8th January, 2009
FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has written to the Israeli ambassador calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, he confirmed today.
Salmond urges Israel to announce an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
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Jordanians show appreciation for Venezuelan Israel rebuff
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8th January, 2009
Amman – Hundreds of Jordanians, some of them carrying flowers, demonstrated outside the Venezuelan embassy Thursday to thank Caracas for severing ties with Israel in protest over the high casualty toll of civilians in the ongoing attack on the Gaza Strip.
The participants chanted slogans and raised placards praising the step taken by President Hugo Chavez and urging Arab countries with diplomatic ties with the Jewish state to follow Venezuela’s lead.
Jordan’s largest political party, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), has praised Venezuela’s rupture of diplomatic ties with Israel.
‘Your decision represents a spotlight in the middle of a wide area of black collusion by forces of arrogance and their subservient parties,’ IAF Secretary General Zaki Bani Ershaid said in a letter to Chavez.
He said that Venezuela’s move represented a ‘slam to those governments which maintain silence over the killing of children’ in the Gaza Strip.
Jordanian trade unions and opposition parties planned to stage a massive demonstration on Friday with the intention of proceeding to the Israeli embassy in Amman which has been under unprecedented security measures, since the start of the Israeli offensive 13 days ago.
Jordanian demonstrations have been pressing the government to sever ties with Israel and abrogate the peace pact Jordan concluded with Israel in 1994.
Prime Minister Nader Dahabi dropped strong hints earlier this week that the diplomatic ties with Israel could be affected as a result of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip
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Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault
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Gareth Porter
8th January, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) – Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government.
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Syria- “demonstration of a million”
Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Waving Syrian and Palestinian flags and brandishing photographs of Palestinian dead in Gaza, protesters unfurled banners demanding ” the end of aggression against our people in Gaza” and “the end of Israeli occupation,” an AFP journalist reported.
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Bosnians protest against Israeli offensive in Gaza
Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Several hundred protesters have gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in the Bosnian capital and have called for Washington to use its influence to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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Holocaust Denied
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Holocaust Denied
The lying silence of those who know
By John Pilger
January 08, 2009 “Information Clearinghouse“ — -“When the truth is replaced by silence,” the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, “the silence is a lie.” It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC. But Russia’s incorrigible poet was not referring to the ephemeral we call news; he was asking why those who knew the why never spoke it and so denied it. Among the Anglo-American intelligentsia, this is especially striking. It is they who hold the keys to the great storehouses of knowledge: the historiographies and archives that lead us to the why. Read the rest of this entry »
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The BBC: Eyeless in Gaza
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2009
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
6 January 2009
On 29 February last year the BBC’s website reported deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatening a “holocaust” on Gaza. Headlined “Israel warns of Gaza ‘holocaust'” the story would undergo nine revisions in the next twelve hours. Before the day was over the headline would read “Gaza militants ‘risking disaster.'” (The story has since been revised again with an exculpatory note added soft-pedaling Vilnai’s comments). An Israeli official threatening “holocaust” may be unpalatable to those who routinely invoke its specter to deflect criticism from the state’s criminal behavior. With the “holocaust” reference redacted, the new headline shifted culpability neatly into the hands of “Gaza militants” instead.
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Israeli army are cowards says Chavez- Mauritania withdraws ambassador
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2009
Israel’s Ambassador to Venezuela has been expelled amid claims his country is carrying out genocide.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called the Israeli army ‘cowards,’ while the foreign minister alleged the Jewish state was engaged in ‘state terrorism.’
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Ecuador accuses Israel of crimes against humanity
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2009
7th January, 2009
Lawmakers in Ecuador on Tuesday condemned Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip and called for a global probe of alleged “crimes against humanity.”
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Gaza- UK wide solidarity action
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2009
1) THE GAZA KILLING FIELDS: DEMONSTRATE 10 JANUARY
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION: SATURDAY 10 JANUARY
STOP THE MASSACRE : ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA
ASSEMBLE 12.30PM SPEAKERS CORNER,HYDE PARK
(Nearest tube Marble Arch) Rally & speakers in Hyde park
MARCH TO ISRAELI EMBASSY High St Kensington, London W8
Anyone with a shred of humanity who watches the video we
feature below will do all they can to join the national
demonstration in London this Saturday 10 January, and will
encourage everyone they know to be there too.
In the video a Norwegian doctor working in a Gaza hospital
he calls “Dante’s Inferno, hell”, describes how Palestinians
– particularly the children, who are 50 percent of the
population – are dying and suffering horrific injuries for
the crime of being civilians living in Gaza. “They cannot
flee as other populations can in war time because Israel has
them trapped in a cage,” he says.
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Scottish Gaza Solidarity Protests
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2009
Holyrood Parliament
Picket outside Holyrood Parliament between 10.30 and 11am tomorrow (Thursday) while an Emergency Debate takes place inside between 9.30 and 11am
First Minister’s Questions at 12noon should hear a question on Gaza tabled by Pauline McNeil MSP
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