A Human Rights Crime

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Thu, 8 May 2008 22:57:19 +0400

The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty

BY: JIMMY CARTER

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished. This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006. The election was unanimously judged to be honest and fair…

"Not You! You!!!"

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:35:00 +0400

BY: URI AVNERY

"Hey! Take your hands off me! Not you! You!!!" - the voice of a young woman in the darkened cinema, an old joke.

"Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying out, "But not from Chechnya ! Not from the Basque homeland! And certainly not from Palestine !" And that is not a joke.

LIKE EVERYBODY else, I support the right of the Tibetan people to independence, or at least autonomy. Like everybody else, I condemn the actions of the Chinese government there. But unlike everybody else, I am not ready to join in…

PAKISTAN Special - Palestine

A Human Rights Crime

"Not You! You!!!"