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Israeli hires Internet soldiers

Mick Meaney July 18, 2009 19

Straight out of Avigdor Lieberman’s Foreign Ministry: a new Internet Fighting Team! Israeli students and demobilized soldiers get paid to pretend they are just regular folks and leave pro-Israel comments on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube

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Israel’s war crimes not “collateral damage”

Mick Meaney July 2, 2009 0

Israel sought to defend itself Thursday against the latest accusations by a major international organization that it committed war crimes against people in Gaza, claiming that the Islamist group Hamas manipulated the group responsible

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Israeli War Crimes Against Children

Mick Meaney June 13, 2009 0

Following Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the toll on Gaza’s children and published it in May. It did so “in response to the unprecedented number of children

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UN moves to charge Israel with war crimes

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 0

The United Nations moves to set up a commission to look into Israeli war crimes and respond to its human rights violations in Gaza. After the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) compound

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Spain to stop investigations of Israeli war crimes

Mick Meaney January 31, 2009 1

A day after a Spanish court ordered an investigation into an assassination of a Palestinian militant in 2002, the Spanish government has said it will cancel the investigation, and change the law to prevent

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Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Mick Meaney January 30, 2009 0

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip     A Palestinian farmer

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Israeli Troops Killed Gaza Children Carrying White Flag, witnesses say

Mick Meaney January 29, 2009 1

McClatchy Newspapers – EZBT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip — Nasser Abu Freeh was one of the first to see the Israeli soldiers as they entered this pastoral Gaza neighborhood overlooking the Israeli border on Jan.

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Q&A: ‘Gaza Will Take Years to Recover’

Mick Meaney January 27, 2009 0

Gaza will need years to recover from the devastating Israeli assault, says Katharina Ritz, head of mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Israel’s 22-day assault left more than 1,300 Palestinians

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Israeli PM Promises to Shield Troops From War Crime Trials

Mick Meaney January 26, 2009 0

The BBC reports: “Any Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in the Gaza Strip will be given state protection from prosecution overseas, the country’s PM has said.” At issue is Israel’s use of white

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Israel admits using white phosphorous in attacks on Gaza

Mick Meaney January 25, 2009 0

After weeks of denying that it used white phosphorus in the heavily populated Gaza Strip, Israel finally admitted yesterday that the weapon was deployed in its offensive. The army’s use of white phosphorus –

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Israeli military says complete withdrawal from Gaza “out of the question”

Mick Meaney January 21, 2009 0

By Julie Hyland  Israel continued to withdraw some of its troops from the Gaza Strip Tuesday, in moves timed to coincide with the inauguration of US President-elect Barack Obama. Announcing an end to Operation

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Israeli firing phosphorous after ceasefire

Mick Meaney January 19, 2009 2

Israel has shelled Gaza with white phosphorus after it called for a unilateral ceasefire, in an obvious violation of its own declaration. A Press TV correspondent on the ground in Gaza reported the event

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Outrage as Israel bombs UN

Mick Meaney January 16, 2009 1

Aid workers allege use of banned white phosphorus as Hamas security leader dies in bombing raid on house By Kim Sengupta in Jerusalem  Israeli tanks thrust deep inside Gaza City last night as ferocious

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Israel tells aid ship for Gaza to leave

Mick Meaney January 14, 2009 0

Israeli warships have ordered an Iranian vessel carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza to leave the area, an Iranian aid official was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars News Agency on Wednesday.

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Canada complicit with Israeli war crimes

Mick Meaney January 14, 2009 0

By Jim Miles | Canada lives in the unfortunate position of being under the thrall of U.S. media for most its information and cultural relevance. At the same time, its own media, apart from

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Israel Bans Arab Parties From Election

Mick Meaney January 14, 2009 2

By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month’s election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta’al

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Holocaust in Gaza

Mick Meaney January 11, 2009 0

By Rohini Hensman | In February 2008, Israel’s Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai warned that if Hamas continued firing rockets, they would bring upon themselves a ‘bigger shoah,’ the word used by Israelis to

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Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December

Mick Meaney January 11, 2009 0

“Contrary to Israel’s argument that it was forced to launch its air and ground offensive against Gaza in order to stop the firing of rockets into its territory, Hamas proposed in mid-December to return

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FREE GAZA TO ISRAEL: “WE ARE COMING IN ON TUESDAY”

Mick Meaney January 11, 2009 0

Free Gaza Movement | (Cyprus) Huwaida Arraf, +357 96 723 999 or +357 99 081 767 - huwaida.arraf@gmail.com Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. (Gaza) Ewa Jasiewicz, +972

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Israeli missiles hit village

Mick Meaney January 11, 2009 0

By Richard Boudreaux and Rushdi abu Alouf  | Reporting from Jerusalem and Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops and tanks thrust into the Gaza Strip’s densely populated capital from three directions today, drawing

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Israel accused of using white phosphorus in Gaza

Mick Meaney January 11, 2009 0

Human rights groups have expressed concern that a highly flammable weapon used by Israel could be causing additional casualties among civilians in Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman examines the controversy surrounding white phosphorus munitions

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Both Parties Cheerlead Still More Loudly for Israel’s “War”

Mick Meaney January 11, 2009 1

By Glenn Greenwald | World concern over, and opposition to, the Israeli war in Gaza is rapidly mounting: International pressure intensified sharply on Israel on Thursday, the 13th day of its Gaza assault, after the

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Report: Israel Forced Civilians Into Single House, Repeatedly Bombed It

Mick Meaney January 10, 2009 0

Israeli ground troops ordered around 110 Palestinian civilians into a single home in Gaza City’s Zeitun neighborhood and ordered them to stay indoors on Sunday. On Monday morning, Israeli forces repeatedly shelled the building,

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‘All Citizens Must Be Equal’

Mick Meaney July 30, 2008 0

Guardian | “When we’re inside Sadaka Reut, I believe that everyone is good to each other,” said Lena, describing her Arab-Israeli summer camp. “But then we go out on to the street, and it’s [a

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President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran

Mick Meaney July 13, 2008 0

By Uzi Mahnaimi in Washington | President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran

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