December 2010
12 posts
Jonathan Pollak's speech to the court after being...
Your Honor, once found guilty, it is then customary for the accused to ask the court for leniency, and express remorse for having committed the offense. However, I find myself unable to do so. From its very beginning, this trial contained practically no disagreements over the facts. As the indictment states, I indeed rode my bicycle, alongside others, through the streets of Tel Aviv, to...
Today in Palestinian History, December 27
goingbacktopali:
December 27, 2008: Without warning, Israel launches an aggressive and inhuman attack on Gaza in an operation titled “Operation Cast Lead”, a.k.a. The Gaza War. Israel stated the aim of the operation was to stop rocket fire form Hamas. Over the course of the 22 day assault (which ended on 18 January 2009), over 1,400 Palestinians had been killed - the vast majority were...
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An Open Letter from Gaza: Two Years after the...
via (PACBI)
We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on from Israel’s genocidal attack on our families, our houses, our roads, our factories and our schools, are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the time is now to hold Israel to account for its ongoing crimes against us. On the 27th of December 2008, Israel began an indiscriminate...
