Tag: Israeli Settlements

In Hebrew The Wall is called "Michshol Hafrada" which translates to "The Separation Wall" in English and "Apartheid Wall" in Afrikaans.

Rich Siegel grew up in a Zionist home and lived in Israel before he learned he had been "lied to" about the "original sin" of national Zionism that continues to wreck havoc on the Holy Land.

Corrine Brown has been a member of the US House of Representatives since 1993. I am running against her as a NPA candidate of conscience in District 5, Florida.

"A Church that is not ready or willing to hear the voice of the oppressed and stand with justice is out of sync with the will of her Head and Maker."-Rev. Alex Awad

Facts on the ground are always easier to establish as permanent realities while the media and its constituents are looking the other way.

A few hours after "21 April 2012: Global Call to Free Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower and a New York Event" PRWEB Press Release went live, I received my first of the usual cyber attacks that have come at me since I went online in 2005, and I seize this opportunity to address them once again.

“What I did was sacrifice my life for the truth. In prison I really began to feel like Jesus and Paul. When Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, it was like me in Dimona exposing the Israelis dirty secrets. I felt like Paul being thrown in prison for speaking the truth..."-Mordechai Vanunu

Palm Sunday is referred to as "Passion Sunday" and it marks the beginning of Holy Week, which concludes on Easter Sunday...2,000 years ago the cross had no religious meaning and was not a piece of jewelry.

The night before President Obama’s State of our Union Address, Israeli authorities demolished the Beit Arabiya Peace Home for the fifth time. While standing astride those ruins, ICAHD Director Dr. Jeff Halper, vowed, "We shall rebuild, we must rebuild as an act of political defiance of the occupation and protracted oppression of Palestinians.”

"This is much worse than apartheid. Israeli measures, the brutality, make apartheid look like a picnic."

On the second day of 2012, I received my second threat of a legal action in an email with a letter attachment “regarding a libelous publication on wearewideawake.org” from a law firm in Tel Aviv.

“Israel will not survive unless it does justice! The situation is deteriorating and we must frustrate Israel’s plans and actions because they are not built on justice.

On Tuesday Israel announced plans for 1,100 new Jewish only housing units in the south Jerusalem settlement of Gilo, which is outside of the 1967 boundaries.

After nearly five years since a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli border policeman killed 10 year Abir Aramin, her family was awarded monetary compensation by an Israeli court.

In the next few weeks, the Palestinians will ask the UN to recognize the State of Palestine. After that all hell will break loose.

You can always take the vertebrae out of a vertebrate (the procedure is probably described as an vertebraectomy), but I doubt that one can be installed in an invertebrate.

Two lines in the fourth stanza of The Star Spangled Banner provide a clue to one American mindset that supports empire building. By James M. Wall...

Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America Author Jamal Kanj talks about life in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon....

Family criticises decision to allow soldier who drove bulldozer that killed daughter to give evidence from behind screen The Israeli soldier at the controls of...

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. (In my last post I anticipated Obama saying at the point of his complete surrender that “America can’t want peace more than the parties.” He also said that – ahead of schedule!)

For those who doubt the strategy of a greater Israel.

Brilliant analysis by Phyllis Bennis. by Phyllis Bennis So far the requests  have gone like this: Obama: Please freeze settlements. Netanyahu: No. Obama: Please freeze settlements. Netanyahu: No. Obama: Please freeze...

Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed the Israeli government's support of the settlement movement by planting a tree in each one of the three biggest settlement blocks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Despite the Israeli government's support, funding, and approval of settlers, they are often presented in the media as in conflict with the state and the army.