Relying on Misinformation, U.S. Senate Calls on U.N. to Rescind Goldstone Report by Jeremy R. Hammond

by Jeremy R. Hammond
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Foreign Policy Journal
April 17, 2011

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The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed a resolution “calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report”, the popular name for the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission chaired by Richard Goldstone that was charged with investigating Israel’s full-scale military assault on the Gaza Strip in 2008-09, code-named “Operation Cast Lead”.

The report of the fact-finding mission concluded that there was evidence that both Israel and the Palestinian authority in Gaza, Hamas, committed war crimes during the course of the assault.

The US Congress’ Pet Pariah by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Beirut, Lebanon
31 December, 2010

This week marks the second anniversary of among the most savage criminal slaughters of human life in long memory. The 522 hour indiscriminate carnage, “Cast Lead”  that killed 1,417 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 352 of them children, injuring for life more than 5,300 , indicts  Israel as well as those countries that continue to supply it weapons, diplomatic cover and to enforce Israel’s  illegal siege on sealed Gaza.

December 27, 2008: Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s brutal offensive against the Gaza Strip

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by Julie Webb-Pullman
Global Research, December 25, 2010

Today, December 27, marks the second anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s brutal offensive against the Gaza Strip. In 22 days of relentless air and land attacks, more than 1400 Gazans, mostly civilians, were killed in what the United Nations ‘Goldstone Report’ described as war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Two years later, the perpetrator – Israel – remains unpunished. Two years later, Gaza remains  in ruins, largely due to the reluctance of the international community to stand up to the bully, and deliver the materials necessary for Gaza’s reconstruction.

The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks by Noam Chomsky + Gaza in Crisis

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by Noam Chomsky
In These Times
December 2, 2010

Chomsky at the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre) in 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in U.S. diplomatic history.

In September the last settlement freeze ended, leading the Palestinians to cease direct talks with Israel. Now the Obama administration, desperate to lure Israel into a new freeze and thus revive the talks, is grasping at invisible straws—and lavishing gifts on a far-right Israeli government.

Norman Finkelstein: Israel and Palestine: Past, Present, Future (Chris Hedges: Intro)

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
October 31, 2010

AntiHasbara | October 29, 2010

Dr. Norman Finkelstein – Israel and Palestine: Past, Present, Future
Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, October 28.

Introduction by Chris Hedges.

Dr. Norman Finkelstein speaks on the present situation in Gaza, the attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla, the current stage of the peace process, and the prospect of another regional war.

Presented by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME).

The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict

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23 September 2010
The Palestine Center
Washington, DC

Panel 1 – Changing the Public Discussion
Participants: Jerome Slater, Adam Horowitz
Moderator: Will Youmans

Addressing: How has blogging/new media affected the public debate on Israel/Palestine? How has blogging/new media responded to the Main Stream Media and vice versa? What results has this interaction had on the public discussion of Israel/Palestine?

How and Why I got ‘on-board’ with The FREEDOM FLOTILLA to Gaza by Eileen Fleming

by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
2 June, 2010

I am an American without a drop of Arab blood within me and my org has been an endorsing org of the FREEDOM FLOTILLA, since I learned about it on the final day of the 27th annual American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Washington, D.C. Conference on 10 June 2007.

On the first day of that conference, I learned that among the invited speakers who did NOT show or send a representative were Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Republican National Committee.

But, 86 year old, walker-bound Congressman Paul Findley, a moderate Republican blew me away when he addressed the luncheon crowd:

“I was here for the first convention 27 years ago and I still have a fire in my belly for the civil and human rights of Arabs. It is time to speak openly and honestly about Israel.

“But, in American politics, that is still forbidden.”

Norman Finkelstein: Israel is being exposed and feels threatened

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May 17, 2010 — Israel has refused to permit Noam Chomsky, the linguist and icon of the American left, to enter the occupied West Bank from Jordan. Some argue that Chomsky, an 81-year-old professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, could pose a risk to Israel. Norman Finkelstein says that Israel has been exposed to the world during the Gaza conflict and now feels threatened.

Norman Finkelstein + Lowkey and Jody McGwire uphold Palestinian rights

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April 24, 2010 — Popular London rap artist, Lowkey and journalist on wheels Jody McGwire provide some warmup to Norman Finkelstein’s talk to the Arab Students Club at Brooklyn College. Jody reports of his 9 months in Palestine and Lowkey recites poetry condeming western mindset against Arabs.

What happened to the Israeli peace movement? + Beit Ommar Demonstration

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On the border Pt.2

Report from the Middle East: What happened to the Israeli peace movement?

A Pit Bull Cesar Millan Could Not Handle by Barnabe Geisweiller

by Barnabe Geisweiller
Dandelion Salad
Foreign Policy Journal
18 March, 2010

Vice President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Israel, where he expressed the United States’ commitment to its security, was tarnished by the Israeli Interior Ministry’s announcement that it would build 1,600 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem (perhaps a not-so-subtle message to the White House, located 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?).

It was a slap in the face to Biden who was urging Palestinians to engage in peace negotiations with the Israelis. But the announcement is one of a list of “facts on the ground” created by Israel that cast shadows over its commitment to a viable two-state solution. Those in the White House today, and those who wish to be in it tomorrow, should take the time to reconsider their “special relationship” with Israel. Canada would benefit from doing the same. Last month, the Harper government preposterously suggested that an attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada.

Pastor John Hagee Denounces Goldstone Report in Jerusalem

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Propaganda Alert!

Pastor Hagee Denounces Goldstone in Jerusalem 3/8/10 Pt 1

mblumenthal
March 09, 2010

This is part one of Pastor Hagee’s speech in Jerusalem before top members of the Israeli government and thousands of evangelicals.

on vodpod: Pastor Hagee Denounces Goldstone in Jerusalem 3/8/10 Pt 1

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Pt 2

Israel Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews on the Spot by Chris Hedges + Don’t Come to Bi’lin Again

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
March 15, 2010

The Israeli government, its brutal war crimes in Gaza exposed in detail in the U.N. report by Justice Richard Goldstone, has implemented a series of draconian measures to silence and discredit dissidents, leading intellectuals and human rights organizations inside and outside Israel that are accused—often falsely—of assisting Goldstone’s U.N. investigators. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to shut down Israel’s premier human rights organizations, including B’Tselem, the New Israel Fund (NIF) and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. It is busy expelling or excluding peace activists and foreign nationals from the Palestinian territories. The campaign, if left unchecked, will be as catastrophic for Palestinians as it will be for Israel.

The fight against Israeli “impunity”

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TheRealNews
March 11, 2010

How universal jurisdiction is used as a tool to bring to court Israeli leaders accused of war crimes

This week, the European Union’s Parliament passed a resolution endorsing the implementation of the recommendations of the Goldstone Report, which investigated war crimes in the attack on Gaza last year. While the motion was received with support from many NGOs, such as the Women’s Peace Coalition, it did not indicate specific actions the EU will actually take. The same has been true for the UN’s process as members of the Security Council said they would veto the report. Many are therefore taking it in their own hands to hold Israeli leaders accountable for alleged war crimes. The legal tool they’re using is called universal jurisdiction and refers to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 that said countries must be able to prosecute anyone who commits grave crimes. The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky investigates what universal jurisdiction is, how it is used, and how Israel is fighting against it.

CrossTalk: Norman Finkelstein vs. Israel

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RussiaToday
February 17, 2010

On Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, Israel critic Norman Finkelstein faces off against a formidable spokesperson of Israel’s ‘soft power’.

more about “CrossTalk: Norman Finkelstein vs. Israel“, posted with vodpod

see

Joe Sacco: Footnotes in Gaza + Footnotes to a forgotten war by Laura Durkay

Michael Ratner on Israeli Apartheid

Israel: Occupation or Apartheid?

Inside Israeli land grabs + Ma’asara Village Demonstration + Israeli Occupation Forces Raid on the Village

Israel: The Politics of Faith and a Land of Conflict

Rogue State: Israeli Violations of U.N. Security Council Resolutions by Jeremy R. Hammond

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