Author Archives: IJV
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Urgent Appeal from Physicians for Human Rights
Leave a commentJuly 25, 2014 by IJV
Urgent call from Physicians for Human Rights – Gaza
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A message from the Bereaved Families Forum
Leave a commentJuly 22, 2014 by IJV
An extract from the recent message by Chani Smith of the Bereaved Families Forum: The events in Israel and Gaza …
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Tony Klug in Letter to The Guardian
Leave a commentJuly 22, 2014 by IJV
The letter below was published in Saturday’s Guardian, 19 July 2014 Seumas Milne argues that the price of Israel’s occupation needs …
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Richard Falk on Gaza’s torment
Leave a commentJuly 14, 2014 by IJV
It is painfully evident that state-to-state diplomacy and the UN have failed to produce a just peace despite decades of fruitless talks.
It is time to acknowledge that these talks were carried on in bad faith: while the diplomats sat around the table, Israeli settlements relentlessly expanded, apartheid structures deepened their hold on the West Bank and Jerusalem, and Gaza was cordoned off as a hostage enclave to be attacked by Israel at will and a bloody sacrifice exacted. …Pressure on Israel is urgently needed to protect the Palestinian people from further tragedy.
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Physicians for Human Rights – Israel: Gaza health system in crisis
Leave a commentJuly 12, 2014 by IJV
PHR-IL calls for the State of Israel to stop the military offensive and to avoid at all costs any direct attack on or near the facilities and medical infrastructure and to avoid any attacks on medical and rescue teams and patients: “Out of concern for the lives and welfare of all residents of the area we make a heartfelt and resounding call – stop the fire and stop the incitement. Do not bring before us more victims that require treatment. Put the lives, health and rights of all human beings at the head of your concerns. Do not continue on our behalf with this operation causing further destruction and revenge. It is time to devote the resources and energies that are being directed to war and killing to finally end the occupation and to establish a different vision.
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JJ Goldberg on shocking background to Gaza onslaught
Leave a commentJuly 12, 2014 by IJV
nly on July 1, after the boys’ bodies were found, did the truth come out: The government had known almost from the beginning that the boys were dead. It maintained the fiction that it hoped to find them alive as a pretext to dismantle Hamas’ West Bank operations.
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A visual anthology of the image war for Israel-Palestine
Leave a commentJuly 11, 2014 by IJV
Operation Defensive Edge began on 7 July 2014. The context is the 2014 FIFA World Cup. And a history of …
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Uri Avnery’s latest: The Atrocity
Leave a commentJuly 11, 2014 by IJV
Uri Avnery’s latest: When the canon roar, the muses fall silent The Atrocity July 12, 2014 BOMBS ARE raining on …
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IJV SG Statement on current cycle of violence
Leave a commentJuly 10, 2014 by IJV
We watch in horror and utterly condemn the pointless cycle of violence being stoked by Israel’s ongoing bombing of crowded civilian areas in Gaza, resulting in an escalating death toll, devastating civilian injuries and the continued destruction of homes and livelihoods. We reject the UK government’s one-sided support for Israel’s massive and disproportionate retaliation to the rocket attacks from Gaza and urge instead that it calls for peace negotiations and an end to all bloodshed.
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If Kerry fails, what then? by Sam Bahour and Tony Klug
Leave a commentApril 19, 2014 by IJV
We need to break free of the divisive and increasingly stifling one-state-versus-two-states straightjacket that tends to polarize debate and in practice ends up perpetuating the status quo — which is a form of one state, albeit an inequitable one. The aim of our proposal is to bring matters to a head and to enable people to advocate equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis, in one form or another, free of the implication that this necessarily carries a threat to the existence of the state of Israel.
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