INTERNATIONAL

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 15, 2010 (IPS) – When two widely-divergent investigative panels launch their probes on the recent Israeli attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, one of the disputed issues under scrutiny would be the legality of forcibly boarding a vessel in international waters. The two commissions of inquiry, one appointed by Israel and the …

  An Indian Muslim preacher has been banned from entering the UK for his "unacceptable behaviour", the home secretary says. Zakir Naik, a 44-year-old television preacher, had been due to give a series of lectures in London and Sheffield. Theresa May said that visiting the UK was "a privilege, not a right". The home secretary can stop people entering the …

 It’s a perilous world, as our so-called leaders love to remind us. And for a change they’re right. It is a perilous world. But guess who is most responsible for the peril to Americans? Those very same “leaders” and a long line of predecessors. Moreover, they — along with anyone else who takes time to examine the matter — know that …

  Israel’s barbaric attack on the humanitarian Gaza aid flotilla once again demonstrated to the world the blind complicity of United States led Europe and exposed the political, military and moral bankruptcy of the Arab dictators. The reality is that in the face of Zionist Jewish crimes all cherished human values and feelings disappear from Western leaders. They shamelessly defend all Israeli crimes or face humiliation as it happened, to cite an example, in the case of former US President Bill Clinton who was humiliated by Monica Lewinsky affair. Such was the Jewish  grip on the political establishments in …

The global outrage in response to Israel's attack on the flotilla is fitting. But we should not lose sight of why it was so terrible. This was not just an attack on aid workers.  If it were just that, it would be bad enough. In itself it would be nothing new for Israel. However, putting the attack in context more fully reveals …