Scurrilous's Journal - Democratic Underground

UN probe: evidence of war crimes in Gaza conflict

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:36:02

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"A U.N. investigation into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza has found evidence that both sides committed "war crimes."

The United Nations says the investigation led by former South African judge Richard Goldstone concluded that "Israel committed actions amounting to war c...

Interviews support Israeli army misconduct in Gaza

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:01:32

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"When Israeli soldiers expelled Abir Hijeh, her five children and their neighbors from homes in a Gaza war zone, she said they warned her in broken Arabic: Go south or you might get shot.

The group went the wrong way and came under fire from Israeli soldiers. Hijeh was wounded an...

Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:02:12

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"The Israeli army is at the centre of a second controversy over the moral conduct of its soldiers in as many days.

The revelations centre on t-shirt designs made for soldiers that make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children and include images of dead babies a...

Haaretz exposure: IDF testimonies paint grim picture of Gaza war

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:08:36

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"Initial testimonies given by Israel Defense Forces soldiers and officers who fought in Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip earlier this year paints a grim picture of civilian deaths, deliberate destruction of Palestinian property and loose orders to open fire.

Dozens of combat ...

"Kill A Hundred Turks And Rest�" (Uri Avnery)

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:45:55

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"I WAS reminded this week of the old tale about a Jewish mother taking leave of her son, who has been called up to serve in the Czar`s army against the Turks.

'Don`t exert yourself too much,' she admonishes him, 'Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again�'

'But mo...

So how, at just 23, did Rachel Corrie become a Palestinian martyr?

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:51:36

Full Title: She was a girl from small-town America with dreams of being a poet or a dancer. So how, at just 23, did Rachel Corrie become a Palestinian martyr?

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"It is impossible to underestimate quite how much life for Rachel Corrie's family has changed since she was killed by an ...

Mosque threatened, Muslim group says

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:56:00

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"A national Muslim civil rights organization has asked the FBI to investigate what it considers threats made on the Internet against a Bosnian mosque in St. Louis.

One blog post cited by the group made reference to vandalism and another to the use of dynamite.

Zachary Lowe, a ...

An Unholy Land Grab: The Story of a Palestinian Farm and Settlers

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:57:02

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"No matter what was promised in Annapolis, a Two State Solution for Israel and Palestine now seems utterly impossible, judging from what I have just seen during a 3-week visit to the West Bank.

Its hills, terraced with olive groves, are now totally dissected by fortified highways...

Demands of a thief

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:21:48

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"The public discourse in Israel has momentarily awoken from its slumber. `To give or not to give,` that is the Shakespearean question - `to make concessions` or `not to make concessions.` It is good that initial signs of life in the Israeli public have emerged. It was worth going to...

Book review: Lords of the Land

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:31:54

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"There are two Israels: one inside the Green Line, the 1967 border, the other an occupying power extending beyond it. The first is a vibrant democracy, with Arab members of Parliament, university professors and lawyers, beauty queens and soldiers, and even a Muslim cabinet minister....

Atlas Shrugs First Music Video

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:38:01

Celebrate Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (October 22-29) with blogger Pamela Geller (aka Atlas Shrugs):

Sung to the tune of [b]My Sharona[/b]:

On My little infidel
Go to hell!
Cover up, convert or die - Sharia!
Muslim foot baths in the schools - airports too!
Public school madrassas are ta...

Finkelstein Interviewed

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:24:24

Israel critic Norman Finkelstein made national headlines after his tenure was denied by DePaul University . Finkelstein, an author of five books, had received outstanding reviews from his students and peers. His dismissal sparked student protests and sit-ins, and led top academics to rally to his...

The Middle East Peace Process Scam

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:48:17

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"When Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush met at the White House in June, they concluded that Hamas�s violent ousting of Fatah from Gaza � which brought down the Palestinian national unity government brokered by the Saudis in Mecca in March � had presented the world with a new �window of...

'All the dreams we had are now gone'

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:18:13

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"Even on a steaming hot day such as descended on New York last Monday, the Middle East looks very far away from the office of James D. Wolfensohn, 29 stories above Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Construction staff in work boots, wearing hip- hugging tool belts, are still working industr...

Power like the king of England

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:19:20

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"At the end of the week, 256 families will celebrate the release from prison of their dear ones, and mothers are already relieved that the manhunt for their wanted sons has ended. In the cities where the wanted men live, there is also a sense of relief: The armed men - particularly ...

Bush's 'neocons': far from the best and the brightest

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:40:52

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"A significant shift in American political history occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s when a group of "Cold War intellectuals," a number of whom were Jewish, defected from the liberal mainstream of the Democratic Party.

Alienated by the anti-war movement and by what they...

Yank-a-Doodle-Do! (James Wolcott)

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:03:40

"The middle-aged neoconservative citizen-soldier for whom everything changed on 9/11 and has been downhill ever since has been underserved in the marketplace when it comes to what Kingsley Amis (or was it Philip Larkin?) (perhaps it was both of them) whimsically called "wank material." We unhawkish ...

Customs agents: shutting down border crossing with Gaza affects us financially

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:13:25

[b]Israeli Customs Authority instructed customs agents not to transfer commercial goods to Gaza. Imports from overseas have been stored in bonded warehouses nearby Ashdod port[/b]

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"In the aftermath of the Hamas takeover of Gaza, the Israel Customs Authority directed all importers...

1967

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:08:53

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"In June 1967, Israel broke through its temporary borders, and, under the auspices of a military conquest, embarked upon an extensive colonial project in the newly conquered territories. The historical timing is intriguing: by the late 1960s it seemed that the crises of de-colonizat...

The Dirty Word (Uri Avnery)

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:36:45

[b]All the arrangements and ceremonies were designed to create the false impression that Olmert and Abbas were the heads of two states conducting negotiations on the basis of equality - rather than the leader of an occupying power and a representative of the occupied population, says Uri Avnery.[/b]...

Israeli Settlements Exceed Boundaries, Report Says

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:39:24

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"Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank use only 12 percent of the land allocated to them, but one-third of the territory they do use lies outside their official jurisdictions, according to a new report released today byPeace Now, a dovish advocacy group.

According to the ...

History Erased

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:20:16

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"In July 1950, Majdal - today Ashkelon - was still a mixed town. About 3,000 Palestinians lived there in a closed, fenced-off ghetto, next to the recently arrived Jewish residents. Before the 1948 war, Majdal had been a commercial and administrative center with a population of 12,00...