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The Disaster in Libya

2011-08-26T15:04:00.000-07:00

The Libyan War and Libya After Gadaffi

The pretense there was some "victory" of "rebels" in Libya is
fine if you are wearing rose-colored glasses and prefer delusions
to fact. But facts remain.

The invasion, bombing, and attacks on Libya did not come from
rebels, they came from the British and French Governments in
a six month illegal war, using US funds and equipment.

There is nothing to be proud of in this illegal, immoral, and
fatal invasion. Regime change by force is illegal under international
law. As well it should be. And whitewashing these crimes does not
help the cause of any civilized nation which operates, at least ostensibly,
according to the rule of law.

The NATO attack, bombings, and invasion has been about regime change
and banking concerns. It had little to do with humanity or human suffering.

This illegal war will come back to haunt us. Either the British and French,
with support from the United States will setup a puppet regime to deliver
their banking demands... or NATO forces will withdraw and the nation
will be embroiled in an extended bloody war between factions. This
invasion was precipitous, ill-advised, and will cost untold lives.

"Was there a better way to save lives? Yes, if given the chance.
We know that President Lula da Silva (former president of Brazil)
offered to lead a mediation mission to mediate a ceasefire.
This was supported by Latin American countries, the African Union
and even the weak-kneed Arab League. Gaddafi had agreed to the idea
of a ceasefire, including international forces, to observe it. This was turned
down by NATO and their vassals in Benghazi. The African Union mission
was humiliated in Benghazi and the Western media hosted discussions that
ridiculed the AU initiatives. Peace was given no chance. Why?
Because the agenda is regime change and not the protection of civilians."
~~CHARLES ABUGRE, CounterPunch.org, July 29 – 31, 2011

This war was about regime change and is not any sort of victory.
It is cowardly surrender and a defeat for people in Libya, France,
Great Britain, the USA and the rest of the planet. The homeless
and will hungry continue to suffer needlessly as this avoidable
conflict continues to run its course.

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LIBYA AFTER GADAFFI: STATEMENT BY STOP THE WAR COALITION

The fall of the Gadaffi regime in Libya marks yet another turning point in what
has been a truly remarkable year in the Middle East. The victory of the rebels,
backed by Nato bombing in a six month campaign initiated by the British and
French governments, also heralds the rehabilitation of a discredited doctrine
-- that of 'humanitarian intervention' -- after the debacle of Iraq and
Afghanistan.

The defeat of Gadaffi is now being used to justify military action on the
grounds that it has helped the Arab revolutions. David Cameron declared outside
Downing Street 22 August 2011, 'This has not been our revolution, but we can be
proud that we have played our part.'

The hypocrisy of Cameron is staggering, given the role of British and other
western governments in backing up dictators and despots in the region -- only
halted in some places by the actions of the Arab people themselves.

The Nato intervention has not been for idealistic values. It has been about
regime change, so that a leader more acceptable to western governments and
business could replace Gadaffi.

Right to the end, NATO was bent on a military victory and bringing the
Transitional National Council (TNC) -- the Benghazi administration -- to power
in Libya by force of arms. All proposals for talks to achieve a political
solution – whether from within Libya or outside - have been brushed aside.

While many Libyans may welcome the outcome, and will be glad to see the back of
Gadaffi, it has a number of negative aspects.

From the international point of view, the most significant thing is that the
government of another Arab state has been changed by external force applied by
the big imperial powers. There is no real suggestion that the TNC could have
come to power unaided. The NATO military intervention, stretching beyond
breaking point the mandate given by the United Nations, has been decisive.

This will not be the end of the story. The experience of Iraq teaches that the
overthrow of a regime under such circumstances by no means signifies the end of
the war. Whether those who have supported Gadaffi will meekly accept the
authority of a new government imposed under such circumstances is open to
question.

Whatever happens, the deep divisions within Libyan society remain. Likewise,
given that the TNC is an amalgam of forces, ranging from the democratic to the
Islamist to leaders who are the direct employees of western interests, it may
have neither the capacity to resolve existing differences nor the ability to
prevent the emergence of new ones, within its own ranks.

David Cameron spelt out the close role Britain and the other western powers
will expect to have in running Libya, and in how much detail they have been
planned, including ‘stabilisation experts who have been planning for this
moment…for months.’

Under these circumstances, the main demand must be an end to all forms of NATO
interference in Libya – not just the end of the bombing, but the withdrawal
of special forces and a halt to all forms of political interference. The only
solution to the crisis in Libya will have to be a Libyan solution. Recent
history, from Iraq to Afghanistan, teaches that too.

But beyond that, we must recognise the danger that even a passing 'success' in
Libya may embolden the US, British and French governments to believe that the
idea of 'liberal interventionism', discredited after Iraq, can be revived on a
broader scale. Of course, however it ends the Libyan conflict has not gone as
expected and none of the leaders of the aggression have dared introduce ground
troops into the war. Nevertheless, the danger of extending the intervention to
Syria as part of a programme to control and suppress the 'Arab Spring' is not
inconceivable and must be mobilised against.

The old rulers will not be missed if and when they depart. The decisive issues
– genuinely democratic and popular regimes across the Arab world, the
exclusion of great power interference in the region and justice for the
Palestinian people – remain in the balance and require our solidarity.

LINDSEY GERMAN, National Convenor, Stop the War Coalition
ANDREW MURRAY, National Chair, Stop the War Coalition--

The STOP THE WAR COALITION made the above statement on the
22nd of August 2011. Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Tel: 020 7801 2768
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Nuclear War...

2010-08-15T09:29:00.000-07:00

Facts still matter.

Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Atomic Bombing of Japan



"Now is the time to exterminate the Yellow Peril for all time… Let the rats squeal."
—Congressman Charles A. Plumley, August 1945

Next to Vietnam, no topic in U.S. foreign policy generates as much historical controversy as the continuing debate over the use of atomic bombs to end the Second World War. Aside from the obvious point that two cities were largely destroyed, instantly killing over a hundred thousand Japanese (95% of them civilians), why does the use of atomic bombs against Japan still provoke controversy? After all, the fire-bombing of Tokyo in March of 1945 killed nearly 100,000 Japanese in just two days, and B-29s dropped hundreds of tons of firebombs on other major Japanese cities.  One important distinction is that a single bomb (a uranium device nicknamed "Little Boy") was dropped on Hiroshima, followed by a second one (a plutonium bomb nicknamed "Fat Man") dropped three days later on Nagasaki. Beyond the unprecedented explosive power (12.5 kilotons for the first bomb and 22 kilotons for the second one), the delayed effects of radiation were another important distinction.  Whereas the fire-bombing of Tokyo produced a death rate of about 100,000 fatalities among one million casualties (10%), the two atomic bombs produced a death rate of over 50% with the inclusion of deaths due to radiation. By 1950 nearly 350,000 Japanese had died from the effects of Little Boy and Fat Man.
An obvious reason for the continuing controversy is that the U.S. is the only country to have used atomic bombs, immediately recognized as "doomsday" weapons with the potential to annihilate mankind. (While observing the detonation of the first atomic bomb at a test site in New Mexico, Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the bomb’s construction, recalled the following line from Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.") Aside from the moral issue of whether the use of such weapons of mass destruction can ever be justified except as a last resort in the face of a similar threat (which was clearly not the case in August of 1945), there is the question of what role the atomic bombs played in ending the war. The effects of the bombs and the rationale for using them have been, at the same time, both oversimplified and obscured in mythology.
Why were the atomic bombs used, and what effect did they have? The official rationale of the Truman Administration, which has become an article of faith for many people, is that the bombs were necessary to break the will of the "fanatical" Japanese to continue fighting, thereby averting an invasion of Japan, shortening the war, and saving hundreds of thousands of American lives. However, a careful examination of historical evidence makes it clear that this popular view is actually a mythological construct. And this is the second major reason for the continuing controversy surrounding the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan.
The Manhattan Project was started in 1941 after a group of scientists, including Albert Einstein, informed President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany was working on atomic research. Roosevelt concluded that the best defense was for the U.S. to develop atomic weapons first. When the European war was almost over the U.S. learned that Germany had made little progress toward building an atomic bomb, but the project continued in earnest, with thoughts immediately turning toward the defeat of Japan. In the end, at a cost of over $2 billion, three atomic bombs were manufactured and detonated as soon as they were ready: a test bomb, and the two dropped on Japan.
There are three basic elements which comprise the popular mythology about the decision to use the atomic bombs: (a) President Harry Truman was faced with the choice of using atomic bombs or invading Japan; (b) the Japanese would fight to the death in defense of their homeland; and (c) Truman gave the go-ahead in order to end the war quickly and avoid a million or more U.S. casualties.
The problem is that this logical construct is a distortion of historical reality, and it fails to take into account additional considerations which weighed heavily in the balance of thinking by American political and military leaders in 1945. For example, Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes also hoped that dropping the bombs on Japan would intimidate not only Emperor Hirohito but also Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. The only apparent impact on Soviet-American relations was the beginning of an increasingly costly and dangerous nuclear weapons competition which continued for the next forty years. Of immediate concern, of course, was ending the war. Four points need to be considered:
First, Truman and his advisors knew that the Japanese were already defeated and on the verge of surrender before the atomic bombs were dropped.
Second, there were other options for ending the war besides using atomic bombs or invading Japan.
Third, with or without the use of the atomic bombs, Emperor Hirohito probably would have moved to end the war before an American invasion.
Fourth, even if the invasion of Japan proved to be necessary (e.g., in the event of a military coup), it was estimated that the invasion of Kyushu would have cost around 25,000 U.S. deaths (much less than the absurd estimate of "half a million" later cited by Truman's advisors in an after-the-fact effort to justify the decision); and the subsequent invasion of the main island of Honshu was regarded as highly unlikely.
As early as July of 1944, Japanese military leaders realized that they could not win the war, and the government began looking for a way to end the war without sacrificing their national sovereignty. Of special importance was the fate of the emperor, regarded in Japan as a deity whose removal (or worse, his trial as a war criminal) was unthinkable. The issue of "unconditional surrender" (1943) was hotly debated by Truman’s advisors, but both Truman and Byrnes felt it was politically risky to negotiate with Japan.
On July 26, 1945 the Potsdam declaration ominously warned the Japanese that they must unconditionally surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction." Several days later, three shocks hit the Japanese government in rapid succession: on August 6 the first bomb was dropped (on Hiroshima); on August 8 the Soviet Union announced that it was entering the war against Japan and invading Manchuria the next day; and on August 9 the second bomb was dropped (on Nagasaki). On August 10 the Japanese government offered to surrender "with the understanding that the [Potsdam] declaration does not compromise… the prerogatives of [the emperor]." On August 14 the U.S. sent a vaguely worded acknowledgement, and on August 15 the emperor announced his acceptance of the Potsdam declaration.
"Despite the best that has been done by everyone . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage . . . . Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives . . . . This is the reason why we have ordered the acceptance of the [Potsdam Declaration]  --Radio Broadcast of the Japanese Emperor, August 15, 1945

An additional factor, often overlooked, is revealed by Truman’s first public announcement about the bombing of Hiroshima, when he pointed out that the Japanese had been "repaid many fold" for their attack on Pearl Harbor. Revenge (and racism) may well have played a subtle part in Truman’s willingness to go ahead with the atomic bombing of Japan. As Truman explained, "When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast." Throughout the war, many Americans viewed the Japanese as an inferior and barbarous race, deserving of annihilation. (On the home front, it should be noted, Japanese aliens and Americans of Japanese descent were singled out for confinement in "relocation camps" for the duration of the war.) Truman was a savvy politician with an innate sense of fairness, but he was not immune from wartime emotions and prejudice. In the final analysis it seems fair to conclude that Truman recognized the usefulness of the atomic bombs, but he had nocompelling reason either to use them or to not use them. Like most of his advisors, he simply assumed the atomic bombs would be used as soon they were ready. While other factors clearly were at work, the bombs did help persuade the Japanese to surrender.
Postscript: Whether the "end justified the means" ultimately is a moral question, not a historical one. Personally, I cannot ignore the fact that my father was a sailor on the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga, back in action in 1945 after a kamikaze attack had sent the ship to Pearl Harbor for repairs. How many American soldiers and sailors would have died if the war had continued, even for a short time longer, is debatable. (Claims of "half a million" American lives saved are preposterous; less than 300,000 Americans died in the entire war, including Europe and the Pacific. Most experts put the estimate at 120,000 U.S. casualties, including 25,000 deaths. Was my dad's life worth more than 300,000 Japanese civilians?) In any case, the war ended quickly and he came home. Of course, the war ended quickly for the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, too. As a student of history, I cannot ignore that aspect of the equation either.
© David C. Hanson, Virginia Western Community College, November 1998
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International March for Peace! End the Occupations!

2010-08-11T12:19:00.000-07:00

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"In Russia, in China, and here... very mediocre people
have the power to end life altogether."
~~Saul Bellow
Saturday, October 9th, 2010 (Also John Lennon's Birthday)

Antiwar and Anti-Occupation March and Rally

Instead of cutting needed funds for education and social services, we should reconsider much of our trillion dollar
military budget and establish a Department of Peace!

It is time for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. Most thinking people are
opposed to the US spending $3 billion a year to help fund a siege of Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank. We are sick and tired of military threats against Iran and the criminal CIA drone attacks on Pakistan.
So, we are organizing. Whether you are an experienced activist or new to the antiwar movement, it is past time for a multinational antiwar march on Saturday, October 9th commemorating the 9th anniversary of the Afghanistan war. End the Occupations! Secure the Peace we all seek! Send a message to our leaders.

Occupation and Linguistic Acrobatics

2010-05-25T17:57:00.000-07:00

The "flexible timetable" approach for
withdrawing from the occupations,
and the "public option" for health
care... are effective logical fallacy.

(Changing the subject, false
choices, distraction, etc.)
These, along with ad-hominem
attacks on real progressives...
are all the corporate Democrats
and Republicans have to offer.

After all, they are both funded by the same transnational
economic cartels. When the people are provided with facts,
they do the right thing.

Do not get discouraged!
There really is a peace movement.
Peace, freedom, and justice
have nothing to do
with corporate parties
or their machinations.

The Peace Movement in America
and all over the planet is all about:

1. Ending wars of choice and corporate occupation

2. Restoring constitutional integrity and civil rights

3. Universal Non-Profit Health care and Education (K-16)

4. Reforming Tax Codes

5. Protecting the Global Ecosphere

6. Investing in People instead of Parties

7. Expanding Freedom and Preserving Justice

8. A Global Commitment to Human Rights

9. International reconciliation & revitalization

Those who long for
"impeachment of war criminals,"
must consider
this will follow
constitutional integrity
and restoration
of the rule of law.

Those who wonder
how we will get there...
must think outside the
box of prepackaged
corporate- funded parties.

Working Families build the ships, do the work,

and create bridges to deliver a more peaceful, secure,

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Unnecessary deaths: Here's the scoop

2010-04-10T16:37:00.000-07:00

Checkout the footage exposed through Wikileaks
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Rally, Sat. 3/20 PSU South Park Blocks 1am

2010-03-17T14:55:00.000-07:00

What:    Rally & March
                to End the
              Occupations
When:   Saturday, March 20th
               11:00 am at PSU,
               Noon Terry Schrunk Plaza
Where: Portland State University
               South Park Blocks
Who:     PSU March 4th Coalition
Why:     March 20th marks the 7
               year anniversary of the
               Invasion, Occupation, and
               War on Iraq.

     Organized By: Associated Students of Portland State University,
International Socialist Organization, Pan American Solidarity
Organization, Students for Unity, Students United For Palestinian
Equal Rights, MEChA, Portland Peace and Justice Works, &
Endorsed and promoted by http://www.peaceresource.org/
     For more information on-line, please visit http://www.pjw.info/
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Peace in The Middle East

2010-03-15T15:13:00.000-07:00

Ta'Anit Tzedek-Jewish Fast for Gaza
Fast Days: Reminder about our upcoming fast day this
Thursday, March 18th, and fast days through June.

New Program: Resisting the Siege:
Conversations with Gazans

A series of monthly phone conference calls
with people from Gaza and/or experts on Gaza.
The first phone conference will be this coming
Thursday, March 18 at 1: 00pm EST with
Cindy and Craig Corrie and Sami Abdel Shafi
(details below).

To participate in the call:

Dial-in Number: 1-517-417-5200 (Midwest)
Participant Access Code: 860453

New Resources and Suggestions for the Fast Day,
including articles by Sara Roy, Sami Abdel Shafi
and an interview with the Corrie family.

Fast Days
The dates of fast days between now and June are as follows:
Thursday March 18th
Thursday April 15th
Thursday May 20th
Thursday June 17th

New Program: Resisting the Seige:
Conversations with Gazans
The siege on Gaza serverely restricts the
number of people allowed to enter and leave Gaza
(just this week the head of the European Union finally
got permission from the Israeli government to visit Gaza!)
and there is very little direct human communication
between the residents of Gaza and the outside world.

As a way of resisting these effects of the siege,
Ta'Anit Tzedek will hold monthly phone conferences on
each of our upcoming fast days with a resident of Gaza
and/or an expert on Gaza. These calls will be open to fast
participants and anyone else who wants to participate.
The calls will also give those participating in the fast an
opportunity to join together on the fast day.

Our first call, this coming Thursday, March 18, will feature
Sami Addel Shafi, an independent political analyst in Gaza,
and Cindy and Craig Corrie. The Corrie's daughter, Rachel,
was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2005 as she tried to
protect a Palestinian home from demolition. They will join us
from Haifa where they are participating in the hearing of
their civil suit against the Government of Israel.

To participate in the call:
Dial-in Number: 1-517-417-5200 (Midwest)
Participant Access Code: 860453

Questions for Conference Call: If you would like to suggest
a question for Mr. Abdel Shafi or for Cindy or Craig Corrie,
please email your question to rabbibrianwalt@gmail.com
no later than Wednesday night.

Information about Cindy and Criag Corrie:
Amy Goodman conducted a very interesting interview
with the Corries the day before their trial opened
in Haifa last week.

Information about Sami Abdel Shafi:
Sami Abdel-Shafi is an independent political analyst
and co-founder and senior partner at Emerge
Consulting Group, LLC, a management consultancy
in Gaza City.

Since 2005, he was engaged in several projects
implemented by the World Bank and the United
Nations Development Program for the benefit of
the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and the West
Bank. Most recently, Sami has been engaged in
providing analysis and recommendations on the
great challenges facing the Gaza Strip's private
sector and was one of the speakers representing it
in the Palestine Investment Conference held in May,
2008. He is on the Board of Directors of several
Palestinian non-governmental organizations, writes
and publishes economic and political analysis, and
provides commentary on Palestinian affairs in the
international media.

We have posted two of Sami Abdel Shafi's articles
on our website:

Rabbis Brian Walt and Brant Rosen

Co-Founders Ta'Anit Tzedek-Jewish Fast for Gaza

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President Obama embraces the Bush Doctrine:

2009-11-30T13:11:00.000-08:00

President Obama embraces the Bush Doctrine:

Misusing US forces to provide support
for corporate adventurism abroad.
Neo-colonialism is bad news for America;
this will cost lives, resources, and destroy
what good will Obama may have accomplished.
This is a turning point... A wrong turn.

Sad.
Shalom aleichem, Tim

WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued his order
to send more troops to Afghanistan, communicating his
decision to military leaders late Sunday afternoon during
a meeting in the Oval Office, and will spend Monday
speaking with foreign leaders to share with them the
broad outlines of his new strategy...

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Peace is...

2009-09-04T16:41:00.001-07:00

"Peace is a daily,
a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,

quietly building new structures."

-- John F. Kennedy

War & Peace: Can we hope for change?

2009-03-31T11:14:00.000-07:00

Since that fated day of September 11th,
this nation has been set on a perilous
course. Before that date we endured,
survived, and prevailed over threats
more visceral and immediate than
those we face today. But we had not
resorted to overt, unprincipled,
"preemptive aggression." We rejected
such action as immoral, unconscienable,
illegal, and beyond the pale. And then
came the "Bush Doctrine."

The Bush Doctrine is a proposal that America
has some inherent "right" to attack, invade, occupy,
or destroy any nation. This abomination betrays our
most fundamental values and beliefs. Such tyranny
flies in the face of our laws, traditions, and values.

The sad transgressions of the Bush/Cheney administration
should have been roundly rejected by the Obama administration.
Unfortunatley, this has not been the case. Barack Obama has
embraced these unconstitutional claims and seems willing to
violate extant US treaties and international law if it fits the
purposes of Robert Gates and other hangers-on.

It is time for the American people to move beyond hope to
demand real change in America. The misuse of our forces to
attack soverign nations who have not attacked us is illegal,
immoral, and does not serve this nation well. Since January,
our nation has participated in unprovoked attacks on a number
of nations. These attacks have precipitated civilian casualties,
made untenable situations worse, and sullied our reputation
and credibility.

"The New York Times reports that "The outrage over civilian
deaths swelled again over the weekend. Hundreds of angry
villagers demonstrated... after an American raid on a village
in the province on Friday night. The raid killed at least 16
villagers, including 2 women and 3 children, according to a
statement from President Hamid Karzai." ...Our attack
wasn't in self-defense; the Taliban isn't massed on our border.
They'd not been indiscriminately lobbing missiles, on a daily
basis, into Los Angeles or Chicago or Dallas. President Obama
approved the unleashing of the drones, recognizing that there
was a high probability civilians would be killed, including
women and children."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-hanft/the-first-civilian-deaths_b_161258.html

If Mr. Obama continues this extralegal behavior, our nation
will be seen as a rogue state and our current decline will
continue unabated. "Karzai warned the killing of innocent
Afghans during US military operations was "strengthening
the terrorists." If we hope to find peace in our time, we must
establish a cabinet level department of peace, reject the
corporate enforcement tactics of the previous administration,

and demand that our leaders in congress and the White house

honor the letter and intent of constitutional and civil
law. We must rejoin our brothers and sisters as part

of a community of civlized nations who reject violence
and aggression as first resorts.

Mr. Gates has got to go. His history of abuse during eight
presidencies, has established that he is willing to lie to
congress, presidents, or the American people to advance
his personal agenda. We cannot afford such irresponsible
acts. These are tantamount to treason against the state.
The interests of the American people must trump the
interests and ambitions of corporate transnationals
who may often have little if any loyalty to this nation
or our people.

We need not suffer war. We can restore the peace.
But these goals require that we embrace the rule of
law and reject the Bush doctrine of unprincipled

aggression, in favor of a more hopeful movements
towards international peace, transnational
reconciliation, reconstruction, rebuilding, and in time...
we may find redemption for the atrocities perpetrated
in our name in recent times.

Tim Flanagan, Portland writer, teacher,
and facilitator at PeaceResource.org

Box 22, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034

http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com

2009-02-12T20:49:00.000-08:00

Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation?

Announcing a new on-line database: www.whoprofits.org

Now, more then ever, Israeli activists need a powerful
global movement to help us build a just peace in Israel/
Palestine. Looking for effective tools for ending the
occupation, we have launched a new website listing
companies directly involved in the occupation of the
West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan
Heights. The grassroots initiative, of the Israeli
Coalition of Women for Peace, includes a database and
an information center, and reflects an on-going two-year
effort, rigorous research, documentation and site visits.

This unprecedented on-line resource already lists about
200 companies, and hundreds more will be added during 2009,
offering an extensive and intricate mapping of the corporate
aspects and interests in the continued occupation. The website
offers a new useful categorization of all corporate interests
in the occupation, and exposes specific examples of direct
involvement of many international and Israeli companies for
the first time. In tracing ownership links it shows in detail
how some of Israel's largest corporations are tied in with
the occupation.

The database allows for advanced searches, such as: Which U.S.
corporations support the West Bank military checkpoints?
Which of the companies are listed in the London stock-exchange?
What settlements' production is formally registered inside
Israel? Note, however, that the on-line data is always partial,
always growing, and please send us any relevant information,
further requests for information or suggestions.

As Israeli activists, we feel obligated to try and educate
ourselves and others about the economic incentives and corporate
involvement in the occupation, but this is not enough. You
can support our efforts by continuing this investigation in
your own country, by informing others of our website, or by
sending us a much needed donation.

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