BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL

It was that “pinpoint accuracy”, “surgical strike” stuff again, there were “unavoidable tragic errors”, “mistakes”, “scrupulous efforts made to avoid” etc., blah. And as Britain’s Colonel Richard Kemp declared of the fourteen hundred dead of the Christmas and New year onslaught on Gaza in 2024-2009: “Mistakes are not war crimes.” (i)

A witness story about the assassination of yet another Iraqi academic

by Dirk Adriaensens on 20-11-2012

Iraq is still being emptied of its brightest minds and it seems there’s no end in sight of the endless strings of killings of Iraqi intellectuals.

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We in the Gaza Strip will not die in silence

by Musa Abumarzuq on 19-11-2012

If the world will not defend the Palestinians against Israel, we have the right to defend ourselves

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Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza

by The Guardian on 18-11-2012

The Obama administration's unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict

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Gaza and the Politics of “Greater Israel”

by Nile Bowie on 18-11-2012

While Netanyahu publically announced support for a Palestinian state on the West Bank, his government has threaten to end the Oslo Accords if the United Nations General Assembly granted Palestine with non-member observer state status.

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