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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965): |
La
XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965)
dichiara "la legittimità della
lotta da parte dei popoli sotto
oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il
loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e
all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti
gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e
materiale ai movimenti di liberazione
nazionale nei territori coloniali". |
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:: ONU
- Risoluzione 1514 |
"L'Assemblea
Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei
popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e
asservimento costituisce una negazione
dei diritti umani fondamentali, è
contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite
ed è un impedimento alla promozione
della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto
all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di
tale diritto essi devono liberamente
determinare il loro status politico e
liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo
economico, sociale e culturale". |
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:: Convenzione
di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I
(1977): |
La lotta
armata può essere usata, come ultima
risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il
diritto all' autodeter-
minazione. |
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:: Tribunale
penale internazionale |
In
base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale
internazionale, sono definiti “crimini
di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
contro popolazione civili in quanto tali
o contro civili che non prendano
direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
nella consapevolezza che gli stessi
avranno come conseguenza la perdita di
vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e
lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà
civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e
gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano
manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme
dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi
militari previsti. |
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Anna Baltzer: An Up-close Look At The Israeli Occupation Of Palestine
Christian Avard
September 8, 2010 - ...There are too many myths to name, but many fall into a few categories: Myth 1:"This is an age-old conflict based on religion and mutual hatred." This is a conflict about land and human rights, not about religion. Prior to the Zionist movement, Jews were better treated in the Arab world than they were in much of the Christian West. There is nothing inherently incompatible about Jewish, Muslims, and Christians, but with the introduction of the Zionist movement seeking to--and eventually succeeding to--annex Palestine for one segment of the population while excluding and discriminating against the other segments of the population, you saw the emergence of violence. Israel was created and is maintained at the expense of Muslims and Christians in the area, who are denied their land and their human rights simply because they are not Jewish. This ongoing discriminatory system perpetuates the conflict today and until it is addressed we can expect no just or enduring peace.
Myth 2: "The occupation may be ugly, but it's for security" (note the switch from the previous narrative that "there is no occupation").
The majority of the institutions of Israel's occupation simply cannot be justified by security. Israel pays its citizens to move from Israel to the West Bank to live amidst the so-called "enemy"--does that make them safe? Israel has never declared its own borders, rather it expands them onto more and more of someone else's land--does that make Israel safer?...
continua / continued  [69591] [ 09-sep-2010 05:58 ECT ] |
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Eid Message from Mullah Omar
Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid
September 8, 2010 - ...I assure you, our days of sufferings and hardship will not prolong furthermore. Soon, if God willing, our grieved hearts will find solace as the invading enemy is ousted and the Islamic sovereignty is established. All our noble country men, whether be they an engineer, a doctor, a student of a school or of a religious Madrassa, whether he is a teacher or a cleric, a professor or religious scholar hailing from any tribe and ethnicity, will all work together like brothers in an independent country with strong Islamic government established on the basis of the aspirations of the people...
continua / continued [69580] [ 09-sep-2010 00:36 ECT ] |
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Israel: Activist Convicted After Unfair Trial
Leader of Protests on Unlawful Land Confiscation Faces 20 Years in Jail
Human Rights Watch |
September 8, 2010 - An Israeli military court's conviction of Abdullah Abu Rahme, an advocate of nonviolent protests against Israel's de facto confiscation of land from the West Bank village of Bil'in, raises grave due process concerns, Human Rights Watch said today. On August 24, 2010, Abu Rahme, who has been detained for more than eight months, was convicted on charges of organizing and participating in illegal demonstrations and inciting protestors to damage the separation barrier, throw stones at Israeli soldiers, and participate in violent protests....
continua / continued [69578] [ 09-sep-2010 00:03 ECT ] |
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Rachel Corrie trial: Israeli military Colonel states, “There are no civilians in war zones.”
Rachel Corrie Foundation |
September 7, 2010 - Several State witnesses testified in Haifa District Court on Monday, September 6, 2010, in the civil law suit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel Corrie, an American human rights defender from Olympia, WA, was crushed to death on March 16, 2003, by a Caterpillar D9R military bulldozer. She had been nonviolently demonstrating against the demolitions of Palestinian homes. One of the witnesses, known to the court as Yossi, was a Colonel in the Engineering Corps...
continua / continued [69575] [ 08-sep-2010 18:58 ECT ] |
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US and Iran favour Maliki as Iraq PM six months after polls
By Assad Abboud (AFP)
September 7, 2010 — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has the backing of Washington and US arch-foe Iran to keep his job, six months after he narrowly lost an election to ex-premier Iyad Allawi, politicians said Tuesday. The United States has consistently denied having any favoured candidate for the premiership but amid growing impatience for a new government in Baghdad it now sees Maliki as the conflict-wracked country's only viable leader... A senior State of Law official said Maliki received assurances during US Vice President Joe Biden's recent visit that major neighbouring Arab countries, except Saudi Arabia, had decided to stop backing Allawi's premiership hopes. "Maliki was quoting Biden as saying, 'Iraqiya has many problems and complexities... I told Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar and United Arab Emirates to end their support for Allawi,'" the official said Biden told Maliki...
continua / continued [69557] [ 07-sep-2010 22:01 ECT ] |
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Iraq: The forgotten 'nakba'
Why has the plight of Iraq failed to capture the imagination and interest of the Arab world?
Lamis Andoni |
September 7, 2010 - The US invasion of Iraq marked a dramatic turning point for the Arab world, but the recent partial American withdrawal generated notably little interest across the region. This is partly because it signaled neither an unequivocal end to the occupation nor an explicit continuation of US military control. But the silence also reflects the bitter reality that many have simply tuned out of Iraq. When Baghdad fell in 2003, it drew comparisons with the loss of Palestine and the dispossession of its people in 1948. And while the US invasion did not lead to, or aim at, colonising the country, changing its name or razing its towns and villages, it did serve to remove a once powerful state from the regional political equation and, in so doing, weakened the Arab world. This emboldened Israel and Iran, while striking a critical blow against pan-Arabism. On both the official and popular level, Arabs failed to connect with and support the Iraqi people...If they do not, the US will have achieved one of the aims of the war - the weakening of pan-Arab solidarity - and Iraqis will continue to feel, as one recently told me, that "nothing we do seems to capture the Arab imagination and we feel far from the Arab world"...
continua / continued [69552] [ 07-sep-2010 16:06 ECT ] |
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Afghanistan — War Plans in Disarray — Bring the Troops Home Now
By Patrick Ayers
September 6, 2010 - Ten months after President Obama announced he would add 31,000 more United States troops to the war in Afghanistan, his surge is showing signs of failing. The mightiest military force in the world, with more than 128,000 troops and the most advanced weaponry on the planet, is losing to a ragtag force of an estimated 28,000 Taliban fighters. Almost nine years old, the Afghan conflict is the longest shooting war in the history of the U.S. This massive effort, costing hundreds of billions of dollars, has in no way improved the lives of Afghan people. Instead of bringing prosperity, the country remains the fifth poorest in the world. Instead of bringing democracy, Afghanistan is the second most corrupt...
continua / continued [69547] [ 07-sep-2010 04:31 ECT ] |
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The other day in Lebanon
Allsources
September 6, 2010 - ...The other day in Lebanon, I decided to spent more time in this splendid country. I know, the infrastructure is wanting: the continual power cuts, the slow internet, the traffic jams. I know, it can be hot and humid. I know, you are camping on a powder keg. I know, people are always late, change plans in the last minute or don't show up at all. But this last point is perhaps the very essence of it all. In Lebanon, at least in the Lebanon I know, you can enjoy a personal freedom in the midst of a multi-layered chaos that has been long lost in other places I know...
continua / continued [69541] [ 07-sep-2010 00:53 ECT ] |
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