Palestine – Features

Palestine Solidarity Alliance
Hosts Lecture by Ali Abunimah

Date: 16 April, 2010
Time: 7:30 – 9pm
Venue: Nana Memorial Hall
(65 Foyle Strt,Crosby,JHB)
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(source: Guardian.co.uk)

Coalition in confusion as deputy prime minister pronounces invasion ‘illegal’ at dispatch box

Nick Clegg was forced to clarify his position on the Iraq war after he stood up at the dispatch box of the House of Commons and pronounced the invasion illegal.

The deputy prime minister insisted he was speaking in a personal capacity, as a leading international lawyer warned that the statement by a government minister in such a formal setting could increase the chances of charges against Britain in international courts.

Philippe Sands, professor of law at University College London, said: "A public statement by a government minister in parliament as to the legal situation would be a statement that an international court would be interested in, in forming a view as to whether or not the war was lawful."

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By Zanele Matebula (Deputy International Relations Secretary) – Congress of South African Trade Unions

COSATU supports the impending arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel for war crimes on her intended visit to South Africa this weekend

Today, Tuesday 18 January, Amnesty International will host a vigil in Johannesburg to commemorate the second anniversary of the Israeli attacks on Gaza. More than 1000 civilians, including 400 children under the age of 16, were killed in the Israeli military operation.

The Amnesty International Global Day of Action on Israel marks the beginning of a two-month campaign demanding that the United Nations Human Rights Council take concrete measures to ensure international justice for the victims of the attack on Gaza. The Amnesty International vigil is being held amidst the impending arrest warrant being issued for former Israeli Foreign Affairs minister, Tzipi Livni, who is scheduled to be in South Africa later this week. Livni has been invited by the South African Zionist Federation to speak in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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1st Anniversary – Mavi Marmara: Piracy on the High Seas

On the 31st May 2010, the military forces of the illegal Zionist state of Israel attacked a Turkish flotilla of ships carrying aid to 1.5 million economically blockaded and besieged people of Gaza. The convoy was led by the Marvi Marmara, which came under military attack by Israel. Nine Turkish volunteers were brutally murdered in the show of aggression. The attack took place in international waters and according to a UNHRC report, the state of Israel committed violations of a series of international laws including International Humanitarian as well as Human Rights Laws.

Almost to the day when US President, Barak Obama allowed Israel to murder good people, he reiterated his support for the illegitimate state of Israel during his address to the Annual AIPAC meeting in Washington DC on 19th May 2011. The people murdered by Israeli military were known for their moral conscience.

This time last year, Netanyahu, cancelled his scheduled meeting with Obama. Today, Netanyahu honored his date with Obama so that he could challenge any utterances by Obama that were not in line with Zionist thinking. Obama has once again confirmed the American Administration’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine.

The Media Review Network calls on all people of conscience, to remember those brave men and women so callously gunned down by the war machinery of one of the world’s nuclear powers. They lived by their ethical sense of right and wrong and paid the ultimate price for it. Their noble deaths must not be in vain. We also remember the people of the Gaza as being kind, hospitable and intelligent who have done nothing to deserve the misery inflicted on them by the Zionist regime and its supporters in the West.

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