With over 1,000 Palestinians killed and over 5,000 wounded and 13 Israelis killed the death toll has been mounting daily as the Gaza offensive escalates. We urgently need to demand that world leaders take action to end the violence and protect civilians.
Sign the petition calling for robust international action to achieve an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and take further crucial steps toward a fair and lasting peace in the Middle East -- we're already being heard, now our message and numbers signing will be published in the Washington Post and delivered to UN Security Council powers.
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US.
"When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear that the silence on Gaza is broken. The small cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents, and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea can be witnessed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC.
Aaron David Miller, an adviser for both Democratic and Republican administrations and author of “The Much Too Promised Land,” is at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Jews worry for a living; their tragic history compels them to do so. In the next few years, there will be plenty to worry about, particularly when it comes to Israel. The current operation in Gaza won't do much to ease these worries or to address Israel's longer-term security needs. The potential for a nuclear Iran, combined with the growing accuracy and lethality of Hamas and Hizbullah rockets, will create tremendous concern. Anxiety may also be provoked by something else: an Obama administration determined to repair America's image and credibility and to reach a deal in the Middle East.
Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions.
An old but interesting six part interview on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict with Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein, the outspoken Jewish-American political scientist and author, and Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami, the former Israeli Foreign Minister, diplomat, historian and author.
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Bill Moyers is an American journalist and public commentator. He worked in Lyndon Johnson's White House when Johnson escalated the Vietnam War, and was Johnson's Press Secretary for much of that time (from 1965-1967). His views of bombing campaigns of civilian populations are undoubtedly shaped by that experience.
Straight 8 challenges anyone to make a 3 minute film on one cartridge of super 8mm cine film. All edits and effects are made in-camera as you use the one roll we send you and you send it back to us un- developed. You also upload an original soundtrack before you've seen your film.
In fact the first time you see your film - if it's great - is at a screening like our one at cannes film festival with hundreds of people. or even on tv People join in from all over the world and we want you to - if you have a film in you we want to see it!
‘51st STATE’ is the first in Lazarus’ new series of T-Shirts and ‘celebrates’ the 21st anniversary of the release of the single ‘Heartland’.
How the relationship between Britain and America has changed in the intervening years is spoken about at length in the full 200% interview this month but this T-Shirt, we’re sure you will agree, still says it all.
The designs that topped our readers polls recently will also go into production soon and be available for the next issue.
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