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2009 started with nearly a month of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing over 1300 Palestinians, injuring thousands more and worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis. rabble.ca continues to bring you the best in alternative analysis of the ongoing siege of Gaza.

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Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza again -- November 2012 | NDPP said... CAIA EMERGENCY DEMO  - In Solidarity with Gaza: TORONTO THURSDAY! "Israel has renewed and...
"Muslim Rage" | kropotkin1951 said... Here is another piece in somewhat the same vein. Quote: In 1857, Bengali soldiers (known as ‘sepoys...
President Shimon Peres visits Canada: 'Israel's Dove of Peace' | NDPP said... "Dirty: Foul, indecent, obscene, unethical, corrupt, unpleasant, malicious, acquired by illicit or...
' International Criminal Court Was A Hoax From the Start': ICC Refuses Israeli War Crimes Investigation | NDPP said... 'Not A Country': ICC Blocks Palestine War Crimes Probe http://rt.com/news/international-court-gaza-...
Palestinian/Israeli Conflict | Ken Burch said... Is there a reason you started this in the "Atlantic" section of Babble?  Normally, this part...
Thomas Mulcair's support for Israel 2 | Hunky_Monkey said... Thanks, Catchfire! in
FILM FEST 4 PEACE! 9th Annual Vancouver International | noahfine said... http://www.filmfest4peace.blogspot.com/ in
Support Freedom Waves to Gaza | milo204 said... we need a wave to hit washington, they're the real reason gaza is still a prison. in
Free Gaza! Support the Freedom Flotilla II | M. Spector said... Quote:MONTREAL, May 29, 2011 (AFP) - Canada’s top diplomat warned Sunday against Canadian...
Roger Waters calls for no more bricks in the (West Bank) wall | Dodger718 said... Given that a family of 5 (including a 4 month old baby girl) in the West Bank were stabbed to death...

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Ceasefire means 'nothing' to Gaza fishers | Dec 17 2012 | Eva Bartlett | Shortly after Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement on Nov. 21, the Israeli navy abducted 30 Palestinian fishers from Gaza's waters, and destroyed and sank a Palestinian fishing vessel.
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Dr. Mustafa Barghouti: Canada's unconditional support for Israeli policy is 'astonishing' | Dec 11 2012 | Steven Zhou | In a visit to Canada last weekend, Palestinian legislator and activist Dr. Mustafa Barghouti expressed his pessimism at the prospects of a future Palestinian state.
Photo: Medea Benjamin
Devastation in wake of latest Israeli assault: Report back from Gaza | Dec 10 2012 | Medea Benjamin | The fight was totally disproportionate. Israeli F-16s, drones and Apache helicopters unleashed their fury over this tiny strip of land, leaving 174 dead.
Remembering Gaza's dead, standing with the conscience of humanity when our government does not | Dec 6 2012 | John Turnbull | Show Stephen Harper who pays the price for Israel's military subjugation of Palestine and our government's self-assured bumbling at the UN.
Queer visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine | Dec 6 2012 | John Greyson | The Queer Visions group included sixteen activists from seven cities internationally. We gathered in Porto Alegre prior to the World Social Forum.
Jewish human rights group slams Harper government's UN vote on Palestine | Dec 3 2012 | Independent Jewish Voices | A Canadian Jewish human rights group is condemning the Harper government's opposition to giving Palestine non-member observer state status at the United Nations.
Noam Chomsky: On the UN Palestine vote and recent violence in Gaza | Dec 3 2012 | Noam Chomsky | The current upsurge of U.S.-Israeli violence dates to January 2006, when Palestinians voted "the wrong way" in the first free election in the Arab world.
Photo: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv/Flickr
Re-considering U.S. diplomatic strategy in Israel | Nov 23 2012 | Rick Salutin | It seems to me the Americans discovered, or blundered onto, a new diplomatic strategy. It was this: Agree with everything Israel says, then do exactly what you want anyway.
Owen Jones: What really happened in Gaza | Nov 23 2012 | rabble staff | On BBC's Question Time on 22.11.12, journalist Owen Jones described the reality -- largely ignored by the mainstream media -- of Israel's brutal attack on Gaza.
Photo: Chris Beckett/Flickr
Ending the occupation of Gaza | Nov 22 2012 | Amy Goodman | This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occupation of the sliver of land wedged between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea.
Open letter on Gaza: End lethal Israeli attacks, lift the blockade | Nov 21 2012 | various | We the undersigned watch with horror yet another ruthless and criminal Israeli assault on the defenceless people of the Gaza Strip.
On Gaza and the media: The precarious concept of 'balance' | Nov 21 2012 | Máire Noonan | There is such a great and burning desire for “balance” in Canadian society that I cannot understand that people don’t actually recognise the so apparent lack of balance that they are fed every day.
So sad for the people of Gaza | Nov 21 2012 | Judy Rebick | As you have heard many other places, this is not a war. This is a terror attack by one of the most powerful military forces in the world against an almost defenceless peoples.
Chris Hedges on Israel and Gaza: It is not a war, it is murder | Nov 20 2012 | rabble staff | A speech by Chris Hedges following Israel's 'Operation Cast Lead' against Gaza in 2009.
Israeli assault on Gaza reminds us: Stopping Harper requires challenging his foreign policy | Nov 20 2012 | Derrick O'Keefe | Even if we could "stop Harper" and change the government without dealing with its foreign policy, it would be a pyrrhic victory.

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