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Goldstone`s Rethink: Cleansing Israel`s War Crimes

Strangely, Goldstone appears to base his revised opinion on Israel’s own military investigations

(NAZARETH) - Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in the Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack on Gaza in winter 2008.

For the past 18 months the Goldstone Report had forced Israel on to the defensive by suggesting its army – as well as Hamas, the ruling faction in Gaza – had committed war crimes.

Goldstone`s U-Turn

Goldstone allows Israel to reduce its institutional responsibility for a colossal war crime, into a chain of local errors...

(LONDON) - If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document,’ writes Richard Goldstone in an attempt to retract his own UN report.

And yet I wonder: how different would it be? How different could it be? Goldstone is impressed with Israel dedicating some “significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza’, but it somehow leaves me bewildered.

Afghanistan: The `Great Game` of Deceit

The list goes on and on for all the failures that Afghanistan has endured...

(SEATTLE) - The Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, at the beginning of the 20th century aptly described Afghanistan as “a piece on the chessboard on which is being played out the game for domination of the world.”

At that time, the Great Game was being played between Czarist Russia and Imperialist Britain. At the end of the 20th century, however, the contestants were the USSR, and the USA.

ARAB UPRISINGS: Time to Quit Playing al Qaeda`s Card

The west should start dealing with Arabs in a more dignified way.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The Arabic world is populated by nearly 360 million hungry for democracy- people, many of whom are not quite aware what democracy stands for nor are they interested to get oriented with the academic definition of the word.

They long for equal rights and obligations, fair judiciary and police, reasonable standard of living, free elections, accountable leaders, peaceful succession to power and most of all dignified life...

Special Report: High Noon in Ciudad Juarez?

How human rights figures into Lt. Col. Julian Leyzaola Perez’s management in Ciudad Juarez will be a critical question.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Mexico-US border police chiefs were at the top of the news in recent days.

In a bitter twist to an almost fairytale story that captured the imagination of the US and Mexican press, the 20-year-old police chief of a small town in the blood-soaked Juarez Valley, Marisol Valles, fled to the US seeking political asylum last week.

Congressman Peter King`s Great Muslim Scare

Of a total of 1,571 terrorist attacks in the E.U. from 2006-2008 only 6 were committed by Islamist terrorists.

(BEIRUT Al Manar) - Half a century ago, during the late Senator Joseph McCarthy fueled “great red’ scare” that terrorized many in America.

Israel Apartheid Week

Prof. Qumsiyeh's update from his current U.S. tour.

(DENVER) - The Israel apartheid events* are already being attacked ahead of the events.

We are now writing from Colorado where we had our first US stop and where the local groups arranged a number of appearances for us to launch the apartheid Month. In three days we have public lectures at a church, two universities, a bookstore, interview with two radio stations, informal meetings with community leaders, and a meeting with a congressman.

Bird-Dogging Blumenauer for AIPAC Support

Blumenauer received further protest at the AIPAC meeting in Portland.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Halfway through Congressmen Blumenauer's speech promoting Portland's bicycle culture, protesters floated a 5 x 10 foot banner to the ceiling of the University of Oregon ballroom.

The banner read 'AIPAC' with an arrow pointing backwards and 'Enviro Justice' with an arrow pointing forward.

`Dulles Airport` Shadow Disproves US Government`s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

Let’s examine the events and circumstances of 9/11, the cover-up and the “shock & awe” doctrine.

(NEWARK, Calif.) - Nearly a decade after the heinous crimes known simply as “9/11” we can finally conclude with absolute certainty that our nation has been laboring under very strong delusion about what really happened that day.

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority recently confirmed the location and view of the video surveillance camera at “West Security Checkpoint #1” at Washington Dulles International Airport on 11 September 2001.

The Penny Has Dropped

Solidarity with the Palestinians is about to become a tidal wave.

(LONDON) - Ynet reported yesterday, that in a BBC global poll gauging attitudes towards various countries worldwide, Israel came pretty much at the bottom -- There were just three countries less popular than the Jewish State – Pakistan, North Korea and Iran.

The Israelis must find it hard to accept that their state is one of the least popular countries in the world. Seemingly, Zionism -- that presented itself as a promise to bring about a civilised and lovable Jewish state -- has totally failed.