UN Report on Gaza flotilla killings:

Israel accused of war crimes for "unlawful assault"

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United Nations panel of human rights experts has accused Israel of war crimes through willful killing, unnecessary brutality and torture in its "clearly unlawful" assault on a ship attempting to break the blockade of Gaza in May in which nine Turkish activists died.

The report by three experts appointed by the UN's Human Rights Council (UNHRC) described the seizure of MV illegal under international law.

Negotiations On, Occupation via settlements are also On!

Settlements are against Geneva Conventions!

East Jerusalem clash turns deadly :

AlJazeeraEnglish | September 22, 2010 - A Palestinian has been killed after a Jewish settlement guard opened fire at a group of men in an Arab neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.

The incident occurred after clashes broke out between Jewish settlers and a

Did U.S. Soldiers Create Afghan Killing Club?

TheRealNews | September 20, 2010 - U.S. soldiers charged with targeting Afghan civilians; Army ignored pleas by soldier's father

Drugs and Murder in Afghanistan

TheRealNews | September 21, 2010 - Did U.S. Soldiers Create Afghan Killing Club Pt. 2 - Is Army culture to blame for the crimes?

Israel should not keep its History Behind Lock and key

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005

Jonathan Cook

The National

History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the unearthing of mass graves.

That danger explains a decision quietly taken last month by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to extend by an additional 20 years the country’s 50-year rule for the release of sensitive documents.

The new 70-year disclosure rule is the government’s response to Israeli journalists who have been seeking through Israel’s courts to gain access to documents that should already be declassified, especially those concerning the 1948 war, which established Israel, and the 1956 Suez crisis.

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Israel's "Sheer Criminal Aggression"

Attack on Gaza Flotilla Chomsky Says "No Credible Pretext"


The siege is savage and cruel, designed to keep the caged animals barely alive so as to fend off international protest, but hardly more than that.  It is the latest stage of long-standing Israeli plans, backed by the US, to separate Gaza from the West Bank. These are only the bare outlines of very ugly policies, in which Egypt is complicit as well.

Family of Gaza war victims doubt Israeli justice

AlJazeeraEnglish | July 06, 2010  -  An Israeli soldier has been charged with manslaughter in an Israeli court for the deaths of two Palestinian women during Israel's war on Gaza.

Majda Abu Hajaj and her 64-year-old mother were shot dead while carrying white flags they made out of bed sheets near their homes after the Israeli army forced the women to leave their house.

Gaza chocolatiers under siege

AlJazeeraEnglish | July 02, 2010 - Business in Gaza continues to suffer because Israel is refusing to allow companies to import certain materials which has forces thousands of Palestinians to rely on the use of underground tunnels to smuggle materials into the Gaza Strip.

US to blame for Afghan slaughter.

US-led forces have killed over 2,500 Afghan  civilians last year, according to official figures.

Thu, 01 Jul 2010  |  PressTV

 

US-led forces in Afghanistan have killed many civilians in the southern province of Helmand amid public outrage over rising death tolls in the war-torn county, Afghan sources say.

Afghan sources told Press TV that most of the victims of the US-led forces were civilians while a statement by International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Thursday that they had killed "a large number" of Taliban militants in the region and captured a Taliban chief of Naw Zad.

Jerusalem Plan to Demolish Palestinian Homes Raises Tensions.

June 24, 2010 | Israeli authorities say they are moving ahead with plans to demolish more than 20 homes in Silwan, an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Israeli officials want to clear the land to build an archeological park on a site -- just outside the walled old city -- where Jews believe the biblical King David walked. Silwan's Palestinian residents accuse Israel of trying to expel them in order to strengthen the Jewish presence in East Jerusalem, seized by Israel during the 1967 War. VOA Jerusalem correspondent Luis Ramirez reports. 

Gaza Siege.

Israel's siege of Gaza:

June 17, 2010 — Gaza has been under Israeli blockade since Hamas took control of the Strip in 2007.

The siege has forced Gazans to rely on supplies smuggled through tunnels that go underneath the territory's border with Egypt.

On Thursday, the Israeli government announced its decision to let in some items, but Hamas dismissed it as "just propaganda". Video Inside:

Gaza Flotilla Testimony of Laura Stewart, a composed housewife.

June 09, 2010 — produced by http://www.counterfire.org

Laura is a housewife from North London. She was on the Marvi Marmara when the Israelis attacked.

Predator Drones: Joking over innocent deaths?

RussiaToday — June 08, 2010 — As Washington expands its drone strikes in Pakistan, the number of civilians killed in the attacks keeps rising. Hundreds of people have died since 2004 and critics say the program only helps fuel the conflict and creates new militants rather than eliminating them.

US Drone Attacks - in Pakistan

PressTVGlobalNews | News Analysis — May 08, 2010 — CIA to expand drone raids in Pakistan

Mass grave of Iraqis soldiers found in Kuwait.

Fri, 07 May 2010  |  PressTV

 

Kuwait says it has found a mass grave where scores of slain Iraqi soldiers were buried during the 1991 US war with the ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Kuwaiti Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Saber said on Thursday that at least 55 Iraqi soldiers were buried in the grave in a northern town across from the Iraqi border, the official news agency KUNA reported.

Zionist group bans Goldstone.

In this June 3, 2009, file photo, UN investigator Richard Goldstone visits a destroyed house where family members were killed in an artillery strike during Israel's offensive on Gaza. AP Photo

Zionists threatened to interfere with the family matters of the author of the UN report which found Israel responsible for war crimes in Gaza.

Two Serbian policemen jailed for 31 years for killing 8,000 Muslims

Bosnia's war crimes court has jailed two former Serb police officers for 31 years each on charges of aiding in genocide and taking part in the killing of up to 8,000 Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in 1995.