Bush vs. Tic-Tacs. You decide.

Yahoo has a nice photo of colored powders, ready for the Holi festival. Stephen Dean had a beautiful video from the festival at Henry Urbach in 2001.

Ha’aretz has a good column by an Israeli on the deaths of civilians at the hands of the Israeli Army.

I’ll quote the end:

Israel’s efforts at obfuscation are intended above all to keep our conscience clean. This is false posturing that can no longer be countenanced. When the IDF demolished a mosque on the “Philadelphi” route on the outskirts of Rafah and immediately claimed that the building had been abandoned, no one asked why the mosque had been abandoned. Here is the real sequence of events: first the Gaza Strip is occupied, then settlements are established in it, then guarded roads are built to protect the settlers. In the next stage, after the Palestinians begin to rebel violently against the occupation, we begin killing them until they are forced to abandon the mosque and indeed the entire area. Finally the “abandoned” mosque is demolished. But to us it seems that only the Palestinians destroy holy places, such as Joseph’s Tomb. Our conscience is pure and unblemished, always.

Protesters halt London oil trade.

Server problems solved, Bazima returns with a post about her trip to Florida.

A University of Washington law professor says Bush may already be guilty of international law because of our treatment of captured Al Qaeda prisoners. Go read the letter the NY Times decided not to publish.

I am so angry my hands are shaking.

I do not want one more American dollar going to Israel. It is behaving like an apartheid state — persecuting the Palestinians with brutal force, and murdering people who try to prevent this outrage.

Yesterday an IDF (Israel Defense Forces) bulldozer ran over and killed an unarmed American woman, Rachel Corrie aged 23. This page has more information. Be warned: there are graphic photographs of what happened to her, but I think it is very important that such picture are shown to the world.

We give nearly $3 billion a year to Israel at this point, and it’s being used to kill people. They are requesting an additional $12 billion for this year.

I do not want the blood of Palestinians or anyone else on my hands.

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See earlier coverage of the activists on James’s site.

I’ll be at Union Square around 7pm for the Global Candlelight Vigil for Peace.

Also, the March 22 protest march in NYC has been approved. More info here.

The former head of the Pacific Stock Exchange was arrested in San Francisco blocking traffic in the financial district to protest war with Iraq.

An American peace protester, Rachel Corrie aged 23, was killed by an IDF bulldozer in Gaza. Update: CNN article.