Israel on the brink of civil war? (tags)
This time, the existential threat to Israel does not come from outside (e.g., from Iran), as has been and is repeatedly invoked inside and outside Israel. It comes from within Israeli society itself, because the new extremist government is also resolutely committed to confrontation.
Shir HaMa’alot: 15 Steps to Extending Israeli Sovereignty to Judea and Samaria (tags)
Policy Steps for integrating Judea and Samaria into the State of Israel
Jordan Isn’t Palestine, Its Part of Eretz Yisrael (tags)
End 7th century Arab/Islamic Imperialism NOW!
Jordan Isn’t Palestine, Its Part of Eretz Yisrael (tags)
End 7th century Arab/Islamic Imperialism NOW!
St. Yitzhak Rabin Day is Coming to Israel Again… (tags)
Leftist Repression in Israel Against Jews
Israeli Policy Ideas: How to Annex Judea and Samaria (tags)
A Jewish Affirmative Action Plan, To Right a Historic Wrong
Israeli Policy Blueprint: How to Annex Judea and Samaria (tags)
Jews R Indigenous, Arabs Invaded in 7th Century.
Matot: Great Is Vengeance Because It Appears Between Two Names of God (tags)
Sometimes War Brings Peace, When An Aggressive Enemy Has Been Totally Defeated.
The Three Weeks: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, Mourning Or Redemption? (tags)
Pro-BDS, IslamoFascist Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and PalestiNazi Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) intended to go to visit Israel and the “Palestinian territories” in a few weeks.
Ehud Barak’s Napoleonic Complex Will Save Israeli Democracy? (tags)
Ehud Barak Will Turn Israel Into a Dictatorship!
Israeli Independence Day and Lag B'Omer vs. Nakba (tags)
Jewish National Liberation Succeeded, The Nakba Narrative Is A Lie!
Happy Nakba Day and Israeli Independence (tags)
Jewish National Liberation Succeeded, The Nakba Narrative Is A Lie!
An Israeli Policy: How to Annex Judea and Samaria (tags)
A How To Guide For Annexing The West Bank
Israeli Policy Prescription: How to Annex Judea and Samaria (tags)
Annex Judea and Samaria Now! This Is How, a Policy Analytic Approach.
Hebron, Ben-Gurion, and UNESCO (tags)
Reviews Ben-Gurion's attitude about rebuilding Hebron and toward the UN. Then calls on the Israeli government to withdraw as planned from UNESCO.
Israel Quit UNESCO, Um-Shmum, Make Ben-Gurion Proud! (tags)
Reviews Hebron, UNESCO, Jewish Rights to the Land of Israel
Reality Check: Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence is a Big Lie (tags)
This article looks at the issue of Palestinian-Israeli coexistence.
The TIPH of the Iceberg, Now UN Troops? (tags)
This article looks at the foreign occupation in the Land of Israel, and urges Jews to rise-up against it.
The TIPH of the Iceberg: Foreign Occupation of Israel (tags)
This article looks at the foreign occupation in the Land of Israel, and urges Jews to rise-up against it.
The Shortwave Report 5/25/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio.
Korban Pesach and Israel’s Redemption (tags)
Jews re-enact Passover Sacrifice near Temple Mount. Arab/Muslim world outraged.
Sucesses of the 2017 BDS Plaestine Movement
Palestinians of Hamas Condemn Saudi & U.S. Attempts to Label Hezbollah "Terrorist" (tags)
[Photo: Palestinian Gaza rally with Hamas and Hezbollah flags.] Saudi Arabian, Israeli, ISIS, al-Qaeda, & U.S. imperialist hands off Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Qatar, Palestine, Bahrain, and Iran!
Southern California can open a key role for Palestine Israel Lens (tags)
The disputed areas are heating up again.Not content to bargain with its neighbor, Israel is planning several 1,000.s of new settlement houses on Palestinian West bank soil.
Hurricanes Katrina, Harvey, Irma, and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process (tags)
This article surveys the relationship between the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and catastrophic weather events in the US.
Hurricane Katrina, Harvey, Irma, and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process (tags)
This article points out how catastrophic weather events have coincided with the Peace Process initiatives.
This Week in Palestine, March 31, 2017 (tags)
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, http://www.imemc.org, for March 25, to the 31, 2017.
This Week in Palestine, March 31, 2017 (tags)
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, http://www.imemc.org, for March 25, to the 31, 2017.
Palestinian Human Rights Activists Receives Death Threats (tags)
A Palestinian human rights activist said Thursday that he was “terrified” by the hostile reception and physical threats he received while lecturing at the University of Chicago.
Gaza Journalist tortured by Hamas (tags)
Gaza journalist says he was tortured in Hamas jail
PA Officials Support Israeli Brutality (tags)
Israel
NYC SJP questions the BDS Movem,ent (tags)
Many divestment campaigns have passed through student referendums and student government resolutions, but all but a few have been purely symbolic. No actual divestment, and no real boycotts against israeli universities have been established...
ISIS made world forget Palestinians (tags)
As the world focuses its attention on millions of refugees uprooted from Syria and Iraq in part because of the rise of Islamic State (ISIS), no other cause has suffered as much as that of the Palestinians.
ICC Investigating Israeli War Crimes (tags)
Israel
Palestinian Bid To Expel Israel from FIFA Dropped (tags)
Israel
Israel's War on Palestinian Fishermen, Farmers and Children (tags)
Israel
Abduction, Torture and Summary Killings of Palestinians by Hamas (tags)
‘Strangling Necks’: Abduction, Torture and Summary Killings of Palestinians by Hamas Forces During the 2014 Gaza/Israel Conflict
Palestinian Authority Hypocrisy (tags)
PA
Netanyahu Forms New Racist, Fascist Government (tags)
Israel
The fake sincerity of pro-Palestinian commentators (tags)
Politicians, professors and journalists alike carry on mindlessly suggesting untenable immoral prescriptions that ostensibly help the Palestinians but which in fact brings about their demise.
Palestinians trapped dying in Yarmouk, Syria – a test for the left (tags)
Thousands of Palestinians at risk- and the left is silent
Israeli State Terror Targets Palestinian Lawmaker Khalida Jarrar (tags)
Israel
Israeli Election Postmortems (tags)
Israel
The Shortwave Report 2/27/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Sputnik Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK World Radio Japan.
Israeli State Terror the Root Cause of Palestinian Blowback (tags)
Israel
Palestinians: On Their Own for Justice (tags)
Palestine
The Mendacious Maps of Disappearing Palestine (tags)
Anti-Israel activists often use doctored maps to show Israel’s supposed malfeasance over the past century. Such claims are made by people who, in the best case, have no knowledge of the facts, and in the worst case, have no moral compass.
The Struggle for Palestine's Soul (tags)
Palestine
What It’s Like to Be an Atheist in Palestine (tags)
Waleed Al Husseini spent 10 months in Palestinian prison for being an atheist blogger. He asks why non-believers like himself are abandoned by the world.
US/Israeli No Palestinian State Solution (tags)
Palestine
US to Veto Palestinian Statehood Bid (tags)
Palestine
PLO Security Council Statehood Bid (tags)
Palesrine
Haaretz Editors Urge Removing Netanyahu with All Urgency (tags)
Israel
UN Gaza War Inquiry: Legitimate or Whitewash? (tags)
Gaza
Netanyahu Vows Zero Tolerance (tags)
Israel
ICC Whitewashes Israeli Mass Murder (tags)
Israel
Remember Gaza: One of History's Great Crimes (tags)
Gaza
Palestinians uses water as a political weapon (tags)
A thesis titled ‘The politicization of the Oslo water agreement’ written by Lauro Burkart a Swiss graduate of the Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva gives an accurate and impartial picture of the topic of the scarcity of water in the Palestinian Authority.
Abbas Blocks Israeli War Crimes Investigation (tags)
Gaza
Abbas Scuttles Fatah/Hamas Unity (tags)
Palestine
Gaza
Down with the latest criminal abuses by the Israeli State! (tags)
On Thursday, June 12 evening three youths; Gilad Shaar, Yifal Efrad and Naftali Frankel were abducted by two militants suspected to have links to Hamas, the Islamic political organization, while they were hitchhiking at a crossroads near Gush Etzion, an Israeli colonial settlement in Palestinian territory. From that moment, it took 18 days before the bodies of three young settlers were found. During these 18 days at least six Palestinians were killed in the West Bank (including a child), along with no less than 600 arbitrary arrests, the closure of numerous centers and associations, including burglary and theft against the foreign media (1), the closure of roads and other forms of abuse by the Israeli army against the people under the pretext of search and capture of the abductors.
Palestinian Unity Governance (tags)
Palestine
Palestine
Israeli State Terrorism (tags)
Israel
Netanyahu Declares War on Palestine (tags)
Israel
Duplicitous Mideast Peace Talks (tags)
Israel
Reviewing James Petras' The Politics of Empire (Part II) (tags)
imperialism
PA and Hamas Guilty of Rampant Human Rights Abuses (tags)
New report from Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza reveals systemic abuses and oppression by PA and Hamas governments.
Abbas Accepts Occupation Harshness (tags)
Israel
Planned Israeli Jordan Valley Annexation? (tags)
Israel
US and Israeli Season's Greetings (tags)
anti-war
Christianity's Savior in the Middle East (tags)
With one exception, Christians throughout the countries of the Middle East are at risk or on the run, their churches burned, their property expropriated, their personal safety in peril from thugs intent on beatings, rapes, and murders
Remembering Eyad El-Sarraj (tags)
human rights
US Scholars Endorse Boycotting Israel (tags)
Israel
Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis Deepens (tags)
Israel
Israeli Police State Lawlessness (tags)
Israel
Israeli Unaccountability (tags)
Israel
Targeting Press Freedom in Palestine (tags)
Palestine
Israel
Gaza Running Out of Fuel and Medicines (tags)
Israel
Suffocating Palestine Toward Extinction (tags)
Palestine
Palestinians and Israelis: Unequal Treatment (tags)
Israel
Egypt
Palestinian Prisoners: Petitioning to Block Their Release (tags)
Israel
Rage Against the System: Why It Matters (tags)
police state
Ongoing Fighting in Sinai (tags)
Sinai
Parallel Worlds: Water Management in Israel and California (tags)
Posted from Jerusalem by Kate Voss, UCCHM Water Policy Fellow. This is the second in a series of posts on our Water Diplomacy trip to Israel, Jordan and Palestine
West Bank Village Struggles to Survive (tags)
Israel
Another day, another new initiative to boycott Israel:
Fascism Wins Big in Israel (tags)
Israel
The Shortwave Report 01/11/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, China Radio International, NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
PA Recognizes Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Israel
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal visits Gaza for first time (tags)
"Journalist" Harry Fear and friends in Gaza
Israel Gives Chutzpah New Meaning (tags)
Israel
Israeli Settlement Construction Fallout (tags)
Israel
Israel
Israel
U.N. Vote on Palestinian Recognition Blocked by U.S., Israel and Germany (tags)
The right wing government of Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel has made the unfortunate choice to side with the U.S. and Israel in blocking Palestinian recognition in the upcoming United Nations vote. However France, Spain, U.K. and many other nations are going to act with ethics to support Palestinian statehood instead of caving in to the imperialist whims of U.S. and Israeli pressures to maintain their state sanctioned apartheid and discrimination against the Palestinian people.
Abbas Submits Weak UN Status Bid (tags)
Palestine
Abbas: Collaborating with the Enemy (tags)
treason
Israel's Operation Pillar of Cloud (tags)
Israel
Israeli Threat to Annul Oslo (tags)
Israel
New York Times Opposes Palestinian Self-Determination (tags)
Israel
Abbas Ill-Serves and Insults Palestinians (tags)
Palestine
Tepid Palestinian Authority UN Upgrade Bid (tags)
traitor
Israel Wages War on Human Rights (tags)
Israel
Palestinian Authority to Hold Sham Elections (tags)
elections
Israel
Fatah Israeli Collaborators (tags)
Israel
Stealing Palestinian Resources (tags)
Israel
Historic Tehran NAM Summit (tags)
summit
The geopolitics of the Syrian uprising/insurgency (tags)
The continuing mass uprising against Syria’s Bashar Assad dictatorship on the one hand, and the growing intervention by the reactionary Gulf monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, along with Turkey, on the side of the growing armed insurgency on the other, has led to a situation where many on the left are sharply divided over who to “support”.
Crimes Against Humanity (tags)
Israel
World Bank Opposes Palestinian Sovereignty (tags)
rights
Israel: Land of Inequality and Injustice (tags)
police state
Israel Likely Killed Arafat (tags)
Arafat
Palestinian Authority Police Brutalize Peaceful Protesters (tags)
Palestine
Israel
Land Day: Why It Matters (tags)
Israel
truth
Israel Using Oslo Accords to Steal West Bank Land (tags)
Israel
Collectively Punishing Palestinian Prisoners and Families (tags)
Israel
George Soros Targets Syria (tags)
Syria
Israeli Court Enforces Hana Shalabi Injustice (tags)
Israel
Khader Adnan: Day 60 and Counting (tags)
Israel
Israeli Hanging Judge Sentences Khader Adnan to Death (tags)
Israel
Khader Adnan's Heroic Struggle for Justice (tags)
Israel
Israel
Israel Claims Syria/Hamas-Connected Terror Cells Uncovered (tags)
Israel
Netanyahu Rejects Peace (tags)
anti-war
Israel's Repressive Permit System (tags)
Palestine
Israel: Profile of a Rogue State (tags)
state terror
Rogue Israeli Lawlessness (tags)
state terror
The Shortwave Report 11/04 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and the Voice of Russia.
Israel Called Biggest Threat to World Peace (tags)
Israel
Washington and Israel: Partners in State Terror (tags)
state terror
Israeli-Style Peace and Justice (tags)
Palestine
Palestinian Freedom Later, Not Now (tags)
Palestin
Abbas Feeling Heavy-Handed Pressure (tags)
Palestine
Israeli West Bank Annexation Bill (tags)
Palestine
Quartet Anti-Palestinian Statehood Proposal (tags)
Palestine
BTL:Palestinians Vow to Test Bid for Statehood at United Nations (tags)
Interview with Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Abbas and Fayyad: Collaborationist Israeli Allies (tags)
Palestine
Face-Off: Palestine v. Washington/Israel on Statehood (tags)
Palestine
New York Times: Railing Against Palestinian Statehood (tags)
media
Implications of Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Israeli/Turkish/Palestinian Tensions (tags)
Israel
HR 2829 Targets Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Washington Threatens Palestinian Statehood Bid (tags)
Palestine
Follow-Up Comments on Palestinian Statehood Vote (tags)
Palestinian statehood
General Assembly Palestinian Statehood Vote (tags)
Palestine
Repression in Israel and Bahrain (tags)
police state
UN Commission Flotilla Massacre Report (tags)
state terror
Medical Care in Gaza (Part II) (tags)
occupation
Palestine
East Jerusalem Palestinians: Lawlessly Revoking Their Status (tags)
Palestine
Palestinian Unity: Done Deal or Wobbly? (tags)
liberation
Palestinian Unity Deal Announced (tags)
liberation
Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US Plans for War with Iran? (tags)
"In terms of imperialist mentality, not all that much has changed since the days of 1956, when British Prime Minister Anthony Eden would become apoplectic at the mere sight of Colonel Amal abd-el Nasser, the gallant Egyptian leader who successfully nationalized the Suez Canal in defiance of the British and the French. When the imperialists look across the northern edge of Africa, the valuable assets they see are the oil of Algeria and Libya, and above all the Suez Canal, one of the classical naval choke points of the world, through which 8% of world maritime trade currently passes. The Anglo Americans are acutely aware of the endless possibilities for mischief against countries like Iran, China, and Russia that could be derived from a reassertion of the old imperialist control of Suez. If some pretext could be found for banning Chinese ships from the Suez Canal, China’s entire trade with Europe would be severely disrupted. However, in order to make a grab for Suez politically feasible, Egypt would have to descend into chaos. This may in fact be one of the prime motivations of what is currently going on. If the national states collapse, then the empire is free to step in and seize what it wants."
Obama on Palestinian Rights: Nyet (tags)
resolution veto
Egypt's Focus Largely Ignores Palestine (tags)
Palestine
Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution? (tags)
"Understand that the “War on Terror” is a complete lie, a concoction meant to obscure the imperial attack on the worldwide insurrection of the people’s revolt the imperialist ruling class knew would be coming. Of course 911 was a false flag attack perpetrated largely by imperialism to serve as a defense against this revolt. But before that the outlines of this “defense of the system” was likely behind the crash of a jumbo jet in the ocean when an Egyptian pilot, with no record of radical ideas, supposedly crash dived a fully loaded passenger plane shouting, “God is great.” One can review and study these manipulations and begin to see the strategy and heartless efforts being waged by our rulers in a desperate attempt to maintain our world in bondage. The U.S. will claim to be defending democracy and human welfare while attempting to utterly crush both."
The PA is and arm of Imperialism/Zionism (tags)
"Meanwhile, yesterday’s “impromptu” attack on an al-Jazeera office in the West Bank turns out to have been anything but, as local journalists confirmed that the people leading the attackers were PA police officers wearing civilian clothes. PA negotiator Saeb Erekat sought further action against al-Jazeera, insisting they were guilty of inciting violence against him and his family for reporting his involvement in past negotiations, including comments that seemed to eschew the right of return."
hate indoctrination
BTL:Report: Palestinians Suffer Egregious Discrimination Under Israeli Control (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES - A four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcast Award for Best Feature in the non-commercial category, this syndicated, half-hour program provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic and social topics.
Resisting Tyranny: A Universal Right (tags)
Noted figures in support
Israel's Jerusalem Master Plan 2020 (tags)
Israel plans to Judaize Jerusalem
World Geopolitics and The Battle for the Mediterranean (tags)
"If one were to live in a city where the only form of employment was a coal mine and there was no means to leave the city then one would have no choice but to work at the coal mine. Control of labour movement is a cornerstone to the socio-economic objectives of the U.S., the E.U., the World Bank, and a league of associated international financial institutions (IFIs). By rendering work forces immobile in any given geographic locality the rights of employment choice and occupational alternatives are removed and a new form of monopoly is established — a forced acceptance of work on whole pools of individuals. Rising fuel prices are also adding to the erosion of mobility rights.??The security agenda behind controlling movements is heavily tied to economic objectives, as are the international disease scares like avian influenza (bird flu) and the swine flue that lock up human movement. Control of mobility in the oceans and international waters of the world is also part of this objective. The internationally illegal Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) was initiated by the U.S. government, with the support of the E.U., in 2003 as part of the “Global War on Terror.” The Proliferation Security Initiative is presented as a means to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), however it can be applied to bring about a hold over global maritime mobility. The strategy is a threat to international movement on the high seas and maritime trade. There is good reason why it is illegal under international law and the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.??Industrial De-location in the European Union and the Global Economic Crisis??This process of industrial de-location has already been underway in the E.U. for years, under which industries have been relocated to Eastern Europe and other global regions. Under this neo-liberal paradigm jobs and industries can gradually be removed from wealthier E.U. states to Southern Mediterranean nations, where cheap and immobile labour forces will be awaiting."
Israeli Banks Profiteering from Occupation (tags)
Israel banks operate like Wall Street
Palestinian Authority Traitors Serving Israel (tags)
Abbas a duplicitous traitor
Avigdor Lieberman: A Profile in Ultranationalist Extremism (tags)
a rogue Israeli politician
Palestinian Authority Recommends Whitewashing Gaza War Crimes (tags)
PA complicit with Israel
'Special Relationship With Israel' (tags)
“Contrary to the long-standing, official U.S. position, fewer than half of Americans show a readiness to defend Israel even against an unprovoked attack by a neighbor. Asked whether they would favor using U.S. troops in the event that Israel were attacked by a neighbor, only 47 percent say they would favor doing so, while 50 percent say they would oppose it …
Israel Denies Gazans Access to Their Own Land and Waters (tags)
Ruthless Israeli repression
Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli Ally (tags)
Fatah betrays Palestinians
Palestine: Occupied, Divided, Isolated, Oppressed and Unaided (tags)
What should outrage everyone
Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650 (tags)
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are at risk
Universal Jurisdiction to Hold Israel Accountable (tags)
UJ is a powerful tool if used
From Goldstone to Uribe (tags)
The fix is in.
Palestinians Denied Access to Water (tags)
a clear crime against humanity
The Repressive Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (tags)
more evidence of Israeli lawlessness
Israel's New Land Grab Master Plan (tags)
theft of Palestinian land
Palestinian Children Under Occupation (tags)
oppressing Palestinian children
Gaza's Electricity Crisis (tags)
one of many problems under siege
The Zionist Attack on the Free Gaza Flotilla (tags)
South African activists describe this flagrant assault as Israel’s Sharpeville, referring to the 1960 massacre in South Africa that marked a turning point in international support of anti-apartheid resistance. There certainly appears to be a great deal of active support for the BDS campaign. Let’s hope it culminates in the eventual realization of a one-state democracy inclusive of all residents, Arab and Jewish, living in peaceful coexistence under a secular, democratic government. Free Palestine now!
Ahmad Sa'adat: A Palestinian Prisoner of Conscience (tags)
one of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners
OCHA's Special Focus on Occupied Palestine (tags)
horrific Gaza conditions under siege
Was the Obama Administration involved in the Planning of the Israeli Attack (tags)
"The Israeli Navy Commando had prior knowledge of who was on the Turkish ship including where passengers were residing in terms of cabin layout. According to Swedish author Henning Mankell, who was on board the Marmara , "the Israeli forces attacked sleeping civilians."
• 15 internationals killed as Israel attacks and hijacks Gaza Flotilla in International Wa (tags)
Up to 15 international human rights activists have been killed and over 30 others injured after Israeli commandos attacked the unarmed Gaza Freedom Flotilla early this morning in international waters, according to reports from the flotilla organisers, while Israeli military sources confirmed 10 dead. This attack is a clear breach of international law.
Education in Occupied Palestine (tags)
effects of occupation on education
Israel's ID/Permit System (tags)
An element of Israeli apartheid
“Innocents Abroad” Trek from San Diego to Gaza (tags)
When Larry Hampshire, Faith Attaguile and Hany El-Saldany signed on with an international convoy bringing supplies and vehicles to the people of the occupied Palestinian province of Gaza, they had so little insight into what they were getting into that they called their program “Innocents Abroad” when they reported on their experience to the Peace and Democracy Action Group of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest May 6. They faced opposition mostly from the government of Egypt — including a police riot, the confiscation of their passports and the arrest of seven members — but they also had strong support from the people in the countries they went through, especially in the Middle East (Turkey, Syria, Jordan). Their presentation sparked a wide-ranging discussion about the prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace and whether the so-called “two-state solution” (a separate Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza next to Israel) is still practical or desirable.
UC Berkeley Divestment Vote (tags)
Write to the Student Senate. Time is of the essence.
Preparations for a Hit against Iran: Stopping Israel’s Next War (tags)
"Subjectively, the time could not be more propitious for a concerted international drive to force a transformation in Tel Aviv. Israel’s standing in the world has been vanishing like snow under a hot spring sun, as even President Peres was forced to recognize. Israeli diplomats no longer feel free to travel abroad, fearing that international arrest warrants might be slapped on them as perpetrators of war crimes committed during the Gaza war. As reported in the March 15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Israeli government has launched a desperate public relations campaign, through a website for “Public Diplomacy and the Diaspora,” aimed at preparing Israelis to project a positive image of their country while travelling abroad. If citizens have to study government-issued brochures handed out at the airport, to learn how to defend the reputation of Israel, then the moral crisis the country has entered is quicksand."
Peace Process Hypocrisy: Stillborn from Inception (tags)
The peace process is a charade
The Lessons of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (tags)
how to stop Israeli crimes
Arresting Peaceful Protesters in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Israeli oppression continues
Netanyahu is running scared. (tags)
The Saudis, Abbas and the Emerites about to declare an independent Palestine at UN.
Israel to be put back in its box at pre ’67 borders. (tags)
About time, too.
The Israelis should have made peace (tags)
while they had the complaint Abbas in charge
The Gaza War's Effect on Women (tags)
they suffered terribly
Netanayhu's friend to resign (tags)
Abbas has gone too far with his ass licking, this time.
Chief Israeli war criminal (tags)
Gabi Ashkenazi is trying to bribe and blackmail his way out of a war crimes trial.
Goldstone Commission Gaza Conflict Findings and Reactions (tags)
Goldstone accuses Israel of war crimes
"Breaking the Silence:" Testimonies of Israeli Soldiers (tags)
Israeli soldiers reveal ugly truths
ICRC - Israel Traps Gazans in Deprivation and Despair (tags)
Israel's slow motion genocide
In this difficult economic climate, as American citizens are seeking ways to cut costs, the U.S. government must consider ways to eliminate waste. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is not only a wasteful expenditure but, unbeknownst to most U.S. taxpayers, this U.S.-funded agency serves as an incubator for Arab-Palestinian terrorists. In the 60 years of its existence, UNRWA has done little to rehabilitate and settle the Palestinian-Arab refugees and much to foster incitement, hate, and terror against Israel.
Western diplomats walk out of Ahmadinejad speech/Hypocrisy and violations of human rights (tags)
Not only the Western boycott of Durban II and the attitude on the Ahmadinejad speech lacks a fundamental respect for fundamental human rights, it is also hypocritical seeing in the light of her implicite support for the Israeli regime of occupation, letting get Israel away with human rights violations and war-crimes
Israel's Illegal Annexation of East Jerusalem (tags)
Israeli ethnic cleansing
The Shortwave Report 03/06 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Netanyahu- palestinians have the right to self determination (tags)
Bibi- palestinians have the right to self determination
San Diego Activists Show Pro-Palestinian Film "Occupation 101" (tags)
Activist San Diego showed the movie "Occupation 101," a documentary denouncing the Israeli occupation of Palestine, February 16. Leading a discussion after the film, Edgar Hopida, public relations director for the San Diego chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and filmmaker and public-access cable show producer Ed Sweed mostly talked about the American corporate media's near-total pro-Israel bias and ways to use nontraditional media to get alternative perspectives to the American people.
No press freedom in Israel or Egypt (tags)
Israel is not a democratic state.
Ceasefires, Israeli-Style (tags)
Israel never honors them.
Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist (tags)
Palestinians are unbowed.
SDSU Hosts Teach-In on Israel, Gaza (tags)
The political science department of San Diego State University (SDSU) fully intended their "teach-in" on the conflict between Israel and Gaza to be as objective as possible. The speakers were all professors — two Jewish, one Arab — but they agreed more than they disagreed, particularly that both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes. Nonetheless, when the audience had a chance to ask questions, many of them proved to be militant supporters of one side or the other — and the supporters of Israel got to the public microphone first and gave the impression of having "packed" the meeting.
Today in Solidarity We're All Palestinians (tags)
World outrage condemns Israeli war crimes
1/12 Palestine Watch:War and Natural Gas-Israeli Invasion & Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields (tags)
Here's another critical information the reason behind Israeli invasion of Gaza, has been motivated by the Gaza's offshore oilfield. Major oil companies like: BP and CCC are involved....
Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields (tags)
Not only is Israel the US cop for US oil profits in the Middle East, but Gaza has lots of offshore gas fields, the explanation for this takeover by US/Israel of Gaza. The name of the game is always money.
Israel, Bloody Executioner for the World Capitalist Order (tags)
On Saturday evening January 3, after one week of air raids which left more than 450 dead and more than 2000 wounded, the Israeli army began its land offensive into Gaza. Its military officials declare that the operation will be “long”. The odious Israeli propaganda, broadcast by the majority of the international media, presents this bloody attack as a “response” to the salvos of the “terrorists”of Hamas in power in Gaza.
1/3: Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza, Worldwide Protest Against Invasion (tags)
Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza: Worldwide Protest Against Israeli Invasion and Killing at Gaza
Israel's Wanton Aggression On Gaza (tags)
Israel's crimes of war and against humanity
Zionist Mass Murder: Break the Siege, Defend Gaza! (tags)
At midday on December 27, Israeli warplanes launched a massive bomb attack on the densely populated Gaza Strip. More than 270 Palestinians were killed as wave after wave of U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters dropped more than 100 bombs. The Israeli military said they were targeting Hamas installations, but numerous civilians were killed, including a number of children, as schools had just let out for lunch. The Zionists' attack on downtown areas was deliberate mass murder. The Israeli slaughter was carried out with the full knowledge and a green light from its imperialist patrons in Washington, as well as U.S. client regimes such as Egypt. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International condemn the Israeli mass murder in Gaza and call for action by the international working class in defense of Gaza and the Palestinian people, including efforts to break the siege.
NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.23.08 (tags)
This is not change we can believe in.
Human Rights Activist Recounts Path-Breaking Voyage to Break the Siege of Gaza (tags)
Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement, described the elaborate measures taken to certify that the first historic voyage to break the Israeli siege of Gaza was completely harmless, non-violent, and transparent. Speaking to supporters in Sunnyvale, California, he said, “We don’t preach non-violence, we practice it!”
Change Colin Powell can believe in is exactly the kind of change we should fear.
Breaking the Gaza Siege (tags)
This small band of creative activists have shamed all world powers. History will not judge us kindly for allowing this to happen. Especially after we vowed "never again" after failing to intervene on behalf of the Jews of Europe 70 years ago.
Continuation of one of the world's greatest crimes.
Deconstructing the Anti-Iran Resolutions (tags)
A blockade IS an act of war under international law. Since both sides of the RepubliCrat Party are collaborating in this, it will take a lot more than marching in a circle with a sign in your hand to reclaim this country from them, and stop this disaster.
Carter Urges 'Supine' Europe To Break With US Over Gaza Blockade (tags)
Carter said the Quartet's policy of not talking to Hamas unless it recognised Israel and fulfilled two other conditions had been drafted by Elliot Abrams, an official in the national security council at the White House. He called Abrams "a very militant supporter of Israel".
Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" (tags)
The agony continues.
Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank (tags)
West Bank repression.
Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion" (tags)
Israel's imperial plan.
UN's Assessment of Human Rights Violations in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Israel's continued oppression in Occupied Palestine.
Israel's Goals: Regime Change, Reoccupation (tags)
Like the Germans of the 30's, Israelis can't claim they don't know what their Government is doing. Likewise, Americans can't claim they don't know what is being paid for with their tax dollars.
Bay of Pigs in Gaza: Gaza Crisis Made in USA (tags)
That a scandal of this proportion, which entirely contradicts the perception of the 'crisis' painted by the media, remains relatively unreported and unaddressed - especially in an election cycle - is a testament to the tight control of the Western media, as well as the corruption of both sides of the RepubliCrat Party.
Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing (tags)
US Government guilty of underwriting these crimes.
UN: Israel Must Halt Use of Excessive Force (tags)
The US Government is the #1 sponsor of these War Crimes. Taking no action to stop them using your tax dollars to fund this Ethnic Cleansing enables these Extremists.
Abbas: Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing (tags)
Put the conflict in fast-forward. A shocking picture emerges. Your Government is this Crime's biggest sponsor.
That this scandal remains hidden is a testament to the tight control the Government holds over our media.
Israel's Goals: Regime Change, Reoccupation (tags)
The Gaza Bombshell: Crisis Made in USA (tags)
The current crisis in Gaza is entirely the creation of Extremists in the US and Israel, who don't want to end Zionism's expansionist war on the Palestinians. Don't let the media ignore this story ...
The current Gaza crisis reviewed.
Israeli Oppression in Hebron (tags)
A case history.
O’Malley Hugs Olmert, While USS Liberty Is Forgotten (tags)
Annapolis, MD, on Nov. 27, 2007, was the backdrop for a propaganda ploy concerning the Mideast. Meanwhile, MD’s Gov. Martin O’Malley had lunch with Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, but he failed to invite Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas. Last summer, O’Malley cheerleaded the Israeli Defense Forces attack on Lebanon. It is highly likely that topics like: Occupied Gaza, Rachel Corrie or the USS Liberty, never came up at his meal with Olmert.
Tragedy and Travesty at Annapolis (tags)
The latest chapter in the sham Middle East peace process.
Promote Peace in Palestine, exclude CUFI!! (tags)
If there is to be peace between Palestinians and Israelis, one option is to exclude the influence of CUFI, the Christian Zionist lobbyist group of John Hagee who consistently derails any peace process that provides Palestinians with their land and sovereignty restored..
Press release: Free Palestine Alliance (tags)
The Free Palestine Alliance (FPA) had launched an initiative approximately 2 years ago in response to the escalating need for an alternative to the downward and destructive spiral that is plaguing the Palestinian Arab people. Our intent was and remains to be empowering our community and leveraging its resources in favor of the fundamental principles of the Palestinian national liberation movement, paramount of which are the right to return and the indivisible unity of Palestine as a people and land inextricable from the larger Arab Nation (Al-Watan Al-Arabi).
Annapolis A Charade-Israel Plans Massive Aggression (tags)
The meeting is designed to give the impression that Israel is interested in peace, while they're actually plotting against the Palestinians. The media's silence suggests complicity.
Re: WSJ: Jewish pressure forces cancellation of Mearsheimer-Walt presentation (tags)
Re: WSJ: Jewish pressure forces cancellation of Mearsheimer-Walt presentation
WSJ: Jewish pressure forces cancellation of Mearsheimer-Walt presentation (tags)
WSJ: Jewish pressure forces cancellation of Mearsheimer-Walt presentation
US escalates ME arms race (tags)
US military package for allied Middle East states is designed to create a de facto Sunni Arab front against Iran as the region slips deeper into crisis.
Solving the Fatah-Hamas Impasse (tags)
I was reading a news article on former Palestinian Information minister Dr Mustafa Barghouthi on An Najah University's (Nablus, Palestine) website when I stumbled upon this article on a Palestinian solution to the impasse between Fatah & Hamas below. It calls for reform of the PLO, dissolvement of the emergency gov, Hamas gov, & to end the current factionalism running rampant in territories by allowing all factions to join a new reformed government composed of other political parties: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
on Middle East
"Demonstration" Government in Palestine (tags)
IS-Israeli led coup against the democratically elected Hamas government
Shaikh Ahamed Yassin Assassination, The Three-Year Anniversary (tags)
In Brussels, the European Union condemned Israel's "extra-judicial killing" as illegal and likely to further inflame violence.
A Review of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (tags)
An account of Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from uncovered official and other documents.
has come about
THE AMERICAN PROXY WAR IN GAZA (tags)
In the fevered minds of Bush administration ideologues, Palestine has become another front in what they conceive of as a new Cold War against "Islamofascism."
Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser Arafat (tags)
Ariel Sharon likely poisoned Yasser Arafat
Cash-strapped Palestinians bank on rich olive crop (tags)
Palestininians booming olive harvest gives people hope of a better life
From Israel: Stop the Siege – Stop the War! - Join Our International Campaign (tags)
A month of protest: November 4 – December 2, 2006
World silent as fascists join Israel government (tags)
It is time for action
Gaza as Laboratory: The Great Experiment (tags)
IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it?
It is time that the Quartet revises its "principles" to protect the weak against the strong, and not the other way around. Only then will international law replace the reigning law of the jungle.
Brief history of Palestine (tags)
Brief history of Palestine
The US, Israel and Lebanon: Historical Roots and Patterns of Conflict (tags)
The destructive and lethal forces unleashed this past summer by the United States and Israel upon Lebanon are not surprising in light of their historical roots in at least four patterns of conflict:
Brinkmanship Tactics or Coup D'Etat?: Removing Hamas (tags)
One could not but wonder whether the real Israeli-U.S.-backed provocateurs' aim is to bring about the downfall of both Abbas and Hamas in order to maintain and sustain a pre-Hamas comfortable status quo, where their interests and privileges are preserved and the interests of their backers are ideally served.
Gaza Clashes: The Struggle for Palestine's Soul (tags)
Do Israel and the United States not understand this? Or maybe, like serial felons who cannot de diverted from the path of crime, they are simply incapable of changing their ways.
In one of many reports and accounts of economic life in the Gaza Strip that I have recently read, I was struck by a description of an old man standing on the beach in Gaza throwing his oranges into the sea. The description leapt out at me because it was this very same scene I myself witnessed some 21 years ago during my very first visit to the territory. It was the summer of 1985 and I was taken on a tour of Gaza by a friend named Alya. As we drove along Gaza's coastal road I saw an elderly Palestinian man standing at the shoreline with some boxes of oranges next to him. I was puzzled by this and asked Alya to stop the car. One by one, the elderly Palestinian took an orange and threw it into the water. His was not an action of playfulness but of pain and regret. His movements were slow and labored as if the weight of each orange was more than he could bear. I asked my friend why he was doing this and she explained that he was prevented from exporting his oranges to Israel and rather than watch them rot in his orchards, the old man chose to cast them into the sea. I have never forgotten this scene and the impact it had on me.
Paralysis of the Palestinian 'Authority': What's to be done? (tags)
Protests have erupated throughout the West Bank and Gaza as thousands of Palestinian Authority employees have not received wages for months (Rima Merriman)
The Roadmap to Nowhere: An Interview with Tanya Reinhart (tags)
During his four years in office, Sharon stalled any chance of negotiations with the Palestinians. In 2003 - the road map period -the Palestinians accepted the plan and declared a cease fire, but while the Western world was celebrating the new era of peace, the Israeli army, under Sharon, intensified its policy of assassinations, maintained the daily harassment of the occupied Palestinians, and eventually declared an all-out-war on Hamas, killing all its first rank of military and political leaders. Later, as the Western world was holding its breath again, in a year and a half of waiting for the planned Gaza pullout, Sharon did everything possible to fail the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who was elected in January 2005. Sharon declared that Abbas is not a suitable partner (because he does not fight terror) and turned down all his offers of renewed negotiations.
SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF AL-AQSA MOSQUE INTIFADA PASSES STILL UNRESOLVED (tags)
PALESTINIAN OPPRESSION CONTINUES UNABATED
THE U.S. AND ISRAEL: LASTING LEGACIES? (tags)
The failure of the U.S. government as well as the Israelis to talk with leaders of governments they disagree with underlines the acute paucity of diplomacy being exercised at the current time, which can only jeopardize in the long run the security of ordinary people both in the Middle East and in the United States. It is time for governments to listen to their people, to start talking and stop preaching.
How Israel is Engineering the "Clash of Civilizations" (tags)
The trajectory of a long-running campaign that gave birth this month to the preposterous all-party British parliamentary report into anti-Semitism in the UK can be traced back to intensive lobbying by the Israeli government that began more than four years ago, in early 2002.
Appeal to petition Israeli government to respect the right to education (tags)
The racist Israeli policies deprive and violate Palestinians' right to education and are used by the hegemonic power holders as a means of discrimination. Such discriminatory practices are apparent in not providing safe access to schools and institutions of higher education in unrecognized villages in the Galilee and the Negev, or by the militarization of educational spaces, the imposition of checkpoints or other militarized barriers (such as the separation wall) in the occupied Palestinian territories. The cumulative effect of these practices is a blatant violation of the right of students (especially females who are the most vulnerable segment of society) to study in an educational context that is safe and free from violence.
The Evil Conspiracy of the Peacemongers! (tags)
THE ARAB peace initiative could be successful if it puts in front of the Israeli public the straight and unequivocal choice: peace without the occupied territories - or the occupied territories without peace.
UN warns of Gaza 'breaking point' (tags)
In July and August Israeli security forces killed 226 Palestinians, 54 of them minors, in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Human rights group, B'Tselem has reported. More that 220 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the end of June Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza have reached breaking point, a senior UN official has said.
In Lebanon a battle within the Middle East great war (tags)
There are only two possible solutions for the “Palestinian problem”, classic solutions, historically already defined by the communist movement
Israel is drunk on it's power
Bombing Milk Factories, Grain Silos, Churches, Bridges,Bridges, s, Power Stations... (tags)
I wish, one day, that Israeli Jews could crest that ridge, and have their breaths taken away as the magic of Beirut unfolds below them. But they will never see the full beauties of the region they inhabit by dominating others militarily, and denying equal rights to Palestinian Christians and Muslims.
Rice leaves bloody footprints in Lebanon (tags)
At some point in the future, when the ill-fated American drive for hegemony in the first decade of the twenty-first century is subjected to critical study, historians will discover ugly parallels between the tenure of Condoleezza Rice as American secretary of state under President Bush and that of Joachim Ribbentrop as German foreign minister under Chancellor Hitler. All the characteristics of the foreign policy of the Third Reich as it set the stage for World War—its depraved deceitfulness, cynicism, hypocrisy, recklessness, fascination with violence and utter contempt for human life—are to be observed 70 years later in the operations of the Bush administration, for whom Rice serves as chief foreign policy spokesman.
Hezbollah banks on home-ground advantage (tags)
By Sami Moubayed
BTL:Israel's Unilateral Approach Toward Middle East Conflict is... (tags)
...Root Cause of Latest Battles in Gaza and Lebanon ~ Interview with Molly Malekar, director of Bat Shalom, or Daughters for Peace, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
by naufragusSun Jul 16, 2006 at 01:55:55 PM PDT
This was originally meant as a response to a another diary. It ended up being too long and would have really messed up the formatting and screwed that diary up. I decided to post it on its own because I believe it contains information that people should be aware of. This is to give some perspective on one of the players in the current conflict -- Israel. This is just a smattering of highlights of news stories that don't seem to get much play here in the US. Its just 6 months in the life of Israel. I think it is important to remember that after Israel killed a family on a beach in Gaza their first reaction was to deny it. Then they tried to pin it on Hamas. After the shrapnel evidence revealed that they were indeed behind it, they reluctantly admitted guilt. I believe that fits the pattern of how they operate and speaks to their character. The current Gaza situtation was not started by a soldier being captured. They are not a country that, in my opinion, represents our values but rather one we generally oppose.
Human Rights Council Special Session on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, July 6, 2006 Human Rights Watch written statement
Hamas, from islamic revival-movement to Palestinian government (tags)
In contary with the leading opinions of the American-European politicians and media, the aim of Hamas, calling by them the ''distruction'' of the State of Israel, is not to kill or expell the Israeli-Jewish population, but to dismantle the zionistic State Model and to make an end to 39 year Israeli occupation and settlementspolicy
The Real Reasons for Israel's Invasion of Gaza (tags)
An Experiment in Human Despair
Becky Johnson gets trashed by the JTR (tags)
copied from http://jewishtribalreview.org/johnson2.htm
What’s Next for the Palestinians - Starvation? (tags)
Since 01/06, when the Palestinians elected a Hamas-dominated government, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have accelerated their brutal treatment. After Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, appeared before the lapdog U.S. Congress on May 31, 2006, the IOF also slaughtered 32 Palestinians, including 10 children. On 06/23/06, Tim Rothermel and Laila El-Haddad, at a Capitol Hill forum, warned that the Palestinians may, eventually, face starvation, too.
"Internal" UN report contradicts Israeli version of events of beach shelling (tags)
If no one had been at the beach to capture the explosion's aftermath, the incident might have passed quickly with a few Palestinian condemnations and a brisk Israeli retort.
Crushed by Gate of Occupation (tags)
Rafeda Thaer, a three-year-old Palestinian girl killed at an Israeli checkpoint. “During 2005 some of the world’s most powerful governments were successfully challenged, their hypocrisy exposed by the media, their arguments rejected by courts of law, their repressive tactics resisted by human rights activists.” Sam Bahour writing from El-Bireh, Occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4738.shtml
BTL:Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act Unnecessarily Punishes Innocents & Moderates (tags)
Interview with Josh Ruebner, U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
News, generally suppressed by US mainstream medias
TAKE ACTION: House Votes TODAY on Palestinian Sanctions (tags)
we NEED you to please pick up the phone TODAY and tell your Representative to vote NO on HR 4681 because the House is voting tonight, Monday, May 22, on HR4681,
ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE AND HAPPY NAKBA DAY! (tags)
It reviews recent events and opinion polls in Israel.
CALL TO ACTION: RE-INSTATE EU AND US AID TO PALESTINE (tags)
Please join thousands in signing a petition that may encourage the international community to head off the serious humanitarian crises in Palestine from getting even worse. There is also a link to this on Dr. Marcy Newman’s blog http://bodyontheline.blogspot.com/ Additional information about the region and political action at http://www.voicesofpalestine.org Please copy, e-mail and distribute this as widely as possible. http://www.petitiononline.com/JfJfP/petition.html
TODAY! TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REP. TO VOTE NO ON HR-4681 (tags)
House Voting on Anti-Palestinian Legislation Today The US Campaign, www.endtheoccupation.org, has learned that the House of Representatives will vote today Tuesday, May 9 on HR4681, the Anti-Palestinian Act of 2006. This bill imposes draconian economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Palestinian people for exercising their democratic rights. TAKE ACTION TODAY! Pick up the phone now to call your Representative and urge a NO vote on HR4681, the Anti-Palestinian Act (talking points below).
Kevin Zeese: “Hawkish Israeli Lobby Wants War with Iran!” (tags)
The Israeli Lobby, with others, helped to instigate the Iraqi War. A scholarly report, the “Harvard Study,” which was recently released, also documents the “unmatched power” of the Lobby over the national interest. Now, the Bush-Cheney Gang is targeting Iran for a pre-empted strike. Is the hawkish, hard right, pro-Israeli Lobby pushing for a war with Iran, too? Kevin Zeese, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate In MD, thinks that it is.
Terrorism cannot be fought everywhere but Palestine (tags)
Tashbih Sayyed, Ph.D. is editor-in-chief of Pakistan Today and Muslim World Today, California-based weekly newspapers, president of Council for Democracy and Tolerance and adjunct fellow of Hudson Institute.
TEL AVIV, Israel (STNC) (tags)
A suicide bombing that killed nine people Monday at an Israeli Resturant provoked conflicting responses from Palestinian leaders.
The Iraq war and the eruption of American imperialism (tags)
In the field of politics, there are events which mark a fundamental turning point in the historical process. There is no doubt that the invasion and occupation of Iraq, which began three years ago, was one of these. In September 2002, with the decision to invade Iraq having already been made, the Bush administration published its National Security Strategy (NSS). This document set out clearly and unambiguously that the United States was now reserving to itself the right to use military force pre-emptively in pursuit of its national interests and objectives on a global scale.
AND THERE WAS NO REFERENDUM IN ISRAEL... (tags)
This article looks at Prime Minister-elect Olmert's contention that the elections were a referendum to carry out further withdrawals/expulsions from Judea/Samaria (the West Bank).
ISRAEL ASKS: HAS AHMED TIBI BECOME A RACIST? (tags)
This article defends Israel against charges of racism, looks at the perfidy of Arab MKs and the upcoming elections in Israel.
IT'S TIME TO THINK BIG AND TAKE POWER IN ISRAEL (tags)
This article looks at the upcoming elections in Israel and what Israel's leaders should say.
The Plight of Gays and Lesbians in the Middle East (tags)
Oppression, physical violence, and even murder of gay people is very common in Middle Eastern countries with violently homophobic cultures.
BTL:Israel & U.S. Attempt to Isolate New Palestinian Hardline Hamas Government (tags)
Interview with Lori Allen, post-doctoral fellow at Brown University, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
My Personal Experience With the Israeli Occupation (tags)
The following is Khalid Amayreh's account of his life lived under Israel's "dehumanizing miltary occupation." Khalid's story is harrowing and, in his own words the occupation is "perpetual misery, torment, persecution, enslavement, and dehumanization." His frustration is that he can not fully communicate "the full extent of [its]enduring evil."
LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE (tags)
An account of Israeli oppression against the Palestinian people
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/3/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.
HAMAS IS WORSE THAN THE NAZIS (tags)
The article looks at the recent Hamas victory in the PA.
Report: CIA Financing Fatah election campaign (tags)
The United States supports democracy? Perhaps, but only the party that it likes in Palestine. http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_16553.shtml
Spielberg on Munich (the movie - a review) (tags)
But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with Golda Meir’s infamous quip), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth. -- Tim Wise, anti-racist, anti-Zionist, Jewish-American activist, essayist & public speaker
Spielberg on Munich: dehumanization of Palestinian civilians (tags)
...But this begs the question: why is Munich more famous than the savage bombardment of Palestinian refugee camps back in February prior to Munich? And why did the letter bombs to three Palestinian writers not get any world attention? Why did American liberals and PEN not notice it back then? ...The movie did not tell you that by the time the Israeli terrorists finished with their “mission,” some 100 Palestinians and Lebanese were murdered on that day in April 1973.
Israeli occupation army murders three Palestinians in Nablus (tags)
Occupied Jerusalem - The Israeli occupation army (IOF) on Thursday murdered three Palestinians in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, hospital sources said. Dec 22, 2005, 11:07
Arafat Death Still a Mystery (tags)
Palestinians continue to wonder how arafat died
ISRAEL TO AMERICA, I WARNED YOU... (tags)
This article warns of the danger to America because of Bush's support for a Palestinian state.
Israel: The withdrawal from Gaza... a step towards peace? (tags)
Middle east
Tempest in Santa Fe: Confronting Israeli Myth-Making (tags)
Propagandists on behalf of Israel have held a corner on public discourse about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the nearly six decades of Israel’s existence, but these purveyors of the Israeli line have become increasingly deceptive and malign -- and increasingly effective – with time.
Who is the REAL nuclear threat? (tags)
The real nuclear threat is Israel. The Talmudic Zionists Jew pulled off 911 with high US offical Zionist help, both NORAD, plus FEMA, plus Pentagon, Plus Bush and administrative allies, and sold you the Moslems did it. Who else would benifinit from the Iraq fiasco? They were hoping to get Israel cheap oil and US world hegdemony.
BTL:Peace Process Bound to Fail if Israel Expands West Bank Settlements (tags)
Interview with Dr. Jeff Halper, coordinating director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
The Israel First Right Wing Party (tags)
The right wing tells us they are patriot and the left wing is anti-American. Well, check this out, found at antiwar.com....
EAST AND WEST PALESTINE, AND ISRAEL? (tags)
Given Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's continued persistence to carry out his Gaza Disengagement Plan, Condoleeza Rice's recent statements and renewed American involvement, and the recent Sharm el-Sheikh cease-fire agreement, it's now more important than ever to think seriously about the "real" viability (or not) of a territorially divided Palestinian state.
The Truth About Killing Palestinian Children (tags)
The vast differences in the news about murdered Palestinian schoolchildren With little or no responsibility from US mainstream medias to corroborate truth.
BTL:New Palestinian Leader Confronts Familiar Obstacles in... (tags)
...Restarting Peace Talks ~ Interview with Ali Abunimah, writer and activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Palestinian Elections – Charting the Palestinian Future (tags)
Marina del Ray, CA 90292
THE JEWISH STRUGGLE AGAINST ARABS IN ISRAEL (tags)
This article examines a recent under-reported vote in Israel's parliament, it then asks and answers the question, "Why do so many Jews not want Arabs living in their neighborhoods, or in Israel at all?"
TO BUSH & BLAIR: WE DON'T WANT PEACE, WE WANT OUR HOMELAND, ISRAEL (tags)
It gives some friendly advice to world leaders.
Is Bush Compromised by Israeli Intelligence? (tags)
Let's outline a scenario:
ARAFAT WAS DEAD A LONG LONG TIME AGO (tags)
It looks at the comical "tragedy" of Yasser Arafat's passing.
IT'S THE OCCUPATION, STUPID! (tags)
-The Al Aqsa Intifada is a disaster for Israelis and Palestinians as it hits its fourth year with no significant advances, no real agreement in sight or an end to the violence.
ISRAELI SETTLERS: YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED! (tags)
This article suggests that a future Israeli government might prosecute those who planned and participated in the illegal expulsion of Jews from their homes.
http://www.stoptheism.com/ (tags)
No doubt you heard about us on national radio or television and want to learn more about the ISM and what to do about this subversive group that represents America’s and Israel’s enemies. In the coming year, it is our intention to reveal to the American public the key players of the ISM here in the USA, Canada and Europe and to educate the public who they really represent: the PLO, the PFLP, Hamas and other terrorists under Yasser Arafat. And we promise results.
ARIK OR ACHAV: SHARON'S GONE DICTATORIAL (tags)
This article looks at Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's dictatorial behavior at a recent cabinet meeting that made fateful decisions about the Gaza disengagement plan.
THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION: ISRAEL AND JUDEA (tags)
It discusses the increasingly regular discriminatory treatment against Jewish settlers and settlement products by the international community and now the Israeli government itself. It raises the question, are there two types of Jews, and asks, will the settlers declare independence?
PALESTINIAN LEADERS TRICK THEIR PEOPLE AGAIN (tags)
Barghouti eats during a hunger strike. Arafat rips off the Palestinian treasury. Hamas leaders hide while they send off others to die. This article takes a look at these phenomena.
Ralph Nader Takes Out The Trash: A Rebuttal To The ADL's Abe Foxman. (tags)
A letter to Abe Foxman of the ADL, after Foxman had issued one of his standard "he's a bigot" responses to Nader's criticism of Israeli policy.
Let the whining begin!
I have to add one here, number of UN members in the General Assembly -189. Number of memebers who are from predominantly muslim countries or have political ties to said countries- 135
Are you really reading both sides of the story?
Will the Fence calm the region or exacerbate the conflict? (tags)
Yeah the wall is ILLEGAL (by Latuff) (tags)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's terror.
{Znet} Stateless and Deported - Palestinian Refugees in Montreal (tags)
An Interview with the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
KPFK's Feminist Magazine and Phyllis Chesler (tags)
This email is being circulated by a group of concerned KPFK listeners.
Israel's wild destruction in Rafah, Palestine (tags)
The Israeli occupation army has destroyed dozens of civilian homes in Rafah, at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip.
Today in the MidEast 12th of april (tags)
briefing
Today in Palestine April 3rd (tags)
briefing
I Can No Longer Tolerate... (tags)
French Writer's commentary on forked tongued officials and how they deal with the Middle East
An anti-state communist perspective on the war (tags)
This is 2003 article about the Iraq War 2, just before it started. It's from Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. It's unusually prescient in its predictions of how the entire war will go. I post this because the journal has been criticized by some anarchistists as "primitivist", and Anarchism has been derided by the Left as everything from chaos to disruptive and unthinking. Liberals stereotype anarchists as young fashion victims, implying they are shallow. These are simplistic stereotypes at best, and fear mongering at the worst. Articles like this one below, I hope, give people pause to consider the relevance and usefulness of anti-state, anti-capitalist critique. Remember, this article was written before we invaded Iraq. So here goes. -- Just Another Anarchist
TERROR EXTROIRDINAIRRE NO FRENCH FRIES (tags)
The only thing that scares the British Empire more than a picture of Andrew Jackson is the ominous Paki fighting force never mentioned in polite company, THE WAZIRI TRIBE. THE WAZIRI TRIBE was the militant wing of the GHANDI underground.
Israel & Occupied Territories: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practice (tags)
We can assume this is why Israel did not wish to make an appearance at the Hague but sent instead a bus. All of these offenses needed to be discussed but Israel refused to show up and be present. The US continues to reward such behavior with American Tax Dollar$.
Hamas Leader Killed to Help Consolidate PA Authority In Gaza (tags)
It Is Widely Believed that Hamas Leader Shiek Yassin Was Killed With the Connivance of PA Leader Mohammed Dahlan, In Order to Consolidate Power for the PA in Gaza
Hamas spiritual leader killed by Israel (tags)
Palestinians gather around pieces of the wheelchair and blood stains at the scene where an Israeli air strike killed Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, near his house in Gaza City, Monday, March 22, 2004. Israeli helicopters fired missiles at Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin as he left a mosque near his house at daybreak. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer). Tens of thousands of Palestinians chant anti occupation slogans as they march through the streets to the house of Sheik Yassin after his killing. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Side by Side, Arabs and Israelis Repair a Wreck of a River (tags)
Side by Side, Arabs and Israelis Repair a Wreck of a River
Taxpayer Financed Jihad (tags)
Shut Down NPR!
Palestinian factions turn on each other in West Bank city (tags)
Among the dead are several innocent bystanders killed in the crossfire of botched abductions and gunbattles on the streets. They include a 13-year-old boy shot on his way to get a haircut and a mother of three murdered while buying medicine for one of her children.
Petition to Encourage Discussion and Debate at NYU (tags)
Tell your friends, classes, parents, family, friends...
End Israeli Settlement Activity (tags)
AN ARTICLE ABOUT JEWS THAT SUPPORT OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLE...
The Top 100 Heroes of Peace (tags)
Everyone on this list have spoken at great risk to their jobs and their lives.Not a few of them have lost their jobs and too many have lost their lives speaking out against the Bushes and the Blairs and the Sharons.Suicides, Plane Crashes, Accidents.One was bulldozed to death.
Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network January 18th-20th Updates! (tags)
1.Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network Downloadable Flier- Print out and Distribute to your Pro-Resistance Quarters!!! 2.Iraqi Resistance Report: Updated News Reports Compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr , from the Editorial Board of the Free Arab Voice. 3.Communique-Ahmed Sadaat, General Secratary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 4. *** An Islamic Voice Stands With President Hussein/ Condemns Sexist Pigs in Iraqi Zionist Proxy Government** 5. ***"You Must Know"- Excellant Essay By Ibrahim Ebeid Co-Editor of Al-Moharer Calling for Progressives To Support Iraqi Resistance*** 6. ***President Hussein And The Geneva Convention***
From Nablus Under Seige (tags)
CALL TO ACTION Jan 4th and 5th "We are not two different sides. We are rather one in our common struggle for justice in Palestine, for an end to the occupation, for peace for all."
Clearly, Palestinians are suffering, and their situation must be remedied — the sooner the better. The question is, who was responsible for creating their situation and who is accountable for remedying it?
The Geneva storm's silver-lining (tags)
The rejuvenating efforts of the Geneva Groups have; shattered dangerous myths, rekindled hope, put Sharon in a corner, and led to a healthy redefinition of the meaning of being pro-Israel.
Who Hates the Jews Now? (tags)
Story about the Surge in Global Anti-Semitism, Especially Among those who posture as being on the "Left"
We should be the champion of democracy in the world, and human rights can't be separated from democracy. But if Bush expects to be taken seriously on this issue, he'll have to address the contradictions in his own policies. Just months after Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf became Bush's new best friend, he won a new term in an election everyone knows was a fraud. To get a military foothold north of Afghanistan, Bush cozied up to Uzbekistan's longtime dictator, a Stalinist not much better than Saddam Hussein. And Bush still refuses to deal with Yasser Arafat, the democratically elected leader of the Palestinian Authority. And if Bush wants to be taken seriously, he can't condemn Syrian torturers while at the same time his CIA outsources its interrogations to the same brutal thugs.
WHO IS A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE? (tags)
This article points out that while there are several "peace initiatives" and much discussion about "Palestinian Refugees" and their "right of return"; no one ever defines the term. This article does that.
We Are Seriously Concerned About the Fate of the State of Israel (tags)
"The best thing now is to convince and create public opinion that will come and say: This is what we want. We want to withdraw from the territories" The Yediot interview, with four former Shabak (Security) heads who sharply spoke out against the way our government handles the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, attracted worldwide attention. Here is Full Translation.
JINSA/PNAC Zionist Extremist Perle Warns Germany To Stop Backing France (tags)
JINSA/PNAC Zionist Extremist Perle Warns Germany To Stop Backing France
Cheney wants to "remodel the entire middle east"--"Shadow Government" (tags)
Cheney wants to "remodel the entire middle east"--"Shadow Government"
Statement Condemning Geneva Accord (tags)
The Palestinian refugees' Right of Return to the homes and lands from which they were exiled is an individual, collective, national and human right that cannot be abrogated, denied or modified by any negotiation or agreement.
Fashionable anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism (tags)
Do not look for the Islamic community here to acknowledge that the United States, in little over a decade, freed Kuwait, saved most of the Bosnians and Kosovars, tried to feed Somalis, urged the Russians not to kill Chechnyans, belatedly ensured that no longer were Shiites and Kurds to be slaughtered in Iraq, spoke out against Kuwait's ethnic cleansing of a third of a million Palestinians — and now is spending $87 billion to make Iraqis free.
The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an "obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.
Dignity, Solidarity and the Penal Colony (tags)
The Last Essay. I am honored to post with my name and hopefully await what respect Real Democracy teaches by its practice in a civil society.
Pentagon official: US may take action against Syria (for Israel) (tags)
Pentagon official: US may take action against Syria (for Israel)
Silence about Muslim Deaths (tags)
How many times have you heard Israel blamed for Muslim Deaths? Now How many times have you heard Muslims blamed for Muslim Deaths- the disparity in numbers will shock you. All in all, it makes Israel look like a kitten.
Israel plans to invade Syria, says Malaysian PM (tags)
Israel plans to invade Syria, says Malaysian PM
Preaching an un-Christian message to the Israelites (tags)
Bring on the civil war prophesied by the Palestinian Authority and then Israel can come upon some peace. That's the way to peace in the Middle East.
Bush Stance on Syria Hit Shows Neo-Cons Still Hold Sway (tags)
Bush Stance on Syria Hit Shows Neo-Cons Still Hold Sway
More subhuman Paleostinian atrocities (tags)
And the bulk of the assholes here still support these animals.
ANTI-ZIONIST COOPERATION WITH THE NAZIS (tags)
Anti-Zionists collaborated with German Nazis - because nazis and anti-zionists are siamese twins
Israeli Left: Love Your Enemy, Hate Your Brother (tags)
All blood is red, and I guess Israel's lemmings can't tell the difference between the blood of innocent Israelis cut-down in the "act" of living their lives, and the blood of socio-pathic murderers, who Israel liquidates - in self-defense - before they can plan or kill again.
MidEast Policy and the Democratic Candidates (tags)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is spiraling out of control, the venture into Iraq did not yield a quick victory and spillover of positive change, the U.S. position in the Middle East is more precarious, and U.S. allies in the region are more vulnerable to the forces of extremism. A new direction is needed.
Dignity, Solidarity and the Penal Colony (tags)
As of yesterday on CounterPunch at: http://www.counterpunch.org/said09252003.html there is a 13-page Said excerpt from the book ‘The Politics of Anti-Semitism’, from which further extracts below: --------------------------------------------------------
15 things I don't understand about the Peace Process.
Robert Fisk: Iraq's occupiers suspected of losing touch with reality (tags)
Robert Fisk: Iraq's occupiers suspected of losing touch with reality
Israel-Palestine the threats to Arafats life in the end the USA always backs the Zionists (tags)
Israel- Palestine
The Arab American Institute's Guide to Howard Dean (tags)
Dean told TruthOut.org in May 2003 that the United States needs "a new oil policy... because our oil money is being used to fund terrorism in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria."
Blows to Israel Must Never Go Unanswered (tags)
Nice LA TIMES (whodda thunk it?) op-ed pice
Socialism:the only way out of the bloodshed in Israel-Palestine (tags)
Israel-Palestine
Libertarians who loathe Israel (tags)
Irrational hatred for "an isolated Sparta, bristling with weaponry and little else" prompts libertarians to forget their welfare economics. For example, Raimondo menacingly warns that without US aid, Israel would cease to exist... Come again?
Releasing militants?while innocent administrative detainees remain in jail?Further Manipulations in the Roadmap....
In The Beginning there was Terror (tags)
So, with the suppression of the actual History of the founding of Israel come the PR Flacks retelling a more palatable and "heroic" beginning. However, is the new revised story true?
THE ARAFAT CANARD VS. "BARAK'S GENEROUS OFFER" (tags)
"Furthermore Arafat was given an offer of 97% of the territories. The point here is that he rejected it because it "wasn't generous enough." The Zionists learned well from Geobbels about the constant repetition of the propaganda lie -- and make it BIG !!
Carving Up The New Iraq (tags)
Carving Up The New Iraq By Neil Mackay The Sunday Herald Tuesday 15 April 2003
The mantra that Arafat crack down on terror has always been a fraud. Who is to do this cracking down? Obviously, Palestinian police, security forces and courts. But they are the chief target of Sharon's murderous onslaught. Sharon's strategy today is the same as it was in Beirut in 1982. He wants to destroy and discredit the Palestinian Authority so as to ensure the Palestinians are left without a credible leadership.
A dangerous Israeli pattern (tags)
The helicopter attack against a Hamas political leader (which missed him but killed a woman and a child) has been nearly a regular occurrence in the Palestinian areas during the past two years. Israelis killed more than ten Palestinians including children and women before and after the suicide attack in Jerusalem.
Since coming to power, Sharon has done everything to ensure the collapse of Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. If successful, it would either bring Hamas to power or lead to political chaos within the terrorities.
The Road Map is reason for hope, but the real dangers lay ahead and even an optimist must be wary. Extremists - Israeli, Palestinian and American - all remain committed to scuttling this still too feeble attempt to restart negotiations on the road to peace.
The suffering Palestinians (tags)
Palestinians get worse treatment from their fellow Arabs than from the Israelis
neoconservatives seek to ensnare US in an endless series of wars (tags)
by Pat Buchanan Does all this explain why bush was brought to power?..Incidentally, and just to be controversial, its my view that sept 11 could have been orchestrated by the neoconservatives
Practice to Deceive-- Chaos in the MiddleEast is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario-- (tags)
"In short, the administration is trying to roll the table--to use U.S. military force, or the threat of it, to reform or topple virtually every regime in the region, from foes like Syria to friends like Egypt, on the theory that it is the undemocratic nature of these regimes that ultimately breeds terrorism. So events that may seem negative--Hezbollah for the first time targeting American civilians; U.S. soldiers preparing for war with Syria--while unfortunate in themselves, are actually part of the hawks' broader agenda."
HOLOCAUST 2003 - The ONLY Solution is The Final Solution
The Weird Men Behind George W. Bush's War (tags)
"Most neoconservative defence intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right. They are products of the largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which morphed into anti- communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or political history."
U.S. White Nationalists Prepare for the Permanent Control of Iraq (tags)
This article provides information on Ahmed Chalabi, the U.S. puppet who is positioned to be the next leader of Iraq. Chalabi is a thief and the darling of the neo white nationalists (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Kristol, etc.) who currently control the U.S. government.
Palestinian war-mongers (tags)
It's hard to protected regular Palestinians when Palestinian leadership and main organizations, for decades, have been impossible to deal with.
RICHARD PERLE CAUGHT RUNNING A $100-MILLION SHEIK-DOWN (tags)
Richard Perle, one of the most outspoken war party figures in and around the Bush Administration, has been caught in a $100-million attempted blackmail ``sheik-down'' of the Saudis, which could land him in jail.
OSAMA WAS NOT OUR CREATION, CLAIMS RUMSFELD (tags)
There were many different factions involved in the ``war of liberation'' in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union, Rumsfeld said. That included Osama bin Laden. But he flatly denied that Osama was a creation of the United States to be used against the Soviet Union, an issue which has undoubtedly been dogging him ever since the events of 911.
American Conservative magazine indicts Bu$h's Madness of Empire (tags)
The cover story of the most recent issue of "The American Conservative" magazine is entitled, "The Madness of Empire" and is a searing indictment of the Bush administration's plans for attacking Iraq. http://www.amconmag.com/02_24_03/cover.html
American Conservative magazine indicts Bu$h's Madness of Empire (tags)
The cover story of the most recent issue of "The American Conservative" magazine is entitled, "The Madness of Empire" and is a searing indictment of the Bush administration's plans for attacking Iraq. web link http://www.amconmag.com/02_24_03/cover.html
Israeli poison gas attacks (tags)
According to Article 147, to "willfully caus[e civilians] great suffering or serious injury to body or health" is a "grave breach" of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the most serious type of war crime. There appears to be prima facie evidence that "great suffering" and "serious injury to body and health" were "willfully" inflicted on Palestinian civilians during the gas attacks conducted by the Israeli Defense Forces.(62)
Israel scorns 'anti-semitic little Belgium' (tags)
Israel accused Belgium of anti-semitism yesterday following a court decision which could lead to the prosecution of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister. The Belgian supreme court ruled on Wednesday that Israeli military commanders could be prosecuted for complicity in the massacre of 800 Palestinians in Lebanon in 1982.
Colin Powell Negates Propaganda That Arafat Was Entirely To Blame For Camp David Failure (tags)
Secretary of State Colin Powell said in Switzerland on Sunday that Israel must offer Palestinians more than a "phony state diced into a thousand different pieces." What will surely be missed by the corporate U.S. media is that this statement flies directly in the face of the line towed by most U.S. and Israeli officials regarding the failed Camp David Accords.
The Israeli poison gas attacks (tags)
After a few minutes, the gas started to smell. "Like mint," several people said. One resident later recalled that, "the smell was good. You want to breathe more. You feel good when you inhale it." A girl reported that "its taste was like sugar. The smell was sweet."(4)
What The Washington Post Has To Say About Israel (tags)
Well, if you're wondering what you're Government is reading (those who CAN read!) here's today's editorial in the Washington Post re Israel.
Bush To Help Sharon Election By Blocking Settlement Freeze (tags)
Bush is blocking efforts to find peace in the Middle East, and stop the settlements. "Is it his (Bush's) desire to win the support of Jewish officials and tycoons, who have mostly lined up on Sharon's side? "
The bankruptcy of the anti-Americanists (tags)
The End of An Era
Fereydoun Hoveyda Speaks His Heart and Mind on the Issues (tags)
From his secluded home in rural Virginia, former Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Fereydoun Hoveyda, speaks to Global News Net for three hours on issues of both heart and mind.
An open letter to my fellow American Jews (tags)
American Jews must come to terms with our/Israeli faults before peace can exist.
Demonstration at Feinstein's Office re Palestine (tags)
Groups come together to protest Feinstein's anti-Palestinian position
FTAA and Government Repression in Ecuador: an eyewitness account (tags)
Globalization is supposed to make communication easier. But when the leaders of Ecuador`s social movements tried to deliver a letter critiquing neoliberal globalization to Summit of the Presidents of S. America, they were arrested, roughed up, and their giant letter was destroyed. This highlights the need for international support for the massive protest planned at the 7th summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Ecuador in October.
Tips on How to Be an Arafat Apologist (tags)
Tips on How to Be an Arafat Apologist
U.N. official says Israel blocks Palestinian aid (tags)
Zionazis want Palestinians starve to death, at the barbedwired extermination camps they are confined. Zionazis also want UN refugee agency to spy on refugees.
Critics pressing U.N. agency, despite little progress on case (tags)
Israel slandering the UN Relief Agency. Israelis want the Palestinians to starve to death.
Aid agencies condemn Israel (tags)
More than 30 international aid agencies working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have accused Israel of obstructing their operations to the point that they can no longer fulfil their mandates.
The Gaza strip is a perfect realization of the Israeli vision of "separation". Surrounded with electric fences and army posts, completely sealed off the outside world, Gaza has become a huge prison. About one-third of its land was confiscated for the 7,000 Israeli settlers living there (and their defense array), while over a million Palestinians are crowded in the remaining areas of the prison. Now Israel is considering the imprisonment there of families of suicide bombers from the West Bank.
The BUSHARON Global War - by Dr. Lev Grinberg (tags)
Dr. Lev Grinberg is a political analyst, senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, says, President George Bush's speech intensified the plight of the peace supporters in Israel, and in the entire Middle East.
Blind Palestinian compliance with US and Israeli demands is not a solution (tags)
If Mr. Bush truly understands the "deep anger and despair of the Palestinian people," then he must also understand that the occupation must end before anything else can be achieved
Israeli Right-wing Minister Effi Eitam wants to KILL Marwan Barghouti (tags)
Support immediate release of elected Palestinian Parliamentarian Marwan Barghouti, one of the leading Palestinian reformers by signing the online petition! Pass it to others Please.
A day in the life of a Palestinian-American's extended Faily and more! (tags)
Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman living in the besieged Palestinian City of Al-Bireh in the West He is co-author of HOMELAND: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians (1994)
Bush the Marty by Sam Bahour and Dr. Michael Dahan (tags)
Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman living in the besieged Palestinian City of Al-Bireh in the West Bank and can be reached at sbahour@palnet.com.
June 24: Updates from Palestine (tags)
1) Palestinians, Israelis, Arabs and Jews’ Reactions to Bush’s Speech (Palestine Chronicle) 2) Israeli Helicopter Missiles Kill Six Palestinians, Wound 13 in Rafah (Palestine Chronicle)
US Playing Russian Roulette With Palestinians (tags)
The United States of America is organizing another international conference in the Middle East. This one, sadly, emerges as a result of the destruction of Palestinian society by Israel. By doing so, the US is setting itself up for a political and security failure, yet again. The first US failure was called Oslo, where the Palestinian leadership was lured into a US-sponsored 'peace process' that has led to the intentional obliteration of Palestinian cities and dismantling of Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian Authority
Palestinian Police slaughter 2 international observers (tags)
Ozaslan told Israel Radio that he clearly saw the attacker. He said that the man was armed in fatigues of the PA's security forces and was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. "We shouted that we are observers, members of TIPH," he said. "But he did not hear us and continued to shoot."
The Shortwave Report 1/11/02 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.2MB & quick/streaming-3.3MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Netherlands, Russia, Cuba, China, Germany.
DFLP: Demonstrators mark 84 years since Balfour Declaration, 2 Nov. 01 (tags)
The DFLP and other Palestinian organizations staged a rally at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp and another in front of the UN House in downtown Beirut to protest the creation of the State of Israel after British promises for a Jewish homeland during World War I.
FAR RIGHT-WING ISRAELI MINISTER ASSASSINATED THIS MORNING (tags)
MID-EAST REALITIES © - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 10/17: For some time now Palestinians have been warning that because of Israel's assassination of Palestinian leaders, "crossing the red line" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they would respond. When one of the founders of the PLO was assassinated by helicopter missile shot directly into his body as he sat working in his high-rise office in Ramallah in late August, many have expected that some counter-assassination attempt would be made by Palestinians. Today is just happened: