Thank you for these valuable resources.

Digg it here.

Thank you markfromireland – this is extremely helpful information.

Here’s some more:

Adalah

B’Tselem

BRICUP

Checkpoint Jerusalem

Electronic Intifada

Foundation for Middle East Peace

Ha’aretz

Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)

International Solidarity Movement

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Jews sans frontieres

Kibush

Ma’an News

Mideast Brief

MIFTAH

Norman G. Finkelstein

Palestine Remembered

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Public Committee Against Torture in Israel

The Arab Association for Human Rights

The Magnes Zionist

Tikkun UN OCHA

Thanks Siun for your timely reporting from the bleeding edge.

I really appreciate the added info that the Guides team is sharing here … these sources are very important.

Aloha, MFI! Happy 2009! US troops under Iraqi law now…! Yeah! ;-)

That list I posted in my comment above is being formatted oddly it’s actually a lot of links rather that one big link. I think I should have used a lot of paragraph tags rather than a list. Oh well … click away on ‘em they’re all pretty useful.

We have — at minimum — two [unrelated] people who were involved in the resolution of the Irish struggles who are engaged with trying to bring the current situation to the attention of the world.

After a certain number of decades/centuries of enmity both sides must agree to pull back and say, no more orphans. No more children with arms and legs blown off. No more people dying from stupid reasons like lack of medical supplies. No more bombing hospitals and universities. No more taking 18 year olds and throwing them into the furnace of war. It is wrong. It is immoral. The mothers of the world will tolerate it no longer.

We’ll format it for you.

Happy new year war Ctuttle :-(

Adalah

B’Tselem

BRICUP

Checkpoint Jerusalem

Electronic Intifada

Foundation for Middle East Peace

Ha’aretz

Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)

International Solidarity Movement

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Jews sans frontieres

Kibush

Ma’an News

Mideast Brief

MIFTAH

Norman G. Finkelstein

Palestine Remembered

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Public Committee Against Torture in Israel

The Arab Association for Human Rights

The Magnes Zionist

Tikkun

UN OCHA

Just done it myself if you don’t mind rescuing it from the filters because of all the links?

thx

mfi

Formatting complete – I hope this is how you wanted it.

Really? That´s interesting. Got links?

OT – i just realized that fdl front-paged my Oxdown diary about negative tags attached to critics of the policies of the Israeli government. Anyone visiting this informative post, who had commented at mine – thank you for your comments!

Back on topic – welcome back, GorillasGides. Thanks for this set of links.

You’re not in the filters – you are free, unlike a great many people in the world. Carry on with your amazing work – we’ve got your back. Thank you

You want links to mothers who dont want their children carried into the furnace of war? Of nations weary of the slaughter? Of bystanders who feel helpless? Alas there are no links, only the ayes of our own hearts and souls, watching.

Actually egregious I’ll echo my colleague’s request for links if you’ve got ‘em. I know a lot of people who were involved in the peace process.

markfromireland – what is the reaction in Iraq to the Gaza attacks?

Ya left out Ehud Barak’s holiday wishes too, meanwhile, another Barrack is AWOL on Gaza…! :-(

I don’t mean to be glib in response. People who have seen first hand the results of war – as you have – and as I have – are deep in standing against new slaughter – perhaps preventable slaughter. My own perspective is medicine. It is bad enough to treat a child ill from something we do not know the cause of, but to have a child in our ER who is the victim of a failure of the human heart? We can do better. And we must.

There is more than one sherpa here.

From what I´ve seen a mixture of disgust and rage coupled with a lot of sympathy for the Gazans

I think we often underestimate the solidarity felt with the Palestinian people throughout the Middle East – Israel’s choice of attack will not be forgotten.

Thank you for this wealth of links, Mark. Best to you and yours. Hoping the new year finds you in good health and brings peace.

But no great ’surprise’, one may imagine.

Even here, in La-la land, all of ‘this’ was drearily ‘predictable’.

Yet, in America, whose ’support’ makes all of ‘this’ possible, there appears to be little understanding that, when it finally all ends, ‘consequence’ will not be directed soley towards Israel and that America will be increasingly isolated with only the ‘comforts’ of its bloody arsenal and fatal sense of superiority … to keep it company.

Thank you mark, for considering us worthy, in spite of the truth, of your time and insights.

DW

Has fdl ever posted a list of the most informative books on the modern history of Palestine? The book I read that got me interested in how different the real history has been from what one usually reads about in the USA, was Sami Hadawi’s excellent Bitter Harvest, Palestine Between 1914-1979.

I’ve since read several others, but Bitter Harvest changed me.

I’ve been back and forthing with my colleague on that one no I don’t think we know anyone who’s surprised.

Thank you. I have really been looking for that sort of reference.

thank you mark – a great list of links.

The US tried to hide their torture; Israel openly allows it. The partial list of the torture that Israel allows is
exactly what the US promoted in Guantanamo, Iraq, etc. The School of The Americas teaches how to kill, use false arrests, false imprisonment, torture, kidnapping of family members, etc. After years of denial by the Pentagon, the army admitted in 1996, that manuals talking about using blackmail and execution were used. By 1999,there had been 60,000 people had trained at that ’school’. The US is the biggest exporter of terror in the world. All paid for by the US taxpayer.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb….._9-21.html

http://www.stoptorture.org.il/en/skira90-99

The parallels between US and Israeli denial of basic human rights and the disregard of International law is blatant. The mutual dislike of the followers of Islam is obvious, too. The world is screaming for the US to stop the massacre of Palestinians. They are not going to because they agree with it and provide the weapons, training, and technology to accomplish it.

What to do? Pressuring Obama to join the ICC would be a first step. John Bolton and Gary Schmitt of PNAC, wrote in support of stopping the US from joining back in 2000 and 2001. Of course PNAC was against the ICC; war crimes are not legal. Future plans already included lots of war crimes, so protection by not joining was mandatory to ensure the neo cons survival. PNAC participants knew that they would be eligible to spend the rest of their misbegotten lives behind bars. I have hope that some of them will. There are at least 20 countries who now have rules in place to try these criminals if the US won’t. The members of the exiting administration won’t be doing much international travel without a lot of protection.

http://www.newamericancentury……un1400.htm

http://www.newamericancentury.org/global0201.htm

http://www.newamericancentury.org/global0201.htm

On UK Indymedia today..human rights groups blog on Gaza. It is impossible to stop the spread of the truth on the internet.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/416632.html

Special spin body gets media on message, says Israel.

The body, known as the National Information Directorate, was set up 8 months ago following recommendations from am Israeli inquiry into the 2006 Lebanon war. Its role is to deal with hasbara-meaning, in Hebrew, “explanation”, and referring variously to information, spin, and propaganda.

The directorate acts across ministries and decides key messages on a daily basis. Of its core messages for the media, there has been advice that Hamas broke the ceasefire agreements with Israel; that Israel’s objective is the defence of its population, and that Hamas is a terror organization targeting Israeli citizens.

One of the challenges of Israel’s media offensive has been to counter the disturbing images of Gaza in the conflict. (They banned the media; problem solved)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..ne-pr-spin

So…8 months ago Israel was working on the media lies for this invasion of Palestine. Two months longer planning than previously admitted to. The US politicians and the MSM are all parroting these exact words day after day.

Found another interesting resource: Al Majdal

Great links thanks. Amazing that we are not hearing our press screaming about Israel’s unwillingness to let press in. The MSM sure screamed when Sarah Palin would not allow them access.

This pattern of Israel’s to shut down access is so disturbing. NO Inspectors of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, no UN peace keepers/observers, No press in the Gaza.

We keep hearing Israel’s reasoning about why they are applying disproportionate force to Hama’s rockets. But there is absolutely no coverage about why Hamas has continued to loft rockets. No mention anywhere. That Hamas demands that Israel abide by the decision of the International World Court. Get out of ALL Palestinian occupied territories, stop expanding the Wall that the International World Court determined is illegal. Nothing in the news about what the democratically elected Hamas wants.

Amazing that we are not hearing the press scream more about NO access to the Gaza

Amy Goodman has been on it most of the week.
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/recent

Real News covering the attacks
http://therealnews.com/t/

Check this out

International law expert Richard Falk denied entry into Israel
Posted by Cecilie Surasky under Educational Institutions , United Nations

Richard Falk explains his view on BBC’s Hard Talk

Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton, may be able to make Aliyah in Israel should he choose to exercise his right to return as a Jew, but he can’t actually enter the country in his role as the UN’s special human rights rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories. BBC says this about the deportation of one of the world’s most respected experts in his field:

Mr Falk was stopped at Tel Aviv airport on Sunday and sent back to the United States on Monday morning.

An official accused him of following a distorted, anti-Israeli mandate.

“[He] does not try to advance human rights, but instead comes with his conclusions ready and those conclusions are of course extreme, methodic criticism of Israel and only of Israel,” said foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.

A spokeswoman for the interior ministry spokeswoman said the former Princeton University international law professor had been told he would be turned back if he flew to Israel.

Falk’s essay Slouching Toward a Palestinian Holocaust, has raised the ire of many who accuse him of comparing the Israelis to Nazis. Falk explained in an interview in The Nation earlier this summer:
http://www.muzzlewatch.com/200…..to-israel/

The truth is tough to take Arianna
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13990
The Huffington Post: Israeli-Occupied Territory
Why is the Huffington Post carrying water for the IDF? Follow the money …
by Justin Raimondo

Pat Buchanan was widely vilified by the neocons and the politically correct left when he famously described the Congress of the United States as “Israeli-occupied territory.” Oh, what a conniption the liberals and the Commentary crowd had! That was during the countdown to the first Gulf War, when almost no one rose to object – and those who did, like Pat, were smeared for their trouble. Today, such an observation is hardly considered controversial: it is simply a known fact.
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The Huffington Post as well as other so called progressive sites and blogs have been unwilling to really cover the I/P conflict in a fair and balanced way if at all. It is this issue where the progressive blogosphere and the MSM has in the past (let’s hope a real shift is happening) merged.

Follow the Money for Huffington Post.
http://kara.allthingsd.com/200…..ed-harman/

There is a reason why many of the progressive blogs have been unwilling to be fair and balanced on this critical issue if they touch it at all. Follow the money.

When Arianna nabbed $25 million from Oak Investment Partners, of Palo Alto, California, she was acquired by a financial network that also has significant investments in the Israeli arms industry – an industry, I might add, directly subsidized and controlled by the Israeli government. For example, Oak Investment has invested in IET/Intelligent Electronics, now morphed into Clickservice Software, an Israeli-based company that makes sophisticated weapons systems and sells them to clients such as “an unnamed Far Eastern country.” Oak Investment partner Fred Harman now sits on the Huffington Post’s board.

Case closed. Mystery solved.

A very similar list was posted several years ago at FDL. The person was hammered. The wind is shifting. A healthy sign

Here is the
United Nations Press Conference on Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/wa…..HP-A-39921