Posted by seumasach on January 12, 2009
11th January, 2009
MADRID, Spain (AP) – More than 100,000 people marched through Spain’s capital and other cities Sunday calling for Israel to announce an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
The protest in Madrid was the largest of demonstrations across Europe expressing both support and opposition for the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Protesters filled downtown boulevards carrying banners saying «Peace,»
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Posted by seumasach on January 12, 2009
Marl LeVine
12th January, 2009
One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling.
The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the truce, but by centre-right Israeli intelligence think tanks.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
10th January, 2009
Reporting from Washington and Rafah, Egypt — Some of them are said to be big enough to accommodate railroad cars. They may reach a depth of 60 feet, and are reported to be equipped with cables and electric motors that move food, fuel — and probably some of the heaviest rockets that Hamas aims at Israel.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
“Israel is committing flagrant violations of international law by ignoring Resolution 1860 and going ahead with its aggression, using universally prohibited weapons,” Bashir added.
Israel has rejected the resolution which calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, Jordan’s King Abdullah II discussed the rising tensions with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and “stressed the responsibility of the world community in forcing Israel to … stop its aggression and allow entry of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people,” a royal court statement said.
Abbas made a stopover in Amman after meeting Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in Cairo on his way back home from New York where he attended the UN Security Council deliberations that produced Resolution 1860.
King Abdullah “underscored the importance of coming up with a unified Arab attitude that foils the Israeli schemes and helps the launching of a real world effort to find a solution for the conflict on the basis of ending the occupation and setting up an independent Palestinian state,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Jordanian government came under fresh attack in the lower house of parliament on Sunday for its failure to sever ties with Israel and dismiss the Israeli ambassador from Amman.
Prime Minister Nader Dahabi has said that all options are open to Jordan including a “review” of ties with Israel.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
Chinese Central Bank to Test Program to Settle Trade in Yuan Rather Than Dollars
Naked Capitalism
10th January, 2009
While it would be easy to dismiss this move by the People’s Bank of China to inch away from dollar based invoicing, the fact is that the use of other currencies for denominating trade transactions has been on the rise. We cited this Globe and Mail story back in February:
The chief executive of jewellery giant De Beers SA made waves this week when he suggested the global diamond industry consider pricing the shiny gems in a currency other than the U.S. dollar.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
11th January, 2009
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked to speak with his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert just before the start of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Olmert avoided Erdogan because he did not want to tell the Turkish premier about the coming attack. He did not want to be in Menachem Begin’s situation when Begin spoke to Egyptian president Anwar Sadat one time in 1981 and did not tell him Israel was about to attack Iraq’s nuclear reactor. As a result, Erdogan was enraged and insulted. Turkish sources say Erdogan’s campaign of insults against Israel in recent weeks is a reaction to this.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
5th January, 2009
The following is a timeline of events leading to the ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip that began on December 27 with Israel’s aerial bombardment of Hamas-linked compounds in the coastal sliver:
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
Palestinian fighters have fired more rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on the 16th day of Israeli incursion into the besieged region.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
Uri Avnery
10th January, 2009
NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called – the Red Army – held the millions of the town – s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell the population and to impose a total blockade, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2009
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In These New Times 