Breaking the last taboo – Gaza and the threat of world war

by John Pilger 11 September 2014 Editor’s note:  The following article is adapted from John Pilger’s Edward Said Memorial Lecture, delivered in Adelaide, Australia, on 11 September 2014. “There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.”

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Egypt Offered Hamas an Impossible Deal

  Antoun Issa Posted: 08/25/2014   The resumption of fighting between Israel and Hamas can be largely attributed to Egypt’s failure to broker a fair, enduring cease-fire. Egypt’s cease-fire proposal, as outlined in 11 points, was effectively a call for a return to the status quo: a besieged Gaza Strip with token, unspecified assistance to help it rebuild – the third reconstruction

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How Egypt Prolonged the Gaza War

    ARGUMENT As Israel and the Palestinians struggle to reach yet another cease-fire, the mediators in Cairo are making the conflict worse — and empowering radicals in the process. BY MICHELE DUNNE , NATHAN J. BROWN AUGUST 18, 2014 As negotiations on a lasting cease-fire in Gaza grind on in Cairo, it’s not only the animosity between Israel and

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A Grand Entente

Posted by Baheyya 12 Aug 2014 01:28 PM PDT In the old days, when the Israeli military bombed and shelled Palestinians and sought to destroy their society, Hosni Mubarak used a well-worn formula, fully abetting Israeli actions while uttering pro-Palestine platitudes. Occasionally, when huge protests rocked the streets, he green-lighted theatrical gestures such as his wife heading a relief convoy to

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1,200 Spanish University professors and researchers demand to break academic relationships with Israel

    More than 1,000 professionals have signed a manifesto, released by the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) academic campaign for Palestine, demanding to end all institutional relations with the Israeli academic world, until it stops supporting occupation and apartheid in Palestine. The campaign, which started two years ago, asks for support from professionals from the academic and scientific field, and also from associations linked to

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Resources on the Complicity of the Israeli Academy in Colonization, Occupation, and Apartheid

                      General http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1321 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1307 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1175 http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/4461-academic-boycott-has-to-be-part-of-the-bds-campaign http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/economy-of-the-occupation/2223-the-economy-of-the-occupation-23-24-academic-boycott-of-israel.html http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1430 http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/catastrophic-thinking-did-ben-gurion-try-to-rewrite-history.premium-1.524308 http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/alrased1_eng.pdf http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/report_english_yara.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/court-stops-israeli-university-suspension-palestinians-commemorating-nakba/13408   Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) http://againstcornelltechnion.wordpress.com/ http://www.usacbi.org/2011/12/open-letter-to-cornell-university-dont-collaborate-with-apartheid/   Tel Aviv University http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10673.shtml http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1216 http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/study-tel-aviv-university-part-and-parcel-israeli-occupation/3434 http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/right-wing-ngo-funding-tel-aviv-university-dig-in-east-jerusalem-1.529641 Haifa University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1840(includes Tel Aviv U) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1794 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1329 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1274 Hebrew University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1852 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=11 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1242 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=947

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Birzeit University Institute of Women's Studies Urgent Call

              31 July 2014   As we write this statement, 25 days after the brutal incursion on Gaza, over a thousand and four hundred of innocent civilian women, men and children have been butchered by Israel’s war machine and much more are threatened to be killed. The call for raping Palestinian women by the

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Israeli universities lend support to Gaza massacre

  Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 07/25/2014 – 13:10 Two leading Israeli academic institutions are offering strong support for Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza. Tel Aviv University is giving students who serve in the attack on Gaza one year of free tuition. “Tel Aviv University embraces and supports all the security forces who are working to restore quiet and

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