Zionist crimes against humanity, week of July 21-27

 
 
·       IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
-        A Palestinian civilian was wounded.
-        IOF arrested 8 Palestinian demonstrators.
 
·       IOF conducted 24 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.   
-        IOF arrested 9 Palestinian civilians, including two children.
 
·       Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
-        IOF arrested 3 Palestinian civilians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
-        IOF harassed 5 Palestinian children in Hebron.
 
·       IOF resumed the construction of the annexation wall inside the West Bank territory.
-        IOF razed large areas of Palestinian agricultural land in Bethlehem and uprooted at least 22 pine and olive trees.
 
·       IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
Source: PCHR, week of July 21-27, 2011

Right wing extremism in Europe

"I was among those who first thought, in the first 24 hours after the attack, that it was a jihadist or a al-Qaeda-inspired attack. And there were a few reasons why that might be plausible. And I think that was really the only scope of threat that was considered by the Norwegian Security Services. So now that we find out that it’s a right-wing extremist, we’re all the more surprised. And I think that the Security Services were even more surprised. There was nothing—the statements from the Security Service are that there was nothing about this man which came up—which should have come up on the security intelligence radar. Everything he was doing was within the realm of legality. There was really no reason to suspect him. And yet, there was every reason to suspect him."
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/27/before_death_acclaimed_girl_with_dragon

Zionist crimes against humanity week of 7-13 July 2011

 

·       A Palestinian civilian was killed by IOF in the north of the West Bank.

 

·       A Palestinian woman was wounded by IOF the northern Gaza Strip.

 

·       Israeli warplanes attacked a number of civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip.

-        Two industrial workshops and a warehouse of fodders were destroyed and a number of civilian facilities and houses were damaged.

-        A Palestinian woman was injured.  

 

·       IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

-        A Palestinian child was wounded.

-        Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear Gas inhalation.

 

·       Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.

 

·       IOF conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited incursion into the Gaza Strip.   

-        IOF arrested 12 Palestinian civilians, including a child.

 

·       Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

-        IOF arrested 4 Palestinian civilians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

 

·       IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

-       IOF demolished a workshop, an animal farm and a garage in al-Jeeb village near Jerusalem.

-       IOF uprooted and confiscated 600 olive trees in Deir Estia village in the north of the West Bank.

Source: PCHR, week of 7-13 July, 2011

The Egyptian army was and is against the people from the start of the intifada

"Only a short while ago, the spokesman of the Military Council, Major General Fangari, saluted the martyrs of the revolution and melted Egyptians’ hearts with the memories of the days they spent chanting that the army and the people were “one hand”. Today he delivered another kind of message to the revolutionaries: threats to “take all necessary measures to confront the threats which encircle the homeland unless this questioning of the ongoing process ceases… as do the rumours and misconceptions which lead to discord and rebellion and the promotion of the interests of a narrow minority over those of the country as a whole.”
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=25418

Egyptian socialist revolutionary website

www.e-socialists.net/node/7123

"anarchy in paint pot, mutiny in brush"

"According to Winston Churchill, “Accounts from Liverpool show that the situation there is more like revolution than a strike.”
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=25357

Murdoch sexism and homophobia

"he imposed his views on other things too. Subeditors were ordered not to wear coloured shirts or suede shoes (to fit in with Murdoch’s bigoted view that only “homos” wore suede shoes). And he didn’t like women who wore trousers."http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=25370

when we stop dreaming, we die

This song by the genius, Mohammad Munir.

If we stop dreaming, we die
If we insist, we can get through
If we make through, that's it
If we answer back to them, it's gone
Some patience, some excitement
The dream will vivid in sound and sight

I love it when he sings as if he predicts the events to come

Sa'id Akl; the Zionist

"شجبت مجموعة «شباب ضد التطبيع» التكريم الرسمي الذي أقيم منذ أيام للشاعر سعيد عقل احتفاءً ببلوغه المئة. وفي بيان أصدرته أمس، ذكّرت المجموعة بـ«مواقف سعيد عقل اللاوطنية التي عبّر عنها في مقابلة أجراها معه التلفزيون الإسرائيلي عام 1982». وطالبت المجموعة الدولة اللبنانية بـ«التراجع عن إنتاج الطوابع التي تحمل صورة هذا الشاعر العنصري اللاوطني» في إشارة إلى الطوابع التي أصدرتها وزارة الاتصالات منذ فترة وتحمل صور أعلام لبنانيين من بينهم صاحب «رندلى». وتنوي المجموعة إقامة وقفة احتجاجية بعد غد الاثنين في مكان سيحدد لاحقاً، يتخللها بث فيديو المقابلة التي أجراها صاحب «لبنان إن حكى» مع التلفزيون الإسرائيلي عام 1982"

the upcoming war, if it happens

"Lebanese citizens will begin stocking up on what they need to survive another war. Overnight, the country will experience shortages of cigarettes, vodka, whiskey, and other intoxicants."

on the origins of racism

"Forms of slavery had existed in medieval societies all over the world. Between the 10th and 16th centuries, the chief source of slaves in western Europe was eastern Europe—the word “slave” comes from the word “Slav”." How predictable. Just another illness attributed to capitalism and the White man

discrimination against...war criminals

"The International Criminal Court has now officially made Qaddafi an internationally wanted felon, for Crimes Against Humanity" O really? What about NATO generals, Bush, Blair... and, o, yes, the British Empire of Terrorism? and lest we forget... the most dangerous of all...the Israeli Nazi state and its war mongers

how ordinary people can change the face of world politics

AN excellent read!

the american ambassador and the French one too

Protestors in Syria should have jammed their convoys with rotten eggs and tomatoes (and shoes as well, why not)

youth subcultures in North Africa

, “Mohammed Bouazizi did not have to sacrifice his life to force the world to finally listen to us. We have been screaming exclusion all along … people do not grow ears overnight.”

"Syria and Hezbollah"

This is a translated article for Khaled Saghiyyeh (alakhbar) translated by Assaf Khoury for Jadaliyya's website.

to know more about the intifada in Syria

Great interviews with Syrian novelist Rosa Yasseen Hassan

An incomplete revolution?

"Facile anti-Mubarakism should not be mistaken for democratization. On the contrary, selective populism without popular sovereignty is a quick route to post-Mubarak authoritarianism."

Zionist crimes against humanity week of 30 June- 6July

Two Palestinians were killed by an Israeli air strike in the central Gaza Strip.
- A third Palestinian was wounded in the same attack.
· A Palestinian civilian died of a previous wound in the West Bank.
· Israeli warplanes attacked a number of civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip.
- A store of fodders was bombarded and a number of civilian facilities were damaged.
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear Gas inhalation.
- IOF arrested 4 international human rights defenders.
· Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.
- A fishing boat was damaged.
· IOF conducted 32 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
- IOF arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including a child.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF arrested two Palestinian civilians, at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- IOF cut 11 olive trees in Kufor al-Dik village, west of Salfit.

- IOF prevented Palestinian farmers from working on their lands near “Sousia” settlement, south of Hebron.

Source: PCHR week of June 30- July 6, 2011