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Today My Name is Samouni, and I am Palestinian

"If we would have listened to Ken O'Keefe then, many people would be alive, a trillion dollars, a million lives" - Hesham Tillawi, Current Issues TV

(GAZA / SALEM) - Listening to our friend Ken O'Keefe's live appearance on Hesham Tillawi's Current Issues TV show today, I had another episode of realization, the worst kind in fact.

It's the heaviness and matter of fact quality in Ken's voice; it is helplessness in the face of unbelievable cruelty toward human beings. The white flag of our inner-being screams and twists as the slaughter of Gaza residents continues.

IDF Unit Commander Will Testify Over Rachel Corrie`s Death

National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee to Observe Resumption of Trial Brought by Family of Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel.

(HAIFA) - The National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee has joined with other civil and human rights organizations around the world to send a legal observer to monitor the civil lawsuit brought by the family of peace activist Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel for Rachel’s unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza in 2003.

The Evergreen college student was crushed to death by a Caterpillar D9R bulldozer while nonviolently attempting to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes.

Goldstone`s Rethink: Cleansing Israel`s War Crimes

Strangely, Goldstone appears to base his revised opinion on Israel’s own military investigations

(NAZARETH) - Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in the Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack on Gaza in winter 2008.

For the past 18 months the Goldstone Report had forced Israel on to the defensive by suggesting its army – as well as Hamas, the ruling faction in Gaza – had committed war crimes.

Goldstone`s U-Turn

Goldstone allows Israel to reduce its institutional responsibility for a colossal war crime, into a chain of local errors...

(LONDON) - If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document,’ writes Richard Goldstone in an attempt to retract his own UN report.

And yet I wonder: how different would it be? How different could it be? Goldstone is impressed with Israel dedicating some “significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza’, but it somehow leaves me bewildered.

Turning a Page in Portland`s Story of Clergy Abuse

"Their repentance and amendment is superficial and, if not formally at least subconsciously, is motivated by a desire to be again in a position where they can continue their wonted activity." - 1957 report to the Bishop of Manchester.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Another event of the long saga of clergy abuse of children involving Roman Catholic priests in the United States has come to a financial settlement this week.

It was announced Friday in Portland that the Oregon province of the Society of Jesus has agreed to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of people abused as children by Jesuit priests at schools throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Tell me, who is the Terrorist?

“I just wish you would tell the world we’re not terrorists. We’re just unlucky that we don’t have oil, otherwise the US would support the Palestinian cause for sure” -Ra’aid Al-Helo

(GAZA) - Two days ago, the Israeli army attacked a populated area in the Al-Shejaija neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Four days after the murder of two children in Johr Al-Dik, the Israeli army once again killed civilians, amongst them two more children.

The latest victims of Israel’s war crimes are Yasser A’ahid Al-Helo (15), Mohamed Jalal Al-Helo (10), Mohammed Shaber Harara (18) and Yasser Hamid Al-Helo (55).

Saving Gaza One Family at a Time

Learn more about the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom.

(GAZA CITY) - Two years on, the Samouni family in Gaza is still without basic needs and the children continue to suffer from the trauma of Israel's extended attack called Operation Cast Lead and the ultimate loss of parents, siblings and other family members.

Many of these children were made to live next to the corpses of their loved ones for days, so you can imagine what is happening in their heads and their hearts.

Millions Against Monsanto this Saturday

"Rally for the Right to Know" on 26 March across the US: Genetically Modified Foods need to be labeled...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Rallies to raise awareness of the danger of Monsanto are planned around the nation this Saturday, March 26th. They are being organized by The Organic Consumers Association, Millions Against Monsanto campaign.

Health News: Cocaine Kids

One agency has reached 51,400 people with prevention activities, and directly helped 320 patients and families.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - On a hill overlooking Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Lesly Narvaez Castanon and her staff wage a struggle against substance abuse.

Opened in 2005, the government-supported Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Youth Integration Center(CIJ) became the first drug prevention and treatment center to serve this Pacific Coast resort located in the southern state of Guerrero.

10 Million Children Die Each Year

Most of these 10 million deaths have origin in roots that can be easily healed and prevented.

(MADRID) - This is how the infant mortality clock functions: 19 children of 5 years or less die each minute; 1,140 each hour; 27,360 each day; 10 million each year. It is estimated that 99 percent out these 10 million deaths take place in developing countries.

According to Save the Children Foundation, it is possible to reduce 60 percent of these deaths by carrying out simple and inexpensive measures. Such measures range from vaccines, oral rehydration, mosquito nets, to access to health care.