The band fronted by Chris Martin has come under fire after posting a link to a “Freedom for Palestine” video by the band OneWorld on their Facebook page.

Alleged killings and alleged disappearances of Palestinians number into the hundreds even by most conservative accounts. But even when there is undeniable proof, there are no headlines about these people. They are expendable. About 250 Palestinian children – children, who used to go to school – have been kidnapped and are being illegally detained by Israel. These children were taken from their homes in the middle of the night, some apparently as part of retaliation against the three teenagers who were kidnapped. But Western media have no outrage to express over these children. In the name of search and raid, Palestinians have been shot dead.

“In 2012 I visited Gaza as part of a Derry delegation and saw up close the conditions people have to live in there and it was shocking. It’s a daily battle for survival.

“The continual onslaught of the Palestinian people in Gaza is simply unacceptable and has to end now.”

Mr McCrossan added: “It’s important that people in Derry and across the world show their revulsion at what is going on there.”

On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham denounced Tel Aviv’s “brutal aggression and killing of innocent people” in the coastal enclave.

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Palestinian witnesses and health officials said at least 14 people had been killed in the Israeli attacks, including seven in a house that was bombed after its occupants had been warned in a cellphone call to leave. (…)
The Israeli military reported Tuesday evening, with little detail, that it had defeated an effort to attack an army base in southern Israel by “several gunmen armed with grenades” who had approached from the sea.

2014 will mark the seventh year that Tony Blair has served as the Quartet Representative to the Middle East. This campaign calls for an end this insult to the region’s people by having him sacked as the so-called “Peace Envoy.”

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(29. Juni 2014) Es ist unmöglich, von der Welt Sympathie zu verlangen, wenn Israel die Entscheidungen der Welt ignoriert; es ist unmöglich, eine Aktion von Israel zu verlangen, wenn die Besatzung auf ewig weitergeht, und es ist unmöglich, Solidarität mit dem Schicksal von Israels Opfer zu verlangen, wenn dieses selbe schikanierte Israel weiter tötet, verletzt und Unschuldige routinemäßig verhaftet.

Jetzt entdeckt Israel, dass es nicht länger das Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit ist, wie es dies vorher war,, und dass das Schicksal der drei gekidnappten Opfer die Welt nicht länger den Atem anhalten lassen wird, nicht einmal die USA.

Die Welt hat Israel und seinen Wahnsinn satt. Leider hat die Welt auch das Interesse an dem verloren, was hier geschieht.

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sherif Ismail does not mind allowing British BG Group to import gas from Israel, he told Daily News Egypt Wednesday, but after the approval of the states.

“This is a must”, he added. Import is necessary to prevent gas companies working in Egypt from resorting to international arbitration to sue the government, he said.

Warning against the rise of a new intifada (uprising) in the Palestinian occupied territory, the Kingdom’s largest opposition force also called for support of all forms of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation, including local and international efforts seeking to free Palestinian prisoners.

In the statement, a copy of which was sent to The Jordan Times, the group also denounced Israel’s provocative measures in Jerusalem, calling on the Jordanian government to shoulder its responsibility and stand firm in the face of Israel’s assaults on the Old City.

The Head of Scholars of Iraq Group Sheikh Khalid Al-Mulla said that battalions are being organized in the Sunni provinces to fight against the terrorists of the so-called group “Islamic State in Ira and Levant” (ISIL).

Al-Mulla said that battalions are formed under the name „National Defense Battalions“ in the Sunni provinces in response to the fatwa of the Supreme Religious Authority as well as the fatwa of Sunni scholars which called for Jihad against the terrorists.

The source said that the Syrian Arab Republic condemns the Israeli massacres and barbaric practices against the Palestinian people, as well as the unjustified silence of the Security Council and the so-called Arab League over these massacres and practices, and that Syria demands that the Security Council and the international community take action to stop the Israeli aggression which threatens security and peace in the region.

Terrorist groups fighting against the Syrian government say they have received the second batch of US-made anti-tank missiles, Al-Alam news website reported.

According to the Saudi daily Akkaz, the Takfiri militants have received TOW anti-tank rockets in the strategic Qalamoun region. (…)
On April 7, Israel’s Debkafile website reported that two Syrian militant groups have been supplied with advanced US weapons, including armor-piercing, optically-guided BGM-71 TOW missiles, thanks to the Pentagon.

„This is the result of the policy conducted by the current government, whose essence is: Let’s frighten the public over everything that’s happening around us in the Middle East, let’s prove that there’s no Palestinian partner, let’s build more and more settlements and create a reality that can’t be changed, let’s continue not dealing with the severe problems of the Arab sector in Israel, let’s continue not solving the severe social gaps in Israeli society.“

„Don’t be confused for a moment. This is the result of the policy conducted by the current government, whose essence is: Let’s frighten the public over everything that’s happening around us in the Middle East, let’s prove that there’s no Palestinian partner, let’s build more and more settlements and create a reality that can’t be changed, let’s continue not dealing with the severe problems of the Arab sector in Israel, let’s continue not solving the severe social gaps in Israeli society. This illusion worked wonderfully as long as the security establishment was able to provide impressive calm on the security front over the last few years as a result of the high-quality, dedicated work of the people of the Shin Bet, the IDF and the Israel Police as well as the Palestinians whose significant contribution to the relative calm in the West Bank should not be taken lightly.“

(19. Juni) Längst hat sich die Rückholaktion zur größten Militäroffensive im Westjordanland seit Jahren entwickelt. 800 Häuser wurden durchsucht, 240 Personen festgenommen und mindestens ein Palästinenser getötet. Das ist völlig unverhältnismäßig. Die israelische Regierung nutzt die vermeintliche Entführung unverhohlen zu einer Kampagne gegen die Hamas.

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If Israel continues to attack Gaza, it is very likely that we will witness a third intifada, but this time it will be different as public opinion around the world has undergone a sea-change

Twelve people were killed Tuesday and another 80 wounded in a number of attacks in the most serious flare-up in and around the Palestinian territory since November 2012.

Britain’s biggest trade union, Unite, has resolved to campaign for the boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, which it slammed as “guilty of the crime of apartheid”, the Middle East Monitor reports.

In a rare move from a Western public body, Unite also acknowledged the futility of the US-backed “peace” process, which has delivered nothing but more Israeli land grabs and squatter colonies.

Abu Rdainah pointed out that international silence, especially from the U.S. administration, is no longer acceptable, which will push the Palestinian leadership to take crucial decisions to defend the nation in the face of this aggression.

GAZA, July 8, 2014 (WAFA) – six Palestinians, including two children, were killed and at least 20 others were injured on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza strip, according to witnesses.

They said that Israeli F16 warplanes targeted the house of Odeh Kawar, killing 6 people, including two children, most of whom are family members.

A staff of civil defense is still searching for survivors beneath the rubble of the house.

The National Alliance‘s Fayoum office rejects the putschists‘ blatant lies and attempts to lay blame on the anti-coup coalition.

Nation-wide anti-coup coalition vows to end the failed fascist military rule and to cancel the foolish decisions to brutally raise energy and food prices.

The revenues from the sale of the oil produced in the territory of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Northern Iraq have yet to be transferred to Iraq, Turkish TRT Haber TV channel quoted the country‘s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Taner Yildiz as saying on July 7.

So, over the weekend, the Washington Post reported on the latest bombshell from the Snowden files, showing both that the NSA is really bad at „minimizing“ information on Americans that it‘s not supposed to hang onto and (more importantly) that, contrary to earlier claims, Snowden did in fact have access to the FISA collection database of info (suggesting that the NSA‘s controls over misuse of that data are not nearly as good as the agency and its defenders have claimed). Over at the Daily Beast, they figured that the various Senators in charge of oversight of the NSA would have some comments on the piece and how it shows an out of control NSA. But, that‘s not quite what happened. Senator after Senator insisted that they either hadn‘t yet read the story or were still trying to understand the details.

The most ridiculous of all was kneejerk defender of the NSA, Lindsey Graham, who insisted that whatever was in the report didn‘t matter because we‘re at war:

Georgian Interior Minister Alexander Chikaidze will pay an official visit to Germany, Georgian Interior Ministry said.

He will hold a meeting with Germany‘s interior minister and other officials.

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