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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:
THE TIME FOR WORLDWIDE BOYCOTT IS NOW
By Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 2 March 2008
On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel's deputy defense
minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with
a "holocaust." This date will go down in history as the
beginning of a new phase in the colonial conflict between
Israel and the Palestinians, whereby a senior Israeli
leader, a "leftist" for that matter, has publicly revealed
the genocidal plans Israel is considering to implement
against Palestinians under its military occupation, if
they do not cease to resist its dictates. Omar Barghouti
comments for EI.
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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:
ISRAEL KEEPING TRUE TO ITS RACIST WORDS
By Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 2 March 2008
Dehumanizing the Palestinians has been necessary for
Israel to justify its actions ever since, and even before,
the state was declared on destroyed historic Palestine in
1948 and then in 1967 when Israel occupied the West Bank
and Gaza. Taken together, they indicate the historic
effort to destroy Palestinian national aspirations and
this is what Israel is trying to do in Gaza, which Nobel
prize winner and late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
once wished would be swallowed by the sea. EI
correspondent Rami Almeghari comments from Gaza.
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Palestine : Human Rights:
GAZA DEATHS SURPASS 100; HUNDREDS INJURED
Report, PCHR, 2 March 2008
During the last 24 hours, another 39 Palestinians were
killed throughout the Gaza Strip. Twenty-two of them were
unarmed civilians, including nine children. Six of the
victims were from one family, including three women and
three men who were killed in an air strike in Gaza City.
The death toll since 27 February currently stands at 101
victims, including 49 unarmed civilians.
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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:
THE GAZA GENOCIDE
By Laila El-Haddad, Live from Palestine, 2 March 2008
We celebrated Yousuf's fourth birthday today. We ate cake.
And we counted the bodies. We sang happy birthday. And my
mother sobbed. We watched the fighter jets roar
voraciously on our television screen, pounding street
after street, then heard a train screech outside, and
shuddered. Yousuf tore open his presents, and asked my
mother to make a paper zanana, a drone, for him with
origami; we were torn open from the inside, engulfed by a
feeling of impotence and helplessness, fear and anger and
grief, despondence and confusion. Laila El-Haddad writes
on the "long-term" Gaza genocide.
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Palestine : Human Rights:
ISRAEL KILLS SOME MORE CHILDREN
By Mohammed Omer, The Electronic Intifada, 1 March 2008
GAZA CITY, 1 March (IPS) - Tamer was nine, and no child
soldier. He did not live in the area from where homemade
rockets are launched into Israeli territory. The day he
was killed, he was at least two kilometers from the place
Israeli troops had entered Gaza, and met with return fire
by Palestinian resistance. His tragedy was that the family
home was near Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza
Strip, close to the area the Israelis have set up as their
Kussfim base.
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Palestine : Development:
EGYPT BEGINS PUMPING GAS TO ISRAEL DESPITE GAZA SIEGE
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 29 February 2008
CAIRO, 29 February (IPS) - On Monday, Egypt began pumping
natural gas to Israel in accordance with an energy accord
between Cairo and Tel Aviv. While the Egyptian government
defends the move as being in the country's best interest,
opposition figures decry the notion of economic
cooperation with Israel, especially in light of the
latter's ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip.
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