Daily Archives: 1 November 2006

· Mercenaries ‘outnumber UK soldiers three to one’ · Security companies are unaccountable, say critics Richard Norton-Taylor 31 October 2006 The Guardian A huge increase in the number of unregulated private military and security companies operating in Iraq and Afghanistan … Continue reading →

(from my e-mail) Pause for Peace By Ahmed Yousef 1 November 2006 New York Times HERE in Gaza, few dream of peace. For now, most dare only to dream of a lack of war. It is for this reason that … Continue reading →

Patrick Seale 27 October 2006 International Herald Tribune Israel has killed 2,300 Gazans over the past six years, including 300 in the four months since an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, was captured in a cross-border raid by Palestinian fighters … Continue reading →

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Geoff Simons (London: The Palestinian Return Center. 2006). Book review by Jim Miles (Palestine Chronicle Review) Reading about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine from this work is intense and relentless.  Geoff Simons’ look at the … Continue reading →