Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 11 January 2007
On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. Indeed, the responses I received, including from some leading human rights activists, indicated a certain unease over the usage of such a term. I was inclined to rethink the term for a while, but came back to employing it today with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip.

On 28 December 2006, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem published its annual report about the Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories. Israeli forces killed this last year six hundred and sixty citizens. The number of Palestinians killed by Israel last year tripled in comparison to the previous year (around two hundred). According to B'Tselem, the Israelis killed one hundred and forty one children in the last year. Most of the dead are from the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli forces demolished almost 300 houses and slew entire families. This means that since 2000, Israeli forces killed almost four thousand Palestinians, half of them children; more than twenty thousand were wounded.

B'Tselem is a conservative organization, and the numbers may be higher. But the point is not just about the escalating intentional killing, it is about the trend and the strategy.

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A rare voice: An interview with author Ilan Pappe
Christopher Brown, The Electronic Intifada, 11 December 2006
I think the problem with Avigdor Lieberman is not his own views but the fact that he reflects what most Israeli Jews think, and definitely what most of his colleagues in the Olmert government think but don't dare to say, or don't think is desirable to say for tactical reasons. But I do think that we should be worried about Lieberman, not as an extreme fascist but rather as a person who represents the mood of Israel in 2006.

Audio: George Galloway interviews Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, October 15, 2006

Deception as a Way of Life: Israeli Myths - Jonathan Cook

UN denounces Israel cluster bombs
Wednesday, 30 August 2006
During the last 72 hours before the cease-fire, Israel flooded Lebanon with cluster bombs, intended to stay there for months and even years to maim and kill people.

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Genocide in Gaza
Ilan Pappe, September 2, 2006
Nothing apart from pressure in the form of sanctions, boycott and divestment will stop the murdering of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip. There is nothing we here in Israel can do against it. Brave pilots refused to partake in the operations, two journalists - out of 150 - do not cease to write about it, but this is it. In the name of the holocaust memory let us hope the world would not allow the genocide of Gaza to continue.

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The silent transfer: Israel says I've lived with my family long enough
Sam Bahour writing from Al-Bireh, occupied West Bank, September 2, 2006

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Deception as a Way of Life: Israeli Myths
Jonathan Cook, August 31, 2006

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Israel formally annexes 14% of northern Bethlehem
Palestine News Network, Saturday September 2, 2006

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Hurtling toward the Next Intifada: An Interview with Jonathan Cook
Andrea Bistrich, 1 September 2006

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Electricity in Gaza: Another Victim of Israeli 'Summer Rains'
Rami Almeghari writing from Occupied Gaza Strip, 31 August 2006

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Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism
August 31, 2006
Statement, Patriarch and local heads of churches in Jerusalem.

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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Report
PCHR 31 August 2006

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"You don't see, you don't feel, and you don't look"
An Israeli Combat Soldier Breaks the Silence
Daniel Sturm, The Walruss (Youngstown, Ohio) August 30, 2006

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Murder on Rucarb Street
Eliza Ernshire in Ramallah, West Bank, August 29, 2006

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Not only stones - lives, dreams and memories
Mira A.B. Nabulsi, Monday, August 28, 2006

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Irish tramline forced to cancel deal with its illegal Israeli counterpart

Irish Connex cancels contract under pressure from trade unions. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is delighted to announce a small but significant victory in the international struggle against Connex and the illegal Israeli tramline being built by them on occupied Palestinian territory.