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“Israel is using Iran to sidestep Mideast peace talks”
Ha’aretz: The deadline the Quartet gave Israel and the Palestinians for submitting their positions on security and borders – Thursday, January 26 – flew by. It’s as if it never existed. The Quartet’s plan, which was to bring the parties … Continue reading
The Arab Spring is Israel’s Worst Nightmare
I’ve long said that Israel fears democracy in the Middle East and has long worked to subvert it–from helping the CIA create Iran’s internal intelligence service, the SAVAK, after the coup that brought down Mossadegh’s government, to supporting Egypt’s Mubarak … Continue reading
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False Flag: How Israel is Baiting a War between Iran and the US
This is an expose first published on ForeignPolicy.com and has been picked up and transmitted all over the world. It more or less exposes how Israeli agents have been posing as American CIA agents and recruiting terrorists to wage a … Continue reading
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Juan Cole on Gringrich’s Palestine Comments
Informed Comment: Newt Gingrich has been trying for the monetary backing and votes of Jewish Americans and Christian Zionists by taking up the positions of the Israeli far Right. He promises to move the US embassy to Jerusalem (disputed territory … Continue reading
Israeli Defense Minister Barak on Iran’s Nuclear Program
The truth comes out: During a Wednesday appearance on the PBS program Charlie Rose, Barak was asked if he would “want a nuclear weapon” were he a member of Iran’s government. “Probably, probably. I know, it’s not – I don’t delude myself … Continue reading
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Israel’s Strangulation of Gaza by the Numbers
Informed Comment: The Israeli navy illegally interfered with Gaza aid ships on the high seas, Friday, kidnapping the people on the two vessels and sending the ships involuntarily to an Israeli port. The Geneva Convention of 1949 on people in … Continue reading
Palestinian statehood: plan emerges to avoid UN showdown
You want to know why Obama is scrambling to strong-arm Abbas and his allies who have pledged to vote yes for Palestinian statehood into dropping their bid? After getting elected, Obama went to Cairo to speak about bridging the divide … Continue reading
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Palestine’s Bid for UN Recognition
Not all Palestinians are on board with this, especially since it only concerns 22% of historic Palestine and is a decision taken by some PLO factions, which do not represent all Palestinians inside the territories and outside. Here’s the informative … Continue reading
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Beyond Cairo, Israel Sensing a Wider Siege
This one paragraph really wraps up Israel’s predicament in the region – NYTimes: With its Cairo embassy ransacked, its ambassador to Turkey expelled and the Palestinians seeking statehood recognition at the United Nations, Israel found itself on Saturday increasingly isolated … Continue reading
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Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls
Ha’aretz: Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it. Bauman said Israel was “taking advantage of the Holocaust … Continue reading
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Racism in Israeli Textbooks
The Zionist lobby would have us focus exclusively on racism in Palestinian textbooks, but this article is revealing of a military-minded racism in Israeli textbooks: “Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli academic, mother and political radical, summons up an image of rows … Continue reading
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Israeli Arabs more likely to be convicted for crimes than their Jewish counterparts, study shows
The Zionist narrative consistently argues that Arab Israelis (not Palestinians living under a never-ending military occupation, that’s another matter altogether) have it better than anywhere else in the Arab world. Yet, time and again this myth is deconstructed with conflicting … Continue reading
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Hip Hop star Lupe Fiasco tells of his early education on Palestine
See the interview here.
TV: Israel agrees to negotiate over pre-’67 lines
I wouldn’t trust a word Netanyahu, or any Israeli leader, says. He just wants to get the Palestinians to drop their UN bid and then he’ll renege on negotiations later. Or better yet, he’ll torpedo the negotiations through the continued … Continue reading
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Palestine 194: Palestine’s Official Entry into the Arab Spring
Ha’aretz: Palestinian officials said Monday they plan to begin mass marches against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank on September 20, the eve of a largely symbolic UN vote expected to recognize their independence. Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo said … Continue reading
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