best article yet on "suppression" of Goldstone Report

[mary <humdrum2 at libero.it>]

Nima Shirazi, one of Palestine Think Tank's contributing writers has 
done it again: a thorough report that leaves no (Gold)stone unturned 
in getting to the bottom of what happens to the reports, (anybody 
remember the Winograd Report? Didn't think so....) that are supposed 
to be "fact finding" about the wars Israel wages against its 
neighbours or against populations under its occupation.

http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/11/14/nima-shirazi-goldstonewalled-us-congress-endorses-israeli-war-crimes/

This article is very complete, and a fascinating read as well, backed 
up by links to directly substantiate the content. It does not stop at 
the obvious either. Nima traces the lines that extend between 
Washington, Tel Aviv and Teheran. He points out information about 
Goldstone himself, which add context, and mostly, he shows us where 
the United States elected members of the House stood up to censor the 
report and prohibit it from being considered at all. We encourage 
everyone to read it, especially Americans, since this up-front bias 
and lobbying explains just why America is never going to be 
considered as a fair interlocutor for the Middle East. They do not 
have any policy that is not the same as that of Israel's, and this 
was never on the table, nor will it be any time soon unless Americans 
can free themselves of this stranglehold (hopefully before they open 
their third front).

Some bad news.... The motion to boycott Israeli Universities was 
dismissed by a unanimous vote of the Board. There will be an article 
on this tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our efforts 
to express our hope that the board would act in an ethical way and 
one that would contribute to promoting academic freedom of 
Palestinians, because it is evident that the board made their 
decision based on the outside pressure. Obviously, Zionists are an 
organised lot, and we have much to learn from them on campaigning 
effectively. All tips are welcome!

Some other bad news.... When you get under the noses of Zionists, 
they try to snuff you out and shut you up so that people can be kept 
in the dark and frightened about visiting news sites that go against 
the propaganda, and PTT is no exception to the rule. We have found 
out that on some browsers... FIREFOX this time, and from some public 
institutions in the USA, our site has been blocked due to what has 
been defined as "Gruesome Content". The article in question, and one 
that was receiving a great deal of readers and commenters, was about 
Fort Hood. To call it Gruesome, when in fact, it isn't, is even 
slightly funny, but the effect of all of this is a restriction on 
intellectual freedom and free speech. We will see what can be done to 
fight this censorship, but with the ADL very strong and organised in 
the USA, it will be a battle....

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Together we can combat these attempts to close us down through 
menacing messages either to us or to our readers.

One final request: if there is anyone who has the text in English of 
the Israeli law on keeping originals (and in rare cases photocopies) 
of handwritten manuscripts that are "of importance to Jewish 
history"  in Israel, could you kindly send it to me? I am still 
working on my research about Franz Kafka and the controversy with the 
Max Brod copy of The Trial now in Marbach, and would need the precise 
translation of this law and would appreciate if anyone has it.
mary