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International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

We write with grief and rage as we watch the horrifying Israeli air and ground attacks on Gaza. As Jews committed to ending Zionism, the founding ideology of Israel, and all forms of colonialism, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who continue to struggle in the face of these attacks, much as they have against more than 60 years of ethnic cleansing and racism. As Joseph Massad recently wrote, Gaza is in uprising against genocide, and is receiving today the same indifference from the capitals of the West that the rebels in the Warsaw Ghetto received in 1943.

Bush - Signature authorized torture

The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act - TIME <read me

"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the America he had authorized on Feb. 7, 2002, when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention — the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime — did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. That signature led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.
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Incredibly, the Bush Administration decided to have SERE trainers instruct its interrogation teams on how to torture prisoners.
(Read "Shell-Shocked at Abu Ghraib?")

Remember that school Israel targeted a few days ago?

UN: IDF officers admitted there was no gunfire from Gaza school which was shelled - Haaretz - Israel News

"In briefings senior [Israel Defense Forces] officers conducted for foreign diplomats, they admitted the shelling to which IDF forces in Jabalya were responding did not originate from the school," Gunness said. "The IDF admitted in that briefing that the attack on the UN site was unintentional."

He noted that all the footage released by the IDF of militants firing from inside the school was from 2007 and not from the incident itself.

Smarter Men Have More Sperm

Smarter Men Have More Sperm | LiveScience

The smarter the men were, the more sperm they produced and the better their wee ones swam — and it didn't matter how old the men were or whether they smoked, drank or were obese.

The realities of life in Gaza

Sudbury Against War and Occupation: What You Don’t Know About Gaza < read me!

NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below
are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the
conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about
Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.