banksy in Palestine: link pics

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Pilger on Hiroshima

The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century
The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims’ names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East

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John Pilger
The Guardian,
Wednesday August 6 2008
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When I first went to [...]

Aafia Siddiqui, greatest lie of the 21st century

Mystery of ‘ghost of Bagram’ – victim of torture or captured in a shootout?
Mother of three in court after five-year disappearance ends in Afghanistan amid conflicting claims

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Saeed Shah in IslamabadThe Guardian,
Wednesday August 6 2008Article history

An FBI picture of Aafia Siddiqui, released in 2003, when she was named as a [...]

Binyam Mohamed

Ministers ‘duped by US’ over Guantanamo inmate’s torture claim
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Friday, 25 July 2008

 
The Government faces accusations that it has been duped by the US military after Foreign Office officials claimed that a UK resident held for four years in Guantanamo Bay without contact with other prisoners was not being kept in solitary [...]

west bank settlement’s go ahead

Palestinian anger at claims new West Bank settlement ‘to get go-ahead’
· Israeli planners give initial approval to 20 homes
· No end to freeze on expansion, says PM

Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
The Guardian,
Friday July 25 2008
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An Israeli Jewish settler walks in the community of Maskiot in the Jordan Valley near the West Bank town of Nablus. [...]

The fall of Olmert and Kadima may move Israel to the right

Israel: Power struggle leads to Netanyahu, hard man in a tough neighbourhood
As Kadima struggles to deal with Olmert’s resignation, right-winger stands to gain

Ian Black, Middle East editor
The Guardian,
Saturday August 2 2008
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Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu was with his sons at a football match on Wednesday night when a tearful Ehud Olmert announced he would be stepping [...]

Humann right abuses by right wing Israel

 

Story behind the shot protester and the teen who caught it on film

Peter Beaumont
The Observer,
Sunday July 27 2008
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It was an image that shocked the world: a blindfolded Palestinian demonstrator in the West Bank village of Ni’ilin being subjected to a punishment shooting in his foot with a plastic-coated baton round.
The protester was Ashraf Abu [...]

Jimmy Carter lambasts Israel’s colonisation

Israel’s colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter
· Actions will perpetuate violence across region
· Future for West Bank and Gaza Strip ‘dismal’

Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
The Guardian,
Saturday March 18 2006
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The former US president Jimmy Carter has described Israel’s “colonisation of Palestine” through expanding Jewish settlements as the single greatest obstacle to a resolution of [...]

arabs under seige

Arabs under siege as Israel tightens grip on Holy City
The battle for Jerusalem is entering a new phase as Israel continues to build new settlements in the east of the city and a series of violent attacks by lone Arab attackers ratchets up the tension

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
The Observer,
Sunday July 27 2008
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Palestinian Fawzia al-Kurd [...]

War crimes of Sudan’s president

 

International court likely to seek arrest of Sudan’s president for war crimes in Darfur
· Bashir refuses to hand over attack suspects to ICC
· Aid workers prepare for possible state backlash

Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
The Guardian,
Friday July 11 2008
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Darfur refugees carry sacks of relief food at the Boro Medina camp in south Sudan. Photograph: Bosire Bogonko/AFP/Getty

The [...]