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Despite protests in every major city in the US, and thousands of phone calls, faxes, letters and emails sent by US citizens to their Senators in Washington, the US Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to support Israel's aggression against the population of the Gaza Strip. more >>
As the Israeli military continues to pound the crowded, impoverished and imprisoned population of the Gaza Strip with the full force of its military might, Israel's strongest ally, the United States, announced plans to ship large amounts of ammunition to the Israeli forces – as it did during Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, when the Israelis ran out of (internationally-banned) cluster bombs, and the US shipped them tens of thousands more. more >>
With the Israeli assault on Gaza entering its 13th day, international and Israeli journalists continue to be denied access to the Gaza Strip, despite an Israeli High Court ruling that they should be allowed to enter. more >>
Civilian casualties mount as talks on ceasefire hit political obstacles.
Tens of thousands of families under siege in Gaza are facing desperate conditions as mounting civilian casualties swamp a hospital system that is close to collapse, international aid agency Oxfam warned today. more >>
Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, has again rejected a French proposal for a ceasefire to allow aid into the Gaza Strip, saying there is "no humanitarian crisis", Al Jazeera reports. more >>
Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, is on her way to France to meet with President Nicholas Sarkozy as international pressure on Israel is rising for Israel to agree to a truce to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reports. more >>
As ongoing Israeli airstrikes mount the Palestinian death toll to 325 in just three days, hundreds of Palestinians tried to flee from Gaza to Egypt on Monday morning by storming the closed border crossing en masse. more >>
On Monday, December 22, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold talks with Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas, Itar-Tass news agency reports. more >>
Israeli sources reported on Sunday evening that Russia agreed to sell Iran the S-300 surface-to-air missile system despite Israel officially asking Russia not to sell the missile defense system to Iran. more >>
Russia has agreed to supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 fighter jets, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said on Tuesday during a visit to Moscow. more >>
Independent Palestinian Legislator, and head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), Jamal El Khodary, stated on Tuesday that the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1850 is unbalanced and favors Israeli interests and illegal measures of the occupation. more >>
United Nations General Assembly President, Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, issued a statement accusing Israel of slander after Israeli officials claimed that Brockmann barred the Israeli envoy to the UN from giving a speech in the General Assembly. more >>
An international conference on jihad that took place in Jerusalem on Sunday highlighted what far-right scholars on Islam described as ‘real disputes’ about the nature of the greater problem.  Far-right and controversial Dutch legislator, Geert Wilders, plans to organize a European ‘follow-up’ in the coming months, Haaretz online reported on Monday. more >>
Palestinian legislator and head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), Jamal El Khodary, voiced support to the calls of UN expert, Professor Richard Falk, for immediate intervention to stop the ongoing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip, and that Israeli political and military leaders should be prosecuted in international courts for violating international law. more >>
Last Wednesday, the European Parliament (EP) postponed a vote that could largely upgrade EU-Israeli relations through a proposal by the European Union Commission and Council for the draft recommendation to conclude a Protocol to the EU-Israel Association Agreement and on the general principles governing the State of Israel's participation in Community programs.  more >>

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