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The Israel-Palestine conflict.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday May 11, 2002 21:12author by eusabio

The reality of US peace brokering in the middle east.

This is a link to a piece in todays Guardian by Noam Chomsky. A more comprehensive version of the article appears in Red Pepper. Other readings: The Fateful Triangle; The US, Israel, and the Palestinians. By Noam Chomsky

Related Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,713697,00.html

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Israel is right to suspect UN inquiry at Jenin may lead to kangaroo court
author by Conorpublication date Sun May 12, 2002 02:53author address author phone

On the 30th April, Tom Cooney, law lecturer in University College, Dublin, with an academic interest in international law and human rights issues, wrote an enlightening article that puts a more balanced perspective on the The Israel-Palestine conflict and the shameful support being provided by the the UN and the EU to the Palestinian propaganda campaign and its efforts to condemn Israel.

Related Link: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2002/0430/1563383982OP30COONEY.html
Shameful
author by Oliver O'Driscollpublication date Sun May 12, 2002 17:29author address author phone

The crimes committed by the Zionists in Jenin and other Palestinian population centres are not just shameful, crimes such as the use of palestinian civilians as human shields, the abduction of wounded palestinian civilians, the extra judical killings of civilians, the use of torture are all war crimes and clear breaches of the fourth Geneva Convention. Their friends in Washington (who have committed their own share of crimes, Vietnam, Central America etc. etc.) certainly do not have to provide them with training on that part of their activites. The Human Rights Watch site gives a number of examples of the most appalling crimes which can be compared in character, in not in scale to those of the German fascists.

Related Link: http://www.hrw.org/
Conor, re the piece you linked to
author by GluttonManpublication date Mon May 13, 2002 03:39author address author phone

It starts off by declaring that the Israeli assault on Jenin was "proportionate" and then it just gets worse! It's just rhetorical posturing with a complete absence of moral framework and factual underpinning. Thanks for posting the link though. It's interesting to see what some people are "thinking".

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