Review: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
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- Written by Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle Review Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle Review
- Published: 31 October 2006 31 October 2006
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Reading about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine from this work is intense and relentless. Geoff Simons’ look at the problem in Palestine of the Israeli onslaught against the indigenous population keeps coming at the reader, insistently, imperatively, and almost overwhelming to the point of exhaustion. Story after story, anecdote after anecdote, irrefutable evidence ongoing with excellent source information from personal diaries of those involved on both sides, government records, and NGO records all contribute to this seemingly never-ending compendium of information. As a reader I ran through a full range of emotions: anger, frustration, hopelessness, rage, sadness, and the unsettling sense in both mind and heart that the cause of these feelings is the brutality and savageness of a society that is – that has – descended into a state of blind immorality.
Warming 'may cause economic chaos'
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- Written by CNN CNN
- Published: 30 October 2006 30 October 2006
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Climate change could devastate the global economy on a scale of the two world wars and the depression of the 1930s if left unchecked, a top economist has warned.
Introducing the report by Nicholas Stern, the British government also said Monday that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who is now a vocal environmental advocate, is to serve as one of its advisers on the issue.
The report's main argument is that the benefits of coordinated action around the world to tackle global warming will greatly outweigh any financial costs.
Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb
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- Written by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk
- Published: 30 October 2006 30 October 2006
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Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
Far-right joins Israel coalition
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- Written by BBC News BBC News
- Published: 30 October 2006 30 October 2006
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Israeli Arabs have also condemned the plan. Yisrael Beitenu advocates the transfer of some Arab towns out of the state of Israel.
Its leader, Mr Lieberman, has also accused some Israeli Arabs of treason for speaking to the Palestinian militant group, Hamas.
Speaking of the move last week, Azmi Bishara, an Israeli Arab member of the parliament, said: "Israel can't pride itself for being the sole democracy in the Middle East and take in someone so radical [as Mr Lieberman]."
World silent as fascists join Israel government
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- Written by Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada
- Published: 27 October 2006 27 October 2006
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Yisrael Beitenu is a dangerous extremist party with fascist tendencies that has openly advocated the "transfer" of Palestinians, including the transfer of Arab towns within Israel to a Bantustan-like future Palestinian entity. It has made clear that a Jewish supremacist state is more important than a democratic one. The party, whose strongest base is among Russian immigrants brought to Israel in the 1990s, surged at the Israeli election earlier this year, taking eleven seats in Israel's 120 seat Knesset.
"I would not hesitate to send the Israeli army into all of Area A for 48 hours. Destroy the foundation of all the [Palestinian] authority's military infrastructure, all of the police buildings, the arsenals, all the posts of the security forces... not leave one stone on another. Destroy everything." -Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's new "Minister for Strategic Threats"