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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965): |
La
XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965)
dichiara "la legittimità della
lotta da parte dei popoli sotto
oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il
loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e
all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti
gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e
materiale ai movimenti di liberazione
nazionale nei territori coloniali". |
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:: ONU
- Risoluzione 1514 |
"L'Assemblea
Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei
popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e
asservimento costituisce una negazione
dei diritti umani fondamentali, è
contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite
ed è un impedimento alla promozione
della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto
all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di
tale diritto essi devono liberamente
determinare il loro status politico e
liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo
economico, sociale e culturale". |
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:: Convenzione
di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I
(1977): |
La lotta
armata può essere usata, come ultima
risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il
diritto all' autodeter-
minazione. |
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:: Tribunale
penale internazionale |
In
base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale
internazionale, sono definiti “crimini
di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
contro popolazione civili in quanto tali
o contro civili che non prendano
direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
nella consapevolezza che gli stessi
avranno come conseguenza la perdita di
vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e
lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà
civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e
gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano
manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme
dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi
militari previsti. |
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Hamas, don't blow this chance
Stuart Littlewood
September 5, 2010 - ...From now on, Hamas would do well to always link their words, actions and demands to established law, human rights declarations and UN recommendations, and press forward their equal entitlement to security, in order to show that their aims and aspirations are no different from the values of all decent citizens of the world. They could even consider setting up alternative, parallel peace talks to ridicule the US-Israel-Fatah axis and to produce an alternative, parallel final status solution based on justice… just for fun, or maybe as a serious counterpoint. Hamas would also do well to frame their case in a manner that allows others, outside the Holy Land, to sympathise and feel persuaded that it’s time they were welcomed into the mainstream. It is part of the re-positioning and re-branding process one hoped had already begun. But judging from those threats to step up violence they haven't yet made a start. This is a disappointment considering the hopes of so many are pinned on Hamas coming good...
continua / continued  [69508] [ 06-sep-2010 03:45 ECT ] |
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The Lights Are Going Out on Gaza
By Mohammed Omer |
September 5, 2010 - The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it's approaching festive time. The prolonged electricity cuts, lasting from 12 to 16 hours daily, is the topic of conversation on everyone's lips in the Gaza Strip. It's hot, it's Ramadan, and the people are tired, thirsty, hungry and desperate. The electricity supply began crumbling after the 2006 election when Hamas won, leading to Israel and Egypt imposing an economic blockade. Israel launched air strikes in December 2008, knocking out all the six transformers supplying power to Gaza...
continua / continued [69504] [ 06-sep-2010 02:48 ECT ] |
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“End of Combat Mission” in Iraq; another Charade
K. Gajendra Singh
September 5, 2010 - ...The country has been looted and devastated as described above. Normal civic services have collapsed. There are only a few hours of electric power .None of the municipal facilities like water supply, sewage system work So diseases are rampant, with an epidemic of mental illness, after seven years of innocent people being killed as part of daily life. There is between 40 to 50 percent unemployment, with sprawling slums. Before the invasion, the percentage of the urban population in slums was below 20 percent. Today, it has risen to 53 percent: 11 million of the 19 million total urban dwellers. In most countries the number of slum dwellers has come down. The United States has "betrayed its duty to bring peace and security" to Iraq, according to Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad, in an interview recently with the Italian daily La Stampa. The Americans leave behind "an Iraq worse off than the one they found seven years ago," said Warduni, The ethnic, religious and sectional divisions were encouraged by the occupiers as the imperialists have done in history...
continua / continued [69496] [ 06-sep-2010 00:17 ECT ] |
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Group: Israeli officer who killed Palestinian received public money
Ma'an news
September 5, 2010 - An Israeli police officer convicted of manslaughter for killing an unarmed Palestinian received over $90,000 of Israeli public money, a rights group said Sunday. Adalah, the legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel, said Sunday that it had obtained internal Israeli police documentation revealing that officer Shahar Mizrahi received almost 350,000 shekels (over $90,000) in financial assistance from the Israeli police for his legal defense. In July 2006, Mizrahi shot Mahammoud Ghanayim, 24, in the head at close range after using his gun to smash the window of the car in which Ghanayim was sitting...
continua / continued [69495] [ 06-sep-2010 00:00 ECT ] |
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Gaza: Ramadan Goes Down Under Rubble
Eva Bartlett |
September 4, 2010 - With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege on Gaza is but one of many factors leaving Ramadan miserable for the majority of Palestinians in Gaza. Abu Hani, 54, lives with his wife Umm Hani, 54, and three sons in Johr al-Dik, eastern Gaza, in the rubble of their demolished home, destroyed in the 2008- 2009 Israeli war on Gaza. "When we returned after the war, everything was destroyed. We have five dunams of land (one dunam is 1,000 square metres), on which we had olive and fruit trees, chickens, sheep and some pigeons," recalls Abu Hani. "My children and grandchildren all lived together in our two-storey house. When the Israelis destroyed it, they left nothing standing. Everything was torn up. There was nothing to distinguish our house and land from our neighbours’ land."...
continua / continued [69480] [ 05-sep-2010 04:26 ECT ] |
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Here We Go Again: Another Rig Explosion
by Stephen Lendman
September 4, 2010 - Drilling means spilling, hundreds of annual incidents, most small, unreported, yet their cumulative effect is devastating, what the industry and nightly news won’t mention or explain. On February 25, 2009, Environmental Research web.org writer Kate Ravilious did, headlining "Small unreported oil spills add up to major damage," saying: Big spills make headlines while small ones "often go unnoticed and unreported. But these little slicks could be just as damaging to the environment as large spills, according to new research findings."...
continua / continued [69476] [ 05-sep-2010 02:39 ECT ] |
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Sunni and Shiite Iraqi journalists talk about war
By FARIS AL-QAISI and ALI JABAAR (AP)
September 4, 2010 - ...When the conflict between the Shiites and Sunnis started in 2006, everything changed. Anybody named Omar (a Sunni name) was a target. I used to live near Yarmouk hospital, which was taken over by the Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia, during the sectarian fighting. A doctor whose name was Omar received threats and had to leave. An official in the morgue, who was my friend, was killed because he was Sunni. Many Sunnis I knew in the hospital were killed, including seven people named Omar in the area around the Yarmouk hospital. In April 2006 my wife called my mobile and said she found a threatening note in our garden. The letter said, "We know that you are working with nonbelievers and you must die." I told my wife to pack, take our passports, put on an abaya (an outer robe worn by many Muslim women) and tell the two girls to wear them too, and I took them to Mosul in the north. We were there for 20 days. I wanted to quit my job, but then decided to continue working and take my family out of Iraq...
continua / continued [69472] [ 05-sep-2010 00:01 ECT ] |
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Video : IS SOME CRITIQUE OF ISRAEL ANTISEMITIC?
"Should people boycott Israel?" - Interview with Omar Barghouti Pt. 4
The Real News Network
September 3, 2010 - ...the majority of Palestinians do not have a problem with recognizing the Nazi genocide. It's understood. People recognize it. Most Palestinians make a clear distinction between Jews, Israelis, Zionists, non-Zionists. This is something kids learn in school, they talk about in school, they debate in school, and so on. So we do make a distinction. Many people in the boycott movement, for example, are Jewish in the Western world. Many of the leaders of the boycott movement, the anti-Israel boycott movement, are Jewish. So we clearly do not have a problem with any specific group. With the messaging, I don't think that is a big problem. The main problem is that we're shut out of the mainstream media very intentionally, very deliberately...
continua / continued [69468] [ 04-sep-2010 16:29 ECT ] |
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Video: THE FATAH HAMAS SPLIT
"Should people boycott Israel?" Interview with Omar Barghouti Pt.3
The Real News Network
September 3, 2010 - I think it's a simplification to call it a split between Hamas and Fatah. And I think Hamas fell into that trap of alienating the entire Fatah Party. Fatah has a big coalition, actually. It's not an ideological party, so it has people from left, right, and center, religious, seculars, and so on. Hamas' problem, and the Palestinian problem, actually, in general, not just Hamas', was with a section of Fatah that was connected with the American CIA and with Israel, and they were doing their bidding in Gaza. Hamas took that fight from just fighting this group, this small section, a very strong but small section of Fatah, to alienating the entire Fatah, turning this [into] war, civil war, so to speak, between Fatah and Hamas. And now everybody talks about Fatah and Hamas. And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's what it has become: a split between Fatah and Hamas. Certainly that has weakened the Palestinian position, and certainly that has weakened Palestinian resistance...
continua / continued [69465] [ 04-sep-2010 15:56 ECT ] |
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The Disappearing Christians of Iraq
KATE SEELYE |
September 3, 2010 - ...Iraq's Christians are one of the world's oldest Christian communities. Most belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church. Others are Assyrian, affiliated with the Church of the East, or Syriac Orthodox. While they all speak Arabic, their native tongue is Aramaic, the language of Christ. At the time of Saddam's overthrow, there were estimated to be up to one million Christians in Iraq. Today their numbers have diminished by more than a third as Christians have fled a wave of violence, unleashed by the US invasion..."During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan we sent food and well wishes to the Muslims. Muslims visited Christians, Christians visited Muslims. We all got along. But after the collapse of Saddam, everything changed...Most importantly, he adds, Christians were secure and protected under Saddam Hussein's government, but the arrival of American troops put the community in a difficult position...
continua / continued [69466] [ 04-sep-2010 16:05 ECT ] |
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Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin’s admission: Israel “expelled Arabs” across Palestine in 1948
Max Blumenthal
September 3, 2010 - In a little noticed article on page 19 of the September 1 edition of Maariv, the Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, assailed the actors and artists who have refused to perform at the theater in the Jewish settlement of Ariel. As a proud advocate of Greater Israel and professed friend of even the most fanatical members of the settlement enterprise (see his remarks at the recent funeral of murdered settlers in Kiryat Arba), Rivlin’s attack would not have been significant if he hadn’t revealed some uncomfortable facts in the process. Seemingly lost in his anger at the lefty artists, Rivlin conceded that the founders of Israel, the cream of the kibbutznikim, had carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing to a massive degree. "I say to those who want to boycott – Deer Balkum ['beware' in Arabic]," Rivlin said to Maariv. "Those who expelled Arabs from En-Karem, from Jaffa, and from Katamon [in 1948..] lost the moral right to boycott Ariel."..
continua / continued [69460] [ 04-sep-2010 15:17 ECT ] |
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Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Freed in Libya After Three Years’ Detention – And Information About “Ghost Prisoners”
Andy Worthington
September 3, 2010 - ...Moreover, al-Rimi is not the only returnee from US custody who might be tempted to regard Abu Sufian Hamouda as fortunate. The most horrendous recent story is that of Ali Mohamed Abdelaziz al-Fakheri, more commonly known as Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a former CIA "ghost prisoner," who, notoriously, was sent to Egypt by the CIA after his capture on the Pakistani border in December 2001, where, under torture, he made a false confession about connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, regarding the use of chemical weapons, that was used by the Bush administration to justify the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Al-Libi was subsequently held in a variety of secret prisons in a number of different countries, either directly run by the CIA (in Afghanistan) or on behalf of the CIA (in countries including Jordan and Morocco), but was finally returned to Libya in 2006, where, last May, he reportedly died in Abu Salim prison by committing suicide, even though most observers concluded that this was highly unlikely — and also noted that, with suspicious timing, the US embassy in Tripoli reopened just three days after his death...
continua / continued [69458] [ 04-sep-2010 15:03 ECT ] |
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Gaza: Armed groups to form joint force
Ma'an news |
September 3, 2010 - Twelve militant groups held a meeting in the Gaza Strip last week, and agreed to form a joint operations room to coordinate resistance activities, Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman told reporters Thursday. Speaking shortly before US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell delivered an update on the peace talks in Washington, Abu Obeida, flanked by representatives of the 12 groups, announced a "new phase of advanced joint efforts" for the resistance. The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed to have orchestrated and carried out two attacks on Israeli settlers in the West Bank over the past three days, the first killing four - two men, two women, one of the latter pregnant - near Hebron, and the second injuring two near Ramallah. In statements issued by the brigades, the attacks were said to have been acts of opposition to the decision of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah to return to peace talks with Israel against the wishes of Palestinians...
continua / continued [69453] [ 04-sep-2010 04:32 ECT ] |
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