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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965):
La XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965) dichiara "la legittimità della lotta da parte dei popoli sotto oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e materiale ai movimenti di liberazione nazionale nei territori coloniali".

:: ONU - Risoluzione 1514
"L'Assemblea Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e asservimento costituisce una negazione dei diritti umani fondamentali, è contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite ed è un impedimento alla promozione della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di tale diritto essi devono liberamente determinare il loro status politico e liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo economico, sociale e culturale".

:: Convenzione di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I (1977):
La lotta armata può essere usata, come ultima risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il diritto all' autodeter-
minazione.

:: Tribunale penale internazionale
In base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale internazionale, sono definiti “crimini di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente contro popolazione civili in quanto tali o contro civili che non prendano direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente nella consapevolezza che gli stessi avranno come conseguenza la perdita di vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi militari previsti.

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Britain's policy on Palestine is hypocritical, duplicitous and mendacious
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem

March 15, 2010 - Last week, a few Palestinian journalists and I had the opportunity to meet with Martin Day, a spokesman of the British government. The meeting, which was hosted by the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN), took place in Ramallah. In his introductory remarks, Day gave the impression that the imminent renewal of peace talks between the almost completely helpless Palestinian Authority (PA) and a brazenly insolent Israel, ruled by the most hawkish government in the Jewish state's history, will eventually achieve peace and lead to the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. He also lauded the Obama administration, underscoring its "sincerity" towards resolving the enduring Palestinian cause. Day's remarks were received with disbelief and dismay by the small audience of journalists, writers and cameramen who thought that Day either didn't know what he was talking about, or he did know what he was saying but was detached not only from truth but from reality as well...
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Iran bans leading pro-reform political party
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI (AP)

March 15, 2010 — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hard-line government said Monday it has banned Iran's largest pro-reform political party in a new strike against an opposition movement that has largely been swept from the streets since last year's postelection turmoil. Keeping the pressure on elsewhere, dozens of government-supporters descended on the home of Mahdi Karroubi, one of the main opposition leaders, on Sunday night, shouting slogans against him and vandalizing his property...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64215] [ 16-mar-2010 05:25 ECT ]

Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary
Andy Worthington
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March 15, 2010 - ...As the ICRC explained in an introduction to Zubaydah’s statements, "Abu Zubaydah reported the following regarding his detention in Afghanistan, where he was held for approximately nine months from May 2002 to February 2003 [...] I woke up, naked, strapped to a bed, in a very white room. The room measured approximately 4m x 4m. The room had three solid walls, with the fourth wall consisting of metal bars separating it from a larger room. I am not sure how long I remained in the bed. After some time, I think it was several days, but can’t remember exactly, I was transferred to a chair where I was kept, shackled by hands and feet for what I think was the next 2 to 3 weeks. During this time I developed blisters on the underside of my legs due to the constant sitting. I was only allowed to get up from the chair to go the toilet, which consisted of a bucket. Water for cleaning myself was provided in a plastic bottle. I was given no solid food during the first two or three weeks, while sitting on the chair...
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Iraq snapshot - Monday, March 15, 2010
The Common Ills

Monday, March 15, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, over the weekend 2 US service members were killed, fraud allegations grow louder in the Iraqi elections, a kidnapped victim's integrity is attacked by . . . his admitted kidnappers, the US Army releases suicide data, being the wife of the Joint Chiefs of Staff doesn't mean the military provides you with answers, why did Nouri go into hiding, and more...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64212] [ 16-mar-2010 05:00 ECT ]

Can We Call it “Just Another Fascist Regime in the Middle East” yet?
Tali Shapiro

March 15, 2010 - The Israeli environment, today, is calmer to a degree; Most probably due to the short memory span of the typical Israeli. Yet the authorities (the only ones with property rights to this memory span) are exponentially getting more and more nervous about world perception of Israel. This nervousness manifests in many different and desperate ways, I’ve written about, but today I’d like to focus on what’s becoming more and more flagrant: The repression of leftist activists...Here we are, in the so-called "only democracy in the Middle East", looking for legal reasonings as to why all of this is so wrong, when it’s all too obvious. Sometimes I wonder, how many more articles need I write, how many reports need human rights organizations compile, how many more incriminating Youtube videos need we upload, until the world wakes up and understands it’s been had? Can We Call it "Just Another Fascist Regime in the Middle East" yet?...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64210] [ 16-mar-2010 03:35 ECT ]

Regaining Control of the Afghanistan Debate
Josh Mull

March 15, 2010 - Check out this short piece from NBC on an Afghan orphanage [...] Note that Afghanistan is referred to as a "dangerous" place with children "orphaned by war." But that’s OK, the subject of the piece is running a "happy place." Not only that, but she’s graciously being honored with some kind of award by the Washington establishment. Everybody gets to contribute to helping those poor, orphaned Afghans. Yay! And that’s it. 46 seconds. When originally broadcast, that snippet was followed up by several minutes of reporting on President Obama’s Nobel Prize donation to charity, because …he’s such a great guy and clearly more important? But why is Afghanistan so dangerous? Why are all those children orphaned by war? What war?...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64209] [ 16-mar-2010 02:56 ECT ]

Eye Witness Testifies in Rachel Corrie Case: Israeli Military Investigator Tried to Influence My Statement
Rachel Corrie Foundation
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March 15, 2010 - Today, March 15 2010, the Haifa District Court saw the third day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel was crushed to death on March 16, 2003 by a Caterpillar D9R bulldozer. She had been nonviolently demonstrating against Palestinian home demolitions with fellow members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct action methods and principles. Today’s only testimony came from British citizen Alice Coy, a nurse, who was an eyewitness to the killing....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64208] [ 16-mar-2010 02:49 ECT ]

Beyond Orwell: The Electronic Police State, 2010
Tom Burghardt

March 15, 2010 - A truism perhaps, but before resorting to brute force and open repression to halt the "barbarians at the gates," that would be us, the masters of declining empires (and the chattering classes who polish their boots) regale us with tales of "democracy on the march," "hope" and other banalities before the mailed fist comes crashing down. Putting it another way, as the late, great Situationist malcontent, Guy Debord did decades ago in his relentless call for revolt, The Society of the Spectacle: "The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender 'lonely crowds.' With ever-increasing concreteness the spectacle recreates its own presuppositions."...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64207] [ 16-mar-2010 02:07 ECT ]

European Union found guilty at first session of Russell Tribunal
Ewa Jasiewicz and Frank Barat

March 15, 2010 - The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a peoples' legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violations in Palestine. In the frame this time was the European Union (EU). Two days and 21 expert witness testimonies later, the RTP found individual states and the EU as a whole guilty of persistent violations and misconduct with regards to international and internal EU law. These included: assistance in perpetrating the crime of apartheid -- deepened in definition as applicable to the violation of the inalienable right of return for refugees and the collective punishment and ghettoization of Gaza; aiding the procurement of war crimes and crimes against humanity particularly with regards to Gaza; and violating the Palestinian right to self-determination, aiding illegal colonization, the annexation of East Jerusalem and theft of natural resources...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64206] [ 16-mar-2010 01:54 ECT ]

Iraq: Lockdown, Beheadings, Bribes: It's "Democratic Election Time" Again.
Felicity Arbuthnot.

March 15, 2010 - The period over which the Iraq elections were announced and were "campaigned" (read manipulation, threat, arrests, bribes and even death) could hardly have been chosen with greater crassness, trampling on sensitivities with disregard for rememberance and commemorations which are core to Iraqi society. The election was announced on 12th February. Campaigning by six thousand-plus would be politicians began the following day. The night of 13th/14th February 1991, marked the nineteenth anniversary of the incineration of those in Baghdad's Ameriyah Shelter, one of the bombardment's greatest tragic crimes. The announcement could hardly have had more viciously insensitive timing...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64204] [ 16-mar-2010 01:23 ECT ]

Health ministry: 12 deaths and 25 injuries in Gaza during three months
Palestinian Information Center
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March 15, 2010 - The Palestinian ministry of health reported Sunday that the number of victims who have been killed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation since the start of 2010 and until the ninth of March amounted to 12 Palestinians and the injuries to 25 others. According to a report issued by the ministry’s information office, 75 percent of these deaths happened during last January and 91.7 percent of the victims were under age 18. The report also said that most of the victims, who were killed or wounded, sustained injuries all over their bodies while few had injuries either in the head or neck only...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64205] [ 16-mar-2010 01:23 ECT ]

Lehman bankruptcy report exposes Wall Street criminality
Barry Grey

March 15, 2010 - A report released March 11 by a bankruptcy court-appointed examiner concludes that in the months leading up to its September 2008 collapse, the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers issued financial statements that were "materially misleading" and its top executives engaged in "actionable balance sheet manipulation." The 2,200-page document details accounting fraud on a massive scale, involving secret transactions that enabled the bank to falsify its level of debt and conceal the scale of its losses from toxic mortgage-linked assets...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64202] [ 16-mar-2010 01:04 ECT ]

Iran Sentences 6 Protesters to Death
NAZILA FATHI

March 15, 2010 - Iranian authorities announced death penalties on Monday for six people arrested during protests in December, in what appeared to be strong warning to the opposition ahead of a traditional annual celebration. The annual tradition, the Feast of Fire, goes backs thousands of years to Zoroastrian times and has been banned in Iran in recent decades because of its un-Islamic roots. The opposition had called for its celebration this year as a sign of protest...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64201] [ 16-mar-2010 00:56 ECT ]

"Jeopardizing U.S. Standing" – the Petraeus Controversy
Michael Collins
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March 15, 2010 - ... How about the continued occupation of Iraq? Then there's the over one million dead Iraqi's due to civil strife caused by our invasion. Forty thousand new troops to Afghanistan might have an impact on our standing. To generalize, U.S. standing in the Middle East is severely compromised by wars of aggression, ongoing occupations, and the expansion of existing war efforts. This controversy is nothing more than a tactical strike by a military establishment that is tired of dealing with the blowback from our longstanding policies in the Middle East and South Asia...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64200] [ 16-mar-2010 00:48 ECT ]

Petraeus Reportedly Wanted To Put West Bank, Gaza Under Central Command
Spencer Ackerman

March 15, 2010 - This is the sort of message that if you summarized it from the topline — "important military figure hears from Arab leaders that entrenched Israeli-Palestinian conflict damages U.S. credibility" — would be thoroughly uncontroversial. It’s the sort of thing that everyone in the foreign policy community knows, accepts and seethes at when the alleged-friends-of-Israel try to make it beyond the pale of discussion. So don’t be surprised that Gen. David Petraeus would brief Adm. Mike Mullen, as Foreign Policy reports that he did in December, about "a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM’s mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region." What’s more noteworthy is that Petraeus would consider it a military problem — and his military problem...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64199] [ 15-mar-2010 20:17 ECT ]

Autopsy doctor admits to violating court order in Rachel Corrie autopsy
Rachel Corrie Foundation

March 15, 2010 - ...Dr. Yehuda Hiss, the former head of the Israel Forensic Institute who conducted the autopsy of Rachel Corrie at the request of the Israeli military, admitted that he violated an Israeli court order requiring that an official from the U.S. Embassy be present during Rachel’s autopsy. Hiss also stated that his policy was not to allow entrance to the autopsy to anyone who is not a physician or biologist. Dr. Hiss stated that he spoke by phone with the US Embassy after receiving the court order and was told they would not be sending a representative, and that the Corrie family had agreed to the autopsy. Dr. Hiss admitted there was no documentation in his file of this conversation with the Embassy. The U.S. Embassy has repeatedly told the family that this was not the conversation that occurred...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64198] [ 15-mar-2010 20:05 ECT ]

Israeli government allows sale of stolen Palestinian property to Israelis
Saed Bannoura
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March 15, 2010 - In response to an inquiry by the Palestinian human rights organization Adalah, the Israeli Justice Ministry has clarified its recent revision of Israeli land law, confirming that the revision allows the sale of seized Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Jewish citizens of Israel, or to private companies. 90% of the land in Israel is owned by the Jewish National Fund and rented to Jewish-only tenants. Much of the land under Jewish National Fund control was illegally seized from the indigenous Palestinian owners when the state of Israel was created in 1948...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64197] [ 15-mar-2010 19:59 ECT ]

Israeli Army: Bil’in and Ni’lin a Closed Military Zone for a Six Month Period
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

March 15, 2010 - One week after the head of the Israeli Shin Bet threatened to aggravate the repression of the Palestinian popular struggle, a large military force raided the villages of Bil’in and Ni’ilin at 3:30AM this morning. The sole purpose of the raids was to post decrees designating the land between the Wall and the developed area of the villages as closed military zones between 8AM to 8PM every Friday for a period of half a year. The decrees, which came into effect on February 17th, are signed by the recently appointed commander of the Israeli Central Command, Avi Mizrahi, himself. Closed military zone orders are usually signed by a brigade commander, a much lower rank...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64196] [ 15-mar-2010 19:39 ECT ]

Iraq poll results delayed again, amid mounting fraud claims
DPA

March 15, 2010 - Iraq's electoral commission on Monday delayed releasing more results from last week's parliamentary vote, amid mounting claims of fraud as the protracted count continued. Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections, the country's second since the 2003 US-led invasion, are widely seen as a key test of the country's stability ahead of US combat troops' withdrawal, and will shape the country's politics for years to come...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64195] [ 15-mar-2010 19:30 ECT ]

We've met the enemy in Afghanistan, and he's changed
By Roy Gutman

March 15, 2010 - ...The Taliban "have totally changed," said Vahid Mojdeh, a former Taliban foreign ministry official who monitors the movement. "They've totally put behind them their international agenda" of spreading Islamist revolution "and now are just focused on Afghanistan."... "There's a new generation. They are familiar with computers. They communicate with text messages. They're in favor of education,"...


  continua / continued avanti - next    [64194] [ 15-mar-2010 19:01 ECT ]

Official: Israel to confiscate land near Bethlehem
Ma'an News
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March 15, 2010 - Israeli forces distributed land confiscation notices on Saturday to residents of Wadi Rahhal, south of Bethlehem, to amend the separation route's wall, a popular committee official said. Shadi Fawaghra, a Popular Committee Against the Wall coordinator in the village, told Ma'an that the notices included maps confiscating 70 dunums of Wadi Rahhel land...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64193] [ 15-mar-2010 18:52 ECT ]

US soldier killed in attack on Iraq base: military
AFP

March 15, 2010 — An American soldier was killed and two wounded in a rocket or mortar attack on a US military base in central Iraq, a statement said on Sunday. The soldier, who was not named, was killed in an "indirect fire attack" on a base in Diyala province north of Baghdad, the American military said, using its term for a rocket or mortar attack. "The wounded were evacuated to a nearby military medical facility and are in stable condition," the statement said...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64192] [ 15-mar-2010 18:24 ECT ]

Jewish groups calls on non-Jews to immediately leave 'the land of Israel'
Middle East Monitor

March 15, 2010 - Extremist Jewish groups in Jerusalem have called upon the non-Jewish population of the city to leave what it calls 'the land of Israel'. In a statement distributed on the streets of Jerusalem, the extremist groups claimed that "it is written in the Bible that the land of Israel is a small land belonging to the Jewish people alone and it prohibits others to be accommodated there permanently". The statement further asserts that it is "written in the book of the Prophets that because we did not implement the divine command, the Jewish people were expelled and remained outside the country for 2000 years. After the return of the Jewish people to Israel, it is time to implement this divine command. Therefore, we ask you to leave the land of Israel."...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64191] [ 15-mar-2010 18:08 ECT ]

Israel to go ahead with settlements
Aljazeera.net
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March 15, 2010 - Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has rejected calls from the US to halt settlement plans in occupied East Jerusalem, saying plans for building new homes would go ahead. In a speech to Israel's parliament on Monday, Netanyahu said construction "will continue in Jerusalem as this has been the case for the past 42 years" in reference to the 1967 occupation of the mainly Arab territory...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64190] [ 15-mar-2010 17:52 ECT ]

Permit holder in labor denied entry into Israel
Ma'an News

March 15, 2010 - Palestinian Red Crescent medics in Qalqiliya gave emergency treatment to a pregnant woman in labor at checkpoint 109 on Sunday, after the woman was expelled from an Israeli medical vehicle and denied entry into the country for treatment. Ibtisam Al-Abra, 35, went into labor as she and her cousin were on their way from Qalqiliya, where they had been visiting family, to the Palestinian town of At-Tira in Israel...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64189] [ 15-mar-2010 17:07 ECT ]

Obama in more trouble than Netanyahu over Iran
By Spengler

March 15, 2010 - ....Iran will succeed, unless another player kicks over the chessboard. Israeli officials report that American officials are visiting Jerusalem - including Vice President Joseph Biden last week - to warn Israel against launching an attack on Iran. "They're not talking about the Palestinians, they're only talking about Iran," commented the head of one Israeli political party. That explains the exceptionally harsh, even adversarial tone that Washington has taken towards Israel, supposedly in response to last week's go-ahead for 1,600 apartments in East Jerusalem, but evidently in anticipation of an Israeli attack on Iran....

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64188] [ 15-mar-2010 13:36 ECT ]

1,000 Days have passed ... but it's tomorrow that counts
Ayman Mohyeldin
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March 14, 2010 - One thousand days ago, Gaza became the world's largest outdoor prison, those are not my words, but the words of John Holmes, the UN's chief humanitarian officer. One thousand days ago, Gaza’s gates to the outside world were closed and locked. Pedestrian and commercial traffic came to a grinding halt and Gaza began its tail spin into the catastrophic reality it finds itself in today, becoming the first territory in recent history forced into a de-developmental nose dive as a result of a deliberate policy. For 1,000 days, one Palestinian has died every other day as result of having no access to need medical care - 500 in total since the beginning of the siege, according the Palestinian Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64187] [ 15-mar-2010 12:02 ECT ]

Afghanistan-Pakistan: America’s Private Assassination Company
Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants

By DEXTER FILKINS and MARK MAZZETTI

March 14, 2010 - Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed former C.I.A. and Special Forces operatives. The contractors, in turn, gathered intelligence on the whereabouts of suspected militants and the location of insurgent camps, and the information was then sent to military units and intelligence officials for possible lethal action in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the officials said...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64186] [ 15-mar-2010 11:50 ECT ]

Who’s to blame for the Iraq war?
A not-so-trivial quiz

Maidhc Ó Cathail

March 14, 2010 - This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who’s to blame for the Iraq war. 1. Ahmed Chalabi, the source of much of the false "intelligence" about Iraqi WMD, was introduced to his biggest boosters Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz by their mentor, a University of Chicago professor who had known the Iraqi con man since the 1960s. Who was this influential Cold War hawk who has an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) conference centre named in his honour? 2. In 1982, "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s" appeared in Kivunim, a journal published by the World Zionist Organization, which stated: "Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel." ...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64185] [ 15-mar-2010 11:10 ECT ]

Palestinian Children Terrorized for Stoning Israeli Troops
IslamOnline
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March 14, 2010 – Al-Hasan Muhtaseb, 13, and his brother Amir,10, were returning from their aunt’s house in the West Bank town of Al-Khalil (Hebron) when they were stopped by Israeli occupation force on 27 February. "They took my brother and I don't know where they took him," Hasan told The Observer on Sunday, March 14. "I was sent inside the station and I never saw him after that." The Israelis suspected the two boys were involved in throwing stones at their troops, a charge that usually brings several months in jail but carries a maximum penalty of 20 years' jail. The two brothers were held separately. Israeli soldiers covered Amir's eyes by a hat and put him in a room where there was a dog that he heard panting....

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64184] [ 15-mar-2010 10:41 ECT ]

Rasmussen In Poland: Expeditionary NATO, Missile Shield And Nuclear Weapons
Rick Rozoff

March 14, 2010 - The civilian chief of the world’s only, and history’s first self-proclaimed global, military bloc is having a busy month. North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen delivered an address in Washington, DC on February 23 on the military alliance’s new 21st century Strategic Concept along with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her predecessor twice-removed Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser James Jones, the last-named a former Marine Corps general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander.
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64182] [ 15-mar-2010 10:30 ECT ]

Rights center: Restrictions in Jerusalem continue
Ma'an News

March 14, 2010 - Israeli authorities continued imposing entrance restrictions on Palestinian Jerusalemites on Sunday in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights reported. An age limited remains in place for the third consecutive day for Palestinians wishing to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City, with individuals over 50 only being allowed entry...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64181] [ 15-mar-2010 09:36 ECT ]

AIPAC urges Obama admin to quiet criticism of Israeli government
Laura Rozen

March 14, 2010 - Amid continued tensions between Washington and Jerusalem after an Israeli government announcement last week during the goodwill visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that it would approve the construction of 1,600 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, the influential pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) says recent U.S. criticism of the Israeli government is "a matter of serious concern" and has called on the Obama administration to defuse tension with Israel...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64180] [ 15-mar-2010 09:28 ECT ]

Anti-Semitism – Zionist myth vs truth and reality
By Alan Hart
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March 14, 2010 - There are two definitions of anti-Semitism in its Jewish context. One was born in real history and represents a truth. The other is part and parcel of Zionist mythology and was invented for the purpose of blackmailing non-Jewish Europeans and North Americans into refraining from criticizing Israel or, to be more precise, staying silent when its leaders resort to state terrorism and demonstrate in many ways their absolute contempt for international law. Anti-Semitism properly and honestly defined is prejudice against and loathing and even hatred of Jews, all Jews everywhere, just because they are Jews. Anti-Semitism as defined by Zionism, the colonial, ethnic cleansing enterprise of some Jews, has come to mean almost all criticism of Israel’s policies and actions, in particular its oppression of the Palestinians, and, also, criticism on the basis of revelations from the documented truth of history which expose Zionism’s propaganda for the nonsense it is...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64179] [ 15-mar-2010 08:51 ECT ]

Families denied prison visits as West Bank closure continues
Ma'an News

March 14, 2010 – The Israeli Prison Services cancelled all family visits on Sunday to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody until the West Bank's lockdown is lifted. The International Red Cross said family visits to the Negev and Ashkelon prions in Israel were annulled, while Monday's visit to HaSharon, Hadarim, Rimonim, as well as Ashkehlon will also be cancelled as a result of the West Bank's closure...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64178] [ 15-mar-2010 08:29 ECT ]

Survivors of family killed in Afghanistan raid threaten suicide attacks
Jerome Starkey

March 14, 2010 - A family whose members were killed in a botched night raid in eastern Afghanistan have rejected "blood money" from the Government and vowed to carry out suicide attacks unless the perpetrators are brought to justice. Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a policeman and his brother were shot dead on February 12 by unidentified gunmen. Eight men were arrested in the raid on the village of Khataba in Paktia province. They have all been released. No one has claimed responsibility for the killings. A US official in Kabul refused to identify the force involved, citing "utmost national and strategic security interests"...."The foreigners are always talking about human rights. But they don’t care about human rights," said Gulalai’s father, Mohammed Tahir. "They teach us human rights then they kill a load of civilians. They didn’t come here to end terrorism. They are terrorists."...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64177] [ 15-mar-2010 08:18 ECT ]

Video: Israel's continued settlement expansion
Aljazeera.English
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March 14, 2010 - Israel has been expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land for decade, and it is now emerging just how far-reaching this policy is. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Jerusalem housing committee is planning to build another 50,000 Jewish homes in occupied East Jerusalem to join the hundreds of thousands already there or in progress. That includes 3,000 housing units in Gilo, 1,500 apartments in Har Homa and another 1,500 in the settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64176] [ 15-mar-2010 08:14 ECT ]

Military Resistance 8C9: Political War Splits U.S. Afghan Command - 14 March 2010
Thomas F. Barton

U.S. Command Split At The Top: The Marines Have Opted To Wage The War In Their Own Way. Marines’ Methods Have Riled Many Up The Chain Of Command In Kabul And Washington. Some Refer To Their Area Of Operations In The South As 'Marineistan’. 'What The Hell Are We Doing?’ The Senior Official Said. The U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, recently noted that the international security force in Afghanistan feels as if it comprises 42 nations instead of 41 because the Marines act so independently from other U.S. forces.
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64175] [ 15-mar-2010 01:40 ECT ]

'Vote-rigging' clouds Iraq's elections
Morning Star

March 14, 2010 - Iraqi opposition candidates have accused Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's supporters of "throwing ballot papers in the trash" in an attempt to deny former leader Ayad Allawi's party a majority in the country's new parliament. Mr al-Maliki and Mr Allawi were still neck and neck in the early vote counting following the March 7 election for 325 parliamentary seats, with the prime minister's State of Law coalition claiming victory in conservative Shia Muslim cities and the opposition Iraqiya party apparently winning a majority in Sunni Muslim provinces...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64174] [ 14-mar-2010 23:33 ECT ]

Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
Mel Frykberg

March 14, 2010 - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50. Outside the walled Old City, where the Al Aqsa mosque is situated, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported between Palestinian protestors, their Israeli and international supporters, and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), leaving at least 20 Palestinians wounded. Following a security assessment Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak ordered security forces to stop tens of thousands of Palestinians from entering Jerusalem...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64173] [ 14-mar-2010 23:14 ECT ]

Israel detains 5 Palestinians without food for 48 hours
Pal Telegraph
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March 14, 2010 - Palestinian sources revealed today that Israeli occupation forces detained five Palestinians from the village of Nabi Saleh in Ramallah for 48 hours. The IOF handcuffed their hands and did not give the Palestinians any food or drink. The sources said that the five detainees kidnapped from their homes in the early morning, including four brothers, were: Uday , Loay, Majed and Mustafa Al-Tamimi and Tammen Al-Tamimi. All of them were taken to Halmish camp near the town, and then to Benjamin camp near Ramallah.--

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64172] [ 14-mar-2010 23:06 ECT ]

This Time It's Pregnant Women: Another US Atrocity in the Bush-Obama War in Afghanistan
DAVE LINDORFF

March 14, 2010 - Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Only this time, among the dead are two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl. And once again the US media remain mute, accepting the official story, which was of ISAF forces responding to an attack which in reality appears never to have happened...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64171] [ 14-mar-2010 22:30 ECT ]

PFLP: US position on settlements and negotiations is a cover for the crimes of the occupation
PFLP - Fronte Popolare per la Liberazione della Palestina

March 14, 2010 - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemned negotiations of any shape or form with the occupier, saying that what is needed for the Palestinian people is action, not words with the occupier. On March 13, 2010, the PFLP issued a press statement saying that US positions on settlement construction, labeling it as a "negative step" or "non-constructive" no longer work to convince anyone of the U.S. administration's willingness to uphold international law and human rights, saying that so-called "negotiations" do nothing to relieve international bodies of their responsibility to uphold fundamental Palestinian rights and that the US is a fundamental strategic partner of the Zionist regime...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64170] [ 14-mar-2010 17:43 ECT ]

Hizma: A microcosm of a disappearing Palestine
Nour Odeh
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March 14, 2010 - Palestinian women clash with Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and occupied East Jerusalem. To the south, Israeli soldiers clash with youth in Beit Ummar, near Hebron. These are the latest manifestations of boiling tensions in the area, sparked by Israel's announcement of large-scale settlement expansion in Occupied East Jerusalem. Israel has kept the West Bank under lockdown since Thursday night, the punitive measure only serving to increase tension and draw international attention to the devastating potential of a lost political horizon in the region...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64169] [ 14-mar-2010 17:33 ECT ]

West Bank lockdown extended
Ma'an News

March 14, 2010 - Israeli authorities extended a closure of the West Bank on Saturday evening as restrictions on Palestinian entry into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound remain in place. The closure, expected to end on Saturday night, was extended until Tuesday "In accordance with the directives of the Minister of Defense, Mr. Ehud Barak, and following additional situation assessments adopted by the defense establishment," an Israeli military statement read...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64168] [ 14-mar-2010 17:28 ECT ]

Afghan government says coalition troops killed 12 civilians
BNO NEWS

March 14, 2010 — Coalition troops killed twelve civilians during two recent operations in Afghanistan, according to the office of President Hamid Karzai on Sunday. Karzai’s deputy spokesperson Hamed Elmi said the casualties, which included women and children, occurred during two separate airstrikes in the country’s Kandahar and Kunar provinces. He said the incidents happened earlier this week, but was not able to say on which day or days...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64167] [ 14-mar-2010 17:13 ECT ]

Children of Gaza: Scarred, trapped, vengeful
By Rachel Shields
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March 14, 2010 - Omsyatte adjusts her green school uniform and climbs gingerly on to a desk at the front of the classroom. The shy 12-year-old holds up a brightly coloured picture and begins to explain to her classmates what she has drawn. It is a scene played out in schools all over the world, but for one striking difference: Omsyatte's picture does not illustrate a recent family holiday, or jolly school outing, but the day an Israeli military offensive killed her nine-year-old brother and destroyed her home...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64166] [ 14-mar-2010 16:14 ECT ]

Afghan resistance: Australia and Canada Take a Rationale Decision after Holland
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

March 14, 2010 - After the dissolution of Dutch government following its parliament’s hot discussion over the American war in Afghanistan, now Canada and Australia have decided to respect views of their people for unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The Americans have been using various ploys and wiles in the last nine years to achieve their colonialist objectives, trying to show that the war in Afghanistan is the war of the West. Otherwise, they claim, the West would have to face harm as result or reap its benefits. The Americans have been able to keep a number of countries entangled in the Afghan war through play of wiles and display of ambitious goals...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64165] [ 14-mar-2010 15:55 ECT ]

Video: Charges on Gaza boy "human shield"
Aljazeera.English

March 14, 2010 - Two Israeli soldiers will face charges in an Israeli court for allegedly using a young Palestinian boy as a human shield during the country's three-week bombardment in Gaza in 2008. Majed Al Rubah, 10, says Israeli troops forcefully took him from his family and made him carry out life-threatening tasks during military operations. Many other Palestinians say they have gone through similiar experiences, but this is only the second indictment Tel Aviv has brought against its own soldiers...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64164] [ 14-mar-2010 15:47 ECT ]

Jail ordeal of hundreds of Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones
Rory McCarthy
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March 14, 2010 - With more than 300 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons, human rights groups and Palestinian officials are increasingly concerned about the actions of the Israeli military. The Israeli group B'Tselem said that security forces had "severely violated" the rights of a number of children, aged between 12 and 15, who had been taken into custody in recent months. The family of one 13-year-old boy from Hebron who was arrested on 27 February by a military patrol and detained for eight days have brought a legal case against the authorities...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64163] [ 14-mar-2010 15:26 ECT ]

UPDATE 5 - Iraq's Elections
Layla Anwar

March 14, 2010 - It's basically a MESS. A HUGE MESS. Too many contradictory statements from the Western Press and Arabic Press. I've been perusing Azzaman, Al-Sharqiya, Al-Jazeera and AP reports and I see no coherence. Let's start with the ridiculous first. Al-Jazeera in a special report on the HEC, (High Electoral Commission) states "it's difficult to convey in words quite how remarkable a place the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC ) is at the moment. Its guiding principles – openness, transparency, accessibility – prevail, even under the pressure of this critical moment in Iraqi politics..." You'd think this is a statement from the White House... oh well, it nearly is... Yet the Iraqiya bloc has affirmed again that "that ballots were dumped in the garbage, nearly a quarter of a million soldiers were denied voting rights and electoral commission workers fiddled with vote counts" but that it also filed complaints with the UN security council and UNAMI because innocent residents of Adhamiya (a Sunni area in Baghdad) are being harassed and arrested by the Iraqi army and that Al-Iraqiya candidates are being threatened, 7 days after the voting has been over. Al Iraqiya is asking that the final results be released immediately, and that this delay is causing a state of chaos...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64162] [ 14-mar-2010 15:17 ECT ]

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