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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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Racist patriarchy in Israel
Richard Seymour
July 21, 2010 - This is an example of racist patriarchy. A man, Sabbar Kashur, has been imprisoned for doing nothing more than having consensual sex with a woman, whose name has not been disclosed. Both parties were of age, and no one alleges that the transaction took place without consent. Initially, this was not clear, as the original complaint suggested that there had been some coercion. But as the woman's testimony in the course of the trial made clear, the only crime that Kashur, now convicted of rape, committed was to have allowed the woman to believe that he was Jewish, when in fact he was an Arab. He did not even actively perpetrate a deceit, merely chatted the woman up and didn't say "by the way, I am an Arab"...
continua / continued  [68144] [ 22-jul-2010 02:19 ECT ] |
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Afghan resistance statement
Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan concerning Kabul conference
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan |
July 21, 2010 - ... In fact, by making such futile efforts as holding Kabul conference, America wants to distract the global attention from its shameful defeat in Afghanistan, not to put an end to the agony and tragedy of the people in Afghanistan. Thus, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as it has always done, regards the US invaders and their allies the only and main cause of the distraction, chaos, disorder and misfortune in Afghanistan; and considers the key solution to all this the unconditional and immediate withdrawal of all the occupation forces from Afghanistan. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is aware of the decisions made in the Kabul conference and the America’s prolongation of the war and its chaotic strategy, therefore call on the world not to support and rubberstamp its plans and decisions blindly but offer logical solution to help resolve the issue which may be satisfactory for both Afghan masses and the foreigners...
continua / continued [68140] [ 21-jul-2010 23:31 ECT ] |
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Kabul conference is surreal theatre featuring the defeated Western allies in competitive denial
Gerald Warner
July 21, 2010 - We are watching history in the making in Afghanistan; but it is history of a certain stamp – the slow-motion unravelling of a disaster. The international conference meeting in a palatial hall in Kabul has all the unreality of similar doomed assemblies in the past. Think of the States General of France in 1789, the Duma in Russia in 1905 – you get the picture. Here we have high-ranking international diplomats and foreign ministers, the supposed "movers and shakers" of the world, but they have encountered the immovable and the unshakeable: the victorious Taliban and the treacherous warlords of Afghanistan...Hamid Karzai, whose puppet regime makes the average Sicilian municipality look squeaky clean, is proclaiming his resolve to reform corruption, the civil service, the economy, agriculture and education. Considering he has been in office, if not in power, for eight years, that has all the novelty of Labour’s recent general election manifesto...
continua / continued [68139] [ 21-jul-2010 23:13 ECT ] |
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Palestinian Children Under Occupation
By Stephen Lendman |
July 21, 2010 - The Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations is a Beirut, Lebanon-based organization engaged in "strategic and futuristic studies on the Arab and Muslim worlds, (emphasizing) the Palestinian issue." In July 2010, it published the latest in its "Am I Not a Human?" series titled, "The Suffering of the Palestinian Child under the Israeli Occupation," saying: Palestinian children grow up "under the Israeli occupation, surrounded by cruelty, oppression, killing, starvation and destruction." Yet, like all children, they dream of playing and living normally and safely. Instead, their father may be dead or in prison, their brother killed, their home destroyed, and their mother forced to give birth at an Israeli checkpoint, risking her and the newborn...
continua / continued [68134] [ 21-jul-2010 21:47 ECT ] |
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Comrade Majdalawi: Shameful PA meetings with occupation officials must end
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
July 20, 2010 - Comrade Jamil Majdalawi, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, demanded that Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) end the shameful meetings with officials of the occupation state, including Yoav Mordechi, Avi Mirahi and Yuval Diskin, who have been received by Palestinian officials in Ramallah and Jenin. Comrade Majdalawi's press statement on July 17, 2010, demand an end to such "nonsense" including the "meetings of disgrace," emphasizing that the serve only the interests of the enemy, its war criminal leaders who continue their crimes and aggression against our people...
continua / continued [68132] [ 21-jul-2010 21:38 ECT ] |
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PFLP Political Bureau calls for October mobilization for Comrade Sa'adat
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
July 20, 2010 - The Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement on July 18, 2010, calling for the broadest expression of solidarity and support for Comrade Ahmad Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the PFLP, in mid-October 2010, when his continued isolation in the jails of the occupation will again come before the court. The Front's statement said that Comrade Sa'adat has spent over a year and a half in isolation, while the Prisons Service and Zionist security services have declared him an ongoing 'security threat', justifying his continuing isolation away from his fellow prisoners, the continued restriction of his family visits and deprivation of access to news and media, books, and information...
continua / continued [68129] [ 21-jul-2010 21:01 ECT ] |
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Video: THE RISING NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT IN PALESTINE
A speech by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Palestinian political dynamics and Middle East peace
The Real News Network
July 20, 2010 -...And that's why I say today we are talking about a struggle in Palestine that's not a struggle between two equal sides, and one cannot continue to equate between the Israelis and Palestinians as if this is just a struggle between two sides that cannot find a way to talk to each other. This is not true. This is a struggle between people who are oppressed and an oppressor, people who are under colonialism and a colonialist, people who are suffering from apartheid and a system and a force that is practicing apartheid and hurting the future of both Palestinians and Israelis and destroying, because of this apartheid system, the whole potential and possibility of two-state solution. This is a struggle between the culture of power and the power of culture, the same power of culture that we have, the power of vision, of values, of humanity...
continua / continued [68130] [ 21-jul-2010 21:29 ECT ] |
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Rachel Corrie's hometown divests from Israel
Palestine Note |
July 20, 2010 - The Olympia, Washington Food Co-op board of directors met last week to make the final decision to endorse the boycott. "A couple of board members were concerned about what will be the financial effect on the organization, but it’s minimal," board member Rob Richards told Haaretz. "For me personally there is a moral imperative that goes beyond any financial concern. So we decided to adopt the boycott which went into effect the next day." The boycott in Olympia, which is right now only enforced in two grocery stores, will likely have little direct effect on the divestment effort. But the board decision is symbolic, both as part of growing move in America and also because of what Olympia is: Rachel Corrie’s hometown. Last month, the student body at Evergreen State College in Olypmia, where Corrie studied, passed two declarations calling for the school "to divest from companies that profit from Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine" and to ban Caterpillar equipment from campus. It was a Caterpillar bulldozer that killed Corrie as she tried to prevent it from demolishing a home in the Gaza Strip...
continua / continued [68121] [ 21-jul-2010 14:24 ECT ] |
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Public Anger and Distrust of Business and Government
By Stephen Lendman
July 20, 2010 - An April 2010 Pew Research Center (PRC) for the People & Press study and others report growing public anger, distrust, and hostility toward business and government because of a "perfect storm of conditions" - wrecked economies, fueling "epic discontent" toward responsible officials...
People want help when they most need it, but aren't getting it, privilege always trumping the public interest, getting more extreme in America, Canada, and throughout Europe, a prescription for greater outrage, perhaps fury for beneficial change...
continua / continued [68119] [ 21-jul-2010 04:27 ECT ] |
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Who's aiding Judaisation?
Nicola Nasser
July 20, 2010 -Since 1860, when the American Jewish tycoon Judah Touro donated $60,000 -- a fortune for that time -- towards the construction of the first Jewish settlement outside the old walls of Jerusalem, public and private American funds have aided the creation and territorial expansion of Israel. Israel today is the foremost recipient of US aid. According to a USAID green paper, between 1946 and 2008 Israel has received more aid than Russia, India, Egypt and Iraq. In fact, the US has poured more money into Israel than it did into the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. However, a recent New York Times article adds a new dimension to the story. On 5 July, the Times reported that, over the last decade more than 40 American groups have collected more than $200 million in tax-deductible gifts for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, indicating that the US Treasury is effectively aiding and abetting illegal settlement expansion and the Judaisation of Jerusalem...
continua / continued [68114] [ 21-jul-2010 02:53 ECT ] |
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An open letter to the Methodist Church on their decision to Endorse BDS
Felicity Arbuthnot
July 20, 2010 - Dear Sir or Madam, The decision of the Methodist Church to endorse the BDS Campaign, has not alone been greeted with huge respect by those concerned with the near unique plight of Palestinians, attacked, evicted, walled in or excluded, land divested for sixty two years, but has also restored faith in what believers are : adherents to peaceful justice wherever the opposite is found. In the light of the silence of the Archbishop of Canterbury on Palestine and Iraq since moving in to Lambeth Palace – added to his deafening muteness after the acts of kidnapping, murder, piracy, theft which befell the aid flotilla on 31st. May – your stance is faith restoring, in both senses of the word, for those of all faiths and of none...
continua / continued [68111] [ 21-jul-2010 01:52 ECT ] |
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Occupation forces target PFLP in Beit Furik
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
July 19, 2010 - Occupation soldiers conducted a campaign of arrests targeting leaders, members and supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Beit Furik village near Nablus, and kidnapped nine residents, seven men and two women, including recently freed prisoner Comrade Linan Abu Ghoulmeh. Mayssar Itiani, a Palestinian prisoners' activist, reported that the occupation forces invaded Beit Furik at 2 a.m. and broke into several homes. They invaded the home of Ayman Abu Ghoulmeh, who had been released from Israeli prisons only one month prior after 4 and one-half years in occupation jails, kidnapped him, and confiscated his father's identity card...
continua / continued [68097] [ 20-jul-2010 17:53 ECT ] |
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How Jay Bybee Has Approved the Prosecution of CIA Operatives for Torture
Andy Worthington
July 19, 2010 - Last Thursday, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, released the previously undisclosed testimony of Jay S. Bybee, delivered to the Committee on May 26 as part of its investigations into advice given by Justice Department lawyers to the Bush administration regarding the use of torture in the "War on Terror." Bybee, now a judge in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, was the Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (the department that is supposedly obliged to deliver impartial legal advice to the Executive branch) on August 1, 2002, when two notorious memos — commonly known as the "torture memos" — were issued, largely written by OLC lawyer John Yoo, but ultimately signed off by Bybee...
continua / continued [68094] [ 20-jul-2010 17:33 ECT ] |
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Omar Khadr Accepts US Military Lawyer for Forthcoming Trial by Military Commission
Andy Worthington |
July 19, 2010 - In a turnaround from the defiant position he took last week, when he sacked his US lawyers and stated that he would either boycott his impending trial by Military Commission, or would represent himself, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years when he was seized in Afghanistan in July 2002, and who is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier, Sgt. Christopher Speer, has told his Canadian lawyers that he is now prepared to be represented by his US military defense lawyer, Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson. His trial, which was scheduled to begin on August 9, will now begin at a later date, although pre-trial hearings will resume on that date. This is probably a wise move on Khadr’s part, although it does shut the door on the perhaps remote possibility that his defiance could have prompted the Obama administration to put pressure on the Canadian government to demand his repatriation before the trial begins...
continua / continued [68091] [ 20-jul-2010 17:14 ECT ] |
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