Archive for the ‘Global peace process’ Category
Posted by alfied on February 4, 2009
By M K Bhadrakumar – Asia Times
There are different ways of looking at the Justice and Democratic Party, or AKP, which rules Turkey. Militant secularists and Kemalists allege it is a Trojan horse of Salafists whose members masquerade as democrats. Others say the AKP is so extremely moderate that it might get ostracized as infidel if it were transplanted to Iran or Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on February 1, 2009
PressTV
1st February, 2009
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for recognition of Hamas which won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections.
In an interview with The Washington Post published Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said isolating Hamas is the reason for the ongoing tensions in the region.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2009
antiwar.com
28th January, 2009
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Israel stymies French push to lift European boycott of Hamas
The French Foreign Ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Shek today over an incident in which a convoy of French diplomats, including the nation’s consul general were blocked from crossing the Gaza border for over six hours and shot at by Israeli troops.
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
effedieffe.com
28th January, 2009
Using intense diplomatic pressure over the past two days, Israeli officials blocked a French attempt to weaken Jerusalem’s stance with Hamas at the pre-written closing statement of the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels last night.
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
Public asked for information on travel plans, whereabouts of top Israeli leaders suspected of committing ‘war crimes’ in Gaza.
Middle-East Online
27th January, 2009
LONDON – An international non-governmental organization has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court for the arrest of top Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and has called for information about the travel plans and whereabouts outside Israel of the suspects.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2009
PressTV
26th January, 2009
The Iranian cabinet introduces a bill to take action on individuals accused of war crimes amid a seeming ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on January 26, 2009
BBC Headquarters Occupied in Scotland
Written by Stop the War Admin
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Over 100 supporters of Scottish Stop the War Coalition and Palestinian groups occupied the BBC headquarters in Glasgow today demanding that the BBC reverse its decision not to broadcast an emergency aid appeal for Gaza.
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2009
FT
22nd January, 2009
In my decades as a public servant, I have strongly promoted the Arab-Israeli peace process. During recent months, I argued that the peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabia could be implemented under an Obama administration if the Israelis and Palestinians both accepted difficult compromises. I told my audiences this was worth the energies of the incoming administration for, as the late Indian diplomat Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit said: “The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2009
I have somewhat belatedly come across this article which should be read alongside the latest Saudi remarks condemnng the USA for its role in the Gaza massacre .
CAIRO, Dec 31 (KUNA) — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal called upon the Arab foreign ministers during their urgent meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to focus on action rather than rhetoric to halt the Israeli aggression in Gaza.
Head of the Arab Foreign Ministers’ Council in its current session, Prince Saud Al-Faisal said, “The situation in Gaza is a massacre, and a crime against humanity, additional violence and extremism are expected in absence of any peace plans, which Israel claims it is working towards.” Questioning, he said, “What peace could be achieved from a mad military machine that only destoys and kills? which reflects the true Israeli identity.
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Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2009
PressTV
24th January, 2009
The case for Israeli war crimes in Gaza gathers momentum as a prominent UN official calls for legal action against the assault architects.
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009
This also opens the way for war crimes charges to be made against the US and the UK who have been using depleted uranium in Iraq
PressTV
22nd January, 2009
There is more than enough evidence that Israel committed war crimes in its three week-long offensive into Gaza, says a UN investigator.
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