Materiel and personnel in place for military intervention in Libya
By Julie Hyland
WSWS, 2 March 2011
The United States, Britain and the European powers are deepening their preparations for intervention in Libya, including military action. They hope to exploit the popular revolt against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi to take control of Libya’s oil fields and establish a crucial base for further operations in the region under conditions where dictatorships on which they have relied for years are under siege.
Report: “Israel Kidnapped 80 Children in Jerusalem Since The Beginning of 2011”
Saed Bannoura
The Research and Documentation Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported that Israeli soldiers and policemen kidnapped more than 80 Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of this year.
The center said that Israel is escalating its violations and attacks against children and youths in Jerusalem by kidnapping them, attacking them and enforcing house arrests.
The center said that Israel is escalating its violations and attacks against children and youths in Jerusalem by kidnapping them, attacking them and enforcing house arrests.
US students face jail time for disrupting Israeli official's speech
Nora Barrows-Friedman
Eleven University of California students face criminal charges and possible jail terms for protesting and disrupting a speech by an Israeli official as the Orange County district attorney's office engages in what one of the students' attorneys calls "selective and discriminatory prosecution"
In a University of California at Irvine auditorium on 8 February 2010, ten student activists nonviolently confronted Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, with prepared statements of protest. They stood up and challenged Oren's defense of Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip in winter 2008-09 -- during which more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed -- and the state's ongoing human rights violations.
In a University of California at Irvine auditorium on 8 February 2010, ten student activists nonviolently confronted Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, with prepared statements of protest. They stood up and challenged Oren's defense of Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip in winter 2008-09 -- during which more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed -- and the state's ongoing human rights violations.
'Israel planning new war on neighbors'
Israel is reportedly planning to launch a new war to strengthen its position in the Middle East, following recent political reforms in regional states.
A Western diplomat in the Jordanian capital Amman said on Wednesday that Israel has decided to attack Syria and Lebanon following the downfall of Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt, which served as a great loss to Tel Aviv, the Lebanese daily Assafir reported.
Palestinians slam 'Holocaust lessons'
Palestinians have strongly condemned a UN plan to teach the "Holocaust subject” as part of its human rights curriculum to Palestinian students in UN-run schools in Gaza.
Hamas said on Wednesday that it would do everything in its power to prevent children from being taught about the Holocaust in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a Press TV correspondent reported from Gaza.
Press TV tried to get more clarification on this matter but UNRWA officials declined comment on the issue.
Many Gazans say that the UNRWA plan to teach the "Holocaust subject" as part of its so-called human rights curriculum will help Israel justify its occupation of Palestinian territories.
The ministry of education in Gaza said that it will not allow UNRWA to exceed its mandate, arguing that the ministry considered this as an intervention in internal affairs of the Palestinians.
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