Posts Tagged ‘Occupation’
Rachel Corrie – Interview
Footage from Rachel’s interview conducted by Middle East Broadcasting Company on March 14th, 2003, two days before she was murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Photostory: Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist
A jury in Kentucky sentenced a 24-year-old former soldier to life in prison without parole on Thursday for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her, her parents and a younger sister in Iraq.
Former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green was escorted to the courthouse during his trial in Paducah, Ky., in April.
The verdict [...]
“we should kill everyone there [in the center of Gaza]. Everyone there is a terrorist.”
Another squad leader from the same brigade told of an incident where the company commander ordered that an elderly Palestinian woman be shot and killed; she was walking on a road about 100 meters from a house the company had [...]
Viva Palestina Email Alert
19.00 (GMT) Tuesday 11th March
THE ‘ANGELS’ ARE IN TOWN
Gaza woke up this morning not to the sounds of F16s and the awful smells and white smoke of phosphorous bombs, but to the amazing sights of those ‘angels’ who have defied the odds to be with them in this time of great need.
Today [...]
Occupation 101 – the root of the conflict
‘Occupation 101′ presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli [...]
Also read B ´tselem report slams West Bank checkpoints as ´illegal ´
It took some time to make sense of the scene in front of us.
A jailer at Baghdad’s Rusafa prison had just swung open the heavy metal-barred door.
Inside a small dimly lit room, the first sight was the iron-framed double bunks, packed together and hung with plastic bags, clothes and towels.
Then, staring back at us from [...]
This section examines the legality of the 2003 US-UK war on Iraq. Shortly before the outbreak of hostilities, UN Secretary General stated that the use of force without Council endorsement would “not be in conformity with the Charter” and many legal experts now describe the US-UK attack as an act of aggression, violating international law. [...]










