We Must Not Renege on War Crime Laws

We are shocked at suggestions by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Ivan Lewis and foreign secretary David Miliband that Britain may consider changing its laws to avoid any future attempts to prosecute suspected war criminals, Israeli or otherwise. The UK must not renege on its international treaty obligations, particularly those under the fourth Geneva convention to seek out and prosecute persons suspected of war crimes wherever and whoever they are, whatever their status, rank or influence, against whom good prima facie evidence has been laid. We reject any attempt to undermine the judiciary's independence and integrity. A judge who finds sufficient evidence of a war crime must have power to order the arrest of a suspect, subject to the usual rights to bail and appeal.'

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Two Killed, Four Injured in Israeli Attack on Gaza

At least two Palestinians have been killed and four others wounded in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.

Gaza hospital sources announced the reception of two bodies late on Monday, along with four other victims who had received medium to critical injuries, after an Israeli tank shelled the eastern Gaza city neighborhood of Shejaeya.'

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Are Hate Crimes Legalizing Treason?

Winning wars in the Information Age largely depends on winning the
battle for public opinion. Thus the opinion-shaping role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) when it attacked a high profile California professor for his criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine.

That ADL intimidation campaign successfully chilled debate on campuses
nationwide during several time-critical months while a new president, promising the hope of change, reassessed U.S.-Israeli relations. His only change-endorsing more Israeli settlements on Palestinian land-quashed any hope of peace.

This ADL silencing strategy offers a microcosm of how the U.S. was induced to war in Iraq based on false intelligence. From the provocation of September 11, 2001 until the invasion of March 2003, war-planners ignored, dismissed or sought to silence anyone critical of the spurious premises offered for war.

Only later did we discover that the intelligence was fixed around a preset agenda. Even now, Americans are unaware that the U.S.-led invasion had long been an Israeli goal.'

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Jordanian Professor: Israel Will Go to War Over Water

Israel will go to war against Lebanon and Egypt to solve its water crisis, a Jordanian political science professor has charged. Dr. Ghazi Al-Rababah told the Jordanian Al-Arab Alyawm newspaper that the first war would be in Shebaa farms area, a small part of which Lebanon and Syria have been trying to force Israel to surrender.

Although Israel is taking steps to solve the water shortage by building desalination plants that will be in full production in four years, al-Rababah declared that Israel will wage war against Egypt within seven years in order to control the Nile River.

He accused Israel of "stealing hundreds of millions cubic meters of water from the Litani water in Lebanon, which has violated agreements by diverting water from flowing across the border.'

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Israel to Coordinate With U.S., U.K. and France to Ensure Goldstone Veto

The General Assembly "requests the secretary general to transmit the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict to the Security Council," the resolution said.

The new resolution urged Israel and Palestine to launch investigations that "are independent, credible and in conformity with international standards" within three months.

According to Israeli sources, there is "little support" among Security Council members for approving practical actions to implement the report, with the U.S., France and the U.K. opposing the mere discussion of the report, and Russia and China inclined to vote against its adoption.'

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NAMAW Submits Goldstone Report to International Criminal Court

Whereas such actions on the part of the Secretary of State, and/or the US Ambassador would be unfortunate, our concern is that even if by some chance the Goldstone Report does reach the UN Security Council, the US will use its veto to prevent the Security Council from referring the report to the International Criminal Court, thereby preventing the initiation of an investigation into the allegations made in the report, as required by article 53 of the Rome Statute.'

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Israel Covers it's Tracks: Lebanon Blast Destroys Discovered Israeli Spy Gear

The Lebanese army is investigating the cause of a blast that rocked the outskirts of the southern town of Houla overnight.

The blast occurred after Lebanon's Hezbollah discovered cables used for spying in the al-Abbad area near Israeli's border post, DPA reported on Sunday.

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Syria: Israel is Dumping Nuclear Waste In the Golan Heights

Syria charges Israel with dumping nuclear waste near the Syrian border, in territories occupied by the regime during the 1967 Middle East war.

In a report titled The suffering of Syrian citizens in the Golan and submitted to the United Nations, Syrian officials have stated that the Israeli regime uses tunnels in the Golan Heights to bury nuclear waste, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reported.

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Not One Penny Has Reached Gaza

It has been six months since the international community pledged nearly US$5 billion (Dh18bn) in aid to the Palestinian people, chiefly for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after Israel’s devastating offensive there this year.

None of this aid has reached Gaza and no reconstruction has started.

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