Israel and Syria in diplomatic charadeElectronic Intifada - 12 Jun 2008rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rCAIRO, 12 June (IPS) – After an eight-year hiatus, Israel and Syria have resumed negotiations—albeit via Turkish middlemen—on the issue of the strategic Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967. But according to analysts in Cairo, neither side appears entirely genuine in its desire to reach a final settlement.
Gaza hospitals in need of careElectronic Intifada - 12 Jun 2008rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rJABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, 11 June (IPS) – In the brightly painted new intensive care unit wing of al-Awda, northern Gaza’s only emergency medical facility in the massive Jabaliya refugee camp, doctors, nurses, aides and administrators are ready to provide emergency surgery services for the area’s 300,000 people.
BNP Withdraw Festival Licence Application in the Face of ProtestsIndymedia UK - 12 Jun 2008On Tuesday June 10, Amber Valley Borough Council met at the Town Hall, Market Place, Ripley to hear the premises licence application for the BNP’s Red, White and Blue Festival, scheduled to take place on land owned by party member and former Tory-councillor Alan Warner at Denby, Derbyshire from the 15th to the 17th August 2008.Security at the meeting was tight. Protesters gathering outside were greeted by several van loads of Derbyshire’s finest, evidence gatherers and a FIT Team. Inside, the police, who had initially raised no objection to the licence, claimed to have received “significant intelligence” which had forced them to reconsider their position. Fearing conflict between the BNP and anti-fascists they wished to see the imposition of new conditions including the erection of a seven-foot high fence around the site and the installation of temporary security lighting. When invited to sum-up their position the BNP representatives withdrew their application and stormed out of the meeting, insisting they would go ahead without the licence.Newswire: Red White & Blue festival – Licence Refused | Red White Blue Festival licence refused | Protest Against the BNP: June 10 | Notts Stop the BNP objection to BNP licence application | Object to the BNPs “festival” | Notts Indymedia Anti-Racism Topic PagePrevious features: East Mids Campaigners Up The Anti as BNP Make Electoral Gains | Midlands and Yorkshire organise against the BNP | Broxtowe BNP Councillor Expelled From Party | Anti-fascists successfully blockade BNP meeting venue | BNP wins seat in BroxtoweLinks: Amber Valley Borough Council | Antifa | Stop the Red White and Blue Campaign
Brown urged to take tough line with Bush on IranCampaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) - 12 Jun 2008Summary: GallowayA Downing Street delegation, led by George Galloway MP, today called on Gordon Brown to use his time with George Bush next week to warn the President against military intervention against Iran. A letter handed in by a cross-party group of parliamentarians to the Prime Minister argues that an attack on Iran in the absence of evidence of a nuclear weaponisation programme would be in breach of international law and would be as unconscionable and misjudged as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. source: CASMIIread more
Bullying and PartialCampaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) - 12 Jun 2008Summary: THE threat of concerted action against Iran by the US-European Union summit may be directed against a single country, but it has implications for the rest of the world. It is an attempt by the most powerful imperialist states to circumvent international law and to substitute their financial and military clout. source: Morning Starread more
