occupation

hamas' offer of peace

Submitted by antarchi on November 22, 2008 - 18:42

Israeli media revealed ... that one of the first acts of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister elected in 2006, was to send a message to the Bush White House offering a long-term truce in return for an end to Israeli occupation. His offer was not even acknowledged.

Instead, according to the daily Jerusalem Post, Israeli policymakers have sought to reinforce the impression that “it would be pointless for Israel to topple Hamas because the population [of Gaza] is Hamas”. On this thinking, collective punishment is warranted because there are no true civilians in Gaza.

— Jonathan Cook

The real goal of Israel's blockade

remember these children

Submitted by antarchi on November 8, 2008 - 17:28

TOTAL DEATHS SINCE SEPT 2000:

Israeli children: 123
Palestinian children: 1050

TOTALS FOR 2000:

Israeli children: 0
Palestinian children: 91

— Remember these children

Remember these children

US vetos at the UN Security Council

Submitted by antarchi on February 18, 2012 - 01:41

List compiled by Geoff Williams

Russia has used their veto TWICE

Year: Resolution Vetoed by the USA

  • 1972 Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids.
  • 1973 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians and calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.
  • 1976 Condemns Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians.
  • 1976 Condemns Israel for building settlements in the occupied territories.
  • 1976 Calls for self determination for the Palestinians.
  • 1976 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians.
  • 1978 Urges the permanent members (USA, USSR, UK, France, China) to insure United Nations decisions on the maintenance of international peace and security.
  • 1978 Criticises the living conditions of the Palestinians.
  • 1978 Condemns the Israeli human rights record in occupied territories.
  • 1978 Calls for developed countries to increase the quantity and quality of development assistance to underdeveloped countries.
  • 1979 Calls for an end to all military and nuclear collaboration with the apartheid South Africa.
  • 1979 Strengthens the arms embargo against South Africa.
  • 1979 Offers assistance to all the oppressed people of South Africa and their liberation movement.
  • 1979 Concerns negotiations on disarmament and cessation of the nuclear arms race.
  • 1979 Calls for the return of all inhabitants expelled by Israel.
  • 1979 Demands that Israel desist from human rights violations.
  • 1979 Requests a report on the living conditions of Palestinians in occupied Arab countries.
  • 1979 Offers assistance to the Palestinian people.
  • 1979 Discusses sovereignty over national resources in occupied Arab territories.

    • united bases of america

    Submitted by antarchi on February 18, 2012 - 00:59

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    — Richard Johnson

    Mapping a superpower-sized military

    aristide movement must be stopped

    Submitted by antarchi on August 6, 2011 - 13:23

    Washington fought to get and keep Aristide out of Haiti, []wikileaks cables make clear. “A premature departure of MINUSTAH would leave the [Haitian] government...vulnerable to...resurgent populist and anti-market economy political forces—reversing gains of the last two years,” wrote US Ambassador Janet Sanderson in an October 1, 2008, cable. MINUSTAH “is an indispensable tool in realizing core USG [US government] policy interests in Haiti.”

    At a high-level meeting five years ago, top US and UN officials discussed how the “Aristide Movement Must Be Stopped,” according to an August 2, 2006, cable. It described how former Guatemalan diplomat Edmond Mulet, then chief of MINUSTAH, “urged US legal action against Aristide to prevent the former president from gaining more traction with the Haitian population and returning to Haiti.”

    At Mulet’s request, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki “to ensure that Aristide remained in South Africa.”

    — Kim Ives

    Wikileaks Haiti: The Aristide Files

    obama 'withdraws' from afghanistan

    Submitted by antarchi on June 25, 2011 - 18:45

    When Obama took office in 2009, the U.S. had about 34,000 troops in Afghanistan. Obama has initiated two major troop increases in Afghanistan: about 20,000 additional troops were announced in February 2009, followed by the December 2009 announcement that an another 33,000 would be deployed as well; other smaller increases have brought the total to 100,000...

    [Media] reporting also nearly universally excluded any mention of the 100,000 Pentagon contractors currently in Afghanistan, which double the U.S. military commitment there. Given the full context, it's hard to read a phased pullout of 30,000 out of 200,000 over the course of an entire year as a "rapid" withdrawal

    — FAIR

    Defining 'Withdrawal' From Afghanistan

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