Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’
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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Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2009
Mousa Abu Marzook
What’s Left
22nd January
Israel’s objectives from the war on Gaza were set long before its launch: to remove the Hamas movement and government, achieve the reinstallation of the Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, in Gaza, and end the armed resistance. Two other objectives were not announced. First, restore the Israeli public’s wavering confidence in its armed forces after its defeat by Hezbollah in 2006. Second, boost the coalition government in the coming elections.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
Chuck Spinney
Counterpunch
20th January, 2009
The last time the US restrained Israel in its never-ending wars of aggression was when President Eisenhower pulled the plug on the Anglo-French-Israeli effort to grab the Suez Canal in 1956.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
PressTV
20th Janaury, 2009
An Iranian diplomat says the Israeli crimes committed against Gazans should alarm the world about the threat of Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
PM DINES WITH fellow WAR CRIMINALS
The demo’ this Saturday 24 January will march to
Downing Street, calling for the lifting of the Gaza blockade,
an end to all arms sales to Israel and for Israel to be made
to pay for its war crimes.
We will also be registering our disgust over Gordon Brown’s
support for Israel following its barbaric attack. The day
after the massacre was ended – so as not to spoil Barack
Obama’s inauguration with pictures of phosphorous bombs
dropping on UN schools in Gaza – Brown rushed off to join five
other heads of government for a celebratory gala dinner at the
Jerusalem home of Israel’s prime minister Ehud Olmert,
alongside Olmert’s compatriots in mass murder, defence
minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009
Al-Manar
19/01/2009 … And on the 24th day on the Israeli deadliest war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and a few hours after a ceasefire was announced in the besieged strip marking another victory for the Resistance pattern in the region, the Arab leaders were “finally” able to hold an “Arab Summit” amid an unprecedented Arab division.
All the Arabs, including the so-called “moderate” ones, were represented in the Kuwait Summit, days after they rejected to participate in a Qatari-suggested summit over Gaza, resulting in the failure of reaching the needed quorum. Meanwhile, the summit was marked by a reconciliation lunch meeting in which Saudi King gathered leaders of Egypt, Syria, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. A Syrian well-informed source told Al-Manar that the meeting was frank and sincere. The source noted that the mentioned reconciliation meeting constitutes a first step towards discussing various Arab issues in an attempt to reach common principles.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009
Independent
18 th January, 2009
British Jews have been attacked for expressing support for Palestinians suffering under Israeli military strikes in Gaza. Police confirmed yesterday that they have provided protection to a number of people believed to be victims of UK-based Zionist extremists angered by expressions of solidarity with Palestinians.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009
| Entretien de Thierry Meyssan au « Courrier d’Algérie »
Voltairenet
19th January, 2009 |
Condoleezza Rice et Tzipi Livni ont signé vendredi à Washington un accord bilatéral destiné, disent-elles, à empêcher « la contrebande d’armes » vers Ghaza. Rice a indiqué avoir téléphoné aux ministres des Affaires étrangères britannique, David Miliband, allemand, Frank-Walter Steinmeier et français, Bernard Kouchner, « pour les informer » de sa démarche ajoutant : « Je pense que ces efforts vont être suivis très rapidement par les Européens ». Selon le porte-parole du département d’État, Sean McCormack, Washington s’engage dans ce document à mobiliser des « équipements » pour aider Israël à empêcher « la contrebande ». Il n’a cependant pas précisé ce que seraient ces équipements, mais il a indiqué que les États-Unis ne déploieraient pas de troupes sur le terrain. Dans cet entretien accordé au Courrier d’ Algérie, Thierry Meyssan revient sur cette offensive acharnée que mène Israël contre la bande de Ghaza
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In These New Times 