From Palestine Telegraph...Having commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day with Holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer and some Jewish friends, after a talk at Goldsmith University last week, I feel that Palestinians have many common experiences with the survivors of the Holocaust.

On February 3, 2010, The Independent reported that a high-ranking officer who served as a commander during Operation Cast Lead, admitted that Israel’s army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives and “that he did not regard the longstanding principle of military conduct known as ‘means and intentions’– whereby a targeted suspect must have a weapon and show signs of intending to use it before being fired upon – as being applicable before calling in fire from drones and helicopters in Gaza last winter."

Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) is one of several organisations working to bring the violations occurring in East Jerusalem to the attention of the world. Their Chief Executive, Rabbi Asherman reports, “I see Jerusalem in flames, and know that my words will not succeed in conveying the horror of what I see or the dread in my heart…”

Palestinians should declare statehood now and Israelis and the United States should support the move. Rather than creating tensions undermining peace, a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Palestinians would in fact create a dynamic in which peace would become more possible.

"The terms ‘democracy’ or ‘democratic’ are totally absent from the Declaration of Independence. This is not an accident. The intention of Zionism was not to bring democracy, needless to say. It was solely motivated by the creation in Eretz-Isrel of a Jewish state belonging to all the Jewish people and to the Jewish people alone. This is why any Jew of the Diaspora has the right to immigrate to Israel and to become a citizen of Israel."-Ariel Sharon, 1993

An Army spokesman, admitted on January 21, 2010, that the service was unaware of coded biblical references imprinted on combat rifle sights manufactured for the U.S. military, until a few days ago, proving that our troops are in the dark because of failures of intelligence in the Military establishment as well as due to heretical Christianity.

Gaza, January 22, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Exactly one year ago, the Gazans who were seared by the bright flames of phosphorous bombs used by what is ironically called the Israel Defense Force, placed much hope on the new president of the United States. They believed he would promptly intervene and press Israel to stop its crimes against our beleaguered land, that he would be just and fair as he promised. However, he did practically nothing: Israeli crimes are still perpetrated against the Palestinians, the worst of which was the siege imposed on Gaza as a retaliation for the people's exercise of democracy in the elections of 2006.

 
The Christmas day terrorist has shaken the confidence of the public in airline safety and aroused worldwide attention.

Rev. MLK, Jr. called the US Government; "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" and "the war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit."

He also knew that the only hope for real change "…lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit...declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism."

Two years ago, Israeli President Shimon Peres invited Bono to attend a conference in Israel marking Israel's 60^th Anniversary and to honor its contributions in medicine, science, and conservation. Bono didn’t make that trip, but this summer he is scheduled to perform in Israel...

Jared Malsin, an English editor at the Maan News Agency in Bethlehem, was arrested and jailed by Israeli border police this week for the high crime of "criticizing Israel." The journalist is sitting in a jail cell awaiting a kangaroo court hearing before an Israeli judge. And there is nothing Arab Journalists can do about it, mainly because they spend more time fighting among themselves than they do networking and creating one, single, strong voice.