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[Alarabiya.net English | International] The decision came after the Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) issued a report detailing the involvement of Caterpillar's equipment in illegal activity under the Geneva Convention.

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[Al-Masakin News Agency] Church of England withdraws investments from U.S. based ...: “We believe that given the events in Gaza as well as the continued illegal occupation of whole swathes of Palestinian land and the illegal land grabs by settlers, supported by the Israeli Government, that the Church of England must make good on its policy of disinvestment and withdraw its investments from those who profit form the misery of millions of Palestinians immediately,” the unpublished letter stated.

[Press Releases of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism] NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: 2007-08-17T19:36:31Z 2008-08-12T17:33:08-04:00 2008-08-12T17:33:08-04:00 PScript5.dll Version 5.2 application/pdf Alexx Wood Microsoft Word - NEUMC Divestment Report -FINAL May 17, 2007.doc uuid:eadfad6b-e36b-4de2-9f6b-9d0b2de7e2db uuid:7ab9d563-eed5-4005-a017-00153fd5072d

[ce399 | research archive] ce399 | research archive: Global Fascist Take Over for Dummies: SICO is associated with Dar Al-Maal-Al-Islami (DMI), an Islamic financial institution also based in Geneva and presided over by Prince Muhammed Al Faisal Al Saoud, a cousin of Saudi King Fahd, that directs millions a year to fundamentalist movements. DMI holds a share of the Al Shamal Islamic Bank of Sudan, which was set up in 1991 and partly financed by $50 million from Osama bin Laden.

[Malaysia Waves] Malaysia Waves: HAMAS Rocket Attacks Are Justified: Who knows, given the extreme barbarism of the operation to date, and assuming Cast Lead fails in its objective of annihilating resistance to the Israeli annexation and occupation of Palestinian land, perhaps Olmert will next be inspired by the words of Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu and former deputy Prime Minister, who recently made a thinly-veiled reference to the idea of attacking Gaza with nuclear weapons when he said: “We must continue to fight Hams just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II.”

[pkpolitics.com] Israel Kills 200+ Palestinians | Pakistan Politics: outnumber all the dead of Egypt ’s wars against Israel - victims of railway accidents, ferry sinkings, the collapse of city buildings, sickness, cancers and pesticide poisonings - all victims, as Aswani says, “of the corruption and abuse of power”. Opening the Rafah border-crossing for wounded Palestinians - the Palestinian medical staff being pushed back into their Gaza prison once the bloodied survivors of air raids have been dumped on Egyptian territory - is not going to change the midden in which Egyptians themselves live.

[Naperville Potluck] What will the new year bring? - Naperville Potluck: When I read Anonymous' comment defending these "firecrackers" because they won't kill anyone in Israel if the people would only get to the shelters within 45 seconds when the incoming sirens went off, it actually gave me much pause as to what it must be like to live with sirens going off on a continuous basis and if that happened here, I'm sure we would want our government to take action and get us more protection, by taking out those that are setting off the "crude firecrackers." Anonymous claims that the only way one could be killed by one of these "firecrackers" is if they chose to disobey their governments' requirement to get to a shelter within 45 seconds? I don't know if Anonymous is telling the whole story about why Israel is trying to detain a whole population within boundaries in an attempt to keep the terrorist faction within those boundaries from causing more mayhem than they do now?

[What's New at Think-Israel.org] Think-Israel: How for example could former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, erstwhileleader of Israel's most formidable ally, a highly intelligentindividual, have the chutzpah to presume Israel occupies Arab land andfurther assert that Israel is an apartheid state, when Jews areobviously squeezed into an almost invisible portion of the Middle Eastper any viewpoint, when Jews merely attempt to dwell on additionalland rightly secured in 1967 as a consequence of vanquishing hostileArabs attempting to destroy their incredibly small state, when Jewsallow Arabs to remain on such land culturally intact knowing Arabswould not be so kind if the situation were reversed? Doesn't Carteras well as his supporters acknowledge their own nation conquered itsSouthwest, including California, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and NewMexico, indeed virtually took that land from Mexico in the 1800s aspart of America's 'manifest destiny', would never consider givingthat land back to Mexico, yet never would be designated an occupierlet alone an apartheid state if native Americans on reservations werealso factored into that equation?

[Mideast Outpost] Mideast Outpost: OUTPOST Archives: Glick writes: “In standing down in the face of Hamas’s high seas challenge, Israel demonstrated yet again that it prefers to capitulate rather than pay a price to defend its vital interests.” And it shows again its unwillingness to challenge European governments who provide funding for the international groups posing as peace activists organizing this campaign—terror collaborators like the International Solidarity Movement (of Rachel Corrie fame). “Far from acting to expose these criminals as terror collaborators…and arresting, imprisoning or deporting their members, Israel has not even tried to challenge their false self-identification as ‘peace activists’…In legitimizing Hamas’s international allies, Israel has ensured that as they have promised, they will expand their use of blockade running ships to enable Hamas’s free access to the high seas.”

[AsiaXPAT Forums - Living in or moving to Hong Kong] COPING WITH THE CRISIS | Living in or moving to Hong Kong ...: We have a gigantic defense budget of almost 700 billion Dollars annually, NOT including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but nobody seems to care about the military-industrial complex that sucks our national wealth dry. There is no quality news on TV or mass media anymore that educates the citizens about pressing problems and issues of this nation.

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