Posts Tagged Gaza
Gaza War Crimes: Chief Rabbi Goldstein apologise to Justice Goldstone
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Palestine/Israel, South African politics on 22/07/2010
GAZA WAR CRIMES: WHO WILL STAND TRIAL? At least twenty-six members of the Al-Samouni family in Gaza were deliberately murdered by the Israeli armed forces. Ten of the dead were children. Who are those responsible for the war crimes against the people of Gaza? This post contains three articles. The first is an article by [...]
Is the Israeli judiciary independent & Can talks succeed without Hamas?
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Palestine/Israel on 12/07/2010
Israel apologists often calls it the only democracy in the Middle-East that also boasts an independent judiciary. Veteran Israeli journalist Amira Hass shows that for Palestinians the judiciary remains an instrument of repression. This week’s Economist reports on Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal’s view on the latest “talks” about “talks” between Israel and its proxy Fatah. [...]
Open Gaza Now: Sign on letter from South Africa
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 08/06/2010
Open Gaza Now We condemn the Israeli attack on the flotilla to Gaza and the blockade this attack seeks to enforce. The attack killed 9 people and the blockade has killed many more. On 31 May Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara in international waters, 72 nautical miles off the coast of Israel. In South [...]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Address to the UN Security Council
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 05/06/2010
This speech is worth studying Address by H.E. Ahmet Davutoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Turkey at the United Nations Security Council, 31 May 2010, New York Mr. President, I appear before you today as a result of a very sad and tragic occasion where one state member of this august house has [...]
Al-Ahram: Why Bassem Al-Kafarna in Gaza Cried when the Flotilla was stopped and the people massacred
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 05/06/2010
Blood and hope Palestinians in Gaza are grieving the horrific loss of international activists murdered by Israel, conscious too that their sacrifice has dealt a deathblow to the Israeli siege, writes Saleh Al-Naami It was a long time before Bassem Al-Kafarna’s friends and family were able to calm him down after receiving news of Israel’s [...]
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