We fought APARTHEID: We see no reasons to celebrate it in Israel now!!!

End The Occupation South Africa sends a message out to supporters of the Palestinian liberation movement. Our advertisement as it appears on page 41 of the Citizen (15 May 2008) is reproduced below:

Breaking the silence – Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah. Soldiers who serve in the Territories are witness to, and participate in military actions which change them immensely. Cases of abuse towards Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have been [...]

Survival of the Fittest? (On the Israeli ethnic cleansing)

Note: Benny Morris is the dean of Israeli ‘new historians’, who have done so much to create a critical vision of Zionism–its expulsion and continuing oppression of the Palestinians, its pressing need for moral and political atonement. His 1987 book, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, chronicled the Zionist murders, terrorism, and ethnic cleansing [...]

Israel and international law

Israel is in daily breach of its obligations under international law. Some of these breaches probably amount to war crimes.
The Fourth Geneva Convention 1949
(Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War)
A: Background
1. The purpose of the Fourth Geneva Convention
The Fourth Geneva Convention was specifically designed to protect civilians in time of [...]

World Court’s Ruling on Wall Speaks with Utmost Clarity + World court tells Israel to tear down illegal wall

The International Court of Justice advisory opinion and the justices’ separate opinions are accessible online.
The winter 2003 issue of Middle East Report, “International Justice, Local Injustices,” focuses on political obstacles to implementing decisions of international legal bodies in the Middle East.
Order back issues of Middle East Report, or subscribe, via a secure server at MERIP’s [...]

“The notion on holocaust uniqness ranks human suffering difff” (Norman Finkelstein)

The road to Auschwizt was build on hate
but paid with indiffrence
Ref: Norman Finkelstein on future TV

Norman Finkelstein – Hezbollah, the Honour of Lebanon (Memritv propaganda in action)

Following are excerpts from an interview with American Political Scientist Norman Finkelstein, which aired on Future TV on January 20, 2008. The questions were posed in Arabic, and Finkelstein’s responses are in English. EMRI Nazis
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* Israel Ministry [...]

Dennis Ross and the Peace Process: Subordinating Palestinian Rights to Israeli “Needs”

In this monograph, Finkelstein sets about the meticulous task of deconstructing Dennis Ross’ The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for the Middle East, which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2004. His aim: to challenge the book’s reception as the “definitive account” of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He does so [...]

Shin Bet detains, deports Jewish-American professor, Israel critic NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

The Shin Bet security service detained and deported a Jewish-American professor who is a prominent critic of the Israeli occupation when he landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Friday.
Professor Norman Finkelstein was interrogated for several hours and held in an airport cell before being put on a plane back to Amsterdam, his point of [...]