Gaza Stripe
Jan 13 2010, Marco Villa

A “miracle” built on the theft, massacres and continued oppressive occupation and disposition of another people and their land.

Right-wing and Zionist New York Times columnist David Brooks’ new column promotes the new Zionist propaganda that...

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A special award for hypocrisy and phony outrage has to go to the Anti-Defamation League. The organization exists ostensibly to combat anti-Semitism, but is now nothing...
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In a predictable move, the U.S. Congress - no doubt compelled by the famed (or infamous) Israel lobby - is considering and will likely pass a resolution condemning a...
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Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently increased tensions between his nation and Israel after stating in an interview with a British daily (during which...
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Although supporters of Israel are always quick to attack critics of the Jewish state as vulgar anti-Semites, the state of Israel and Zionists are no strangers to...
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Turkey was the second Muslim nation to recognize Israel in 1948 (after Iran), and since then both nations have been allies. In 2008, bi-lateral trade topped $3 billion....
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Another Week in Review in Occupied Palestine. First, here is the generous spirit of Israelis: A Palestinian taken by ambulance to a Jerusalem hospital was denied...
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Mahmoud Abbas, the “president” (his term expired and elections have been postponed) of the Palestinian Authority, is facing a great credibility and...
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This will be an increasingly common occurrence for Israeli officials at public events: booed. Fmr. Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who resigned to fight corruption...
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I have long criticized Persian Gulf royals for be vapid, uneducated, sellouts, money-squanders and selfish. But every now and then there is one royal worthy of praise....
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The Palestinians of Gaza are suffering from the most cruel blockade by Israel and Egypt; and the rest of the world indirectly. In a population of 1.5 million, 80% are...
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I never fail to be amazed by the tenacity, the determination and persistence of the Palestinian people. Israelis see this, and it scares them. That is why they seek to...
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Meet the world’s youngest prisoner. His name is Yusuf az-Ziq and he is twenty months old. A Palestinian from Gaza he was born inside an Israeli jail cell. He was...
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The new United Nations report on the December-January Israeli war against Hamas and the Palestinians of Gaza was damning in its critique of Israel accusing the nation...
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In a much-anticipated, 575-page United Nation report on the Israeli war against the Palestinians of Gaza (December 2008-January 2009), the state of Israel came in for...
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After months of investigations, the special United Nations commission finally issues its much-anticipated report on the Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza...
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(Photo Credit: al-Sumaria TV.) The non-profit Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has documented the fatal shooting of one Palestinian male youth and the...
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Palestinians in Gaza have long mastered the art of tunnel building. It’s an art born out of necessity due to Israeli blockade against them. Israel tightened its...
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Christian Amanpour is one the best journalists of her time. This is a serious woman who does not follow trivial stories or cover anything in conventional terms....
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Palestinian children killed by Israeli during Operation Cast Lead. Human Rights Watch - the U.S. branch of Amnesty International - states in a new report that...
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During Israel’s most large-scale offense against the Palestinians of Gaza, state-sanctioned Rabbis urged Israeli occupation troops to kill with impunity and a...
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Palestinian children in Gaza. These are the children that Israel wants us to believe are terrorists. These are the faces that Israel killed over 400 last...
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Viva Palestine is a British NGO dedicated to aiding the Palestinian people. For months, Viva Palestine has tired to enter the beleaguered Gaza Stripe only to have their...
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One should never generalize about all Israelis. While it is true that most Israeli have now adopted the bigoted, militarist language of Likud; there are still a noble...
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The Israeli government is seeking to force Palestinians onto a dietary plan. Since 2006, 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been blockaded into an open-air prison...
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While the world’s attention is focused on Iran, the Palestinians of Gaza - all 1.5 million of them - continue to suffer at the hands of a cruel and...
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You read this article in The Economist and appreciate just how irredeemable the state of “Israel” is: MUHAMMAD KHADER places some rugs and blankets amid...
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Just because one is critical, nay even anti, Israel and find its assault against Gaza to be a massacre that constitutes war crimes; does not mean that Hamas should get...
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The Minister of Social Affairs in the Gaza Stripe has issued a report that documents that in Israel’s most recent assault on Gaza, Israeli Defense Forces left 437...
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In the past few days, two prominent American-Jews have spoken out against Israel’s assault against the Palestinians in Gaza. The Palestinians in the Stripe have...
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This is the headline this week: According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, during the week of 02 - 08 April 2009, two members of the Palestinian resistance...
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A while back I wrote about how courageous congressmen visited Gaza. Congressmen Brian Baird [D - Washington] and Keith Ellison [D - Minnesota] are among the most...
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The times’ a changin’. Today, the New York Times published a scathing report on Israel’s war crimes during its assault on Gaza. Written by a...
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Another Palestine round-up According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, during the week of 26 March- 01 April 2009, two members of the Palestinian resistance...
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There is so much bad news coming out of Palestine that I just can’t write a post for as many stories as I want. So I offer with comments a news round-up: The...
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It is a sad story written a thousand times before. A Palestinian mother loses her children to Israeli gunfire of imprisonment. Umm Jaber Wishah of Gaza City lost the...
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According to The Marker, an Israeli Hebrew-language business publication, 21% of Israeli exporting businesses have been directly affected by an international boycott...
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Vice-President Dick Cheney was not content directly and indirectly overseeing the death of thousands of Arab and Muslim children in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq,...
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While Israel was brutally massacring Palestinians in Gaza, the inept and corrupt King Abdullah of Jordan was busy ignoring the suffering of the Palestinians and praying...
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The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, in cooperation with the Washington Post have asked me to write a review of the film Slingshot Hip Hop after I had attended...
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