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Palestinian rights orgs demand govt investigate goldstone claims

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(source: Ma’an News Agency)

Bethlehem – Thirteen Palestinian human rights organizations and legal advocacy groups appealed to President Mahmoud Abbas and de facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in open letters, calling for the immediate commencement of internal investigations of the Goldstone report.

The groups, listed below, demanded the investigations be carried out in compliance with the UN General Assembly resolution.

The letter explained that on 5 February 2010 the UN Secretary-General is due to submit his report on the implementation of the General Assembly Resolution relating to investigations into allegations made in the Goldstone report. "As Palestinian and international non-governmental organisations, we urge both the Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza to immediately commence credible internal investigations in compliance with international standards and in accordance with the Report by the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict."

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I am going back to Gaza interview with ewa jasiewicz

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By Frank Barat

(source: Palestine Chronicle)

EWA

Ewa Jasiewicz: It’s an honour and a privilege to participate in this struggle.

A year ago, Israel launched ‘Operation Cast lead’ in Gaza. It started on 27th of December 2008 and finished on 18th of January 2009. Those 22 days were the most brutal and violent the Palestinians had seen since 1967. More than 1400 Palestinians died including more than 400 children. More than 5000 Palestinians suffered serious injuries. 13 Israelis died. Ewa Jasiewicz was one of a handful “internationals” on the ground. A year later, she remembers and shares her reflections with me.

Frank Barat: You were in Gaza a year ago during “Operation Cast Lead”. Why and how did you and other activists get to the Gaza Strip?

Ewa Jasiewicz: Myself and several solidarity activists from Lebanon, Spain, Canada, Australia, Italy, UK, Ireland and Greece managed to get into Gaza aboard the Free Gaza Movement’s Dignity boat. FGM (1) has sailed five successful missions to Gaza between August-December 2008 bringing in human rights workers to build political solidarity activism, to break the isolation of ghettoized communities and directly confront Israel’s illegal and brutally collectively punishing siege.

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Us arab regimes threaten future of opposition satellite channels

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(source: abdelbariatwan.com)

Arab media experts are meeting in Cairo today to discuss the 8 December US Congress decision to penalize Arab satellites which allow the transmission of channels that Washington considers hostile. The Arab delegates are not expected to oppose the US stance however, because the majority of Arab governments do not disagree with it, and even support it, particularly as the targeted channels like "Al-Manar", "Al-Alam", "Al-Hiwar", "Al-Rafidayn", "Al-Aqsa", and to a lesser degree "Al-Jazeera" are unacceptable to these governments.

The Arab League’s experts are the last ones with the right to talk about the freedom of the Arab media or confront such an unfair American decision that muzzles freedoms because the League and its countries’ affiliated Arab information ministers council was the one which adopted the "satellite channels document" in February 2008 under the name of the "Arab media honour charter" whose application led to the closure of several channels and prevented others from transmitting on the satellites "NileSat" satellite and "ArabSat".

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