive. Backing from the European Union and Australia in the United Nations to sustain the…
Prominent Australian Jews, including Peter Singer, reject the Israeli right of return
MEDIA RELEASE 3 MARCH, 2010 Today is the national launch of a prominent new Australian initiative that rejects Israel’s automatic right of return for Jews across the world. Following a recent similar project in the US, 35 distinguished Australian Jews have signed a petition that indicates growing dissent from Zionist policies and dispossession of Palestinian…
Protesting Egypt’s wall of shame against Gaza
Resistance is continuing in Egypt: Activists and opposition groups are stepping up pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it will seal the fate of the people on the Gaza Strip. “The Egyptian border…
Is Hamas learning how to abuse journalists from Israel?
It’s very hard to judge this case except to say that Hamas should either charge the man or release him: A British journalist who has been held in Gaza for two weeks without charge faces a further fortnight in detention after a court ordered an extension to his arrest. Paul Martin, a 55-year-old film-maker who…
Israel will not face prosecution over Gaza crimes, says legal mind
Nick Kaufman is a former official at the International Criminal Court and until recently a senior lawyer in the Jerusalem prosecutor’s office. He tells Haaretz that Israel has little to fear from the Goldstone report over Gaza: – Nick Kaufman, do you think you will represent an Israeli official, who has been charged with committing…
Secrets and lies between friends over Mossad murder
My following article is published today on ABC Unleashed/The Drum: Israel is a protected species in the international arena. Many Western states, including Australia, have long tolerated behaviour by the Jewish state that is condemned if committed by any other democracy. This reality makes the current scandal over the alleged Mossad hit last month in…