- This is a gut-wrenching full length promotional documentary (83mins) of the 2008-2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military, three years ago to the day. It uses actual footage from local Palestinian crews of the bombs falling, the terror of the Palestinians targeted and the ensuing chaos of getting the wounded to overcrowded hospitals and overworked medical staff while Israel continued its relentless attack without mercy.
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Stories are told through shell-shocked children who have lost parents and other family members and who have been horribly maimed, physically and psychologically. This is not something that anyone should turn away from in squeamishness because it is very real and continues to happen to Palestinians who resist Israel’s inhuman oppression of their daily lives.
. - We just don’t hear about it in the mainstream media. If you can absorb the grotesque acts of inhumanity in Holocaust museums and talk about them afterwards and say “never again”, then you have an obligation to see what is actually happening today to people struggling to survive under Israel’s ruthless military domination and occupation.
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Sonia Karkar
Editor – Australians for Palestine
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WATCH THE FILM HERE: http://www.australiansforpalestine.net/56077#more-56077
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Palestine: Documentary 'Tears Of Gaza'
Sunday, December 4, 2011
ISRAEL : In Israel They Shackle Palestinian Children
Perhaps the most shocking of all things in Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is the way that children are treated. It is unimaginable that an Jewish Israeli child would be brought to court in shackles or even be placed in a court of law.
Beatings and abuse of children by the Israeli military is common and judges, such as the one below, don’t even blink an eye. Thus is legal racism established.
Below this is a paper circulated by Dr Derek Summerfield from Defence for Children International – Palestine Section, on the shooting of children working near the northern border of Gaza.
Tony Greenstein..read more
http://www.shoah.org.uk/2011/01/11/in-israel-they-shackle-palestinian-children/
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
#Palestine : #UNESCO - Welcome !
UNESCO delegates applaud after the General Conference admits Palestine as UNESCO member state in Paris [EPA]
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/welcoming-palestine-to-unesco-by-prof-em-richard-falk/
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
#Palestine : #Israel plans to build 2,000 new settlement homes and to freeze the transfer of tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority
Israel announced on Tuesday plans to build 2,000 new settlement homes and to freeze the transfer of tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority. One Israeli official admitted the measures were agreed to as punishment after the vote at UNESCO. On Monday, the United Nations cultural body voted to grant Palestine full membership. Most of the new settlement homes will be built in occupied East Jerusalem, an area Palestinians claim as the capital of their future state.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/2/headlines#9
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/2/headlines#9
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
#Palestine #Amnesty mark release of Linan Abu Ghulmeh, a Palestinian woman held for 15 months without trial by the Israeli military
Linan Abu Gulmeh was released last week from administrative detention in Israel.
Linan, a beautician from the village of Beit Furiq in the West Bank seen here with her mother, had been arrested on 15 July 2010 and held since then without charge or trial. During the first two weeks of her detention she was denied access to a lawyer, deprived of sleep and food, and held in solitary confinement.
Amnesty International Ireland campaigned for her release, and members from around the country took action on Linan's behalf. Last week she was released as part of a prisoner exchange for the return of imprisoned Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Linan has spoken to our team working on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and is in extremely high spirits. She asked us to pass on her gratitude to everyone who took action and ensured her case got international attention. She expressed her hope Amnesty International will continue to work on similar cases.
Find out more about our work on human rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestyinian Territories.
Take action to help free Anas Al Shogre in Syria.
http://www.amnesty.ie/news/linan-abu-ghulmeh-released
Linan, a beautician from the village of Beit Furiq in the West Bank seen here with her mother, had been arrested on 15 July 2010 and held since then without charge or trial. During the first two weeks of her detention she was denied access to a lawyer, deprived of sleep and food, and held in solitary confinement. Amnesty International Ireland campaigned for her release, and members from around the country took action on Linan's behalf. Last week she was released as part of a prisoner exchange for the return of imprisoned Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Linan has spoken to our team working on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and is in extremely high spirits. She asked us to pass on her gratitude to everyone who took action and ensured her case got international attention. She expressed her hope Amnesty International will continue to work on similar cases.
Find out more about our work on human rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestyinian Territories.
Take action to help free Anas Al Shogre in Syria.
http://www.amnesty.ie/news/linan-abu-ghulmeh-released
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
#Palestinian negotiators accept Jewish state, papers reveal
Tzipi Livni told she can call Israel what she wants, but her demands to move Arab Israelis to Palestinian state are rejected
An Israeli flag is projected on to the Old City walls of Jerusalem. Secret papers reveal Palestinian acceptance of demands for a Jewish state, and Israeli leaders pushing to move Palestinians out of such a state. Photograph: Michal Fattal/EPA
Palestinian negotiators privately accepted Israel's demand that it define itself as a Jewish state, the leaked papers reveal, while Israeli leaders pressed for the highly controversial transfer of some of their own Arab citizens into a future Palestinian state as part of a land-swap deal.
Both issues go to the heart of the two-state solution to the conflict which 20 years of negotiations have failed to deliver.Palestinian Authority leaders publicly reject any ethnic or religious definition of Israel, and it is fiercely opposed by many of Israel's own Palestinian citizens.
When Israel's Likud prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said last October he would temporarily halt settlement building in exchange for Jewish state recognition, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, described it as a "racist" demand.
But behind closed doors in November 2007, Erekat told Tzipi Livni, the then Israeli foreign minister and now opposition leader: "If you want to call your state the Jewish state of Israel you can call it what you want," comparing it to Iran and Saudi Arabia's definition of themselves as Islamic or Arab.
Palestinians see it as effectively closing down the "right of return" of refugees to what is now Israel, and undermining the national and civil rights of the country's 1.3 million-strong Arab minority.
The PLO and Israel formally recognised each other in 1993. But accepting Israel as an ethnically or religiously defined state is highly neuralgic, not least because it would be regarded by Palestinians as endorsing the legitimacy of Zionism.
Erekat signalled acquiescence but refused to formally discuss the matter further. "I don't care," he insisted in June 2009. "This is a non-issue. I dare the Israelis to write to the UN and change their name to the 'Great Eternal Historic State of Israel'. This is their issue, not mine."..read more
http://gu.com/p/2mtne/tw
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
#Palestine : UN Receives Palestinian Application for Membership
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today submitted an application for Palestine to become a United Nations Member State.
Mr. Abbas handed over an application to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at UN Headquarters in New York this morning. Palestine currently has observer status at the UN.
This afternoon Mr. Ban submitted the application to the President of the Security Council, as per the provisions of the UN Charter.
Any application is considered by the Council, which decides whether or not to recommend admission to the 193-member General Assembly, which has to adopt a resolution for the admission of any new Member State.
Later, Mr. Abbas told the Assembly’s annual general debate that Palestine is applying for full membership of the UN, on the basis of the so-called 4 June 1967 borders.
“Palestine is being reborn. This is my message,” he said, adding that he hoped it did not have to wait long for the application to be approved.
“I call upon Mr. Secretary-General to expedite transmittal of our request to the Security Council, and I call upon the distinguished members of the Security Council to vote in favour of our full membership. I also appeal to the States that have not yet done so to recognize the State of Palestine.”
In his address to the Assembly, Mr. Abbas said that Israeli Government policies were responsible “for the continued failure of the successive international attempts to salvage the peace process.”
Read more...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1139/001/UN_Receives_Palestinian_Application_For_Membership.html
Mr. Abbas handed over an application to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at UN Headquarters in New York this morning. Palestine currently has observer status at the UN.
This afternoon Mr. Ban submitted the application to the President of the Security Council, as per the provisions of the UN Charter.
Any application is considered by the Council, which decides whether or not to recommend admission to the 193-member General Assembly, which has to adopt a resolution for the admission of any new Member State.
Later, Mr. Abbas told the Assembly’s annual general debate that Palestine is applying for full membership of the UN, on the basis of the so-called 4 June 1967 borders.
“Palestine is being reborn. This is my message,” he said, adding that he hoped it did not have to wait long for the application to be approved.
“I call upon Mr. Secretary-General to expedite transmittal of our request to the Security Council, and I call upon the distinguished members of the Security Council to vote in favour of our full membership. I also appeal to the States that have not yet done so to recognize the State of Palestine.”
In his address to the Assembly, Mr. Abbas said that Israeli Government policies were responsible “for the continued failure of the successive international attempts to salvage the peace process.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) submits application to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for Palestine to become a UN Member State
Credit: UN
Read more...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1139/001/UN_Receives_Palestinian_Application_For_Membership.html
#Muslim peace conference condemns terrorism
Thousands of Muslims have attended a peace conference in London which has condemned terrorism.
About 12,000 Muslims gathered at Wembley Arena for Islamic group Minhaj-ul-Quran's Peace for Humanity Conference.The conference launched a campaign to get one million people to sign an online declaration of peace by 2012.
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said the conference would send a message that 10 years of extremist activity should end.... read more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15044797
#Palestine : Bill Clinton ' #Netanyahu killed the Peace Process' !
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/22/bill_clinton_netanyahu_killed_the_peace_process#.TnwCK50tSid.twitter
#Palestine : Bill Clinton ' #Netanyahu is not interested in Mid East peace'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the inability to reach a peace deal that would end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Thursday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, the former U.S. president was quoted by Foreign Policy magazine as claiming that Netanyahu lost interest in the peace process as soon as two basic Israelis demands seemed to come into reach: a viable Palestinian leadership and the possibility of normalizing ties with the Arab world.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bill-clinton-netanyahu-isn-t-interested-in-mideast-peace-deal-1.386222
Speaking on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, the former U.S. president was quoted by Foreign Policy magazine as claiming that Netanyahu lost interest in the peace process as soon as two basic Israelis demands seemed to come into reach: a viable Palestinian leadership and the possibility of normalizing ties with the Arab world.
 | Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaking during the 2011 Clinton Global Citizen Award ceremony at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22, 2011. |
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bill-clinton-netanyahu-isn-t-interested-in-mideast-peace-deal-1.386222
#Iran: PM - UN remarks fit Britain better than Iran !
The British Prime Minister David Cameron counted the key criticisms of his own government during his UN General Assembly address but accused Iran of facing those difficulties rather than Britain.
Cameron who was waiting in the wings when President Ahmadinejad was addressing the chamber diverted from his script and launched an attack on the Iranian president saying Tehran is impinging on the freedom of speech and of media and leading a crackdown on demonstrators.
"He [Ahmadinejad] didn't remind us that he runs a country where they may have elections of a sort but they also repress freedom of speech, do everything they can to avoid the accountability of a free media, violently prevent demonstrations and detain and torture those who argue for a better future," Cameron said.
The elements of his comments, however, were very familiar to the British who have been following up the news in their own country over the recent months.
The PM put social networking websites including Facebook and Twitter as well as Research In Motion company, which produces Blackberry devices, under pressure back in August to suspend their services during civil disturbances.
That was in the aftermath of the worst unrest in more than three decades that started in London's Tottenham area and spread across Britain.
“So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services,” Cameron told the Commons back in August.
That was only one case in the long list of the British government's clampdown on the freedom of expression that includes prosecuting anti-tax-avoidance protesters for fabricated violence charges and using brutal tactics in dealing with students calling for lower university tuition fees.
Closely affiliated with Britain's restraints on freedom of speech are London's violent suppression of demonstrations that have shaken the pillars of the British society over the second half of the 2010 and well into 2011.
The British police have been repeatedly charged with using ferociously aggressive tactics in dealing with demonstrators among them kettling protesters, using rubber bullets to disperse them, charging horses at demonstrators and resorting to harsh physical handling of activists.
This is while Cameron himself approved using water cannons during civil disturbances back in August.
As for the detentions, which Cameron pointed to during his attack on Ahmadinejad, it goes without saying that London is a champion in putting people in prisons as evidence of the recent unrests show.
The scale of the detentions after the unrest was such that prison officials said the arrests shot the number of inmates to record high levels making jails full to the brim.
After all, the question that rings in the mind after Cameron's attack on Iran is whether London's clampdown on freedom of speech, free media and demonstrations and detention of those opposed to the government policies make Britain a better country with a “better future.”
AMR/HE
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200731.html
Friday, September 23, 2011
#Palestine : UK Protestors demand recognition of Palestine.
Demotix image
British activists held a large rally outside the Downing Street to condemn the Israeli regime and call on the government to support recognition of the Palestinians' statehood bid.
The rally organized by Palestine 194 campaign group called on Prime Minister David Cameron to “recognize Palestine” as a state.
The vocal demonstrations featured anti-Zionist Jews carrying placards , which read “recognize Palestine”, “vote for Palestine” and “a Palestinian state a step in the right direction.”
Palestine 194 said on its website that their demand is supported by “almost 60 percent of the British public” and “over 90 [British] MPs” who have “signed a motion” demanding “recognition of Palestine in the United Nations.”
British pollsters YouGov found in a research on September 6 that 71 percent of the public think that the Palestinian people have a right “to their own state.”
The campaign group called on the British government and the UN to recognize Palestine as the international body's 194th member state.
London has announced that they will not support Palestinians' bid for full UN membership.
Foreign office sources said last week that Britain will start using the word “state” to refer to Palestine if Palestinians avoid taking their statehood bid to the UN.
The sources said London will only approve the same 'non-member state' status at the United Nations as the Vatican for Palestinians but if they resume negotiations with the Israeli regime based on the so-called Middle East peace process.
The peace talks have been paralyzed by the Israeli regime's lack of commitment to its terms, especially an end to settlement-building in the Palestinian occupied territories.
A number of British MPs, leaders and members of the workers' unions and anti-Zionist Jews were present at the rally.
AMR/HE
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200561.html
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