Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor provides this July 14 round-up of the fast-escalating Israel-Lebanon crisis and international reactions. We especially love Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon’s invocation (yet again) of US atrocities in Afghanistan, and Russia’s in Chechnya—as… Read moreLebanon carnage escalates; media silence on Israeli protests
The following paid advertisement was signed by 300 Jews in Britain and placed in The London Times on July 7: WHAT IS ISRAEL DOING? A CALL BY JEWS IN BRITAIN WE WATCH WITH HORROR the collective punishment of the people… Read moreJews in Britain protest Israel’s Gaza aggression
The Israeli peace group Gush Shalom placed the following paid statement in Haaretz and the International Herald Tribune on July 7: The march of folly The offensive on land, from the sea and from the air does not put an… Read moreGush Shalom protests Gaza aggression
From Israel’s largest daily, Yediot Aharanot, July 5: Look who’s been kidnapped! Hundreds of Palestinian ‘suspects’ have been kidnapped from their homes and will never stand trial by Arik Diamant It’s the wee hours of the morning, still dark outside…. Read moreIsraeli refusenik on “kidnapping”
Israeli tanks and troops have entered southern Gaza after warplanes attacked three bridges and knocked out electricity to the coastal strip—in response to the capture of a young Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants. (AP, June 28) But mainstream reports are… Read moreIsraeli army veteran protests media bias in Gaza coverage
From Israel’s largest newspaper, Yediot Aharanot: Refuseniks call on soldiers to refuse striking Gaza June 23 by Yossi Yehoshua The Courage to Refuse organization, which advocates soldiers’ refusal to serve in the occupied territories, renewed its activity on Thursday in… Read moreIsraeli Refuseniks: quit firing at Gaza
While Human Rights Watch has revealed yet more evidence showing the Israeli army’s culpability in shelling an innocent family of Palestinian bathers in Gaza, Israel still officially denies its responsibility. An Israeli parliamentarian is calling for an outside investigation. The… Read moreIsraeli artilleryman predicted Gaza beach carnage
Hamas called off a 16-month-old truce with Israel June 9 after attacks by Israeli forces in Gaza killed 10 Palestinians, including three children playing on a beach. “The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle,” Hamas said in a statement…. Read moreHamas ends truce following Gaza raids, demands Egyptian intervention
More uneasy deja vu from Lebanon. The sons of the Syria-backed President Emile Lahoud and the bitterly anti-Syria Druze leader Walid Jumblatt get into a shoot-out in Beirut—just as their fathers opposed each other in the civil war. From Lebanon’s… Read moreDeja vu in Lebanon: Lahoud-Jumblatt shoot-out
Received by email: The Congress of South African Trade Unions issues statement supporting CUPE resolution The President, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, June 6, 2006 Brother Sid Ryan, On behalf over 1,2 million South African workers organized under… Read moreSouth African Unions support Israel boycott
From the JTA, May 20: Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says AIPAC is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said the supporter of the American… Read moreCongresswoman boycotts AIPAC
Israel is continuing “targetted assassinations” in supposedly unoccupied Gaza. But internecine Palestinian violence, alas, now seems equally efficient in killing off the Palestinian leadership. An Israeli missile strike on a car in Gaza City May 20 killed a top Islamic… Read morePalestine headed for civil war?
