David Macilwain (VIC) protests to ABC’s 7.30 Report about its biased segment on Israel’s Gaza offensive one year ago 31

ABC TV: The 7.30 Report on Israel’s Gaza offensive one year ago  aired on 28 December 2009
My attention was drawn to your report on Gaza – one year on – from a letter written to you by Cynthia Marchant, published on the Australians for Palestine website.
She was upset about the lopsided picture presented by [...]

Craig Nielson (SA) responds to Downer’s “Beautiful Dreamers” The Advertiser, 28Dec09

The Adelaide Advertiser: “Beautiful Dreamers” by Alexander Downer, 28 December 2009
Alexander Downer’s comments (”Beautiful dreamers”, The Advertiser, 28/12/09) seem to show an appalling lack of understanding for someone who was Australia’s foreign minister.  Yasser Arafat’s letter of recognition of the state of Israel occurred some 20 years ago and the majority of Palestinians in Palestine [...]

Dr Charles Cassar (SA) responds to Downer’s “Beautiful Dreamers” The Advertiser, 28Dec09

The Adelaide Advertiser: “Beautiful Dreamers” by Alexander Downer, 28 December 2009
Alexander Downer, if Israel wants a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine, why is it building the so-called security wall inside the Green Line and separating Palestinian towns?

If Palestinians cannot move form town to town or into their capital, Jerusalem, how can they have a viable state?  [...]

Margaret Cassar (SA) responds to Downer’ “Beautiful Dreamers”, The Advertiser 28Dec09

The Adelaide Advertiser: “Beautiful Dreamers” by Alexander Downer, 28 December 2009
Palestinians who have been herded into about 20 per cent of their original lands, where they are imprisoned behind 8m walls and barbed wire, would find Alexander Downer’s “blame the Palestinians” mantra absolutely incomprehensible.
Mr Downer is indulging in his own “beautiful dreaming” when he neglects [...]

MEMO’s Diary of War Crimes: First anniversary DAY FIVE 31Dec09

MEMO Middle East Monitor
Wednesday, 31 December 2008 – DAY FIVE

For the 5th consecutive day, the Israeli aerial arsenal, including warplanes, helicopters and drones, all backed by gunboats, continued to launch indiscriminate attacks targeting Palestinian facilities including security facilities, civilian property, houses, schools, mosques, hospitals, municipalities and medical and charitable foundations with no consideration for civilians’ [...]

French contingent protests at French embassy in Cairo 31Dec09

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HEWITT: The Missing Story

by Ibrahim Hewitt  -  MEMO Middle East Monitor -  28 December 2009
At a time of year when editors are looking for news items to fill their pages and programmes, one story sticks out: an international aid convoy with 400 participants from Britain alone; 1.5 million people awaiting eagerly its arrival and the relief it will [...]

Palestinian citizens of Israel protest outside of Erez crossing: End Israeli Blockade of Gaza

Alternative Information Center – 31 December 2009

Over 1,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel and several dozen Jewish Israelis demonstrated this morning outside of the Erez Crossing, demanding an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Organised by the Arab High Monitoring Committee, the demonstration coincided with the one year anniversary of Israel’s [...]

VIDEO: Peace activists allowed entry into Gaza marched to Erez crossing

BREAKING NEWS: Protesters brutalized in Tahrir Square – 500+ protesters violently forced into pens, others barricaded in their hotels

by Adam Horowitz  – MONDOWEISS -  31 December 2009
From a Gaza Freedom March press release:
Members of the Gaza Freedom March are being forcibly detained in hotels around town (Lotus, Liala) as well as violently forced into pens in Tahrir Square by Egyptian police and additional security forces. Reports of police brutality are flooding a [...]