This is an interview, undertaken at the beginning of June 2011 between Global Policy Forum associate Harpreet Paul and UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk. Falk calls the unlawful Israeli blockade of Gaza “a very explicit form of collective punishment that is unconditionally prohibited by Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.” He also talks about [...]

Consternación no es un término suficiente para describir la decisión del juez Richard Goldstone de retractarse de parte del Informe de 2009 sobre presuntos crímenes de guerra en Gaza. El documento, conocido como Informe Goldstone, fue compilado después de una exhaustiva investigación dirigida por el juez sudafricano y tres otros investigadores de [...]

Los dirigentes israelíes apenas han ocultado su júbilo ante el artículo de opinión que el pasado viernes publicó el juez sudafricano Richard Goldstone en el Washington Post, en el que volvía a considerar las conclusiones de la investigación que las Naciones Unidas le ordenaron hacer sobre el ataque de Israel [...]

A sprawling crime scene. That is what Gaza felt like when I visited in the summer of 2009, six months after the Israeli attack. Evidence of criminality was everywhere-the homes and schools that lay in rubble, the walls burned pitch black by white phosphorus, the children’s bodies still unhealed for lack [...]

Si una vez más se escuchan tambores de guerra en Israel se debe a que se duda de su capacidad para vencer. Dos años después de la “Operación Plomo Fundido”, y a pesar de la triunfante retorica de las diversas informaciones conmemorativas aparecidas en los medios, hay una especie de sensación [...]

Finkelstein dedicates most of the book’s epilogue to the Goldstone report and its many consequences. His revelations and analysis are encouraging in that they suggest that things are in fact changing. Israel, a rouge state by any reasonable standards, will never reclaim its fictitious old status as a beacon of progress and democracy. No amount of lies, intimidation or blackmail could sell Israeli war crimes as self-defense, or smear Israeli critics as anti-Semites.

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges March 15, 2010 The Israeli government, its brutal war crimes in Gaza exposed in detail in the U.N. report by Justice Richard Goldstone, has implemented a series of draconian measures to silence and discredit dissidents, leading intellectuals and human rights organizations inside and outside Israel [...]

Fuente: Rebelión por Raji Sourani y Lidón Soriano El 18 de enero de 2010 se cumplió un año de los ataques israelíes a la Franja de Gaza Las consecuencias de aquellos 23 días de asedio, todo el mundo informado las conoce. Según el Centro Palestino de DDHH en Gaza: -1.434 gazatíes fueron asesinados, de ellos 960 eran civiles, 288, [...]

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus by Kenneth Roth December 30, 2009 The Geneva Conventions-the bedrock of the laws of war and one of the world’s most widely ratified treaties- turned 60 this month. But one government was not celebrating. In fact, Israel had already launched a campaign to undermine these essential rules for protecting civilians caught in war. Shortly [...]

Fuente: Pulse by Jasmin Ramsey December 14, 2009 Near the end of December 2008 the Israeli government began a vicious military assault on the occupied Gazan territories with a bombing campaign that progressed into a ground invasion.  In less than 1 month an estimated 1,400 Palestinians were murdered (1/3 of which were children), and thousands were displaced and [...]