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My talk with hamas about peace with Isarael

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My talk with Hamas about peace with Israel

By Helena Cobban

Washington – Since his first days in office, President Obama has defined winning a final peace between Israel and the Palestinians as an urgent US interest.

On Jan. 21 he named former Senate majority leader George Mitchell his envoy to achieve that peace, and Mr. Mitchell has since made four fact-finding trips to the Middle East. But neither has yet said how the administration will grapple with one of the biggest challenges that peace diplomacy faces: the continuing strength of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas.

Hamas has been on the State Department’s "terrorism list" since its founding in 1987. It has steadfastly refused to recognize Israel. But it has also won – and kept – considerable popular support among Palestinians.

 

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Gaza docket grows

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By Aisha Mouneimne

 (source: VOCfm Online)

war crime court

An application recently launched by the amongst others the Media Review Network (MRN) calling on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to investigate South African Jews who served in the Israeli Defence Force (IFD) during Israel’s 22 day bombardment on the Gaza Strip at the end of last year has unsettled some Jewish Facebookers, particularly after the story went global via the Al Jazeera news channel. However, many of them still remain staunch in their perceived duty to serve in the IDF.

"The Gaza investigation by South African lawyers is pathetic, and I don’t find it a shock that they are all Muslim lawyers. What gives them the right to question Israel’s defence to a bombardment of rockets on their civilians? In my opinion it is every Jewish man’s duty to serve in the IDF no matter where they were born. Never in my life have I been more ashamed to be South African. Much respect to all the IDF troops who fought in Gaza," said one 21 year old Johannesburg based IDF Paratrooper.

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InvestigateUStorture and prosecute those responsible

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Investigate US torture and prosecute those responsible

28 January 2009

Considerable efforts are being made in various quarters to cover up the record of US torture and prevent the prosecution of military and Central Intelligence Agency torturers and those higher up who ordered them to carry out their crimes.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reportedly holding up approval of Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric Holder, until he promises not to prosecute any former Bush administration officials for their part in approving torture.

 

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