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On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. Amnesty International described the ruling as an essential step towards restoring the rule of law to the USA’...
By Gore Vidal
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The Asian Human Rights Commission appreciates and welcomes the announcement by the new government of Pakistan to commute death sentences to life imprisonment. The AHRC hopes that the government of Prime...
Marking World Refugee Day on Friday 20 June, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said that providing protection for refugees today is vastly more challenging than when his office began work...
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. Amnesty International...
By Gore Vidal
On June 10, 2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of the federal government. This counterrevolution...
Reporters Without Borders is worried about the kidnapping of leading cyber-dissident Huang Qi, the founder of the human rights website 64Tianwang (http://www.64tianwang.com). He and two other activists...
The Israeli plan, drawn up with the consent of the United States, is meant to establish an ethnically-cleansed Jewish entity in all the territories occupied in 1948 and parts of the territories occupied in 1967.
During U.S. president George W. Bush’s recent visit to occupied Palestine, he expressed his support for this plan.
In this scenario, Israel intends to displace the people of Gaza through withering military attacks from the air and land and force them to move to Rafah and the area around Mount Sinai.
It is said that Israel has already prepared facilities to set up thousands of refugee camps in the region of Rafah and Sinai in coordination with international humanitarian organizations.
The next goal of the plan is to force the Palestinians living in the territories occupied in 1948 to move to Gaza.
Some 1.2 million Palestinians currently live in the territories occupied in 1948 but they are treated like second-class citizens by the Israeli establishment.
Another objective of the plan is to ensure the security of the Israeli suburbs near Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of the territories occupied in 1948.
This plot may seem like fantasy at first glance, but in light of the silence of the international community and the comprises of regional Arab states, it could indeed foretell future developments.
If Israel succeeds in implementing this plan, the Palestinian nation will face a far more severe crisis than the occupation of 1948.
So why has Israel intensified its siege and bombardment of densely populated Gaza, which is the birthplace of Palestinian resistance movements?
The U.S. presidential election campaign has already begun and the candidates are seeking the support of the lobbyist. Israeli officials believe this provides an excellent opportunity to implement the plan before the new president is elected.
The recent statements of the Republican and Democratic party candidates about the security of the regime show that the lobby’s support is the most important card in the U.S. presidential election.
The U.S. media’s heavy censorship of the tragedies occurring in Palestine is also part of the conspiracy of Israel, the U.S., certain other Western countries, and the lobbyists to send the Gazans into permanent exile.
Israeli officials would not even meet with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter during his most recent trip to the territories occupied in 1948 and refused to allow Carter to travel to Gaza to learn about the situation of the people.
However, Carter’s trip to Palestine was only meant to facilitate the implementation of a rehashing of the Camp David Accords.
Israel had other goals in mind besides the suppression of Hamas when it carried out the recent atrocities against the defenseless people of Gaza.
If the UN Security Council and the Arab League remain silent about these catastrophes, an uncontrollable and unpredictable conflagration could break out across the entire Middle East