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Marwan Barghouthi: Unity trumps peace talks (Ma'an news) - 03-sep-2010
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September 3, 2010 -- Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti told Reuters that Palestinian infighting should be the current priority, and not peace talks, which he said were destined to fail. In an article published Thursday, the Fatah member - well known for his political stance on unity between parties - Barghouti said he supported negotiation in principle, but explained via written response to Reuters questions that Palestinians had only agreed to direct peace talks now under foreign pressure...
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2010 already deadliest year for US troops in Afghanistan (By Bill Van Auken) - 03-sep-2010
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September 3, 2010 - A series of attacks across Afghanistan have driven the death toll for American troops in the country to at least 326 this year, according to the icasualties.org website, making 2010—with four months still to go—already the deadliest year yet for US forces. In all of 2009, the US military suffered 317 fatalities. At least 26 US soldiers and Marines have lost their lives since last Saturday as armed groups opposing the US-led occupation and the puppet regime of President Hamid Karzai have carried out deadly bombings and engaged US forces in firefights concentrated in the eastern and southern parts of the country. With 56 fatalities, August trailed only July, with 65, and June, with 60, as the most costly month in nearly nine years of war...
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Abuse of Palestinian children in detention: Palestinian and Israeli organisations write to Netanyahu (Defence for Children International - Palestine Section) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - Today, DCI-Palestine, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) have written a letter to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing deep concern over continued reports of ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children who are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system. Each year, approximately 700 Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts, and reports of ill-treatment and torture are common place. Out of a sample of 100 sworn affidavits collected by lawyers from these children in 2009, 69 percent of the children reported being beaten and kicked, 49 percent reported being threatened, 14 percent were held in solitary confinement, 12 percent were threatened with sexual assault, including rape, and 32 percent were forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew, a language they do not understand...
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Report: Israel Continues to Violate Right to Education in Palestine (IMEMC Staff) - 03-sep-2010
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September 02, 2010 - report by the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights shows that Palestinian students are routinely denied the right to education due to the Israeli occupation. According to the report, a blanket ban has been imposed on Palestinian students from the Gaza Strip, preventing them enrolling at Palestinian universities in the West Bank to continue their education. The Center says that this ban is not based on security needs, but is based on discrimination against a specific category of persons in this case, students...
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Military Resistance 8I1: Hidden Horror (Thomas F Barton) - 03-sep-2010
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Seprember 2, 2010 - Since 2004, nearly 13,000 U.S. service personnel wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq have been evacuated to Landstuhl, the largest American-run medical facility outside the U.S. Some of the wounded are patched up and sent back to frontline duty. Many others are taken to the U.S. for advanced treatment at military hospitals in Washington, D.C.; Bethesda, Md.; San Antonio; or San Diego. As the U.S. troop buildup in Afghanistan continues, Landstuhl is experiencing an increase in wounded patients to levels unseen since the 2004 battles in the Iraqi city of Fallouja. The complexity and severity of wounds are also increasing, said Army Col. John M. Cho, a chest surgeon who is the hospital's commander. On a medical rating scale, the number of patients above a level considered extremely critical has increased 190% in the last two months, he said...
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Rwanda Crisis Could Expose U.S. Role in Congo Genocide (by BAR executive editor Glen Ford) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - Left writers have been reporting for years that U.S. allies Rwanda and Uganda bear primary responsibility for the deaths of as many as six million Congolese. Now a leaked United Nations report has confirmed that Rwanda’s crimes in Congo may rise to the level of genocide, since President Paul Kagame’s forces killed Hutu elderly, children and women without regard to nationality. Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s "mentors and funders in the U.S. government…must be held equally accountable." ...
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Why Israel imprisoned my best friend (Mohammed Khatib) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the West Bank today can only dream of. Israel has been restricting movement more and more over the years. We Palestinians were banned from traveling to Israel, the land where many of our parents were born. And now I find I cannot leave the West Bank. I was stopped from leaving the country on 4 August when I tried to cross the Allenby Bridge and reach Jordan in order to fly to Europe...
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Iraq snapshot - September 2, 2010 (The Common Ills) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, the US encourages people to take business into Iraq, Joe Biden discusses the possibility of the US staying in Iraq after 2011, and more. Tuesday night US President Barack Obama gave a ridiculous speech declaring (again declaring) the end to 'combat operations' in Iraq. Bill Van Auken (WSWS) weighs in to note, "President Barack Obama's nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the criminal war against Iraq...
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 Aug. – 01 Sep. 2010) (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - Summary : Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (26 August – 01 September 2010): Shooting: During the reporting period, 8 Palestinian civilian and an international human rights defender were wounded by IOF in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, 7 civilians, including a photojournalist and an international human rights defender, were injured, when IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall. In the Gaza Strip, two Palestinian workers were wounded when IOF fired at a number of workers who were collecting raw construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip...
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One hundred settlers gather to violate construction freeze; Israeli soldiers threaten besieged Palestinian family (International Solidarity Movement) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - Last night (1 Sept. 2010) around 150 to 175 Israeli settlers, many armed, constructed an illegal outpost at a new location in the Baqa’a valley, east of Hebron, and attempted to harass a Palestinian family. A large group of settlers constructing an illegal near Road 60 The Israeli army did not attempt to disperse the settler gathering but later did partially raze the area on which the makeshift outpost buildings had been built – near the illegal Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba and Givat Harsina, on the opposite side of Route 60, the road where four settlers were killed the previous night...
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Afghanistan: Offensive in Kandahar underway (By Tom Peters) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - The coalition’s offensive in Kandahar, touted as the centrepiece of the "surge" in Afghanistan announced by US President Obama last December, is now well underway. With barely any coverage in the media internationally, as many 50,000 foreign and Afghan Army troops have deployed in and around the city. Kandahar, which has a population of around 500,000, is under a state of military siege. The presence of the armed forces is felt everywhere, with constant patrols and expanding military bases. There are now 30,000 more US soldiers than a year ago and increased military police numbers...
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What does increased Palestinian political repression say about the prospects for peace? (By Yousef Munayyer) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - In the late 1980s, Robert Putnam’s argument about multi-level games in international bargaining kicked off a rich debate over domestic constraints. The thesis, in essence, is that interlocutors in bargaining may chose to lend extra power to political opponents to argue that domestic constraints tie their hands and prevent them from making concessions beyond a certain, often minimal, limit. This is not unlike what Binyamin Netanyahu did when he was elected Israeli prime minister in 2009, shortly after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. As President Bush left office, it was clear that the field day Israel enjoyed as it violently repressed the second Palestinian uprising and increased settlements at a pace unrivaled since the Menachem Begin era was over...
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Withdrawal or Enduring Presence? US Military Continues to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Iraq Bases (Democracy Now!) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - In his Oval Office address Tuesday night, President Obama said the US had closed or transferred hundreds of bases to the Iraqis. But many US bases remain in Iraq, as well as the massive US embassy in Baghdad, the size of eighty football fields. We play a report on US bases in Iraq by independent journalist Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films....
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Katrina’s Destructive Aftermath (by Stephen Lendman) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - August 29, 2005, a day of infamy remembered less for the storm, catastrophic floods and destruction, and more as a metaphor for disaster capitalism, exploiting security threats, "terror" attacks, economic meltdowns, and "natural" disasters like Katrina. It turned this aging senior into a writer and radio host, furious over federal, state and local authorities using it to reward business at the expense of New Orleans’ poor Blacks. Five years later, their lives remain in disarray through no fault of their own. Levies protecting their neighborhoods were left weak, vulnerable to fail as they did, then Congressman Richard Baker (R. LA) saying, "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it but God did," with considerable willful negligence help...
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CANDLES OF GAZA (by Flora Nicoletta) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - ...Despite the scarcity of water ad the chronic power cuts, the Municipality of Gaza City manages to keep most of the time lighted the fountain in the garden of the Unknown Soldier Square. The Gaza fountain is a symbol. This fountain says the determination of the Palestinian people to become a free nation and its water which tries to reach the sky day and night sings for liberty. In the darkness, there are Palestinians who keep jealously alive the flame of hope and work to reverse the current situation. All of them light us, even if we are not aware of it...
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Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan (AFP) - 03-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 — Two US soldiers in Afghanistan died Thursday after separate insurgent attacks, NATO said, compounding the bloodiest year yet for American forces in the Afghan war. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said both had died following insurgent attacks, one in the country's east, the other in the south. ISAF confirmed to AFP that both were Americans. A total of 326 US soldiers have been killed in the Afghan war in 2010, compared with 317 for all of 2009, according to AFP figures based on the independent icasualties.org website...
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Israeli army court rejects appeal to release anti-wall activist (Ma'an news) - 02-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 -- An Israeli military court of appeal rejected a petition calling for the release of Adeeb Abu Rahmah, an anti-wall activist from the West bank village of Bil’in, supporters said Wednesday. The appeal was heard Tuesday at Israel’s Ofer military detention center, where the 38-year-old Abu Rahmah has been held since 10 July 2009. The decision came a week after a second Bil’in activist was convicted on similar charges, of incitement and assaulting a soldier, a move that was openly criticized by EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, who said the verdict charging Abdallah Abu Rahmah appeared to be designed to "prevent him and other Palestinians from exercising their legitimate right to protest."...
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British Military in Iraq : A Shocking Legacy (Felicity Arbuthnot) - 02-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - ...British atrocities began as Iraq had barely been declared "liberated." One of their first recorded acts (after securing Basra oil installations) was less than a month after the invasion, in May 2003, when fifteen year old Ahmed Jaber Karheem, drowned, after allegedly being forced in to a canal in the former "Venice of the Middle East", by Guardsmen Martin McGing, Joseph McCleary and Colour Sergeant Carle Selman. The alleged action was to "teach him a lesson", for suspected looting. Ahmed Jaber could not swim. In a case which took three years to come to court, Guarsdman McCleary whinged that: "We were told to put looters in the canaI. I was the lowest rank and we were told we weren't paid to think. Just follow orders. I don't know why the army went ahead with the prosecution ... We were scapegoats." Nuremberg's Principles apparently now irrelevant, and Iraqi lives presumably being cheap, they were acquitted. Whilst there was indisputedly looting of food after the invasion, the population of Basra were almost entirely reliant on the government distributed rations. The British army "secured" the food warehouses, but distributed none. Children were begging for any sustenance and for water, throughout the south, in a near famine situation for many...
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Karzai in vortex of corruptions (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) - 02-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - The CIA is making secret payments to top-level officials of Karzai administration despite the fact that the agency knew in advance that its backing will amplify corruption, but it still paid corrupt officials, so that it can maintain source of information within Karzai government, because Karzai is not aware of the moves made by members of his own government, according a report issued in Washington post last Friday. Among those on CIA payroll, Muhammad Zia Salehi’s involvement is much prominent, who had been captured on corruption charges, but was released by Karzai. Although Karzai denied the allegations that the top-level officials of his administration are on CIA payroll...
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PALESTINE BETRAYED BY ITS OWN (Steve Amsel) - 02-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - Anyone in his right mind knows that the present round of Direct 'Peace Talks’ is doomed to failure. Anyone with an open mind can see that the parties involved in these talks represent the same points of view…. that of Israel. Mahmoud Abbas represents the Palestinian people as much as Sarah Palin represents the Americans. Both are losers, both will remain as such. Palestinians are angry, and justifiably so. The leaders they elected go unrecognised by Israel and the West, in fact also by those among themselves that were not elected. Inner strife between the factions gave Israel the perfect excuse to divide the nation even further than it was by creating two entities, the West Bank and Gaza….. BOTH under Israeli control despite the elections...
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Palestinian shot as Israeli forces enter north Gaza (Ma'an news) - 02-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 -- Israeli forces shot a Palestinian in northern Gaza Thursday, following earlier reports that Israeli patrols and bulldozers entered the area. Taha Shedeh Taha, 18, was admitted to Kamal Edwan Hospital with gun shot wounds to his leg, medics said. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that soldiers shot a Palestinian close to the border fence She said forces saw a group of people close to the border and fired warning shots, adding that the group continued to approach the fence and soldiers opened fire, injuring one Palestinian. The spokeswoman noted that Israel considers the area a combat zone...
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"Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people" (Adri Nieuwhof) - 02-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 - ...It was clear that this regime [Israel] does not respect international law, but continues to commit violations over and over again. We debated what is needed to change this. At this time civil society organizations in Palestine started to discuss what is today the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign to isolate Israel and to build pressure on other governments to take a position against Israel's violations of international law. We also analyzed the character of the regime which oppresses the Palestinian people. We got some help from independent human rights experts. Professor John Dugard helped us understand how colonization, apartheid and occupation can go together in one regime. In 2008 we had extensive, broad discussions and how the Israeli regime combined the three. It has become common to talk about Israeli apartheid today, although it is not yet clear for everybody what this means. Our challenge is to explain exactly why we say it is apartheid, what are the main characteristics of apartheid...
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NATO Air Strike Kills 10 Afghan Campaign Workers (CNN) - 02-sep-2010
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September 2, 2010 -- Ten parliamentary campaign workers were killed in a NATO airstrike in northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, a provincial official said. The incident -- which took place ahead of the September 18 parliamentary election -- occurred in the Rostaq district of Takhar province, where NATO says it was targeting a militant...Faiz Mohammad, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the event happened because NATO-led and Afghan security forces are not coordinating their activities properly...
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