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Israeli court rejects Daya family’s lawsuit – 22 Family members assassinated during Cast Lead

[ PIC 12/09/2012 – 09:45 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli central Court rejected a lawsuit filed by human rights organization from Gaza, on behalf of Daya family which lost 22 of its members during the war on Gaza. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said in a statement on Tuesday that the rejection decision […]

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Israeli International Festivals: Whitewashing Oppression or Resisting it?

  Palestinian supporters show a banner reading ” Boycott Israel” during a demonstration in Rome. (Photo: AFP – Vincenzo Pinto) By: PACBI  | Al Akhbar |  Thursday, October 6, 2011 [While cultural talks go on] in the nice cinematheques of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, it is hell on earth in Gaza and I would […]

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Pro-Israel whitewash of 10-year-old’s killing unravels in court (and online)

Seham on September 29, 2011 | Mondoweiss Pro-Israel whitewash of 10-year-old’s killing unravels in court, Max Blumenthal abir aramin Al Ahkbar English: One day in 2007, Israeli Border Police officers swept into the in the village of Anata just north of Jerusalem and began firing rubber bullets at a group of children who had thrown […]

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Palmer ‘Inquiry’ Whitewashes Blockade ~ by Stuart Littlewood

Palestine Chronicle | Sept 5, 2011 y Stuart Littlewood  ‘Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law…  the flotilla acted […]

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As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry “Whitewashed” U.N. Report on Gaza Flotilla, Blockade – video

Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre Democracy Now | Sept 2, 2011 Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and frozen military cooperation ahead of a long-awaited United Nations report on Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in 2010. The report accuses Israel of “excessive and unreasonable” force in its attack—which killed nine people—on […]

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PRESS RELEASE | The Palmer/Uribe Report: Another Attempt by Israel to Whitewash Murder?

Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre Category Mavi Marmara: Previous & news updates about the Mavi Marmara & the UN Report Freegaza  | Greta Berlin | Sept 1, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos brutally attacked Freedom Flotilla 1, killing eight Turkish and one American passenger on board the Mavi Marmara, most having […]

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Another Whitewash of Israeli Warcrimes: Prosecution To Close File Of Four Civilians Shot Dead During The War On Gaza

Children Killed During Gaza War – File Alhawra.com Tuesday April 12, 2011 19:31 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli prosecution intends to close an investigation that was initiated to reveal the circumstances that led to the death of four Palestinian civilians, including a three-year –old child, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at […]

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Goldstone “Reconsiders” Report on Gaza War

04.04.11 – 12:31 Washington – PNN – The retired jurist who headed the UN investigation of war crimes during the 2008 Gaza war now says that he regrets the report’s treatment of Israel. In an editorial in the Washington Post, Richard Goldstone claimed that he is now aware of information that would have produced “a […]

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WHITE WASH WATCH | Goldstone’s Reconciderations on the Gaza Cast Lead Report

SPECIAL TOPIC Current hasbara influenced media and kept backwards media outside the occupied terrritories almost are vomiting their propaganda for the next whitewash of Israel’s genocide on Gaza. Below this post continuous updates of (unbiased) news will be published. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. […]

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Goldstone’s Tawdry Turn, Israel’s False Dance of Vindication

April 2, 2011, Richard Silverstein |  Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place An Israeli reporter wrote to me today saying that Israel is “aflame” with the news that Judge Goldstone has finally given the nation the vindication it so richly deserved by renouncing his human rights report on Operation Cast Lead, which […]

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Lieberman hints Goldstone retraction made under Zionist pressure

03/04/2011 – 06:59 PM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has suggested that Richard Goldstone retracted conclusions that Israel committed war crimes during the 2008-9 war on Gaza because of Israeli pressure applied by both the political and military institutions. The Goldstone report was the result of a UN Security Council fact-finding mission […]

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Awaiting the next Israeli Whitewash: UN expert panel reports little progress in probe of possible Gaza war crimes

The Associated Press | Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:43:00 CST GENEVA – A U.N.-appointed expert panel has reported little progress by either Israel or the Palestinians in investigating if war crimes occurred in 2009 in Gaza. A panel chaired by former New York Supreme Court Judge Mary McGowan Davis on Friday said Israeli authorities “significantly […]

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Palestinian gov’t replies to UN inquiries over Goldstone report

[ 15/03/2011 – 10:54 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The government committee for following up Goldstone report replied officially to the inquires raised by judge Mary Davis, the head of the UN committee of independent experts, in the letters she sent to Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip. Deputy head of the government committee and […]

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Yesh Gvul`s Response to the Findings of the Committee Appointed to Inspect the Shehade Assassination

By: Yesh Gvul | 28 February 2011 Press Release `If I had known that there was an intelligence picture which was connected to acts I find illicit, I would not have attacked. I should not have attacked.[…] Once I take off, I become a war machine. Up to the point where I know I am […]

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Israeli Internal Probe: 2002 Bombing Which Killed 8 Children ‘Justified’

Monday February 28, 2011 10:45 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News An ‘internal investigation’ by the Israeli military released a report Sunday that there was ‘no wrongdoing’ in a 2002 targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli airforce, in which Israeli soldiers dropped a missile on a crowded apartment building, killing a targeted leader of […]

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