REUTERS/Omar Obeidi (IRAQ)
Mourners pray during a funeral for a leader and other members of U.S.-backed neighbourhood guards who were killed in a bomb attack in northern Baghdad’s Adhamiya district yesterday. A bomber on a motorcycle struck a checkpoint manned by U.S.-backed neighbourhood guards in Baghdad yesterday, killing 15 people and wounding 29.
Picture: (AFP Graphic/null)
Map locating attacks in Wah, Pakistan. Increasing the security challenges facing the fragile coalition government.
At least 57 people were killed in a blast outside Pakistan’s main military arms factory just hours ago.
By Alan Hart
(source: alanhart.net)
On the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip – in my view it was a demonstration of Israeli state terrorism at its most naked – it’s not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in Israel’s on-going collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians, 53% of whom are children.
What is actually happening in the blockaded Gaza Strip, and less obviously on the occupied West Bank, is the continuation by stealth of Zionism’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine. My friend Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “revisionist” (meaning honest) historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, would and has put it another way. What we are witnessing is, in his words, “genocide in slow motion.” And that, really, is what the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in.
The question that provokes in my mind is: Why, really, are the major powers (and others) allowing it to happen?