The day after Israel laughed at Obama, things got awry. Not on the formal level; American flags are larger than ever, Netanyahu’s baritone is deeper than ever, and Palestinian despair is sadder than ever.
On March 20, 2013, the Israeli government started Operation “Unbreakable Alliance,” the code name given to the visit of President Barack Obama in Israel.
If reports are true, UK Liberal Democrats have appointed the pro-Israel lobby as ‘probation officers and educators’. They will judge if David Ward is ‘salvageable’ and lay down precise language rules.
There is one absolute pre-condition for ending the Israel-Palestine conflict by diplomacy and negotiations on the basis, as it would have to be, of justice for the Palestinians and peace with security for all
In 1948, Batir was on the front line of Israel’s War of Independence. Green Line separation divides its ancestral lands. Its residents were the only Palestinians allowed to cultivate them inside its post-war border.
Moshe Feiglin, one of the most deluded and racist of those who make up the extreme right of Israeli politics and who is guaranteed his first seat in the Knesset after the upcoming election, has proposed what I imagine he regards as a nice way to complete Zionism’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Legally, the law, based on the disputed Oslo Accords, which expired in 2000, would require the dismantling of the “Gaza Wall,” a project no different than the Warsaw Ghetto, the Berlin Wall or Buchenwald.
After yesterday’s dismal performance by the BBC’s flagship ‘Today’ news programme in quizzing the Israeli ambassador over the latest bloody assault on Gaza, this morning’s effort was a little better but still well short of what’s required in order to paint a truthful, balanced picture.
Once upon a time, some people wanted to destroy al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. So the mosque asked its friends, “Will you help save al-Aqsa?” We’re over a thousand years old and need your help.
Opinions vary. Why isn’t clear. Years ago, two states were possible. No longer. Israel controls over half the West Bank and much of East Jerusalem. More is added daily.
Former Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories say that mistreatment of Palestinian children by troops is “routine” and occurs even at times of relative calm. A collection of over 30 testimonies published on Sunday by Breaking the Silence, a group of ex-servicemen critical of army practices, says physical violence, often arbitrary, is used against very young children.
In 2011, volunteers in B’Tselem’s camera project filmed over 500 hours of footage in the West Bank portraying Palestinian life under occupation. They edited & summed them up in a two-minute-video.
Mustafa Tamimi, 27, was critically injured on Friday in the village of Nabi Saleh when an Israeli soldier fired a tear gas canister directly at his head from a short distance.
it is actually Israel that was harshly beaten here, for Israel has managed to expose its level of hysteria: it seems that eight old yachts and a few hundred Easyjet passengers have managed to shake the entire Israeli society.
Miko’s unlikely opinions reflect his father’s legacy. General Peled was a war hero turned peacemaker. Miko had to leave Israel before he made his first Palestinian friend, the result of his participation in a dialogue group in California. He was 39.
During April, May and June of 2010 I traveled to the Occupied West Bank (also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territories). I wished to observe at first-hand the effects that the Israeli military occupation, then entering its 43rd year, was having on the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants, their institutions, their businesses and their daily lives. By Bob [...]
110 countries in the United Nations have extended diplomatic recognition to the State of Palestine. All recognize Palestine as including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, essentially the borders as they existed prior to the June 1967 Six Day War. By Philip Giraldi / Antiwar.com As of last week, 110 countries in [...]
While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation in them – and a parallel campaign of legitimation of Palestine. By Noam Chomsky, TruthOut Op-Ed [...]
Obama’s last card – Will he play it? By Alan Hart / STAFF WRITER President Obama ought to have trouble sleeping at night knowing that by allowing Israel to continue its illegal settlement activity on the occupied West Bank he has made himself, and his country, openly complicit in the Zionist state’s defiance of international [...]
One State; Two State; and Reality By Daniel McGowan, Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Executive Director, Deir Yassin Remembered The overwhelming desire within Israel, and more importantly within the United States, to divide Palestine into two states reflects a 130-year old dream to create a Jewish state in the Holy Land. Aside from [...]
Emily Henochowicz, 21, lost her left eye and is now recovering with her father by her bedside. Henochowicz was protesting Israel’s raid of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Fuck Israel, the mere name makes me vomit. By Natasha Lennard A student at New York’s Cooper Union School of Art is recovering in an Israeli hospital after [...]
Israel may believe she can do whatever she wants, wherever she wants. But this latest outrage will come at a political cost. Phyllis Bennis and the Progress Report have posted insightful analyses. From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas By Phyllis Bennis Israel has decided that it is better to be perceived [...]
TJ Bronco: Well said Stephen G, like the Exercize last week at DIA Denver international Airport, I was in that recent vicinity when I was told of this exercise. I stated well ...
TJ Bronco: General Clapper is a device to turn off or on an electrical device....
TJ Bronco: bryguy, sounds to me , much to my disgust, Obama has done everything "Presidential"- not saying it is correct or acceptable, just as all presidents up til Kennedy that ...
TJ Bronco: Mommy Israel was invbolved in the 911 attack as well, just ask them!
TJ Bronco: JPJohnny Punish , Not Johnny Pleasure, you mean 500,000 Correct not 5000, maybe less???!Or are you just a Sadistic Masochist to deny truth??! Another NSA ahole speaks out??! 5000 people ...
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