Jonathan Cook: Israel’s thriving arms trade is a setback to peace agreement

By Jonathan Cook | The National – 23 July 2013  Jonathan Cook Over the past decade, Israel has surged up the arms trade’s international rankings. Despite having a population smaller than New York City, Israel has emerged as one of the world’s largest exporters of armaments. Last month, defence analysts Jane’s put Israel in sixth […]

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Former Mossad chief: truce in Gaza is not the end of fighting

Note occpal | List of Israeli violations since cease-fire MEMO | Jan 9, 2013 A former head of Mossad said on Tuesday that the recent truce with Hamas does not mean the end of fighting; the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported. Efraim Halevy, who alleged that the truce agreement secured unprecedented benefits for Gaza said, […]

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Gaza engineer kidnapped from Ukraine goes on #PalHunger strike over solitary confinement ~ by @jncatron

Joe Catron | The Electronic Intifada | Gaza Strip | 14 September 2012 Dirar Abu Sisi’s lawyer maintains that Israeli agencies applied illegal methods of interrogation. (Tsafrir Abayov / AFP/Newscom) Dirar Abu Sisi, the 43-year-old deputy engineer of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, went on a one-day hunger strike Thursday to protest […]

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Revealed: producer of propaganda BBC report on Gaza attack has history of fabrication ~ by @AsaWinstanley

Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada | London 26 July 2012 Journalist Paul Martin after his release in Gaza City, March 2010. (Mohammed Othman / APA images) A journalist who produced a film defending Israel’s war crimes in Gaza for the BBC is the same man who wrote hoax stories about Palestine and Lebanon a […]

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Is 17-year-old girl Cast Lead’s latest victim?

Memorial Website | Never Cast Lead Again – War on Gaza Medicines remain on Haneen’s bedstand but only a studio portrait is left in Haneen’s place. Rami Almeghari | Electronic Intifada | Gaza Strip | 7 February 2012 Text messages on a cell phone, some medicine and respiration equipment were all that remained after Haneen […]

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Gaza: Critical Care Unit Al Shifa Hospital dealing with horrific new injuries – video 3

Gaza Under Attack- in pictures | Part 1 | Part 2 | Aug 25, 2011 A week of Israeli attacks on Gazan civilians have filled the Al Shifa Hospital critical care unit with children and young people. They all have previously-unencountered deep tissue injuries from “unusual weapons” – which says a lot, given the horrific […]

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US citizen in Jerusalem arrest video speaks to Electronic Intifada

  Maureen Clare Murphy | The Electronic Intifada |14 June 2011 American-Jewish young man is being harassed and treated unfairly he is then arrested in Jerusalem   American Jewish activist and university student Lucas Koerner was arrested in Jerusalem on 1 June — when thousands of right-wing Israelis, including settlers, marked “Jerusalem Day” by provocatively […]

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