Resources:

Palestine, Iraq & the Middle East

• The Ultimate Earmark: U.S. Military Aid to Israel – Former CIA analysts expose the distortions in US national interests as they juxtapose the current economic crisis and the US administration’s peace efforts in the Middle East with an earmarked $30 billion in US military grant aid to Israel over a 10-year period, 5 Mar 2009
• WAR ON GAZA (27 Dec 2008 - 19 Jan 2009) – Links to information and resources
  • WCC Statement on The Gaza War - Issued by the executive committee of the World Council of Churches on 24 Feb 2009 in Bossey, Switzerland
  • Report on the Humanitarian Situation, 22-23 January 2009 – Released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) five days after the January 18 ceasefire, 23 Jan 2009
  • Statement by Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd Session of the UN General Assembly, to the 10th Emergency Special Session on the Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the Rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 15 Jan 2009
  • How the system of occupation and control leads to extreme exposure to violence – Paper released by the Arab Educational Institute (AEI) - Open Windows, 13 Jan 2009
  • Call for creation of United Nations War Crimes Commission – Issued by the Vienna-based International Progress Organization, 8 Jan 2009
  • The Gaza Massacre in Perspective – Article by Chandra Muzaffar, which argues that much of international media has distorted the context of the recent Israeli invasion of Gaza, 31 Dec 2008
  • Statement by Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Territories, on the crisis in the Gaza Strip, 27 Dec 2008
• Mahatma Gandhi on the Palestine Question – Two articles written in 1938 and 1946, taken from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, published on 16 Jan 2009 by South Centre, a Geneva-based intergovernmental policy think tank of developing countries
• A Code of Conduct for Tourism in the Holy Land – Alternative Tourism Group, Dec 2008
• IPO Statement on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People – Delivered at a UN special meeting by the International Progress Organization on behalf of the International Coordinating Committee of NGOs on the Question of Palestine, 27 Nov 2008
• Restoring the Palestinian Vineyard with Its Fullness for All – Homily by Rev. Lee Hong-Jung for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of al-Nakbah, 7 June 2008
• PALESTINE UPDATE – Articles on Palestine, compiled from web sources and circulated by Alternatives-Badayl (Ranjan Solomon, editor)

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