Palestine Update Resources

excerpts from US delegation visit to Syria, Feb 2015

Mar 22, 2015, Eva Bartlett, In Gaza Ramsey Clark and US delegation meet with four French representatives, ” naughty Frenchmen, against our government.” “It was as though we were supposed to talk about terrorism as ‘Freedom’: Freedom to kill, Freedom to destroy, Freedom to kidnap, to loot…This was viewed by …

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Syria: four years of humanitarian intervention

Tim Anderson’s slides on ‘Four years of Humanitarian Intervention in Syria’, from the 17 March 2015 seminar at the University of Sydney. Download the PDF: Syria: four years of humanitarian intervention “Humanitarian intervention is not really a legal doctrine, it is trying to put a good face on war, by …

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YouTube Clips Of Syrian “Chemical Attacks” Are Back – Meet The Man Behind The Propaganda

Mar 19, 2015, Your News Wire The  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in the UK tracks the conflict in Syria through a network of sources. But just who is this ‘Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’? Zero Hedge report: US foreign policy is becoming so easy and predictable, even Derek …

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Avaaz call for a ‘no-fly zone’ in Syria.

Mar 19, 2015, Interventions Watch Avaaz describe themselves as a ‘global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere’, and are fairly well known within human rights and development circles. They had previously used their reach and status to drum up support for a ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya (a …

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NATO allies Saudi Arabia and Israel edge closer to War with Iran

Mar 19, 2015, New Eastern Outlook A recent report by an Israeli TV station revealed that Saudi Arabia would allow Israeli jets to use its airspace to attack Iran, demonstrating the clandestine strategic alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel. As the Times of Israel reported in an article titled: Saudis …

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Ken Stone’s Presentation at a town hall meeting against Bill C-51, at Hamilton City Hall on March 18

March 2015, Crescent International Harper’s cynical fear-mongering and Islamophobic rantings to push through the oppressive Bill C-51 have not gone unchallenged. On March 14, tens of thousands of Canadians rallied in 70 cities across Canada to oppose the bill. It is a serious assault on Canadian civil liberties and will …

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The ISIS Described by the US Media as a “Sunni Muslim Militia” is “Made in America”. It has Nothing to Do with Sunni Islam

Mar 19, 2015, Global Research As a lifetime student of classical mainline Islamic jurisprudential school of thought called “Sunni fiqh”,  I feel saddened to note how the Western mainstream media succumbed to the Islamophobic propaganda of affixing the epithet “Sunni” to the militia of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq …

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Latakia resident, Lilly Martin, on downed US drone

Lilly Martin Sahiounie​: “March 17, 2015: Latakia, Syria. At about 7:30 PM local Syrian time (GMT +2) the Syrian Air Defense system shot down an American drone. This was an unmanned aircraft called MQ1. This specific drone carried anti-tank weapons, for the purpose to destroying tanks used by military. The …

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