A Trap for Fools
- Details
- Written by Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom
- Published: 22 July 2007 22 July 2007
- Hits: 4491 4491
A Stupid War
- Details
- Written by Uri Avnery Uri Avnery
- Published: 15 July 2007 15 July 2007
- Hits: 4305 4305
A DETECTIVE trying to solve a crime always asks "cui bono?" (who would profit?) When we try to solve the crime called the Second Lebanon War, this question must head the list.
'We have no rights and no future'
- Details
- Written by Clancy Chassay in Shatila refugee camp and Duncan Campbell in Beirut Clancy Chassay in Shatila refugee camp and Duncan Campbell in Beirut
- Published: 29 May 2007 29 May 2007
- Hits: 4581 4581
The standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants has focused attention on the 400,000 Palestinian refuges in the country
In Lebanon's dusty, overcrowded Palestinian refugee camps people live in abject poverty, with many families surviving on food rations and handouts from the UN, in what was once temporary housing.
In the teeming streets of Shatilla camp, the scene of a notorious civil war massacre, malnourished children play in little more than rags between crumbling bullet riddled buildings and amidst open sewage.
"We have no rights and no future. We have a lot of problems; We can't work freely, we cannot own a house, we cannot move around. We are treated as if we are not human," said 20-year-old Samar, from Shatilla.
Children Of The Dust
- Details
- Written by John Pilger John Pilger
- Published: 27 May 2007 27 May 2007
- Hits: 4615 4615
Children Of The Dust
Israel Annihilates Remainder Of Palestine - World Yawns
By John Pilger
The New Statesman
5-25-7
Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is being allowed to imprison an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza, whose suffering has become a metaphor for the tragedy imposed on the peoples of the Middle East and beyond. These attacks, reported on Channel 4 News, were "targeting key militants of Hamas" and the "Hamas infrastructure". The BBC described a "clash" between the same militants and Israeli F-16 aircraft.
Consider one such clash. The militants' car was blown to pieces by a missile from a fighter-bomber. Who were these militants? In my experience, all the people of Gaza are militant in their resistance to their jailer and tormentor. As for the "Hamas infrastructure", this was the headquarters of the party that won last year's democratic elections in Palestine. To report that would give the wrong impression. It would suggest that the people in the car and all the others over the years, the babies and the elderly who have also "clashed" with fighter-bombers, were victims of a monstrous injustice. It would suggest the truth.
New Jerusalem settlement planned
- Details
- Written by BBC News BBC News
- Published: 11 May 2007 11 May 2007
- Hits: 4629 4629
The plan, which has yet to receive final approval, would involve building about 20,000 homes.
The Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said the plan destroyed efforts to re-start the peace process.
He said Israel had to choose between settlements or peace, but could not have both.