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Thousands of people were maimed and 1300 killed during the most recent brutal Israeli assault on Gaza. Last Friday, the 6th February, there was a concert in Vicar Street in [...]

We cannot wait until the world has its say, and perhaps takes legal steps of its own. So says Haaretz, one of Israel's leading newspapers, calling for an immediate investigation [...]

The obscenity continues. In this video, Katharina Ritz, head of the ICRC mission in Israel and Palestine, tells of Israeli soldiers preventing ambulances from reaching victims.  Medics had to remove [...]

The UN compound in Gaza is in flames after Israeli forces shelled it with phosphorus.  All the food and medical supplies have been burned.  Thousands of tonnes of aid supplies [...]

In the New Years Day post, I focussed on the long-term underlying issues in Gaza, rather than joining the short term finger-pointing and blame game. The morality of the blame [...]

Protocol 1 Additional to the  Geneva Conventions, 1977  _____________________________  PART IV: CIVILIAN POPULATION Section 1: General Protection Against Effects of Hostilities _____________________________ Chapter I: Basic Rule and Field of Application [...]

… could you be more of a dumb nazi cocksucker? You don't give a shit about Muslims, you just hate Jews … That was part of a comment received this [...]

In these terrible times, as Israel forgets its soul and rises up to murder the weak and the poor, I offer you the kindest and most civilised of men, Leonard [...]