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Daily Archives: August 5th, 2008

AN ISRAELI JEW IN GAZA: A STATEMENT BY JEFF HALPER

05-Aug-08

In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a half Palestinians into wretched conditions: imprisoned in their own homes, exposed to extreme military violence, deprived of the basic necessities of life, stripped of their most fundamental human rights and dignity.

After the Lease on the Ecuadorian Military Base at Manta Expires, Where Will the U.S. Turn Next?

05-Aug-08

On July 29, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry officially notified the U.S. Embassy that Washington’s ten-year lease on the Ecuadorian military base at Manta would not be renewed after it expires in November 2009.