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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Thursday November 27 2008

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 26 2008

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Tuesday November 25 2008

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday November 24 2008

Lauren Booth will talk with George Galloway at Talk Sport from 10pm to midnight, about the situation in Gaza under siege and her plans for Aloha Palestine a ferry to Gaza.

Throughout its history, Israel willfully and systematically committed premeditated extrajudicial killings of Palestinians and other Arabs as official state policy - carried out with explicit high-level political, judicial and military authorization and allegedly in "self-defense" against individuals threatening Israeli security.

Almost never do Israeli government or military officials show evidence that targeted individuals acted violently or threatened Jewish citizens. Simply calling them "terrorists" is justification enough - to kill them extrajudicially, with no recourse to due process or respect for international law that bans the practice for any reason.

This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for November 15 through 21, 2008.

Some "Antiwar" Groups Excuse Obama's Pro-War Cabinet:
Kevin Martin, executive director of the group Peace Action, said. . . . "There's so much Obama hero worship, we're having to walk this line where we can't directly criticize him" . . . . Tom Andrews, national director of Win Without War, said that although he finds Sen. Clinton's views "very troubling," Obama should be given the benefit of the doubt.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Thursday November 20 2008

Despite SOFA, U.S. Withdrawal Still Depends, Says Admiral Mullen: Asked if the agreement could be changed, he said "that's theoretically possible".

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 19 2008

[I]t will be interesting to see how antiwar activists react to this. Are they antiwar or just anti-Republican?

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Tuesday November 18 2008

Fifteen Palestinian fishermen along with three internationals have been kidnapped in Palestinian waters by the Israeli Navy. They were fishing seven miles off the coast of Deir Al Balah, clearly in Gaza fishing waters and well within the fishing limit detailed in the Oslo Accords of 1994.

The fishermen and the human right's observers were transferred from 3 separate boats to the Israeli warships. Other Palestinian fishermen reported that the 3 boats were seen being taken north by the Israeli Navy.

The three internationals are Andrew Muncie from Scotland, Darlene Wallach from the United States and Victor Arrigoni from Italy. The U.K., U.S. and Italian embassies in Tel Aviv have been contacted and know about the abductions.

Please call the Israeli Ministry of Justice at +972 26 46 66 66 and register your outrage over these illegal actions by the Israeli Navy. Then call the Embassies in Jerusalem and make sure they know that many of us are appalled by Israel's illegal search and seizure.

Stephen Brown, UK Consulate +972 25 41 41 00
U.S. Consulate General + 972-2-6227230
Luigi MATTIOLO, Italian Ambassador +972 3 5104004

CONTACT:
Caoimhe (Gaza) + 972 598 273 960
Donna (Gaza) + 972 598 836 420
Fida (Gaza - Arabic) – + 972 599 681 669
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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday November 17 2008

Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement, described the elaborate measures taken to certify that the first historic voyage to break the Israeli siege of Gaza was completely harmless, non-violent, and transparent. Speaking to supporters in Sunnyvale, California, he said, “We don’t preach non-violence, we practice it!”

The campaign to elect the president is over. The campaign to make the president DO what he was elected FOR is underway.