Rohan Pearce

  • BELGIUM: War criminal escapes prosecution

    BELGIUM: War criminal escapes prosecutionThe Brussels Court of Appeals ruled on June 26 that a case against Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes cannot be tried under Belgian law. The case was brought by

  • PALESTINE: Torture, murder in custody revealed

    The Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has conducted an investigation into the murder of Murad 'Awaisa, a 17-year-old Palestinian. 'Awaisa was killed in Ramallah at the beginning of Israel's bloody "Operation Defensive

  • Howard supports US 'first strike' attacks

    Has the world gone mad? The months since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have shown how brutal and callous the terribly misnamed "war on terrorism" is. Now we see the "Bush Doctrine" expanded to

  • PALESTINE: Israel's war of terror continues

    Western media reporting on the Middle East over recent weeks has focussed on the deaths caused by a handful of suicide bombings in Israel. Missing from most of the coverage is the scale of the violence being unleashed on

  • PALESTINE: Israeli lies exposed

    Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and

  • PALESTINE: Israel's land grab

    A report released on May 13 by B'Tselem, the Israeli centre for human rights in the Occupied Territories, exposes the continuing illegal appropriation of Palestinian land by the Israeli government and Israeli colonial settlers.

  • PALESTINE: Bush backs Sharon's war

    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to Washington presented few surprises. It was so predictable that journalists could have written the story even before he left Israel. US President George Bush backed Sharon's bloody

  • ISRAEL: More soldiers refuse to serve

    Soldiers and officers continue to refuse to serve in Israel's reoccupation of the West Bank and Gaza. More than 450 reserve officers have signed the "Combatants letter", a statement pledging refusal to "continue to fight beyond the

  • PALESTINE: Israel has no monopoly on genocidal maniacs

    The outrages committed by Israel, not just in recent months, but since its creation in 1948, would not have been possible without the aid and protection of the United States. Although some in the Israeli government have expressed

  • PALESTINE: Israel covers up ethnic cleansing

    "It should be clear to us that there is no room in Palestine for these two peoples. No 'development' will bring us to our goal of independent nationhood in this small country. Without the Arabs, the land will become wide and

  • UNITED STATES: Powell's 'peace' mission a sick joke

    If it weren't for the horrendous death toll of Palestinians, the destruction of West Bank towns and the fierce repression of dissent of anti-war protesters within Israel, US Secretary of State Colin Powell's tour of the Middle East

  • Real-life Middle East satire

    Demonstrating the total bankruptcy of the so-called “leaders” of the Arab world, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, gave an interview to Insight Magazine on April 17 which bears more than a passing