August 11, 2009 Resigning from Cohen and Amnesty | Pulse Renowned Irish composer and novelist Raymond Deane on the reasons why he has chosen to resign from Amnesty International. We encourage readers to follow Deane’s example. Activists leafletting a Leonard Cohen concert in Liverpool When I first – and belatedly – began fretting about human rights and political injustice in the wake of the 1990-91 Gulf War, I joined Amnesty International and started writing letters and cards to political prisoners and to a variety of Embassies...Read article... Anti-Zionists: The New Heretics, by Jeff Gates “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”– George Santayana Read article... 9 Aug 2009 Obama and the Israel Lobby, Part One: Origins of Power | Counterpunch 3 Aug 2009 The View from Gaza Six months after the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Antony Loewenstein went to see how its people are coping under Israel's continuing blockade The no-man’s land you must cross to get from Israel into Gaza is a 500-metre stretch of sand. We — myself and the porter helping with my bags — walked along it, between bombed buildings on both sides of the road. When I reached the Hamas checkpoint, my passport was briefly checked and my cases looked over, and I was inside. Compared to this, Israel felt like another planet. The drive from the checkpoint into Gaza City, a relatively short distance, quickly reminded me that I was in Hamas-controlled territory. The group’s flags flapped in the wind. Buildings had Arabic writings spray-painted across their fronts. The rubble-strewn roads were littered with rubbish and broken up by speed humps. The place looked old and broken... |
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