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Israel Launches New ‘Soft War’
By MEL FRYKBERG (Middle East Times) Published: March 11, 2009 JERUSALEM — Shortly after the guns fell silent over Gaza, during Operation Cast lead, Israel’s three-week bloody onslaught over the coastal territory which left over 1,400 Palestinians dead and over 5,000 wounded, most of them civilian, the Israeli Foreign Ministry stepped up its ‘soft war.’ […]
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Procuring Academics for Empire
‘Pentagon is engaged in military-academic empire building strategy.’ By James Petras The Pentagon”s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. US military support for the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, the US-sponsored Ethiopian occupation of Somali, the coup attempts […]
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Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial Lecture: “Apartheid and Occupation under International Law” with John Dugard
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South Africa & Palestine: Long Roads to Freedom
Ronnie Kasrils spoke at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on March 20, 2009 at a lecture organized by Pulsemedia.org and Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. – During the years of apartheid rule in South Africa, Ronnie Kasrils was a leader in the banned ANC and its military wing Umkonto we Sizwe – Hunted by the […]
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Not an Analogy: Israel and the Crime of Apartheid
Published on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 by CommonDreams.org by Hazem Jamjoum In recent years, increasing numbers of people around the world have begun adopting and developing an analysis of Israel as an apartheid regime. (1) This can be seen in the ways that the global movement in support of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle is taking […]
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Boycott, Surrender or War
The ‘Dahiye strategy’ has just been applied in Gaza. By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The spate of reports coming out of the Middle East in the past two weeks are signs of a coming danger greater than the region has known in its modern history. The Israeli onslaught on Gaza; the massacre of civilians; the […]
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Boycott Apartheid Israel
By Natalie Abou Shakra – Gaza The concept of civil resistance is not new at all. This non-violent, unarmed, citizen oriented strategy of resistance in modern history played a role in the struggles against colonialism, and neo-colonialism especially in British colonies of Africa, in Apartheid South Africa, India, and the Middle East, particularly Palestine. We […]
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Ali Abunimah on Flashpoints discussing BDS
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Today on Flashpoints: Founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, in the Flashpoints studio gives a postmortem on Gaza and talks about the possibilities for justice and freedom for Palestine; a report from northern Israel as Israeli settlers, backed by security forces, threaten Palestinians with death in a violent public demonstration. […]
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The End of Israel’s Impunity?
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad The assault on Gaza marks the end of an era for Israel. For the second time in two years its colonial ambition has floundered in the face of determined resistance. It may persist for some time; but the trajectory is clear – it is losing both legitimacy and power. Support for it […]
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Apartheid: From South Africa to Israel
Ronnie Kasrils, member of the African National Congress, said that Israel’s apartheid is far worse than the South African apartheid. In his recent talk, in Vancouver, BC, he explains why this is so.
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