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Ewa Jasiewicz was a witness to the horrors in Gaza before and after Israels brutal massacres in December and January during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead.

Listen to her eloquent speech in Berlin, Germany and watch the images taken by volunteers in Gaza during Israel’s brutal assault.

If you are interested in a speaker from Free Gaza, please go to http://www.freegaza.org/join-in/speaker-bureau and you will find several speakers there who would be happy to come and speak. [more]

Egypt’s heroin ‘high’ way

By Christoph Schult, SPIEGEL ONLINE, 23 October 2009

Hundreds of Palestinians are kept behind bars in Israel without charges having been filed and with no access to a fair trial. Not even their lawyers are allowed to look at the evidence. Some governments in the West have expressed their concern, but the Israelis haven’t budged.

The cell is only a few square meters in size and there are no windows. A mattress lies on the floor; a hole in the floor for prisoners’ needs, cynically called a “Turkish toilet” is next to it.

Mohammed Othman has been held in Kishon Detention Center in northern Israel for almost a month. But neither he nor his lawyer knows exactly what he is being accused of. Othman is locked up as an administrative detainee — called Maazar Minhali in Hebrew — and is one of around 335 Palestinians currently in the same position.

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h/t: The Research on Anarchism List (RA-L)

Bill Moyers Journal
23 October 2009

Bill Moyers talks with Justice Richard Goldstone, who headed up the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

Learn more about the Judge Goldstone and the UN report.

Read the transcript
Watch the video

h/t: ePalestine