Palestine - One Four Nine!

the UN  has voted overwhelmingly to recognise Palestine as the world's 194th state. It’s a largely symbolic but huge victory for the Palestinian people and for peace, and people across the world are joining with huge crowds in Palestine to celebrate.

The Palestinian people's journey to freedom is far from over. Zionist pressure groups managed to persuade the US to stand against this move, and the British Government, as ever more mindful of the 'Special Relationship' than anything else, cravenly kept out of the vote. The online pressure organisation Avaaz played a considerable part in the lead-up; the photo shows their banner hanging in Brussels.

Attack on Gaza widely condemned

Picture by Gaza artist Majed Badra

The 'fish in a barrel' analogy is undoubtedly a cliché, but it is difficult to come up with a more graphic description of the attacks the Israeli Occupation carries out on the giant open-air prison of Gaza; and no less the current one. Here is a pithy summing-up of both the on-going situation and the recent history leading to today's violence: http://imeu.net/news/article0022250.shtml
Probably the most important thing to remember is that the people of Gaza have long been serving as guinea-pigs for Israel's high-earning arms industry - certainly since all Jewish colonists were moved out.

trial threatens Israel's impunity

 

Earlier this week PSC’s Director, Sarah Colborne, gave evidence in Istanbul alongside hundreds of other witnesses, on Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010. Four senior Israeli commanders are being tried in Turkey as ‘fugitive suspects’. The case is being brought on behalf of 490 plaintiffs and victims including flotilla passengers and relatives of the dead and injured. Among those present were convoy veteran Bristol's Sakir Yildirim, who was en-route,taking aid to Syria.  Sakir Yildirim on the road Israeli response was initially to try and block the trial. Israel’s concerns about this trial are well-founded. If, as a result of this trial, international arrest warrants are issued for those responsible, this will have a major impact on the freedom of movement of senior Israeli generals.