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Endgame for the Peace Process--Aljazeera--Future
historians will no doubt argue over the precise moment when the
Arab-Israeli peace process died, when the last glimmer of hope
for a two-state solution was irrevocably extinguished. When all
is said and done, and the forensics have been completed, I am
sure they will conclude that the last realistic prospect for an
agreement expired quite some time before now, even if all the
players do not quite realise it yet: anger and denial are always
the first stages in the grieving process; acceptance of reality
only comes later.
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Jewish Settlements Targeted in Divestment
Campaign--AP--TEL AVIV, Israel There is a budding
movement by foreign investors and activists to join a
Palestinian campaign against companies doing business in the
West
Bank — aimed at
hitting them in their pockets.
Pension funds in Norway and Sweden have divested themselves of
holdings in some firms involved in building in settlements or
helping to erect Israel's contentious West Bank
separation
barrier.
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Israel Says U.S. Has Provided a Written
Guarantee--AP--JERUSALEM – The U.S. has given Israel
a written guarantee that it won't pressure the Jewish state for
additional settlement freezes if it accepts a limited 90 day
construction moratorium to revive Mideast peace talks, a
top
Israeli
official said
Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had asked
for the assurances in writing in part to appease some members of
his Cabinet who oppose the deal.
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Israeli Referendum Bill Could Hin- der Peace
Moves--Associated Press--JERUSALEM – Israel's
parliament passed a bill Monday that could complicate
peace
efforts
with
the
Palestinians and Syria by making it very
difficult for any government to make territorial withdrawals.
The bill requires a two-thirds Knesset majority to cede land in
east Jerusalem to the Palestinians or in the
Golan
Heights to Syria. Failing that, either
withdrawal would become subject to a referendum, and polls show
winning public approval would be an uphill battle.
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Nadia and Ahmad Anati |
East Jerusalem's Shu'fat Refugee Camp: "For
All Practical Purposes, Ramallah"--Ben
White, WRMEA--"To be honest," he said (Dr. Salim Anati, Director
of Shu'fat), "I am deeply upset—and I have lost my hope. I don't
think I will live in a free country. I remember my parents
having this hope, and they died. My conclusion is that no one
wants us to have our freedom—especially Arab countries. It's
just propaganda, all this talk of human rights and independence.
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Netanyahu Bolstered by GOP Gains
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation--What effect did the November 2
elections have on US foreign policy?
Martin Indyk, Brookings vice
president and director of its foreign policy program who
currently advises George Mitchell, said about Netanyahu:"He is
much more of a Republican than a Likudnik," meaning that
Netanyahu closely identifies with the GOP and he has good
relations with Republicans in Congress. Noting that Netanyahu
recently stepped up his rhetoric calling for a military attack
on Iran, Indyk suggested that Netanyahu was sending an unsubtle
signal to Republicans to start talking up the issue.
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Eric Cantor's
Pledge of Allegiance
Salon.com,
Glenn Greenwald--Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and vowed that he and his GOP colleagues
would
protect and defend Israeli interests
against his own Government.Leave aside the absurdity
of believing that Israel needs to be protected from the
extremely deferential and devoted Obama administration. So
extraordinary is Cantor's pledge that even the Jewish
Telegraph Agency's Ron Kampeas -- himself a reflexive
American defender of most things Israel -- was
astonished, and wrote:
"I can't remember an opposition leader telling a foreign leader,
in a personal meeting, that he would side, as a policy, with
that leader against the president. Certainly, in
statements on one specific issue or another lawmakers have
taken the sides of other nations. But
to say, in general, we will take your side against the
White House -- that sounds to me extraordinary."
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Rabbis Provoke Riots
in Israel's "Most Racist"City--Jonathan
Cook, The Electronic Intifada--The
tranquility of Safed, a small city nestled high in the hills of
the Upper Galilee close to the Lebanese border, is not usually
disturbed except by the occasional pilgrimage by Madonna or
other famous devotees of the Jewish mystical teachings of
Kabbalah. But in the past few weeks, Safed -- one of Judaism's
four holy cities -- has been making headlines of a very
different kind. Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli daily
Haaretz, last week declared it "the most racist city in
the country."
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US Congressman Wants Gaza Blockade Gone--Mondoweiss--When
Congressman Brian Baird (D-Washington)
announced last December that he would not
be seeking another term, the cause of justice in
Israel/Palestine lost one of its truly courageous advocates in
Congress. Especially when you consider the face of the incoming
House and Senate – a Congress that is already gearing up to do
Netanyahu’s every bidding – the loss of one such as Baird is
profound indeed.
In truth, Baird has been one of the precious few
politicians in Washington who has been willing to openly
advocate for Palestinian human rights. Take a look at the clip
above and you’ll see him say the US should consider withholding
aid to Israel if it continues to settle the West Bank and East
Jerusalem. He also pleads the case of the Palestinians because
“ignoring the plight of these good people is at our peril.”
Baird has been particularly fearless on the issue of
Gaza. He has visited the strip on three separate occasions, the
second of which occurred immediately following Cast Lead...Read
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Vatican Demands End to Occupation--Nicole
Winfield--Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned to Rome
by the pope demanded Saturday that Israel accept U.N.
resolutions calling for an end to its "occupation" of Arab
lands. In a final joint communique, the bishops also told Israel
it shouldn't use the Bible to justify "injustices" against the
Palestinians.
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Israeli Settlers Burn Palestinian Olive Groves--Phillippe
Agret--Thick black smoke billows from the olive grove under the
gaze of Israeli soldiers as Palestinian farmers use branches to
try to beat out the fires lit by Jewish settlers. It's olive
harvest time in the
occupied
West
Bank. The
firebombers swooped down from Havat Gilad, a wildcat Jewish
settlement unauthorised even by the Israeli government. "We were
gathering the olives when the settlers arrived. One of them
started a fire," says olive grower Shaher Tawil.
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Ayed Morrar: The West Bank's reluctant movie
star--Away to the west of Budrus, a startlingly red
sun was sinking towards the horizon behind Jaffa as the Israeli
border police patrol arrived. They had driven at speed in their
two jeeps along the military road beside the footprint-detecting
sand track and the electronic fence that help to make up the
separation barrier here. To the north, beyond a straggling,
rocky olive grove and perched on top of a 160ft pylon, we could
just make out the security camera...Read
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Yasser Arafat International Airport now |
US group says it plans to send plane to
Gaza--BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A pro-Palestinian
group based in the US will send a plane loaded with aid to
the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel's air and sea blockade,
an official said Sunday.
"We intend to send an aircraft to Gaza in much the same
way boats were used -- without going through Israeli or
Egyptian airspace," said Paul Larudee, an organizer with the
California-based Free Palestine Movement sponsoring the
flight.
Authorities in Gaza are supportive of the initiative
and are working to locate a landing site, Larudee said. Gaza's
now-defunct Yasser Arafat International Airport is not being
considered, he told Ma'an.
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Israel's FM pushes new settlements amid peace
talks--Matti Friedman, Huffington Post--Israel's
hard-line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try
to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move
that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace
negotiations.
Avigdor Lieberman said the Israeli government must keep
its promise to voters that the 10-month slowdown, declared last
November under U.S. pressure in order to draw the Palestinians
to the negotiating table, will end as scheduled at the end of
the month.
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Israeli Settlement Construction Booms Despite Ban--Spiegel
Online--In Washington, the
Israelis and Palestinians are discussing peace, but in the
Jewish settlements in the West Bank, construction is proceeding
at full speed. A legal ban is being ignored and the government
is looking away. The thousands of new homes could hinder
reconciliation.Construction work could soon begin again in 57
settlements. The peace talks that began on Thursday with an
official reception thrown by US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton won't change that..
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West Bank poverty
'worse than Gaza' Aljazeera--
Children living in the poorest parts of the West Bank face
significantly worse conditions than their counterparts in
Gaza, a study conducted by an international youth charity
has found.
The report by Save the Children UK, due to be released
on Wednesday, says that families forced from their homes in
the West Bank are suffering the effects of grinding poverty,
often lacking food, medicine and humanitarian assistance.
The European Commission funded study found that in
"Area C"- the 60 per cent of the West Bank under direct
Israeli control - the poorest sections of society are
suffering disproportionately because basic infrastructure is
not being repaired due to Israel's refusal to approve the
work.
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Anti-Israel economic boycotts are gaining
speed--Haaretz.com--The entire week was marked by
boycotts. It began with a few dozen theater people boycotting
the new culture center in Ariel, and continued with a group of
authors and artists publishing a statement of support on behalf
of those theater people. Then a group of 150 lecturers from
various universities announced they would not teach at Ariel
College or take part in any cultural events in the territories.
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Max Blumenthal finds some real
terrorist-loving religious leaders--Jewish Voice for
Peace--Max Blumenthal exposes some religious leaders calling for
the actual killing of babies and other Palestinians, a far worse
rehtorical offense then “failing to condemn terrorism.”
According to Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, ‘Non-Jews are
“uncompassionate by nature’ and should be killed in order to
‘curb their evil inclinations. If we kill a gentile who has has
violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong
with the murder,’ Shapira insisted.
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The Arab Jews: Language, Poetry, and
Singularity--Reuven Snir--Arab Jews, known in Israel
as mizrahim, were oppressed for most of the decades of
the previous century by both Zionism and Arab nationalism and by
their powerful political, social and cultural agents, sometimes
themselves becoming oppressors of others, mainly Palestinians. A
tradition that started more than one thousand five hundred years
ago is disappearing before our eyes, based on an unspoken
agreement between the two national movements – Zionism and Arab
nationalism – each with support from an 'exclusivist' divine
source, to perform the total cleansing of Arab-Jewish culture.
Arab-Jewish identity has become a disease that is to be
contained.
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Israel: Asset or Liability--Charles
Freeman--Is Israel a strategic asset or liability for the United
States? Interesting question.
We must thank the Nixon Center for asking it.
In my view, there are many reasons for Americans to wish
the Jewish state well. Under current
circumstances, strategic advantage for the United States is not
one of them. If we were to reverse the question, however, and to
ask whether the United States is a strategic asset or liability
for Israel, there would be no doubt about the answer.
American taxpayers fund between 20 and 25 percent of
Israel’s defense budget (depending on how you calculate this).
Twenty-six percent of the $3 billion in military aid we
grant to the Jewish state each year is spent in Israel on
Israeli defense products. Uniquely, Israeli
companies are treated like American companies for purposes of
U.S. defense procurement.
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With seven words Obama surrenders to Zionism--Alan
Hart--He was speaking
at the White House the day before the start of the new round of
direct talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, after he had met with them
and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah
II. So what were the seven words that the U.S. President uttered
that prophesy the end of another round of peace talks as they
begin?
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An open letter to Glenn Beck--Jim
Wallis--"I
think we got off on the wrong foot. I listened to your speech
last Saturday and heard a lot of things that we agree on. In
fact, I have used some of the same language of our need to turn
to God, and the values of “faith, hope, and charity” (love).
What I would like to find out, and others would too, is what you
mean by that language." Until last weekend, you have
consistently described yourself primarily as an entertainer, and
the public has known you as a talk show host. But last Saturday,
you sounded more like an evangelist or revivalist on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Obama's friend raising funds for new Gaza aid
ship--Haaretz
WASHINGTON - A fundraising campaign is currently underway in the
United States to finance the purchase of an American ship in an
effort to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in
the early autumn. The ship is to be named after U.S. President
Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope."...one of the
prominent figures to support the initiative is Columbia
University history professor Rashid Khalidi,...whose friendship
with the American president from their days together in Chicago
engendered criticism of Obama.
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Tax Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank--New
York Times--A New York Times examination of public
records in the United States and Israel identified at least 40
American groups that have collected more than $200 million in
tax-deductible gifts for Jewish settlement in the West Bank and
East Jerusalem over the last decade. In some ways, American tax
law is more lenient than Israel’s...click
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From Yahoo:
AFP/IDF-HO – A picture released by the Israeli
army shows Israeli navy troops boarding the Rachel Corrie aid
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What does Israel really think about the
Flotilla Massacre--The Israeli government has
apologized for sending the press a link to an online video
parodying last week's deadly commando raid on a flotilla of
pro-Gaza activists.The video, which promptly went viral, has
stirred up further outrage about the fallout from the raid, with
some calling for the video's apparent creator, a Jerusalem Post
columnist, to be fired for spoofing the circumstances of an
attack claiming nine fatalities.
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Must watch video clip: George Galloway invokes
General David Petraeus--In denouncing the recent Gaza
Flotilla Massacre and U.S. continued unilateral support of
Israel, George Galloway, who retired as a member of the British
Parliament several weeks ago after over 20 years of service
invokes General Petraeus' remarks in March 2010. As The Wonk
Room website related on March 25, 2010:
Gen. David Petraeus caused quite a stir last
week with his written statement to the Senate Armed Services
Committee, in which he included “insufficient progress toward a
comprehensive Middle East peace” as the first among “a number of
cross-cutting issues that serve as major drivers of instability,
inter-state tensions, and conflict” that “can serve as root
causes of instability or as obstacles to security.”
While none of this is really surprising to anyone who has spent
much time studying the Middle East, it does run afoul of one of
the most treasured articles of faith of the neocons, which is
the idea that the U.S.-Israel relationship exists in a sort of
hermetically sealed bubble, separated from the U.S.’s other
challenges in the region, generating no negative externalities
for U.S. interests.
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Galloway's press conference
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Israel rejects international investigation of
flotilla raid--World
News Examiner--Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
rejected a proposal by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon for an
international commission to investigate Israel’s raid on a
Gaza-bound flotilla. Netanyahu said they will have their own
military experts examine what caused the naval raid.
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Israel allows some banned products into Gaza--AP,
Diaa Hadid--Sugar, junk food and a few non-essentials: soda,
juice, jam, spices, shaving cream, potato chips, cookies and
candy. Diabetes is another way to attack. "The move also does
not include the most-sought items in Gaza, such as cement, steel
and other materials needed to rebuild the war-devastated strip."
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USS liberty sunk by Israel 43 years ago--June
8, 2010--click here
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My heart wanted to ask her: What will it take
for Jews to say, Enough! by Tema Okun in Mondoweis--I
am a Jew who has spent four summers in Palestine witnessing the
toll that more than 40 years of Israeli occupation has taken on
a people and on a land. I am a Jew who has come to understand,
as the sign I was holding yesterday attests, that we are
forsaking Jewish values for the sake of a Jewish state....click
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Israeli PM: Gaza blockade
prevents rocket attacks--AP--Mark
Lavie and Selcan Hacaoglu--Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
hotly rejected calls to lift a blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza on
Wednesday, insisting the ban prevents missile attacks on Israel
and labeling worldwide criticism of his navy's bloody raid on a
pro-Palestinian flotilla as "hypocrisy."
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Israel's 'gunboat diplomacy' provokes global
outrage--The
Indpendent World--Israel was struggling to contain a rapidly
mounting diplomatic crisis last night after naval commandos
killed at least nine pro-Palestinian activists in international
waters after storming their Turkish passenger ship as it
attempted to reach the coast of the besieged Gaza strip.
International calls for a full investigation...read
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Mearsheimer: Two State Solution Dead--Palestine
Center
The story I will tell
is straightforward. Contrary to the wishes of the Obama
administration and most Americans – to include many American
Jews – Israel is not going to allow the Palestinians to have a
viable state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank.
Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. Instead,
those territories will be incorporated into a “Greater Israel,”
which will be an apartheid state bearing a marked resemblance to
white-ruled South Africa...a Jewish apartheid state is not
politically viable over the long term. Click
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Israel Threat Against
Iran A Diversion--Uri Avnery's
sobering reflection--"...an Israeli attack on Iran would cause a
military, political and economic disaster for the United States
of America...The results would shake the international economy,
from the US and Europe to China and Japan...The countries that
had just begun to recover from the world economic crisis would
sink to the depths of misery and unemployment, riots and
bankruptcies...[They] pretend that we are going to attack Iran
at any moment and shout to the entire world: “Hold us back or…”
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Congress Welcomes Netanyahu--AP--The
bipartisan welcome underscored the breadth of congressional
support for Israel
even when a U.S. president wants to keep his distance. And it
pointed to the limited options, beyond verbal rebukes, that the
Obama administration faces in pressuring the Jewish state.
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U.S. Talks Tough to Israel--Haaretz--A
widely predicted crisis between Israel and the United States
upon Benjamin Netanyahu taking office as prime minister finally
erupted this weekend. U.S. President Barack Obama did not hold
back in condemning the humiliation caused to Joe Biden with the
Israeli announcement of 1,600 new housing units in East
Jerusalem during what was supposed to be the vice president's
friendly visit to Israel.
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Israelis Against Israeli Settlements--NY
Times--The strength of feeling among Israelis who oppose moving
more Israelis into Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem was
demonstrated just last Saturday, when a large protest took place
against the eviction of Palestinian families from homes in the
city’s Sheikh Jarrah district.
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Israel OKs 1600 New Homes in East Jerusalem--AP--The
Interior Ministry announced the construction plans just as U.S.
Vice President Joe Biden was wrapping up a series of warm
meetings with Israeli leaders. "The United States will always
stand with those who take risks for peace," Biden said to
Netanyahu.
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Gaza A Year Later--NY Times,
Micheal Martin--From my arrival in Gaza, the deprivations and
hardships resulting from the blockade were all too evident...I
could see for myself the despair and suffering etched in the
faces of those who queued for the most basic rations of rice,
milk powder and sunflower oil...people basically do not have
enough food, even with their meager food allocations, to live.
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Netanyahu Persuades Jerusalem to Put
Demolitions on Hold--Reuters--Citing concern over
Israel's international image, Netanyahu persuaded
Jerusalem's mayor to put on hold any demolition of
Palestinian homes in a municipal tourism project. The plan had
stoked Palestinian anger and any demolitions would have
certainly raised international concern.
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Jerusalem Plan Would Demolish Palestinian
Homes
Steven Gutkin, AP--Jerusalem's mayor unveiled a plan
Tuesday to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes to make room for
a tourist center in one of the disputed city's most volatile
neighborhoods, drawing criticism from Palestinians and the
United Nations. "There is no way the Palestinians can accept the
demolishing of houses in Jerusalem and the continuation of
building settlements for the Jewish settlers, while the United
States is trying to bring the parties together," Palestinian
Cabinet minister Mohammed Ishtayeh told The Associated Press.
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Assassinated Hamas Leader Smuggled Weapons--Associated
Press--The right-hand man of the Hamas leader assassinated in
Dubai confirmed Israeli claims that his boss supplied weapons to
Palestinian militants, according to an interview transcript
released Tuesday. The aide, Mohammed Nassar, spoke to
Hamas'
Al Aqsa radio in
Gaza.
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Netanyahu Derailing Peace Effort Using
Heritage Sites--Ira Chernus, truthout--It's the same
old tragic story. Just when there is a glimmer of hope that
Israel and Palestine might take a step toward peace, the Israeli
government swoops in to sabotage it. At least this time the
Israelis are not killing anyone - yet. In fact, now they've
found a way to set back the chance for peace that seems, on the
face of it, wholly benign. They simply want to renovate and
restore "national heritage sites." Who could object to that?
Don't progressives in the US often fight to protect cherished
historical sites from the developer's wrecking ball?
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What Would Jesus Do in Gaza?--Newsweek--What
would Jesus do in the Holy Land today. The narrow confines of
Gaza, Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria are places where God's love
was long ago supplanted by war for land and ill will among men.
It has been a year now since the bloody and fruitless Israeli
effort to crush Hamas in what amounts to
a massive prison for a million people.
Peacemakers in the Middle East are rarely blessed, and often
reviled; just ask special envoy George Mitchell. And the truth
rarely sets anyone free, as proved most recently by the
fact-filled
United Nations report by South African
Judge Richard Goldstone, which was dissed by
Washington and dismissed by Israel.
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Egyptian Authorities Bar Gaza Freedom March
Using the pretext of escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt
border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has informed organizers of
the Gaza Freedom March that the Rafah border will be closed over
the coming weeks, into January. Organizers are calling for
pressure on the Egyptian government to let the march pass into
Gaza. Click here. |
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The Next War on Gaza--Haaretz
Prime Minister Netanyahu's brother-in-law, Hagai Ben Artzi,
confronted the father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
as he awaited a decision by senior ministers on a deal to secure
the release of his son. "I hope that we will be able to release
Gilad during the next war in Gaza," he said. Noam Shalit asked
him when: "Either in two months, or in six months."
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Gaza March Spotlight on Civilian Suffering--IPS.com
More than 50,000 people are expected to
take to the streets of Gaza on Dec. 31 for a mass march designed
to send a message to the United States, a key supporter of
Israel's army, that the situation in Gaza violates international
human rights laws. Organisers say the main catalyst for the
mobilisation was the Goldstone Report.
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Politics Hamper Gaza Recon- struction--Al-Jazeera--At
the Sharm El Sheikh conference on reconstruction in March,
international donors pledged almost $4.5bn in aid, chiefly to
rebuild Gaza....control over these funds immediately sparked
disputes between Hamas and Fatah...The disputes have delayed
delivery of the funds.
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Footnotes in Gaza
Adam Horowitz in
Mondoweiss--As we approach the one year anniversary of Israel’s
attack on Gaza, we are proud to be able to share with you an
exclusive peek at Joe Sacco’s new book
Footnotes in Gaza .
Rather than focus on the current phase of the conflict, the book
deals with an often forgotten, or unknown, event – the massacre
of 111 Palestinians by Israeli forces in the Gaza towns of Rafah
and Khan Younis in 1956. While these southern Gazan towns are
currently in the news as the Gaza Freedom March and Viva
Palestina convoy try to enter Rafah from Egypt, Sacco’s book
takes us back to 1948 and 1956 to show us how we arrived at the
point we are today.... as we turn our eyes towards Gaza on
this solemn anniversary, let us remember everything that came
before it. Click here.
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Carter helps rebuild homes in Thailand |
Gaza Must Be Rebuilt
Now Jimmy Carter in the UK Guardian--It is
generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in
the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion
within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in
renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no
Arab or Islamic nation will accept any comprehensive agreement
while Israel retains control of East Jerusalem.
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Six Palestinians Killed in Nablus--BBC
News--The Israeli raid began in the early hours of the morning
and lasted for several hours....there had not been a raid like
this in Nablus for about 18 months...The violence came a day
before the first anniversary of the Gaza war that killed some
1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.
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Palestinians Kill Israeli Civilian in Nablus--B'Tselem--Over
the past nine years, Palestinian terror attacks perpetrated in
Israel and in the Occupied Territories have killed hundreds and
injured thousands of Israeli civilians...Attacks aimed at
civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal. Intentional killing
of civilians is a grave breach of international humanitarian law
and is considered a war crime that can never be justified,
whatever the circumstances may be.
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Local Activists Targeted in Occupied
Territories--Amnesty International--Scores
of activists, (Israeli, Palestinian and
international) involved in peaceful protests have been picked up
by Israeli authorities in the past several months. Many are
held at length with no charge being made while still being
interrogated, others have been
put under
administrative detention and
others are brought up on
charges. Click
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Who Are the Settlers and What Do They Want?--Israeli
Policy Forum--The settlements, as a whole, have been sponsored
and constructed by various Israeli governments. Almost all of
the settlements have an extensive infrastructure of roads and
electricity that can only have been accomplished by numerous
Israeli governments. Click
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America Stop Sucking Up to Israel--Haaretz--Before
no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and
plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a
different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and
threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in
Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from
occupied territory in Kuwait? But Israel the occupier, the
stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world
by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives
different treatment.
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Israel Planning Seven Settlement Neighborhoods
in Jerusalem--IMEMC News--The plan was put forth
regardless of the stances of the American government regarding
settlement activities and their negative impacts on the peace
process. The seven plans for settlement construction are:
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Beat the War Drum Again: Israel Wants Iran
Next--"Same Song, Different Verse" by Philip Giraldi
The American people, barely coping with nearly 20% in actual as
opposed to statistical unemployment, a broken health care
system, a skyrocketing federal deficit, and a collapse in home
values really don’t need another war, but another war is what
they are going to get. Blame the usual players in Congress and
the mainstream media for a lot of it, but the case being made
that Iran is a threat to the remainder of the world is largely
being cranked up by Israel and its yapping poodles loosely
described as the Israel lobby.
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World's Least Powerful Man--Paul
Craig Roberts--It didn't take the Israel Lobby very long to
bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against
further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian
land. Obama discovered that a mere American president is
powerless when confronted by the Israel Lobby...the United
States simply is not allowed a Middle East policy separate from
Israel's...click here. |
The doyen of international justice |
The U.S. Does Not Have to Blindly Protect
Israel--Justice Richard Goldstone--When Shimon Peres
accused Justice Goldstone of being "a small
man, devoid of any sense of justice", he responded with " no one
likes to be accused of committing serious war crimes". Justice
Goldstone asked that, rather than blindly support Israel, the
U.S. "furnish reasons" for its criticisms."...The time has come
for Israel to look at the allegations not only of the killing
and injuring of so many civilians but also the collective
punishment meted out to the people of Gaza by the substantial
destruction of the infrastructure."
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Harvard professor Stephen Walt |
Why the U.S. Will Not Cut Aid to Israel--Stephen
M. Walt
Harvard professor and co-author of the "Israel Lobby" opines
that Israel will get what it wants: control of the West Bank and
de-facto control of the Gaza Strip. "The sun is now setting on
the "two-state solution" -- if it is not already well below the
horizon -- and pretty soon everyone will have to admit that they
are sitting around in the dark and pretending they see
daylight." Netanyahu and his gang are intransigent, Obama is
powerless against the Congress, and legislators are caught in
the vice-grip of the Israel Lobby. Don't look for a J-Street
turnaround too soon.
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Two courageous men: Goldstone & Moyers |
Goldstone-Moyers: Being Jewish No Reason to
Treat Israel Exceptionally--James M. Wall
An absolutely brilliant interview. Anyone who saw it or reads it
will have to take pause if they refused to admit the outrageous
injustices perpetrated upon a people who are kept in open-air
kennel. There is bad karma coming to all who support this
oppression.
Click here to read or
Click here to view interview |
Uri Avnery |
Israel's Options to Goldstone
Uri Avnery--3 term Knesset member
"The Goldstone report has an impact on the world because it
is precise and targeted: a specific operation, for which
specific persons are responsible...
According to a Chinese saying, if someone in the street
tells you that you are drunk, you can laugh. If a second person
tells you that you are drunk, start to think about it. If a
third one tells you the same, go home and sleep it off.
Our political and military leadership has already encountered
the third, fourth and fifth person. All of them say that they
must investigate what happened in the “Molten Lead” operation."
Click here to read |
Now Bibi, shake hands with Mahmoud--and come out
fighting! |
Netanyahu: Goldstone Report Distorted--Josef
Friedman AP
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli
leaders or soldiers to stand trial on
war crimes charges
over their actions during last winter's military offensive in
the Gaza Strip,
furiously denouncing a U.N. report in a
keynote address
to parliament.
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Boycott's and Divestments-The Link
Americans for Middle East Understanding have focused on a few
companies in their treatise of Boycotts and Divestment including
Motorola, Caterpillar, Burger King, Ahava Cosmetics and Veolia
Transport. There is also additional discussion and information
on B&D that is interesting and useful.
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Gaza Water Supply Near Collapse--Mel
Frykberg--IPS
The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that
Gaza's access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at
any time. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says outbreaks of
disease could be triggered as a consequence..."Gaza's
underground water system is in danger of collapse after recent
conflict compounded by years of overuse and contamination. An
outbreak of Hepatitis A and parasitic infections could occur at
any time," Mahmoed Daher from WHO in Gaza told IPS. "Already the
number of people, especially children, suffering from diarrhoea
has risen dramaticall. We have noticed an increase in people
suffering from kidney diseases from water contaminated with
toxins, as well as babies born with an unnatural blue tinge."
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Dismantling the Matrix of Control--Jeff
Halper--Middle East Online Report--A MUST READ ARTICLE
"Now, at this critical juncture, as the two-state solution for
the Israeli-Palestinian impasse disappears under the weight of
Israeli settlements, there is a great imponderable: Is President
Barack Obama genuinely serious about reaching such a solution or
is he merely going through the motions familiar from previous
administrations...Obama’s only hope of breaking through the wall
of Israeli and Democratic Party resistance is to articulate an
approach to peace based on clear and accepted principles
anchored in human rights and justice and then framed in terms of
US interests. "
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An Infrastructure of Israeli Terror--Haaretz--The
seizure of Palestinian lands is a crucial issue, one that
reflects poorly on Israel's claims to be a state that operates
according to the rule of law...Since the very beginning of the
settlement enterprise, more than four decades ago, Israel has
seized West Bank lands via an orchestrated, systematic and
violent system.
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here to read. |
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Desmond Tutu Speaks Out
Haaretz--Can anyone doubt that the more than
1.5 million Palestinians cut off in the Gaza Strip are
suffering? Hamas is wrong to fire rockets at civilians living in
Sderot, and Israel has a right to ensure its security - but not
by the collective punishment of a million persons in the ghetto
that is Gaza...I care enormously for my Jewish and Palestinian
sisters and brothers. My heart aches for what you are doing to
yourselves.
Click
here to read. |
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Israel Flies in the Face of US Call to Halt
Settlements
Israel's defence ministry will approve the
construction of 500 new settlement homes in the occupied West
Bank this week, in a last-minute move before agreeing a
compromise settlement freeze with the United States.The
authorisation comes despite criticism from Washington and
weakens the effect any suspension of Israeli settlement
construction will have.
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Israel Dominates Obama--Haaretz
One source familiar with Obama's inner circle likened him this
week to a man who inflates a number of balloons every day in the
hope that one of them will rise…but time is running out. And
Israel is not sitting idly by...The minute Jerusalem detected a
lack of American determination, it returned to its evil ways and
excuses.
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Israeli Hardliners are Hard on Poor Rahm--Politico--Israelis
have become increasingly disenchanted with Emanuel, and the
disappointment is especially intense on the Israeli right, which
supports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his
opposition to Obama’s call for ceasing settlement activity.
Haaretz reported that Netanyahu has slurred both Emanuel and
fellow senior adviser David Axelrod as “self-hating Jews.”
Click here to read. |
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Mubarak to US: Israel Must Make
Overture--New
York Times
His hold on power and use of corruption are legendary, but he
now comes to Washington with a good message from the Arab
League. The Israelis are finding ways to distract from the real
issue by pointing at Iran. Let’s see how Mr. Obama responds.
Click here to read.
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New Report: Israel Killed Unarmed Palestinians
The Huffington Post--A new report by Human Rights
Watch charged Thursday that Israeli soldiers killed eleven
unarmed Palestinian civilians who were carrying white flags in
shooting incidents during Israel's offensive in Gaza earlier
this year…the civilians were "in plain view and posed no
apparent security threat."
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Jerusalem East Side Story
This documentary squeezes
nearly one hundred years of history into an hour or so of
cinema. It mainly exposes the past forty years of Israeli
military occupation policies in Jerusalem and their devastating
impact on the city and its peoples.
Click here to view clips of the film on Google Video. |
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The Coming Breakup of
American Zionism
Scholar Norman Finkelstein continues his important
analysis, research, and speaking engagements. This talk was
delivered earlier this year at Evergreen College in Washington
state, the school attended by Rachel Corrie. This is a must
watch and listen.
Click here to access. Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry"
can be read free in PDF format--click
here to access. |
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Two States or Apartheid?
Professor John Dugard
Israel is long overdue to undergo the same racial reckoning and
transformation that the United States underwent in the 1960s and
South Africa passed through in the 1990s. The dual system of law
that prevails in the occupied West Bank and favors Jewish
settlers to the detriment of Palestinians is unacceptable in the
21st century.
Click here to read. |
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UK cuts Israel weapons contracts
--The UK has revoked five export licences for equipment to the
Israeli navy because of actions during Israel's Operation Cast
Lead in Gaza this year.The British Foreign office said the
exports would now contravene its criteria for arms sales, but
denied that it had imposed a partial embargo...Israel says
its troops complied fully with international law during
missions.
Click here to read. |
Belongings of a Palestinian family strewn in the
street after their eviction.
Sebastian
Scheiner /AP
Photo |
Illegal Evictions Continue
YouTube video of a Palestinian family evicted
by Israeli authorities from their home in East Jerusalem
neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The Hanoun family is protesting
their eviction by sleeping on the street. "These actions
heighten tensions and undermine international efforts to create
conditions for fruitful negotiations to achieve peace," said the
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert
H. Serry.
Click here to watch video. |
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Jerusalem Mayor Freezes Demolition Orders
Haaretz.com--July 29, 2009
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is set to announce
a plan to freeze demolition orders on around 70 percent of
unauthorized construction in the east of the city, Haaretz has
learned. The municipality would also negotiate compensation
terms with families evicted from the remaining 30 percent.
Click
here to read. |
Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies
at the University of Colorado at Boulder |
Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why
Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise
by Ira
Chernus
Israeli Jews are deeply worried about their nation’s image
around the world, and with good reason. Military occupation is
never a pretty sight, especially when the occupiers have been
there for 42 years, steadily taking over the occupied people’s
lands as the whole world watches on television and the internet.
It’s not surprising that Israel gets so little sympathy when it
complains about its image problem...But if Israeli Jews want to
escape that vicious cycle and improve their image, no amount of
money spent on clever PR campaigns will help until they do
something about a basic root of the problem: their own cultural
self-image.
Click here
to read article.
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Gazan family in the tent they have lived in since their home was
destroyed in January. (Rami Almeghari) |
Six months later, no
reconstruc- tion in Gaza
Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied
Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 8 July 2009
Mahmoud Abu al-Anzain and his wife, Umm
Naim, and their three children used to live in a two-room,
cement-roofed house. It wasn't a palace, but it was a home. The
house was completely destroyed by Israeli army fire during last
January's assault on the Gaza Strip.
Click here to read article. |
The wall in Qalqilia |
UN: Israel must tear down West Bank
barrier
Jen
Thomas, Associated Press, 7/8/09
Israel must tear down its West Bank
separation barrier, a senior U.N. official said
Wednesday, marking five years since the International
Court of Justice declared the barrier illegal and a
violation of Palestinian rights.
Click here to read article.
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A face of despair in Gaza |
International Committee of the Red Cross
Report on Gaza: 1.5 Million People Trapped in Despair
Press Release--June 30, 2009
Gaza neighbourhoods particularly hard hit by the Israeli strikes
continue to look like the epicentre of a massive earthquake.
Click here to read article. |
Ismail Haniyeh, with Jimmy Carter in Gaza, have adopted the
two-state solution against the resistance party constituents'
interests. |
Hamas' political
immaturity
Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada,
25 June 2009
Many of those who voted Hamas into power
were not, in fact, supporters of the organization, but rather
disgruntled Palestinians looking for change and reform after 13
years of futile, meaningless negotiations that did huge damage
to the Palestinian cause and transformed it from a liberation
struggle supported by millions all over the world into a dispute
between "two equal parties," two countries fighting for border
arrangements.
Click here to read article. |
by Majed Badra on www.imemc.org |
Israel defies US: 240 new homes on
Palestinian land
guardian.co.uk--Rory McCarthy--June 23, 2009
Israel's
defence ministry has proposed legalising 60 existing homes at a
Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, and building
another 240 homes at the site, despite US calls for a halt to
settlement growth. Construction at the outpost, known as Water
Reservoir Hill, near the Talmon settlement, north of Ramallah,
would "greatly damage" the freedom of movement of Palestinian
farmers in the area, according to Bimkom, an Israeli planning
rights group.It said the construction plan was put forward for
public inspection shortly after the Israeli government was
formed this spring and was first approved by Ehud Barak, the
defence minister. It was now awaiting final approval.
Click here to read article.
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Glenn Greenwald--Salon.com |
Neocon enemies, using diplomacy, reach deal for Shalit's
release
Salon.com--by
Glenn Greenwald--June 26, 2009
Last night, I noted
the sudden and obviously hypocritical concern about detainee
abuse emerging from The Weekly Standard's Michael
Goldfarb now that the transfer of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
by the Palestinians to Egypt appears imminent and it's time to
exploit his detention...Goldfarb
also tries to attribute this
deal for Shalit's release to the heroism of Benjamin
Netanyahu...it was not Netanyahu, but numerous other parties --
Jimmy Carter, Egypt, Syria and the Obama administration -- who
engineered the agreement to transfer Shalit from Gaza to Egypt
(followed eventually by his release to Israel, pending the
release by Israel of Palestinian prisoners).
Click here to read article.
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Jimmy Carter visits an American school in Gaza
destroyed by Israeli bombings
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Carter decries Gaza destruction
CNN--June
16, 2009
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on a visit to
Gaza that he had to "hold back tears" when he saw the
destruction caused by the deadly campaign Israel waged against
Gaza militants in January..."I come to the American school which
was educating your children, supported by my own country. I see
it's been deliberately destroyed by bombs from F16s made in my
country and delivered to the Israelis."
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West Bank's biggest Israeli settlement Ma'aleh
Adumim |
Israel's settlement setback
Guardian.co.uk--by Seth Freeman- June 8, 2009
"Obama's anti-settlement stance is giving the Israeli right
a taste of its own medicine – and its howls of protest ring
hollow."
Whether Obama is able to live up to his strong statements in
the coming months and years remains to be seen...there is a
long way to go to turn his words into actions.
Click here to read article.
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Photo from AFP |
Chomsky: What Obama
Didn't Say Speaks Volumes About His Mideast
Policy
Noam Chomsky,
AlterNet.org--
June 4, 2009.
"A CNN headline, reporting Obama's plans for his June 4 address
in Cairo, Egypt, reads "Obama looks to reach the soul of the
Muslim world." Perhaps that captures his intent, but more
significant is the content hidden in the rhetorical stance, or
more accurately, omitted...."
Click here to read article. |
These people need a home now--any for rent? Photo
from Wikipedia |
House Hunting in the West Bank
Gershom Gorenberg--The American Prospect
June 4, 2009
"Our Jerusalem correspondent finds that
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's argument for
allowing continued construction in settlements contains layers
of deception.
It's Benjamin Netanyahu's fault. Because of
his insistence on allowing for "natural growth" of West Bank
settlements, I decided to go real-estate shopping."
Click here to read article. |
A farmer holds wheat destroyed by Israeli troops |
Israel destroying Gaza's
farmlands
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada,
22 May 2009
"On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli
troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza's eastern border
with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
reported that 200,000 square meters of crops were destroyed,
including wheat and barley ready for harvest".Click
here to read article.
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Obama's "interference" in Israeli politics
by Glenn
Greenwald--salon.com--June 3, 2009
Both Likud Party members in Israel as well as their Americans
supporters – including members of both parties in the U.S.
Congress – are beginning to complain that the Obama
administration is unduly "interfering" in Israeli politics by
insisting on a full cessation of settlement growth.
The
Jerusalem Post today reports:
"US President Barack Obama's administration's criticism of Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies has crossed the
line into interfering in Israeli politics, top Likud ministers
and MKs said Tuesday".Click here to
read article.
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Israel's great hope for peace |
Netanyahu defies Obama on Israeli settlement
freeze
Yahoo News--May 24, 2009--by Adam Entous
JERUSALEM (Reuters) –
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday
rebuffed U.S. calls for a full settlement freeze in the
occupied West Bank and vowed not to accept limits on
building of Jewish enclaves within
Jerusalem.
Click here to read article. |
Mr. "N" and Mr. "O" deep in political discourse
about the way forward in their new relationship. Will the facts
on the ground change? Stay tuned. |
Pattern Recognition: Why
Israel's favorite rhetorical device is no longer effective
TPMCafe--May
21, 2009--by Liel Liebovitz
As a former pawn in Israel's foreign ministry, stationed in New
York, the one thing I miss most is not the diplomatic visa, the
corner office overlooking the United Nations, or the ability to
park anywhere in Manhattan with impunity. What I find myself
yearning for is...
Click here to read article
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Gaza mother and child amidst destruction
(Photo courtesy
UNICEF)
Is the United States complicit in this ongoing oppression? |
Netanyahu at the
White House: Not Yet Change We Can Believe In
Institute for Policy Studies--May
20, 2009--by Phyllis Bennis
The reality of power
– that the U.S. is still the financial, military, diplomatic and
political superpower patron on which Israel depends – was not
reflected in the press conference that followed the meeting.
Click here to
read. |
Ken Wolf/Associated Press
Steven J. Rosen with his Attorney in
August 2005
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U.S. to Drop Spy Case
Against Pro-Israel Lobbyists-- The New York Times--Neil Lewis and David Johnston; The Huffington Post--David Bromwich
"The New York Times supposes the idea of information
passed from the U.S. to Israel without both sides wanting it
passed is likewise simply absurd. The true doctrine is, they
know we know they know. With the exception of the agents at the
FBI, and maybe a few U.S. attorneys, everybody understands. But
do we?" (David Bromwich, Yale Professor, in The Huffington
Post article commenting about the event.)
Click here to read The New York Time's article.
Click here to read the article by David Bromwich.
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Birds of a feather flock together: Harman with
Israeli Knesset Speaker Dalia Iztik during recent visit to
Israel |
Business as Usual for AIPAC: Rep. Jane Harman Tries to Trade Spies
for Position
CQPolitics--April 19, 2009
Rep. Jane Harman agreed to go to bat for two AIPAC officials
accused of espionage, in exchange for which an Israeli spy would
try to get her appointed to chair the House Intelligence
Committee, according to Congressional Quarterly.
Click here to read the article. |
Laila and her daughter Noor |
Palestinian Journalist Laila El-Haddad Refused
Entry into Gaza
Electronic Intifada--April 14, 2009
Laila El-Haddad, a free-lance journalist who is well known among
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill activists for a just and
sustainable peace in Israel-Palestine, had a harrowing
experience when she attempted to return to Gaza, the land of her
birth and home of her parents, with her two young children.
Click here to read.
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That was a bloody good joke Bibi |
Moment of truth for Obama
Newsvine.com
Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Birzeit,
West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.While
the time for decision confronts the Palestinian national cause,
he writes, sooner or later it is Barack Obama that will have to
put his cards on the table.
Click here to read the article. |
IDF Soldiers |
IDF
admits indiscriminate killing
Time Magazine--3/21/09
Whenever concerns are expressed over
civilian casualties
inflicted in Israeli military operations, the country's generals
and political leaders are quick to insist that theirs is the
"world's most moral army." That claim was challenged by
human rights
observers over
Israel's
recent
offensive in Gaza...read
more
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Rachel Corrie |
Remembering Rachel Corrie
March 16,
2009 marks the sixth anniversary of the killing of American
peace activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli military bulldozer in
Rafah. She had been trying to prevent the demolition of a
Palestinian home near the border with Egypt when she was killed.
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohen
of Big Noise Films traveled to Gaza last week with a women’s
peace delegation and Rachel’s parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie.
They remember their daughter and talk about the plight of the
Palestinian people.
Click here to view video
View this video also |
Richard Falk |
Richard Falk: "Israel's War Crimes"
Le Monde
Diplomatique
Richard A. Falk is
an American Jewish Professor Emeritus of International Law
at Princeton University, author or co-author of 20 books,
speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two
United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories. In a
June 2007 article called "Slouching toward a Palestinian
Holocaust," Falk compared some Israeli policies with regard to
the Palestinians to the Nazi Germany record of collective
punishment. In this current article he states that Israel.
In this
article he indicates that Israel has committed war crimes in
its recent Gaza attack.
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New teargas canister used by Israeli occupation
forces against Palestinian civilians |
American shot in head by tear gas cannister
Live from Occupied Palestine Blogspot
Tristan Anderson, 38, an American citizen, was critically
injured on Friday, March 13, 2009 by Israeli troops during
protests against Israel's Wall in the West Bank village of
Ni’lin. He was hit in his forehead by a new type of high
velocity, extended range teargas projectile, and was transferred
to Tel Hashomer hospital, near Tel Aviv.
See blogspot |
Palestinian demonstrators at Tulkarem in the West
Bank during the Gaza siege |
Live rounds fired at West Bank protestors
The
Observer--Peter Beaumont
Israeli armed forces and border police used the cover of the war
against Hamas in Gaza to reintroduce the firing of .22 rifle
bullets - as well as the extensive use of a new model of
tear-gas canister - against unarmed demonstrators in the
Occupied West Bank protesting at the building of Israel's
"separation wall".
read full article |
George
Galloway's Aid Convoy Arrives In Gaza
See
YouTube Video of Mr. Galloway's first speech inside Gaza. |
Aid convoy led by George Galloway in Gaza after
more than 5,000 miles
SKY - March 10, 2009 The Viva Palestina
convoy left Hyde Park in London on Valentine's Day, with more
than 100 vehicles driven by volunteers including British MP
George Galloway. They brought aid worth more than £1.5m
including medical supplies, clothes, food and toys as well as 20
ambulances, two buses, a fire engine and a fishing boat.
"Our message is we are all Palestinians now," Mr. Galloway said
upon entering Gaza. "Now we want the siege of Gaza lifted and
the Rafah crossing completely open."
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Charles Freeman |
Freeman
Slams Israel 'Lobby' Withdraws from post--Haaretz
Charles Freeman, who was slated to be
picked as the new chairman of the National Intelligence Council,
slammed the Israel 'Lobby' Wednesday after withdrawing his
candidacy for the post the previous day....(more);
also see the Wall Street Journal: (more).
Click here to view a CNN interview with Charles Freeman.
Read the
London Book Review's summary of Walt and Mearsheimer's
book "The Israeli Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy". |
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss |
American rabbi derides Gaza invasion--YouTube--Rabbi Yisroel Weiss of New York distinguishes between
Zionism and Judaism during a demonstration in New York City
during the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza in
December 2008 and January 2009. His opinion is that Zionism is a
heretical movement that holds the Jewish people in its grasp by
fear tactics.
See his comments on this YouTube video.
Also,
view this
other video of Rabbi Weiss. |
Jews worshipping in Shiraz synagogue |
What Iran’s Jews Say
By
Roger Cohen--NY Times
At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a
synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn.
Over the entrance is a banner saying: “Congratulations on
the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the
Jewish community of Esfahan.”
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Gazans light fires to stay warm- Photo BBC
Home demolished in Gaza- BBC Photo
Evidence of Phosphorous use in Gaza- BBC
Photo |
Israel and Hamas
Agree to a Cease-Fire
Israel's attack on Gaza has ended and Hamas has
agreed to hold fire until Sunday, January 25th to allow Israeli
troops to leave. The result of the Israeli offensive:
50
UN facilities and 21 medical facilities were damaged.
UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has described the damage in Gaza
as "appalling".
Israel has agreed to investigate claims that
white phosphorous was used in Gaza attacks. The use of white
phosphorous on civilians is a breach of international law.
More
on the humanitarian situation in Gaza
Information on U.S. Military Aid for Israeli forces attacking
Gaza.
Gaza: A Way to Help Now
The Coalition for Peace with Justice is sending
donations to
Al Ahli Hospital, a medical facility operated by the
Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem which provides care to Gazans
hurt in the conflict. |
