Intifada Palestine

by Stuart Littlewood
From the start Israel has shown contempt for the EU Agreement and its rules, so… Why don’t they pull the plug on Israeli trade?

by Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
Israeli navy is preparing to ‘take any necessary action’ to prevent two boats attempting to break blockade of Gaza.

The Guardian
The Palestinian Authority has accused the US of “collective punishment”, after the US Congress blocked $200m (£128m) in aid in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’ bid for UN statehood.

Richard Falk
Each instance of Israeli excessive and criminal violence inflicts suffering on innocent Palestinian civilians, but it also is a form of martyrdom in the nonviolent Legitimacy War that the Palestinians have been waging within Palestine and on the symbolic global battlefields of world public opinion with growing success.

The central issue is 62 years of criminal oppression. The charges include land theft, illegal occupation, ethnic cleansing, disregard for human rights, and war crimes such as those documented in the Goldstone Report. The action required is set out in international law, numerous UN resolutions and every code of human decency