Ethnic cleansing would guarantee that Greater Israel retains a Jewish majority, but that murderous strategy would do enormous damage to Israel's moral fabric, to its relationship with Jews in the Diaspora, and to its international standing. To mention just one: the apartheid regime was finally brought down not by international pressure, but by the massive and crippling strikes of the black work force. In this country, the occupation authorities do everything to prevent Palestinians from coming to work in Israel. In the end, it is a matter of logic: if international pressure does not succeed in convincing the Israelis to accept the two-state solution, which does no harm to their national identity, how will it compel them to give up everything they have-their state, their identity, thei...
In May 2005, while traveling to work in the West Bank, Ahmad Abu Haniyah, youth coordinator for the Alternative Information Center, a 20-year project of Israeli and Palestinian journalists, was arrested by Israeli occupation forces and imprisoned for two years under administrative detention-meaning he was neither charged nor tried, and had only minimal visits with an attorney. Orphans of Israel's Life Tax Whether for a few weeks, several years, or a decade or more, the removal of parents from their children's lives for no reason by occupation authorities deprives Palestinian spouses, children and grandparents of essential familial support. According to Israeli human rights groups, Shin Bet security forces regularly use torture on Palestinian prisoners.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iraqi money gambled away in the Philippines. Thousands spent on a swimming pool that was never used. An elevator repaired so poorly that it crashed, killing people. S. government audits found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens of millions of dollars that was supposed to be used to rebuild Iraq through undocumented spending and outright fraud.
Christian America may soon be the death of Iraqi Christians. Although Islam long has been in the ascendancy in Iraq, the so- called Assyrians, who speak a neo-Aramaic language, predate the rise of Islam. Today, however, the Iraqi Christian community faces possible extermination. The irony is extraordinary: America, a nation with deep Christian roots, has inadvertently loosed the vicious forces bent on destroying Iraqi Christians. Persecuted by Islamic extremists and targeted for their frequent cooperation with occupation authorities, Christians have ever less hope in a nation that has fallen into violent chaos.
TOKYO -- Japan's abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender -- with tacit approval from the U.S. occupation authorities -- Japan set up a similar "comfort women" system for American GIs. An Associated Press review of historical documents and records -- some never before translated into English -- shows American authorities permitted the official brothel system to operate despite internal reports that women were being coerced into prostitution. The Americans also had full knowledge by then of Japan's atrocious treatment of women in countries across Asia that it conquered during the war.
The crisis of Iraqi refugees "was not a surprise," Dr. Sassoon asserted, since U.S. government officials were warned by humanitarian organizations months before the invasion. Because the warnings were not heeded and preparations not made, 2.7 million Iraqis have now been internally displaced, with another 2 million Iraqis having fled the country, he said. Since 2003, Iraq has faced unprecedented rates of "exodus and brain drain," the professor said, since U.S. occupation authorities dismantled key state functions, including providing such essential services as health care and education.
After years of repression under Saddam Hussein, many in Iraq's labor movement hoped that conditions would improve with Hussein's removal; instead, the occupation authorities moved quickly to prevent a labor upsurge. When the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) took power in Mar 2003, it kept in place and continued to enforce Saddam Hussein's 1987 law banning unions from the public enterprise that employ the majority of Iraqi workers. Labor repressions by the CPA and the Iraqi interim government has provoked US unions to speak out against the war and occupation more vocally than they've responded to any foreign policy since Ronald Reagan's wars in Central America. Bacon offers more details on the matter.
WASHINGTON - A second man has been charged in a scheme that saw a U.S. businessman pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to U.S. occupation authorities in Iraq to get reconstruction contracts worth more than $13 million, federal authorities said Thursday. Robert J. Stein Jr., who worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and his wife paid for real estate, cars, jewelry and home improvements with money he received from Philip H. Bloom, a U.S. citizen who has lived in Romania for many years, according to federal affidavits made public Wednesday and Thursday. Stein, 50, of Fayetteville, N.C., appeared in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville, N.C., on Tuesday and his case has been transferred to Washington, according to court records.
MANAMA, Bahrain, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bahrain's Ministry of Health Released the following statement in response to the sentencing of former employees of the Salmaniya Medical Complex: Doctors and other medical professionals had their sentences reviewed on Thursday. After consideration by authorities, the charges and sentences were handed down following the forcible occupation of Salmaniya Medical Complex, unlawfully controlling the entrances and exits of all divisions and departments, using force and threats, and other actions.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates A U.S. government audit found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used to rebuild Iraq through undocumented spending and outright fraud. Dryly written audit reports describe the Coalition Provisional Authority's offices in the south-central city of Hillah being awash in bricks of $100 bills taken from a central vault without documentation.
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