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Egypt’s Presidential Elections: A Revolution at the Crossroads(Video)

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“A 15-minute-documentary that revisits the Egyptian uprising, and explores the arduous road to democracy and the daunting challenges that await the country after the upcoming presidential elections.”

May 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Egypt,Middle East,World | Read More »

Hafez Aladdeen Is An Israeli Patriot

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When Cohen attempts to bond with his protagonist Dictator Aladeen, he actually speaks in his mother tongue, Hebrew. Cohen speaks Hebrew because Aladeen is not an Arab dictator, he is actually an Israeli patriot like Cohen himself.

May 21st, 2012 | Posted in Britain United Kingdom,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,Syria,World | Read More »

Cross Talk : Farewell Israel?

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The book focuses on the break-up of American Jewish support for Israel. Its central argument is that the mostly liberal American Jewish community now knows too much about the historical, human rights and diplomatic record of the Israel-Palestine conflict to lend Israel blind support.

May 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

The 21st Century Fake War Syndrome

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The end of the Cold War sparked this new Fake War Syndrome (FWS) and there is NO cure in sight.

May 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Economics & Markets,Economy,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »

Mindless Masses

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The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant American (sic) population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.”

May 19th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »

The Incompatibility of Nakba and Neutrality

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Together with thousands of people I took to the streets of Ramallah, joined by a group of amazing women and their children.

May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Target Iran: America and Israel to Officially Unleash MEK Terrorist Cult

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A couple of months ago, one of those dubious leaks made by “unnamed US officials” caught my eye. US media did something it doesn’t often do; it publicized ‘secret’ Israeli government policy.

May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Iran | Read More »

Postcolonial Theory, Whiteness & Palestine

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At the end of the day, with 50 million Americans living in deep poverty watching 30.000 drones fly over their heads, Gaza is now in Detroit, Newark and Philadelphia.

May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Israel as Popular as North Korea According to BBC Poll

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Haaretz reported yesterday that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.”

May 17th, 2012 | Posted in Britain United Kingdom,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »

Google following CIA’s path in confronting Iran

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Google has removed the name of Persian Gulf from its online maps. It’s apparently a CIA-directed plot to demoralize Iranian people and weaken their position in the international community.

May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »

Power of and To: Nonviolent Political Prisoners and People of Conscience

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Out of the 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners on the hunger strike, two have not eaten for 78 days and have said they will not start eating again until their administrative detentions are lifted.

May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Never Ending Nakba

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As Ilan Pappe has said, most Israeli Jews have no idea of what they did to the Palestinians in 1948. (He also said that those who do know don’t think that what was done was wrong). But that’s only the tip of an iceberg of ignorance.

May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Sins of Our Fathers : al-Nakba

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Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance, burying in laughter the suffering screams of those displaced and destroyed, furiously hiding forgotten faces framed in fear from mocking the glorious dance should they be awakened once more by the reverie.

May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Causes,Editors Picks,Education,Europe,History,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,Peace,World | Read More »

Israeli and Palestinian Protests

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Mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strikes continue. Freedom, dignity, and respect for their rights are at issue. Strikers want horrific Israeli prison abuses ended. More on that below.

May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine | Read More »

A Cup of Coffee with Roy Tov – Author of The Cross of Bethlehem

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Americans are generally quite naïve about Israel and how the Zionist state really functions. The general ignorance about Israel is primarily due to the fact that most people are woefully misinformed about the Middle East having grown up consuming news and entertainment products provided by Hollywood and the Zionist-controlled media.

May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Middle East,World | Read More »

Your Hard-Earned US Tax Dollars and Church Pension Funds at Work for Israel

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Marchers moved through the streets of Hebron, Kafr Qaddoum, Nablus, Nabi Saleh, Ni’lin, Ramallah, al-Walaja and outside of Ofer prison. The picture above was taken in Hebron.

May 12th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Palestinian Prisoners – Kidnapped and Neglected

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In contrast to Gilad Shalit, the French-Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas on June 2006, who became a cause celebrate by heads of states, international organizations, kidnapped Palestinian civilians are ignored by Israel, by the Palestinian leadership, certainly by the world community.

May 12th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Opposition to Iran War Gaining Momentum

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The international opposition to war against Iran is progressively gaining momentum

May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »

Israel: Profile of a Police State

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Police states are defined by lawlessness, injustice, and contempt for democratic values.

May 10th, 2012 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine | Read More »

Congress Proposes Giving Israel an Extra $1 Billion for Firework Safety

Israeli children write messages of national unity, and then the bombs are used to attack Gazans, like this little girl on the left. The 'missiles' Israel claims it is attacked by, have killed 28 people in all time, Israel kills that many civilians sometimes in a week.

As news about Israeli political parties merging dominates headlines, this one is being overlooked.

May 10th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Crunch Time in Syria: The UN Protocol’s Jihadist “Loophole”

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It is crunch time in Syria. Allow the jihadist battle to take flight there, and there is no telling how far and wide this fight will spread. The Annan Plan is the “only game in town,” and the Syrian Army the only military force that can take action against these militants.

May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Europe,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

Alan Hart : Time for a military coup in Israel?

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“The trouble with us Israelis is that we’ve become the victims of our own propaganda.” General Shlomo Gazit

May 5th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Justice Department should prosecute Israel Aerospace Ind. not just Stewart Nozette

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Today IRmep Director Grant F. Smith confronted US Attorney Ron Machen on NPR affiliate WAMU in Washington, DC. At issue were Machen’s statements that the FBI had prevented Stewart J. Nozette from passing US military secrets to Israel.

May 5th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Israel,World | Read More »

Grant F. Smith : The Rise of AIPAC – AIPAC History

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AIPAC History. Proto-AIPAC’s incubation in the Israeli embassy in 1948. Strategic direction-setting by the Mossad and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

May 4th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Iran,Israel,Palestine,World | Read More »

United Methodists Boycott Settlement Products

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One loss and one victory will prepare the United Methodist Church to take the next step in ending United Methodist support for the occupation. Like the segregated church it was until 1964, the United Methodist church can change.

May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians

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Not only is Israel harming Palestinians, but it is harming itself.

May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Top Ten Reasons Israel tried to Censor Bob Simon’s Report on Palestinian Christians

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The report told Americans that there are Palestinian Christians. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren not only called the head of CBS news in an attempt to quash a report on the displacement of Palestinian Christians by the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but he briefed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the far right wing Likud Party on his attempt.

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

For Israel, Punishing Palestinians is Not Enough

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History – praise be to Clio, the Greek muse of history – is no longer written only by the victors. But the conquerors still decide who is the hero, who is the soldier who acts as the judge and who is the defendant who is declared a terrorist even before he is convicted.

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Sadat’s War on Israel: A heroic or a Collusive Act

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“Conciliation between Cairo and Tel Aviv was not Kissinger’s idea, besides he never expected the bold diplomatic move by Sadat whom he never took seriously. But all that was to change after the October war 1973″

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Egypt,Israel,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

Intelligence Rupture Over Iran: Israeli Apparat Falling Apart

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Producing from his pocket a sheet of paper which contained a biblical quote from the Prophet Zachariah, former Shin Bet chief said, “I will tell you things that might be harsh.

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Iran | Read More »

 

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