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Report from Gaza: Two Years After Operation Cast Lead

The 2nd anniversary of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza; over 1400 people murdered, at least 350 were children.

(GAZA CITY) - The police academy in Gaza was the scene of the beginning of Israel's slaughter two years ago.

I'd like people in the west to imagine if any of the so-called Iraqi or Afghan insurgents went to New York or London and planted a bomb, blowing up a police station and killed 90 police. Can you imagine the reaction?

The Siege of Gaza

It is our duty to finish what the brave men and women of the Freedom Flotilla and the campaigns that preceded it. It is time to break the siege.

(TEL AVIV) - The three year old siege on the Gaza Strip and its 1.5 million inhabitants is a testament to the Israeli regime's disregard of law, decency and morality.

This siege amounts to collective punishment, an action outlawed by various conventions and humanitarian laws. This is not to mention the suffering and humanitarian crisis caused by this law.

Israel: `Take it from the Horse`s Mouth`

“Everyone has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements, because everything we take now will stay ours” - Ariel Sharon, 1998

(TEL AVIV) - If one wants to know why and how the conflict started in Palestine more than 60 years ago, the "confessions" of Israeli and Zionist leaders should make it very clear.

700,000 Palestinians (more than half of the Palestinian population at the time) were expelled in 1948. During this period, more than 600 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed.

Israeli Activist States: `I`ll Go to Prison With my Head Held High`

Jonathan Pollak is sentenced to 3 months in prison for speaking out against war crimes in Gaza.

(TEL AVIV) - Jonathan Pollak was sentenced to three months imprisonment this morning at the Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court for his participation in a 2008 bicycle in protest of the siege on Gaza. He will begin serving his sentence on January 11th.

Tel Aviv Magistrates court judge Yitzhak Yitzhak convicted Pollak of illegal assembly for his participation in a January 2008 Critical Mass ride against the siege on Gaza and then sentenced him to three months imprisonment...

German / US-Tanker to be Released by Somali Pirates

The fate of the crew of MT Marida Margeuerite still hangs in the balance.

(NAIROBI, Kenya ECOTERRA) - MT Marida Margeuerite ITE *was seized on the 8th day of this year. The vessel and crew were captured around 120 nm south of the Omani port of Salalah in the protected shipping corridor.

The German owner-managed, US-owner-registered chemical tanker of 13.273 dwt Marida Margeuerite (IMO 9445655) has a crew of 22 seamen, including 19 Indians, two Bangladeshi and one Ukrainian.'

Remembering Cast Lead and Israeli PR Equations

The prevailing Israeli notion is that massacres of Arabs do not affect Israel’s fundamental position as victim...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Today marks the two-year anniversary of the start of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, a 22-day onslaught in which Palestinian civilians perished at a rate of approximately 400: 1 vis-à-vis their Israeli counterparts.

I happened to be in Argentina during this particular conflict and was thus able to monitor how well the Israeli embassy and Jewish organizations in Buenos Aires...

The US National Image and its Contradictions

Lawrence Davidson analyzes the reasons behind the widening gulf between the US national self-image as “the world’s prime purveyor of good government, stability and progress” and the reality of imperial power, hypocrisy and double standards.

(LONDON) - Benjamin Disraeli once labeled Britain’s government "an organized hypocrisy". That was in circa 1845.

Things have not changed much and by now hypocrisy might well be seen as a common sin of democratic government.

Woman Dies in Crash on Broadway Bridge

One person in the car reportedly left the scene...

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Police responded to a vehicle accident on the west end of the Broadway Bridge this morning at approximately 5:30 a.m.

Lt. Kelli Sheffer with the Portland Police Bureau, says investigators determined that the vehicle from this morning's crash was traveling westbound on the Broadway Bridge when the vehicle was unable to stay on the roadway to the Northwest Lovejoy off ramp.

Jewish Diplomacy

Lieberman also rejected the notion of peace with the Palestinians...

(LONDON) - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman taught us today another lesson in Jewish diplomacy calling his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu a liar.

Lieberman took aim at Turkey today just hours after the Mavi Marmara was cheered into Istanbul port.

John Lennon, Dorothy Day and Christmas 2010 in the UK

Jesus envisioned a society based on love and tolerance, which is completely incompatible with war and all violence.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - In Ray Coleman's biography of John Lennon, he quotes the artist circa 1969, “I'd like to be like Christ, [he described himself as a Christian communist] in a pure sense, not in the way Russia or Italy think of Christianity or communism...