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Dual conflict

The War Debate on Iran

by James Petras

12 September 2006

Professor James Petras analyses the Lebanon war as a « dual conflict ». That is to say, a war that has as a purpose, at once, the destruction of the Lebanese resistance and the preparation of new wars against Syria and Iran. From this point of view, the UN Security Council was exploited by the (...)

The Case for Boycotting Israel

Boycott Now!

by Virginia Tilley

Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud) | 6 September 2006

It is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international boycott of Israel. Good cause for a boycott has, of course, been in place for decades, as a raft of initiatives already attests. But Israel’s war crimes are now (...)

Western press agencies willing victims of Israeli censorship

4 September 2006

On the insistence of Colonel Sima Vasknin-Gil, head of Israeli military
censorship, the Western press has agreed to give an incomplete version of
the latest events in the Near East.
Here are the facts : Hezbollah has demanded for years now the release of
prisoners held by Israel, such as (...)

The Palestinian Vice-Prime Minister kidnapped by Israel

Tasneem Shaer: “My father is not a terrorist”

by Silvia Cattori

Nablus (Palestine/Israel) | 29 August 2006

The Palestinian Vice-Prime Minister, Mr Naser Shaer, was kidnapped on 19 August by Israeli soldiers. Few weeks ago, Voltairenetwork published an exclusive interview with this very respectful personality by the Palestinians. Mr Naser Shaer, 45 years old, became Vice-Prime Minister and Minister (...)

Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism

by Riah Abu El-Assal , Swerios Malki Mourad , His Beatitude Michel Sabbah , His Grace Bishop Dr. Munib Younan

Al Quods/Jerusalem (Palestine/Israel) | 22 August 2006

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." (Matthew 5:9)
Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and (...)

RPG-29

Israel blames Russian rocket launchers for its setbacks in Lebanon

by Viktor Litovkine

Moscow (Russia) | 15 August 2006

Hizbullah has, reportedly, already destroyed at least one armor division out of a total of seven that the IDF relies upon. These losses have jeopardized Israel’s blitzkrieg strategy and have lead the latter to limit its ground campaign to the pace of infantrymen. The Lebanese Resistance uses (...)

Days of darkness

by Gideon Levy

Jaffa/Tel Aviv (Palestine/Israel) | 4 August 2006

In war as in war: Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything. The brakes we still had are eroding, the insensitivity and blindness that characterized Israeli society in recent years is intensifying. The home front is cut in half: (...)

Exclusive interview with the Palestinian Vice-Prime Minister

Naser Shaer : "The Palestinians are strongly united against the sanctions"

by Silvia Cattori

Ramallah (Palestine/Israël) | 4 August 2006

Doctor Naser Dine Muhammad Ahmad Shaer is the Vice- Prime Minister and Minister of Education and higher learning in the Palestinian government formed by Hamas. Born in 1961, originally from Nablus, father of six children, this professor of law and legislation, rector of the Faculty of Law at (...)

A Palestinian reports from Gaza

Gaza: "Israel wants to drive us out our lands"

by Silvia Cattori

1 August 2006

Khaled lives precariously in a refugee camp in Gaza. His poignant reports
have been translated into many languages. Today, his voice, usually
cheerful, was filled with revolt and a great lassitude.
Silvia Cattori: The Israeli bombings have already killed over 500 people and
have wounded (...)

Dispatch from Palestine - Nablus: "It is our life"

by Silvia Cattori

Nablus (Palestine/Israel) | 19 July 2006

While the world witnesses the destruction of Lebanon by Israel, the occupation of Palestine goes on its way . While the cameras are turned towards Beirut, all elements are brought into play to suffocate the Palestinians and to force them to flee their shelters. Sylvia Cattori went to the field (...)

Concession on the "Prisoner’s Agreement"

The Palestinian government of Hamas is ready to recognize Israel subject to reciprocity

by Jennifer Loewenstein

Oxford (Royaume-Uni) | 30 June 2006

The concession between Fatah and Hamas concerning the Prisoner’s Agreement contradicts the pro-isaraeli press assertions on the the Islamic party forged refusal to recognize the Jewish state. Actually, as Jennifer Loewenstein shows it here, Hamas has for a long time strayed from its original (...)

Speech by Javier Solana on Middle East peace process

Strasbourg (France) | 5 April 2006

I am appearing before the European Parliament at a critical time for the future of the Middle East
peace process, immediately after the forming of a new Palestinian government and the holding of
elections in Israel.
Allow me first to describe how I see the present situation, before going (...)

Javier Solana congratulates Ehud Olmert on the election result in Israel

Brussels (Belgium) | 29 March 2006

I have just spoken to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and congratulated him on the result of
the general election in Israel yesterday. I encouraged Mr Olmert to pursue all efforts to move towards a peaceful, negotiated resolution of
the Middle-East conflict.
I assured him that the (...)

Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat

by Edward S. Walker

Caracas (Venezuela) | 24 March 2006

Back at the time of a major Bush-1 "drug war" in 1989, Hodding Carter pointed out that with increasing attention to the newly declared "crisis" by the administration and media, the public’s estimate of the importance of the drug problem rose spectacularly. "Today’s big news is the drug war.

The Chomsky/Blankfort Polemic

"The anti-war movement has failed"

23 February 2006

Tel-Aviv and Washington are linked in the Middle East. That’s a fact. But the importance of this link in Washington’s colonial politics is being debated in the anti-imperialist movment. For the US Jewish, anti-Zionist journalist Jeffrey Blankfort, Israeli influence is central to US policy and (...)

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