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The dubai assassination the war on terror

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By Patrick  O’Connor

(source: Worl Socialist Website)

The reaction of governments around the world to the murder of Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month underscores the extent to which basic precepts of international law have been torn up under the “war on terror”. As far as the US government and its allies are concerned, extra-judicial executions and so-called targeted killings now constitute a legitimate state activity and do not warrant comment, let alone condemnation.

While the Israeli government has refused to confirm or deny any involvement, its intelligence agency, Mossad, is widely understood to be directly responsible for the Dubai operation. The Obama administration has maintained a strict silence over the affair, while the governments of Britain, Australia, France, Germany and Ireland have merely issued pro forma protests over the doctoring of their passports. None has condemned Mabhouh’s murder.

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Book review

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My Father was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. Ramzy Baroud. Pluto Press, London: 2010.

By Deepak Tripathi

(source: Palestine Chronicle)

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In the foreword to Ramzy Baroud’s book, Palestinian scholar Salman Abu Sitta refers to a bold assertion by David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, in June 1948 – soon after the declaration of the state of Israel and in the midst of large-scale cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland. “Not one refugee will return,” proclaimed Ben Gurion, “The old will die. The young will forget.”

To some living at the time, it would have sounded like a hasty prediction. Not only has the Palestinian tragedy lasted six decades and more, its consequences today go beyond Palestine, the Arab world, even the Middle East. It lies at the heart of a much wider and far more serious crisis facing the world. How wrong Ben Gurion was. There cannot be another conclusion.

The seeds of the Palestinian tragedy had been sown while the Ottoman Empire was collapsing under British and French pressure almost a century ago. In a covert pact stitched in 1916, known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Britain and France, with the assent of Imperial Russia, determined the fate of Palestine as a largely internationalized territory.

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Shutdown in ihk against Indian state terrorism

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Troops martyr 23 innocent Kashmiris in February 

(source: Kashmir Media Service)

In occupied Kashmir , complete shutdown was observed, today, against the reckless destruction by Indian troops during their five-day siege and search operations in Sopore town. Call for the strike had been given by the forum patronized by veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani to draw world attention towards the state terrorism unleashed by India in the occupied territory.

Forceful anti-India demonstrations, marked with clashes between the troops and demonstrators, were held in Sopore town while the occupation authorities had sealed the downtown areas of Srinagar .

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Eyewitness Gaza report back in house of commons

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 (source: Palestine Return Centre)

UK members of the parliamentary delegation to Gaza , organised by the European Campaign and the Palestinian Return Centre presented ‘Eyewitness Gaza’ in Westminster on Monday evening.

 In a packed Select Committee Room, British Parliamentarians, including Sir Gerald Kaufman, Bob Marshall Andrews, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Lord Nazir Ahmed, Martin Linton, Jeremy Corbyn, and Richard Howitt MEP spoke about what they had seen when they broke the siege on Gaza in January.

Joining the esteemed panellists were Lord Steel, who is going to Gaza this week, Majed Al Zeer Director of the Palestinian Return Centre and Arafat Shoukri, chair of the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza .

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